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MiracleCharlie

@miraclecharlie.bsky.social
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I'll need to think on this. I read. A lot. I used to sing. A lot. I write - just for me. I'm a gay man past 40 - so, basically, dead.

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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 17h
Yes, it is She. Happiness personified. My TV idle screen. When first it came up, my sister said, "Charlie, there's your friend!" Her Grace, Duchess Goldblatt, now graces my TV, and brings me much needed joy during these tough times.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If I coulda been what I shoulda been, this would be the stage of my career at which I'd be coming back for that one more encore the 54 BELOW audience demanded at my sold out cabaret & doing yet one more version of I'M STILL HERE. (Though, only barely at this point.)
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I wish I thought people weren't gullible enough - or so very eager to continue supporting someone who hates the same people they do- to fall for this latest batch of lies & promises to send them a little money, but, history has proved again & again they are eager to vote for their oppressors.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Well, I told you he'd start ranting about sending gays out of the country. His fascist handlers had him float the first salvo today, couched in a deniable way- but the roar from the crowd means it will soon be in every speech & get more specific & ugly, which means more violence against LGBTQIA.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Chilblain is a word NYTBEE. Jeesh, you shouldn't annoy me first thing in the day like this.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The DARVO culture is a major part of what leads me to believe we cannot heal the epidemic of division. When we've a government full of narcissistic hypocrites/liars, reshaping the world in their image, what hope is there? cornell. trump. cosby. manning. penn state. jim jordan ohio state. Etc.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
musk coming back to asshat right before the elections. How much more proof does anyone need they're planning to finish the overthrow.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We have not been a civilized nation for some time, but had you any doubt, this week bogus-scotus ok'd deporting children, deporting people to death camps in hostile nations they've never been to, & enforcing the death penalty. Not to mention the blatantly ignorant sec of defense & dementia-potus.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
hegseth actually said: “We are no longer the woke department… no fatties no trannies no beardos no weirdos no wimps no radicals. Just warriors." "With testosterone testing on top." And set up a religious affairs office. I mean ... what sort of rabbithole to hell have we tumbled down?
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
3rd country deportations approved by scotus. Federal judges in Minnesota targeted by doj. Failure of congress to stop war in Iran or the demolition of national monuments like the Kennedy Center. If you don't understand that November is the planned takeover by fascists - you're not paying attention.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I just called eric schmitt's senate office at 202-224-5721 to tell him that he disgraced himself and the nation at the hearing yesterday when he tried to destroy Jack Smith, & that he's making it even worse by continuing to insist he was right to lie & slander. What an asshat.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The magat-gopzi determination to destroy Jack Smith - and in doing so, continue to deny the reality of their malfeasance & the criminality of their fuhrer & themselves, while 10 thousand ice agents terrorize the nation & deport children - HOW THE FUCK DID WE BECOME THIS COUNTRY? Shame on all of us.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I made @smittenkitchen.bsky.social Apple Cake. It didn't look quite like theirs, but it is the BEST apple cake I have ever eaten.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
My friend, author Melinda Beatty, disrespected in our home town. I could not be more disappointed. Although, lately, such insults to literacy and inclusivity and empathy and common human decency seem the rule rather than the exception.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I pre-ordered from @curiousiguana.com - because ELIZABETH MCCRACKEN - I'm told it will happen November 3, and I've been looking for things to look forward to. (That was some awkward syntax, yes? To which to look forward? Whatever.)This will help me to keep going through October, so, win win.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I have made a tower of May Sarton; My heart, in quiet keening, impels me to learn songs others have sung in the long forsaking hours. These days, aching with approaching goodbyes, I devour lessons on departing; I have made a tower of May Sarton; My heart, which once sang, sings no more.
A stack of May Sarton works. Poetry and memoir, much of it written when she was past 70.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Here's how my day is going - I've changed my sister's clothes twice already.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
These demons are doing EXACTLY what they said they'd do - & anyone who voted for them- or for any republican in the last 12 years- is complicit. The timing of this on light of the Cornell revelation- further removing protections against sexual assault. Unbelievable. And yet, totally on brand.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
1) I was 17 months old when my father had his 3rd & final drunk driving accident. He left me mother with 5 & 7/9ths children. 2 months later she had my baby sister & her first nervous breakdown. My two oldest sisters, 11 & 13 at the time, took on most of the care of me & younger sister, an infant.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Today's scotus ruling may be the end. He's now basically been given a green light to call the November elections invalid. Honestly, between this and my daily life, I'm pretty much done. I feel so hopeless and sad, I'm lost.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Well, at least Ryan Murphy's script admitted it was freely borrowing from Tennessee Williams for Jessica Lange's Constance character. The entire show was more or less nonsense, but the cast makes it must-see. Jessica turns that shit into gold. It's amazing. Some of her lines were like - WTF?
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Someone very wise once wrote (or quoted, or paraphrased - I can't recall): "You'd be ever so much happier if you learned to accept things rather than expect things."
