Don’t be worried or afraid, I am just expressing the thoughts in my head

I went out shopping early this morning. Then I came home and after putting the stuff away I did all the dishes. It was not a lot but three days worth and last night I cooked a good meal. I am washing all the bed linens and all the towels in the chairs / places that Tupac lays on. So as I try to do they cartoon / meme post for tomorrow …. My mind is fractured. So these songs are in my mind. Sorry if this hurts anyone. Also remember I am not in danger of self-harm. I won’t do that to all of you who I respect so much. Hugs or best wishes to all as you appreciate the gesture. The songs below are shattering my thoughts. I walk alone, and I wish for the sound of silence. Oh, to have the thoughts in my mind stop! I desperately wish for it. I have not eaten yet today, nor did I after breakfast yesterday and Ron has called me 3 times asking me to eat. Even telling me to order something if it is more pleasing to me. I just can’t. I bought salad stuff today so maybe a salad later. I am so confused. I had four more ready to post and suddenly realized it was useless. Is my life useless? I do good things. My husband loves me. His cat sleeps pressed up against me at night, yet even last night as I struggled to sleep and he moved up onto my pillow I took no comfort from him. I am feeling so numb inside when I let myself feel anything at all because the government is forcing my pain doctors to reduce my medications despite the new MRI showing severe and increased damage to my spine. My doctors say it my be necessary for me to do surgery to get relief because RFK Jr. has determined that all pain clinics lower their clients morphine equviancy to less than 100. Those who do not feel chronic pain or live in long pain because they dont hve to suffer … well illegal drugs all of a sudden get a hollier than though about drugs. Seriously, this former drug adic is restricting needed medication from people like me with seriously damaged spines and no contributions to his campaigns. But drugs from a qualified pain doctor can mean the difference between living a quality life and suffering in even more agony. Hugs

I am sorry. I do not not want to worry anyone or cause fear. But I feel so… out of sync with the world. I just hurt. It is part physical and a lot emotional. The MRI I had just had showed many parts of my lower spine are showing far more damage than my doctors had thought. They thought I had a few more years before surgery. I cannot afford surgery. The MRI moved many of my lower vertebrae from the moderate to severe to extremely severe zone. One the report said was in civilian terms destroyed. The bone matrrial decaded, the inside soft stuff pushed out and the nerves were caught by the edges of the jagged edges of the bones both being forced out and being pinched and being pinced inside as I moved. It is why I cannot sit in my chair very long. Ron is going to get me an air seat when he gets home but I doubt it will help. I am sitting here thinking of why when my spine shows ever more damage the government is requiring that my pain doctors reduce everyone’s pain medications. Just because the former coke addict RFK Jr dosent feel the crippling pain that people like me do doesn’t mean he gets to stop our pain medication or at least shouldn’t. All that does is force us on to illegal drugs to get relief. I wonder if that is the point all along. Think of it, all the friends in pain suddenly not able to vote would change the election in plenty of ways. Hugs

Sorry, but I keep repeating the songs over and over. Hugs

Every body hurts. But today I hurt terribly. Sorry. Now I have to go struggle to make the bed because I washed the bed sheets. More pain. Hugs

New Jersey elementary school students run from ICE

Frightened little kids who are U.S. citizens are running from agents of their own government because their skin color is brown instead of white. My childhood was full of fear. It is horrifying and in the case of these children it is complete bigotry and racism directed by Nazi wannabe Stephen Miller.

What is wrong in this country where adults think terrorizing little kids because of their skin color is acceptable? I cannot accept this. I cannot accept terrified children running from adults just because of skin color! What are we, apartheid South Africa? This video is horrific! Only racists could like seeing this. Hugs

Political cartoons / memes / and news I want to share. 2-16-2026

#Buddha from What Are You Really Afraid Of?

My nights

Image from Everything Is Star Stuff

This is why I have a Rolodex with all my passwords and user names. Hugs

https://www.tumblr.com/reagan-was-a-horrible-president/808568479489900544/starbucks-workers-united-baristas-are-escalating

https://www.tumblr.com/socialjusticeinamerica/808461803219746816

https://www.tumblr.com/reagan-was-a-horrible-president/808568858463043584

https://www.tumblr.com/saywhat-politics/808564997897732096

https://www.tumblr.com/sleepyleftistdemon/808619436421627905

#tnycartoons from The New Yorker

Image from What Are You Really Afraid Of?

The Department of Homeland Security has brought on a 21-year-old social media professional from the Department of Labor to help run its communications channels — despite internal concerns about N*zi-coded content he previously posted.

According to The New York Times, Peyton Rollins moved from digital content manager at the Labor Department to a key role in DHS communications this month.

His name is Peyton Rollins. C’mon.

This kid has definitely killed small animals.

