In which it’s an intense time to be alive, no doubt about that.

The images that get traction are of broken-hearted wailing and absolutely JUSTIFIED rage; fire; despair. Cops acting as if the population they’re sworn to serve and protect are enemy combatants, and so hatefully indoctrinated they don’t know why that’s a problem.

The images of comfortable, wholesome protests, of community and support and love, get little to no coverage. If it doesn’t bleed, it doesn’t lead.

Far too much coverage of looting. Listen, when you never earn enough, have no healthcare, and live at the edge of homelessness in a grossly rich country that spends BILLIONS ON WAR AND COPS, why not take shit from a Target when shit’s on fire? If you don’t, it’s just gonna burn up anyway, why not get something to use or gift or sell?

I would, I absolutely WOULD loot a fucking Target if I didn’t have the support that I have — all of which is due to my luck, not my intrinsic worth. I don’t offer society anything of real value, and neither do most of you. The only reason I’m not looting a Target is that I don’t have to, and the reasons I don’t have to are luck and skin color.

Let them have their Martha Stewart lamps and bicycles and flat screens. What those businesses have stolen from us is much, much worse than that. Those businesses pay shitty wages, withhold benefits, treat their employees and communities like shit, and store their money offshore to avoid taxes. FUCK THOSE BUSINESSES, THEY ARE NOT GOOD CITIZENS, they’re not citizens at all, really, AND THEY DO NOT DESERVE ANYTHING. Not our respect, not our protection, not our grief, and not our bailouts. Fuck them. Fuck Walmart, fuck Target, fuck every one of those society-looting conscienceless motherfuckers. They’re enemies of society: enemies of prosperity, dignity, and beauty.

Five Black human beings have been found hung from trees in the past week. (Obviously, in light of history, this is not how any Black person suicides, ever.) This is absolutely fucking unacceptable and shows how deep racism is in this country. Fucking lynchings?!? I am heartbroken by how safe, comfortable whites are willing to just ignore the suffering of people JUST LIKE THEM who have more melanin. That’s fucking racism; it’s really not that hard to understand how running highways through affluent Black communities for decades might have had an effect on a population we’ve been so happy to ignore and push away unless they adopt our bullshit White saviour pseudo-Christian culture.

The population is acting recklessly in face of a killing global pandemic. This is entirely the fault of the current administration failing to bother to message properly.

Wear your mask. Stay in as much as possible. Wash your hands. Ignore the re-openings, IT’S NOT SAFE.

Trump is incapable of compassion, old, weak, dumb, venal, and ugly of heart. He is the reflection of the nation’s cumulative personality.

We’re risking millions of lives in the forms of millions of service workers because our society is broken, and I hate it. It breaks my heart that people too poor to not work have to work for CEO bonuses are forced to work. It’s slavery, but we pretend it’s a free market.

Walmart costs you, the taxpayers, billions of dollars annually because their MEDIAN PAY is under twelve bucks an hour. They literally maintain hotlines that assist their underpaid workers with their assistance applications.

The Supreme Court actually surprised me today, however; there is still hope that people, many people, do their duty for its own sake.