In the News

Remember Alligator Alcatraz – the Florida concentration camp that finally fully closed in July of this year?

Immigration advocates said the tents were never safe or humane for holding people. Detainees at the facility have talked about their difficulty accessing lawyers and described poor physical conditions, including worms in the food, toilets that didn’t flush, floors flooded with fecal waste, and mosquitoes and other insects everywhere. (source) 

Only one-in-four of the more than 6,700 men who were held at the camp had actual criminal convictions versus civil immigration violations (if that). The most serious of these convictions were traffic offenses and this isn’t including driving under the influence of drugs or alcohol, hit-and-run or vehicular manslaughter. 

Where are these mostly innocent men now? //shrugs// Alligator Alcatraz was state-run – prisoners don’t necessarily appear in databases run by federal agencies. Governor Ron DeSantis is every bit as cruel, corrupt, and slimy as Trump. Florida didn’t even have a system to look up those imprisoned at the camp. These assholes would have made halfassed Nazis. 

Official word from this lying-ass administration is that all prisoners were transferred to other concentration camps. I don't believe them. How many are in Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, South Sudan or Rwanda? How many were thrown off a boat and told to swim? How many innocents are dead because of Trump and his eager-beaver, bloodthirsty henchmen?

Wanna know where the concentration camps are in your area? Check out the interactive maps and other info at the Freedom for Migrants site.

Meanwhile in Paris, the staff of the Eiffel Tower went on strike because women employees were asked to step out of sight during a visit by a Hindu group. Yes, really. In Paris of all places.

The Tower reopened today. The company who runs the site, SETE , hasn’t said “I’m sorry” but they have, more or less, admitted they whoopsied. They acknowledged that the group (Bochasanwasi Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha) had requested the Saturday visit be organised to limit “interactions with women.” SETE said “these conditions should not have been accepted.” Yeah DUH!

Betcha they wouldn’t have said a thing if this hadn’t made international headlines. 

AND … I wonder how much good this will do. 

Twelve countries including Britain, Canada and France said on Tuesday, September 8, that they would slap sanctions on trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank, after increasing attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian villages in the occupied territory. Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Ireland, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain and Sweden also plan to limit trade with the settlements, the nations' foreign ministers said in a joint statement. (source) 

The European Union is Israel’s biggest trading partner. Goods from the West Bank make up a small fraction of what’s traded but maybe this sort of symbolic act will lead to more. Hitting these fuckers in the wallet is always a good place to start.

Can we hit Prez Pedo in the wallet? I mean, it’s really the only place he feels real, lasting pain. Yes, he’s a desperately insecure, monster narcissist but his bank account is his heart and blood. You know, he’s not helping out midterm Republican candidates in need even though he has $400mill in his Super Pac. What’s he gonna spend it on? My thought is that he’s not going to spend it at all. That cash will disappear into some offshore account that the old fraud can access if and when he needs to make a fast retreat with not-Ivanka (the insane diaper nurse) to a non-extradition country.

Robert Reich thinks the old fraud’s gonna spend it on a self-aggrandizing rally tour like he did in his first term. Why? Because everything is always all about him. Yes, IF he does these rallies that he doesn’t have the physical stamina for or the cracked showmanship left to pull off, he’s going to generate massive humiliating press for himself and the entire Republican Party. 

It’d be a gift to the Democratic Party. Do it, Donnie. Do it.

Little Miss Cranky Pants

Well, I woke up in a my-aren’t-we-just-a-precious-gift-to-humanity mood this morning. I’m dangerously teetering on the precipice of haughty, arrogant, and despotic. (possibly I'm a cuddly, mostly lovable and only occasionally firing squad-worthy tyrant?)

Mae West’s line from I'm No Angel comes to mind – “Oh, Beulah, peel me a grape.” I’m, seriously now, having to stop myself from imperiously directing Cake to fetch me my box of truffles. Yeah, somehow I don’t think my sweet mini panther’s gonna comply.

Cake said "Get your own damn chocolates, bitch.”
Hmmmph.

