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Our cats are indoor cats; with all the animals—rabbits, squirrels, raccoons, deer, feral cats and such—that wander onto our property, it’s best to keep them inside so they don’t get sick. But Tuxedo is allowed outside—Max has no interest and since Consuelo escaped last year she’s all out of outdoor time—with adult human supervision; he sits on the table and lounges in the sun while Carlos and I chat.

However, Tuxedo has become quite adamant about when he goes out—and has begun to meow ‘Ooouuutt! Oouuttt!!’ at us all the time. So, I wasn’t too surprised walking into the living room one day and hearing Carlos tell the cat:

“Tuxedo! Get real!”

Oh, he was real; real anxious to go outside.

Then again, like his favorite daddy … me … Tuxedo isn’t keen on people invading his personal space. I’m surprised he doesn’t have taped markers in the house …

Leave it to Fox News, in the midst of nationwide worldwide protests over racism in this country, to suggest via a graphic that charted stock market performance following the killings of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Michael Brown, and George Floyd, as well as the Rodney King police brutality verdict, seemingly suggesting that the market goes up when police murder black Americans.

Oh. Yes, they did.

Queen Sugar star Nicholas Ashe and Jurassic World actor  Justice Smith  have publicly come out as gay, and a couple, saying Black queer lives must be part of any revolution. Smith posted on social media:

“[Nicholas Ashe] and I protested today in New Orleans. We chanted ‘Black Trans Lives Matter’ ‘Black Queer Lives Matter’ ‘All Black Lives Matter’. As a black queer man myself, I was disappointed to see certain people eager to say Black Lives Matter, but hold their tongue when Trans/Queer was added. … I want to reiterate this sentiment: if your revolution does not include Black Queer voices, it is anti-black. If your revolution is okay with letting black trans people like #TonyMcDade slip through the cracks in order to solely liberate black cishet men, it is anti-black,”

Tony McDade was a 38-year-old trans man who was shot and killed by Tallahassee, Florida police in May but has not become a nationwide symbol of abuse the way others like George Floyd and Breonna Taylor have.

Then Smith spoke of the “joy” in his life and relationship with Ashe:

“You’ve been my rock and guiding light through all of this and I love you so much. I know that on the other side of this Is change, though the fight is far from over.”

The march does go on, because none of us are really out unless all of us can come out and be accepted and free from violence, especially our trans brothers and sisters, and our trans brothers and sisters of color. And we need to remember that the Stonewall riots started because Marsha P. Johnson, a black trans woman, had enough.

Welcome out, gentlemen, and keep up the fight.

This week it’s both Florida and South Carolina who have reported spikes in new COVID-19 cases following our GOP governors ’demand that the states reopen.

In Florida, the number of cases reported on Friday marked a new single-day high number of cases since Florida implemented phase one of its reopening plan on May 18.

In South Carolina, health officials issued a warning that reopening South Carolina may have led to a spike in COVID-19 cases; those officials first blamed an increase in testing, but changed their tune to say it occurred because of people going to graduations and businesses reopening and people heading to the beaches.

And the numbers are up in several other states as well. Will we ever learn?

Earl Gray, the lawyer for Thomas Lane, one of the police officers who stood by while Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd, says his client is innocent because he didn’t “have a real good view” of what was going on, since he was busy holding down Floyd’s feet, and there was another officer positioned between himself and Chauvin.

But what’s worse is that Gray suggests that the public should have intervened and stopped this. Yes, a group of people taking on the police, armed with weapons? Good idea, ambulance chaser.

Now, fuck off. Your client helped hold a man down until he was dead.

Well, it happened again. I have been banned from Facebook for twenty-four hours because of my, ahem, ‘hate speech.’

It seems I posted a graphic—it’s that one up there—about the recent rise in COVID-19 cases and deaths around the country and a friend commented that it all stems from people rushing out of their homes for Memorial Day, and I said:

“Americans are dumb.”

BANNED! Best of all Facebook gives you the option to dispute the decision, but when you try to do that they tell you that because of COVID-19, they don’t have enough people to work in that area so the decision stands. I guess I should’a just said:

“Facebook is dumb.:”

How will I live for the next twenty-fou—ooh, look, something shiny.

The president is a racist planning to incite his hate base on Friday June 19, in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Why, you may ask?

The rally is being held on Juneteenth, a holiday celebrating the end of slavery and the Emancipation Proclamation.

The rally is being held in Tulsa, Oklahoma where, in the early summer of 1921, the Tulsa race massacre took place when mobs of white residents attacked black residents and businesses of the Greenwood District of the city. It has been called "the single worst incident of racial violence in American history.

And that’s when and where the racist motherfucker will speak.

Either he and his campaign are that stupid, and they are, or they are that ignorant, and they are, or they are that racist, and they are.

Now for something much better …

And because it’s hot and sticky—and not in a good way—here in Smallville, I thought I’d add to the heat by featuring 30-year-old architect, model, smoldering Karlwiz Gutierrez.

Cuz I can.