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Fuck This Bullshit!

For the past year or so we've had a guy come out once a month to trim the hedges, weed the flower beds, and mow the front and side yards . He usually brings a team of two additional guys and between the three of them they bang it all out in about a half hour.  (It would take me that long just to mow the front yard.) He charges a very reasonable $60 for the service, and I tip them 20%.

We usually discontinue service for the winter, since the lawn goes dormant, but once things started warming up in March and everything was growing again, I started the service back up. For the first mow of the season, he had his usual crew with him. The second time I noticed it was just him and I asked what happened to his workers. He said, "They just don't show up."  This week it was the same. I asked him again what happened. He just shrugged. "It's ICE, isn't it? It's all so stupid!" He nodded and said, "Yes."

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Expand The Court

The only way it's going to happen is to get a solid Democratic majority in both the House and Senate. THIS CAN BE DONE if we just get people off their asses!

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Happy Juneteenth!

From Mock Paper Scissors:

Guys, this is a big, eff'ing deal:

Archivist of the United States Dr. Colleen Shogan announced earlier today that the National Archives plans to place the Emancipation Proclamation on permanent display in the Rotunda of the National Archives Building in Washington, DC.

This puts The Emancipation Proclamation on the same footing as the other foundational documents: The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and The Bill of Rights:

"When President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, he wrote that 'all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free,''' Shogan quoted. "Although the full privileges of freedom were not immediately bestowed upon all Americans with Lincoln's order, I am proud that the National Archives will enshrine this seminal document for public display adjacent to our nation's founding documents. Together, they tell a more comprehensive story of the history of all Americans and document progress in our nation's continuous growth toward a more perfect Union," she said."

And this story puts the significance of having the Emancipation Proclamation in situ side-by-side with the others :

Thousands queue to see the Emancipation Proclamation and General Order No. 3

We're far from a perfect union, I get that; our aspirations are greater than our realities. I can feel the  ground shake a little bit; something has shifted. The culture has moved, and though we still have a long way to go, today we moved together into a better future.

It's a baby step, but it is an important one.

Happy Juneteenth!