Serene (any pronouns)

In summary:

The hateful Charlie Kirk was shot by the acolyte of a more hateful version of Charlie Kirk.

It wasn’t any of the imaginary bogeymen they were hoping for.

Just a case of them slowly drowning in their own hate.

Trump is piloting a program to let AI review seniors’ medical information and decide what Medicare covers for them — while giving AI companies a profit-incentive to deny coverage. We must call on every Member of Congress to block this. 👇

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Days without an ER visit: 1

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Starting today, 2.4M Americans, including kids, lose SNAP food benefits. Stores like Freshly’s Market in Mississippi that serve low-income communities expect a 35–45% drop in sales.

Children will go hungry & employees at Freshly's lose jobs.

Welcome to trickle-down starvation.

If you work to earn your money, you are a worker.

Labor Day is your day to celebrate the 40-hour work week, weekends off, and more.

If your income comes from dividends or profits, you are a capitalist.

Labor Day should remind you of the workers who make that possible.

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The way I figure it, if they only wanted me to eat one ice cream bar, they wouldn't have put four in the box.

Yeah.

A little early for me, but not terribly. James snuggled me awake at 4:45. I usually get up at 6 anyway so I just got up. He, of course, easily fell back to sleep, the rat. 😁

Aww. ♡

Thank you! (Are you up really early, or up really late?)

All the same, I am excited about the prospect of seeing him! He is the oldest of my 18 niblings, and the first person besides my family of origin that I ever loved.

I have worries. He has disabilities that make it hard to support himself. He is large and brown & I worry he'll have trouble crossing the border despite US citizenship. He plans to camp when he first gets here until he can afford rent. I worry about that, & that the altitude will be hard on him.

🧵 MtE (Munchkin the Elder, my nephew & my late kid's brother, long story) is planning to move here from Mexico in Oct. His dad passed in Mar. & was his sole source of support. James & I have been doing our best to help him out, short of letting him move in, which I don't feel able/willing to do.

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Important 🧵

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if you work beyond your EXTREMELY SMALL limits with longCovid, you deteriorate. your condition worsens & you become even more disabled. a tightrope i am falling off, slowly losing function daily. he’s killing us.

Bowl of popcorn

Today's popcorn: butter, furikake, nutritional yeast. There's salt in furikake so no extra salt. Nom.

Serene's hand holding the hardcover book of Nick and Charlie, by Alice Oseman

We finally have a bookstore in town that sells new books in addition to used, and will order stuff. The Heartstopper movie is more than a year away, it seems, so I splurged.

I can't help it if you're a legit genius. Mwah!

My pal @charliejane.bsky.social has written another book! When I tell you how fast I pre-ordered it. Along with Nnedi Okorafor and John Scalzi, Charlie Jane is one of the authors whose work is always good, so I buy every new thing, period. Preorder: greenapplebooks.com/book/9781250...

Newsflash, Wannabe Dictator:

I don’t care how many times you shake the Etch A Sketch trying to redraw these lines. I’m not disappearing.

I’ll be back, still on your behind every step of the way. (1/2)

They just moved Maxwell to a comfortable “camp” and Trump refuses to rule out a pardon. A convicted child sex trafficker is getting love from Trump and MAGA’s like Russell Fry. GET ANGRY AND GET IN THE FIGHT

Texas Democrats aren’t running away from anything. They’re fighting, with every tool they have, to save our democracy.

Kudos to each and every one of them for taking this stand. We should be inspired by their courage and reminded that tyranny is only possible if we submit to it.

Bowl of popcorn

Today's popcorn: garlic confit and Parmesan cheese. SO good.