Could central casting find a more inbred Nazi looking 21 year old?

https://www.tumblr.com/sleepyleftistdemon/808626233083658241

https://www.tumblr.com/saywhat-politics/808555554503065600/broken-bones-burning-eyes-how-trumps-dhs

https://www.tumblr.com/reagan-was-a-horrible-president/808571746685009921/this-black-history-month-we-recognize-pam-echols

https://www.tumblr.com/reagan-was-a-horrible-president/808569228878888960/despite-increased-profits-private-prison

https://www.tumblr.com/reagan-was-a-horrible-president/808567345253695488/platforms-bend-over-backward-to-help-dhs-censor

I wonder when they will attack my blog or me. Hugs

https://www.tumblr.com/saywhat-politics/808614916707794944/this-man-is-going-viral-for-showing-up-to-an

https://www.tumblr.com/saywhat-politics/808573843646087168/surveillance-footage-shows-the-moment-dozens-of

https://www.tumblr.com/saywhat-politics/808554392129323008

There were masks on the walls in a room on Epstein Island what had a dentist chair in the middle. Howard Lutnick [current Sec of Commerce] lived next to Jeffrey Epstein on 71st St and both their homes were owned by Les Wexner. #TheEpsteinClass

Republicans love immigrant #PeterThiel and his rampant drug use. Republicans look right past his homosexuality. Republicans love his Big Government Palantir tracking your every move.

This all shows that it’s not about invasive, gay, immigrant, ketamine addicts. All that matters is who serves fascist white nationalism.

Billionaire sex abusers get more than due process, they get Republican protection.

https://www.tumblr.com/reagan-was-a-horrible-president/808571001016320000

https://www.tumblr.com/reagan-was-a-horrible-president/808564073622110208

https://www.tumblr.com/socialjusticeinamerica/808488223993200640/allegations-of-bodies-buried-at-epsteins-new

https://www.tumblr.com/socialjusticeinamerica/808455863407902720/not-one-prosecution-is-even-being-planned-theres

https://www.tumblr.com/saywhat-politics/808554054699581440/the-trump-administration-has-created-a-new-form-of

https://www.tumblr.com/saywhat-politics/808647048432861184/pam-bondi-needs-to-lose-her-law-license

Bill Bramhall for 2/15/2026

‘A feature, not a bug’: Trump admin’s pattern of hiring people with extremist views

TN Advances Bills To Legalize Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination

TN Advances Bills To Legalize Anti-LGBTQ Discrimination

February 13, 2026

Nashville’s NPR affiliate reports:

Tennessee lawmakers have advanced a host of anti-LGBTQ bills that would run counter to U.S. Supreme Court precedent. Two measures, both proposed by Rep. Gino Bulso, R-Franklin, would challenge landmark cases that legalized same-sex marriage and established protections for discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

Rep. Gloria Johnson, D-Knoxville, questioned the legality to going against Bostock v. Clayton County, which established that LGBTQ people are protected from discrimination under the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Tom Lee, member of the Board of Directors of the Tennessee Pride Chamber, spoke against the bill, arguing that it could allow discrimination against LGBTQ couples.

“Imagine if under this bill a private employer said, ‘Well, you can’t take family leave because I, as a private citizen, don’t recognize — using the language of the bill — your purported marriage,’” Lee said. “Or a bank says, ‘You’ll pay the higher rate (for unmarried couples). We’re not bound by the 14th Amendment. You’re not married in our eyes.’”

From my January 2025 report:

The Banning Bostock Act would codify that laws prohibiting sex discrimination would not prohibit discrimination against a person for being homosexual or transgender, nor would it prohibit discrimination because of sexual orientation, sexual behavior, gender identity, or gender non-conforming behavior.

Meanwhile, the next bill would allow private citizens, businesses, and organizations to refuse to recognize same-sex marriage, and protect attorneys from being punished for refusing to celebrate or perform a same sex marriage.

Bulso first appeared here in February 2024 for his ultimately failed bid to ban Pride flags, which he is now attempting again. In April 2024, we heard from Bulso when he objected to a ban on marriages between first cousins because gays can’t make babies. Last year Bulso launched a failed bid to fill the US House seat left open by the abrupt resignation of Rep. Mark Green.

https://x.com/WPLN/status/2021732630090191231?s=20

Kansas Gov Vetoes Anti-Trans Bathroom Bounty Bill

Why is the most intense bigotry always seem to be pushed by Christians? I don’t understand the hate because no one is walking around nude in bathrooms, and women’s bathrooms do not have urinals just enclosed stalls. No one can see in the stalls. All the talk of protecting little girls is BS because if a man ws going to hurt a child he wouldn’t have to pretend to be trans, he would just walk in and do it. Nope this is all about making trans lives miserable and keeping them out of the public / society. This is all about forcing their religious views on everyone else. There church doctrines don’t accept trans people so no one can accept trans people or be trans in public according to them. They see no problem forcing their religious views on everyone else but scream to their highest heaven when they are told they have to respect other people’s views. Hugs

Kansas Gov Vetoes Anti-Trans Bathroom Bounty Bill

February 13, 2026

First, the backstory about the bill:

Just last week, the Kansas legislature passed some of the most far-reaching measures to push trans and gender-nonconforming people out of public life to date. Bathroom bans that bar trans people from restrooms aligned with their gender identity have become grimly common; over 20 states have such a law on the books. But Kansas’s new anti-trans bathroom bill adds a dangerous twist: a bounty hunter provision.

