"But the bad guys have guns!!"

The bad guys have guns because we make it so fucking easy to get them. The cartels in Mexico are armed by guns from the US. We export our violence.

Again, I speak as a public employee. We always wonder, "Is this the day we'll get it?" And that's no fucking way to go through life. We just want to work.

No other advanced nation has the gun violence we have. None. And they are no less "free".

Yeah. Fuck guns. Your "right to bear arms" for whatever reason doesn't trump my right to go to work and wonder if the motherfucker I kick out today won't come back with a fucking AR-15 to kill everyone.

And yes, as a public librarian, I worry about this every fucking day.

There's gonna be a cleansing rain coming. And I'm here for it.

And so it begins.

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Wordle and the crossword is not worth it.

Really, if you still subscribe to the New York Times, WTF is wrong with you?

Why does this feel like the end of a Godfather film where all family business is being taken care of?

https://apnews.com/article/trump-simes-russia-election-fbi-f0b0fe681c821f735c4e951736f041c8

Jesus.

https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/figueroa-corridor-human-trafficking-south-los-angeles/3503087/

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@ATXJane @GeezerWench
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Look.

We have a heat warning here in SoCal through Friday.

But at least it isn't Phoenix, which has had 100 straight days of +100F/38C temperatures.

WHY DOES ANYONE LIVE THERE?!

Ugh. I just helped a patron print out flyers for her lost chihuahua. Poor thing.

A woman who went to Howard U code switches! News at 11!

I do NOT handle salmon in suspicious circumstances.

#dogsofcoso

Good evening.

I regret nothing.