On this 82nd Anniversary of #DDay, I’d like to remember the late Medgar Evers, he and other Black soldiers who were there. He served to protect the freedom & democracy that we have today, only to get murdered by a KKK sniper in Mississippi for wanting & fighting for equal & voting rights.
Do I know all the words to the song? Yes
Did I learn them when I was 11 and wasn’t quite sure if making love and having sex were the same thing? Also yes
I used an Apple Music “for you” playlist to work out to, and while I’m not sure Boyz 2 Men’s “I’ll Make Love to You” sets an ideal workout pace, as a 45-year old, I’m not objecting.
Love it
Yesterday I was looking at the obituary of one of the veterans featured prominently in The War by Ken Burns. He had a particularly compelling story and I wanted to see what became of him.
He co-founded a Tea Party branch in 2009. I just…cannot.
Vanessa Carlton, A Thousand Miles.
I can smell the mall and feel the air conditioning on my skin.
Super cool that the grandfather I grew up in a house with,who wouldn't even talk about his time in France during WWII because of the horrors, fought for a country whose defense secretary is now IRL Hitlerposting from Normandy on the anniversary of D-Day.
Once I got yelled at by the attorney who argued the case—Catherine Rorabach, the first woman to argue in front of SCOTUS—and even though I’ve had research cited by SCOTUS since, that remains my coolest repro story.
(She wasn’t yelling b/c of me; she was yelling about inaction on climate change 🫠)
Just like we know most crimes are committed by mothers because of the way the crime rate is consistently lower on Mother’s Day.
The only way to get out from under all this shit is court reform.
It’s literally more important than anything else right now because any laws or rights that the chucklefucks in Congress deign to give people of color or queer people can (and will) be undone by the Supreme Court.