Julia Lodge disappeared in 1986. Her body was found in a cave in 2018. She'd like to know why. Julia's Heart-- available now.
(My pronouns are she/ her.)
My oldest sister passed away this morning. She's been ill for a long time and entered hospice a couple of weeks ago so it wasn't unexpected. Still, this makes four siblings gone in just over a year and the works is a very different place today.
RIP Bev.
@notcapnamerica
I saw someone comment that she was still an elderly grandmother and if she were black we'd all be up in arms.
If this had happened exactly like this but she were black they'd be praising the cop for his restraint & pointing to her as an example of why black people get shot.
@RayaKhedker
Can I weigh in as a writer here? My purpose is to tell you a story. If my words are getting into your brain and letting you paint pictures with your imagination, it doesn't matter if they're entering your mind via your eyes or ears. The communication is the important part.
@UrielsUniquity
@MelisaGillett
@CandieDeLong
My niece is convinced her youngest son is a reincarnation of her father-in-law, who died about a year before he was born. Just last week he saw a truck and said, "look! There's my truck." It looked like his grandfather's truck. He's never seen it.
@caro
Also? Why is the grandparent's cottage a "guest house"? If they're just visiting, why not put them up in the house? If they're living there why call it a guest house? They planning on them dying soon?
@mhdksafa
In college I worked with a lovely Iranian man who was paying his way through grad school with two jobs. Two drunk incoming freshmen harassed him at his fast food job the night before school started. They walked into their 1st class the next morning and he was their TA.
@notcapnamerica
A lot of people have mentioned Gacy. There's actually a Halloween-appropriate story about him. He was at a garden party where the hostess had hired a medium to give readings. The medium singled him out and warned the hostess he was evil. 1/2
@notcapnamerica
The hostess was highly offended. Like, "I'll have you know that is our very dear friend!"
Within a week or two he was arrested and the police started finding bodies under his (house. 2/2)
@raegldn
@SuedeEH_
Imagine the conversation she must have had when she called the cops.
"911? I'm being followed!"
"Who's following you?"
"Some black woman."
"And why do you think she's following you?"
"She's driving behind me!"
"Where are you?"
"On a busy road."
"Ma'am have you been drinking? "
@Dougindice
@RudyGiuliani
He's like the weird uncle who yells at the dog when you don't have a dog and forgets to zip his fly when he comes out of the restroom.
@RepJoeKennedy
He's right though. Maria killed about 30. Then nearly 3,000 more were murdered by the Trump administration through neglect and criminal negligence. Perhaps we should reclassify them that way. Thirty storm victims. 2,970 homicide victims.
@Rosalie79556167
@orbelisk
@gnuman1979
@PFTompkins
I had a little dog who loved to chase rabbits. One time one stopped running in front of him. He fell over it, then stood there barking at it to try to get it to run again.
@michelle_byoung
I think a lot of white people don't realize that the whole town doesn't have to be full of violent racists for it to be unsafe. All it takes is a few good ol' boys who know where to go to ground or one cop willing to look the other way.
@peterstafford
Years ago my cat Toby disappeared. My mom and I spent about 2 hours walking around outside in the rain calling him, worrying because it sounded like there were coyotes down in the woods. Finally gave up & came in. Eventually noticed him watching us from on top of the TV armoire.
@eleanorkpenny
Once, when I worked fast food, I dropped a penny and it landed on edge on the curb. I took it as a sign and tried to bob down to get it. Lost my balance and fell headfirst out the drive thru window.
#SecondCivilWarLetters
Dear Mother,
The war is going well. The red hats were entrenched between Chik-Fil-A and Hobby Lobby so we left them there and went for tacos.
All my love,
Lori
@PhilippeReines
I lay awake sobbing the night of the election because I was afraid I wouldn't be strong enough to fight my own government and stop another holocaust. Just because you were willfully obtuse it doesn't mean the rest of us were.
I BEGGED my family not to have a big Thanksgiving dinner. My oldest sister begged them not to. (It's her oldest daughter and her girls and their families.) Now two of my great-nieces are sick, my 5 yo great-great-nephew is sick, and my niece's husband has a fever. 😢
@JoyceWhiteVance
I remember a a child reading books about kids who weren't like me. It's like the whole world opening up when you can look through other people's eyes. It's both sad and infuriating that small-minded people would deny their children that opportunity.
@AoifeMFoley
@MaryPhelanMP
@RuthRing
Years ago I was living in an old house with gaps at the windows and a bird got in. My cat caught it. I wrestled it away from her and took it out and let it go.
When I came back in, she smelled my breath.
@MysterySolvent
Ivanka is wearing curtains and Melania, apparently, has draped herself in a throw rug. Is this how they're planning to steal everything from the White House when they leave? I wonder if they leave hotel rooms wearing the coffee maker as a hat?
@KristinLyerly
You should tell them this during your meeting:
"There are [x number] of you. There are more than 60k of us and we represent millions of patients. We will not be silenced and you trifle with us at your peril."
@WriterWarrior
Did it never occur to them that they should have always been trying to reach 50 year old Black women? Focusing exclusively on a limited demographic that happened to vote first only gave them the illusion of winning. That's why they kept losing by the end of the race.
