That closet has several thick oak doors, and it SUCKS!

 I wish my daughter felt safe to be herself, but outside the house, it's rural Texas out there, and it ain't safe. It ain't safe at all in this part of Texas to be visibly trans. If you don't "pass", you best stay presenting what your birth determination says you should dress like. And Lis does not pass. She's beautiful, absolutely beautiful, but even if she dressed as a girl usually dresses, they would spot her and make her life hell. Or make her life... NOT. Texas.

I wish she could afford to move to at least Austin, but on less than $800 a month income (disability) that ain't happening. At least there's liberals there. 😛 But ideally, I would see her in the San Francisco Bay Area, with her unusual sibling, my 34 year old estranged kid. However, I think those two would really be good for each other. And Lis would be a lot safer. Sadly, I can't say "safe". Nowhere seems to be all that safe for trans folks. Some places are better than others, but none of them are wondefully safe.

If you're trans, a lot of the world paints a target on your face and on your heart. And that just sucks so damn hard. If you don't feel safe, then do what you are able to do in order to stay safe. And safe also includes safe within yourself, not hurting yourself by staying hidden, if it's making you absolutely miserable.

It's making Lis miserable, and I want to help her and I don't know what the hell to do. I've told her that if she wants to dress pretty around the house, even if she doesn't want to dress that way in downtown Fort Worth, she is more than welcome to. I've offered to show her ways to braid her long hair. When she came out to me and Sam, I took her to get her ears pierced. I just don't know what the hell to do to be more supportive of her and help her be happier. It hurts, to see her moping and moping and rarely smiling. She was such a happy go lucky kid.

If wishes were fishes, then beggars would ride, as I always told the kids when they wanted the impossible to attain, like the latest most brand new gaming console that can't be had for love nor money, and even if you found one, it would be $750 and you can not spend that on games.

Reblogging Stacie Rose - It's about power

Yesterday, the Supreme Court heard arguments about trans girls in girls’ sports.

Let’s stop pretending this is a good-faith debate.

The political right is openly demanding that two opposite things be true at the same time, and they don’t even care anymore if anyone notices.

Reblogging Occupy Democrats: And This Bird You Cannot Chain...

Occupy Democrats ·

BREAKING: Trump MELTS DOWN on factory floor, shouts “F*CK YOU!” and flips off worker who yelled “PEDOPHILE PROTECTOR!”

Donald Trump’s carefully choreographed “working man” photo-op at a Detroit Ford plant went completely off the rails — and straight into the gutter — when the president responded to a factory worker’s shout with a profanity and a raised middle finger.

While touring the Ford River Rouge complex in Dearborn, Michigan ahead of a speech on the economy, the sitting president was heckled by a worker who shouted “pedophile protector” as Trump walked above the assembly line. Instead of ignoring it, addressing it, or acting remotely presidential, Trump did what he does best: he lost his temper.

Video from the scene shows Trump yelling back “F--- you!”, pointing angrily — and then escalating by flipping the worker the middle finger. Yes, the president of the United States gave a blue-collar autoworker the bird on camera during a public appearance.

So much for “respecting American workers.”

The shout referenced Trump’s long-documented past association with Jeffrey Epstein, the disgraced financier and convicted sex offender whose name still haunts Trump’s orbit as questions swirl over the slow release of Epstein-related records. Trump has denied wrongdoing and insists he cut ties with Epstein years ago after a falling-out at Mar-a-Lago. He has not been charged with any crime connected to Epstein.

But none of that explains why a president who claims to be “strong” and “in control” instantly unraveled over a single shouted phrase.

Instead of rising above it, Trump descended into a full-blown tantrum — cursing and gesturing obscenely at a worker whose taxes help pay his salary. This wasn’t a private moment. It wasn’t a hot mic slip. It was a filmed, public display of rage and contempt.

TMZ summed it up bluntly: Donald Trump turned into “Donald Grump,” unleashing an F-bomb and flipping the “bald eagle” in response to criticism. That’s not leadership. That’s insecurity on full display.

And let’s not miss the irony: this happened at a Ford plant — the very kind of workplace Trump loves to use as a political backdrop while attacking unions, undermining worker protections, and pushing policies that benefit billionaires over labor.

When challenged, Trump didn’t defend his record. He didn’t correct the accusation. He didn’t show empathy. He flipped off a worker and cursed him out. This is who he is when the cameras catch him off-script: thin-skinned, volatile, and openly hostile to dissent.

The irony couldn’t be richer. Trump claims to stand with workers, yet when one speaks out, he responds with contempt. He claims moral outrage against his critics, yet answers serious accusations with a middle finger.

Detroit didn’t get an economic message that day. It got a reminder of exactly who Donald Trump is when the cameras are rolling — and when they’re not.

Presidential? Not even close. The middle finger wasn’t just aimed at one man on the factory floor. It was aimed at anyone who dared to question him.

Please like and share to show the world the contempt that Trump displays toward anyone who dares to challenge him.

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Reblogging Michael Jochum - Clots and Prayers

It's extremely unfair to speculate about Trump's health just because he’s elderly and can't form linear thoughts and has the diet of a first grader who won the lottery and his flesh has been changing color like autumn leaves.

Even the most monstrous structures carry a weakness inside them, a small rebellion under pressure. Similar to a blood clot in the physical body. I believe in that weakness. Go, clot. Do your work

Clots and prayers

I Will NOT Go Quietly!

 

This is what they're LEGALLY permitted to do.

But do not be fooled. They do NOT follow the fucking law.

If you are confronted by them, be very aware that they do not give a FUCK about you, the law, being civil, being decent, or anything else.

They're gonna have to shoot me down, because I will not go quietly.

SOS MOTHERFUCKERS!!

 

Walz has the National Guard on standby in Minneapolis.

ICE is flooding the city, over 2000 ICE thugs, which is larger than the Minneapolis PD by a HUGE amount (Minn. has between 570 and 590 police officers). They are beating citizens, doing door to door searches (which is OUTSIDE their purview!), arresting citizens and legal residents, brutalizing them, then refusing them medical aid. They have murdered at least one woman, and who the fuck KNOWS what they have done behind closed doors where they won't let congressmembers go, even though the LAW says they have to let the representatives in. 

At some point, there will be open warfare in the streets. It may be in Minneapolis. It may be Chicago. It may be Los Angeles or New York or Miami or Dallas.

But it's going to happen, because Trump WANTS it to happen. He's fucking wallowing in this filth he's created.

And when it happens, a lot of innocent citizens are going to get hurt, and some will die.

We need help. Desperately.

Zentangles r Us

 

This is my first zentangle in seven years. I am getting back into the art form.

Much Butt Toy. So Prostate Stimulator!

Demi Moore with her Golden Globe.

They really need to change that design. It's so very...

Sex toy shaped. Not currently being sold, but after this fucking photo of Demi looking delighted by it, they will start making them and selling them. 

Who the hell passed on that design?

Adolescent Adoration and Adult Music Taste

Eric Faulkner of the Bay City Rollers was such a handsome man in the 70s, and still is, really. 

Even when I was ten and had just discovered boys, I leaned toward older boys who had a more MAN look to them than that pretty adolescent boy stage where they could just as easily be a girl. For instance, all my friends wanted to marry Luke Skywalker. I wanted me some Han Solo. Han looks like a MAN, not a teenage girl.