In case you’re wondering, my avatar is this Mountain Goat I met in South Dakota who’d clearly lived a hell of a life. Eery resemblance to what I see in the mirror in the morning.

Staging for LAPD at the Zoo, “for what’s going on downtown,” after a week of tactical alert. They’ve had fun arriving in caravans with all the sirens, just because. Zero alert for actual “protest” violence. They’re having a Confab: they get how much is manufactured, & celebrating each other.

Kept fed theatrics in LA out of my reality, cuz fake crisis, but today felt heightened. Tweaker outside screamed for 90 mins, so my dystopian rooster? Sirens in every direction. Cop chopper circling, K9 vans screeching to Park: fugitive ran to the hills? Rippling Mayhem. NOT protests.

First draft condolence card after estranged cousin mails me an invite to her wake, when I did not know she’d been ill and is now dead. Feels very Southern Gothic somehow.

Prize for Most Passive Aggressive Woman in my Family was just won, hands down. Cousin I haven’t spoken to in years because my feelings needed correcting, so she needed the LAST WORD. Weaponized a bday card to correct me. Well, that woman just sent me an invite to her WAKE cuz now she’s DEAD. Winner!

My absence from this feed is because my necessary mental break meant a nice unjust murder trial to obsessively follow with justice geeks seems like a holiday. Free Karen Read

Catching up on the Karen Read retrial, 2 things: They bag on her for drinking while driving, but the cop in her car was hammered, like them all; most I know in the hero professions LOVE a high maintenance woman, & always cry over the ex-wife, w/ a cultural truism that they cheat. Karen was typical.

Makes me sick to use the camera I take into the field in my travels to capture nature & wildlife to then photograph the drug users outside my living room for my friendly cop. I’m careful they can’t see me. Then those ugly images get into my feed. He’s right: I’m a victim of crime everyday.

Weird moment, where my pal learned about gourds for the first time. Watermelons, cucumbers, squash, pumpkins? No? Can’t see anything in common?

Can we just cut through it and start calling it the “Aliens *As* Enemies Act?” Because their sole argument in every court is that they’re not from here, therefore.

Noticed a fave restaurant parking lot had become a gathering place for a group of Armenian men. Asked about it: they’re all delivery drivers who pal while waiting. Okay! Since they started their hang, though: every exterior surface is covered in cigarette butts. Cultural drawback. Bothers me tons.

#mandymatney #lizfarrell Yet another outstanding episode of COJ: wish you gave us a way to post responses! 3 jaw-droppers: they were threatened with defamation? Calculated shooter driving 100 mph? THEY found bullets inside the car?! Bless these amazing women & their loved one. Beautiful reporting.

American Idol with “Songs of Faith” Easter brought the wrong judgements into the competition: Breanna being trolled for ‘betraying’ her private beliefs with secular songs. The shy “only a stay-at-home mom” should be the winner. Blooming, luminous, polished, joyful: Adele’s little sister.

I’m emanating magical anti-tech properties, because after 2 websites failing to allow me make a purchase, 2 contacts from my bank worried about identify theft, and over 30 mins each on calls just to buy the damned things, even *their* systems kept failing. Cloistering self in imaginary SCIF.

Revolting to see these smears from our govt. Ex Post Facto: Justifying an action after the fact. Already doxxed his wife, now pretending this is for her protection; no charges ever filed equals proven guilt. Inflammatory, unjust, vicious: sue these bastards for this press release alone.

DHS Reveals Second Domestic Abuse Filing Filed by Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s Wife | Homeland Security

On Wednesday April 30, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealed that the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia — the so-called “Maryland Dad”—filed a petition for protection against him in 2020.

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#annabower #muellershewrote #mollyjongfast #adamklasfeld Pam Bondi said she’d been had been signing “Death Warrants” at that Pyongyang Cabinet meeting, but no one has asked “What’s a Death Warrant?” That sounds BAD.

At the Dear Leader cabinet meeting, Pam Bondi said she’d been “signing Death Warrants.” What in FUCK are ”Death Warrants”? Why has no one noticed that?!

May Day protests brought neighbors with signs outside my place, to make cars honk in support! and I wish to God I hadn’t lived thru that for six weeks in 2020 when all they did was make cars honk from dawn to dusk, because that seemed like activism. I will NOT tolerate that lack of vision again!

Cousin is conferencing in San Diego in a few weeks, so I’m gonna go down & do the full tourist on my own. Behind-the-scenes penguin experience? Hell yeah. But what comprises an imagined California visit? Sunset views? Mexican food? Performance anxiety as pseudo-hostess.

I just sold all my Paramount stock with a little profit because today they’re gonna tarnish their brand forever and settle with T’s bogus suit against Sixty Minutes. Getting out before it loses value by capitulating to extortion, and I loathe myself, too.

Gen Z pal recently learned about half-mast death honors, so every time we saw a fully erect American flag yesterday: “They must hate Catholics for disrespecting the Pope like that.” Reminds me of the “Songs of Faith” episode of “American Idol:” most singers not acclaiming Christ got kicked off.

I remain fascinated by how Cabinet Secretaries et al have been selected not just for the GOLDEN AGE Reality TV show, but for embodying the opposite of everything they’ve been assigned. Hate law, hate health, hate civil rights, hate national security: have we got a job for you. Fuck the Senate.

I’m donating to protect services that the fed govt *used* to do before the DOGE woodchipper, because someone has to pay to undo all the wrong being done with our tax dollars—I’m really admiring the restraint of our forefathers. Fighting the fraud of this wasteful abuse is costing me TWICE. Thx MAGA.

During some papal interregnum in my lifetime, I wrote a whole parody song about conclave set to Petula Clark’s “Downtown.” White smoke, black smoke, CONCLAVE. You try it; it’s easy!

Imagine the admin as reality TV—all cosplay in opening credits, like Noem in extensions at foreign prison, montage of Secs doing pushups, etc. Need extras for “mass deportation” storyline, so frantic casting call is sent to ICE to grab dudes with the right ‘vibes’ off the street. “GOLDEN AGE.”

Watched last night’s American Idol—their first ever EASTER “Songs of Faith” episode—with a sinking feeling that ABC is now product-placing Christianity as the norm. Testimonials to judges’ church backgrounds seem like coerced conformity. Where are other faiths? HUGE shift to religious content.

The helpful cop and I come to that polite “fuck you.”

So pissed at Shrinking Trump, deciding to stop the psych assessments, & instead becoming political analysts. We need your psych tools! EXPLAIN TRUMP for his sociopathy! Explain the GOLD! Explain his aphasia! All the sociopaths in the cabinet! NOT ABOUT YOU@shrinkingtrump.bsky.social, DAMN YOU

2 things no one is saying: Unprecedented that the Attorney General of the United States is doing so many political press appearances from the White House. The lying, the bullshit is astonishing, but no *pretense* of an appearance of separation whatsoever is its own ground zero.

Today especially I wonder if they’re trying to make us all sociopaths like them, where compassion, cooperation and rules to keep peace are laughable in the face of contemptuous self-interest. Our country is currently dangerously mentally ill.