@meganmuircoyle
My sister's niece by marriage was about 4 when she asked in on her mom changing her pad so her mom explained it for her. She didn't react then but a couple hours later ran in crying hysterically. "I ain't never had a period! Mama I'm pregnant!" 🤣🤣🤣
@kellyekell
Maybe he should smile more. Also, what's he wearing to the interviews? And is that his real hair? Maybe he should tone it down. The women hiring might take him more seriously if he looked more professional. 🙄
@ravenscimaven
Decades ago when I was in college and working fast food we found the number for the local fbi office and all the girls working drive through would give that out to guys who asked.
@Spoookygh0st
@yolian_ogbu
Keep wasp and hornet spray handy. Aim for the eyes and nose. You'll probably still have to call for someone to deal with the intruders though. ☹
@DougtheLawyer
@mharvey816
... he said I failed it. He acted like he knew I'd done it and spent a good hour trying to bully me into admitting it, but I was telling the truth and refused to change my story. I was terribly upset but I never heard from him again.
@MollyJongFast
Tbh in having a really hard time with seasonal depression this year. I think because it's layered on top of year-long covid depression and anxiety and frosted with an attempted coup. ☹
@Goss30Goss
@varindersingh24
Rotgut moonshine brewed in a still made using an old radiator that had lead in the core and was poisoning everyone who drank it.
@DuckDuckGo
@mguariglia
Sounds like something that will generate so much data it will just create a quagmire of unusable information, with the exception of anyone the police decide they want to watch. I.E. warrantless surveillance via subject's camera *or one on a neighboring property*.
@notcapnamerica
This one was in a science project submarine built by the kid who didn't pay attention in class out of random bits of plastic and duct tape.
I stole this picture from a clickbait site a few minutes ago. The clickbait site said, basically, "these wildcat kittens are cute but you should let them be because their mom is probably nearby."
In fact, she's in the picture. Do you see her?
@rumi_don
It's terribly old-fashioned but my grandmother's name (d. 1925) was Maude, and there was a Bea Arthur sitcom where she played a very progressive character of that name in the 1970s.
@realDonaldTrump
This must be a shock to you. You've got voter suppression, massive disinformation campaigns, Dejoy sabotaging the mail, and we STILL overcame your machinations.
(That long word at the end means all the stuff you did to cheat. 😉)
@MattGertz
The fact that, unlike him, they didn't sell their souls doesn't mean they don't have them. It means that (again, unlike him) they have integrity.
@cmclymer
Look at the replies in this thread. I mean REALLY look. Everyone whining about solidarity and going "why can't we all just get alooong?" has something in common. They're white. Meanwhile poc are saying, "we are literally dying because of racism in this country. LISTEN to us."
@reallynottrmpy
@RossKneeDeep
Napoleon: "where did you learn that?" (gymnastic move in a fight.)
Ilya: "at the University of Georgia."
Napoleon: "you went to the University of Georgia?"
Ilya: "the University of Georgia in the Ukraine."
IK was Ukrainian y'all!
@JunkiePlay
I don't know what the whole "don't let him board the flight" was supposed to be about but I googled this story. The soldier was crying because he was watching his wife give birth over the phone. He'd meant to be there but his flight kept getting delayed.
@DougtheLawyer
@mharvey816
Years ago a sizable amount of money disappeared from my cash drawer when I was working drive thru at a fast food joint and the manager was just going to write me up for being short. After I insisted we call the police the cop suspected ME. I did take the polygraph and...
@ThePubliusUSA
@YoungerLorna
Patrick Mahomes led the initiative to get Arrowhead Stadium made available as a voting site and he and the team owners split the cost of purchasing voting machines.
@GeorgeTakei
Tolkien wrote these books to serve as a kind of British folklore and recent discoveries regarding generics have revealed that Cheddar Man, the oldest known human remains in Great Britain, were of a Black man. So it's actually really fitting to have Black Hobbits.
@westofscenic
He makes people angry and those angry people make innocent people dead. Ask her what she uses to try to wash the blood from her hands. Because it's there.
@thedelitesite
I Googled it rather than clicking. It looks like salt down the drain mostly applies to garbage disposals. It acts as a gentle, organic abrasive. Dump salt in, run it for a minute, rinse with hot water.
Best way to clear a clog is to dump Coke or Pepsi in & let it sit.
@CharMack2017
@LawlessPrez
@essenviews
Yeah probably, come to think of it.
OH! I KNOW! I KNOW!
Peanut butter! Invented by George Washington Carver! My hero!
(It figures that we legit have something to be proud of and it's because of a POC.)
@DanDanTransient
I really want to know what archeologists 2,000 years from now are going to think when they find the remains of the Disney solar farm that's shaped like Mickey Mouse.
@notcapnamerica
I think he should choose either Kamala or Harris or
@douglasemhoff
's wife or that lady who was the AG in California or the only Black woman currently serving in the Senate or a bad bitch or America's cool aunt.
Plenty of choices.
This morning my oldest brother, at the age of 80, escaped the confines of his frail and damaged body and joined his only son, our parents, two of our brothers and one of our nephews beyond the last horizon.
R.I.P. Don Hicks