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I'm 6000 words in on a novel entitled 'Target Girl'. The first line reads, "Daisy Novick felt watched. Someone on the bus was looking her over, checking her out." I created the cover first to give focus to the look & feel I'm after. Think 70's exploitation flick.

@invis4yo Look who's doing the hating: Rogue state dictators, elitist Europeans, Canadian Karens, filthy communists, Democrats (I repeat myself, I know), detached-from-reality movie stars, pop stars, has-beens & losers. The President is hated by all the right people & I love him for it.

Do Americans even realize their president is basically the most hated guy on the planet right now???

Every Easter I post this pastel of mine, 'The Name of the Holy Spirit is Love' on my social media accounts. Whenever I do, I feel the urge to do more religiously themed work in both my art & fiction. I should listen to that voice more often.

@SenatorSlotkin If I had to guess, I think the reason Democrats are squealing so much over this is because Trump via Hegseth is getting rid of the generals & admirals who Obama cultivated & promoted, those advanced Soviet-style; that is, because they were politically reliable, not out of merit.

Sec. Hegseth fired over 20 top generals and admirals, including a top Army general who served 7 presidents this week. Purging generals to settle personal or political vendettas is what happens in China or Russia, not America. I broke down why this is dangerous back in November:

@RepJasonCrow Abraham Lincoln fired generals until he found the fighting generals he needed to win. Comes to that, so did Dwight Eisenhower. Firing generals & admirals & replacing them with better, more capable people is normal, historically speaking. That's how a merit-based system works.

Pete Hegseth is recklessly firing some of our most dedicated military leaders. These are folks with hundreds of years of combined experience, being pushed out with no notice. Hegseth’s political purges are endangering our national security.

@hashjenni The ghost of Abraham Lincoln disagrees.

You don't fire generals in the middle of war unless you're planning to do something they do not agree with.

What would happen to me if I walked through the streets of Tehran with my hair uncovered and holding hands with a girlfriend? Be specific.

@QuietRedMedia You're talking to a man who was once a kid who thought cartoonist Don Martin's wacky, zany sound effects were the height of hilarity.

Would you judge me if I used “KABLOOEY” as a sound effect. You would, wouldn’t you? I knew it.

Everyone is going through something by Luca Ponsato

a dark portrait, unfinished art.

@PaulfromTPL @freddiejh8 Those felonies were the result of partisan lawfare, not actual crimes. 'Show me the man & I will find the crime' is an old Soviet tactic articulated by Beria, so naturally, obviously, the modern Democratic Party would take its cues from it.

@freddiejh8 Not being a convicted felon on 34 counts seems like a fairly low bar.

I recently managed to ferret my way into a green room where Robert De Niro was waiting to speak at an anti-Trump rally. I found a man confused, angry and bewildered at what America had become. He just could not understand who or what Donald Trump really was. He thinks someone like Trump should’ve just been banned from standing. After all this time, that was his solution:

@RepShriThanedar Illegal aliens are not immigrants.

As an immigrant myself, today's arguments on birthright citizenship are deeply personal to me. The 14th Amendment is clear: the children of immigrants are guaranteed US citizenship. Despite President Trump's wishes, he cannot rewrite the Constitution.

@JohnMappin @RealCandaceO The insanity swirling around Charlie Kirk's assassination, from vile, hate-filled video rants by deranged Karens on the far-Left to the 'I'm just asking questions' crowd parroting Candace Owens' bigoted rants, has apparently reached peak batshittery with this. Congratulations.

Sincere question. What is the legal justification for continuing to hold Tyler Robinson in custody? If there is no valid bullet match? And no confession. What evidence is there? Please explain this to me like I am five years old. @RealCandaceO

I know Josh. Josh is awesome. You should follow him.

@EricSchmittNYT @ESCochrane Secretary of War Hegseth, technically a civilian, isn't 'undercutting' the Army's authority. He is asserting his authority. The Army's authority is derived from its civilian leadership as directed by the Constitution. There are no "legal guardrails" any higher.

