Menstrual products have become more expensive over the past few years, in part due to rising inflation and new tariff policies. The average price of those products — which includes tampons and sanitary pads — has risen nearly 40%. www.cnbc.com/2026/03/22/m...

huh. #time_flies ⌛

Entering the SIXTH hour in the TSA line

I need to finish two assignments (one I missed due to covid last week and one for this week) for an online course I’m taking and l have a migraine and I hate my life. I have all the info spinning in my brain but I just can’t focus enough to put it into writing.

Extra whispers: planes don’t actually need it either

Whispers: Trains don't need heavy security

despite being concentrated in ameria’s largest cities, america’s media is terminally car-brained

I love the idea of freecycle and buynothing. I’ve been a freecycle user since 2003; buynothing since 2018(?). But I really wish there was an amazon locker equivalent for community gifting because the stress and annoyance for a giver organizing pick up is a barrier and disincentive to trashing stuff

Everything Just Got Better.

Pretzel bites back at Costco made my weekend 💕

What do these kind of clouds portend? #mnwx

20 years ago, Steve described this new thing called Twitter to me, and I literally laughed out loud. "I'll give it six months," I believe was my reply. In my defense, he had been on AOL, MySpace, Friendster, Facebook, and maybe more by this point.

It’s fucking March

I felt a little guilty, sort of, almost. Something was wrong, and I hoped it wasn’t about me.

I really liked this recent book on the ancient Persian empire, if you’re seeking a grain of long-distance Context on current events

Idk why I’m still awake. Except, actually, I totally know: recovering from covid and having a bunch of weird med interactions alongside messed up sleep patterns. At least it’s almost the weekend so I can sleeeeeeeeeppppppp 😴

It’s that time again: I’m raising rent relief funds for Minneapolis immigrant families affected by ICE! Donations are down, but ICE is still here and there’s still so much need. Can you help? V: @Ian-Coldwater CA: $iancoldwater PP: @coldwater Please share and help if you can! Thank you! 💛

Well, kiss my ass, I bought a boat I’m going out to sea

The shoe thing is low on the "important global matters" scale, but HIGH on the "I'll take things a deranged Roman emperor would do for $500, Alex" chart.

I just remembered the first time I heard of Pete Hegseth www.bbc.com/news/world-u...

Breaking 🚨 US CITIZEN Sunny Naqvi, born & raised outside Chicago, 2 other citizens & 3 legal residents were detained at O'Hare Airport. CBP took Sunny to Broadview Detention, then moved her to a Wisconsin facility & finally abandoned her at a gas station after 2 days of lies to her family & police.

This helicopter needs to fuck off

Good night Minneapolis 🌈 🌅

2026

ACAB for Cutie

He's just a boy standing in front of a girl pepper spraying screaming for her ID

“She thinks all her boyfriends are so dumb She drinks coca-cola with her Valium” (Pink Bedroom—John Hiatt)

and once again, @katie.bzky.team has been proven correct. These things DO look like dumpsters

Does my mom trying to convince me that noise-cancelling headphones actually cancel ALL the noise count as gaslighting or is it just her hearing is 27 years older than mine? 🤣

this sums up my week

Having literally written the book on the National Prayer Breakfast -- borne of the idea that God cares more for the rich and powerful than everyone else -- I can say this is the rare instance where Trump's grotesqueness is deeply appropriate.

death from disease in concentration camps is so widespread and so predictable that it's pretty clearly a feature, not a bug.

Don’t worry guys, everything is very cool and normal at the Wegman’s parking lot!

Wait. Don Lemon is AT the Grammys? I assumed getting charged with violations of the Klan Act and getting arrested at gunpoint was a clever ruse to get OUT of doing the Grammys.

In the south side of Minneapolis, community members have started setting up filter blockades- which are make shift roundabouts. The intent is to slow down the erratic ICE driving behavior among other things. Full report to come on @statuscoupnews.bsky.social

"Only 10 human cases of Guinea worm were reported worldwide in 2025, the lowest number ever recorded, bringing the ancient disease closer than ever to eradication." We are so close to eradication. What a legacy for President Carter who was so instrumental here. www.cartercenter.org/news/guinea-...

every epstein file drop underscores how elite power operates through shared socio-economic networks, regardless of people's ideological differences, populist posturing, or public feuds

i once bought a new blazer for a schitts creek panel, and when i walked into the green room, catherine o'hara complimented me on it, and also noted that i had forgotten to cut all the threads off the vents. and then she leaned in and said, "it's because you're going to return it, isn't it"

Ahhh, 🧵 after my own 💙

I believe today was Bruce Springsteen's first performance on the First Avenue stage. He is now in the pool of people who could have been in the building as a bus passenger and onstage as a performer, if in his youth he traveled to Minneapolis by bus. That is @garyhornseth.bsky.social's white whale.

Spotted a few random TMBG appreciation posts in my feed in the last couple of days which was lovely and a tiny morale boost 💕

1. Yesterday I was fortunate enough to visit the Alfa Romeo museum in Milan. What a gorgeous museum of design. Over the next few days I'll be posting a thread of pictures from my visit. Here's a teaser.

Even when I can’t really hear the helicopters, I can still hear the helicopters. Anxiety attack 😖 just try to breathe

I was cleaning out some files just now, and came across something that I’m sure my European followers have probably never seen. Behold, the 98-page itemized bill for my kid’s 3-month NICU stay. (Lego Obiwan is there for scale.)

this email offers no details about what the actual offer is and you have to opt in before you find out lol

Time loop episodes are the best episodes