So what’s up with the grouchtastic mood this morning? Got me hangin’. I slept great and had pleasant, uncomplicated dreams. There’s absolutely no reason other than the usual:

• We live in a time when the Republican Party is run by money and power hungry, soulless, grifting pedophile, racists, who bomb schoolchildren and fishermen as a distraction from their other crimes.
• While my health’s improving/getting less stupid, I’m now back at the bottom of the physical rehab hill AGAIN. Jen and I leave for our little Iceland holiday in two months. I need to be able to walk at least four blocks (with my walker) at a go before then. Me and Sisyphus – we’re fucking besties.

On top of this – the weather’s beginning to change. It was 49 goddamn degrees when I woke up this morning. I’m gonna have to dig out the autumn quilt and flannel sheets. Have I not suffered enough?! 

Fer fuck’s sake, I HAD TO WEAR SOCKS YESTERDAY! THIS is how annoyed I was about that – I wore them with sandals. Yes, I looked like an old person (to be fair, I AM old) but I am NOT that old (yes ... I am) OR ready for fall. Okay, I may have ruined the old person look since these were my cartoon sushi socks worn under my tie dye sweats. Also, I was wearing a T-shirt emblazoned with an octopus playing the drums. So, I have the dress sense of a 4-year-old – fucking sue me, aight?

Am I a fashion plate or what? *ahem* I think it’s safe to assume that Ten loves me for my mind, NOT my sartorial statements or general savoir faire.

I am a misanthrope, but exceedingly benevolent; I am very cranky, and am a super-idealist.
~ Alfred Nobel

You use and lose a lot of energy being grumpy.
~ Ted Danson

I'm fairly certain that, at this very minute, the [Mars Polar Lander] is floating somewhere around Neptune feeling tired and cranky and looking for a Holiday Inn. Of course, you'd have to have a heart of titanium not to feel a twinge of sadness while watching those dejected NASA scientist waiting by the phone like the class wallflower on prom week. On the other hand, it was kind of fun to watch a bunch of men waiting by the phone and seeing how they feel when someone promises they'll call and then YOU NEVER HEAR FROM HIM AGAIN.
~ Celia Rivenbark 

I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face.
~ Augusto Pinochet

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
~ Aristotle

Speak when you are angry—and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.
~ Ambrose Bierce

Grumpy was my favorite dwarf.

There’s a New Map in Town

Mercator projection

Growing up, going through school, the maps we saw in our Social Studies classes were all Mercator projection maps. The problem with the Mercator map, which was created for ship navigation, is that it makes northern regions appear disproportionately large, while Africa and other places closer to the equator appear smaller than they really are. They may work a treat for sailors but they give the rest of us a pretty skewed view of our planet.

Togo's Foreign Minister Robert Dussey said maps are far more than simple representations of geography.

"Maps shape our understanding of the world. They guide education, nourish the imagination, and influence collective perceptions," (source) 

So, there’s a relatively new map out and it’s absolutely fascinating. It’s the Equal Earth projection map. It’s an equal-area, pseudocylindrical world map that shows continents and oceans at their true sizes relative to each other.

At Al Jazeera there’s a quiz:

Can you guess the real size of each country on the new world map?

Pick which country is bigger, then watch it morph from Mercator to Equal Earth projection to see how close you were.

I played and, surprisingly, got eight out of ten right. Maybe most stunning to me was the Greenland/Algeria question. Which is bigger? I mean – c’mon – on all the maps we’ve been looking at since we were tiny tots, Greenland is HUGE, right? It looks to be about the same size as the entire continent of Africa and Algeria’s just one country on the continent. OF COURSE Greenland’s bigger, right?

Wrong!

Algeria measures 2,381,741 square kilometers in size. Greenland is 2,166,086 square kilometers.

The United Nations feels it’s wise for schoolchildren and people in general, to have a reality based picture of the planet. As much as I’d love to live in a fantasy world of my own invention, I’m down with the U.N. going with actuality.

To address this, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted 164 to 1 on Friday to adopt a resolution promoting the Equal Earth projection, which shows continents in their true proportions, as an alternative to Mercator.
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Gerardus Mercator, Flemish geographer, cosmographer
 and cartographer. Creator of the 1569 world map.

