Judith Mary Gee

Culture vulture, publishing and advertising professional, tofu eater

[Arnold Schwarzenegger @Schwarzenegger]

I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians.

I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor.

My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California.

That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people.

Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime.

It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand.

I want to tune out.

But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious.

And I will always be an American before I am a Republican.

That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz.

I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious.

For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing.

The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better.

It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed!

But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems.

It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful.

We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger.

That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz.

Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us.

And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. https://t.co/eHFZ723I4H

[Judith Mary Gee @JudithMaryGee]

Max MacDonald’s “Gigastructures” went live yesterday on Spotify, Apple Music, and Amazon.
“Gigastructures” was previously released on Bandcamp.
I provided the voice.
I am grateful to the talented and creative souls who have invited me out to play. https://t.co/MhPYvX6kqO

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You can hear “Scrimshaw” (a poem that appears in my chapbook, Edges of Wanting) on Bandcamp. If you are in Canada, you can also hear “Scrimshaw” on https://t.co/StOZGw41SP and Spotify. “Scrimshaw” may also be floating around elsewhere.

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Are We Hardwired for Poetry? | Psychology Today https://t.co/qG6fyhOUht

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[Brigid Bergin @brigidbergin]

I miss you, friend.

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Photographer Documenting the Homeless Discovers Her Own Father Among Them https://t.co/FKZ2vqdN2q via @mymodernmet

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For many years, I wondered what it would be like to work on a project with musicians.

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Ballerinas flood NYC's Plaza Hotel to stomp a Guinness World Record on their tiptoes https://t.co/0QylFRzPVI via @gothamist

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Here is a poem of mine set to music.

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US changes how it categorizes people by race and ethnicity. It's the first revision in 27 years https://t.co/4JEI3BMeDW

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The Chronicler of Asian America: Hua Hsu on Photographer and Activist Corky Lee https://t.co/K6pvywhxyr via @lithub

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Wach Baby Peregrine Falcons Hatch and Grow on a 24/7 Livestream https://t.co/WqUvnoFja1 via @untappedny

[Leonard Bernstein @LennyBernstein]

Happy #TeachMusicWeek! 👩‍🏫🎼🧑‍🏫🎶

"Teach people to read music. It’s not so difficult, and it’s perfectly possible to include the reading of music in the basic materials of education."
-Leonard Bernstein
Music Should Be Listened To, Not Heard (1959)

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Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. https://t.co/Cl2YYYytzh

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For centuries, owls were considered to bring bad luck in many cultures as well as in the US, but the outpouring of grief in New York over Flaco shows how times have changed https://t.co/U8LZHBamtS via @ConversationUS

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It has been reported Aaron Taylor-Johnson, whom Uncle Kim and I met when Aaron was a kid, will be the next James Bond.

Aaron was a lovely and respectful child. I was quite impressed.

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Casimir Funk's 140th Birthday https://t.co/rtXpBS84YG