Wow. Avelo airlines has covered up their logo to hide the fact that they're helping with mass deportation. Avelo's customer service number is (346) 616-9500. Feel free to give them a call and tell them how you feel about them.
— Mueller, She Wrote (@muellershewrote.com) 2025-05-29T21:07:08.134Z
If they are actually going to enforce deportations in FL at job sites then the construction industry in FL will grind to a halt.Until they can replace those employees with US-born workers willing to work outside in the summer in 100 degree heat & humidity. Should be no problem.
— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-05-29T17:40:29.161Z
Would be good if reporters ask the administration why they let a man they knew was constantly using psychoactive drugs to take a hatchet to the federal government and cause uncountable death and immiseration
Karoline Leavitt is clearly making this stuff up as she goes.
— George Takei (@georgetakei.bsky.social) 2025-05-29T17:48:05.533Z
Harvard president receives standing ovation during commencement.
Shot. Chaser.(So many examples like this from the GOP!)
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) 2025-05-29T19:52:17.961Z
One might have thought that last November, when Missourians voted to enshrine “reproductive freedom" in the state constitution, that would have been the end of the conversation.Alas, the Missouri Supreme Court doesn’t seem to be inclined to listen. This week, the court halted abortions.
In plain sight:
— Mehdi Hasan (@mehdirhasan.bsky.social) 2025-05-29T16:24:51.408Z
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Scottie's Playtime 
I love the “use for all the crappy cyber trucks” one!🤣🤣🤣🤣
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Hi Ali. Thank you. I agree with you. Mind if I ask how you feel about these political cartoons / memes / news items posts? I am not getting a lot of feed back if people like them, if they are too long, if they like all the cartoons. As I said I stay away from Clay Jones as that is your cartoon to post. I have respect for my authors as you and Randy do such grand work. But I enjoy doing these post and I can do them while I eat with only one hand unlike when I need to type or such like now?
On another personal note. I have been trying to pick up the slack so Ron has more time to do the renovations and other things he can do that I can not. For example I am not to do the floor sweeping, vacuuming, or mopping per my pain doctor due to the damage to my shoulders. As I said before we did the renovations Ron did all the household chores as it stressed me too much to do them. My doctors have explained that why I can do a small amount here and there, when I feel up to it and not stressed. However the reason I had to stop working in 2014 is my doctors told me that if I did not stop working they would declare me unfit to work and withdraw from being my doctors as my choosing to keep working in the surgical ICU was causing so much stress to my body that my organs were shutting down. They with Ron forced me to stop working.
The last while I have tried to do more in the house to help Ron. I three days ago did five loads of laundry, then I cooked supper. Yesterday I used the swifter stick dry sweeper to do the kitchen and dinning room floors and then mop them with the Swifter Jet mop that Ron bought me years ago because other things were too heavy for me. Then I did the supper. Today I got up and felt very ill. But we agreed because I did not feel well that Ron would go out and get stuff to do supper, a chili I would make from a mix and add my own touches to. Then tomorrow we would go out in the morning and get our twice a month big grocery shop.
So I worked to clean the kitchen and do the dishes before Ron got home with the groceries. It seemed to take me forever. Ron came home, and I helped him put the few groceries away. Then Ron made clear he wanted me to make the chili so I Stared. I had been on my feet so long and I was so tired. I got my stool he bought for me for cooking as it has a lever that lets it go highest or lowest seat height and used it to sit on.
Then I browned the 2 pounds of hamburger and did all that. But from there I had to make up my own recipe on my own with my knowledge of cooking and seasoning. I used a cup and a 1/4 of beef broth with 3 bouillon cubes in it. Then I added a 14 oz can of Hunts chopped tomatoes, then I added more beef paste to the watery mix to make it more beefy tasting, then I added the peppers and onions along with two cans of beans, then I added a kit of seasonings from the store, and then I boosted them with my own additives of stuff. Lastly I added 8 oz of tomato sauce I measured out from a 24 ox can. By then I was struggling to stand, but I did not complain. I stirred it in, let it simmer, then set up the meal with rolls, fresh soft butter and other things.
Ron loved it and kept telling me how great it was. He did not notice how quiet I was. He ate in his chair and I ate in my office. We do this as we do not have a dining room table since Ian ripped 1/3 of our home away that we are trying to repair now with limited income.
I walked out of my office after eating … and fell. My legs gave out and gave up. I was done. I had nothing left. Ron rushed to me, was very upset, and helped me to bed. He said he would and did pick it all up. To tell the truth at this point I did not care. I was in so much pain and done. He came to bed with me for a while. At five PM I woke up totally disoriented and he told me what happened. He claimed he had only been in bed for an hour but did not mention me. But he did sit on the side of the bed and have a talk with himself that I was there for.
