Why my head hurts: This exchange just happened Thursday on the Senate floor.

[EuterpeThelo]

17. Infuriating

My last name is hyphenated to honor my life partner of 20+ years who I lost to COVID thanks to the weaponized incompetence of this orange sack of oozing, toxic pus. For personal reasons, we never legally married but we did do a handfasting, which, in my eyes, is equally if not even more valid as it doesn't have the expiration date of "til death" attached. Changing my name was in accordance with his wishes. He's been gone almost six years and I still feel a swell of pride every time I write my name, because it was a gift he gave to me (while also retaining same from my dad, whom I also loved fiercely). No way am I dishonoring him by giving that up.

My family has been in the U.S. since 1624 if these jagoffs want to get into "citizenship."