SeaLife

These absolutely gorgeous fishies are called blue tang OR blue barber, blue doctor, blue doctorfish or blue tang surgeonfish. NOT to be confused with orange Tang made popular by NASA on John Glenn's Mercury orbit around the Earth. Man 'o' man, I really pestered my mother to buy Tang!

With all those name options, how does one know what to call a blue tang? In order to avoid embarrassing faux pas, it’s best to simply ask them their preferences. For example, my usual brain cutter, Fred, most def insists on being referred to as a surgeon versus a doctor and well he merits that distinction. The neurologist who treats my essential tremors is to be referred to as Doctor Goodheart not Ms. Goodheart. Of course! Me? If I was a blue tang, I would want to be addressed respectfully as Tang, Empress of all Valhalla. Naturally.

Related, the yellow barber and yellow doctorfish. While I was hip to the fact that aquatic dwellers, like humans and other organisms, would be in need of medics from time to time (some of us *cough* me *cough* more than others), I was wholly unaware of their need for barbers. Interesting. Learning new things every day and shit!

Have you seen the Chondrocladia lyra AKA the harp sponge? Yeah, it kinda looks like a harp but it also resembles an over-designed toast rack. You know, the kind you’d find at Williams Sonoma or need to go direct to Paris to acquire.

The harp sponge is a carnivorous beauty so it probably won’t eat your toast but it might take a bite out of you. Well, only if you’re a tiny crustacean. Dunno if the prefer butter or a schmear of cream cheese – you'll have to ask.

How about the humpback anglerfish AKA Johnson’s abyssal seadevil, viperfish, and, appropriately, fangtoothfish. There’s little to no light at the depths they live so our scary buddies attract prey with a nifty bioluminescent lure between its eyes. Like miners lamps, sort of! 

Fang’s tum-tum can expand to accommodate prey much larger than itself. Can relate. I get like that sometimes too, pal. Especially around pizza. 

How about this cutest little creature? Costasiella kuroshimae, AKA leaf slugs, sea sheep, or leaf sheep. They can be found in the waters off Japan, the Philippines, and Indonesia.

Sea sheep not only feed on algae, they separate the green organelles inside a plant’s cells which convert sunlight into chemical energy into its own cells. What this means is that these leaf sheep slugs are photosynthetic animals. How astoundingly wicked cool is that? WAY!

Sea angels – don’t let the name fool you. They're predators who devour other swimming snails. You know, in the same way that Republicans eat their own as well as any other humans they deem prey. Sea angels, AKA Clionidae and Clione – the name looks suspiciouslly similar to Battlestar Galactica’s Cylons. Know what I’m saying? 

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is clearly Ocean. 
~ Arthur C. Clarke 

If the ocean can calm itself, so can you. We are both saltwater mixed with air.
~ Chief Seattle 

A smooth sea never made a skillful sailor.
~ Franklin D. Roosevelt 

You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. 
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn 

Funny Girls

It’s like this – my 50th high school class reunion is coming up this summer. I’m not attending – I’ve not gone to any reunions. Why start now? I am, however, curious about one person. 

Wendy was pretty, smart, popular, upbeat, and had cute sense of humor. We sat next to each other in orchestra (the flute section) for three years. Wendy and I were friendly but not friends – no reason beyond the fact that we socialized in vastly different circles. Hers being the football player/cheerleader/prom queen/popular kids parties circle. Mine was the home alone watching M*A*S*H and Mary Tyler Moore circle. 

So, after high school we didn’t keep in touch. Through the reunion booklets, which came out every five years, I read that she’d married some hot, up and coming comedian and was moving out to Los Angeles. Next reunion – no mention of the comedian or the marriage but now Wendy was working as a comic out in LA. WOW!

A couple things here:

One – I didn’t know Wendy had it in her! I mean, in high school she had a cute, safe, Hallmark greeting card kind of sense of humor. Who knew that, lurking below this sweet, safe, all-American-girl exterior was a woman who could get up in front of an audience and make people laugh out loud? AWESOME – talk about a post-high school bloom!

Two – Comedy is a HARD business, especially for women. Watching The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, but maybe more, I’m Dying Up Here, really brought that into crystal clear focus.