Seems he felt he has abused me and pushed me too hard knowing how frail my system / health is. He got used to me doing things so he wouldn’t have to. It scared him when I fell and couldn’t get up, so tired I just wanted to stay there. He demanded for the next few days I just rest. I reminded him that tomorrow was our big grocery shop day that takes both of us. He agreed but said after that I did nothing else, no washing laundry, no washing dishes, just sit in my office and relax. No making supper. Plus he said the next day I was taking it easy, just do blog stuff and rest. He was scared.
Then I remembered realized his 75 yr old sister has been on the phone with him about her husband who has had a heart attack and stents that keep plugging needing him rushed to the hospital ER for emergency treatment. He is terrified I might be like her husband and so worn out I will need emergency treatment and equipment. I keep trying to tell him or reassure him I am ok. Right now he is very worried. And I hope I am off to bed soon. Hugs
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It could be time to get a little household help in, now and then. I know everything costs money, but it could be a good investment. But that’s only a suggestion. It seems that it’s very difficult for you guys to strike and maintain a good balance that works for both of you. Of course I’m one to talk; I fail at that fairly often, myself! 😊
Anyway, as to the toons, occasionally I don’t get through a whole post, but mostly I do. I say do your posts the way you do them. We each do that. Sometimes people just don’t get time to read. As an example, I’m getting ready to go to bed, myself; it’s 10:30, and optimally, I should be tucked up no later than 11, so I can start the day well. Most days, I do that. Tonight, I am doing it, but I’m leaving several blogs I enjoy unread until tomorrow, which hurts my heart, but I was busy all day and didn’t get to read. I think everyone has those days, right? We are human. Your chili sounds delicious. Take care!
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Hi Ali. Thank you for your concern. I guess some time has gone by since I posted this. Diane, Ron’s sister whose husband was rushed to the hospital died. It was a second marriage for both. The daughters of the first marriage did not really accept Diane and one of them rushed to the hospital, had his body transferred to a different mortuary than was planned by Diane and her husband. The husband had a solid gold belt buckle that has gone missing. The family doesn’t know but may suspect that Diane has complete control over the estate, everything goes to her and the husband, Pat, had some things he wanted to go to different people, but it was left to Diane when or even if they did go to those people. Diane and Pat had an interesting marriage. They did not mind being in different locations but as Ron said they talked three to five times a day catching each other up on everything. They were devoted to each other.
So of course just as with my childhood hell spawn, the one daughter trying to take charge and had the body sent to a different place than their father wanted. Then when Diane got that changed one daughter claimed they wanted some small thing for their sick son so could they come over … which when Diane agreed the daughter then told all family members to show up at the home.
I have seen all this before three times. The family members try to get into the house to case the place or if the other siblings are in agreement they steal everything of value so that when the will is read the stuff is gone. I guess the husband has large valuable collections. In my case one hell spawn was so hateful that I stopped them from stealing the adopting parent’s huge bank accounts that she was sure I was stealing that she went through the house destroying anything she thought might be coming to me. They had twice been stopped by us thinking that they owned the park model here that the adopting parents lived in for winters and their end of life. They started trying to sell it before I had to send them a copy of the deed to the place with a lawyer’s letter telling them that Ron and I owned it. Then they sent a hell spawn, the oldest brother down here to get all the riches in the place, the same hell spawn that took five year old me to drug fueled parties giving them my body in exchange for money and drugs. When he got here he was furious … I took time off work and came all the way here for a few home items and a bunch of Tupperware! I did point out the large 27 inch cabinet TV on the floor he could take back with him if he wanted. It had to be 20 years old but he could have it. They did not realize the riches never were in the stuff in the home but that the adopting adults had a place for 6 or more months to get away from them.
So Ron was furiously trying to give his sister advice to protect her and her stuff, and her son is there now and he is a nice strapping diesel mechanic who said he would back his mother up trying to let only one of them to go with her at a time keeping the rest in the living room.
As for yesterday I again did a small load of laundry, then dishes but there were not many, but Ron had asked me to make a marinara sauce and use it to have on meat and cheese ravioli. After I did that I was tired but willing to pick it up but Ron wouldn’t have it. He demanded I sit in my chair. Then at 6 PM I got really tired so I went to bed, and did not get up until 6 AM. I feel so much better. Sadly now Ron is watching me like a hawk trying to micromanage everything I am doing to make sure I don’t over do. But it is good. I have rested today as he worked on the new bathrooms, he entirely changed the floor plan which made it better we think. So I promised I would make grilled cheese and our own slices sandwiches we made from a large ham. I will have pepper jack and he wants provolone. Should be grand. Hugs
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Sounds good. I’m very sorry for Ron’s sister’s loss. It’s hard enough to be a widow, and other family making things difficult just exacerbates the grief. I’ll send good, bright energy that way, and to you guys, too!
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