The law would permit private citizens to sue and seek monetary reward based on claiming to encounter a trans person in the bathroom. That’s on top of some of the harshest punishments of any existing bathroom bans, such as criminal charges, steep fines and even jail time.

The language of the bill, while vague, says that any person who alleges to be “aggrieved” by the presence of a trans person they encounter in a restroom facility can file a civil suit against that individual for “damages” of at least $1,000. Kansas Republicans rushed through the bathroom ban, skirting public comment by essentially sneaking the bill into another piece of legislation aimed at denying trans people correct government IDs.

Just in via press release:

The following veto message is from Governor Kelly regarding her veto of House Substitute for Senate Bill 244:

“This poorly drafted bill will have numerous and significant consequences far beyond the intent to limit the right for trans people to use the appropriate bathroom. Under this bill: If your grandfather is in a nursing home in a shared room, as a granddaughter, you would not be able to visit him. If your wife is in a shared hospital room, as a husband, you would not be able to visit her.

“If your sister is living in a dorm at K-State, as a brother, you would not be able to visit her in her room. If you feel you have to accompany your nine-year-old daughter to the restroom at a sporting event, as a father, you would have to either enter the women’s restroom with her or let her use the restroom alone.

“I believe the Legislature should stay out of the business of telling Kansans how to go to the bathroom and instead stay focused on how to make life more affordable for Kansans. “Therefore, under Article 2, Section 14(a) of the Constitution, I hereby veto House Substitute for Senate Bill 244.”

The bill passed with a veto-proof majority in both chambers, so an override is probably likely. The bill’s author is GOP Rep. Susan Humphries, whose bio notes that she is a graduate of Texas Christian University. Humphries last appeared here in 2024 for her bill that would somehow ban minors from visiting any website that mentions LGBTQs.

ICE is cracking down on US citizen protesters with charges, tracking

Horrific abuse of civil rights. ICE is trying to scare people. People have legal right to protest and to follow / record ICE gang thugs. The ICE gang thugs have no authority to arrect citizens as they do not have police powers. Again are we a free people, do we have rights anymore? Hugs

CBP supervisor accused of harboring immigrant who’s also his girlfriend and niece

https://www.ksat.com/news/local/2026/02/13/cbp-supervisor-accused-of-harboring-immigrant-whos-also-his-girlfriend-and-niece/

Andres Wilkinson, 52, faces up to 10 years in federal prison if convicted

LAREDO, Texas – A U.S. Customs and Border Protection supervisor is facing federal charges over allegations he harbored an immigrant living in the country illegally, according to a news release. Court documents state the immigrant was both his girlfriend and niece.

Andres Wilkinson, 52, made his initial appearance Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of Texas said, and will remain in custody pending a detention hearing.

Wilkinson has worked for CBP since 2001, according to the release, and was promoted to a supervisory position in 2021.

“In that role, his duties included overseeing the enforcement of customs and immigration laws,” the release states.

According to a criminal complaint, CBP’s Office of Personal Responsibility received information from Homeland Security Investigations on April 23, 2025, that a woman living in the country illegally was living at Wilkinson’s residence in Laredo.

The complaint identifies Wilkinson as the woman’s boyfriend. Authorities also received research indicating the woman is the daughter of Wilkinson’s brother, making her Wilkinson’s niece.

The woman initially entered the U.S. on a visitor visa in August 2023, the complaint alleges, and later overstayed authorized travel.

“The complaint further alleges that Wilkinson was aware of her unlawful immigration status,” the release states, “yet maintained a romantic relationship with her.”

Records show the woman had multiple entries into the U.S. until December 2023, when she began living in the U.S. with her husband at an apartment in Laredo, according to the complaint.

The woman’s husband petitioned for his wife’s legal residence in January 2024, but the case was closed after the husband withdrew the petition in April 2025.

In May 2025, the office observed Wilkinson meeting with the woman and her daughter, who is a minor, according to the complaint.

From June through November 2025, law enforcement conducted surveillance at Wilkinson’s residence and observed the woman living there with her daughter, according to the complaint. Investigators also noted the woman used vehicles registered to Wilkinson.

Investigators detained and interviewed the woman on Feb. 5, 2026. According to the complaint, the woman told investigators she had been living with her uncle, Wilkinson, since August 2024.

The woman said Wilkinson “financially supported her,” with housing, credit cards and assistance with financial obligations, the complaint states. The woman also said Wilkinson was aware that she was consulting with an immigration attorney “to resolve her immigration status.”

The woman told investigators she crossed U.S. Border Patrol checkpoints in a vehicle driven by Wilkinson at least twice. The complaint also alleges the two traveled to San Antonio together in August 2025.

If convicted, Wilkinson faces up to 10 years in federal prison and a fine not to exceed $250,000. The release did not state his current employment status with CBP.