🫓 Michael brought some lovely biscotti and lightly sweet Italian cookies and cannoli with him to our morning bedside coffee time. It was delightful to spend our early hour together that way.
🎵 Now Playing: Graceland by Paul Simon from the album Graceland (25th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) on Music
🦷 The tooth checker says I’m doing good. But also I need to floss more. Or at all. Like, ever.
And now, please, show them your teeth, Froggy: https://youtu.be/ulBCfQjwrnE
🤖 Should we start adding disclaimers to emails we've written without AI assistance?
One person's recommendation: "No intelligence, artificial or otherwise, was employed in the composition of this message."
Yeah. I'm gonna hafta steal that.
🎵 Now Playing: Spin The Bottle by The Juliana Hatfield Three from the album Become What You Are on Music
Election lawyer Marc Elias (paraphrased, via Heather Cox-Richardson):
“We cannot out-organize voter suppression.” Voter suppression is not “campaign tactics.” It is “the illegal and immoral deprivation of constitutional rights.”
Un-Natural Disasters
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
These are not natural disasters. We are powerless to stop earthquakes but not mass carnage from guns. Fatalism is a favorite tool for those who peddle in death under the pretext of the “Second Amendment.” I’ve been saying that these are not natural disasters for literal years, around the time each year that we’re forced to take “surviving an active shooter” training. And that training always, always begins with, “Well, I wish it weren’t so but the fact of the matter is that these situations happen and you need to be prepared for them.
😶 When Serbia - SERBIA - does more to curb mass shootings and control gun ownership than the United States. https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/serbia-mourns-shooting-victims-prepares-illegal-gun-amnesty-99153432
📰 Texas lawmaker says 3rd graders should get training for gunshot wounds
More guns + fewer restrictions + Republican logic = train 3rd graders how to control bleeding after a mass shooting.
“Can’t address the real issue, it’s just a part of life today,” they say, and shrug. 🤷
Well thank god Texas and other red states are protecting children (even the zygotes!) from the REAL dangers: critical race theory, drag queens, and the free expression of ideas. 📚
If US flags were ordered to be flown at half-staff “as a mark of respect” for the victims of every mass shooting that happened, US flags would never fly again.
A Proclamation on Honoring the Victims of the Tragedy in Allen, Texas | The White House
💄 Drag isn’t dangerous. Fundraiser: https://gofund.me/62fb7d4f
Speaking of songs that have made me cry…
Some years ago I was listening to this song loudly, driving in my car, and for some reason it just kind of made perfect, overwhelming sense to me on such a primal level that I started crying about life and living and expectations.
Once In a Lifetime by Talking Heads - song.link
🇱🇷 ““Moms for Liberty” is nothing less than “The Proud Boys” for women.” - Some very wise person on LinkedIn.
🎵 My Aunt Dorothy was in a girl group when she was a teenager. I just found some of their songs on Apple Music! She sang lead on this sassy number, “I’m Gonna Steal Your Boyfriend” which also happens to be my favorite. https://music.apple.com/us/album/im-gonna-steal-your-boyfriend-the-teardrops/80917825?i=80917416
Took Lucy for a drive with the windows down. We listened to my Aunt Dorothy’s 1960s girl group, The Teardrops. Take a listen! Dorothy sang lead on this sassy song (which, btw, I lip synced to in my drag debut my 20s-it was a hit).
I’m Gonna Steal Your Boyfriend by The Teardrops
🎵 Now Playing: Vibrate by Rufus Wainwright from the album Vibrate: The Best Of (Deluxe Edition) on Music
🎵 Now Playing: Army Dreamers (2018 Remaster) by Kate Bush from the album Never for Ever (2018 Remaster) on Music
👩🎤 You guys Kate Bush got into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and I don’t understand how anyone is even talking about anything else today.
👠 Finally! And I shall listen all day in her honour. Kate Bush Wants The ’Secret Handshake’ For Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame https://uproxx.com/indie/kate-bush-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-induction-handshake/