Dubious Designs

Three rules in FBI firearm training:

1. Always point your weapon downrange
2. Do not point your weapon at anything you do not intend to shoot
3. Don’t put your finger on the trigger unless you intend to shoot

Guns are not for threatening compliance for unarmed people doing things you don’t like

This woman has shown more courage than the nominal leaders of the Democratic Party.

Abolish ICE and prosecute everyone who stays in it from this day forward as members of a criminal conspiracy to commit murder.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

Federal agents shoot person in Minnesota, governor says Minneapolis officials said they are investigating.

Another Gestapo murder in Minnesota. Six agents wrestle someone to the ground and then shoot him in the back

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This deal to reopen the government is fucking disgraceful.

Tens of millions will lose their healthcare. Trump will be emboldened.

This is exactly what’s wrong with Democratic Party leadership and why we need more people in Congress who will actually hold the line.

'A Slap in the Face': Federal Employees Feel Betrayed by Democrats' Shutdown Cave "I would rather be an actual pawn. At least pawn sacrifices are calculated and achieve something."

Nevermind the administration disappearing people off the streets or murdering Caribbean fishermen or shutting down agencies illegally or declaring war on trans people or openly accepting bribes, Dems picked a fight on health care and couldn't even find the spine for that," the NOAA employee said
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The next Supreme Court term is shaping up to be the most consequential since 1937. Depending on how it rules, it may cease to be accepted as a legitimate arbiter, and even nullify its own power as an independent judiciary.

Literally just racism. That’s it. It’s their only mandate. “Grab anyone who isn’t white.”

Waiting for a bakery to start making Cake Pop Demon Hunters

I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.

I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

Two people are sitting at a wooden table, working together on a laptop showing a webpage, while one of them holds some documents. A coffee mug is also on the table.

CalPERS members who are insured by Blue Shield of California and receive care through the UC Health System may be impacted by ongoing contract negotiations between the two parties, with the current contract in place set to expire July 9.

Read the latest: bit.ly/4lihrsA

BREAKING: A commentator on Iranian state television said that every American citizen or military personnel in the region is now considered a legitimate target.

When it’s gone, it’s gone. We’ll never get it back. We don’t need this money this way. We can’t undo the environmental damage that will follow. This is a bad idea.

Shut it all down. Shut it the fuck down.

We’ve moved to the assaulting duly elected members of Congress IN THE CAPITOL BUILDING simply because they were doing their job and border barbie got mad.

We’ve moved to the … PHASE. I’m so worked up I’m forgetting words now. 💀

This is how Trump's authoritarian regime treats the elected representative for forty million Americans

This 2-minute clip contains so much YIKES that I'm surprised the Boston harbor didn't spontaneously turn into tea as the Liberty Bell formed another crack.
The federal government *cannot* remove a state or local leader.
Detaining a sitting Senator on top of that is mind-bogglingly wrong.

You know that friend or family member who says they don't really follow politics or the news?

Send them that video of these goons roughing up a senator.

For my last AI bodyswap of this fundraising campaign, here's my first-ever drag look from a 2001 college party. (Some of you were there!) Didn't even need a wig!

A man sitting with his daughter. She has an uncertain, sad look on her face and asks, "Dada, you're going to raise $25k, right?" The man has an uncertain look too, and replies, "I don't know, dear..."

I'm $1700 away from hitting my goal of raising $25k to fight AIDS.

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Help me out and save lives.
Don't let me disappoint my daughter!

And now the grand finale -- the well-known verse and chorus.
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And the next bit of Marilyn Manho singing Diamonds Are a Girl's Best Friend.

On other socials I've been sharing my old ALC and other drag looks (forgot about Bluesky).

I realized I've completely left off one look: Marilyn Manho!
She was my Queen for a friend's amazing drag bachelorette party.

So here she is:

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But if it gets a few more dollars in that will save people's lives and strengthen communities in a terrifying time, then a little manufactured competition and milking any lingering desire to help me get some perks and bragging rights are well worth it.

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Truly, even $10, $15, $20, $25 donations will make a difference in keeping me in the top 50!

Does it really matter at all whether I'm a Top 50 fundraiser? Not in the slightest.

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40: $20,800.75
41: $20,631.72
42: $20,593.60
43: $20,555.00
44: $20,404.60
45: $20,386.89
46: $20,324.00
** 47 (ME): $20,199.00 **
48: $20,171.42
49: $20,016.40
50: $19,768.20
51: $19,741.91

It's TIGHT, y'all!

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Less than 1 week until this tired-ass dad rides 545+ miles from San Francisco to Los Angeles!

At rank 47, we're still hanging on in the Top 50, but barely -- it's tighter than I thought!

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Here are the standings as of this morning (1)