February 10, 2023

another thug phony- anna paulina luna.

Twelve years before she was elected as the first Mexican American woman to represent Florida in Congress, Anna Paulina Luna was serving at Whiteman Air Force Base in Warrensburg, Mo., where friends said she described herself as alternately Middle Eastern, Jewish or Eastern European. Known then by her given last name of Mayerhofer, Luna sported designer clothing and expressed support for then-President Barack Obama.
By the time she ran for Congress as a Republican, she had changed her last name to Luna in what she said was an homage to her mother’s family. A staunch advocate for gun rights, she cited on the campaign trail a harrowing childhood that left her “battle hardened.” She said she and her mother had little extended family as she grew up in “low-income” neighborhoods in Southern California with a father in and out of incarceration. She said she experienced a traumatizing “home invasion” when she was serving in the Air Force in Missouri.
Luna’s sharp turn to the right, her account of an isolated and impoverished childhood, and her embrace of her Hispanic heritage have come as a surprise to some friends and family who knew her before her ascent to the U.S. House this year. A cousin who grew up with Luna said she was regularly included in family gatherings. Her roommate in Missouri had no recollection of the “home invasion” Luna detailed, describing instead a break-in at their shared apartment when they were not home, an incident confirmed by police records. And three years before her first congressional bid as a conservative, Luna registered to vote as a Democrat in Washington state, voting records show.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/02/10/anna-paulina-luna-republican-biography/

sounds like a real piece of work.

February 5, 2023

yeah, i sold my little house!

not the house i live in, but a sf rental that i bought from the bank, a wreck, and lovingly rescued.
i rented it out for a few yrs, but i’ve had plague related money issues that led me to sell it.
had a lot of arguments w realtors about what i could get, cuz the hood is undervalued.
but i stood my ground, and got what i wanted in less than a month!

rly sad to let it go, but it was a dream come true, and i’m terribly proud of it.
and it’s an itty bitty bit of justice for the hood. it’s got everything, but it’s cheap cuz it’s always been diverse. but now my neighbors have a more fair comp to point to.

https://www.redfin.com/IL/Chicago/1832-W-Estes-Ave-60626/home/13571945?&utm_source=google&utm_medium=ppc&utm_campaign=1023726&utm_term=dsa-1341488489976&utm_content=454669087896&adgid=111663001848&gclid=CjwKCAiAxP2eBhBiEiwA5puhNQEtooTkYgC3sgFuoEkAp4FeOaBX82_w1qtA1ZpTCrcK-1RluqGmmhoCVR0QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

February 1, 2023

How Jimi Hendrix Discovered The Band Chicago

never heard this story before.

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=511005480985117

February 1, 2023

UK's teachers and civil servants join mass strike on 'Walkout Wednesday'

LONDON, Feb 1 (Reuters) - Up to half a million British teachers, civil servants, and train drivers walked out over pay in the largest coordinated strike action for a decade on Wednesday, with unions threatening more disruption as the government digs its heels in over pay demands.

The mass walkouts across the country shut schools, halted most rail services, and forced the military to be put on standby to help with border checks on a day dubbed "Walkout Wednesday”.

According to unions, as many as 300,000 teachers took part, the biggest group involved, as part of wider action by 500,000 people, the highest number since 2011, when civil servants walked out en masse

https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/uk-set-biggest-strike-action-years-teachers-civil-servants-walk-out-2023-02-01/

1 thing i still rely on twitter for is news from the uk.
the nhs is a mess, and, imho, a cautionary tale about universal healthcare. they have done to the nhs what we have done here to the public schools. and what they have done to medicare- nickeled and dimed it to the point u need a whole extra policy that requires 2 min commercials to explain.
1 thing i wish dems would point out now and then is what a great jobs program the aca was/is. it created rly good jobs, down to union jobs for janitors in a lot of places. and it is keeping experienced workers on the job instead of disability.
everyone should be covered, but it cant be done both right and cheap.

January 27, 2023

today is st brigid's day, and it is now a national holiday in ireland.

Herstory is calling on all counties and diaspora centres across the world to illuminate for the first official national holiday on Brigid’s Day 2023. From the shadows into the light, this will be a joyous celebration of all Mná, our Celtic Goddess, Matron Saint and Imbolc, the ancient festival of Spring.

The Herstory programme is now live for Brigid’s Day 2023. Join us for a spectacular Festival of Light across Ireland from 27th January - 1st February. Discover the the Galway, Roscommon, Kildare, Clondalkin, and Donegal programmes. More will be announced soon.

Our new dedicated website for all things Brigid is now live - www.brigidsday.org - packed with events, activities, fascinating articles, art and more

https://www.herstory.ie/2023

pretty cool.

January 22, 2023

chgo radio legend lin brehmer dead.

Lin Brehmer, Our Best Friend in the Whole World, 1954-2023

It is with a heavy heart that we must inform you that we all lost our best friend. Lin Brehmer fought cancer as long as he could. He passed early this morning, peacefully, with his wife and son by his side. Tomorrow at 10am, his XRT family will celebrate the incredible life of our best friend in the whole world. We'll hold each other up through this heart-breaking time. Lin would want that. Take nothing for granted.
~Terri Hemmert

https://www.audacy.com/wxrt/Lin-Brehmer

no more at the link atm. all over twitter, tho.

January 21, 2023

y'all! i found a choir!

no idea how i managed to evade this knowledge this long, but apparently my hippy hood has a community choir. and they practice in a gorgeous old wpa field house.
a person who follows my farm on fb reached out to me after i was whining about how rough the plauge has been for me. trying to find other gardeners, cuz it’s time to admit i’m old.
so we just talked, and trying to figure out when to connect, she mentioned that tomorrow she has choir practice.
me- there’s a choir?
she- yes, the yada yada choir.
m- there’s a choir?
s- we practice once a week at xy field house.
m- there’s a choir?
s- do you sing?

you get the drift. she was on her way to dinner, but she offered to pick me up so i can check out the choir. ‘i had put my lessons on pause, cuz i’m broke af atm. coach is fine, but i’m not. he wont bill me anyway. but i’ve been in a shitty, worn down place. complicated money woes, and depression, and bullshit. and the plague.

my new pup is a pretty good antidote, trying to be the mom she deserves. so i walk her every day, and, gasp, talk to random ppl. not that many out in this cold weather, tho.

but a choir? the perfect antidote to the covid blues. meet at noon, too. most of my chances to sing are at night.
my voice lessons got me through the plague. a choir would be great to get me out of this funk.

January 12, 2023

gd cross post-

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100217553212

sickening. united ireland now.

January 12, 2023

man, it breaks my heart to see the trumpification of the whole gd planet.

big reason i’m sticking around on twitter is news from across the pond.
i so want to see a united ireland in my time. to read twitter, it’s on the way. in the real world, i have hope, but…

this kind of nonsense makes me want to

https://twitter.com/moneillsf/status/1613225020561723394

January 9, 2023

live link to debate on rules package- the assholes stuffed an abortion ban in the package!

what the actual fuck? pontificating about ‘shady’ practices that they are gonna stop. like not sticking unrelated stuff into must pass bills.
i’m not sure what they proposed exactly, but every dem is railing about abortion.