I just wanted to say it out loud because it’s so fucking hard to believe.
It’s Going To Get Worse
Donald Trump and his toadies feel that the Mueller report, or the way they can spin the Mueller report, now allows them to go into full autocracy mode.
They have distributed a blacklist to the media.
The Trump campaign is sending this memo to TV producers: pic.twitter.com/yhr03LAI7N
— Jonathan Swan (@jonathanvswan) March 25, 2019
Sarah Sanders is mocking, with government funds and megaphone, individuals she disagrees with.
Mueller Madness! Which of the angry and hysterical @realDonaldTrump haters got it most embarrassingly wrong? #YouDecide pic.twitter.com/IkzUesDdub
— Kayleigh McEnany 45 Archived (@PressSec45) March 26, 2019
The Department of Justice refuses to defend the ACA.
JUST IN: In a new filing, the Justice Department now says the courts should strike down the entire Affordable Care Act — not just its protections for pre-existing conditions. https://t.co/1YZiGp06x4
— Axios (@axios) March 26, 2019
The Acting Secretary of Defense is offering up some of the Department’s funding to pay for Trump’s wall.
The Department of Defense will spend up to $1 billion to build Trump's border wall along, according to acting defense secretary Patrick Shanahanhttps://t.co/IgsWOAuB3F
— BuzzFeed News (@BuzzFeedNews) March 26, 2019
All of this is enraging. That is part of the point. We have to stay calm and act. Talk to like-minded friends to support each other and develop ways to deal with this and your mental health.
The House will continue its investigations. I think the administration is going to wildly overreach. Mock and laugh at them wherever you can. Call your members of Congress as appropriate to offer support or to vent.
Because You Were Not Stressed Out Enough
Life needs to stop fucking with us:
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had two cancerous nodules removed from her left lung Friday at a New York hospital, the Supreme Court announced.
There is no evidence of any remaining disease, says a court spokesperson, nor is there evidence of disease elsewhere in the body.
The 85-year-old justice was hospitalized last month after a fall in her office, in which she fractured three ribs.
Get well, RBG.
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I Had to Leave the House Today. It Went Poorly.
I need to work on my people skills.
we’re at eight minutes and I am reasonably sure I am going to die before I make it through 2 1/2 hours.
— So Over This (@Johngcole) March 1, 2018
23 minutes and beads of sweat are forming on my forehead. I can’t tell if the room is hot or if I am having hot flashes.
— So Over This (@Johngcole) March 1, 2018
I’m dying.
These are tech people so the last thing I want to do is imagine them all naked.
— So Over This (@Johngcole) March 1, 2018
the first presenter has already talked more out loud than I do in the average week.
I have a lot of internal monologues to make up for it, and then there is twitter.
— So Over This (@Johngcole) March 1, 2018
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He’s Just Trolling Me Now
He’s on a god damned mission to make me mental:
Fucking hell.
Paramus
I grew up in Bergen County and I must differ with Lucinda Rosenfeld’s attribution of Jared Kushner’s entitlement to his growing up there. I was there somewhat earlier than she was, though.
The neighborhood I grew up in was ethnically mixed, although yes, white. Czech, German, Irish, longer-time American, and, overlaid, Jewish and Christian. We were Democrats and Republicans. We were too working-class to aspire to the heights of New York society. We kids would have disdained that anyway. We had the local playground, the railroad tracks that our parents wished we wouldn’t frequent, and buses to get to the next town. Who needed more? We had good schools that continue to be good. The diversity mix has changed, but diversity there is.
It particularly pains me when I read that Kushner attended a private school in Paramus. Paramus was, for me, a magical place.
How Do You Cope?
Someone asked last night how we all cope. It’s worth considering that. Even Erick Son Of Erick tweeted that he doesn’t see how the country survives 3.5 more years of this. It’s hard on us individually, too. We need to think and act deliberately to maintain and protect our mental health. It’s different for everyone. Ric (at top) loves my orange and black caftan. Zooey likes at least partial enclosure.
As I walked out of the house to go shopping this morning, I had to stop and look at the sky and mountains and take a deep breath. I’m lucky to have great views, but there is usually something beautiful – the pattern of raindrops on asphalt or a flower peeking through cracks in concrete. I also listen to and play music – the Enigma Variations, which I posted a while back, are still in my car’s cd player, so I listened to them on the way to the store.
People are important too. I’m having lunch with a friend today, and I’ve got a bunch of connections going in different ways. The internet has been a boon to my interactions. The community here is comforting.
How do you cope?