But he can’t do that!!! Did it. But he can’t do that!! Did it. But he can’t do that! Did it. But he can’t do that. Did it. But he can’t do. Did it. But he can’t. Did it. But he. Did it. But. Did it.

ok who did this? ☹️

The White House symbolizes American democracy, the presidency, and the nation's history and unity. So of course under his orangeness it looks like this as he dismantles it right in front of our eyes.

Was thinking that the next occupant of the White House should just tear the gaudy Mar-a-Lago looking ballroom down and restore the Rose Garden while they're at it. Charge people $10 to spend 10 minutes in there with a sledgehammer, that should cover the costs. It also inspired a musical interlude:

My abuser's wife is apparently livid with me because... checks notes, I refuse to speak with him when he reaches out, I have shared my abuse story online (with no identifying information), and my requests for reasonable boundaries regarding contact are apparently attacks that make him feel bad...

My dysfunctional family's responses to my boundary setting and truth telling are textbook perfect examples of family and abuse dynamics and roles. As I learn more about this, it's nice to know I have not been imagining all of it. They are playing their parts by the book - but I am now free from it!

New Barr Brothers - Hell yeah! Now that's a good way to start a Sunday.

I don't know, I thought asking that my abuser not be the executor of my mom's estate seemed like a perfectly reasonable request to me.... Apparently I was wrong, again.

Best, and most relatable, sign at No Kings today: “Agoraphobes For Democracy.”

i imagine there’s about to be an influx of MAGA chuds spewing their bullshit but i really can’t stress enough that if we don’t give them oxygen, they’ll get bored and leave. block early and often.

I have been trying to resolve an insanely harmful family issue for about a year now and I just had to confront my mom about it - again. It's fucking exhausting and just totally sidetracks my days. I would suggest never being born in to a family if you can avoid it.

Our summer TV watching included some mind-benders like Continuum (time travel) and Man In The High Castle (alternate history and worlds) so I am looking forward to some easy to follow wrap everything up in one episode shows for a while.

So with all that going on, of course the thing I decide to actually do is try to find people I used to follow on Twitter so I can follow them here. Glad to have you back old friends....

So much happening in my life right now I can hardly keep up with any of it. Lots of family shit, restarting my freelance work, launching a newsletter and youtube channel about software workflow and automation, helping Gina w/ her podcast, regular blogging, and oh yeah the world being on fire!

I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning: www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...

I don't know if, at some point, this eventually hits everyone who has experienced childhood trauma, but yesterday it occurred to me that I have been battling this for a little over 50 years now, every fucking day, and now I am just tired, so tired.

Alejandra is not overselling this. This executive order, if weaponized by a lawless administration like Trump, could lead to the dismantling of institutional/nonprofit opposition to Trump. It can also be used for surveillance and disruption ops similar to the civil rights era and red scare.

Nothing creepier than the moment Republicans all start parroting the same shutdown lines word for word. Ok Mr. Independent freethinker!

Republicans, Trump included, are zeroing in on transgender people and blaming us for the looming government shutdown. They are demanding that Democrats cave on transgender rights. Many of them are copying the same talking points in their messages.

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"Children don't remember what you try to teach them," Jim once said. "They remember what you *are*." Look a child in the eye when you speak with them. Don't talk down to them. Love and support them. And remember: they're smarter than you think. Oh, and make them laugh. ALWAYS make them laugh. /7

For my Burns Notice newsletter, I wrote about what it was like being a trans person and see the entire right wing try to incite pogrom on us over the last several weeks. burns-notice.ghost.io/what-am-i-su...

How does one go from "he's America's Hitler" to "I will work directly for this man to adopt and further his extreme agenda?" My opinions sometimes shift too but I think the fact that it took me 25 years to start really liking and appreciating the music of The Cure is hardly the same.

Share your favorite black and white movie.

People have no idea how expensive cancer is, not just the treatments, but the not being able to work, the recovery, the therapies, the medications. Help out if you can.

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

Never forget and never forgive the people who voted for him. They did this to us, and they must be forced to carry the shame for the rest of their miserable lives. We warned them, and they made fun of us. They own this. They own this forever, and I will never let them forget it.

UN delegates listening to this must be questioning their translators bc surely nobody could say such idiotic and patently wrong things

The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.

Trump speaking at the UN - embarrassingly uninformed, dim. arrogant old man

Guess what, bitch.

After we get around to our mass annihilation, the alien anthropologists are going to come here and they will try to figure out and explain just how the fuck all this Trump shit happened, and they will just stare at each other with confused looks on their faces until their heads explode.

This autism press conference is an insult to science and medicine. It is a bunch of shameless male quacks shoveling bullshit at pregnant women, families and people with autism. This is a historic embarrassment for America and it is wildly dangerous.

Going to point out that Disney statement on Kimmel still is worded like he did something wrong. So don't give them credit for anything.

Glad that Jimmy Kimmel is back, at least on the Disney side. I wonder what Nexstar & Sinclair will do now? I'm in no hurry to resume my Hulu sub, lots of other stuff to watch, or listen to, or read, or do. Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke... even though we all know it was never about that...

I've always been a little fuzzy about what he meant about draining the swamp. I wonder if this is it?

Tech site XDA chastised me for blocking their ads, while I was trying to read a post that recommends the uBlock Origin ad blocker. The writer calls it essential and a must-have, saying it works great for blocking ads…. just about everywhere. I do use Privacy Badger to block intrusive trackers.

I think I found what I was looking for in superwhisper - plain speech to text, just apply formatting without modification or summarizing. You can do more with it if you want but I just recorded my first blog post with it and it performed brilliantly in giving me workable text for editing / posting.

For some reason, stuff like this from Trump always reminds me of the old Steven Wright bit:

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

This is a bullshit opinion. He isn't saying it's wrong to do it (which, of course, it very much is) he is saying they won't like it if it is done back to them (which if it happens will, of course, also be very wrong)

My brain is working overtime and I need a way to convert my thoughts in to coherent text. I tried my Mac's dictation and the results are disappointing. A massive wall of text with no punctuation and a lot of missing words. Does this improve with usage or can anyone recommend a better option?

"It not only forbids you to express — even to think — certain thoughts, but it dictates what you shall think, it creates an ideology for you, it tries to govern your emotional life as well as setting up a code of conduct..." -George Orwell, "Literature and Totalitarianism"

Btw, this was JD Vance just a few months ago back in February of this year🙃

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

For the company that made Brave and all those other movies about heroism, and doing the right thing, and fighting evil, Disney is sure a bunch of fucking cowards.

In addition to our Disney+ / Hulu cancelations, here in Chicago the local ABC affiliate (WLS-TV) is owned by a company that is owned by Disney Entertainment Television. Nexstar, which preempted Kimmel on its ABC affiliates owns WGN-TV, and the CW, and 31% of The Food Network. Hope this helps.

Or as Arthur C. Clarke said: One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn’t require religion at all.

"Morality in terms of behavior, not in terms of theology"

My first thought was to say "I can't believe they fired Kimmel" but of course I can believe it, because of course they fucking did. This administration is running every play in the authoritarian playbook step by step. It seriously is making me ill, I am not capable of enduring this level of stress.