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Well, I’m blogging from the hospital this week, but don’t worry, the doctor says I’m gonna be just fine.

But be advised, the Dyson Ball Cleaner has a very deceiving name.

Carlos is part of a DHEC [South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental] group working with the Hispanic community in regard to healthcare. His team is part of a larger convention and will be having a panel discussion in May. In the lead up to the event, several people have been interviewing Carlos about his thoughts and ideas, and the other day we have this discussion:

“I have another Zoom interview tomorrow at 10AM. I really should start charging them.”

“Why would they pay you to talk to you?”

“They pay Bill Clinton. They pay Barack Obama.”

“They don’t pay Bill Obama.”

“Who’s Bill Obama?”

“Exactly.”

Took him a minute.

I’m fairly certain he gets it from me because I have been known to have that same look on my face from time to time.

SIDENOTE: After many months of not being able to sleep with his two Dads because the bed is too high and he can’t jump up, and I don’t like him jumping down from it lest he hurt his legs, we put an old step stool beside the bed and Tuxedo climbed right up and onto the bed. I woke up this morning, sleeping on my left side with Tuxedo sleeping on top of my right side, and one of his paws resting on my cheek.

Heaven.

Ginni Thomas, the QAnon wingnut wife of sexual harasser and Supreme Court Justice, Clarence Thomas, now admits she attended the January 6 rally but left before Thing 45 spoke and before her brethren attacked the Capitol because she got cold.

Fucking snowflake. But she also wants to make it clear that she “played no role [in the attack] … There are stories in the press suggesting I paid or arranged for buses. I did not. There are other stories saying I mediated feuding factions of leaders for that day. I did not.”

Funny, Ginni, if you’re so innocent, why it did it take you over a year to say one damned word?

In the words of our Immortal Anne Marie: FOAD.

Dejah Bennet, a 22-year-old mother is dead after being shot in an Illinois grocery store parking lot.

She was accidentally shot and killed when her 3-year-old boy got hold of a gun in the back seat of his parent’s car and it discharged, hitting his mother in the neck. The boy’s father, also present at the time, is in custody as police determine whether there are any charges to be filed against him.

Oh there should be.

Places I won’t travel to: Mother Russia and her stepchildren Texas and Florida and Tennessee … that’s all, for now.

Carlos hates to use the last of anything. They will be a paper-thin sliver of soap in the bathtub soapdish which he will continue to use, but he'll set out a new bar, still in the box, on the edge of the tub, for me to put out. We’ll be running low on toilet paper on the roll, and he’ll use one tiny square—he has squares to spare … extra points if you get that—and put a new roll on the back of the toilet for me to put on the spool.

The other morning, I said I was going to have fruit for breakfast. I made a delicious bowl of honeydew, banana and pineapple, and Carlos told me he’d saved some strawberries I’d gotten at the market if I wanted.

“Yes, please. Where are they?”

Second shelf from the bottom.”

I took the container of strawberries and, inside, rolling around all by its lonesome was one strawberry about the size of a pea that he had saved for me.

Bless.His.Heart.

All 133 Virginia public school superintendents have urged GOP and QAnon Governor Glenn Youngkin to scrap the “tip line” he set up to let parents snitch on teachers and principals, and have asked him to stop his campaign against the teaching of “divisive” content in schools.

It’s called history; it’s called facts. And trying to deny that is called White Fragility.

After expressing “concern” for Ukraine in its war against Russia, these 31 GOP Senators voted against an aid package for Ukraine:

Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty, Tennessee ... John Boozman and Tom Cotton, Arkansas ... Mike Braun, Indiana ... Richard Burr and Thom Tillis, North Carolina ... Bill Cassidy and John Kennedy, Louisiana ... Tom Cotton, Arkansas ... Kevin Cramer and John Hoeven, North Dakota ... Mike Crapo and James Risch, Idaho ... Ted Cruz, Texas ... Steve Daines, Montana ... Deb Fischer and Ben Sasse, Nebraska ... Josh Hawley, Missouri ... Ron Johnson, Wisconsin ... James Lankford, Oklahoma ... Mike Lee and Mitt Romney, Utah ... Cynthia Lummis, Wyoming ... Roger Marshall, Kansas ... Rand Paul, Kentucky ... Mike Rounds, South Dakota ... Marco Rubio and Rick Scott, Florida ... Tim Scott, South Carolina ... Dan Sullivan, Alaska ... Pat Toomey, Pennsylvania

Vote them all out. Cast a GODDAMNED vote.

Speaking of voting Blue, I need Democrats to stand up and speak up and speak out and remind this country that Russia and Putin have sanctioned many, many politicians in this country, and around the world, for their support of Ukraine and condemnation of Russia, but they have not sanctioned one single Republican.

Which means the GOP is the party of bombing hospitals and maternity wards and apartments complexes and people waiting in line for bread. The GOP condones the murder of innocent Ukrainians because Putin wants to swing his microdick around. The GOP and the rightwing media are being heralded in Russia as allies Of murder and mayhem.

Vote every one of them from office.

I don’t know … is it underwear as outerwear, cuz I’m getting garters out of this; or it  just plain strappy under wear? Either way, I’m intrigued ….

We began watching HBO’S The Gilded Age, created by Julian Fellowes who also gave us Downton Abby. But this one takes place in New York City as the nouveau riche start moving in the same circles as old money and a sort of one percent class struggle ensues. But enough of that, let’s talk men—clockwise from top left: 

Blake Ritson is playboy, and perhaps gay boy, Oscar van Rhijn, the son of old money; Claybourne Elder is John Adams, with whom Oscar has a thing; Sullivan Jones plays a real person, T. Thomas Fortune, the editor of the New York Globe, a prominent Black newspaper; Ward Horton is Charles Fane, another son of old money; Morgan Spector is George Russell, the new money millionaire who built the monstrosity mansion on The Avenue; and Harry Richardson is Larry Russell, son of George Russell.

Which One[s] Would You Hit?