Grieving my alcoholic ex has been complicated. There were good times, but his addiction erased his goodness & replaced it with a monstrous version of himself.
What is hard is: grieving the loss of what I expected him to be (sober) instead of accepting the reality of who he had become as an addict.

spending the week at the beach healed me a bit

😳😮😲. As the Joe Turns

The road to fascism is lined with people telling you to stop over reacting

There is no such thing as an overreaction with what has now happened. This is the line in the sand.

Every red hat who supports killing Americans is a traitor.

Christian Nationalism Across America Jen Rubin and Robert P.

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What we are seeing from Christian Nationals is not Christianity. It's a convoluted repurposing of Nazism.

Me when I have to explain the trauma timeline I had to endure in order to become who I am now.

Musk Says DOGE Is ‘Rapidly Shutting Down’ Treasury Payments Elon Musk said his “DOGE team” of government efficiency enforcers is shutting down payments to federal contractors, suggesting that the world’s richest man may have access to sensitive systems used at...

Bloomberg: Musk said DOGE was shutting down payments by the US Department of Health and Human Services to Lutheran Family Services, a faith-based charity that has been providing social services to refugees. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

USAID security leaders on leave after trying to keep Musk's DOGE from classified info, officials say The Trump administration has placed two top security chiefs at the U.S. Agency for International Development on leave after they refused to turn over classified material to Elon Musk’s government-insp...

“Musk’s DOGE crew lacked high enough security clearance to access that information, so the two USAID security officials — John Voorhees and deputy Brian McGill — believed themselves legally obligated to deny access.”

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The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.

@wired.com: “6 young men—all apparently between the ages of 19 and 24 who have little to no government experience are now playing critical roles in Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)” & are heading up Musk’s hostile takeover of our government

www.wired.com/story/elon-m...