From the green in New Haven, CT:

I've made a commitment to make one drawing a day for the entirety of this administration. These are the last few weeks of drawings, including text pieces with the names of everyone detained at Alligator Alcatraz. Sometimes I just draw my dog or my son to take a break from the relentless bad news.

This is why they’re deleting studies

The problem with allowing guns everywhere is that no one is safe anywhere.

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

My dog turned 1 last weekend and even though she went to a protest, she has no idea about anything in the world except she was gifted a bunny.

New Haven, CT.

If you’re undocumented, don’t march tomorrow. Stay home. Let the rest of us get this one. Solidarity ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼

"I was always saying dramatic things like, I am recovering from childbirth because he could not see the simplest, most basic facts about my existence, and so he sighed" There's still time for @cindyhouse.bsky.social's CHIPMUNK in our MAY ISSUE while it's here: buff.ly/xHUnBCs

If the Proud Boys get rich off insurrecting, I'm going to lose it.

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Every day, some new horror. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

New England and Boston writers-friends: Join us at 2 p.m. tomorrow in Concord, MA at the Concord Free Public Library for a writing event featuring the wonderful @cindyhouse.bsky.social @demisty.bsky.social & Alysia Abbott. Come say hi! Come write! (& pass the word along!)

An all-star event at the Concord Free Public Library at 2 p.m. on Saturday May 31 in Concord, MA! @cindyhouse.bsky.social @demisty.bsky.social & Alysia Abbott will be reading & sharing writing prompts. Come for conversation & community & powerful storytelling.

I'm thrilled to have a new piece at Split Lip Magazine. splitlipthemag.com/memoir/0525/...

The felon, obsessed with locking other people up. www.yahoo.com/news/trump-s...

Dear god let this man cook.

Is Kilmar Abrego Garcia alive? Because the amount of resistance to addressing his being trafficked gives the distinct impression that either he is dead or what they have done to him is so unspeakable that they cannot afford for him to be freed, seen, or spoken with.

I just met with the Vice President of El Salvador as we fight for the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia. I’m speaking to the press now with the latest on our efforts. Tune in here:

This is what's left of the Gumby toy I bought my dog.

Can not read the news without constantly whispering the swear my son made up when he was five and new to cursing: oh my fuck.

I'm so sick of feeling furiously anxious, anxiously furious.

Dear Manager, 1. I drank a whiskey drink. 2. I drank a vodka drink. 3. I drank a lager drink. 4. I drank a cider drink. 5. I sang the songs that remind me of the good times; I sang the songs that remind me of the better times.

And I am an ally. If you are too, let the world know.

Dog with strawberry yak chewy, annoyed that I am taking yet another photo of her.

Out of nowhere, I keep thinking of this video my kid made when he was 9 where he just looked into the camera, said, "Suddenly, I cannot..." and then pretended to fall unconscious on the floor.

Our emotional reserves are depleted just from living in America right now. If small daily challenges seem harder, if you're crying more, if you feel enraged over tiny inconveniences, you're not alone.

The puppy got her first haircut and looks like a completely different dog now.

17-yr-old: I think all the billionaires should be turned into a giant obelisk that the poor get to eat. Me: It probably wouldn't taste very good. 17-yr-old: We could season it well.

I've been nauseous since Monday.

Trump is deporting the guy who mows your lawn but releasing the guy who bashed a police officer’s head in back to your community.

So far, it's pretty much every bit as bad as we thought it would be.

Joy Reid: "You can't purchase adoration." The streets of Washington DC are DESERTED for trump.

I finally deactivated my twitter account after seeing a thread where people said Hegseth would be the best secretary of defense ever because he seemed sober at Arlington today.

I feel more dread today than I've felt since the election. The next four years are going to be a lot.

My colleague in the MFA program where I teach said to our graduates, on the subject of their postgraduate writing practice, "Roll in it like a dog in something dead." And now that's the vibe I'm taking into every class I teach and every word I write for this godforsaken year.

I teach in a low residency MFA program. Every single time I listen to the graduating student readings, my eyes well up when each writer thanks their family and friends. Do something hard this year that requires you to thank people for their support.

My sister-in-law's dog looking at my puppy, wondering who brought the maniac to the party?

It's a Christmas miracle. The puppy doesn't give a shit about the Christmas tree and has not attacked it once.

"Reading the news seemed to me like looking out the window to see if we would crash and not reading the news was lying on the floor of the car, waiting for it to crash." ~Alexander Chee

Last night, while having dinner with David Sedaris, he hands the wine list back to the waiter and says, "We won't be needing this. We're tragic alcoholics."

I want to both stop time so January never comes and also speed it up so we're already on the other side of the next 4 years. I just still can't believe this is where we are.

When your puppy matches the decor in the home of your Thanksgiving host.

Found in my father's boxes of slide photography 30 years after his death.

As I get ready to delete my account at the awful place, let me just settle in here at Blue Sky with my favorite tweet from the past. (Me and David Sedaris, Backstage at The Bushnell Theater, Hartford, November 2022, photo by V.Stembridge)

You don't have to read every article under every terrifying headline. We have four years to endure. Give yourself days off. Scroll quickly when the dread is too much.