Mr. Big Stuff

How desperately, stupidly incompetent and lacking in even the most anorexic shred of humanity is ICE? At the Camarillo raid they abducted a disabled veteran who is a US citizen. He wasn’t a protester. George Retes is/was a security guard at Glass House Farms.

“ICE (maybe) thought he was probably part of the protest, but he wasn't, he was trying to reverse his car," said his sister, Destinee Majana. "They broke his window, they pepper-sprayed him, they grabbed him, threw him on the floor. They detained him.”

Retes' sister and wife have been trying to call anybody she can to find out where he was taken, but they say nobody can tell them where he is.

"We don't know what to do, we're just asking to let my brother go. He's a U.S. citizen. He didn't do anything wrong. He's a veteran, disabled citizen. It says it on his car," Majana added. (source) 

As of right now, as I’m writing this, his family and the law firm (Carrillo Law Firm) they’ve retained, still do not know where this US citizen and disabled veteran is. 

AND farm worker Jaime Alanis has died of the injuries he sustained during ICE’s Big Swinging Dick show.

During the raid, Alanis, who had reportedly worked at Glass House Farms picking tomatoes for 10 years, called his family in Mexico to say he was hiding from authorities.

"The next thing we heard was that he was in the hospital with broken hands, ribs and a broken neck,” said Juan Duran, Alanis’s brother-in-law, according to The Associated Press news agency."
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“Glass House has never knowingly violated applicable hiring practices and does not and has never employed minors,” the statement said.

United Farm Workers said in a statement that some US citizens who worked at the firm are not yet accounted for.  (source) 

Hope you don’t mind blood on your fresh tomatoes. I’ll bet it washes off though.

Goebbels 2.0 (AKA Creepy Little Stephen Miller) and his ghoulish crew of soulless, sadistic, scumbags are undoubtedly having ice cream orgasms that an undesirable, an Untermenschen, died as a result of their orders, at the hands of their renfieldian Gestapo.

A protest tactic I found online:

All the people running out ICE should buy Spider-Man masks and silly string. And…well you can guess the rest.

I like this idea a lot. For starters, kit out your Spider-Man masks with shatterproof safety goggles – these can block direct contact with tear gas and pepper spray (which are often the first weapons used against crowds). 

Please read up on how to protect yourself against the zombified goons set loose on us by our pedophile president and his billionaire puppet masters. Check out A Demonstrator’s Guide to Gas Masks and Goggles. SERIOUSLY! 

Miller, Homan, Lyons, Noem, and Prez Pedophile are salivating in anticipation of killing Americans who don’t agree with every turd that pops out of their ugly face holes.

Make that killing a lot harder to do AND have fun while you're resisting. Add some glitter to the sticky neon silly string. 

Then there’s Border Patrol.

Isaiah Anthony Hodgson (A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent), 29, faces four felony and three misdemeanor charges related to the incident, which happened Monday at Shoreline Village. (source) 

What’d the fucker do? Got drunk at a restaurant, followed a woman into the woman’s bathroom (NB: Isaiah’s NOT trans and NOT a drag queen. He's NOT an immigrant or any other MAGA villain du jour either), pulled his gun out (the woman escaped), got into a fight with a cop, and, of course, resisted arrest. Apparently, dude's also got a nasty habit of arresting American citizens and those documenting his little peccadillos.

Hodgson was charged with four felony counts three misdemeanor gun charges and released. RELEASED?! Does this guy not seem like a dangerous, mentally unstable menace? Why is he walking around free when people whose only “crime” is picking tomatoes while brown are disappeared and/or killed? 

Did you see? An Iranian Group placed a $40M bounty on Trump.

A senior Iranian official has suggested President Trump could be assassinated while he sunbathes at his estate in Florida. 

Javad Larijani, an adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued the warning on Iranian state television in the wake of US intervention in Iran’s conflict with Israel.

“Trump has done something so that he can no longer sunbathe in Mar-a-Lago. As he lies there with his stomach to the sun, a small drone might hit him in the navel. It’s very simple,” he said with a laugh, according to the London-based media outlet Iran International. (source) 

Nice idea but I have less than no faith in this crew. Fer fuck’s sake, have they not seen Stinky? That grotesque pile of flesh does NOT sunbathe. Any color his skin might show comes out of an industrial sized can of manure colored house paint.

