Just saw the #Ontario Reagan Tariff World Series commercia. Bravo (Oh) Canada. Trade war or shade war? 😂

Pretty stoked about the lineup for the 2026 Santa Fe International Literary Festival: Alison Bechdel, Judy Blume, Lauren Groff, Carl Hiaasen, Kiese Laymon, James McBride, George Saunders, Colm Toibin, Ocean Vuong, Isabel Wilkerson… and more! Can’t believe it’s Year 5 already! 💙📚 #BookSky

Never imagined that an Instagram account named ‘Houseplants of the Resistance” would resonate so much. 😅

Pretty much sums things up!

This sums up our overall “protesting” experience pretty well — it’s been very therapeutic… a processing of grief on both a personal and societal level.

Talk about symbolically too on the nose… yeesh! 😱

My hubby’s family runs the political spectrum, while we 🏳️‍🌈 were No Kings, his sister was at a gun show in TX, and his brother avoids it all. Thankfully his parents are Democrats, but also tend to avoid uncomfortable political talk (tho it’s all uncomfortable these days) 🤪

What a great way to kick off my birthday at the #NoKings protest in Las Cruces, NM! The biggest crowd yet and such “joyful warrior” spirit! It’s so easy to get down these days and these rallies are such an emotional lift!

An a-ha moment that I’ve had over this past decade or so, is the the GOP are more Old Testament (vengeful god, existential battle of good vs. evil, etc.), while Democrats are more New Testament/Jesus-y (help the poor, welcome the stranger, etc.) 🤔

This actual quote made me LOL and then I thought about how true and unfunny it is. 😂😅

Harvest moon rising over the Organ Mountains - Las Cruces, NM

Me on Facebook of late 😂🤷‍♂️

Sad to see this. Thought it was hokey at first, but then realized that was the whole point, a homage to all the network sitcoms I grew up with, but gay. Very gay. 😂 Gay joy that’s very much needed right now. (And one last great role for Linda Lavin too, RIP) #MidCenturyModern #Hulu

Stormy sunset in Las Cruces, NM

Some news from the Portland war front!

Not my photo, but a very apropos neon light outage at one of our local grocery stores here in Las Cruces.

As the President famously said: Fight, fight, fight.

It’s tasty too! 😂

Shame on HGTV, on this episode of “Zillow Gone Wild” (guilty pleasure, don’t judge 😂). This lady was saying how you can see all the way to Abiquiu from her Taos rooftop deck and the show put up this graphic. 🤦‍♂️ Ummm, there is absolutely no way you could see Albuquerque (or A.B.Q 🤣) from Taos.

Pre-ordered this one and it arrived today. Feels kind of masochistic to read this and Harris’ media day today didn’t necessarily change my mind, but I’ll likely dig in soon.

I swear things seem to be getting more Handmaid's Tale every day, between Melania's lamp shade outfit in the UK and this Kirk memorial service over the weekend.

… from my cold, dead hands 😂 #Tylenol

Squeaked by and allegedly got one of the last sacks of hot Hatch green chile roasted for the 2025 season. 😅🌶️🔥

You’ll never catch me at Chick-Fil-A or Hobby Lobby, but this boycott list is ridiculously unrealistic. Or consider our local TV: Fox & CBS owned by Sinclair (boycott), NBC by Nexstar (behind the Kimmel “cancellation,” - so boycott) so the only option… ABC (boycott along w/Disney, Hulu, ESPN). 🤷‍♂️

Yep! 🤦‍♂️

Another silly laugh 😂

Anything that makes me laugh these days is worth sharing 😂

Through my initial push on today’s Spelling Bee, but now as I try to come up with new words … the four letter C-word is like an ear worm! 😂

Just saw a snippet of Kirk’s wife/widow “address to the nation,” and it was sooooo early Serena Joy from Handmaid’s Tale. Scary. Chilling. 😅

I feel seen 😂

Good one

This Kirk thing is just so 🤯. Family Trumper shared a FB post how we shouldn’t view political opponents as evil, stop idolizing outrage, rebuild mutual respect, etc. Really??! Do they know who and what they voted for? I try to be hopeful, but man this event has been revealing in the worst way.

Had this happen to me as well on two Insta accounts that I suspected, but kept an “open mind” about. But choosing this moment to care about something, when it feels hundreds of things I’ve cared about this year was met with silence was very revealing. 🥲

It’s really exhausting to feel like you have/need to publicly condemn this high profile killing to your “politically diverse” social media “audience,” when they’re all largely silent on the daily atrocities of this administration.

I feel like this is a tipping point/dominos falling, but then I think in our ADHD world we’re currently living in, we’ll all be onto something new and equally awful next week.

The fact that I have always hated conspiracy theorists, the fact that I’m being cynically turned into one is a bit disturbing. But, we have a martyr.

Happy to finally see this renewal as ‘Overcompensating’ was one of the nicest streaming surprises of this year (and was finally something to watch on Amazon Prime).

My phone did a strange long exposure (I think ), but this is actually the moon coming up over the Organ Mountains!

I’ve been back in NM for over a week, but after two weeks of NJ bagels every morning, I’m still going through withdrawal! 😂

I’m guessing the Let’s Go Brandon (aka F*ck Joe Biden) crowd - which took hold during sporting events in 2021 - will be very upset about this loss of free speech and the right to protest. 🤔

Wouldn’t it be nice if absolutely anyone thought these new federal changes would INCREASE health care eligibility!?!?

Given I live in a blue state, I was going to say I’m all for this if this ship we call America and democracy doesn’t correct its course soon(ish). But then I think of all the LGBTQ folks like us and other Democrats … and I really don’t won’t them to be living in Gilead either.

Pitch: Heather Cox Richardson is the heroine in a dystopian novel and Cherry Jones to plays her in the movie version!

My first show I ever saw on Broadway was ‘Evita’ (the original production in the 1980s 😱). If I didn’t already know about this West End production, you’d never EVER (EVER) could have convinced me this was for ‘Evita’

I lost count how many things in this post are beyond parody. 🤦‍♂️

As usual Heather is on point here, I’ve stepped up my social media game highlighting the existential dangers as well as the absurdity of this administration (and that word gives them too much credit). My tone is Billy Joel-esque: “I could be wrong, but I may be right” (Spoiler alert: I’m right) 😂

Thank you Secretary Noem! As a border resident, I didn’t think the 30 FOOT STEEL wall that probably averages 150 DEGREES+ to the touch during our summer was a sufficient enough deterrent! I just hope they don’t know about gloves or try to enter our country illegally during the colder months!

Visiting Mom which unfortunately means some involuntary exposure to Fox News. I was quickly reminded what an utterly miserable person Laura Ingr@h@m is… mocking James Comey, Taylor Swift, and male MN Viking cheerleaders in like less than two minutes. 🤦

Late to the game (not unusual!), but just finished S1 of #GildedAge. But just now learning Louisa Jacobson (Marian) is Meryl Streep’s daughter! 😱 And also that she looks nothing like her character in real life and is also queer! 🏳️‍🌈

Only in New Mexico! 😂