Attention, Floridians of conscience: impeach DeSantis ASAP

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been systematically destroying the state of Florida since he took office. He is currently ripping apart the state's educational structure, which will inevitably result in a generation of Florida students incapable of thinking for themselves.

Florida residents who care about their state's future as a democratic stronghold should be up in arms about this mess. Where are you folks? Where are the protests in the state capitol against what DeSantis and his cronies are doing and have done? If they're happening, why isn't the world hearing about them?

Or do y'all really not care?

Is it time for The Conch Republic to secede again?

 Shit that's got me wound right the fuck up

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/13/marion-county-record-co-owner-joan-meyer-dies-kansas-police-raid?utm_term=64da09e6e62586c771a72d2298a19227&utm_campaign=USMorningBriefing&utm_source=esp&utm_medium=Email&CMP=usbriefing_email

Manslaughter charges, at the least, for the cops. Bastards.

 Go get 'em!

https://www.thedailybeast.com/leah-remini-sues-church-of-scientology-for-harassment-defamation?ref=scroll

Leah Remini is suing the "Church" of Scientology for making her life hell. I hope she manages to financially gut that hellhole.

 Five years, that's all it's been, it's been five years

I just plain forgot about this blog. That's all.

So. I'm back in the saddle, ready to rant about shit in the world that I find intolerable. Today's pile of poop award goes to the Montana House of Representatives, which has had the gall to censure one of its members for speaking truth to power. Yeah, you know how that goes these days.

Rep. Zooey Zephyr (great name) simply wanted to warn her colleagues of the potential harm they'd be doing if they passed legislation banning gender-affirming care for young persons. She mentioned the word blood.

>The "Youth Health Protection Act" would restrict the use of hormone therapy, puberty blockers and >surgeries on people under age 18 for the purposes of gender transitioning.  "If you vote yes on this bill, >I hope the next time you bow your heads in prayer, you see the blood on your hands." 

Ooohh, some fee-fees got hurt.

>The Montana Freedom Caucus, which includes several of Zephyr's colleagues, misgendered Zephyr by >using he/him pronouns and argued the legislation "protects minor children from forced life-altering and >unnecessary surgical procedures." 

Oh my god Becky lookit their butts.

https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/transgender-lawmaker-faces-expulsion-montana-house-republicans 

This kind of garbage is going on in faux-Christian right-wing enclaves all over this country. Ever since Roe v. Wade was overturned, bills pushing back against civil rights for women and the LGBTQ+ community have been flooding into legislatures like an overturned piss bucket.

Which is why those of us who care about what happens to women and the LGBTQ+ community, and other marginalized communities, better STAND UP AND PAY ATTENTION. Take notes, people. Look at what your legislators are voting for and against. Keep tabs on them critters. If you don't like what they're doing, you know what to do next time Election Day rolls around.

Pesky cold finally gone, I'm left to contemplate the continuous stream of terror spouting from the WH resident and his horde of ignoramuses. Now DHS wants to create a data base of journos. Good thing I'm on anti-D meds, else I'd have probably slit my throat weeks ago. No, I'm not kidding. I thought the Nixon era was bad, but the current regime has that past one beat hands down.

Don't tell me the system of checks and balances will redress this mess; that system is broken. Don't tell me that I'm being paranoid: a few days ago I was asked at my bank, at which I've been a customer for over a decade, where I was born when opening a savings account. The teller said the question was used to confirm my SSN. Total and utter bullshit. Of course I told her the truth: I'm naturalized. I feel as though it's just a matter of time before ICE bangs on my door.

Most especially, don't tell me the GOP isn't really that bad: all you have to do is look around with open eyes to see that we are in serious danger of losing all our freedoms.

If you care what happens to your family, your friends, your co-workers, your neighbors, you county, your state, your country, please show up at all your local elections this year, and vote your conscience. Not your party, your CONSCIENCE.

May God have mercy on us all.

The RNC is now officially a dumpster fire and so is its 2016 presidential candidate

I'm so relieved that my dearest uncle has walked on. He was a conservative Republican, and he saw the writing on the wall before he died. This year's RNC would have made him cry.

Along with Melissa McEwen , I am hereby done with beating around the bushes with my vote.

It all boils down to this. A vote for Hillary Clinton is a vote for reasonable governance by the most qualified (but not perfect) candidate for POTUS this year.

A vote for the human dumpster fire that is the Trumper is a vote for global apocalypse.

Choose wisely. Remember to pay attention to down-ticket races in your state and local governing bodies.

And please, please let us all live for another four years.

At least 11 people shot, four dead in Dallas sniper shooting

At a Black Lives Matter demonstration in Dallas Thursday night, a sniper firing from an elevated position opened fire on Dallas police officers pulling crowd control duty for the demonstration, according to news released from the Dallas police chief.

One person shot is a civilian and is not in critical condition.

Ten police officers, including a DART officer, were shot by the snipers. Four of them are dead.

I really, really hope that the US House members are paying attention. Because if they don't do anything this time, there will be a LOT more Dems in the house after November.

Also, Dallas police released a photo of a black man in a camo T-shirt carrying a slung rifle. This man was later identified as the brother of the march's organizer. This man surrendered his rifle to police when the sniper shooting started, and HE IS NO LONGER A SUSPECT in this incident.

So WHY does ABC News still have his photo up as a "person of interest" on their website?

ABC, you done fucked up.

This shit -- the shootings of unarmed black folk by police, and police being shot at events centering black people -- has GOT TO STOP.

If the current Congress, both parts, doesn't hold an emergency session pronto to deal with this mess, then I may lose all hope for the USA's future.

Rage. Seethe. Boil. Fume. Flames. On the side of my face.