This is hilarious, must watch the round with the women lol they are genius 😁

https://twitter.com/MrsAndy73529976/status/1780231378518282248

From a courtroom photo, the defendant has huge bags under his eyes. You think it made his make up guy would know the tricks. Or maybe that's the result after the tricks lol

Not being catty - just a little humor.

I saw this anti abortion guy on Twitter insisting that an embryo is an un-fertilized egg.

Then he was shown a pic of an 1.5cm embryo and he call it a fetus.

Just stupidity.

Not sure what Clint Eastwood is getting dragged but between him and Gene Hackman (both men in their 90s) the attacks on each man's appearance is ugly.

George Stephanopoulos is showing up with a more serious framing, confirming with Gov. sununu

And the end was exactly as it should.

https://twitter.com/Victorshi2020/status/1779532023167615201

Got my taxes done. I didn't make nearly as much last year because I was out for my back issues.

On the bright side this is the first time since trumps faux tax cuts that I get small refund instead of paying 1 or 2 thousand like I had been.

On RETIREMENT

Its like covid days without the stress/anxiety and pain of mass death.

I never know what day it is lol 😆

I'm not bored. I'm just shifting my habits to help more around house and also training for my mindfulness meditation teaching cert

Husband is working with our broker, making the proper changes and also taking a serious ecom type course and consulting.

It's great. No time pressures, we can cruise along at our own pace.

Spending a lot more mindful time with family too ❤️

Moments w/mom

We were talking abt the OJ trial &how obsessed the country was over the chase/trial

We lol'd when I said, "that was my first intro into lawyer tricks"

Then I casually said,

"well unfortunately the country is going to see a whole new set of trials that are going painful, for everyone. It's tragic, but we'll get through this"

She nodded and agreed. I said nothing further.

Im dropping these comments in case she wants to talk abt what's happening, especially w/the gop.

He'll of a tail of storms with multiple 🌪🌪🌪's from Tampa to Jacksonville

Stay safe!

^^ I know that sounds stupid. Since the mindful thIng, It's dificult for me to disparage people. Even brutal murderers.

So OJ Simpson died, cancer. May he rest in pieces.

^^^ I showed her some charts on wage and wealth gaps. Tw @ acyn posting a liberal billionaire meeting.

We've talked about these problems before. Im a boomer with gen z kids. I see the problem. Mom agrees too. I gave her context of predatory practices around student loans &she sees now.

This chart is an example of how/why young ppl struggle just to find an apartment.

Also from 🧵 - only 0.4% of CEOs are will to pay a living wage.

Greed is ugly.

^^^ TODAY I talked to her about citizens united decision and how bad it has been. How it's enabled dark money come in to politics from charities in a way that's untraceable.

She was flabbergasted amd totally against it.

I told her I wanted this citizens united overturned MORE than Dobbs/roe (technically ot because of CU that we lost roe.)

None of this was confrontational. I didn't blame parties just lamented the damage this money has done

We got on CU because...

/NEXT

politics TALKING WITH MOM

We rarely talk politics.

She's 89 &an OG republican. It was part of her identity she really enjoyed. My dad ran a few city campaigns and they had fun doing it.

Fast forward. She knows something is terribly wrong in politics &society,. She complains of kooks, uneducated ppl (she was a teacher)

BEFORE I started #mindfulness we had 2 heated conversations where I blurted out trump has ruined this country and society.

TODAY

/Next

Morning!

This is a possibly damn useful. They had a device approved for insomnia and just last week the fda approved one of the devices for general anxiety disorder. Other types are in the works

These are non invasive, wearable devices.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/08/neurovalens-anxiety-fda/

No leaves to make crescent shadows but the blinds did! We got to 98%

my son and I stayed home. My daughter and husband drove to Ohio.

Mom got to see with glasses, weird shadows and the dimness

PSA
If anyone's life explodes like what happened with my son.

PLEASE find a counselor. I think ours is a social worker/therapist. If urgent I would not call private therapy practice unless you can get in right away.

Not sure what my uusbamd google to find her. I'll ask him and post.

^^^ reminder. The homemade suppressor was made by the narcissist. He put it on my son's 22 rifle. Yes my knew this but he was drug addled. (No excuse) bur this case does have some extenuating circumstances.

Between us, (and my son disagrees with this) but I think he was grooming my son to be his "enforcer"

UPDATE on my son's plea deal.

Not great but not horrible

1 felony dropped (this was a stupid charge of gun w/ INTENT)

2 drug felony will be dropped upon completion of 18 mos drug court. He will have counselors and monitoring.

3. The possession of silencer is going to proceed. The prosecutor cannot guarantee no jail time (but at least it would be the local jail and not effing prison)

Obviously we are hoping for probation

1st offense Non violent felonies can be expunged after 5 yrs.

💛