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Happy Birthday, dear @glendaburgess.bsky.social . May your world be ever steady on, no wobbles. All my love and good wishes.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
1 of 3 Last night, 2 dear friends w/whom I'm in a more or less daily text chain, who are also caring for elder relatives, mentioned May Sarton. So, I dug out some of mine, & opened AT SEVENTY, because maybe I'll make it, & my sister is 76, & Sarton lived happily into her 90s and ...
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
www.washingtonblade.com/2026/09/19/h...
washingtonblade.com
Over 2,000 turn out for Hands Around the Kennedy Center protest
Drag performer Tara Hoot serves as MC, Gay Men’s Chorus of DC performs, attendees shout for Trump to keep 'hands off' Kennedy Center
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
If I did not have sole responsibility for caring for my chair-bound sister, I would be at the Kennedy Center, joined in a chain of protesters surrounding it, camping out, until I knew it was safe from a cognitively eroded narcissistic egomaniac & his fascist followers.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I'm unclear why it's only msnow & a very few other sources noting that the administration and gop are white nationalist racist fascists determined to undermine democracy. And they're step by step shaping the military & ice to undo or outright suspend elections. This isn't politics. It's an overthrow
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
All the books I'm trying to read right this second. And failing cuz ... doesn't matter, I'm just not getting to reading as much as I want to be getting to reading and so the not getting to reading is getting to me and thus I must be getting to reading so I'm not gotten to by not getting to it.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
I miss the Fall Preview TV Guide. That's how old I am.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I long for the days when it was about "may the best person win" choices between people it didn't make you didn't feel dirty rooting for. Now it's, "may the least awful person win" & "is it possible for no one to win?" Too often it feels as if no matter who wins, decency loses. And so do we.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#GettingFree Purging. Relieving myself of stuff. Yesterday gave 5 books from my "favorites" shelf to my younger sister to travel w/in her RV through Oct., read, & find others to whom to pass them on. And curated my dresser. 2 huge garbage bags to charity shop & all my drawers close w/room to spare.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I finally made the @smittenkitchen.bsky.social Peach Loaf. It is everything promised.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
There is no joy in Mudville; mighty Carlos has struck out.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Xfinity/Comcast is making me INSANE. We've had 4 tech visits in the last month. And yet for the last 2 nights as I'm TRYING to watch the USOpen in the few unstressed hours of my day- the router starts dropping EVERYTHING. Can't stream. Can't watch cable. AND NO ONE EVER FIXES IT. Is Fios better?
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Felicitate is indeed a word NYTBEE.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I'm purging the apartment; reorganizing as if I'd be moving in near future. I need someone to explain to me what to do with the books I'll probably never read again but can't let go of- and they number in the hundreds. Some of monetary value. But mostly emotional. How do I let go? This is too hard.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Hey there @budzilla.com - sorry I missed the day and the call. Much happiness and birthday joy to you!
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Watching a loved one decompensate, bit by bit, is hard. Watching a president do it and no one seeming to care, is outrageously unbelievably infuriating. We would remove a senior behaving as he is from their home if the family was allowing it- how is no one acting on this? It's crazy to me.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I've been saying it since reagan - these moralizing-christers demonize POC, women, lgbtqia people to distract from their wealth & power building- like religion has done since jump, they're distracting we peasants w/bs causes while they enslave & disempower us. An ICE voter database? We're fucked.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It is daunting and saddening to realize you are of an age where you will not live to see repaired the criminal, amoral, immoral, inexcusable damage being purposely done to this country & the world. I am really struggling with this. It feels like a personal failure I was here & didn't stop it.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
youtu.be/FOpejqnXHGQ?...
youtu.be
📖 Ralph Fiennes reads ‘A Poem on Hope’ by Wendell Berry for 5x15 at the Royal Institution
YouTube video by That’s Poetry
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Also a word. And one you've accepted before.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Uhm... surely, in this world we live in, it should INDEED be on the allowed word list. I mean, TWATS are running the country, most corporations, hell, almost everything. It shouldn't be the case, but it is, so, yeah, TWAT needs to be allowed.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I have been trying to get my sister the meds for her UTI since Thursday. Medical practice FINALLY - after 8 calls between Thursday and today- called it in. In pill form. Which is on record she can't swallow. She is so weak I have to lift her, and so confused she seems to have dementia. NONE OF-
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Carlos is back. And more twink porn-y than ever.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
If you've not bought from Manderley Press, I urge you to do so. I mean, re-issuing Helene Hanff feels like a personal to me declaration of love. But that's only the beginning of their treasures. #ReasonsToBelieve
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
This brought me all the joy this morning. #ReasonsToBelieve Congratulations dear, dear friend, Glenda.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
UTIs are the bane of caretakers of senior women. The symptoms do not manifest in the senior population like they do in younger women. Sudden onset of weakness. Confusion. It can be so many things and so scary but it's often a UTI. Ugh.
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MiracleCharlie @miraclecharlie.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Most of what she did, she did quietly. She didn't post about it. She didn't virtue signal. Do more. Post less.
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Erika Swyler @erikaswyler.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
sadness aside (and there's quite a bit) it's remarkable to see such public mourning for someone so beloved; in a perfect world this would inspire others to try to live in such a caring and generous way.
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