Comedian Alison Stevenson writes:

Women in comedy have to work 10 times harder to gain not only the respect of our audience, but our peers as well. We have to have way thicker skin, and put up with a lot more bullshit. Each and every one of us has to face the inevitable, unwanted sexual advances, as well as comments on our appearance – not to mention that so many people truly do believe that women are not funny. When we perform, we have to deal with knowing that our comedy is going to be considered “niche”, simply because it’s from our point of view. Men don’t have to fear that, because when they preach about their dicks, or rant about their relationships, or their family, it isn’t considered “male humor”. It is regarded simply as humor. (source) 

Wendy was out there trying to break into the stand-up big leagues 20 years after Joan Rivers started and not even a full 10 years after Elayne Boosler dared to defy the traditional female comedian self-dissing stylings (for which she was banned from The Tonight Show).

Despite frequently being hailed as the next big success, Boosler could not achieve the same feats as her male peers. She booked her first spot on The Tonight Show only when Helen Reddy guest-hosted in 1977. Later that year, she performed on the show when Johnny Carson was hosting, but she was assigned hacky, self-deprecating material she refused to use. Afterward, Carson reportedly told his comedy booker, “I don’t ever want to see that waitress on my show again.”  (source) 

WHAT a hamster-dicked asshole

Rivers was heavily self-deprecating and that’s the thing I remember most about her. It’s, ultimately, what turned me off too. I mean, George Carlin, Richard Pryor, and Jonathan Winters didn’t have to do that shit. Oh wait…that’s right…they had penises. Somehow that means you don’t have to make yourself smaller or lesser. You don’t need to make excuses for yourself, no matter how funny you may be. Not if you have a dick.

When Whoopi Goldberg came out doing stand-up, she was more of an actress doing character-driven longer bits. She was funny but hitting hard too. 

Gilda Radner and Lily Tomlin were also character-driven but much more in the Carol Burnett/situational comedy vein.

Early on, Bette Midler did stand-up. Actually, I guess it’d be more accurate to term them cabaret performances. She joked, told stories, and sang.

Who – what women – are doing arch, tart, insightful, observational stand-up now? Not Saturday Night Live sketch comedy but stand-up. I wanna know – I wanna see who’s out there now.

And whatever happened to Wendy? What kind of comedy did she do and is she still doing it? Frankly, I’d be muy surprised. Struggling through the comedy scene’s a young person’s game and we’re a few decades or so distant from that young shit.

Absolute Randomosity

Quokka’s live in Western Australia and are in the the kangaroo/wallaby family. They’re cute as all hell but DO NOT FEED THE CUTE QUOKKAS! Junk food is very bad for them (even worse than it is for us). Quokkas are about the size of a house cat. I wonder if Cake wants a brother...

Smaller than a quokka and a cat is the hyrax. They’re also called rock rabbits or dassies, and make their home in sub-Saharan Africa and the Middle East. They look like the angry, shorter cousins of the quokka.

They're NOT to be confused with the Hydrax – a human-crewed 22nd century spaceship featured on Dr. Who. The Hydrax became a permanent fixture on the vampire planet in E-space. The crew became vampires and the ship became a castle. This was during the time of the fourth Doctor. 

I’m not worried about data centers. I live in Ohio and most of my family is on drugs. The copper wire will be ripped out of those bitches in a week.
~ Blake Hammond

Japanese flying dwarf squirrels are fucking adorable.

Saw this on Threads this morning and well, had to share:

If you had a Million dollars and spent $1 PER SECOND, you would run out of money in 11.5 days. 

If you had a Billion dollars and spent $1 PER SECOND, you would run out of money in 31.7 years. 

If you had Jeff Bezos net worth and spent $1 PER SECOND, you would run out of money in 8,244.5 years. 

If you had Elon Musk’s net worth and spent $1 PER SECOND, you would run out of money in 25,360 years. 

How is it ethical, moral or in any fucking way decent to have that much money when people are starving, dying from preventable diseases, going without medicine because it’s too damned expensive, or unable to afford a place to live? Huh? Tell me!

Have you seen telescope fish? Fer fuck’s sake, do they look like they came out of one of the Alien franchises or WHAT? No surprise, they’re found off the coast of Western Australia – the continent with intensely unique wildlife – most of which can kill you and is inclined to do so. Alright, alright, these scary fishies are also found in tropical waters of the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific Oceans at depths of 1,640 to 6,561 feet. 

Good to know. I’ll avoid those neighborhoods.

Ya know, I take it back – first thing in the morning, I might look this strange, disturbing, and distinctly uncivilized too. Especially if I don't cover my mouth when I yawn.

