Voted in #SantaFe#NewMexico today, a place where the Democratic primary determines some of the ultimate races. One race really struck me as emblematic of the future, assuming constitutional democracy survives in the U.S. 1/
On the 1st day of #testimony in #HunterBiden’s federal #gun trial, #jurors heard his audio of his memoir, where he recounted his #drug use in graphic detail. A federal prosecutor told jurors “no one is above the #law,” & defense said the he did not “knowingly” lie when filling out forms to purchase a weapon.
in related entrapment by the FBI and other feckless police state actors' news...
"When a drug kingpin named Microsoft tried to seize control of an encrypted phone company for criminals, he was playing right into its real owners’ hands."
A fantastic excerpt on Wired from @josephcox's new book DARK WIRE, about how the FBI ran an encrypted phone company used almost exclusively by criminals as the largest ever wiretap operation. I bought a copy of his book, so should you. It's a brilliant read and one of my favorite books of the year.
BY THE WAY MY LOVELIES
didn't start yesterday because am still battling the #fuckCancer post-radiation fatigue blues, but it's June and y'all know what that means...
🗣️ 📣 IT'S COUNTDOWN TO MY BIRTHDAY ON JUNE 10TH!!!!
UPDATE!
so my first ask for my #birthday is 5 of your favorite birthday party tracks. and yes, i will be putting all together into a playlist. go as hard and as mellow as y'all want. am here for all of it.
so instead of sulking about my #cancer fatigue, did a bit of yoga adapted for my nuclear boob blues. it felt weird but awesome to have to intentionally move to breathe energy into every spot in my body screaming to be in bed.
gotta get my #cancer ass kicking going cuz next Monday i turn 58. i outlived Kissinger, am certainly gonna outlive that fucker Murdoch. and am having cake.
what's your fave bday cake? i want coconut this year 🎂
BTW y'all still owe me some tracks for my birthday playlist. y'all know what's going to be featured heavily in that list?
Whether you're a brother or whether you're a mother
You're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Feel the city breakin' and everybody shakin'
And we're stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive, stayin' alive
Ah, ha, ha, ha, stayin' alive
am gonna make it a whole birthMONTH. so even though next monday is my birthday, i am not going to shut the fuck up about it til after June 30th. the last year has been brutal battling cancer and am going to get extra extra celebrating my time on this here Earth.
so yeah,
🗣️ 📣 JUNE IS MY BIRTH MONTH, SO I WANT ALL THE HAPPY WISHES BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER MY BIRTHDAY
🗣📣 IT’S SIX DAYS TO #BdayForLiza BUT YOU CAN WISH ME A HAPPY BIRTH MONTH NOW!!
June is also Puerto Rican Heritage month. there is a 1966 pic of me somewhere in the bowels of the NYTimes with papi holding my newborn self in one hand and a Puerto Rican flag on the other.
and because there is no voguing nor drag houses in NYC without Puerto Ricans, June is also #LGBTQI Pride Month.
June is the month to celebrate ME, Puerto Rican heritage & queerness. coincidence? I THINK NOT!
another crypto scam but, ironically, they didn't go after the religious cult that supposedly runs the newspaper? what's outrageous is that Newsweek is supposed to have a similar setup after it got bought some years ago. but the DoJ is going after them for the crypto. unbelievable.
“The professional responsibility board in Washington, DC, recommended Friday that [#Giuliani] lose his law license because of his involvement in a bogus 2020 election fraud lawsuit.”
REMINDER: corporatism IS fascism. USA's political elites are controlled by unelected corporatist oligarchs for whom politics isn't about party or nation but business. checkout how the DNC wants to price out the little people from their fundraisers. this is literal corporate capture but with political parties because oligarchs only care about the state violence they can capture & profit from.
BUT REMEMBER:
VOTING IS HARM REDUCTION
that means you won't be able to delude yourself that you are done just by voting.
let me say it again, with the chest:
🗣️ VOTING IS HARM REDUCTION. YOUR #ANTIFA WORK IS NOT DONE BY JUST VOTING.
you know this has always been true, but now, you cannot continue pretending it was "those other people's problem". we didn't even have to tell you. Biden has show his true political face and it's ugly.
so prepare to not rest until you stomp the last fascist
THIS IS WHY SELF-CARE IS POLITICAL WARFARE because there was never a democracy after all and the job will not be done come November.
it's just that you chose to pretend racism, sexism, misogyny, homophobia, xenophobia, classism —all the social and politica and economic hates and phobias— had nothing to do to with #fascism.
yet here we are.
so prepare yourself to fight Biden & his brand of Democrats even harder for the bare minimum. they sell everybody out for a bad #abortion win
AND WHY AM CALLING Y'ALL WHITE PEOPLE OUT especially if y'all out in the south? because more White people voted for Trump, a Republican, in 2020 than at any time in USA history. in the middle of a pandemic. after sitting at the last minute another illegitimate SCOTUS justice to the bench, Amy Barret Cohen, a woman who is literally in her thiclose to heretical flavor of Catholicism, a handmaiden.
61% of white men and 55% of white women voted for Trump in 2020.