Funeral is Friday Meanwhile, I’m sitting with family at home, a house filled with objects & memories that all remind me of dad … It’s just so hard. So hard

Just got a call from my brother Just as we thought things might be turning, dad’s blood pressure massively dropped … They’re making him comfortable Barring a miracle, he’s gone

Christ almighty

Incandescent w/ rage & deeply blue over the fucking consequences of this Good GOD we have to fight to reinstitute this stuff as part of re-seizing the levers of power

THERE’S STILL TIME

Trump makes it clear on Air Force One that Venezuela was about the oil. He also floats more strikes in Venezuela, military action against Cuba and Columbia, and taking Greenland. Completely off the rails.

I imagine they were equally frustrated at having to flip through five pages of ads & prattle in their copy of Apicius before getting to the actual damn recipe

Everyone keeps assuring me that when it finally happens then all of this is over since there’s no other cult leader to carry on the agenda but I still don’t see it, this is what they’ve wanted for decades, it will keep going without him until we stop it cold.

There’s a spurious story of the so-called “son-of-a-gun” born of a civil war Minié ball passing through a *ahem* gentleman’s nethers into a female observer, but that’s picked from a gag Nov. 7th, 1874 “American Medical Weekly” article THIS stabbing, on the other hand…

JFC

Consumer protection needs bigger teeth and product labeling needs to be standardized across industries, also heavy enforcement for a ban on undisclosed sponsorships. Not sexy or exciting but will likely prevent thousands of injuries, deaths, not to mention lost time.

This shouldn’t surprise anyone. He also decided to raid Venezuela because Maduro was dancing on TV. He doesn’t make decisions based on the reality on the ground - he makes decisions based on his ego. Always.

Beats the hell outta Marie Kondo

“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

I say “jump the tracks” & “running out of steam” but to be accurate even as folks say “keep on chugging” I’m over here like

Running on three hours a night, enough caffeine to kill a horse, & nervous energy for over a week now

I can’t explain it but this has delightfully whimsical Brazil vibes Which is a wild thing to say about a dystopian film, but then it is a dark comedy too

yep. i can identify any number of structural issues but at the end of the day the basic problem is the republican party. this has been apparent for at least 20 years. it is also an incredibly unpopular observation to make among “serious” people.

Been seeing a lot of these takes & I gotta say we aren’t reckoning w/ the absolutely rancid William Walker vibes This ain’t just any old Manifest Destiny it’s the cream of the military filibustering crud - & that doesn’t end well for ANYONE involved en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William...

okay so they literally expect to run another country by truth social post, I can’t see any way this could possibly go wrong

Can’t wait for the next Democratic president to start a blue ribbon commission on assessing the faults behind the problematic decision making during the previous admin which may or may not have been possibly unconstitutional!

*sighs*

*rips every hair from my scalp*

Ah, see, no - it’s ok, Reuters *asked Grok* if it was sorry about rendering child porn & the fancy plagiarism machine said “yes” so it’s fine No need to hold anyone accountable for the suicide-inducing speak & spell that tells folks it’s fine to kill

Yeah, people are fixating on a Cabinet Secretary being given a sovereign country to run because the president waged war without congressional approval and kidnapped the old leader. Weird that they’d get hung up on that.

I remember when they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty.

You let the devil in, he brought his pirate friends, they brought a hunger for blood and flesh and bone and skin

Congress, Now More Than Ever, Our Nation Needs Your Cowardice https://theonion.com/letter-to-congress/

Sure would be swell if members of Congress in any way did their fucking duty

Well, dad’s still hospitalized & the world’s still on fire, but I can’t do anything to change either Guess I’ve no excuse not to return to a “more normal” social media activity level; somewhat distracting at the very least

Jesus fuck man I’m navigating my father dying & the president is going fully rogue-state I ain’t equipped for this bullshit

Despite everything else being apparently ok (skin cancer aside,) dad just won’t break the delirium Thrashing erratically, non-responsive Can’t remove the trach tube even though he’s breathing, since he could aspirate in delirium Everyone’s clueless. We’ve got a week for any possible improvement

I know it’s expected & a good sign when someone on a ventilator comes off sedation & starts thrashing a bit but good god it’s still traumatic as hell to see, especially when the delirium keeps them from responding or knowing where they are

Quick pop in from my social media break to say yes, I’m ok - TY to everyone reaching out Did the run north in record time white knuckling at a speed I legally can’t admit to, but arrived safe & I’m about to check in on dad at the hospital

Just learned my dad went on a ventilator - going to rush up tomorrow to see him … Fucking hell this year

something very important for Dems to realize is that the tech overlords are not people you can win back by promising a lighter touch and saying a few nice things they’ve gotten a taste of mask-off fascism and they are not going back, they don’t want to play nice with the peons anymore

When John Doar was head of the Civil Rights Division, he quoted from Shakespeare’s RICHARD III in an eloquent closing argument in the case against Klan murderers. The current head is calling podcasters “hoes” for criticizing the president’s cabinet

She looks good in the fog, too

Imagine thinking that these innovations were made all on their own, without in almost all cases, hundreds of people, many of them immigrants, helping in the background.

But how much in Pepsi Points?

A nice thread in which an actual expert patiently explains why the Secretary of Health and Human Service is not simply a liar, but an especially stupid one.

Increasingly unable to focus at work knowing my dinner plans

We had congressional hearings when parents just suspected heavy metal was leading some kids to suicide.

God help me, I just re-installed Discord on my phone

Historians: Quibbling Over Exact Definition Of Concentration Camp Sign Of Healthy Society https://theonion.com/historians-quibbling-over-exact-definition-of-concentration-camp-sign-of-healthy-society/

Thinking of that Peter de Witt drawing & continuing to rage incandescently