"This is a verified page fundraising support for the Minneapolis Regional Labor Federation, AFL-CIO and Working Partnerships' 2026 rapid response effort to meet the needs of impacted union members, worker center members, and their families..." workingpartnerships.betterworld.org/campaigns/su...

remember in 2026 every day can be Whiskey Friday, with or without Tony Dokoupil.

Honestly I would just like to go back to posting my stupid little bits and having seasonal depression.

third night in a row with low flying circling helicopters shaking the house im ngmi

This is the dynamic across most of America: Liberal cities generate revenue, which state governments then transfer to benefit conservative rural areas, whose residents despite city-dwellers and consistently vote to harm them. But politicians endlessly pander to rural voters and demonize cities.

i dont listen to catholic podcasts but i saw this pull quote + title and downloaded the episode and it was worth it podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

Which types of welfare fraud are politely litigated between white collar lawyers, and which types of welfare fraud are used to justify an immigration purge and shutting off resources to the poor?

it's the big day

we have had three nights of mandatory sacramental prep stuff in a row this week and I would like to curl up into a ball and go to sleep I am so tired of dragging my children out of the house around bedtime and then dealing with the meltdowns

Federal workers called for the Senate to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act would restore collective bargaining rights stripped by Trump’s March 2025 executive order — a move made without Congressional approval. It's time for Congress to act and protect public services. #PassPAWA

working on a variation of the concert/library music finder that specifically looks for local artists who might be playing small shows, which is how I ended up sending an api request for Michelle Obama’s listener count

obviously we should abolish ice but today these losers spent time just driving back and forth in front of/around one of our local elementary schools and they shouldn’t be allowed within 1000 ft of a school, like sex offenders, in addition to being abolished

Please say a prayer for someone being denied cancer care due to insurance bs

whiskey friday and the US conquest of Greenland are, in some sense, the same kind of disaster

This is pretty obvious context that other news agencies need to be crystal clear on: this isn't a hunt for legitimately classified (whether rightly or wrongly) documents, it's a witchhunt to find names of anyone in the fed govt who has been talking to journalists about anything

"Death tolls over Flanders again" by Jules de Bruycker, 1916, depicting the looming specter of mortality that hung over the region during World War I.

i would like the helicopters to go away

we should take away their stoves imo. it’s good for kid asthma rates and it’s also petty af which is my mood these days. “oh I’m not a Trumpist I just have conspiracy theories about mail in voting and government taking my stove” bullshit you’re just as complicit

one of the many things bothering me about Barron’s statement is that misuse of funds is bad and does harm the poor and so ingenuously weaponizing “fraud” to give cover for racism also harms the poor

Paul Osadebe & Palmer Heenan published a whistleblower report in September 2025, exposing fair housing violations at HUD. A week later, they were fired. Sign your name to demand their reinstatement: actionnetwork.org/petitions/fh3 #supportfederalworkers #savepublicservices

The "january" is hitting hard

love 2 b standing outside my classroom in the cold missing my planning time because someone changed the locks without giving me a new one

same damn thing over and over (laundry)

i just think it’s great that they are embracing their inner woman (going to the bathroom in groups)

pretty big turnout this afternoon for a protest vigil that was organized in ~4 days

he shall bring forth justice to the nations, not crying out, not shouting, not making his voice heard in the street. a bruised reed he shall not break, and a smoldering wick he shall not quench, until he establishes justice on the earth; the coastlands will wait for his teaching.

Last week, I biked 14.5 miles and lifted 0.0 lbs. I listened to 6 songs by HAIM while biking and there was no particular top song this week.

As the old socialist Catholic Dominican theologian put it: "As long as Christian morality is thought to be mainly about whether and when people should go to bed, no bishops are going to be crucified. And this is depressing." -- Herbert McCabe, O. P.

One of the reasons I push back as hard as I do on "cities are scary" nonsense is that I do not accept the view that we should treat unfounded fears as legitimate, and we have too long indulged the unfounded, racist fears of conservatives. And that in turn is leading to a moment...

"i asked chatgpt" well I asked amy klobuchar and she threw a stapler at my head

packing sucks

kids are playing hide and seek. except they found this fun new hiding spot so they keep hiding in it over and over. 4yo is trying to convince 2yo to go hide somewhere else while 4yo stays in the (known) new spot, thinking this will solve the problem of being found quickly

After Minneapolis, now the ICE shooting on Christmas Eve in Maryland is getting some scrutiny from local police: “…county police confirmed The Banner’s reporting that the second person injured in the encounter was already in ICE custody, in one of the agency’s vehicles, when he was hurt.”

/4 Trump and ICE and the rest of the fascist scum can murder and lie and oppress, but they can’t kill that decency that some real Americans have. They don’t have it, they are inadequate without it, and it infuriates them. But they can’t kill it.

been a real long week but it’s Friday which means I’m ordering pizza for dinner

"What a year, huh?" "Captain, it's January 9th."

My anger at having to stand outside my kid’s school for two hours to ensure none of their classmates, parents, or teachers get kidnapped by my own government is only slightly tempered by the amazing outpouring of support from other parents and especially neighbors who stand against this bullshit.

we are funnier and smarter and kinder and also hotter imo

From fraud and violence he shall redeem them, and precious shall their blood be in his sight. May they be prayed for continually; day by day shall they bless him.

So, instead of falling prey to a sense of powerlessness or helplessness in the midst of persecution, suffering, struggles and oppression, this is why people throughout Latin America and elsewhere proclaim, “Viva Cristo Rey!” www.cathstan.org/voices/glory...

We believe there is always time to repent and turn back to the good. We’ll have some ashes ready for you too

men who suck want to coerce women to stay through violence or financial abuse

mornings like these it is really nice to wake up next to a very cuddly 4 year old

if you see this, I prayed for you at adoration tonight ❤️

I’m reminded I’m not “allowed” to scream “you’re all going to Hell for this” to most of the people I talk to, professionally

“We pray for God’s mercy on the members of our diocesan family currently held in immigration detention: Juan, Jose, Pedro, Ayoub, Mo, Barbod, Milad, Sahel, Asra, Amir, Hana, Sared, and their families.” The diocesan office will provide regular updates on their status and well-being.

"I urge any who are involved in the administration of the current immigration enforcement regime at any level to seek the counsel of their clergy, given my urgent pastoral concern for the moral and spiritual injury that their participation is causing them." - Bp. Rob Price of Dallas, 1/1/2026

fool you once, shame on me, fool me twice, shame on you, fool me ten thousand times and I might be a Democratic Party US Senator

the baby is trying to convince me that she needs to “sit potty. watch beeball” but unfortunately for her it’s not baseball season