The United States was the only country to vote against the resolution calling the measure a “radical ideological project”. (source) 

Emmmm, given that our ambassador to the U.N. is Mike Waltz, the completely moronic Trump toady who included a reporter in an insufficiently secured group chat discussing war plans, I’m unsurprised that we were the single no vote. So, the U.S. is the only anti-reality nation. Yeah, that’s a real shocker, huh? 🙄

I only mention it but the U.N.’s resolution is not legally binding and doesn’t mean anyone’s got to give up their precious, inaccurate Mercator projections. The U.N. is just gently encouraging the use of a more accurate map.

Are you a teacher or a map nerd? Go to the Equal Earth website and download the file(s) (it’s FREE and shit!). You can then go to your local print shop and have them print it out. Yes, this will cost bucks but still, it’s cool, huh?

The Equal Earth Wall Map is for schools, organizations, or anyone who needs a map showing countries and continents at their true sizes relative to each other. Africa appears 14 times larger than Greenland as it actually is. And wherever you live, the map has you covered. Download a choice of three versions centered on these regions: Africa/Europe, the Americas, and East Asia/Australia.

Other features include:

•  It’s free. Download the map and print as many copies as you want.
•  It’s big. The map measures 55” wide x 29” tall (1.4 x 0.74 meters). You can print it even larger thanks to the very high resolution.
•  Just enough detail.  The 2,600+ map labels provide geographic context without overwhelming you with too much information.
•  Professional design. With pleasing colors, readable type, and clear visual hierarchies, this is a map that you will want to look at. (source) 

Just FYI – the cost to print a 55” wide x 29” tall (1.4 x 0.74 meters) color map could run in the neighborhood of $60 - $75. Double that price if you want it laminated (which would be a smart plan if this is going up in a classroom).

Memeday

It’s been a hell of a week here in Smooth Brained Plutocrat Hell. Aren’t they all though?

Kakistocracy
     noun
government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous people.

What does that makes Trump, JDouche, Kegbreath, Nutlick, Roadkill Kennedy, Markwaynejoebobetc, nd all the rest? Why, it makes them piles of shit – AKA kakistocrats.

In other news dear little boy, Cake, has been diagnosed with diabetes. I did NOT know that cats could get diabetes! So far he’s responding well to the pill his doc prescribed. YEA! For now, we don’t need to worry about insulin. Jesus. My poor little, evil angel. 

I can tell he’s feeling better – he’s no longer peeing on the bed (YEA!) or sleeping on top of me AND he's back to annoying Ten. Cake communicates in a very direct, blunt manner. When he needs one of us to stop what we're doing (patting, brushing, skritching him) he'll give us a wee slap or, if we've failed to pay quick enough attention, a little bite. “STOP THAT WENCH! Didn’t you read my mind that I was done being cosseted?”

In lieu of more words, I give you memes and more of them. Hopefully some of them will make you laugh.

Tom Gauld

And Then There's Cuba

About those mass deportations ...

When people are captured, and imprisoned without due process that’s kidnapping. 

When they’re delivered to another country against their will, that’s human trafficking.

When they’re put in prisons, with no access to lawyers or any other assistance, that’s called a concentration camp, NOT a “detention center.”

Words matter. Call it what it fucking is.

Aristides Fernandez Garcia was deported to the Central African Republic which our very own State Department has under the highest travel advisory, Level 4: "Do Not Travel," citing unrest, violent crime, kidnapping, landmines, health risks and terrorism. As with everyone else picked up by Trump’s ICEholes, it doesn’t look like Aristides Fernandez Garcia has actually committed any crimes. He was in the U.S. seeking asylum. 

Dave Whamond

He said when he asked ICE officers where the plane was headed, he got no clear answer. He said he only learned he was headed to Africa after the journey was underway, during a stop in another African country before reaching his final destination. (source) 

WHY are Cubans being deported 7,000 miles away to concentration camps in Central African Republic. *Wouldn’t it be easier, MUCH cheaper and less of a drain on the nosediving U.S. economy if they just shipped him the 90 miles back to Cuba?

What? Too easy? Also, this insanely sadistic admin won’t get their ruthless rocks off if the cruelty factor isn’t set to 11 ... amirite?

A Miami Herald poll from April of this year found that 68% of Cuban Americans strongly or somewhat disapprove of the administration’s push to deport Cuban nationals without legal status and without criminal records. Still, close to 70% of Cuban American’s in Florida supported Pedo’s reelection bid.

