After I got back from Iraq/out of the service I figured it was my moral duty to witness any/all atrocities. Great way to give yourself/amplify PTSD. Perspective is great, yes, but the little lighter moments are usually the only thing keeping you grounded/around. Especially when a parent.

the worst thing about people like this is they think they’re morally superior to the rest of us when in fact they’re just sanctimonious scolds

Dude was ≈ 24yo when 9/11 happened. He didn’t do shit.

Holy christ

‘Move fast and break things’ only works for people who have never had to clean up after themselves.

Zelensky is a wartime leader watching his people suffer and die under Russian attacks every day. To be lectured and lied to by Trump and Vance, as they defend the war criminal dictator committing these atrocities, is unimaginable agony. An everlasting shame for America.

1. Messed around and got a triple-double 2. Saw the police and they rolled right past me 3. Two in the morning, got the Fatburger 4. Took another sip of the potion, hit the three-wheel motion 5. I didn't even have to use my AK

This is how Lewis describes the fascist President-to-be. He "was vulgar, almost illiterate, a public liar easily detected, and in his "ideas" almost idiotic, while his celebrated piety was that of a traveling salesman for church furniture."

In Sinclair Lewis's "It Can't Happen Here," (1935) the fascist who got elected President of the United States writes in his autobiography about his realization, early in life, that being an obnoxious dunce got him far more attention than being a smart and decent person.

Reading Gary Indiana’s Do Everything In The Dark and after just a few pages I’m looking in a cracked mirror; on the nose, as they say

jfc this hits like it’s fresh off the press harpers.org/archive/1941...

I think of this poem every time I go to visit my kin’s stones in the boneyard.

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

The Scottish Sunday Herald TV guide featured this preview of the Trump inauguration. It’s fucking brilliant.

Yep. When you feel weak and victimized and helpless you can feel empowered fighting back or taking physical pain to numb the emotional pain. Nuance can get lost in the affect pretty quick (political stumping as a huge example).

Borrowing this from @rboomhower.bsky.social Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers. Day 1:

1/20.

Happy Holidays #puppies

lol.

What Banksy says…

Alcohol’s been a military ration historically for far longer than it hasn’t, too…for obvious reasons.

I will never, ever get over this.

lol. “I didn’t vote for you.”

lol. Abandoned hope ye who enter.

“I recently read about man who collects pictures of walk-off home runs. He said that the reason he did this is because this is how he views us entering heaven. Look at the faces of his teammates waiting to welcome him home. They can’t wait to celebrate with him.” Love this (stolen from Twitter).

Numbing out is a normal way of processing a range of big emotions at once, according to experts. But here's how to get through it: www.teenvogue.com/story/what-i...

I remind myself from time to time of a philosophy I try to follow: Feed what you want to grow, weed what you need to go.

AP: Biden executes turkeys at Turkey Pardoning ceremony; "They deserve to die. We all do."

“We have yet to understand that if I am starving, you are in danger." -James Baldwin

Makes me sad re-reading this amazing letter from ex-Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox sent to high school seniors in 1994 after they asked him “What should Americans learn from Watergate?” 20 years later in ‘94. His answer is remarkable—unfortunately things didn’t work out so well in 2024.

Yep. I remember seeing it live and thinking “There’s a shot if anyone got it.”

They have lights on early at home—children— outlast us. #haiku

That’s fucking deep, Flavor Flav

Standing watch.

Wife’s roses resisting.

First snow on a walk with a loyal, old dog.