Jan 9, 2026
Today's Amanda
Amanda Nelson has been on fire lately.
The regime keeps doubling down. It's what they do because authoritarian assholes have nothing else in the toolbox.
So it seems we'll see things getting worse for a while - not because passive disobedience and social pressure aren't working, but because that's what does work. That's what is working.
What that inflamed human hemorrhoid did to Renee Good in Minneapolis was appalling and unforgivable, and we need to burn him for that. And we will. We just have to keep in mind that if we're out here fighting for justice, we have to follow our own rules.
Stay mad, and push back hard, but stay focused and contained. We have to show the world we're not the ones losing their shit.
Jan 8, 2026
It's Not Race
I'm not discounting the unbelievably shitty treatment people of color have been subjected to by white devils who look like me.
I do know now that I've gotten something of a pass that has obscured my understanding - the understanding that this is a fight between classes - about account balances and investment portfolios - and not about some arbitrary crap like "race", which was invented by white people as part of a divide-n-conquer strategy 300 years ago.
The point is that elites don't like me either. They let me pretend that I was playing in their sandbox for a dozen years or so, but that was it. I was "limited" so I was out.
I've finally realized that I stand with all my brothers and sisters and distant cousins no matter if they look like me or not.
And I'm too old to worry about meaningless differences like the color of somebody's skin, or the way they pray, or who they love, or whatever.
So I say this loud and proud to the "elites":
Here I am, assholes - come and get me.
Overheard
Down the road, we'll hear the glad tidings that Trump is dead and gone, that this fledgling plutocracy will have been beaten back into the shadows, and we'll enjoy an occasional slow-news day again, while every MAGA prick will be telling us they were against all this shit the whole time.
And The Good News Is ...
... two days ago, when some of the Jan6 mob gathered again on the National Mall to celebrate having tried to totally fuck our democracy five years ago, they were outnumbered by the cops and counter-protesters.
We have to deal with asshole ICE "agents" (eg) who get caught up in their own daddy issues - or whatever drives their pathetic existence - but we should also keep in mind just how small the various factions are that make up the gang they think is huge and powerful and impossible to resist.
What's really at work is the large network of shit-slingers and bots that blast the nonsense that fuel these idiots' fantasies of dominance and conquest.
We should continue to believe them when they tell us what raving assholes they are, but we also have to see them for the scared little men we know them to be when they're out in the open, and exposed to the disinfectant properties of either literal or figurative sunshine.
when you turn on the kitchen light
you'll see the cockroaches scuttle back
to their safe space under the dishwasher
She Was A Mom
History will not be kind to the assholes perpetrating these horrors,
nor to the rest of us if all we do is watch and say nothing.
Renee Nicole Good
Murdered by her government
January 7, 2026
Jan 7, 2026
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