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Dim the lights

A great one has gone on ahead. Dickie Betts lived larger than life.

RIP brother. Your music brought me great comfort and joy.

#dickie betts

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Modern-day sweatshops

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Quote of the Day

"I retire after every show. I say, 'That's it, I'm not goin' no more,' but then we hang out awhile and people [the band] feel like playing, and so we go play again."

Willie Nelson

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When I first started writing this blog around 15 years ago one of my main topics was the astonishing yet massively under-reported frequency of Black men being killed by the police. At the time there was no real awareness of it outside of Black families and communities. There was no central reporting apparatus of any kind that I was aware of.

More than once I was accused of lying. It didn't bother me, I had no real agenda other than being incredulous that a:) it was happening and b:) nobody seemed to care. The drums began beating with the murders of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and of course...George Floyd.

As horrible as those killings were, they obscured another reality -- police were killing Black women on an even larger scale. The sexual abuse and disappearance of this vulnerable demographic went almost completely unreported. (The only worse situation I can think of is the disappearance of Indigenous women in the North).

This story above is a long, well-researched indictment of...all of us.

#police brutality #rape and murder under colour of law

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Just a good ol' boy

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#mlb #armando galarraga #perfect game

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[h/t - Angie T]

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#robert reich #tax the rich

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NY Times Spelling Bee

Make the longest word possible using each letter at least once.

This is my condensed version of the NYT's game.

[I'll put my answer in the comments]

#ny times spelling bee

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The Far Side

#the far side

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Click on image to start the show...

#Instagram

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Not a drag queen

Put him in genpop.

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Viewing for a dark (court) day

Trump's trial is dark today which seems a good time to discuss Stormy, the 2024 documentary about the key figure in the trial.

I watched it last night and my takeaway feeling is sadness for her. Self-described Louisiana trailer park trash gets ensnared in the life and times of rich and powerful men. The result is as predictable and shop-worn as you would expect.

Seemingly every man in her life uses and abuses her, from the neighbour who molested her at 7 (she expresses regret he died before she could kill him), to the man who would become 45th President of the US.

His abuse was tawdry and prosaic -- use his wealth and prestige to lure her to his room then feels so entitled that he confronts her in his tighty-whiteys. It's a play as old as time.

Things get decidedly more serious when Trump runs for president and episodes from his past pop up. Cohen is sent to 'sanitize' matters and Stormy is out-gunned from the off.

With the trial now things have again reached a danger point for Stormy as MAGA-types renew their harassment and death threats.

She is now reduced to what she believes is her one last mission, one she ferociously carries out -- defending her daughter. As for the rest...she is as she puts it 'fresh out of fucks'.

I for one applaud her for her courage and being true to herself.

#team stormy #stormy daniels

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#raf

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"In 1994, Ukraine agreed to transfer these weapons to Russia and became a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, in exchange for assurances from Russia, the United States and United Kingdom to respect the Ukrainian independence and sovereignty in the existing borders." - Wiki

#slava ukraini