Charles Perez

The American Zombie Apocalypse No virus or fungus required

It didn’t happen like the movies…

Obama (both of you), Bush, Clinton (both of you): if you were “keeping your powder dry”, now is the time.
We need your voices - not measured, not politic. Full-throated, emotional, barely controlled: call out the illegality, the fascism of this regime.
Call for a General Strike.
Now is the time.

Please make this happen @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

When the president is destroying national landmarks, murdering fishermen, raising prices because he's angry over a Reagan video, and kidnapping parents in front of their crying children is probably not an ideal time to have a lazy, completely incompetent legislative branch perpetually on vacation.

We will never bend the knee to a tyrant. Or their fat-faced, hillbilly lackeys.

Putz.
Kings belong in a guillotine.

Something people aren't talking about enough is how often Charlie Kirk invoked the Fifth Amendment when testifying before Congress about the domestic terrorists he provided buses to get to Washington on January 6, 2021.

I’m an atheist. But still…

"…it is a melancholy truth that the behaviour of many among us might serve as the severest satire upon the [human] species. It has been a compound of inconsistency, falsehood, cowardice, selfishness and dissimulation."

Alexander Hamilton, in one of his many essays during the lead-up to the Revolution, presciently described today’s Republicans/MAGA:

Who Pays the Rent? “the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children” - Wendell Berry

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Both of the co-founders of Turning Point USA died from things that were preventable, but which they mocked and urged this nation to ignore. Bill Montgomery was killed in 2020 by COVID and Charlie Kirk was killed in 2025 by gun violence.

Where are the red Make America Great Again hats out in the fields? You know, the same people who swore immigrants were “taking their jobs.”

Keep snatching hard-working folks who are just trying to support their families and don’t be shocked when this becomes the new norm.

Every once in a while I tell people from other countries about how the health insurance system works in the US and they are aghast. Yesterday a guy straight up didn’t believe me when I said people can die because of not being able to afford medicine. He was sure I meant in the distant past.

US beaches warn about water quality due to unsafe levels of fecal contamination this Labor Day weekend | CNN Thousands of Americans will head to beaches for one last summer splash this Labor Day weekend, but taking a dip might be out of the question: Many of the beaches will caution against swimming because ...

This feels like a metaphor for 2025

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"The lunatics are running the asylum."

Look at this graph.

The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened.

This is why we must build back union power.

The last (maybe…) edited shot of hummingbirds in the rain. Zoom in and you can see beads of water that rolled off his back.

I will miss these little aerobats when they head south… soon.

I spent about an hour sitting barely out of the rain in our backyard. My patience was rewarded with 30-some shots of hummingbirds in our gardens. Here are the first couple I’ve edited.

“As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism, or hatred of the vulnerable – then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.”

Noam Chomsky

Max Planck once said that physics advances one funeral at a time. The same is true of a society and culture. I would add that some funerals make more difference than others, and one, right now, would make a very big difference indeed.

For all you “manly men” who love to watch men in tight pants who regularly slap each other on the @ss and are big-mad about male cheerleaders in the NFL: I give you the West Point cheerleading squad (The “Rabble Rousers”). This group was all male until about 1979 and men are still half the squad.