The people boasting and placing the bounty are just unserious blowhards, talking big to make themselves look tougher and taller in the mirror – just like our homegrown MAGAts.

FCK ICE

Dictator Donny’s Gestapo goons were out in force yesterday. Were they busting dangerous, violent, gangbanging, meth dealers? Fuck no! As uszh they were after farm workers and children.

Writing on the social media platform X, California’s governor, Gavin Newsom, shared video of children fleeing from chemical agents fired by federal agents at protesters on Thursday during the immigration raid in Camarillo.

“Kids running from tear gas, crying on the phone because their mother was just taken from the fields,” Newson commented on the images. “Trump calls me ‘Newscum’ – but he’s the real scum.” (source) 

WHY is this army of ICE assholes throwing tear gas at farm workers and children? Because scaring people makes great television!

The incident comes as federal immigration enforcement agents have ramped up arrests in Southern California, heading to car washes, farms and Home Depot parking lots to take people into custody while stoking widespread fear among immigrant communities. (source) 

Jesse Duquette

While ICE and the National Guard are so damn busy waging war on farm workers in the state of California, more than 700,000 people in Florida were the victims of human trafficking in 2024. 100,000 of those were children and, yes, this was sex trafficking. Given former House Florida Rep and Stinky’s’s first pick for attorney general, Matt Gaetz, this really shouldn’t come as any big surprise. 

I guess ICE doesn’t give a good goddamn about immigrants when they’re being battered, snatched and abused by criminals other than themselves. 

I'm not so much shocked as utterly, thoroughly disgusted. 
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This makes me smile:

Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University graduate and Palestinian activist who was detained by the Trump administration for months, have filed a claim for $20m in damages against the administration, alleging Khalil was falsely imprisoned, maliciously prosecuted and smeared as an antisemite as the government sought to deport him over his prominent role in campus protests. (source) 

Khalill, a legal permanent resident, was kept in prison for the crimes of being intelligent and disagreeing with the Stupid Administration while brown. He was locked up for speaking out about Palestinian rights – for exercising his First Amendment rights.

Of course I hope he wins his case. Of course I won’t be surprised when the fix goes in. Judges paid off and/or threatened?! Would President Mob Boss do such a dastardly deed?! Yeah, we don’t live in some scripted Hollywood movie version of America where justice actually exists. Black, brown and poor people never have. Middle class white people are just now joining the party.
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Irredeemable, racist madman Stephen Miller has gone full metal Stansfield (from The Professional) only in a badly tailored suit and no hair. 

 Stephen Miller recently berated ICE officials in a private meeting, demanding that they hit supercharged new arrest quotas and steamrolling anyone who balked, reports The Atlantic. Yet in a surprise twist, the report also details that Miller’s demands for maximum arrests are driving morale at ICE into the crapper. Importantly, what’s irking ICE agents is precisely that the mission of arresting as many low-level offenders as possible is pulling them away from pursuing serious criminals. (source) 

So, they know what they’re doing is bullshit even if they’re oblivious to the fact that what they’re doing is vile, cruel, cold, and barbaric. Yet they keep doing it. Why?

Perhaps they were born without a shred of empathy? We could dissect them. We could study each cell under a microscope. Or maybe we could get all the great psychoanalytic minds of our time together to evaluate these assholes-for-hire and find out WHY they do it. Is kidnapping innocents for pay more fulfilling, more respectable than working construction or delivering freight? Did they not make the cut to become firemen, cops or school crossing guards and this was the only gig they could get? OR can they only get a stiffy when they're abusing, oppressing, and abducting innocents?

I wanna know – when your job is human trafficking children and innocent, hardworking people versus the bad dudes you were told you’d be snatching WHY aren’t you quitting? You’re the enemy now. You’re the bad guys.

Jesse Duquette

More Fun with NF2

I had a check in with the nurse practitioner who works with my neurologist, Doc Plotkin, specifically with regards to the chemo med I’m on. The pill is supposed to be inhibiting the growth of my myriad fucking tumors.

