Last night my former boss called me.

She told me she she had never paid much attention to politics but she was ready to get involved and I was the first one she thought of... I tried never to talk politics at work, but I guess I earned a reputation somehow. Anyway she told me the reason she finally woke up is that one of her friends had been kidnapped by ICE in a Houston suburb. She said they shut off the electricity to the house and when the family came out to investigate the cause, they wrestled the man to the ground and beat him up in front of his wife and kids and took him away. She said she couldn't sleep at all that night and that she realized it could have happened to anyone. She said she'd known this couple from church for more than 20 years and they were close friends and good people and didn't deserve to be treated that way.

It's a sad way for people to finally wake up like this, but it is happening. Will there be enough of us left when people wake up to realize things won't get better until we stand together and resist?

I would just love it if that storm Melissa...

...would level Mar-a-lardo the way Lardo has leveled the East Wing. I swear I'd have the biggest hurricane party ever!

Big turnout in Brazos County, TX today!

I was impressed--surely it was 1,000+. Sorry no photos, but I saw old folks, young folks, wee folks, folks of all shapes, sizes, colors, and abilities. Very proud of this VERY red county today! I'm sure there were Republicans in the mix.

New breakfast obsession

Toasted sourdough bread smeared with butter, then very gently laced with marmite and topped lightly with apricot fruit spread. SOOOOO GOOD!

Next favorite is butter mixed with white miso and spread on toasted sourdough bread and topped with apricot fruit spread. Really yummy, but not nearly as good as the one with marmite.

My daughter posted this in her classroom today:

This video offers a credible explanation for the apparent...

deliberate destruction of farmers via tariffs. It's long, but the short take is that tariffs are devastating farmers, the bailouts mostly went to the corporate farms, leaving the little guys in bankruptcy, losing their farms. At 14:46-15:33 in the video a woman says J.D. Vance's venture capital firm Narya is invested in AcreTrader,(an app that basically sells interest in agricultural land, according to Snopes). Then at 16:36-17:23 a woman talks about the ICE activity "being part of a greater land grab."

This is a perspective I've never considered, but the sweeping ICE raids of so many thousands of immigrants that are causing the destruction of so many farmers, makes a lot more sense in that context. Wow. If this is true, farmers really need to wake the f*ck up! We will all starve to death at the rate things are going, but if these policies have been cooked up to deepen the grasp of a fascist regime on the American people, things are much worse than I'd feared. We ALL have to wake up and stop this, Left and Right together.

Check it out:

Who wants to bet TSF's disappearance from the public eye is due to his...

...dialysis schedule? He had a "procedure" recently. Could it have been to place a fistula for dialysis? Heart disease and kidney disease go hand in hand. Kidney failure and dialysis would get my bet. The clock is ticking y'all.

Speculation about Epstein...

I've been thinking that if they could redact TSF from the Epstein Files, they certainly would have. So, why haven't they released them? Why haven't they purged all references to TSF and left members of the Left to hang out to dry? It seems to me, the only reason they wouldn't is that TSF was in too many places in those files. Maybe he was MAIN subject of the files. What if Epstein knew he was going to be busted and raided and put only those videos and other evidence in his NY apartment that pertained to TSF? What if every bit of video confiscated merely implicated TSF? Wouldn't that be a clear warning to TSF and his corrupt justice department that he had a lot more to lose than gain from pursuing charges against Epstein? hmmmm It would certainly add incentive to those implicated to handle him quickly and efficiently.

I just think this is a really interesting story and one that we all have thoughts to share about it.

I long for a community of creatives online...

So many creative communities are geared toward making money or making MORE money or increasing productivity in your creative life. To me, these are all pursuits of the corporate mindset and higher profits. I wish there were communities of writers, artists, creatives of all types that congregated just to learn and celebrate the joy of creation. Very difficult to find online. Anyone know of such communities?

So Ghislaine Maxwell is going to testify to Congress..

Why would they want her testimony, but not the testimony of the victims? hmmmm