Meanwhile, in his ongoing effort to take control of and rule all the countries on this side of the Atlantic, Trump has:

• Cut off Cuba's main oil supplies from Venezuela and threatened penalties on any nation providing fuel.
• Continued to sanctioning the fuck out of Cuba’s mining, construction, and smaller state-owned businesses.
• Made tourism next to impossible for the average American.

This is Cuban American's Find Out part of FAFO. Hope they're happy with what their vote is doing for their friends and family on the island.

Critics warn that the sanctions, combined with the ongoing energy blockade, have pushed the country’s power grid and healthcare systems to the point of collapse.

Volker Turk, the high commissioner for human rights at the United Nations, stated in June that such restrictions were “directly harming Cubans” and called for their end.

“Children are dying because doctors lack access to essential medical supplies and medicines,” said Turk.“This is unacceptable.” (source) 

Bob Englehart

“unacceptable” yeah, I’d call that a mammoth understatement.

A wee postscript here – it’s not like foreign prisons are paying the U.S. for these humans, these people that Trump’s trafficking. Nope. We’re paying them millions of buckos to take them.

The Trump administration has spent more than $1m per person to deport some migrants to countries they have no connection to, only to see many sent back to their home nations at further taxpayer expense, according to a new congressional investigation.

A 30-page report from Senate foreign relations committee Democrats, released on Thursday and shared with the Guardian, details how the US government paid more than $32m to five foreign governments – including some of the world’s most corrupt regimes – to accept approximately 300 third-country nationals deported from the US.

In the most extreme case, the administration paid Rwanda $7.5m plus an estimated $601,864 in flight costs to accept just seven people – about $1.1m per individual, according to the report’s analysis of government spending data and flight records. The administration similarly paid Equatorial Guinea $7.5m to take 29 people, costing taxpayers an estimated $282,126 per person. Palau was paid $7.5m with no documented flights, Eswatini was paid $5.1m for 15 people, and El Salvador $4.76m for about 250 people. 

Committee staff indicated the state department is pursuing third-country deportation agreements with 70 to 80 countries. *More than 80% of migrants sent to these third countries have already returned to their home nations or are in the process of doing so, the investigation found, raising the question as to why they were not deported directly in the first place. (source) 

In addition to the absolute FACT that this is the most reprehensible, immoral, vile, and ruthlessly barbaric government, it is also PEAK turnip brained, evil stupid. Trump and his gang of ant-brained, assfaced cazzones aren’t bright enough to manage their own outhouses let alone the U.S.

Gloria Steinem

Gloria Steinem has died. She was 92.

Steinem brought a feminist perspective into the mainstream through rigorous journalism, public speaking and activism. The author of nine books, she campaigned against domestic violence, female genital mutilation, the pornography industry and the Vietnam and Gulf wars. She also worked in support of causes including Black Lives Matter, the reunification of Korea, female reproductive rights, LGBTQ rights and the Times Up movement. In 1984, she was arrested while protesting against apartheid outside the South African embassy in Washington DC. 
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She also credited black feminists including Florynce Kennedy, Evelyn Cunningham, Shirley Chisholm and Fannie Lou Hamer for teaching her the importance of activism. “It was like finding a family,” she said of that time. “As wildly different as we may be, and we certainly were, women share hopes and a certain vision of the world, and a certain shit detector.” (source) 

Gloria Steinem was one of my first heroes. When I was 11, 12, 13 and coming into more of an awareness of the bullshit inequality of my gender, not just at home but in this world (to put it ultra mildly), Gloria Steinem was a beacon – someone I could turn to (well, Ms. magazine anyway – when I could get my hands on a copy, that is). She was someone who wasn’t going to tell me that my future was limited to baby making, housewifery, and maybe a gig as a junior high music teacher.

Ahhh, small town Midwest America in the early ‘70s where men and boys ruled. If you were a girl or a woman with a mind of your own, if you didn’t play by the rules or fit into any tidy categories, you were ostracized. That and called a slut whether you slept around or not. 

Boys who fucked anything that moved (or tried to and this included cows and sheep) – were they called sluts, were they shamed? OF COURSE NOT! THEY were lauded. 🙄 😡 💥

Not enough is said about the other woman in this famous double portrait.

