I wish we had pulled over in that green Volkswagen and explored what was driving us to go so fast. Maybe we wouldn’t be so lost today? Maybe we would never have needed to write things like this in a BlueSky?

Tuesday the government will close. And when the doors open again, what world will we walk into? Will there be homecoming? Daughter Days? Basketball games? More evidence of men’s violence? Will you declare me a terrorist because I love too much and want everyone, especially Palestinians to be free?

I scrolled past a video in which a baby that looked like a 110-year-old man died… and past a video of a mother being slammed to the ground right in front of her daughter by men who carry in them the violence of the trauma of the world…

Only I want to scream WAIT, it’s a trap! All those improvements that quickly replaced cassettes with CDs, put joysticks in our hands, and promised our fathers success if they sat on desk chairs so sticky it cost them 100s of bedtime stories, years of life, and a planet that is as exhausted as them.

Monsters! How can these men join ICE? The most disgusting job in the world!

The data garbage this produces is unthinkable!

These ideas don’t pop out of nowhere, just coming visible now and people all around the world have been saying it. What’s clear is the 1% are racing each other at the expense of humanity and the planet Earth. Don’t mean to be bleak but all this batshit craziness spells w-a-r!

Mid-terms!? Now is the time! We might all be looking up if we don’t disrupt now.

Word! The distance to neoliberal politics is still not that far. I’d argue that’s a bit part of why we are where we are + a lack of imagination

Same.

True that! Even though everything passes we have power to use that can reduce what they call “collateral damage/loss”

Oh AND contract other countries to take our prisoners!

Yasss! Please stop them.

And who invests these kind of bucks to gain what???