Al Tucker
- Work Status
- Retired Art Teacher
- Hobbies
- Plants, Biking, Guitar, Golf and Cooking
- Politics
- Left - way left
- I'd rather be in
- Ireland
Flew in from that other place. Very Glad to be here, people are central to social media that works.
Joined Apr 2022
Trump picks Rep. Elise Stefanik as ambassador to the United Nations.
That's a big ole FU to the world!
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In my continuing efforts to #DoSomething to help those who will be harmed by the incoming administration, I’ve started a monthly donation to the American Immigration Council. They’ve got a 97 rating on Charity Navigator and are doing important work to protect immigrants’ rights and educate the public about the importance of immigrants to our economy and our national identity. Last month, they issued this eye-opening report on the implications of mass deportation.
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/research/mass-deportation
The corporate insurrection of 2024
#politics
https://open.substack.com/pub/popularinformation/p/the-corporate-insurrection-of-2024
After 2.5 months it's finally raining in my town in the Philly suburbs. Let it Rain!
Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear. The more things change the more they stay the same.
This memory popped up this morning.
#politics
Attended a memorial tribute for my high school classmate, Mari Steed, yesterday. Mari's footprint on this planet was enormous. There are real heroes on this planet. Mari was one of them. She came to America in the early 60s carrying the doll in this picture. She went out wearing the hat with honor. Part of her story is linked.
Gártha my dear friend.
https://www.phillymag.com/news/2013/05/23/woman-exposed-ireland-magdalene-laundries-asylum/
One rightfully angry hero. No one could feel his despair like he does.
I will follow Karen’s lead. Great post
https://substack.com/@ndfb4me/note/c-75981171
This from the Guardian:
First laugh I’ve had since the election – Emmanuel Macron, to Trump: “Ready to work together as we have done for four years. With your convictions and with mine” (Orbán, Zelenskyy, Macron and European leaders respond to Trump’s win, 6 November).
Forty-five years later this man is still teaching me. It's a blessing.
An old teacher of mine from high school just shared this. Resonated with me.
In early October I was in Nashville to celebrate the life of John Prine. My wife and I went to the Johnny Cash museum and then had lunch in the bar connected to it. While watching some baseball at the bar an ad for Kamala Harris came on the TV. A white woman sitting next to us made a face of such utter distain at the mere look at VP Harris' face. That look scared me and it's one I'll never forget. That was my first doubt that women would coalesce for their daughters. It keeps playing in my mind.
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@MLClark Please let them know it was white and it was women and may those women who voted for him continue to be ruled by their dumb ass white men. Tired of tiptoeing around difficult subjects, it is what it is.
Al Tucker
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Black men voted against black women.
Hispanics voted to deport other Hispanics.
White women voted against the rights of their daughters and granddaughters.
This is us. This is America.
Face it.
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15+ million democrats decided to sit this out?
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Don't ask what Democrats are doing wrong.
The answer is nothing.
What is wrong is an apparent appetite in this nation for incompetence, drama, perfidy, scandal, ouitright crime, hijinks, and general fuckery.
It's like a pantomime of stupidity.
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(false alarm, one more thought before I conk out)
Trump's superpower is to trigger, annoy, and enrage us... Spefically us: the marginalized, queer, educated, and empathetic.
His followers love him for this superpower and will be avidly seeking to feed off you today.
Don't let them feed on you. Don't give them an inch of space, a second of time, a speck of attention.
Deny your predators.
Our neighbors chose this moron and morally empty man to lead this country. When those people no longer have healthcare and they've crashed the economy, and given Putin unfettered access to Ukraine and westward and their daughters die from miscarriages then maybe they'll regret their choice. I doubt it though, their cult-like smugness will comfort them and they'll blame someone else.
I'm so sorry Ukraine.
I'm so sorry to those nations we've called NATO Allies.
I'm so sorry to those of you that came to this country to escape hell holes.
I'm so sorry to my LGBTQ friends.
I'm so sorry Ben Franklin, it was good while it lasted.
Hate has won. My neighbors' hate has made this choice.
Al Tucker
- Work Status
- Retired Art Teacher
- Hobbies
- Plants, Biking, Guitar, Golf and Cooking
- Politics
- Left - way left
- I'd rather be in
- Ireland
Flew in from that other place. Very Glad to be here, people are central to social media that works.
Joined Apr 2022