Before I tell you this, I want you to know YES, I understand this is just one experience with multiple causal factors. Stipulated, OK? Here goes:

I just traveled south from my heavily regulated very progressive state to a red state and a bunch of things got so. much. easier. 🧵 I went to a coffee shop today that was - no lie - fully staffed. No sign on the door saying, "We're closing early due to ...whatever." I ordered a cup of coffee. And? They handed it to me. No 20-minute wait. Also, there was cream that I was allowed to put in myself. OMG ☕️

Why does it matter that B Weinstein advocated for a 'real' 6-week TOTAL lockdown as a potential part of the plan to 'crush' the virus?

Because here's what real and total mean when it comes to lockdown. It means sharpshooters taking out those who are non-compliant from afar. 🧵 I don't care what you say, it's the only way to control the movements of 330 million people without getting close enough to catch a virus.

The person having a heart attack must stay at home and cope, either die or survive on his/her own, because to leave would risk infection.

"Americans today have the 'freedom' to be fleeced, groped, wiretapped, injected, censored, ticketed, disarmed, beaten, vilified, detained, and maybe shot by government agents. Politicians are hell-bent on protecting citizens against everything but Uncle Sam." "Today's politicians never lack a pretext for plundering private citizens. Despite being charged with no crime, half a million Americans have been robbed by government agents on the nation's sidewalks, highways, and airports in recent decades."

The longer I live, the more sympathetic I become to the Scientologist's view of psychiatry. There's no doubt psych theories & maladies crest in generational waves. There were the eating disorders of the 80s (my youth). Repressed memories & mult personalities of the 90s. (1/x) Family estrangement and 'toxic' mothers of the aughts. And trans mania + DID (look it up) of the 2020s. On the horizon, I can see the building trend of the 2030s - polyamory. That is, the need - created by therapists - for couples to move beyond trad marriage and become 'open.'

I just heard a talking head + Meghna Chakrabarti on @NPR discussing the fact that Republicans don't trust higher education because so many of them "don't know anyone who's ever been to college." Hand to God. @TafkaTrap @NPR @jeffreyatucker @WoodReporting + @jeffreyatucker

I have a near-obsessive need to hear your conversations, which are like music. Something about the alchemy of the two of you...Please meet monthly from now on. For me. ♥️

I was talking to the great @michaelpsenger today about how slyly the concept of 'lockdown' was introduced - and sold - to the American public. He has some hardcore histories of CCP/African lockdowns for disease. Me? I think it goes back to the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. 🧵 My husband flew into Boston for a job interview 4 days later. His plane landed at Logan & he sat in the airport for hours; everyone was prevented from leaving by car, taxi, or bus. The only way out was to fly out, so that's what he did. Turned around & booked a flight home.

I'm wondering what's become of me. I used to be ragingly liberal (small 'l') about matters involving sex and love. Do your thing. Your body is your own. There is no shame between consenting adults. But lately -- I'm just tired of it all and I want everyone to STOP with the (1/x) nonsense. I do not want to talk about strangers' sex lives or genital choices. I'm not amused by the celebrities who flaunt their just-barely-age-of-consent conquests. I'm bored by clothes that reveal the outline of mens' scrota. That whole group marriage thing? Yuck. (And why is

I'm increasingly worried about the uni-voice, especially in the arts and supposedly breaking/heterodox journalism, where it's being disguised as avant-garde.

Benign example: I've turned on 5 top-rated new shows with EGOT-level talent and every single one has been about a (1/x) BILLIONAIRE - usually a foppish, lovable, human billionaire, occasionally a gluttonous super-villain billionaire -- but it's the overriding theme. What do billionaires think/do/eat/invent/say/fuck/desire?

Less benign example: My in-box and feed are full of heterodox publications

I promised @Mithrandir48 and a few others that I would check out local middle school libraries - and I did. None would let me into the buildings (as I predicted) but a librarian did send me credentials for their catalog and I looked at the LGBT books available for 12-15 yo. (1/) It's a category that kids can choose (historical, mystery, black history, LGBT, etc) and there were 11 chapter books, all focusing on teens - most awakening to feelings about being gay, bi, trans or queer. All seemed appropriate. The graphic novel that I see screenshots of all

Here's how committed to free speech I am: I'm thrilled that Alex Berenson is back on Twitter and able to spew his self-serving bullshit any time he likes. Because that's how we maintain a fair, open, and democratic country. Protect the speech of the people you loathe. Despite the fact that he reached out from nowhere to QT one of the most harmless tweets I've ever sent out and accuse me of both lying (I didn't) and being "barely American" (lol), I admire the fact that Berenson pursued a FOIA and went after the Biden admin for interfering w his