Dorothy Pitman Hughes was a community activist in New York City. She organized the first shelter for battered women there (WOW!) and co-founded the New York City Agency for Child Development which broadened childcare services. She established a community center on the West Side which offered day care, job training, advocacy training and more. Pitman was also a co-founder of Ms. magazine.

Steinem and Pitman Hughes met in 1968 when Steinem was writing a story for New York Magazine about Pitman Hughes’ West 80th Community Childcare Center. They became fast friends. From 1969 to 1973, they spoke across the country at college campuses, community centers, union halls and more. At the time, Steinem did not like public speaking, but was encouraged by Pitman Hughes, who “as a former nightclub singer, was perfectly at home on the stage.” They worked well together, demonstrating “the possibility of interracial sisterhood, of being ‘sisters under the skin,’ as they frequently put it.”

“Dorothy’s style was to call out the racism she saw in the white women’s movement. She frequently took to the stage to articulate the way in which white women’s privilege oppressed Black women but also offered her friendship with Gloria as proof this obstacle could be overcome,” said Lovett. (source) 

Dorothy Pitman Hughes died four years ago, in December of ’22, at the age of 84.

Both women died peacefully at their homes, surrounded by loved ones. Causes of death? They were old. Bodies break down. We die.

A few words of wisdom from a departed sage:

A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.

America is an enormous frosted cupcake in the middle of millions of starving people.

the most reliable predictor of whether a country is violent within itself—or will use military violence against another country—is not poverty, natural resources, religion, or even degree of democracy; it’s violence against females. It normalizes all other violence.

Men should think twice before making widowhood women's only path to power.

There are black doctors and doctors and women novelists and novelists. Any less powerful group gets the adjective, while the powerful group takes the noun. The less powerful group usually knows the more powerful one much better than vice versa. People of color have to understand white people in order to survive; women have had to know men. Only the powerful group can afford to regard the less powerful one as a mystery.

Women have two choices: Either she's a feminist or a masochist.

I was angry because young men in politics were treated like rising stars and young women were treated like - well - young women. {...}
I was angry about the human talent that was lost just because it was born into a female body, and the mediocrity that was rewarded because it was born into a male one.

Voting isn't the most we can do, but the least. To have a democracy, you have to want one.

Primaries and Bats

Progressive Senator Ed Markey crushed the fuck out of that weasel Seth Moulton in the primary yesterday here in Massachusetts. Thank fuck!

Markey’s old but he’s in favor of and working for a Green New Deal and a universal single-payer healthcare system. Moulton is not. Also too …

… shortly before Tuesday’s primary election (Moulton) apologized for saying that he did not want his daughters “getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete” – comments made after Trump beat Harris in the 2024 election in part by vowing to curb transgender rights. (source)

Random Edward Gorey bat

His full statement was “I have two little girls. I don’t want them getting run over on a playing field by a male or formerly male athlete, but as a Democrat I’m supposed to be afraid to say that.”

How absolutely Fetterman-esque of him. If it’s so discomfiting, so embarrassing to be a Democrat in Massachusetts, young(ish) Seth can switch parties – become a Republican. He can do that in January 2027 when his gig as a U.S. House Rep ends. Granted, it's highly unlikely he'd ever hold office in this state again. Maybe he could move to New Hampshire. I hear they still elect the odd Republican there.

By the by, his “apology” was one of those NON-apology apologies. You know, sorry to “anyone hurt by those comments.” What a skeeze.

Moulton spent $7.1 million on ads which, from what I understand, were all about Markey’s age versus Seth's positions and accomplishments (does he have any? I mean, being younger isn't an achievement. Hells bells, I'm younger than Ed!). Online, all Moulton’s supporters could do, beyond harping on age, was yap about some of Markey’s less than progressive positions from MORE THAN 30 YEARS AGO (which he has evolved out of thenkyewveddymuch!).

Jesus, desperate much?

This will undoubtedly be Markey’s last term. I’m hoping there are a bunch of energetic progressives in the wings since Elizabeth Warren’s not getting any younger either. I wanna see Ayanna Pressley as senator. Maybe Mayor Michelle Wu, Lindsay Sabadosa, Erika Uyterhoeven or Danillo Sena?