In an extraordinary move, Hegseth reverses Apache helicopter crew suspension before Army even investigates the incident, undercutting the service's authority and underscoring his contempt for legal guardrails in the military w/@ESCochrane nytimes.com/2026/03/30/us/…

@CAgovernor I'd say lopping off body parts & infusing teenagers with hormones & puberty blockers constitutes actual & irrevocable harm. Adults have agency. Their brains are fully developed. If they want to transition, then okay, sure. You do you. But children? No. Leave the kids alone.

Conversion therapy is discredited junk science that inflicts harm on LGBTQ youth. The Supreme Court’s decision is disappointing and puts vulnerable kids at risk.

@JamieBonkiewicz Donald Trump lives rent free in the dusty attic space you call a mind & will happily reside there forever.

When Hitler died, Germany removed his monuments and erased his name from public buildings. This post is about Donald Trump

@Scaramucci I don't care if a politician doesn't care. I do care if a politician does what he promises to do. Feelings don't figure into it. So far, Trump, the most effective & capable president in my lifetime, has exceeded expectations.

Let me say something every Republican needs to hear right now. Trump does not care if you lose. He does not care about your career, your district, your donors, or your family. Trump cares about three things. Money. Attention. Self-aggrandizement. That’s the complete list. And the idea that Trump is going to help Republicans win in 2028 is a bunch of malarkey. You want to know who Trump actually wants as his successor? Gavin Newsom. The narcissistic nihilistic logic is this: you were nothing before I got here and when I leave, you’ll be nothing again. That’s the supreme narcissist’s final move. A Democrat winning in 2028 proves his point perfectly. Don Jr. has already said they want to be the richest family in the world before they leave the presidency. God only knows what they’re doing to get there. So if you’re a Republican still betting your future on this man’s loyalty — understand one thing clearly. There is no loyalty. There is only the transaction. And you’re not the one getting paid.

@firejack007 @CollinRugg Amazon will horribly mangle Dick's book. Given Amazon's ideological bent, they don't have a choice. They'll do what Andy Serkis did with that recent, wretched iteration of 'Animal Farm' where communists were made the heroes, tiresomely repetitively ironic, meta-Orwellian stuff.

See Philip K. Dick’s 1964 science-fiction novel Clans of the Alphane Moon. The core premise—mental patients (or their descendants) forming their own self-sustaining society with clans, political factions, councils, coups, and power struggles. In it, psychiatric patients from Earth colonize a moon and organize into “clans” based on their diagnoses (e.g., paranoids as the political/statesman class in “Adolfville,” manics, hebephrenics, etc.). These groups develop their own political ideals, intrigues, and conventions-like power plays, all while Earth tries to reassert control. It’s a sharp, satirical dystopia laced with paranoia, identity breakdown, and questions about what “sanity” even means in a broken society—perfectly aligned with the “dystopian scary” vibe of 1960s counterculture and the emerging anti-psychiatry movement. Amazon is in development of making a series based on the novel.

NEW: Far-left Canadians start arguing over "Equity Cards" at the 2026 NDP Leadership Convention. Woman 1: I was standing here with my gender equity card before you called on the previous speaker. That's my point of privilege... Woman 2: I want everyone to be mindful that these cards for individuals like myself who identify as a black woman have no value outside of this space. Good to see Canada arguing over the issues that matter. Video: @AmazingZoltan

@JoshuaDone @ksorbs @Sihd I've brought it up before but think it still bears repeating. In his 'King in Yellow' short story collection, Robert W. Chambers predicted viral social contagion & state-sponsored suicide in his story, "The Repairer of Reputations", where suicide chambers dotted the countryside.

@ksorbs @Sihd It is a scene for scene remake of the death scene from Soylent green.

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I wish I had been able to meet Norm.