I know it’s early but it looks like the elderly and always concerned senator from Maine, Susan Collins, might well be hanging up her pedophile supporting voting mitts in November. Graham Platner is, at this point, ahead in all noted general election polls at 270 To Win. We can only hope he doesn’t end up being another Fetterman.

Not an original comment but, it feels like Green Day really wasted American Idiot on George Bush. 

This is kind of a creepy looking bird. It’s a potoo and they’re native to Central and South America. They’re mainly insectivores which is awesome but with this brill camouflage, wouldn't they make excellent assassins? Their grey and brown mottled feathers are absolutely perfect for blending in with the trees around them. NO ONE, at least in forest situations, would ever see them coming. I wonder if they come in White House of Mar-a-Lago shades.

Fight the Power

Yesterday I had lyrics from a Paul Simon song stuck in my head.

Yesterday, it was my birthday
I hung one more year on the line
I should be depressed
My life’s a mess
But I’m having a good time

I’ve been loving and loving
And loving
I’m exhausted from loving so well
I should go to bed
But a voice in my head
Says “Ah, What the hell”

Have a good time
Have a good time
Have a good time

Why? It wasn’t my birthday — that’s a few months off. My life isn’t any more messy than usual. In fact, physical crapoli aside, I’m doing pretty damn well. So then, am I having a carefree good time?

Is that really the right question though? While the world is being turned into a vat of hot, fried sewage courtesy of a bunch of zed-headed oligarchs, plutocrats, and other assorted gilded garbage humans, how am I having a good time?

Monday two teens, Cain Clark and Caleb Vazquez, walked up to the Islamic Center of San Diego, the largest mosque in the county, with 30 guns, a crossbow, a 75 page long, plagiarized and AI written haterific, white supremacist “manifesto"/suicide note, a gas can with a Nazi SS symbol on it and proceeded to kill three people. 

They filmed themselves as they murdered Amin Abdullah, Mansour Kaziha and Nadir Awad, then posted the video to some ultra sick site online.

The video investigators found was posted to a website which has been on the FBI's radar amid a disturbing trend of young people engaging with what's called the "True Crime Community," or TCC, an online movement that glorifies mass shooters and encourages violence and self-harm.

A source familiar with the investigation said he believes the video was initially recorded on Discord, a popular online platform for gaming. (source) 

It’s the week before Eid al-Adha, the "Festival of Sacrifice," the second major holiday in Islam. There were approximately 140 children and teachers inside the Islamic Center’s school when these bastards began their rampage. If not for the security guard, Amin Abdullah, calling in a lock down before he was murdered, a lot more people – kids – would have died.

These two murderous fuckers weren’t just after Muslims either. Nope, their masturbatory “manifesto” went off on how much they despised Jews, the LGBTQ+ community, Black people, women (whilst whining about how they can’t score – no, I’m not making that up.). 

Who told these absolutely-consumed-by-hatred teens that Muslims, Jews, Blacks, LGBTQ+ folks, and women are horrible, less than human, to blame for everything that’s not perfect in their lives, and deserve to die? Was it their parents? Possibly. Their president, his cabinet and his faithful cult? DEFINITELY!!! It’s also the shock jocks, podcast bros, and other online mini-dicked idiots who make bank on exploiting and inflaming young (and not so young) disaffected and embittered white men’s insecurities, fears, and prejudices. They may not specifically say “go out and kill!” (plausible deniability and all) but they create the conducive vibe.

Who does this ultimately serve? The powerful and power-adjacent people. The same ones who are responsible for the minimum wage remaining at $7.25 per hour in 20 states. It’s been $7.25 for 17 years – since 2009. Meanwhile, the cost of living has risen 55.23%. A microwave oven you bought for $100 in 2009, would cost you $155.23 now. Your paycheck is still stuck in 2009 though. No one can afford to exist in America on a minimum wage job. 

The powerful and power-adjacent need us to not be looking at them, not be blaming them – the decision makers – while we chase health insurance, wallow in medical debt, education bills, housing, food, and transportation costs. If we’re blaming and hating someone we can possibly perceive as weaker than ourselves, we’re not paying attention to the rich fucks stealing our wallets and our lives.

