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I didn’t have a boyhood. What I had was a girlhood twisted into something unrecognisable, hidden beneath baggy clothes, forced smiles, and the constant performance of something I never was. A girlhood shaped not by softness or celebration, but by absence of recognition, of language, of safety.

There aren't words I can find right now to describe how nauseating and full of despair I am.

All I can do is implore you all to keep going. Keep living.

I'm going to do my best to provide hope while I can. A distraction, when I can.

If there's anything I can ask you all to do, it's try.

starwalk

We are At War now, according to President Bush, and I take him at his word. He also says this War might last for "a very long time." Generals and military scholars will tell you that eight or 10 years is actually not such a long time in the span of human history - which is no doubt true - but history also tells us that 10 years of martial law and a wartime economy are going to feel like a Lifetime to people who are in their twenties today. The poor bastards of what will forever be known as Generation Z are doomed to be the first generation of Americans who will grow up with a lower standard of living than their parents enjoyed. That is extremely heavy news, and it will take a while for it to sink in. The 22 babies born in New York City while the World Trade Center burned will never know what they missed. The last half of the 20th century will seem like a wild party for rich kids, compared to what's coming now. The party's over, folks.

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

There is an issue with flies coming into the house.

Normal people: gets flypaper or something.

Me:

my sexuality is that everybody who makes it harder/impossible for ICE to do their job is extremely attractive

There was a time when a U.S. president targeting LGBTQ+ lives by cutting suicide hotlines would've sparked all-out war from Democratic leadership. Outrage...action...accountability.

Like I said—there was a time.

Here's an idea. Dem Governors & Mayors should be ordering their local law enforcement to arrest any & all unidentified and masked alleged ICE agents.

If a random guy in a mask grabbed someone and threw them in a vehicle, we'd call that a kidnapping.

Why not here?

1/2

AOC: Being taken is wrong, it is illegal, it is a violation of his First Amendment rights, it is an affront to every American, and we will not allow—and will continue to resist—the politicization and the continued political persecution that ICE is engaged in.

It's one of many. So. When is going to happen?

I know this can sound kind of silly at a time like this, but doing a war without congressional authorization is ample grounds for impeachment

While I felt a bit awkward doing so, I busted out laughing when Trump held his little briefing with JD Vance, Rubio, and Hegseth behind him. What a bunch of ridiculous ass clowns. I cannot look at them and simultaneously feel the full weight of the moment.

I remember 2003.

My English teacher had us all make personal book binders for our journals. Mine was covered in anti war decals criticizing Bush.

I got called in to the office and lectured by my principal about how Sadam was a terrorist and told I was a terrorist sympathizer and got detention.

So…

People seem to think that we’re just done now? We bombed the shit out of three nuclear sites in a country we weren’t at war with, and that’s just… it?

Oh, my sweet summer children.

hearing it's, um, illegal for us to bomb Iran?
whew that's a relief!

I still remember how long the USA argued over whether or not there were 'weapons of mass destruction' in Iraq. Colin Powell did a whole thing at the UN.

Now it's just 'Trump said they have them.'