Another random Gorey bat

One wicked bummer in yesterday's primary – I’m disappointed, to say the very least, that the progressive candidate for my district's rep to the House, Patrick Roath, did NOT win over incumbent Stephen Lynch. Lynch is a supposed moderate but he voted against the Affordable Care Act. What an asshole!

This will be Lynch’s 14th term. He doesn't believe we should all have healthcare – only those who can pay can stay healthy and amongst the living, I guess. Thanks dude. Which other rights does he want to erode? Women’s bodily autonomy? Marriage equality? Does he want to bring back segregation? Does he, perhaps, think that residents of his district don't deserve parasite-free food and water?

Now that the primary is over all I want to do is watch teevee (Stranger Things! Good Girls! G.L.O.W.! Star Trek!), snarf snacks, and read the next Murderbot installment. Of course.

More Gorey bats

Tell Me Why

I’m not a beer drinker — hell, I hardly imbibe in any adult bevs anymore so I'm maybe not the best judge here. Still, Pabst?!!! Really?

Thieves made off with tens of thousands of cans of Pabst beer in two separate heists from a southern California warehouse on the same day, police said.
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Roughly 34,000 cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon and non-alcoholic Old Milwaukee beer – more than 1,500 cases – were stolen, according to a police report obtained by the Los Angeles Times. (source) 

There’s a market for this shit? What is it? Who's downing this piss-water?

Supposedly, it’s a hipster brew – big with artists, musicians, fixie bike riders, skateboarders, folks who go to indie music shows, and dive bars.  So, detectives are on the lookout for cargo short and flannel clad skateboarders, possibly also sporting bucket hats and Chucks? If you've got hearing, maybe listen for the sounds of Fontaines D.C, Wet Leg, and Mannequin Pussy. Dunno. Hope that helps.

I only mention it but, in the before times (before deafness), when I spent an awful lot of time in dive bars pogoing to local bands, I drank beer. I did NOT drink Pabst though! Jesus. I've made plenty of poor decisions in my time – this was not one of them.

The company's offering a reward for the swill's return and are asking the public for an assist – a snitch.

“STOLEN—40,000 lbs of beer,” it posted on Instagram. “We don’t fault you for wanting to brag to your friends how much PBR you have, we just wish you obtained it the honorable way." 

Emmmm, good luck?

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WHY did it take 30 goddamn years to find Duane Keith Davis guilty of the murder of poet/rapper/actor/activist Tupac Shakur? I mean, his murderer bragged for years about his hand in Tupac’s death. He even wrote about it in a book, fer fuck’s sake. 

So why did it take 30 years? Ultimately, in my opinion, it comes down to racism. Our broken “justice” system doesn’t give a flying fuck about you, me or any of us unless we’re white, wealthy, male, and well connected.
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Markwaynejimbobdoofusface Mullin opened his mouth yesterday and, unsurprisingly, demonstrated that he’s solidly in the running for Stupidest Trump Employee of all Time. 

“You have a Biden administration that is failing the American people

Clearly he missed the heads up that Biden’s term ended nearly two years ago. Christ almighty, what a smooth brained moldy radish!

I’d have thought the skyrocketing cost of living, the war in Iran that we’re losing, all the tainted food, and the concentration camps would have been a dead giveaway but … well … Markwayne,etc. took more than a few hits to the head during his little career as a boxing/quasi martial arts guy. That and he went to school in Oklahoma which is ranked 47th in education. Possibly his mother dropped him on his head a few dozen times too. I wouldn’t be surprised. Maybe she wanted to see if he bounced?
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At least 12 people were killed and 21 wounded in Russian air attacks on Kyiv last night. 

At least three people, including two children, were killed and eight wounded in an Israeli drone attack in the al-Kateeba district west of Gaza City in northern Gaza this morning. 

And here in the U.S. Prez Pedo and his Heritage Foundation puppet masters continue to openly incinerate democracy. Two bit clownfuck stooges like Bessent, RFK jr., Kegbreath, Markwaynejimbob, and Linda McMahon prop up their decaying, obviously mentally banjaxed fuckwit paper king. The country? The citizenry? Humans? The planet? Fuck all that man – it’s all about their precious offshore bank accounts.

I wish I believed in the afterlife the nuns and priests preached about back when I was a cute kid at St. Sebastians. I’d take solace in knowing that Trump and his klan are most def not headed for the good place.