Look! Over there! The Muslim! The Jew! The immigrant! The gay kid! The Black family! The Latin family! THEM! THEM! THEM! They are the reason your life is hard. They are why your town is dying. They are why you can’t afford college and your insulin costs so much and your factory closed and your church is empty and your country doesn’t feel like your country anymore. IT’S THEIR FAULT.
~ Mo Husseini 

To answer my original question – how am I having a good-ish time in this era of Trumpian hate and horror? As my father once said (to my great dismay), I have the personality of a cheerleader (how totally unhip!!!). Perhaps, more accurately, I'm a manifestation of the Chumbawamba song, Tubthumping. You know, I get knocked down but I get up again. You're never gonna keep me down. Also, I sing the songs that remind me of the good times. God, I love that tune!

They can’t, fuck with us
Once they realize we’re all on the same side
They can’t, split us up
And let them prosper off the divide

Don’t fall for the bait and switch
Racism is real, but not it
They fuck whoever can’t fight back
But now we gotta change all that
The people have had enough
Right now, it’s them against us
This shit is ugly to the core
When it comes to the poor
No lives matter
Body Count – No Lives Matter 

 Public Enemy – Fight the Power 

March of the Maniacs

A variation on an old Soviet secret police joke:

Q: Why do the ICE agents patrol in groups of three?
A: That way there’s always one who can read, and one who can write.
Q: What about the third?
A: Someone’s got to keep an eye on the two dangerous intellectuals. 

Dementia Donnie is apparently looking to create another secret police force in addition to his existing band of murderous ICE thugs. He's, at the least, sending the scumbag signal to his psycho insurrectionist squads that he'll always have their backs. He pays his goon squads...supposedly. We'll see. I'm betting that the $1.8 billion goes straight into an offshore account.

Unsurprisingly, Pedo’s setting this up before the midterms where, even with his faithful renfieldian cult of congresscritters gerrymandering the fuck outta their states, the Guardians Of Pedophiles are gonna lose monster big. Diaper Don, the infamous, lying sack of weasel shit child rapist, has made sure of that.
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That doctor overseeing hantavirus outbreak? He's an Alabama urologist known for penile‑implant surgery. THIS is the doctor who’s been put in charge of stopping a deadly respiratory virus.

What are Dr. Brian Christine’s qualifications to handle the outbreak and prevent the potential vast spread of a virus?

•  He’s big into far-right conspiracy theories, especially those about COVID-19. Of course.
•  He’s viscerally transphobic. Naturally.
•  He hosts a YouTube show called “Erection Connection” where he talks about erectile dysfunction. No surprise.
•  He had another YouTube show called “Common Sense” where he claimed health responses from the federal government and organized medicine injected “liberal and left values” to exert more government control. Should've called it Common Nonsense.
•  Christine’s stated that, essentially, the use of mail-in ballots in the 2020 elections is why Trump lost. Basically, he's admitting that Trump’s toadies (*cough* Elon *cough*) had somehow fixed the vote but this was foiled by so many people doing mail-in due to COVID. No surprise that Pedo’s so against mail-in voting, is it? 

We can probably assume Christine knows what a virus is. Rather, we can really, really hope, he knows that a virus is different from a penis. Right? This is the wholly incompetent Pedo administration though – him knowing is def not a lock.

Remember, Bri Bri, wieners are the things you operate on and make bigger. Viruses are things you want to contain and make smaller. See? It’s simple, Doc! 

Gustav Klimt, Hope II

Someone ring up Dr. YouTube Trump Asslicker and give him the 411, K?
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Have you read about Samantha Randazzo? She’s the woman who was forced to give birth on a Brooklyn courtroom bench. This was at her arraignment. She had been in custody for 24 hours.

Randazzo was surrounded by law enforcement, prosecutors and courtroom staff, some of whom reportedly laughed and joked at the situation, the group claimed.
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“Ms. Randazzo had reportedly recently been discharged from a hospital despite being nine months pregnant before being returned to custody and brought to Brooklyn arraignments, where she went into labor in open court,” according to Saturday night’s joint statement from The Legal Aid Society, Brooklyn Defender Services, New York County Defender Services, The Bronx Defenders and Neighborhood Defender Service of Harlem.

“That should horrify every New Yorker,” the statement continued,” they said. “No person should ever be forced to give birth in handcuffs or endure labor while restrained, exposed, and denied basic medical care and human dignity." (source) 

Gustav Klimt, Hope I

How about Tiffany McElroy – hear about her? She was arrested, put in an Alabama jail when she went into labor. Her water broke and her jailers did nothing to help then or in the following 24 hours of labor. With the assistance of her fellow inmates she gave birth. 

