Katherine (Katy) HawkerSelf, she/her

Last week, ICE arrested and separated a father and son after a routine check-in. Six-year-old Yuanxin had just enrolled in the first grade at an elementary school in Astoria. Now he's in custody, alone. ICE won't say where. This cruelty serves no one. It must end.

Ukraine, Epstein, ICE… I’m having trouble spreading my outrage this thin.

If we must have a dictator, couldn’t we at least have a classy one?

My family isn’t anti queer so much as anti conflict. In a patriarchal family in the midst of a white nationalist culture, queerness is by definition and existence a conflict.

I miss my family.
But, truly, the toxicity of the gaslit rejection is overwhelming.

SNAP benefits were due on the first, already it’s the 4th and there is still ZERO sent.

This is unconscionable and a terrifying political maneuver.

Comply or starve…

It’s hard to believe it’s sworn testimony not satire.
“his sandwich blew up all over me”
Damn.
These, the same folks spraying chemical weapons. The hypocrisy is so deep…

What the hell? “Accountability” for WHOM? The day laborer? The staff at McDonalds or WalMart? I am certain the people in this country who don’t have access to housing know a hell of a lot more about accountability than this admin. SMDH

So the lowest paid employees get no paycheck, hungry people get no food, & politicians dodge accountability.

Yet the parties continue, the jets fly around the world, the rich are untouched.

The bulldozers still rumble, ICE continues its terror, & fishermen are bombed.

This isn’t a shutdown.

I would say I’m shocked that this admin is telling hungry folk that queer folk took the food stamps…

But, really, convincing poor folk to hate one another is exactly this nation’s DNA.

The spectacle of the ballroom begs a guillotine.

Are we to understand that HIPPA is woke?

Life in a dawning autocracy:
Every morning I read the news to learn what freedoms (to many that had been taken for granted) were taken while we slept.

“grab bag bullshit day”… your gift of words let me laugh at the ish and take a deep breath. Thank you, thank you. It def is a grab bag of bullshit.

The Voting Rights Act was bipartisan, American, with support across race and class.

So what changed?
Sure, there were always bigots, but where did we cede our understanding of what it means to be an American to these amoral cross wearing heretics?

So we’re blocking citizens from leaving…

Child abuse is NOT a free speech issue.

it was never about the price of eggs

Woke folks cancelled Disney to protect free speech.

MAGA folks boycott Netflix to silence and erase people.

We are not two teams playing the same game.

How are these not contradictory headlines?

Shut.It.Down

I can’t help but wonder of James Dobson’s cruelty, uncritically embraced by countless white evangelical Christians, isn’t what shaped the cruelty of the current Christian nationalist movement.

The new Smithsonian envisioned by this regime will teach our grandchildren that the First Nations gave their lands freely to the Europeans and that the shackled captives from Africa were volunteers. But a cute face on a pile of shit doesn’t change the rancid smell or the festering bacteria.

It’s the intentional cruelty that guts me…

A nation state that takes healthcare from the most vulnerable

to build concentration camps for immigrants

is not a nation state that I choose to celebrate.

Let’s use Medicaid funds to build concentration camps…

said no one.
And yet here we are.

Medicaid Work Requirements - is an oxymoron not a headline.

So whose numbers to believe? Reports of the No Kings protest (in the US alone) range from 5 million (legacy media) to 12.5 million (organizers). Huge either way, but the disparity is worthy to note.
Are we being right-sized or dismissed by the mainstream media?

Gosh, if he actually felt sad, I would feel hope.

How much is a life worth? Based on MSM messaging, clearly Dem leaders are not as valuable as healthcare CEOs. The search for Boelter is (on MSM) underwhelming.

White folks are the only folks who pretend not to know that “traditional” is code for white. Truth tends to fall with heavy irony.