A.J. Church

@nytwriter.bsky.social

Indie author of #paranormalromance, #darkromance, #urbanfantasy and #mmromance Cat lover, hockey fan (go Bolts) Pro-choice Pro-LGBTQ+ Slava Ukraini No MAGA No DMs find me: https://ajchurch-nytwriter.blogspot.com

Congratulations to the Carolina Hurricanes on winning the Stanley Cup. Even though I live in Cary (practically Raleigh) and am happy for Canes fans, I can only cheer vicariously since my home town team owns my heart. Maybe next year, Bolts.

Make this make sense: North Carolina has collected over $250 mil in taxes and fees on sports betting over the last year. Guess where a large portion of that money goes? To help gambling addiction programs. Create the problem so you can fix the problem? It's the war on drugs all over again.

"The leaders who have bet their careers on fear and division are about to find out what happens when the people they've been underestimating start paying attention." Michael Garrett, NC Senate

$1 billion a day for a war we didn't want. Just approved another $50 billion in aid for Israel. We pay for their healthcare and their insurance while we're told there's no money here for our own. No money for SNAP or infrastructure or education or food safety. But plenty for ballrooms and planes.

Dem reps Henry Cuellar, Greg Landsman, Jared Golden and Juan Vargas voted with Republicans to defeat the resolution to rein in tRump's latest deadly clusterfuck. You know what to do, people. Buh Bye.

After diving into the well of nefarious shit going on behind the scenes right now, I'm beginning to think tRump is the distraction. They put someone in charge who they could manipulate while they reduce us all to expendable chaff.

Remember the days when you had to camp out in line for days to get tickets to a concert? Then when you got to the show you were sitting with the same people you waited in line with so you made some new friends. Music...bringing people together.

Fuck you, US men's hockey team. You've shown your true colors (not that I didn't already suspect it, given the Tkachuk brothers' presence on the team). You can't even win graciously. Congrats, US women's hockey team for being the class act you always are.

It's estimated that DHS spends $18M per week on its operation in Minneapolis. $18 Million. A. Week. Let that sink in. Funny thing. According to reports, ICE agents aren't even being paid regularly. So where is that money going? More fascist grift.

In an effort to help DHS in their quest to track every social media user's opinion about ICE, here's mine: FUCK ICE FUCK ALL THE WAY OFF, YOU DESPICABLE EXCUSES FOR HUMANITY And I'll add, for good measure, FUCK YOU, DONALD TRUMP. And now we wait...

Today is Presidents Day in the US, which means all the conservative nationalists are going to be out waving flags and touting their patriotism. Maybe they should rethink the meaning of that word.

the meaning of patriotism

I subscribed to Peacock to watch the Olympics. They said you could view all events from lowest tier, so that's what I chose. Then everything I click on requires an upgrade, and not just the next tier, but the ad-free tier. Fucking greed. Sorry Peacock, I'll find another way to watch.

Who are you and what are you so invested in that you can be on social media all day and still not have a clue what's going in the world? What is that distracting? Or are you just brain dead?