“This unmedicated labor was the most terrible pain Tiffany has ever felt,” the complaint alleged.  “For over five hours, she felt as though every bone in her body was breaking and her body was slowly being pulled apart.”

The other inmates then helped resuscitate the baby, who was not breathing, as they shouted and banged on a table to alert the guards, the complaint alleged. 

Eventually, officers came to wrap the baby in blankets and place McElroy in a wheelchair. (source) 

Alabama? Pro life? Yeah, not so’s you’d notice. 

What were Tina and Samantha in jail for? It doesn't fucking matter! They're sentient beings going through intense, life-threatening, traumatic experiences. Did those newborns deserve to come into this already horrifying existence in such a barbaric, callous, merciless way? Fucking NO, I don't think so!

The maternal mortality rate in the US is already significantly higher than it is in first world countries. Fer instance, on average, in the US it's 22 women dead per 100,000 live births. In Norway: ~0 to 2. Netherlands: ~3 to 5. Sweden: ~4. Germany: ~7. United Kingdom: ~6 to 9. And Bast forbid you be an expectant Black woman in the US. The maternal mortality rate for Black women in America is about 55.3 per 100,000 live births.

The US really hates women – obviously. We make up slightly more than 50% of the population. What would happen if we united and voted these oppressive, abusive fucks out, hmmmmm?

KVETCH!

It’s that time of year in New England when all of a bloody sudden the hot weather HITS. Overnight we go from wearing warm sweaters and wool socks to shorts and our thinnest T-shirts.

Somehow the first hot night always takes me by surprise. (could be that I live in denial of the temperatures I don't approve of) I never have the winter bedding switched out to the spring quilt when the heat arrives. Last night I was up every hour throwing off the quilt entirely or pulling it back around me or something in between (left leg sticking out up to the knee with both arms entirely out and other assorted combinations).

Tuesday and Wednesday are supposed to be near 90º here. Jesus Wading Pool Christ and what the actual FUCK! It’s mid May and this is Boston not Phoenix, DAMMIT! This is 12 kinds of smelly bullshit. I'm tellin' you...

Down here on the water we normally have a solid stiff breeze going on. It better be clocked in this week – that’s all I’ve got to say.

I lieu of more I-slept-worse-than-the-idiot-orange-clown-in-the-WH kvetching, here, have some editorial cartoons. 

Yur welcome.

Mike Luckovich

Nick Anderson

David Horsey

Joel Pett

Nick Anderson

Michael Ramirez

Bill Bramhall

Jack Ohman

Bill Bramhall

Body Count

I don’t remember any of their songs but then, in 1991, I wasn’t into rap or thrash metal. Apart from hometown Boston bands (Concussion Ensemble, The Zulus, Mission of Burma, etc, etc.), I was into Talking Heads, Pearl Jam (Ten had just come out), Paul Simon (Rhythm of the Saints came out the year before), Morphine (a Boston band, by the by) and the more experimental sounds of Brian Eno, Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Kronos Quartet, etc.

Back to Body Count though — their biggest hits were Cop Killer, Body Count's in the House, Institutionalized 2014, Talk Shit, Get Shot, No Lives Matter, and their heavy version of Pink Floyd’s Comfortably Numb. 

Jesus, I would do serious damage to be able to hear all of these right now!

WHY does this come up this morning? I saw another one of those ultra obvi, I’m-so-desperately-insecure-and-I-listen-to-WAY-too many-“alpha”-brocasts-about-how-to-get-girls-and-make-them-my-sex-slave/mother-replacement. 

Here’s the post:

Friend is in an absolute pickle rn…

He’s been on like 7+ dates with this girl, really likes her, everything’s going great.

Then last night for whatever reason he asked her body count.

70+.

Now he wants to end it immediately.

She’s 27, he’s 30.

Is this valid or is he being soft?

Dude is clearly asking for himself. He’s looking for support for his knee-jerk mysogynistic, micro-dicked, red pill/Andrew Tate influenced ego but doesn’t want to expose himself to the ridicule he so richly deserves. What gives the game away?

He’s dead specific about the number of dates his “friend” had with the woman – seven. If he really was asking for advice about a chum, he’d be more general. e.g., “a few dates” or “several dates.”

