Jayce, The Tiny Soul

yeah this is where this was always gonna fuckin go, unfortunately

I had no idea he was gay but he was married to a man named Tristan Kern de Gonzales (on valentines day 2025!)

They lived in San Antonio Texas where his family is from and he grew up. He was 59.

In Janurary 2025 his home was burned down which made news. It killed some of his beloved dogs. He didnt elaborate beyond he believed it was arson (gofundme is still up and i suggest donating to help his funeral costs and his husband

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Now we know he and his husband had been threatened by several neighbors for being queer. They told pigs, pigs being pigs did nothing before or after it happened.

Yesterday Joss and his husband went to check their mailbox wherein they found one of their dogs skulls (statement from his husband

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As they weeped and mourned in shock, a neighbor, Sigfredo Alvarez Ceja, came out and aimed at de Gonzales…but Hoss jumped in front of the bullet and was instantly killed.

Ceja, homophobia murdering coward, tried to take off but de Gonzales had called pigs who vaguely tried to do something. He was arrested and his bail set for $200k. Or as my sister said who the fuck sets bail for a murderer?

San Antonio.

De Gonzales is clearly mourning, posting pics on Hoss’ fb page. This one really struck me

This is why we need pride people, and not rainbow capitalism. Please donate to the gofundme and let san antonio cops knows what you think. De Gonzales said multiple neighbors had threatened them…id like to see those people investigated for arson.

Someone over on bluesky posted this and I figured I'd better repost it here. It's the pre-RFK 2025 vaccination schedule for babies and young children, ya know, just in case it mysteriously disappears. Save this and give it to your child's pediatrician; tell them this is the schedule you want your child on.

There are people – some in my own Party – who think that if you just give Donald Trump everything he wants, he’ll make an exception and spare you some of the harm. I’ll ignore the moral abdication of that position for just a second to say — almost none of those people have the experience with this President that I do. I once swallowed my pride to offer him what he values most — public praise on the Sunday news shows — in return for ventilators and N95 masks during the worst of the pandemic. We made a deal. And it turns out his promises were as broken as the BIPAP machines he sent us instead of ventilators. Going along to get along does not work – just ask the Trump-fearing red state Governors who are dealing with the same cuts that we are. I won’t be fooled twice.

I’ve been reflecting, these past four weeks, on two important parts of my life: my work helping to build the Illinois Holocaust Museum and the two times I’ve had the privilege of reciting the oath of office for Illinois Governor.

As some of you know, Skokie, Illinois once had one of the largest populations of Holocaust survivors anywhere in the world. In 1978, Nazis decided they wanted to march there.

The leaders of that march knew that the images of Swastika clad young men goose stepping down a peaceful suburban street would terrorize the local Jewish population – so many of whom had never recovered from their time in German concentration camps.

The prospect of that march sparked a legal fight that went all the way to the Supreme Court. It was a Jewish lawyer from the ACLU who argued the case for the Nazis – contending that even the most hateful of speech was protected under the first amendment.

As an American and a Jew, I find it difficult to resolve my feelings around that Supreme Court case – but I am grateful that the prospect of Nazis marching in their streets spurred the survivors and other Skokie residents to act. They joined together to form the Holocaust Memorial Foundation and built the first Illinois Holocaust Museum in a storefront in 1981 – a small but important forerunner to the one I helped build thirty years later.

I do not invoke the specter of Nazis lightly. But I know the history intimately — and have spent more time than probably anyone in this room with people who survived the Holocaust. Here’s what I’ve learned – the root that tears apart your house’s foundation begins as a seed – a seed of distrust and hate and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe a lifetime ago didn’t arrive overnight. It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

I’m watching with a foreboding dread what is happening in our country right now. A president who watches a plane go down in the Potomac – and suggests — without facts or findings — that a diversity hire is responsible for the crash. Or the Missouri Attorney General who just sued Starbucks – arguing that consumers pay higher prices for their coffee because the baristas are too “female” and “nonwhite.” The authoritarian playbook is laid bare here: They point to a group of people who don’t look like you and tell you to blame them for your problems.

I just have one question: What comes next? After we’ve discriminated against, deported or disparaged all the immigrants and the gay and lesbian and transgender people, the developmentally disabled, the women and the minorities – once we’ve ostracized our neighbors and betrayed our friends – After that, when the problems we started with are still there staring us in the face – what comes next.

All the atrocities of human history lurk in the answer to that question. And if we don’t want to repeat history – then for God’s sake in this moment we better be strong enough to learn from it.

I swore the following oath on Abraham Lincoln’s Bible: “I do solemnly swear that I will support the constitution of the United States, and the constitution of the state of Illinois, and that I will faithfully discharge the duties of the office of Governor .... according to the best of my ability.

