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You are deeply unwelcome

This is a personal note on preparing for the violence and isolation and suffering we are about to experience as a nation. Personally, three years ago I could not have imagined facing the terror of the jackboot without the love of my life. Now she's my ex. I have a new community and I will fight to stand together with them, and admit others in need of protection after government violence. To my ex: I am shocked to find that you are profoundly unwelcome now. We will go through Krystal Nacht separately, and whatever happens I know I will never see you again. Nor, should we pass each other in ICE prison camps, will I recognize you. I never thought I would feel that way about you, Mina. I'm that terrified. I don't even wish you good luck—like me you'll just be another person who suffers in the face of tyranny. Together maybe we meant something, and I would have said Kaddish for you, when no minion exists. I will never be with you now.

Banality of dark ICE

Arresting journalists today. Feels like we're only a week or two from a major incident—injuries, arrests, murders? These are banal people who have never had a thought more sophisticated than "root for the home team" or " it's her fault that I hit her." Terrifying to watch. KrystalNacht in two weeks? Borders closed in three?

les Miserables with terrible actors and a shitty soundtrack

So now Minneapolis St Paul has 600 cops, 3000 Ice agents, and 2000 National Guard on the streets. All armed against some group of US citizens. Barricades on the streets.  The 2026 version of Les Miserables with a shitty soundtrack. All it appears because Tim Walz  ran for VP?  Anyway it seems unlikely that we won't end up with full militarization, curfews, hundreds of deaths????  Minnesota officials in secret detention camps?? Only one guy can defuse this and as usual he's pouring gasoline on his own creation. 

Buying ice: get the fuck out stickers

Have you tried this today, as the government-funded murders continue? Toddlers with guns and masks, hired by a states rights moron, to enforce illegal federal edicts. Each state can regulate abortion, but don't try to protect your neighbors from the gestapo. Each state can ban speech according to what their old white men think about poor people, but don't touch the right of ICE pigs to carry guns. Anyway there are a lot of America love it or leave it stickers. Leftover from 1967. The same folks who thought Viet Nam made sense even as their siblings died of napalm. Noteworthy. Some learning curve. Dumb as fuck. Dumb as ice employees. Guilty as sin. Humans are a failed species if any of us will accept jobs at ICE. Spewing bullets and spittle. Pointing guns at people with loving families, children, pets, jobs, and senses of humor. People who knew happiness before they were beaten and murdered. ICE supporters. Shut up. You have made idiots enough. Do no...

Just posting from Davos--boycott or you won't be invited again

I'm not in Davos.  I'd never go anywhere near that place and I'm amazed that Macron and Carney and the smarter politicos bother.  It's a joke.   I repeat my plea:  if you think you're Davos material, and you don't boycott the fact that a moron like Trump is your peer there, you are NOT Davos material.   Stop pandering to the monster.  Have some self-respect.    Imagine Trump in aviator sunglasses.  He'd look like more of a tool than he does already.  I know.  That's impossible.

Unusual anger

It's hard to identify aspects of my personal life that trigger anger or fear or sadness or loneliness living in this country where armed and drugged ICE agents are killing legal witnesses like me. So don't trust this quick analysis. But I'm feeling angry and victimized again by my ex. I suspect there are two reasons for this—she keeps reaching out to me, against my wishes, and also we're settling our retirement fund balances via a QDRO process that is painful. A small amount compared to the total settlement balance of $4.6 million, true. But one area where my ex transferred joint funds to her own private accounts without my knowledge. So, alone among the settlement terms, this process "rewards" Mina for "fraud." That's how I perceive it—or as she loved to say to her coach-ees, that's how our QRDO "lands." It lands as fraud and theft, partner. This too shall pass, and we all die eventually so it barely registers, but at ...

Donald: You Have No Moral Standing. Shut Up.

You are sitting on the largest domestic terrorism organization on the planet:  ICE. You created it.  It's your sad sack baby, Don.  You're using it to suppress and murder dissent.  To intimiate.  To silence.   You have no standing in Iran.  Everyone knows you are not a fan of protesters.  You hate them. You don't believe in supporting humanity.    Fuck off…and shut up.  This is simply stealing from others the minute they show weakness.   Iran is in bad shape now.  Imagine it with even more US drones flying overhead, and ICE on the group murdering everyone else.  And your poster on the walls instead of an ayatollah. Our oil companies are already there…as always.  They don't even need your help to break business contracts.   Iranians are far more afraid of you, for good reason, than the bastards they're protesting. Yours is the face of global terrorism.