My current rage read is this article in The New Yorker which informs me that 20 (twenty!) former correctional officers from New York State prisons are currently under indictment for beating prisoners to death.

If Fred Flintstone were Secretary of Energy he would approve of this post, but you can’t even make this sh… up:

If there’s anything that I will go to my grave believing about Joe or Kamala or Zohran it is this: Kind, joyful and decent are fucking better than mean, hateful and corrupt any day of the week.

50 years ago today Rocky Horror Picture Show was bombing in the theaters. So picking up this book today at The Strand seems a bit of poetic justice.

Threats vs. the Law. The first page of Judge William G. Young’s decision ruling against the Trump administrations threats to deport pro-Palestinians based on their exercise of their First Amendment Rights. Included a picture of a threat the judge received and his response.

Ferry to Fire Island, while we can…

If only the white, Christian men who are triggered by my pronouns online were just as triggered by the daily reports of youth pastors being arrested for child abuse, endangerment and child pornography possession…

I was that poor scholarship kid who started hanging out at the public library in middle school, and took the SAT 5 times as my test prep. And started doing my parents taxes so we could fill out the FAFSA. The Trump assault on higher ed is affirmative action for rich, white people.

A peony.

Well this post from Mike Lawler aged like milk.

Senator Markwayne. IYKYK.

Perhaps I should post a beautiful flower for a change.

I’m a dedicated investor, a believer in capitalism, so I don’t say this lightly, but it would have been better to have put it under a mattress since Trump came in.