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12 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Home. New cases same approach. Grind it out. Theresa put together my outfit this morning in honor of her most favorite movie ever...so I got that going for me.
Drunk Uncle Orangey was in his kitty condo so that appears to be his thing now.
Big Eyes is back home after her big surgery. It’s just gonna be awful for months (4-6 months healing!!!) but hopefully if we keep her confined and loved she will be ok. Ugh.
And I got my Valentine’s Day gift early. My wardrobe is becoming more at the time (I wasn’t joking when I say I only wear Piggly Wiggly t shirts when home). AND NOW I HAVE A PIG WINTET CAP!!
Good lord that was some great typing. ‘Becoming more glorious...’ and it’s a winter cap. I got too excited cuz they’re the best gifts ever.

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12 Feb
In a rare bad mood so I’m re-watching season one episode one of True Detective. Back at it tomorrow to bend the zeitgeist a little bit more.
I will say this is a poem of a mini-series. In that there’s not a wasted word, no filler. Just the hard bones. Like the scene walking out of the coroner’s office where the dead are examined and they walk out into a dead strip mall, an altogether different kind of corpse.
You get any sleep last night?

I don’t sleep. I just dream.

I love that I am the complete opposite of Rust but love him. I’m a goofy idiot not burdened w/ heavy thoughts or even much thoughts at all. But I love his character cuz he is curious. Fearfully curious but still curious
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11 Feb
When I watch the insurrection at the US Capitol and watch my former Capitol Police colleagues try to handle what was happening—what was so clearly intended and called for—I’m struck by how entitled yet pathetic those people were. And still are. They think they are the Patriots.
This whole garbage of endless bragging about being the best most awesome country/people but also at the same time being the most picked on most victimized people ever is literally every theme on the grievance media and merchants. And man it’s EXACTLY the run up to the third Reich
Immigrants or Jews or any non-whites or working class or unions or feminists etc etc are The Other & they are to blame for your misfortune. Fox sells gold to poor people, medical scams to uninsured people, cyber security scams to offline people & on & on. It’s all a fear grift
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10 Feb
Home. And of course I’m greeted by MeanCat on the front porch...and Drunk Uncle Orangey WHO SERIOUSLY IS NOT SUPPOSED TO BE IN THIS ZIP CODE LET ALONE ON OUR FRONT PORCH. Anyway, it evidently was time for second dinner. And I was late. Sorry.
And The Lady Orangey has figured out the doggy door so now she and The Extra Orangey are running amok in the back. Full lemur. The Baked Potato is monitoring their progress. They’re getting big. This ends poorly for mankind. No one believes me. WAKE UP SHEEPLE!!
And Big Eyes has big surgery tomorrow. To fix what went wrong in the first knee and then operate on the other knee. This is gonna be anti good. So she’s having a sleepover with her bestie, The Lady Orangey, The Baked Potato, and her security detail.
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9 Feb
Apropos of nothing or everything, I’m reading Richard Evans ‘The Coming of The Third Reich’ and it seems really good. I’m not a specialist or analyst or historian. I’m a doofus. But I like the chronological narrative style
Strong start. Evans dismisses the easy conclusions or the cherry-picked quotes upon which to rest entire foundations of assumptions. There is no one ‘why’ about the rise of the third reich & it wasn’t inevitable but it did happen. Why? This is gonna be a long and worthy read
Also I share his disdain for theory removed from people.
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9 Feb
A massive issue here and likely in many places is that with COVID raging since last March, jury trials have been suspended. And most grand juries as well. That’s a real concern. And the backlog if we reopen courts this March is gonna be crushing. Hard to overstate this issue.
So pretrial release (bond/bail) is hugely important but so is the societal imperative to keep some accused of serious violence in jail before trial. But that trial needs to be ‘speedy’. So what’s speedy in a pandemic? These aren’t hypotheticals. These are our neighbors & our law
That’s also why private for profit jails are an abomination in every single form or fashion. The burden of incarceration MUST fall on the state because it is our burden and not an opportunity to make money. In the pandemic, we want less people in jail. We should always want that
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4 Feb
It’s hereditary, this Orangey-itis. Mom calls up. She sees a sickly orangey running towards her car. She opens the door & the kitty jumps in. It’s super skinny lady orangey. She tried to pawn her off on me but the rule is whoever first sees an orangey must care for that orangey
My mom tried a great line on me: ‘but this lady orangey is light colored, you don’t have one of those.’ Noooooope.
So my mom has already given Street Orangey two cans of wet food. At her house. That orangey ain’t going anywhere. And when she says I have too many orangeys I can always yell ‘I LEARNED IT FROM WATCHING YOU!!’
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