24/7 Reality

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Last night I was driving home around 10 and brooding over the fact that I'd just watched my Seattle Storm, in a game at Climate Pledge Arena, pull defeat from the jaws of victory.

Suddenly I saw multiple flashing lights ahead on the other side of the road. I drove by carefully, as there was nobody directing traffic. Only a mile later did it dawn on me that I'd probably just driven past an ICE raid on a home.

The pieces fell into place:  the one helmeted "cop" I saw didn't look worried, and if this had been a crime scene, I wouldn't have been allowed to get so close.

I realized I was distressingly slow on the uptake because I don't have to live in terror over ICE coming to kidnap me. That display of American ugliness isn't part of my daily or nightly reality. Other displays are, but not the ICE follies.

Unless Trump and his parasites decide to start deporting everyone born in New Jersey.

This Week's Quote

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I think he is a more mature, more disciplined version of himself than he was in his first term.

Amazon's Jeff Bezos praising Donald Trump

Source:  The Hill

Donald the Don

 

The Uncomfy Truth

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Yesterday was "National Honor Our LGBT Elders Day," and the organization that supports queer seniors here in Seattle hosted a "Silver in the Rainbow Dance Party."

I attended, accepting the reality that at 62 I belonged there. Though all evening I kept saying, "I can't believe I'm at an event co-sponsored by AARP."

A Classic

 

This Week's Quote

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Trump brought Lara and Eric, Elon and Marco Rubio with him to China. It's similar to when the early settlers brought smallpox to America.

Paul Rudnick

Source:  X

A Hero Passes

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Jason Collins, the NBA's first out gay player, has died of brain cancer at the age of 47.

In a 2013 essay he penned for Sports Illustrated, Collins wrote, "I'm a 34-year-old NBA center. I'm black. And I'm gay. I didn't set out to be the first openly gay athlete playing in a major American team sport. But since I am, I'm happy to start the conversation."

That conversation about gay men in sports hasn't stopped since, and we owe Collins a great debt. It's a shame he didn't live longer to see more and more jocks come out. But at least he died knowing he set a ferocious pick on homophobia.