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I have a birthday coming up—I’ll be somewhere between forty and death—and Carlos has already given me two gifts. 

Now, before I divulge the gifts, let me say that I love Carlos more than anything in life, but one thing I do enjoy is solitude. And since I don’t normally work on Tuesdays, not even from home, Carlos told me today that next Tuesday, as well as the 27th, the anniversary of my birth, he will be busy and gone all day and I can have the home to myself. 

Carlos doesn’t get that feeling because he grew up as an only child; I had siblings and relatives nearby and friends and such and learned to like a little peace.

I can do everything or I can do nothing.

That’s love.

Of course, the weekend after my birthday we will be away for a mini-vacation to celebrate!

This is Tuxedo from July 2021 … mid-pandemic …

I’m thinking of running for Mayor of Smallville, but only as a front for Tuxedo, who would be the real mayor.

Nikki Glaser hosted the Golden Globes the other night and released a list of jokes she cut from her monologue. I kinda wish she ‘d left this one in, about “Wicked” star Jonathon Bailey being named the 2025 “Sexiest Man Alive” by People magazine.

“Jonathan is the first openly gay man to be named the Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine. And at first I was like, do we really need to say ‘openly’? And then I looked at a list of past winners and I was like, ‘Oh, yeah, we do.’”

Snap.

Kristi DogKiller and CitizenKiller is a liar; do not let her fool you.

ICE’s jurisdiction is only on matter related to immigration; not stopping vehicles at random.

They do not have nor mal police powers or authority.

To stop a vehicle they need to have reasonable cause to believe it contains an undocumented immigrant.

They cannot detain anyone without reasonable cause to believe that person is undocumented.

They cannot detain a  US citizen for passing by the area.

To draw their weapon on someone they must have reasonable cause to believe their lives are in direct danger.

ICE had no jurisdiction to stop or interact with Renee Nicole Good at all, never mind drawing a weapon, shooting her in the face and then calling her a “fucking bitch” as she lay dying.

The regime is conducting a thorough investigation of Renee while Noem exonerated the murderer, Jonathan Ross, before Good’s body was even cold.

These are the facts; don’t be gaslit by the regime.

I saw this meme on Bluesky, posted after Renee Good’s murder about how she should have just complied; something to think about …

“All you have to do is comply and you won’t get hurt by cops. When they tell you to get down, you get down. When they tell you to turn in your guns, you turn in your guns. When they tell you to get in the boxcar, you get in the boxcar. Why is this so difficult for people to understand.”

Think on that.

Last week, the House passed a bill to extend desperately needed healthcare subsidies and stop millions of people from being kicked off their health insurance and one of the more surprising “Yea” votes was from MAGAt cultist Lauren Groper.

Except once this was highlighted by the media, Boebert played the “um, actually” card and posted a picture of her holding an “incorrect vote form” that said she actually wanted to vote “nay.”

How dumb is Boebert? There are two choices for the vote and you say you accidentally picked the wrong one. You had two choices and you chose the one you didn’t want to choose.

It’s hard to fathom which degree of stupidity we’re dealing with here. 

Thankfully, the bill still passed even with Boebert switching her vote to “no.” 

Matty Carrington’s modeling career began at sixteen, when a casual shopping trip in London with his mother turned into an unexpected stop at Select Model Management so Would You Hit It?

Architecture Wednesday: Modernist Portland Chalet

The Grube Residence could perhaps be overlooked at first glance because of its modest presence, but this Germanic Chalet is an important architectural work to be carefully studied. The home was sited and designed to take full advantage of the beautifully forested, sloped setting while nestling lightly into nature’s envelope of firs and rhododendrons. A founding partner of Portland’s Yost Grube Hall Architecture, Grube designed a handful of homes alone and in collaboration with the acclaimed William Fletcher but this home was designed by Grube as a labor of love for his family and sits in between former partner Richard Campbell and Grube’s 1966 twin-like family homes, creating a triad of architectural wonders in a row.

The home opens skyward with each floor cantilevering out beyond its impressive concrete foundation and is framed by the forest around it. Tongue and groove cedar siding and a metal roof add to its distinctive look and protect the home from the elements. Use of native materials brings the outside in and make this creative retreat cozy, warm and inviting. Clear fir is used extensively throughout on custom windows, casework, built-ins, tray ceiling frames, doors and windows and red oak clads the flooring. Walls of glass flood the home with private forest views and natural light all day and dimmable lighting controls the ambience at night. A custom architectural floating oak stairwell connects the 3 levels.

