A truly horrible person

Wait, a man who drove his wife to suicide by proving how popular he is with the ladies stole money from black kids for their health to fund an entourage to prove how important he is? It's *almost* as if RFK, Jr. is a truly horrible, insecure person!

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— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social) September 25, 2026 at 11:06 AM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

This is the America Trump has created

“A Haitian immigrant who had grown increasingly distraught after losing his protection from deportation and being outfitted with an ankle monitor was run over and killed Monday in what his family believes was a suicide.” www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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— Tom Joscelyn (@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social) September 1, 2026 at 8:51 AM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure...

 Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

The spectacular fail

Man, just listen to this. Trump's effort to contain the Epstein scandal has failed, spectacularly.

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— Simon Rosenberg (@simonwdc.bsky.social) February 19, 2026 at 7:54 AM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

This is some kind of discrepancy

📰 The Daily Beast Epstein Files Reveal Announcement Dated Before His Death ⟶ The Daily Beast | headline in context

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— The 🇺🇸 Headline Bot (@us-headlines.bsky.social) February 8, 2026 at 12:42 AM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

Zuckerberg is scum

Imagine knowing your platform was a playground for predators, fueling teen depression, eating disorders, and suicide and deciding the best course of action was… absolutely nothing. Meta didn’t just “miss” anything.

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— Adam Parkhomenko (@adamparkhomenko.bsky.social) November 23, 2025 at 3:28 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

GOP family values

🚨 Married GOP Rep. Tony Gonzales allegedly had an affair with his senior aide, Regina Aviles — who was found dead after she supposedly doused herself in gasoline and set herself on fire, per The Daily Mail. Uvalde Police are blocking release of the 911 call, video & records. (Daily Mail)

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— MeidasTouch (@meidastouch.com) October 20, 2025 at 5:35 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

What's there to hide?

CBS News has confirmed that the FBI, Bureau of Prisons and the DOJ all have a copy of the prison video from the night Epstein died with the missing minute. Why won't they release it? What's there to hide?

— altNOAA 🇺🇸 (@altnoaa.bsky.social) August 4, 2025 at 1:56 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

These monsters deserve a special place in hell

The federal government plans to eliminate services for LGBTQ youth who call 988, the national suicide and crisis hotline, according to a Health and Human Services budget draft leaked last week.

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— Mother Jones (@motherjones.com) April 22, 2025 at 3:14 PM

Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

 

Great job, chucklefucks

 Fuck Donald Trump

Peace,

emaycee

The GOP are all scum

Wow. Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin just secretly removed suicide prevention resources for LGBTQ youth from a state website. He did so after facing a backlash from MAGA influencers telling him to remove the resources.

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— No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen (@NoLieWithBTC) July 6, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Nikki Haley is an embarrassment to the human race

Nikki Haley suggests transgender kids are causing suicidal ideation in teenage girls - NBC News No Nikki that is what you and hate mongering people like you are doing! Have you no compassion or understanding? What the hell is wrong with you? https://t.co/d423stEvaT

— Stella Parton (@StellaParton) June 5, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

She literally makes Mommie Dearest look like a great mother

Montana bill sponsor: I prefer my transgender daughter commit suicide rather than allow her to transition.

- Rep. Kerri Seekins-Crowe (R)pic.twitter.com/28e1aCWiR7

— The Intellectualist (@highbrow_nobrow) April 27, 2023

Republicans = Nazis

Peace,

emaycee

 

Friday Night Jukebox, Vol. CDXVII--Avicii: Wake Me Up

 Hard to believe, but with this week's tune we'll wrap up the eighth year of Friday Night Jukebox.  And--surprise of surprises--it's yet another tune recommended by my darling daughter.  I want to say she and my son-in-law first heard the tune when they went to Great Britain for their belated honeymoon...but the memory, while still pretty good, isn't quite what it used to be, so I won't swear to it.  I do remember that she wasn't sure I'd like it (not an unreasonable assumption based on my being an old fart and it being some of that newfangled music), but it proved to be a special single and so here we are, closing season number eight with it....

