Envision a hotel hallway full of closed doors. You're in one of the rooms. Its the abusive partner room. You decide to leave so you step out into the hallway. You did it! Congrats! But none of the other doors have opened yet. You're in limbo.

Please wait til after the midterms and take JD Vance with you.

Because he is a fake Christian and is only in it for the symbols.

The problem with Trump that this meme lays bare is that Trump is a fake Christian but a real narcissist and the narcissist part was too powerful to warn the part that is pretending to be a Christian.

Did you know Putin faked assassination attempts for political purposes? And planned one for Viktor Orban so he might win his election. Putin also faked terror attacks. Hitler did that, too. The Reichstag Fire was an inside job pulled off by the SS.

I was talking to someone yesterday and they said they are conservative "America First" and I said, I am Socialist "Americans First" and they asked what I meant by that. I told them our taxes should improve our lives. If you work full time, you should be able to have housing, education, children etc.

A glimpse into my life as a CPS investigator. When you catch a moment of true human connection, hang on to it.

I feeeel like Tim Pool should eat a bag of dicks.

Iran and calls to impeach had sufficiently distracted from Epstein. Is this a reverse Uno or an example of the Streisand Effect? I think she might be as much of a narcissist as her husband.

I work for the government. I got a man birth certificates for his kids, some car seats, diapers, Medicaid, SNAP, a PPO to protect his kids from their stepdad. I needed some papers completed and a pic of his ID. He snapped his sovereign citizen card and sent it to me. And that is America in 2026.

Anyone hear the story of the exfiltration of the US airman in Iran and think it sounded suspiciously similar to the exfil scene in GI Jane? So, anyway, my best friend is Ben Affleck...

Shhh. Grandma's watching the news.

Why is the Supreme Court even considering this? If you want to change the Constitution, you have to amend it. You know, with like, amendments.

The thing about birthright citizenship is that at best its an academic exercise and at worst its administrative ethnic cleansing. What is the intended purpose behind the argument? If you want to have an intellectual exercise that has no teeth, fine. If you want it to have teeth, why?

This also describes the Deplorables.

No Kings in Detroit. Clearly we have a winner.

Authortarian parents don't make obedient children. They make expert liars.

33% of Americans own their homes outright in the US. 37% of Americans are married with children. 40% of American households are net taxpayers. How many Americans meet all three criteria, especially when you think about there being tax credits for home ownership and dependents?

My granddaughter is 5 months

I had an epiphany the other day that we are like Cuba to the rest of the developed world. Isolated and stuck in some version of the 1950s with our gas guzzling cars. They wanted populism and got dictatorship. So did we. They have private opulence and public squalor just like Americans.

@jamellebouie.net so, what were you saying about Trump not being able to conceive of any other human being's suffering and being a psychopath?

A co-worker said that severe corporal punishment can be cultural and is just "a different way." I argued sexual abuse is also cultural which she thought was absurd. Beating your kids, having sex with children, beating/controlling your spouse are ALL cultural. We have to decide what we want to be.

Fuck.

Spring is coming to Michigan!

When the tribunals come, can we hold them here? It's the old Longaberger headquarters in Ohio. We could call it Deplorable Depot, where MAGA criminals get transferred from court to the chosen federal detention center. Off to Hell in a handbasket.

Back in 2020 (?) we talked about social workers partnering with police for non-criminal incidents. CPS and APS is already built to do this. We should expand the role to include everyone in the middle and limit that only to police and emt dispatched calls. The infrastructure is there. #bigidea

My local gas station in Lansing, Michigan

Really NYX?

I have been struggling all week after having to remove a baby from her mother (drug use and homelessness). I started watching a YT channel where survivors talk about their childhood abuse and neglect and the impact it had on their lives. It's helped.

I hate Facebook. It is brimming with AI, bots, and these engagement traps where they make an obvious error knowing a lot of not very internet savvy people will comment.

This is what my grandfather said to me before he molested me when I was about 6 years old. Almost verbatim.

I had to remove a baby from it's mother's custody today and it fucking wrecked me. CPS worker...

I am beginning my semi-annual rewatch of Breaking Bad. Walter Hartwell White becomes more and more pathetic and loathsome with every rewatch.

Just remember when gas prices go up, the cost of EVERYTHING increases. We are an oil dependent country and our goods are almost entirely transported over-the-road, by rail, and by air fueled by oil. The rest of the developed world must look at us like we look at Cuba and all their 1950s cars.

Bombing Iran is not about Epstein. That's just icing. They said Iran interfered in the last two Presidential elections. If we are at war with Iran, Trump will say we are in a state of emergency and he will try to take control of the elections saying its a national security issue.

When someone starts a new job or embarks on a new profession, they have almost no social investment in their coworkers, they get paid the least at this point, and get the assignments no one else wants...a recipe for turnover and professional attrition. Signed, Every working person

Lady by Styx

When I was a kid, I remember shows and cartoons had men spanking women, or wolf-whistles, panty raids, kissing bandits, peeping toms, flashers... stuff like that. We were taught to see women as children and perverts/predators as funny and cartoonish. Harmless weirdos. Its taken a long time to fix.

I've had this on my mind for 10 years at this point. Everyone always talks about how Trump is charismatic. He's charismatic the way Ted Bundy was charming. The way L. Ron Hubbard was engaging. The way poison tree frogs are attractive. He's the kind of charismatic that is really a warning.

If anything good came from COVID it's that delivery services are pervasive. I just had Walgreens bring me Nyquil and kleenex and it's a beautiful thing.

Imagine being so pathetic that this angers you. Mayor Zohran Mamdani is triggering the right over shoveling snow.❄️ www.nyc.gov/site/dsny/ca...

Between these concentration camps and data centers, the billionaire class and the politicians that love them are creating coalitions between small town conservatives and the left. Sucking up local resources, destroying infrastructure, and not paying taxes is a common theme.

One of the things I have noticed as a CPS worker is that cameras pointed toward the family in the home can be a red flag for a parent who has coercive control patterns. Sure, it can be for pets or for babysitters but its also commonly used by DV perpetrators to keep control of their households.

These two events happening at virtually the same time has to have Trump shitting his pants... I mean more than usual. Expect additional fast-paced authoritarianism as a result.

What would happen if I ran away? "I will look for you." What if I ran to another state? "I will look for you." And what happens if you find me? "I will come get you." You would go to another state to get me? "Yes." Why? "Because you matter." "No matter where you go, I'll look for you."

We are the laughing stock of the world.