What have I signed away?

[sovay]

"It's just that the balls quotient of everything has become distressingly high, you know?" I said to spatch.

Especially since I had written a letter to Mayor Wu and the Boston City Council about it, it was nice to read that Boston has declared itself an LGBTQIA2s+ sanctuary city. At the moment it is primarily a statement rather than an implementation of policies, but it is a statement I am happier to see the city have decided to make than not.

Tonight I wrote letters to both of my senators and to the minority leader of the Senate whose twenty-four-hour about-face on blocking the further democracy-destroying Republican-pushed funding bill certainly didn't help the optics of Democratic Jell-O in action. I hope they are read and make any difference. The brakes-off feel has been only accelerating.

How is this year going? I haven't even made hamantashn for Purim. I did manage to light the candle for my grandmother's yahrzeit. I saw some beautifully sun-fired birch bark while out walking and had a conversation which improved when it turned from contemporary politics to Phanerozoic extinction events. The lunar eclipse to which I have been looking forward for months may be clouded out. I want my time back inside my own head.

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[gwynnega]

Both my senators (Schiff and Padilla) are publicly against cloture and the funding bill, but I called them again this evening and asked them to do whatever they can to convince other Democrats not to vote yes. Ugh.

[sovay]

Both my senators (Schiff and Padilla) are publicly against cloture and the funding bill, but I called them again this evening and asked them to do whatever they can to convince other Democrats not to vote yes. Ugh.

Mine made similar statements, but I wrote in much the same way to ask them to get as many of their colleagues as necessary to do the right thing. Schumer may have passed beyond the reach of a craniorectomy, but I asked him anyway. I really feel like I am—like everyone I know is—living in a hostage situation.

[gwynnega]

I told Schumer that anyone who votes yes will be primaried.

[sovay]

I told Schumer that anyone who votes yes will be primaried.

Into the sun.