12 A terrific sendup of Les Misérables gacked from shelly_rae. The thing that struck me most about this is that you couldn’t imagine the McCain campaign making it, or anyone making it about the McCain campaign.
Important piece by @PhilKlay https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/opinion/us-military-targeted-killings.html?smid=url-share
“Don’t Talk to Me About ‘Civility.’ On Tuesday Morning Those Children Were Alive.” https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/25/opinion/roxane-gay-uvalde-school-shooting.html?referringSource=articleShare
Multitudes of children went to school today feeling lucky that the end of the school year is in sight & they will only have to worry for a few days/weeks more about being butchered in their classrooms, martyrs to the misconstrued 2nd amendment.
“If you address the madness of gun violence in America, then you have to acknowledge the intellectual and moral shallowness of the gun rights position adopted by Williamson and others of his ilk.” https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/05/kevin-williamson-uvalde-school-shooting-guns-used.html
11y saw me crying and asked if it was about Uvalde.
“Yeah,” I said. “It’s really sad and I worry about y’all.”
“It’s okay, Dad,” he said to me, “we train for this.”
Fuck. I’m broken. He’s in sixth grade. A math nerd. A gamer. He’s not a goddamn Marine. He “trains” for *this?*
