This is the same Greece that is rejecting (or outright murdering) immigrants?
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Well damn–
Tirado wrote that she was “getting ready to die” in a 13 June post on her Substack. “I don’t feel lucky, or unlucky. I feel like the sweeping notes in the Flower Song, the Nessun Dorma, anything that Vivaldi ever wrote.
“I feel nothing but joy and peace and pain and fear, all of it all at once so that it bleeds into itself and can only be described as emotion raw and pure and beautiful and perfect, and also fleeting,” she wrote.
She has two daughters, a husband, and of course her many fans who have been pitching in to cover her medical bills.
I followed her work, for a while, and she’s been a truth-telling spitfire.
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Damn, that’s so sad. I too have followed her work, including by reading her great book. I didn’t realize she’s so young. I was horrified when she was shot (Fuck the police!), but also inspired by her chutzpah in the face of it. She’s a great witness, writer and reporter. At any rate, thanks, I’ll look for where to donate.
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Pat : What are you doing with all those travel folders?
Janis <at the kitchen table, surrounded by travel folders>: Studying.
Pat: Studying what?
Janis: Where we should move.
Pat: We’re moving?
Janis: Just in case.
Pat: Just in case of what?
Janis: You know. Just in case. You know.
Pat: Oh. That.
Janis: Yep. That.
Pat: Where are you thinking?
Janis: Well, it needs to be somewhere that people are still civil.
Pat : Ireland was good for that.
Janis: And I was thinking maybe somewhere we don’t know anybody. You know. Just in case.
Pat: Don’t be silly. Where don’t we know anybody?
Janis : I was thinking of the Scandiniski countries.
Pat : Like…?
Janis : Like Daneland!!! Where the Denmarkians live! I’ve never met one I didn’t like!
Pat : Have you ever even met a… uh… Denmarkian?
Janis: Yes of course. When I played the capital.
Pat: Which was…
Pat : Copen… Copen…
Janis: Aha! Copingwitheverything! Just like their school system. And their government!
Pat: The language is apparently very difficult to learn.
Janis: Oh. Well, but we could try. Or we could think about Norland! An awful lot of people have visited there and liked it! I was just reading about it. And they have loads of old cars like Fords, you love vintage cars, Pat!
Pat: Norland. Yes. Lots of Fords. Sounds interesting. But again, a different language. And we’re in our 70’s. You can’t expect everyone to speak English, Janis, it’s not right.
Janis: Well, okay then. But look at this brochure, Pat. This place has everything. I mean, it’s perfect! It’s got oceans, and mountains, and warm weather, and lots of artists, and we could drive there just in case…
Pat : Honey, that’s California.
Janis : It is not. It’s the wrong shape. See how it curves outwards?
Pat : Janis. The map is upside down.
Janis : Are you quite sure?
Pat: Quite sure.
Janis: And it’s not another country?
Pat: Not at present.
Janis: Well. There’s always hope.
Pat: Yes. There is always hope.
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The leading third party candidate 
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lies.
she could have dissented.
she chose to subvert our democracy and invalidate our constitution and can’t even take accountability for her own decisions.
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Deleted. Do you have the full text local to paste it in?
I don’t. I’m going to just delete the post
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co-author of The People’s Republic of Walmart
Full title is " The People’s Republic of Walmart: How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism"
And also
Austerity ecology & the collapse-porn addicts: A defence of growth, progress, industry and stuff
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Apparently, not a good enough science journalist to know or ask an expert about rate of extinction. Like how the current rate of extinction is faster than when a giant meteor struck the earth causing mass extinction of dinosaurs.
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