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67 y.o. gay granddaddy with a Japanese immigrant husband. Completely opposed to the MAGA agenda. Any DM that begins with HELLO will be blocked.
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Maybe it's because we're in Oslo for the start of our Baltic Cruise. Maybe it's because the first week of July is always fraught for me, the anniversary of both my coming out (1993) and the premature death of my well beloved beautiful young husband (2001.) 1/

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The Hubby and I will be cruising the Baltic on the 4th of July. My guess is that will be win Trump announces Martial Law (because Having a Dictator is So Patriotic!) But God only knows. Good luck, either way.

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Bingo. There are many reasons we are where we are today but I trace the Court's descent into absolute illegitimacy to Gore v. Bush (2000), when the majority said, in effect, "this is the result we want, fuck jurisprudence..."

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Poverty IS a policy choice. So is homelessness. So is ruinous medical debt. There isn't a social ill in this country that isn't rooted in someone somewhere saying "we're not going to pay for that, THOSE people don't deserve it, they're on their own." MAGA intends to make that true for everyone.

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Too many members of the Democratic establishment seem to think that if they just sit tight, keep their mouths shut, and refuse to rock the boat, the 2026 and 2028 elections will return them to power and "business as usual..." 1/

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He's a Christofascist p.o.s. (redundant!)

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Putting down a marker...

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My nephew was born in Wiesbaden when my brother was in the Army. Of course, he's a Trump supporter and white so...

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RIP, Bill Moyers. I didn't always appreciate you when you were alive but over time it was clear that your wisdom exceeded your tendency to unctuousness. Thanks for speaking truth to power.

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Fucking insane.

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D. Earl Stephens gets it: Zohran Mamdani flattened the establishment Democrat, Andrew Cuomo, in the city’s primary Tuesday, because the vast majority of Americans on both sides of the political divide are sick and tired of establishment Democrats and Republicans. open.substack.com/pub/dearlste...

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The Hubby and I fly to Oslo tomorrow. We will be on Oceania Vista Sunday June 29 through Wednesday July 9, our 22nd cruise in 22 years together. Not likely to do much posting while at sea (Internet connectivity plus 10 different ports, whee!) Back home Sunday July 13.

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Is RFK Jr. a Luddite? It's worse than that. He doesn't believe in germ theory--you know, the basis of medicine since Pasteur formulated it in the mid 19th Century. He's the healthcare equivalent of a flat earth fanatic. Now imagine putting someone like that in charge of NASA. That's where we're at.

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Just a reminder that all THREE Supreme Court decisions guaranteeing fundamental rights for LGBTQ people were handed down on June 26th. They were: (1) Lawrence v. Texas, which declared anti-sodomy laws unconstitutional. (2) U.S. v. Windsor, which struck down the Defense of Marriage Act and... 1/

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Disgraceful.

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