I’ve been having some new, increased stupid symptoms over the past couple of weeks which may be nothing (just a “blip” as Christina termed it) OR it may be something to be concerned about and acted on.

Joy. Just motherfucking joy.

New series of paintings up in the 
neuro/cancer doctor department 
that I frequent at MGH. I’m not 
thrilled about the new amateurish 
farmland themed work. The previous 
paintings were Rothko-esque (if Mark
 was, perhaps, microdosing a bit 
whilst at the easel). I liked those better.

I’ve got swelling and numbness in my left foot and ankle, going up into my calf which may be related to one of the tumors hanging out around the motor cortex section of my bean. The last time a meningioma got too cozy in that area, the connection between my brain and left leg was lost. I had to train my brain to communicate with my leg again. Yeah, that was no goddamn fun at all. I spent WAY too much time inpatient at Spaulding Rehab (during COVID no less) and in a wheelchair at home. 

What happens now? Over the next week I keep working out – doing my recumbent elliptical time and PT exercises and monitoring how my left foot, ankle, and calf are dealing with it. If the swelling and quasi-numb feeling continues or worsens, my September MRI gets moved up to now or real soon-ish.

What happens if, despite the chemo meds, the tumor has had a growth spurt? MORE brain surgery isn’t optimal for a bunch ‘o’ reasons but proton radiation might be on the table. I had that a few years back for the monster on my thoracic spine. The worst part about radiation was the daily trip from Valhalla to MGH and back. I only mention it but 93 sucks hordes of giant bantha wang.

I’m really not happy about all this. Why can’t I have regular, normal old people problems like:

• My ankle’s swollen because I tripped walking up the stairs. (I haven't but it's a good excuse, right?)
• My foot is a little numb because I’m breaking in a new pair of sneaks.
• My calf’s a bit sore because I did too much time on the elliptical yesterday.

I mean, these are nice, reasonable old people issues. I want some of this instead of having to always play Which-Tumor-is-Triggering-My-Body’s-Dysfunction-Today?

NOT my favorite game! 

Irregular Galaxy Doods

Remaking the Gate

Came across this pic on Threads yesterday. It’s a gate leading to St Michael’s church in the town of Abergele. It’s on the north coast of Wales, a hair over 50 miles south of Liverpool and 12 miles north of Llandudno, a lovely little beach town that I’ve actually spent a few days and nights wandering around.

This gate though – I firmly believe we need one of these at the entrance to our patch of Valhalla. Granted, it’d need to be scaled down a bit as we don’t occupy anywhere near as much land as St Michael’s (understatement alert).

Also, we'll need to make a coupla changes for our gate: 

1)   We're gonna lose that cross. Maybe we'll replace it with a representation of the Milky Way galaxy. Too amorphous you say? We need a more definitive symbol of sacrifice made for the primary benefit of humanity but in an easy to interpret form? Well, it’s our house but, from an overall design standpoint, I see your point. How’s ‘bout we replace the cross with a nice, strong, majestic oak tree?

Why an oak tree? Traditionally oaks symbolize strength, stability, and endurance. There’s the whole cycle of life – ya know, birth, eating a cookie, death, rebirth, and all that shit. Plus, because we’re mindful of our Celtic ancestry here and we're druid-inclusive, we want to give a solid nod to the Celtic “good god” Dagda. Dagda was keen on oaks. We are too.

2)   I’m assuming that the angel dude hanging out below the cross is Saint Michael. You know, he’s the really important Archangel – leader of the heavenly hosts, warrior against evil, and a protector of god's people (whoever they are – I suppose it depends on who you ask). Given the state of the world right now, Mike’s either a total slacker or just majorly burnt out. Maybe that chainsaw wielding con, Leon, and his plague of teenage terrorists got to old Saint Mike and pink slipped his army of Galahads? 

Who knows.

No matter the case, on Valhalla’s gate Saint Michael will be replaced with Lozen, a great Chiricahua Apache warrior woman. 

When she reached the age of her womanhood ceremony, she was courted by many men but let it be known that she would never marry. Instead, she undertook and succeeded at the hardship of a dikohe or a warrior in training. Afterward, the Council accepted her, and she became a warrior.

