The white supremacist group Patriot Front popped up again. I guess a bunch of ICE agents got the day off.

Also, no, we don't have to be "better" than them. We have to *win*. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cjOP...

The President of the United States, which was founded on the ideals of equality and the right of people to choose their leaders, promoting a bill to guarantee his party remains in power via voter suppression, at a birthday event for the nation. And people wonder why aren't celebrating the 250th.

Current Mood: (because I'm getting yelled at for not supporting LGBT+ the "right way")

For #July4th, my Congresscritter put up posts on his two facebooks accounts celebrating American culture. He stole music from an AUSTRALIAN band (AC/DC) for one video and he stole music from an ENGLISH band (Dire Straits) for the other. That's how a Republican celebrates #IndependenceDay.

Saw "Mount Rushmore" trending and my first thought was "oh, god, what now? Is the orange clown trying to put his face on it?" but it's Mother Nature casting HER vote about the treasonweasel, in the negative.

#QueerWritersChat Q1. I'm Jim. I'm ace. I write vignettes which amuse me, because I'm retired, I've already been published (a short story, several poems, and an academic research paper), and I have no desire to face writing rejection again. bsky.app/profile/theo...

@mlb.com pitcher Cade Cavalli is a racist. He says he didn't know what he said to Contreras in the heat of the moment. The heat of the moment is when we find out what a person is REALLY like. When he said, "Sit down, boy!" to a non-white man, in public, he showed who he REALLY was. A racist.

@hntdove.bsky.social You might find this amusing. I'm learning Spanish, very slowly, one lesson per day. This week, I learned "a menudo" means "often" and the way my brain learned it is thinking Jack Mitchell OFTEN gets MENUDO for breakfast to battle his hangovers in your City of Shadows series.

40 years ago today:

I know it's not #caturday but this is entertainment for cats. It's better than a home aquarium because you don't have to clean it, and no spills. They leave their camera on the ocean floor and swim away for a while so the fish don't know humans are watching them. www.facebook.com/reel/2168720...

New favorite song: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs6F...

Current Mood:

"The explosion of MAGA rage at [the] birthright citizenship ruling confirms again that MAGA is really a movement for ethnic cleansing." ~ Greg Sargent

There’s a special kind of irony in watching the “shall not be infringed” crowd twist themselves into knots insisting birthright citizenship shouldn’t exist. It’s amazing how flexible “absolute” rights become when they’re someone else’s.

Today's funny: cat video combined with ELO's "Don't Bring Me Down" www.facebook.com/reel/1314214...

Because I haven't poked the Christians lately:

Since @lakotaman.bsky.social has not been posting here, I wanted to share this post by him from a different site, because I *love* "Stupid Tourist Tossing" season.

That moment when you think of a perfect reply to a post, but you check first and someone else already posted that exact reply.

Personal headcanon: "Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)" by Looking Glass is about a heterosexual woman in love with a het-romantic asexual man. What? If gay people can say Frodo and Sam had a gay relationship despite no textual proof, I can say the sailor in "Brandy" is asexual because +

What I wrote to my Congressman today in response to his jingoistic claim that he will fight for America against *checks notes* politicians who demand equality in ways he doesn't like. #politics #America250 #July4 #America

Current Mood:

#QueerWritersChat Q1. I'm ace. I'm retired and writing something just for fun with a male ace protagonist because there are so very few such characters who are officially designated as such. Sure, Bilbo and Frodo and Sherlock Holmes and Elwood P Dowd are coded ace, but it's never SAID.

Something for Pride Month: Tim Curry singing a rude song by Marc Shaiman for Billy Crystal at the GLAAD Awards 21 years ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7RC...

Began writing something just for fun. Because I'm retired and don't need to sell anything and I want to enjoy writing again. #WeeknightWriters

To misquote JFK: "Those who make peaceful protest impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."

Current Mood - don't let the nay-sayers get you down