Avicii (birth name Tim Bergling) was born in Stockholm, Sweden in 1989 and by the time most kids are graduating from college, he'd already had a hit record and was well on his way to becoming a superstar.  Over the course of his unfortunately short career, Avicii worked with numerous artists, had numerous releases, and was credited by some for being one of the driving forces behind electronica's transition into the mainstream in the 2010's.  His Wikipedia bio had a few too many facts to include all of them here, but it was quite obvious that he was a global phenomenon and an incredibly talented D.J.  He released three studio LPs (one posthumously), all of which reached the top twenty in the U.S., and a whopping fifty-six singles in his brief career.  He was also nominated for two Grammy Awards.  Avicii retired from performing in 2016, but the pressure from fans and management for him to return combined with serious substance abuse issues eventually led to his all too untimely death from suicide in 2018 at the far too young age of twenty-eight.  Just a tragic, tragic loss.

Fun Fact:  Avicii took his name from Avici, which is the lowest level of hell in Buddhism and the one with the most suffering.  It is also one of the twenty-eight hells in Hinduism...so there's a hell of a lot of hells when it comes to Avici.

"Wake Me Up" was the first single released from Avicii's debut album, True.  The single reached #4 (with a bullet!) on the Billboard Hot 100 and hit number one in thirty-one countries (so many cool kids around the world!).  The album hit #5 on the Billboard 200 and #1 in four other countries, including his native Sweden.

I'd be the first to admit my knowledge of electronica is just slightly north of my knowledge of string theory, but from the acoustic guitar intro from co-writer Mike Einziger of Incubus, to the soulful vocals of co-writer Aloe Blacc, to the swirling electronica added by co-writer Avicii, it's not too hard to understand just how special this collaboration was.  It's poignant, euphoric, and soothing all at once, as well as groundbreaking with the melding of folk/country with electronica (known as Folktronica).  I've mentioned it a time or two before, but every now and again musically everything falls into place on a particular piece of music and we as fans are fortunate enough to witness brilliance--and Avicii's "Wake Me Up" is just one more instance of our very good fortune.

Lyric Sheet:  "Tried carrying the weight of the world/But I only have two hands/I hope I get the chance to travel the world/But I don't have any plans..."

Enjoy:

Republicans = Losers

Peace,

emaycee

Thanks for nothing

Fox News can thank Donald Trump for this

 Fox News has been having a shit fit since Joe Biden's incredible and fabulously Presidential speech last night, which was vastly superior to any speech Donald Trump gave over the course of his four years occupying the White House.  Apparently, they're just sick and tired of hearing about the 500,000 Americans who have died because of Donald Trump's incompetence, and their tiny little snowflake hearts were grieving because President Biden didn't give President Catastrophe any credit for the vaccine. (Note that Pfizer and Moderna both avoided Trump's vaccine summit because they knew he would fuck up the distribution...and he did.)

Giving Trump credit for the vaccine saving lives would be like Germany giving Adolph Hitler props for committing suicide and hastening the end of World War II in Europe.

Daily Reminder:  Zero Republicans Voted for the COVID-19 Stimulus Package

Peace,

emaycee

Making America Suicidal Again

One hopes Trump won't be bragging about these numbers

A recent study from the Centers for Disease Control shows that suicide is #10 on the leading causes of death in the United States, and is #4 for adults aged 18-65.

While the study makes clear that many factors--and especially family history, depression, and substance abuse--play a role in suicide, and that there is no one reason for it, it also makes clear that job stress and one's socioeconomic status are definitely having an affect on the increasing numbers of Americans committing suicide.

It also gives one reason to pause, as Donald Trump promised his followers that if they put him in the White House those good paying manufacturing and coal jobs that have been disappearing for decades would magically reappear...and they have not.  In fact, 70% of Americans claim that their economic situation has either stayed the same (50%), or worsened (20%), since Trump became President.

Apparently giving big tax cuts to yourself and your family, as well as your wealthy benefactors and corporations, doesn't have quite the upside for those who live on the economic margins and who didn't inherit millions--and more than a little chutzpah--from their fathers.

Fuck Donald Trump,
emaycee

Without comment

Peace,
emaycee