She also studied medicine and became a renowned medicine woman with extensive knowledge of the medicinal properties of plants and minerals. By the time she was 20-years-old, she had also become an expert at stealing horses, which earned her the name of Lozen, which means “dextrous horse thief.” (source) 

Lozen was serious awesomeness.

Tremendous amounts of talent are being lost to our society just because that talent wears a skirt.
~ Shirley Chisholm

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.
~ Maya Angelou

I’ve been absolutely terrified every moment of my life—and I’ve never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.
~ Georgia O’Keeffe

If you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun.
~ Katharine Hepburn 

Tension Tuesday

 So, Netanyahu nominated Trump for Nobel peace prize. A war criminal, a man who designed and ordered up the genocide of the Palestinian people nominated a serial rapist, 34 count convicted felon, known business cheat, racist, conman, and pedophile for the goddamn PEACE PRIZE. 

Is this Mad Magazine? The Onion? Saturday Night Night Live? No, it’s too dark and insane for any of those. This must be reality then.

I’m sure Stinky and Bibi enjoyed their self-congratulatory little circle jerk.

Meanwhile in LA, Stephen Goebbels Miller’s team of pathologically insecure and angry-for-no-reason assholes let loose at least 100 of their dogs of war to terrorize…wait for it…around 20 kids, aged 5 to 12, who were attending summer camp in MacArthur Park.

WHY were these fuckers sent to terrorize children? Mayor Karen Bass went down to the park as soon as she was told the fuckers were there. 

"To me, this is another example of the administration ratcheting up chaos," Bass said at an early afternoon news conference. "It's a political agenda of provoking fear and terror.

"It looked like a city under siege. Under armed occupation.” (source) 

Seems it was just more of Stinky and his micro-schwanzed team’s attempt to play big swinging dick. We the People need to be brave, stand up, be creative and shut these motherfuckers down. How long will it be before more of the MAGAts wake the fuck up and realize they’ve been lied to and cheated? They’re still not living in mini-mansions or working easier, higher paying gigs and eggs and gas are still too expensive.

Enough. I spent a few hours cleaning out my phone yesterday so it’s picture time.

Karen Hallion

Jesse Duquette

Sadly, I didn't note the make or model of this beauty. Sorry!

Karen Hallion

Paper Towels for EVERYONE!

The death toll in Texas is now up to 82 with people still missing. Fuckface von ShitzinPantz says he'll "probably" visit the state on Friday (unless it interferes with his golf game, of course). IF he bothers to grace the state with this disastrous presence, I wonder if he’ll throw paper towels at the crowds. I think he’s beyond even that despicable level of greasy-ass, two bit “showmanship” now.

Asked if the meteorologists at the National Weather Service who were impacted by the federal cuts should be hired back, Trump initially said he didn’t know but eventually said no.

 Trump also wouldn't answer if he was working on plans to phase out the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), as internal documents show the agency isn't properly staffed. (source) 

The DOGE beast, created by the two headed narcissism monster that is Trump/Musk, got rid of nearly 600 National Weather Service (NWS) employees by early June of this year and also slashed its funding. Why? To give MORE money to billionaires that's why!

The Austin/San Antonio office of the NWS is short of six employees, and the nearby San Angelo office is short of four employees, according to Tom Fahy, the legislative director for the National Weather Service Employees Organization, a union that represents government employees, NBC News reported. 
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“I don’t think it’s helpful to have missing key personnel from the National Weather Service not in place to help prevent these tragedies,” Joaquin Castro, a Democratic member of the US House of Representatives from Texas, told CNN. (source) 

Gee DUH yeah! Too bad those real smart guys at the top hired that stupid kid, who calls himself Big Balls, to make firing decisions. You'd think naming himself "Big Balls" would be a dead giveaway that he has all the brains of a methed up high school footballer, eh?

Firefighters from Mexico have arrived in Kerr County, Texas to help find survivors and those missing in the catastrophic flash flooding that swept through the region on Independence Day. (source)

I imagine Lyin’ Lions and Hamfaced Homan will reward these folks' brave, selfless service by human trafficking them to CECOT or South Sudan.

Two 19 year old Mexican camp counselors at Camp Mystic, Silvana Garza Valdez and Maria Paula Zárate, are being hailed as heroes after risking their lives to protect and rescue kids under their care. 

