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Cat and Cat human, music fan, tired and angry
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Yes!

Im with Judge Hannah Dugan

NEW: Abrego Garcia is getting a lot of attention, but many people are asking about the rest of the men being unlawfully held in CECOT. Here's what's going on with them. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/so-what-ab...

FUN FACT: If it weren’t for women, all men would wear jeans and socks while on a boat. Not a fact at all. But maybe?

The nonstop hatred of women, from whom all men came, and without whom no man’s existence, would be possible, is staggering. This is stupid and cruel. Someone needs to wash their mouths out with douche.

Go to hell

There is no makeup in the world that can hide that level of ick.

What I keep thinking about is what happens when these children, who have no caretakers and no guardians, are put on a plane to god knows where. It's impossible to consider without tearing up. Hellish. Despicable. As amoral and inhumane as it gets.

Insanity. I will never understand what combination of lead paint and a lack of love led to all of this stupid hate.

You saw the video of the ICE agent breaking a car window near the border, right? He wasn’t an ICE agent. He’s the founder of Veterans on Patrol, a FAR-RIGHT MILITIA patrolling the border for migrants. They’re basically deputizing militias to act as federal agents. This is dangerously out of control

Gross 🤢

This has been a deeper realization for me. I understood it intellectually, but feeling it is something very different.

Patients of female surgeons have better outcomes across all surgery types than patients of male surgeons. #fact jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

I went clothing shopping yesterday because I lost 50 lbs and need warmer weather stuff and other items. I checked every tag to make sure it wasn’t made in El Salvador. I cannot personally solve the world’s problems, but there are things I can do.

This. It’s remarkably easy not to know. It is so easy that I check in at the end of the day to make sure I didn’t miss something major like a nuclear threat.

Also, what is an immigrant?

I would still be obese if it were not for Zepbound, which costs me $550 per month (with coupon), and is not covered by any ACA plan in my state. Weight loss also helps me reduce the risk of my cancer ($$$$$) returning. Diet and exercise didn’t work. Clearly, we don’t actually care about health.

Am I the only one who comes here because they don’t know anyone else to talk to about all of this?

I know I can be indignant. I grew up in a small town in flyover country in the Bible Belt. I was ignorant, and curious. And I was raised with what I understood were “American values”. And those were stolen by a bunch of charlatans.

Part of what I want to know is this whole thing just part of how humans behave? Because, if I take a narrow view, the answer is yes. Then what?

How does hate make sense? And then how does one extrapolate that into a career of hate? Legislating hate? I don’t get it. So that these people can have more money and power? For what? Seriously. For what?

I had therapy today and I cried through half of it about Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and those whose names I do not know.

Only monsters are not moved by music. It is my heart and soul, as real and imperfect as I may be. There’s always something there to be said. Some truth.

Sometimes I think, I know, that every song brought me here. Big feelings

Everybody’s Crying Mercy. Bonnie Raitt brings it every time. Great musician. Great human. So much love. 💕

My brain wants to make sense of all of this, but I don’t think that’s possible. Is it necessary? I don’t know.

I’m back to insomnia. My body feels like it did when I was diagnosed with cancer. High level of alert. Wired and sad and fatigued. Except this time the evil is my country and that feels much worse.

Sending an all-female crew into outer space for a few minutes, at the cost of millions — while women down here on earth are dying without reproductive care… is a choice.

Thank you for sharing this, and doing this work. I have a deeply visceral response to every story or headline I see about these prisons. Horrifying. Heartbreaking. Soul crushing.

My reaction to any mention of Kilmar Abrego Garcia and anything involving prisons in El Salvador is so deeply visceral that I cannot fathom how even one person could be okay with this situation. Literally gut wrenching sickening disgust. My heart weeps and my soul clenches.

Just received an email from the IRS, except I have no idea who it is from because I no longer have any idea what email address they use. Obviously not clicking on it.

What’s the point of free speech if there is no due process? And vice versa?

I don’t even know where to start. It’s all so cruel. And for what?

It’s just not even a question of anything. That’s not how we treat people. And the simplicity of that truth shatters me.

It just seems so obvious that of course this finality plays out on every community except straight white men. When will they accept culpability?

I’m so sad and angry and I don’t understand and I don’t care and fuck this shit. It so basic. So elemental humanity.

Yes! I sit down in a comfy place and do my texts in batches to “take a break” from my email. But there is nothing worse for me than a phone call. Making or receiving. Haha

The next protect democracy demonstrations day.

My grandma doesn’t have a cell phone, tablet, or computer. She does rely on social security to pay her bills since my grandpa passed away.

Just had my childhood vaccine titers checked at the concierge medicine clinic. The person who drew my blood is anti-vax. The horrors never seem to stop.