This home is an inspiring peaceful sanctuary for relishing in natures beauty and life’s richest experiences. A generational work of architecture—designed not only as shelter but as a steward of the natural environment, creating balance and harmony both inside and out.

There are three bedrooms and three bathrooms in just over 2400 square feet in Portland for just $1.3M.

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That Ain't America: Renee Nicole Good is Dead

Renee Nicole Good, the 37-year-old mother of three who had just moved to Minneapolis, was a prize-winning poet and a hobby guitarist, who city leaders have said was there as a legal observer of ICE activities.

But the Fascist Regime called her a "domestic terrorist” and cosplaying, inept Homeland Security Secretary Kristi “DogKiller” Noem calls the shooting justified because the officer who killed Rennee, Jonathan Ross, was in fear for his life. Add to the mix both Vice President Couchfucker and White House Minister of Propaganda, KKKarolying Leavitt, who each posted the video of the killing to their social media, and claimed Ross was justified in killing Good.

What actually happened …

Her wife, Rebecca Good, with whom she moved to Minneapolis just last year, said:

"On Wednesday, January 7th, we stopped to support our neighbors. We had whistles. They had guns."

They had guns; this band of mostly untrained, uneducated, formerly unemployed, wannabe police officers who were paid handsomely to join Ice, had guns.

Several state leaders have said that Good was at the scene of an ICE raid in the south of Minneapolis as a legal observer to monitor police and security forces at protests and operations. Renne’s mother says her daughter was "not part of anything" that involved challenging ICE agents. Still, Regime officials, including the racist, rapist, fascist president, claim Renee was interfering in the officers' work by "blocking them in" with her car and "shouting at them".

Who to believe; the people who knew Renee, or the man in the Oval office who literally lies every time his mouth moves and his hand puppet, a dog killing, now citizen killing, Neo-Nazi?

I choose Renee, and here’s why …

The Regime says Renee "weaponized her vehicle" and then tried to run over one of the officers "in an attempt to kill or cause bodily harm to agents, an act of domestic terrorism" but cellphone video, one of which came from Jonathan Ross, the shooter,  and eyewitness accounts tells a different story.

Ross’ video begins with him getting out of his car and approaching Good’s SUV from the passenger side; there’s a black dog in the rear seat looking at Ross through an open window as the ICE officer walks around the front of the car to face Good who says to him:

“That’s fine, dude, I’m not mad at you.”

At the same time, Ross is approached by a woman who later identified herself as Good’s wife, Rebecca. Ross walks around to film the SUV’s rear license plate, then to Rebecca, filming Ross now. who says:

“That’s OK, we don’t change our plates every morning. Just so you know, it’ll be the same plate when you come talk to us later … You want to come at us? You want to come at us? I say go get yourself some lunch, Big Boy. Go ahead.”

At this point, Ross has moved to face the passenger side of the SUV again and is making his way around to the front. It seems like the situation was under control, until another couple of ICE agents, untrained and armed, approach the vehicle and shout:

“Get out of the car. Get out of the f-----g car. Get out of the car.”

Rebecca gets into the front seat and apparently tells her wife “drive.” Ross is now facing the front of the vehicle  and Renee reverses slightly, then accelerates forward. Ross, holding his phone and filming, then fires multiple shots into Renee’s as it passed him.

He was holding both a phone and a gun, standing to the side of the vehicle as Renee Nicole Good tried to drive past him when he killed her. There are those who say Renee’s car may have struck Ross, run over his foot, but video after the murder shows him walking completely fine.

There was no threat, there was no imminent danger, there was no threat … except from Jonathan Ross who shot Renee three times in the face as she drove by him.

This Ain’t America. At least not the America I know; we aren’t perfect, goddess knows we do all kinds of terrible things, but when you fire up hatred against brown people who speak differently, when you send marauding, untrained, unfit, masked men with guns into the streets to round up anyone they assume to be undocumented, the worst will happen.

And it did last week … to Renee Nicole Good.

Say her name; do not let her murder be in vain. Demand an investigation; demand accountability from Noem who advertised for ICE agents, paid them bonuses to join, did no background checks, no educational checks; she handed them weapons and masks and sent them into our streets.

Say her name; cast a vote; end this regime of terror and murder.

The UNFunny Papers

Gary Taxall, Robert Unell, Jonathan Brown, Rick McKee, Michael de Adder, Max Espinoza, Bill Bramhall, Nick Anderson, Clay Bennett, Jon Ostrove, Ann Telnaes, Lalo Alcaraz