C. Denby Swanson

This is how you do a protest at the capitol without breaking into the capitol. #NoKings #Austin

Would assist on this project for free.

This happened today. TODAY.

Nurse: Hello, Primary Care Docyor’s office.
Me: I have a new insurance policy and now need a referral from Primary Doctor, so that I can see my glaucoma specialist.
Nurse: Is your policy still through your employer?
Me: No, it’s through the ACA.
Nurse: What is the ACA?

It’s infrastructure week! Er… except the opposite. It’s EndFrastructure Week.

They’ll show ICE who wears the pants on this issue, that’s for sure.

The “emergency naked bike ride” in Portland today proves that not all heroes wear capes.

Trojan horses don’t have to be horse shaped. They can be airplane shaped.

A mom friend is going through SSI reauthorization for her autistic child. The SSI representative asked her how long her child has been autistic and why the child can’t just be trained to be less disabled.

#autism #parenting

It’s 93 degrees on October 7. No rain for weeks & none predicted. My summer crops of cantaloupe and okra continue to flourish.

My grandmother told me once, “Don’t garden. You’re bad at it.”

But she didn’t count on climate change! This salad is going to taste amazing in the coming apocalypse.

Stopped at a small cafe that happened to have 3 video gaming machines in the dining area and it is now patently obvious that my AuDHD 12yo can never go to Vegas. The level of dopamine infused screen addiction was volcanic.

Adults and children alike were pulled…. by zombies?

No. By the real-life agents of ICE, who rapelled down from a US military helicopter onto a residential bldg at 1AM.

Maybe active-voice this a little bit? Hmm?

Viva La Revolutionlandia!
#standwithPortland

Archbishop Woman of Canterbury.

Ah yes, the “infiltration” masterminded by … [checks notes] the White House itself.

😳😳😳

GOP: All lives matt—
Vance: Non-citizens shouldn’t be able to get health care even at the ER
DJT: Get ready to fire on Americans!
GOP: Welp

Have had a deeply challenging time, personally & professionally. But I got to meet a group of students doing my play GOVERNING ALICE. They gave me a standing ovation and a signed poster. Almost wept. Grateful. Rejuvenated. Such delight.

Trump: Release the —
Us: FINALLY YES
Trump: Earhart files!
Us: LOL wait what

Is it Threepenny? Mother Courage? Arturo Ui? The gilded wreckage of some other satire? Is it Brecht PLUS Havel? Ripe for our theatrical pickings!!

Yes, this meeting could have been an email, but then the generals wouldn’t be walking away with swag bags of Hegseth’s new skin care regimen and a branded scent called “Warrior Ethos.”

Accurate.

[chefs kiss]

Time for a reboot of the classic Jack Lemon/James Garner/Dan Aykroyd film My Fellow Americans, about a wacky and corrupt presidential kickback scheme from the folic acid industry, called My Fellow Acetomeriphans.

A TX legislator said that pregnancies must be “carried to term” even with fatal birth defects that put the mother’s life at risk - because of “sin.” The decree today that women should “tough it out” instead of using Tylenol is the same agenda: blame women & treat them as incubators, not people.

I’ll be disappointed if this disqualifies them for the Rapture.

Narrator: Going undercover to investigate major domestic crimes is… [checks notes] exactly what the FBI is supposed to do.

Oh, just spending time watching videos of people doing nice things for children and strangers and sneaking up to elders in the grocery store checkout to swipe a credit card before they can pay themselves, because [the world].

Just a normal Saturday afternoon in the fall of our democracy.

GOP: Businesses MUST print flyers honoring a public figure they don’t like or we will FORCE them to.

Also GOP: Bakers are free to refuse service to gay people.

Texas Medicaid reclassified COVID (and ONLY covid) vaccines as a medical benefit not pharmacy benefit. Flu = pharmacy benefit. Can obtain at pharmacy. Covid = medical benefit. Can only obtain at doctor offices. Why? They can’t explain it.