Well, this is the last weekend of the Biden adminstration. *sigh* I will be working MLK day, so I can ignore the news that day. Enjoy your holiday weekend however you can. Maybe there will be good MLK parades where you are.
Lunar New Year doesn't technically start until January 29th this year, but my local Asian mall celebrates early starting this weekend. (They're trying to spread out the crowds over 2 different weekends and maximize shoppers probably.) I'm sure it'll be swamped at that mall, so I won't try to go. I'll be celebrating Lunar New Year with my family next week.
It's so sad about the continued California wildfires, though, which are so much worse than previous years. The shitty right-wingers are spreading lies to blame it on wokeness. Fuck them.
I was hesitant to react to the ceasefire deal for Gaza, because it sounded like so many promises of "agreement on principles" before. Plus Netanyahu said something about it not being a done deal yet, but then the Parliament passed it, so I guess it's real now. I'm glad the hostages will be freed and that the war will end, but I'm still skeptical that Israel will abide by the deal, or if they'll try to scuttle it during the "second phase". I hope the Palestinians can rebuild and survive to a better administration, not so corrupted by racists, rapists, and oligarchs. I always hope that someday that there will actual be a two-state solution, like how the Irish Troubles finally ended after decades. Someday, maybe, the Palestinians can be free and the US can stop enabling Israel's apartheid. I don't know that it'll be within my lifetime, though.
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