My mother, always smiling, wanting us all to be happy, told me, Be happy, Henry! My dad kept hitting me and her Several times a week. Then she smiled to show me how and "It was the saddest smile I've ever seen." Charles Bukowski | The Loser's Path (1982)

Yep

always the bottom line...

freedumb!

it's a nice thought, too bad i won't live to see it...

yes, we still need to vote, but arm yourselves too...

Ten years since Brexit sounded the death knell for Britain to be anything more than an island nation with a long and interesting history for the foreseeable AND STILL a sizeable amount of British citizens are pinning their hopes on the actual architect of this whole shitshow at the polling stations.

yet, we still do...

no limits to their depravity...

non violent protest only works if your opponent has a conscience, this country never has... [paraphrasing Kwame Ture]

the broligarchy has grown tedious to me...

Happy May Day comrades!

FUCK YOUR BALLROOM!

no state has an innate right to exist...

60 Minutes Host Reads gunman's manifesto: ‘I am no longer willing to permit a pedophile, rapist, and traitor to coat my hands with his crimes.’ What’s your reaction to that?” Trump: Yeah, he did write that. I am not a rapist. I didn’t rape anybody. Host: Oh, do you think he was referring to you?

it is a serious thing just to be alive on this fresh morning in this broken world. Mary Oliver

Sunday's secret word of the day...😅🤣

i'm afraid this may be a part of a much larger scheme to justify cancelling the midterms.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

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indeed...

The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The fifth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

definitely...

Good morning! ☕️☀️😎🌸🎶☮️💗

get over it...

10 years later and I’m still sick about this. #prince #blacksky #musicsky #youshouldbehere

sharp and succinct...

hopefully they've brought about their eventual demise...

If your environment teaches you short term survival matters, risk is constant, and resources disappear fast, your brain adapts to that reality. You never think about there being another way...

Robert's “Shadow Docket" begs the question. How long can a democratic Republic with a Constitution, rule of Law and Bill of Right survive if it's highest court, SCOTUS, is politically compromised and blatantly corrupt? This all stems from The Heritage Foundation/Federalist Society/Citizens United.

Trump (yesterday): “Iran will never close the strait again” Iran (today): “We’re closing the strait again.”

The Epstein class must be removed from politics.

LIKING POPE LEO........

What more is there to say?