A neighbor of Katie's came by canvassing for the Republicans. No mask. Really bitchy. Argued with our dad. Giada actually barked and she NEVER barks. Guess it takes a bitch to know one. :p ( Read more... )

So I found a dumpster fire to cross stitch! This year really sucks! Isobel agrees with me.


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In just 24 hours, there have been two deadly mass shootings in America. 20 dead and 26 injured in an El Paso Wal-Mart yesterday morning, and overnight at least 10 dead and 16 injured in a Dayton, Ohio bar. This is insane.

A mass shooting at a city government building in Virginia Beach. 12 dead, 5 injured. Shooter also died after a gunfight with police. Apparently, he was a long time employee who had been fired that day. Thoughts and prayers incoming, with no solutions in sight.

I had a nice Easter with the family. Church was lovely, but the choir's anthem was a near disaster. I still don't know what went wrong or how we held it together ( Read more... )

At least 49 killed and 50 injured in a mass shooting terror attack at two mosques in Christchurch,
New Zealand. The shooter live streamed most of the attack.

https://instagram.com/p/BvCAhizge7K

Less than two weeks after the murders at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, there's been another massacre. This time, it was a bar in Thousand Oaks, California. Twelve dead. Most of them young, because it was college night. One of the dead survived the Las Vegas shooting last year. They've only just finished burying their dead in Pittsburgh ( Read more... )

Just this week: A white man shot and killed two black people in Louisville (at the Kroger where my cousin Sarah shops). Spared a white shopper because "whites don't shoot whites". Throughout the week, pipe bombs were sent to Trump critics- including former Presidents Obama and Clinton, CNN's New York headquarters, and members of Congress. The "MAGA ( Read more... )

Another mass shooting in a school. Santa Fe High School in Texas. Eight students and two teachers are dead. A dozen are hospitalized, including an armed guard who is in critical condition. The shooter was taken alive. He apparently pulled fire alarms and left explosives. What the hell is wrong with people ( Read more... )

A mass school shooting in Broward County, Florida. 17 dead, at least 14 injured. Shooter was a 19 year old former student who had been expelled ( Read more... )