It is FINALLY New Year’s Eve and I am here for it.
It feels like 2025 was three thousand, nine hundred and ninety four years long. ***
Please see footnote for where that number came from. If you know, you know.
This year felt like a long, slow slog through unmentionable farm waste, up to our knees. I’ll say it, a long slow slog through shit. Wow, that felt good to acknowledge and write.
This year, I have seen the meme, is compared to a colonoscopy, without anesthesia.
Yeah, it’s been like that.
These are the waning hours of 2025, may it rot.
Too much has happened to sum up.
Most of it deplorable and served only to line the pockets of the administration. And their families.
Little of what “work” was done this year in Congress was for the American public.
I know and you know what they were doing. They were flooding the zone with shitty legislation and shittier heads of departments that were and are gleefully pulling the guts out of America.
DEI, grant funding, no no words for grants and for the CDC and NIH, yanking people off of healthcare, yanking food out of people’s mouths. Yanking people off the street who had the temerity to be brown.
Women dying from abortion bans continued. That continues to be terrible.
Children dying or being sickened by their own parents’ unforced errors in not vaccinating them with safe, effective vaccines. Instead they listen to a mad man and influencers who don’t know what they are talking about. Follow the money that leads to them. Misinformation kills.
The stupid tariffs that forced many small businesses to close.
The beyond reckless refusal by our government to assist with healthcare subsidies, if a person were to apply and meet the criteria. Even if you do not qualify for the subsidies and used the Affordable Care Act Marketplace to purchase healthcare, your prices have gone up.
I could continue but I won’t. The list is unfortunately very, very, very long.
There were bright spots that we the people made.
The waking up of a lot of people to know that this is wrong.
The pocketbook protesting for one. Especially toward Target and their lack of spine in standing up to the administration. I’ve been keeping lists, as has many others, of places that either give money to the administration or bootlickingly follow the administration edicts.
They don’t need my money and they won’t get it. These companies also won’t get money out of a lot of other people either. Good.
The first No Kings protest on June 14th as people reacted to the stunning shit show and declared that America has no king.
The second No Kings protest on October 18th that affirmed, again, that America has no king.
The smaller protests that are often area specific. The most recent one in Charlotte was actually one in support of Mo Naser, a Greensboro resident who was doing all the right things (he had a permit to work in the US) but still was swept up by ICE in the summer. His deportation case was just dismissed on 12/30/2025. He was detained after ICE got his country of origin wrong. Libya is not Iran.
Oopsy, says ICE, our mistake. Eye roll.
Student walkouts, a lot of them, to demand change. Good for them, we need more of that kind of energy.
2025, you won’t be missed by the vast, vast majority of us. Burn.
2026, please be kinder.
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***(this is a parody number from Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies by Agnes Nutter, Witch. this book, which everyone should read, was written in 1990 by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. yes, that Neil Gaiman. we don’t hold it against the book. in the book, Archbishop James Usher put the creation of the universe at October 21, 4004 BC. if you aren’t going to read the book, at least watch Good Omens on Prime Video starring David Tennant and Michael Sheen. It is amazing.)
Dispatches from the Evening Shift 