The “friend” asks the body count question for “whatever reason” – implying that the answer holds no weight – they're just curious – but on hearing an answer that intimidates, he wants to run away. THIS is the big reveal. The aged out hemotional teen is wearing an ultra thin cloak of I’m-hip-I’m-cool-just-curious but it blew right off with a light breeze of reality.

Threads gave him the advice he deserved. Some examples:

I mean, he can call it off if he wants but give me her number because 70+ murders without getting caught is a spectacular run.

If you drew a Venn diagram of "Dudes who question & judge body-count" and "Dudes who get shitty if a woman doesn't "put out" by the second date" it would be a circle.

Wow, she got away with that many and hasn’t been caught yet? My question is – where did she put the bodies??

If a guy asks my body count, I'm saying 1,000 and he can fuck all the way off as I've just lost all interest.

Did she go to an assassin school taught by Black Widow? 70+ is impressive at the tender age of 27, without being caught. He should be impressed!!!

I mean, clearly she's a pro. Over 70+ murders and not caught by age 27? She's definitely an elite assassin or a mastermind serial killer. Bro is already cooked if it's the latter and she's on the hunt for her next target.

Best of luck to him surviving.

What sane, mature adult could take a body count question seriously? How fucking puerile!

No one’s ever asked me but if they had, I probably would have answered “I stopped counting after the first hundred” and then walked right out the door. 

What I really wanna know is this – are reviews involved? Can they be? If/when men ask for your body count can you respond that you will answer him as soon as he submits his numbers along with the corresponding Yelp, Google, and Consumer Reports reviews/reports?

What’s good for the gander/goose is good for the goose/gander, amiright?

Always Learning

Things I’ve learned this week:

The Thucydides Trap is a theory, put forward by Harvard political scientist Graham Allison, that when a rising power threatens to replace an existing power, the conflict between the two tends to spark a war. (source) 

Gee, this came up during Pedo’s rather embarrassing trip to China. The US was an existing power until the man who could fuck up a free lunch before it was even ordered got elected not once but twice. The fact that Dimbulb Donnie exists will always be a humanitarian humiliation.

The Pentagon has quietly dismantled a program it is legally required to operate to prevent and respond to civilian deaths in US military operations, according to its internal watchdog. (source) 

Interesting how this comes about so soon after Pissdrunk Pete the Secretary of War Crimes ordered the missile strike on the little girls school in Iran which killed 175, mostly children. Huh.

Reported by Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) – on May 12, Israeli forces attacked paramedics with a drone strike in Lebanon, killing two out of three. Paramedics, ffs. Emergency health care workers who are out there saving lives, easing pain and suffering!

The May 12 incident is part of an alarming pattern. Over recent weeks, MSF teams in Lebanon have been witnessing the consequences of airstrikes, drone strikes, and artillery fire, which are damaging hospitals, ambulances, and medical equipment, and killing or injuring civilians, health workers, and first responders. Lebanese health authorities, media, and other humanitarian organizations have also reported this kind of violence, including repeated attacks while paramedics are rescuing people.
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According to the World Health Organization, there were 161 attacks against health care recorded between March 2 and May 12, resulting in 110 deaths and 252 injuries. This includes 15 attacks resulting in 12 deaths and 21 injuries that occurred after the start of the ceasefire on April 17, which has not led to a cessation of hostilities and has not allowed displaced populations to return home or people stranded in heavily targeted areas to seek safety. (source) 

Nick Anderson

Thanks to Pedo’s Supreme Court of Sycophants, Jim Crow is back. Maybe not in full…YET…but it won’t be long. They’ve gutted the Voting Rights Act which has triggered a run on Southern states redistricting to eliminate majority-Black districts. The courts aren’t stopping white Republican officials from gerrymandering the fuck out of their states but, Bast forbid, actual not-rich  citizens VOTE on a new congressional map. If it doesn’t favor Pedo’s party of cheats, warmongers, and abusers *GASP* it MUST be illegal according to the black robed Klan! 

Giant manta rays are an endangered species. The barely, (not so’s you’d really notice), civilized state of Florida, actually allows any old asshole to capture and kidnap them out of the ocean – their goddamn home. Still, Florida politicians are patting themselves on the back for making a slight tweak to tighten policies as to where and when the giant mantas can be stolen. This only after a video went viral of a captured ray in severe distress. 

Humans – we really, totally suck. Alright, that’s not something I learned just this week. 

Michael de Adder