I wonder if Fishlips Noem will have them deported now. Maybe she’ll just shoot them in a gravel pit instead.

According to the FBI, the triad of 1) being abused as a child, 2) reacting by torturing animals, and 3) becoming violent toward humans is so well established that animal cruelty is used to identify potential suspects of violent crimes and as an indicator of potential future offenders. Another FBI investigation corroborates that most serial killers tortured animals as children. (source) 

Meanwhile, in Australia a jury found a woman guilty of murdering three relatives with a lunchie of beef Wellington (a steak dish wrapped in pastry) made with death cap mushrooms. *OOPSIE* those are rilly, rilly poisonous.

Just a stray thought, a flight of fancy, a dream BUT wouldn’t it be fun if the White House chef was a resistance hero? Maybe the next Cabinet level lunch meeting could feature beef Wellington? Or, given Stinky’s lowbrow tastes, Big Macs with a sprinkling of Destroying Angels?

Tips, Ideas, and Stuff

Words of wisdom and a few tips from Columbia-trained
surgeon, Harvard-educated decision scientist, and author Dr. Mark Shrime:

The healthcare system in this country is in free fall. So for this week’s 4:30-on-a-Sunday-morning Medthreads post: Here are five things you can do to protect yourself and your loved ones.

As always, I’m a doctor but I’m not your doctor. None of this should be taken as medical advice specific to your situation. For specific questions, please see your health provider.

1.   The Big Bill that was passed last week will have massive effects on your healthcare, even if you’ve got private insurance.

Because hospitals, esp rural ones, get a lot of govt funding, cuts in Medicare/medicaid will lead to either them shutting down or (more likely) them getting bought up by private equity.

Docs and nurses get crushed by private equity.

Have a backup plan for when your nearest hospital closes. Do you have another one you could direct a family member to?

2.   If not, consider establishing care at a hospital or clinic in a bigger city. It takes time to do that, so start now

3.   It’s not clear what the state of vaccination will be come autumn. If you’re due for any vaccines, consider visiting a travel or sexual health clinic. Sometimes they can offer them (at a cost, unfortunately, unless you live in a blue city).

In many cases, they don’t even ask why you want them

4.   Mask!

I told you this would be unpopular.

Still, preventing getting sick may be the strongest weapon you have at your disposal. Masks are still available. Buy KN95s or better, and wear them.

Even if people judge you. Better judged and healthy than the alternative

5.   Get your information from Canadian, British, Australian, European, Singaporean, South African, and other official sites.

Literally do not trust the CDC’s public face any more.

And for the love of all that’s holy, do not trust ChatGPT with your health questions.

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Resist tip of the day:

A brief three to four second spray of Flex Seal on the windows of a vehicle would make them, pretty much, undrivable.

How come? I understand that it significantly or completely decreases visibility. It’d be a real shame if that happened to the windshield of an ICE kidnap-mobile, huh? 

You probably shouldn’t do that. Nope.
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Did I post this already?

The Crustian Daily describes itself as an independent journalist org “with teeth.” 

We expose what others bury, state violence, corporate abuse, and the systems that protect them. Home of The ICE List. Called ‘thugs’ by DHS. We took it as a compliment. (source) 

What's The Ice List.

The ICE List is an open journalistic project, created by the Crustian Daily, aimed at collecting and sharing information that can hold ICE members legally accountable.

We document and publish the names, faces, and roles of individuals involved in ICE operations, especially those linked to abuse, misconduct, or deportations. 

 Each profile is vetted and categorized by involvement level, providing a clear view of who’s behind the system. (source)  

This is a public database of ICE agents and collaborators (AKA bounty hunters).

...the "project" is about "truth and transparency," and states that the outlet will not tolerate "harassment, threats, or the use of private, nonpublic information."

Speaking to Newsweek over email, a spokesperson for the outlet said: "We won't publish home addresses. We won't encourage harassment. We won't cross the line."

They added: "What we will do is document publicly visible information, roles, affiliations, and identities tied to ICE operations, and make that easier for the public to access.” (source) 

Despite what you MAY have seen on social media, ICE is most def NOT legally exempt from police protocol. 

