Wandering Adventure Party

The mortal coil that Dick Cheney kicked off today introduced me to crab rave.

🥳🥳🥳

Thank you, internets.

*Gov Shutdown Call to Action: Support Your Local Food Bank*

"I work in human services, specifically on programs that help our most vulnerable neighbors.

One of the programs my agency administers is CalFresh, or food stamps. This program is funded by the fed and administered by states.

The current Administration has decided to not allow USDA to use its contingency funds to continue funding food stamps in November through the shutdown; this means that California will not have the money to feed 55 million people throughout California.

It also means that food banks will see unprecedented need.

I am reaching out to encourage everyone to donate to our local food banks in November to help those families who will be seeking food because their food stamps have been cut off.

While it can be helpful to donate food, the most helpful thing is to donate money if you can- the food banks can use that to purchase large quantities of bulk items and what they purchase will go a lot farther than donated food."

I think some folks legit struggle with how to be a neighbor. They don't have a model for it.

My model was my dad. He talked with everyone on our block: the racist dude, the drug dealers, the drop outs, the single moms, the snooty bougie folks, the old ladies and uncles.

He mowed the lawns of the shut in; he dropped off extra turkey packages for families; he showed up in court to keep someone's sons out of jail.

When the first immigrant family moved in on the block and everyone was grumbling my dad was the FIRST person to loudly hang out on his porch and yell hello to the Mexican family next door.

Sure; my dad was a pastor, and that practice of caring for a congregation was his ethical foundation. But he was also like this before he had a church.

There was NEVER a drive by on our street. Not a single gang flare up.

Because my dad neighbored the fuvk out of that block.

Shit is bonkers in the world right now.

Someone asked: What can I do?

Maybe because it's a gorgeous Sunday and I woke up singing This Is The Day (a praise song from my youth) but I suddenly thought: Be a good neighbor.

Just....Be a good neighbor, dude.

I'm reading the graphic adaptation of Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz's *Indigenous People's History of the United States.*

(Don't judge me. My attention span is for shit.)

The point it makes about the tools and innovations of colonial Othering and oppression, privatization of public goods, militaristic quelling of domestic opposition (directed by the Church, even), displacement+relocation being perfected by the end of the 15th Century was a mind blower.

I mean I *know* this has happened before. But seeing clearly how Europe perfected this violence on their own people FIRST then exported it to the Americas and elsewhere -- how fucking sick is that.

And this is the 'heritage' Stephen Miller invokes.

#SettlerColonialism

Today's pull.

I should have paid more attention when my antifa Ex would info dump about Groypers and all the far Right infighting after sex.

But it sounded complicated.
And crazy.

So I just enjoyed the afterglow, dozed off, and let him dump.

Remember that knee-slapping thread I had about Gavin Newsom and how folks needed to look *deeply within* and interrogate their politics?

WTF.