My oath is to the Constitution of our state and of our country. We don’t have kings in America – and I don’t intend to bend the knee to one. I am not speaking up in service to my ambitions — but in deference to my obligations.

If you think I’m overreacting and sounding the alarm too soon, consider this:

It took the Nazis one month, three weeks, two days, eight hours and 40 minutes to dismantle a constitutional republic. All I’m saying is when the five-alarm fire starts to burn, every good person better be ready to man a post with a bucket of water if you want to stop it from raging out of control.

Those Illinois Nazis did end up holding their march in 1978 – just not in Skokie. After all the blowback from the case, they decided to march in Chicago instead. Only twenty of them showed up. But 2000 people came to counter protest. The Chicago Tribune reported that day that the “rally sputtered to an unspectacular end after ten minutes.” It was Illinoisans who smothered those embers before they could burn into a flame.

Tyranny requires your fear and your silence and your compliance. Democracy requires your courage. So gather your justice and humanity, Illinois, and do not let the “tragic spirit of despair” overcome us when our country needs us the most.

Sources:

• NBC Chicago & J.B. Pritzker, Democratic governor of Illinois, State of the State address 2025: Watch speech here | Full text

Been listening to a bit of Stein and his scientist series, and I'm kinda in the groove of it. You're in a cage or a holding area for a while until they come in, but despite them being about 3 times your size, they're cautious. They make sure not to grab or push too hard as they know how frail your body is compared to theirs. sometimes depending on your co-operation, they might not even put you back in the holding area. They might let you sit on their lap and overlook their research on you, maybe even ask a few questions while doing so to help their understanding of you. After a bit of time, you're given full access to the laboratory and are allowed to roam and, as such, just follow the scientist around like a chick follows a hen, watching them do their work and asking the occasional question about the experiments going on.

One night you're stuggling to sleep you walk around trying to find the scientist but can't. you go back to your room and see their coat on a chair, you're tired but still struggling to fall asleep so you decide to take their coat. you wrap yourself up in it and walk back to bed. you don't know what it is but, the scent of the coat calms you, maybe it's a chemical experiment, maybe it's a pheromone, or maybe it's just the thought of them being there because you smell them, but it doesn't matter you fall asleep with their coat acting as a blanket.

One day the scientists says they need to run some errands on a planet and ask if you want to come with them. You say yes and they explain that before you can leave the ship, you need to receive a couple of vaccinations to prevent you from getting sick.

You’re at first fine with it, but you then see them pull out a syringe with a need the length of your forearm, you start to get nervous just at the sight of the needle and ask if there’s any other alternative.

It takes them a second to realize the needle is what scaring you and then call in another scientists to help with your vaccinations. As you basically plead with them to not use it, the scientist says “you’ll end up needing these shots regardless, so please, hold still, and i promise this will all be over quickly”

Through your tears, you comply but the scientist can’t help but feel bad, so they grab you, hold you close to their chest, and keep your face buried. They gently stroke your hair and say “if you need to scream, do it, just don’t move your arms okay?”

You nod your head as you anticipate the needle, the first one pokes you skin, then the second one. You keep your face buried deep into their chest trying not to imagine the size of the needles. You feel another shot before you hear the scientists say “there, now you’re fully vaccinated”

You pull your face out of their chest and they look at you, they keep petting your hair and say “you were such a good boy/girl for me, i’m sorry that was so scary.” You ask if you can be held for a while longer because you’re still shaky. “Of course, we can sit here for as long as you need to feel better.”

Been listening to a bit of Stein and his scientist series, and I'm kinda in the groove of it. You're in a cage or a holding area for a while until they come in, but despite them being about 3 times your size, they're cautious. They make sure not to grab or push too hard as they know how frail your body is compared to theirs. sometimes depending on your co-operation, they might not even put you back in the holding area. They might let you sit on their lap and overlook their research on you, maybe even ask a few questions while doing so to help their understanding of you. After a bit of time, you're given full access to the laboratory and are allowed to roam and, as such, just follow the scientist around like a chick follows a hen, watching them do their work and asking the occasional question about the experiments going on.

One night you're stuggling to sleep you walk around trying to find the scientist but can't. you go back to your room and see their coat on a chair, you're tired but still struggling to fall asleep so you decide to take their coat. you wrap yourself up in it and walk back to bed. you don't know what it is but, the scent of the coat calms you, maybe it's a chemical experiment, maybe it's a pheromone, or maybe it's just the thought of them being there because you smell them, but it doesn't matter you fall asleep with their coat acting as a blanket.