Loay Alshareef: It is noble to mourn innocent Palestinian lives lost in war, just as it is noble to mourn innocent Israeli lives. But it is neither noble nor compassionate to support a hate movement disguised as a humanitarian cause one that openly calls for the annihilation of an entire people.

What’s wrong with this line up www.instagram.com/p/Da0rUCaJ5b...

1 of the reason’s people adored Elisabeth is her unapologetic honesty and humility. Talking about the business and how intimidating come in contact with those who have mastered it. Maybe talking to dogs and horses does that😇 Happy celebrate the horse day. Support the no more carriage horse efforts

Here’s a cute reminder. Keep it playful you’ll last longer and enjoy life more. Definitely be a hugger!

Well the culture wars exploded on PEN in a screed of falsehoods by a queer author today. I will only say I stand with PEN freedom of speech and points of view. The kind of hate speech displayed by said faction is not in keeping with PEN’S founding principles. It very upsetting and sobering.

What’s in a word? I always vet words in the context of origins, uses, objectives and critical thinking. Don’t you? 4 example, True segregation, exists where communities R entirely ethnically cleansed as Gaza, where not a single Jew is permitted to live unless they are being held hostage.

As promised re: what I spent my 4th of July weekend doing. I reread the miniature constitution I keep hand to be sure I am grounded. And I went to se Have you ever been a member of the Communist Party etc. HUAC. The audience filled up & we patriots renewed our belief’s to celebrate 4 USA resisters

2 continue: follow the $ I find myself fed up with the whole field of left right political choices offered me. I tend toward Abel Ashes’ feelings “Call it accelerationism & MAGA & DSA are on the same team whether they know it or not.” I am leaning centrist socially progressive and fiscally sane.

Prayers for Bobby. Y has it taken this long! My Miami Confidental asks this question again & again. Writing it is gut wrenching because it unearths so many dear, kind, beautiful friends killed by Christian Hate, Heterohate, Religious hate and scapegoating. www.instagram.com/reel/DZnksSs...

Criticize MY country as you will and my rejoinder will be the same as Barbara Jorden’s ““My faith in the Constitution is whole; it is complete; it is total,” she said. “And I am not going to sit here and be an idle spectator to the diminution, the subversion, the destruction, of the Constitution.”

Well our parade got rained on but between the drops we did our Homage to Emma Stebbins. In days of yore before all the commercialism people would have flocked . Not now!

They just closed it and sent our money to Hamas and Hezbollah. While sentencing 8 musicians and a lead singer to 79 lashes each for an internet performance. So reliable and trust worthy barbarian. A typical DJT deal and no oil. What went wrong! Fart of the deal chump. As bad as they are

Thank heavens 4 the Obamas. As compared 2 the cruelty that becomes entertainment. Public office as performance. Violence becomes aestheticized. Loyalty 2 institutions gives way 2 loyalty to a person. The constitution, courts, elections, & official procedures may still exist, but in name only

We have been had-yet again! many dictators are interlocked and complicit: Putin, Xi, Netanyahu, Mohammed bin Salman, Sisi, Erdogan, Bukele, Milei, Kim, and the Iranian mullahs, all current parts of the Trump/Epstein rape traffickers, gun runners, drug dealers, money launderers.

I have a question who are the DSA? Where do they get their big funding from? Who is behind them and what do they want? I hate machines in politics but they are the ones our want to be powers count on. The puppet master’s who rig elections. Does anyone know where the big bucks come from?

Florida predictable in every way. And DiSantis and his evangelicals are battling every pleasure loving, non thought police individuals in the entire state. Ron DeSantis declares June “Faith & Family Month” to honor “Christian faith” & “Biblical” families. Vote the whole GOP out and breathe free

We were founded on ideals and aspirations by fathers who had a major blind spot. So edits. “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all are created equal, that they are endowed with certain unalienable Rights, Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” Lets see in in Nov. we can get them.

I am a free subscriber to several Substacks. I can’t comment which means I am locked out of conversations I might contribute something to. What’s the sense. Writers have to pay bills but you could as a writer suggested which might allow spreading the support

I love this. We need all the history/herstory/they stories we can get to own the simple fact that we have a heterogeneous heritage as human beings. “OUT Museum aims to document stories of LGBTQ Chinese, Chinese immigrants, and diaspora communities. People do not belong in closets-some belong in jail

Wait until she gets to Sashihood

I saw the Frida opera. Loved it. The conductor Nézet-Séguin said of the debunked T. Chalamet’s claim that “no one cares about [opera] anymore.” The situation is the opposite, he said, with an audience that’s growing and diversifying, not shrinking.

Tom Digby made an excellent Case as 2 why Trumpers R the way they R. Based on the 2 Russian long time immigrant writers I recently confronted he is spot on. Daddy & Daddy’s values R their security & safety. 2 threaten Daddy Trump is 2 attack their country the way they perceive it regardless.

Who are you? Can you be you without some telling you differently to be what they need you to be?

Baudelair “My beauty, come rest on this enamored heart”

Every man jack against abortion or the pill should register, oh I forgot they did as Maga GOP. The solution is simple since theyveant to play but never pay.

How do I say how disgusted I am by the corruption we R struggling through. If we lived under a Department of Justice that actually gave a shit about lawTrump, a 34 times convicted felon & an alleged rapist by 31 women, would be investigated into why he hasn’t paid the millions he owes Carrol.

A bit of trivia to lighten your load of political crap.

I am a great admirer of Herman Hesse’s work. I have returned to his writing repeatedly to find my ground when politics or betrayals made me lose it. “Without the writing of books, there is no history, there is no concept of humanity.” Hermann Hesse

Another great loss for me Marty Kreloff posted that Ruth Shack has died. She was my friend and mentor, a Metro Commissioner, an art collector, a noted gay rights activist, and the President of the Miami Foundation, among many other things. Beginning in 1975. I was writing about her today. Vibes