ICE agents can arrest people without a warrant based on probable cause but need a judicial warrant (a warrant signed by a judge) to enter a home or other private spaces. An administrative warrant, which is no more than an ICE form, is not enough for entry without consent. 

This is why they’re snatching people off the streets or from their workplaces, doctor’s offices or immigration appointments. They don’t have the legal backup to take you from your home. 

As for ID – what about badges and ID?

ICE officers must identify themselves and show their badges if they are at your door. You can ask to see their identification before engaging with them. If they refuse to show their identification, you are under no obligation to open the door. (source) 

Again, what about when you’re peacefully walking down the street to the corner store or to catch a bus to your job? I have not found any clear, definitive statements that ICE agents and their assholian bounty hunters are legally bound to show ID or even one of those craptastic badges available on Amazon.

These bounty hunting “ICE agents” have the balls on temerity to cry that they’re being picked on when they’re kidnapping innocents instead of catching actual dangerous criminals. These bounty hunters say they have to mask to protect their families (hiding behind their children or imaginary children) all while they victimize others. 

Cry me a fuckin’ ocean you fucking pantywaists.

"Federal agents and their children are being threatened, doxed and assaulted," U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts Leah Foley said in a video posted to social media. "That is why they must hide their faces.” (I honestly don’t believe them. They should have to show real, easily verifiable proof of the threats and so-called assaults they've suffered if they want to be taken seriously.)

Section 1064 of the National Defense Authorization Act of 2021 says federal officers responding to a "civil disturbance" must visibly display both identifying information of the officer and the entity the officer works for. (source) 

Know your rights! 

I only mention it but resisting ICE is a live action chess game. Use the ICEBlock app or similar and obstruct the bounty hunters' road access. (sawhorses across intersections, set up fluorescent traffic cones eliminating lanes, post spurious detour signage, fer instance)

At the very least, slow the motherfuckers down. Make their jobs way more trouble than they're worth. Make it a fuckton harder for them to capture that golden price per head. 

Give their prize victims time to escape.

The Fifth

Waddayaknow, I made it through another nasty-ass Fourth of July.

Our herd of cats were most def unhappy about all the stupid firework action. Fireworks are illegal for regular citizens to use, have, and/or sell here in Massachusetts – no sparklers, party poppers, and firecrackers. Only people or organizations holding a pyrotechnic certificate of competency (fireworks license) and a permit can, by law, set these babies off.

This would be great BUT fireworks are totally legal and easy to get in next-door New Hampshire. The folks who don’t give a fuck about their neighbors who suffer from PTSD, like veterans, or don’t give a rat’s ass about their own cats, dogs, and other critters (let alone yours or mine) and can’t live without their little bomb explosions just hop over the border and go on mad shopping sprees.

The penalty for selling fireworks in Massachusetts? A fine or imprisonment. The fine can be anywhere from $100 to $1000. Imprisonment? One year max. Oh and your inventory will be snatched – that’s mandatory.

What about this – you bought fireworks in New Hampster. You’re now sitting out on the seawall here in Valhalla with your brand-y new box of Black Cats and a case of Coors Light. You haven’t set off any firecrackers yet but you’re planning on doing so right after you kill this next beer. A cop rides up just then. What happens? He takes your case of beer, leaves the Black Cats, and moves on to the next person flouting open alcoholic bev container laws. 

Great. Kid getting buzzed on the seawall (at my age, I consider everyone under 40 a kid), watching the Weymouth fireworks display across the bay? NO problem AT ALL. Kid on the seawall getting drunk, setting off Black Cats every five minutes, which cause Skitter to hide under the couch, trembling in fear and Cake to cower by my feet on the bed as he pisses himself in terror? Yeah, I got BIG problems with this.

What’s the state law for possession and/or use of fireworks by an unlicensed jerk?

Penalty: Fine and confiscation only
Fine: $10 to $100
Seizure of fireworks: Mandatory

If my neighborhood’s typical of the state, there’s no actual fireworks ban enforcement. I’m pissed. Think about how much money the state could take in if the law was enforced. Not only would this unholy week be less traumatizing for pets, wildlife, and those who’ve already suffered more than enough, Massachusetts might actually have enough buckos to fix our goddamn pothole riddled roads. 

That’d be nice.