I can’t process this anger

In no order:

  • Moderate Republicans who said we were being alarmist.
  • Liberals/DSA who protest-voted against Hillary.
  • Conservative Democrats (Manchin and Sinema) whose selfish and likely corrupt inaction kneecapped the Senate.
  • All of the Republicans who are now Never-Trumpers who got us into this sexist, racist, classist hell but don’t admit their disastrous culpability.
  • Middle class white women who were too politically lazy to realize what they were voting for and what they were sentencing their daughters to.
  • Moderate (?) Republicans who trusted the word of a judge who sexually assaulted women (fuck “allegedly”)–including anyone who attacked Christine Blasey Ford–and another judge who is part of a far-right X-tian sect.
  • Many on the Supreme Court who were picked with the influence of a millenarianist group [ed. too angry to look for the references I’ve seen, come back later] Updated 5 Jul 2022, it’s Opus Dei:
via @jzikah, 1 Jul 2022, 10:49 AM
  • Teens. Teen women esp. Vote, you stupid motherfuckers. Me and my generation need to fade out and to do so you need to god. damn. take. charge.
  • Me, for being comfortable. This will never affect me in my lifetime so maybe I didn’t do enough?
  • All women (ok, so I mean many) who voted in a manner to let this happen because others said they were being alarmist or because they wanted a Republican over a Democrat no matter the cost or because of gender self-hatred (see also: “shrill Hillary”).

I am so very tired.

January 6th Committee Hearings–Mon 9 Jun 2022

Sat down 45 minutes beforehand. The standard Tweetdeck columns opened. First column, all of those political wonks I grouped together under the custom list titled “Impeachment” and created during the first impeachment hearings. How long ago was that? Then, two columns with search results for the hashtag #January6thCommitteeHearings, one filtered for tweets with a minimum of 20 likes (trending) and one filtered for tweets with a minimum of 100 likes (more sticky). Pre-hearing commentary on MSNBC; streaming hearing on C-SPAN. Let’s go.

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The Vortex

Years ago (again, who knows how many) Lisa and I were hanging out at The Vortex on a Sunday afternoon–something we had never done before up to that time (that is: hanging out at The Vortex, not just “hanging out”)–and watching American Ninja Warrior, which we knew existed and knew what it was but had never before watched because it’s kinda like reality TV. That Sunday was our first drinking Sunday: those ones that were meant to avoid Monday. There’s always a first.

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The Jan 6 hearings, 27 Jul 2021, day 1

10:20 AM

Started late, maybe 15 minutes ago, because of work. Watching will be intermittent throughout the day.

Representatives:

  • Bennie Thompson (D), chair
  • Elaine Luria (D)
  • Jamie Raskin (D)
  • Stephanie Murphy (D)
  • Pete Aguilar (D)
  • Adam Schiff (D)
  • Zoe Lofgren (D)
  • Liz Cheney (R)
  • Kinzinger (R)

First testimony from four officers:

  • Sgt. Aquilino Gonell, U.S. Capitol Police
  • Officer Michael Fanone, Metropolitan Police Department
  • Officer Daniel Hodges, Metropolitan Police Department
  • Officer Harry Dunn, U.S. Capitol Police
image via @MikevWUSA, 9:56 AM, 21 Jul 2021
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