When I get trolled by a Tr*mp zombie–which is often, as I’m politically outspoken on social media and on TV–I write a blistering response. But I know all too* well that it’s not only unwise but unsafe to expend precious resistance energy on this Agent Orange-infected, poorly articulated hatred. So I breathe deeply, delete the response before posting it, and send love to that person’s highest self. Lately this is not just a daily practice these days. It is an hourly one. Ameriker.More of Lisa Rosman reviewing every film! I can't even count how many times I say variations of this statement. QUEEN @rosmance pic.twitter.com/OnoBUNxdce
— Bruce Jones (@HighSeasBruce) February 11, 2017
I saw a bald eagle for the very first time when I was in Maine last weekend. I rarely use the word awesome but it was awesome: strong, self-possessed, appropriately peremptory. Because I believe birds channel energies from the other side, I asked this spirit guide of the United States to protect what was good about our country. Today, in the first rousing defeat of the Trump Oligarchy, the Ninth Circuit of Appeals unanimously refused to reinstate the Muslim Ban. The decision even name-checked Ex parte Mitsuye Endo, in which the Supreme Court ruled the U.S. government could not detain a “concededly loyal” U.S. citizen in response to the incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II. And as I write this, GOP town hall meetings all across the land are erupting with justified anger. Today the checks and balances of these allegedly United States worked, and I feel certain that eagle is proud. Maybe we lost so many beloveds last year so they could better serve in avian form. That Prince bird’s gonna be something else.