I honor my own hero, of writing, Jeff Tiedrich, upon whom would tell you all, as I tell you all.

Atlanta: 49°, cloudy — the air hangs like a held breath over a state where Ossoff's seat keeps the oxygen moving.

Detroit: 39°, overcast — gray as autoworkers watching tariff math eat their paychecks alive.

Kansas City: 58°, sunny — 80° by afternoon, warm enough to fool you the heartland isn't burning from within.

New York: 38°, partly sunny — cold enough to remind you the Senate chill has nothing on March in Manhattan.

San Francisco: 55°, clear — golden light on a city pretending tech will save us while the labs that could get shuttered.

Miami: 71°, hazy — humidity wraps you like a lie, and Florida keeps sweating out legislation that stinks.

The GOP circular firing squad found live ammunition this week — their own bills, their own credibility, and a climate lab that kept people alive through wildfire season.

First time here? Welcome to The Gathering.

Editor's note: These cock-juggling thunder-cunts are dismantling the instruments that measure the disaster they're causing. Throw something.

The Senate floor smells like flop sweat and overcooked ambition.

Mean While, Kash Patel and Buzzard are testifying:

Republicans opened marathon debate on the SAVE America Act and immediately started tearing chunks out of each other over mail-in ballots, talking filibusters, and whether to let that turd-munching ass-waffle's demands crater their own rural voters.

What they said: "The votes aren't there. It's just a reality." — John Thune.

The SAVE America Act requires documentary proof of citizenship to register — which means millions of Americans, including trans people whose documents don't match, elderly citizens without birth certificates, and naturalized Americans, can't vote. The push to ban no-excuse mail-in voting has pissed off rural-state GOP senators where 60-70%vote by mail. McConnell privately opposes it. Tillis skipped the vote. Lee posts threats against colleagues.

The damage: Human cost: Trans, elderly, and naturalized voters face disenfranchisement Pattern: Trump ultimatum → House blocking all Senate bills → internal rebellion → gridlock Action: Contact your senators. Check registration at vote.org.

62% of voters disapprove of Trump's inflation handling. Democrats scored a 14-point upset in deep-red Tarrant County. Foreign leaders openly defy the administration — Trump's European approval doesn't crack 20% anywhere. Read more

NCAR in Boulder once gave us data to survive wildfire season, predict hurricanes, and understand drought — now it's roadkill in a shit-stained ball-sack's vendetta against a state that refused to kneel.a

Evidence: Relationship breaking: The administration called NCAR "one of the largest sources of climate alarmism" — then froze hundreds of millions in Colorado funding as personal retribution against Governor Polis over the imprisonment of Tina Peters, a county clerk convicted for breaching voting systems. Scale: 830 employees. Founded in 1960, funded by the National Science Foundation. Wildfire prediction, tropical cyclone forecasting, air quality monitoring — the tools that tell you whether it's safe to breathe — gone because a dick-sniffing butt-trumpet got his feelings hurt.

Expert voice: Tim Raupach, UNSW Sydney, called it a "tragedy" and said people are safer because of this lab's work.

UCAR filed suit Monday alleging a "widespread and coordinated campaign of punishment and coercion." The receipts: vetoed water pipeline, relocated Space Command to Alabama on a lie about mail-in voting, threatened to withhold food stamps from Colorado residents. Governor Polis warned the closure puts "public safety at risk."

Action: Support the lawsuit. Contact the National Science Foundation. Demand your reps oppose closure. Read more

The land remembers what the government tries to erase.

UF College Republicans secretary Dylan Estrella was photographed throwing a "sieg heil" salute — chapter disbanded, now suing for First Amendment protection.

Stakes: Pattern: Same party telling queer kids they're too dangerous for bathrooms now wants constitutional protection for fascist salutes. Members posed with Nick Fuentes and Myron Gaines. Chats said Hitler "didn't do enough." Timeline: Charlottesville → Groypers in College Republicans → "very fine people" became policy.

What the fuck — a party waging war on trans kids, filing briefs to strip marriage equality, running on LGBTQ+ existence as a threat — that same fuck-knuckle tit-weasel party now argues Nazi salutes deserve protection. Every bathroom bill, every anti-drag law — never about protecting anyone. The call is coming from inside the goose-step.

Movement: 469 active anti-LGBTQ bills tracked by the ACLU. Lambda Legal challenging voter suppression targeting trans Americans. Read more

They tell you who they are. Believe them.

Survival wisdom — how you carry this forward: Lorde wrote that while staring down an America that wanted her silent and compliant. The deliberateness matters — not the absence of fear but the decision to move through it with your spine straight. When they dismantle the labs and salute the fascists, your deliberateness is what they cannot legislate away. Carry that shit like a weapon.

Piers Morgan walks off his own show after confronting HSTikkyTokky, who called disowning a gay son "good parenting" — homophobia isn't an opinion, it's a confession. Read more

Trans man Nixon Matthews told Idaho legislators what bathroom bans mean: "Do I feel like going to jail today, or being attacked?" HB 752 carries five years for a second offense. Read more

Nature & Science

CERN found the proton's heavy cousin — the Ξcc⁺ particle, a 20-year mystery solved — curiosity still builds what fascism burns. Read more

Malaria parasites run tiny rocket engines — iron crystals spinning via hydrogen peroxide, never before seen in biology — new drug targets ahead. Read more

Phone dying by 2 PM → Kill background app refresh and unused location services — adds 2-3 hours without changing behavior. Feeling: Shoulders drop when the red battery panic disappears.

$6/day coffee habit → $25 French press + $12 bag = 30+ cups. $180/month to $12/month. Feeling: Finding money in a coat pocket.

Produce rotting → Herbs in water like flowers, celery in foil, bananas isolated — cuts waste by a third. Feeling: Less chaos every time the fridge opens.

Asparagus is peaking → Snap ends, olive oil, salt, lemon zest, 425° for 12 minutes until tips crisp. Spring trying to make a point on your sheet pan.

Herb markup runs 300-400% → A $3 basil plant produces months on a windowsill. Pinch tops, make pesto. Your kitchen, your sovereignty.

Garlic Chickpea Smash → Canned chickpeas, garlic, olive oil, cumin, smoked paprika, lemon, bread — 8 minutes, feeds 4. Nobody goes hungry because the week got hard.

Moving forward — your armor for today: Brooks knew the harvest isn't metaphorical — it's keeping each other fed and breathing when institutions decide your community isn't worth it. The bond isn't sentimental. It's structural — the phone call, the shared meal, the showing up. They can't isolate you into something manageable if you goddamn refuse to let them.

Essex Hemphill built D.C.'s Black gay literary table — 5 chapbooks, Lambda Literary Award, National LGBTQ Wall of Honor in 2019. AIDS took him at 38, but his ass-splitting truth outlived everything that tried to silence it.

CeCe McDonald survived a swastika-tattooed attacker at 22 — the state put her in a men's prison for 19 months. An 18,000-signature petition and Laverne Cox's documentary reshaped how America argues trans survival.

Rachel Carson published Silent Spring — 500,000 copies year one — precipitating the EPA's founding and the DDT ban. The architecture this administration is torching.

"So, We're At War" — Sweaty's Corner | Geoff Anderson. Jet fuel and political calculation — why two carrier groups off Iran won't deliver Trump's Nobel fantasies, and the IRGC makes ICE look like Boy Scouts. Read more

"Things That Refuse to Die" — Wendy Parker is Eternally Irritated | Wendy Parker. Congressional immortality compared to eye boogers that won't stay wiped — nurse wisdom meets political fury until you remember McConnell is still breathing. Read more