The thing about this kind of mass sincerity and earnestness on the part of all these brave people hitting the streets in Minnesota and everywhere else is that it's going to make disingenuous lizards like Newsom look unfit for the times. Heaven help us if the party doesn't match this energy.

"well what can these poor baby smol bean elected officials do 🥺" they should be in the streets getting tear gassed with their constituents and i'm not kidding

Curious if the @nytimes.com will consider the execution of Americans in the street by paramilitary forces to be as big of a problem as Oberlin sophomores saying “from the river to the sea”

the plight of the behonkered woman. trying to minimize the appearance of the honkers for propriety’s sake only draws more attention to them. the honkers rule your life no matter what

I can’t wait to wean this baby and once I do, nobody better touch my fucking boobs ever again.

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

be the Sebastian Bach guest starring on the Gilmore Girls you want to see in the world

"Abolish ICE" is the moderate position. "Try everyone involved in ICE for crimes against humanity" is the progressive one.

My 4yo while giving me a spontaneous huge hug, lovingly: “You smell disGUSTing.”

Laughing at one’s own jokes is frowned upon, but I actually think it’s hostile when people DON’T do that. Make a joke and then just stare at me, straight-faced while I laugh at it? Ew, go away with your weird power trip.

I actually don't want to appeal to the votes of people who see members of their communities being violently kidnapped or brutally murdered and are undecided on whether that's a good or bad thing or respond by saying they "don't do politics."

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

THIIIIIIISSSS, I have traveled solo everywhere and lived alone in some dodgy places, I have never once felt the need! I think about this every time one of these men talks about “self defense.”

Every time I see someone yammering about abolish ICE / policing and how DEEPLY UNPOPULAR it is, I want to remind them that the GOP abolished Roe v. Wade and that was also deeply, deeply unpopular, and here they are, in charge of everything still.

I wrote about one of the many thoughts about Renee Good that’s been keeping me up at night https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/renee-good-killing-ice-watch-mom.html

I think this is it. I think they think much of America is so deeply misogynistic and homophobic that they’ll see a mouthy dyke who had it coming.

Stop chipping away at my cynicism, I need it!!

"what are we going to do with 20,000 ICE agents if we abolish ice" well to start with I think we should all literally spit on them in public for the rest of their lives

I’m retired from sexuality but I remember all of you were super worried a couple years back that the young people weren’t horny enough. So I’m happy for you all that the show about the gay hockey boys seems to have conclusively fixed that for everybody.

I always knew I’d be a great parent because I’ve never felt even a whisper of guilt over my own hypocrisy.

One thing I haven’t seen discussed is that Texas public schools heavily import teachers from Venezuela, and the recent immigration crackdown forced a lot to go back. So I wonder if an aspect of this is also about establishing a source of cheap labor entirely on US terms.

As a white woman raised in the upper middle class, I simply love to condescendingly scold working class military for not simply refusing orders, which I’m confident I would do if it were a situation I was ever in (which it never would be).

Maybe controversial to say, but I really love my baby and I think he’s super cute.

When Sesame Street calls something a sometime snack and I’m softly reminded that I am chasing death

I‘m discontinuing my social media use for the foreseeable future and I want to explain why. I woke up in the new year to discover that some guy on here had saved photos I took on New Year’s Eve and used Grok to remove my clothes. I know this because he showed me.

Notably missing from my feed: anyone at all from Venezuela.

I live with Boomers and when they first stumble out of their bedroom in the morning they DON’T already know every horrible thing that occurred around the globe over the previous 12 hours! Wild stuff, couldn’t be me.

there should be a "good morning" feed on bluesky where you're not immediately thrown headfirst into the worst news imaginable while you're still half asleep

My 4yo did an impression of me that was just her putting my sunglasses on and off busily and saying “I have to go somewhere!” and “I think you would like yogurt if you would just try it.”

I just realized something: babysitters are only for extroverts. Going out is exhausting to me, not refreshing, but I still need nights off. We need to normalize babysitters so parents can go hide in the guest room and read for a night.

One thing I can say for absolute sure about the coming year: I will not be having another baby during it.

My 4yo daughter barging into my room at 6:30 am and waking me and the baby from a sound sleep: “Mama! I want to go to a farm with REAL chickens!!!!”

Senior citizens love to say they have to go to the bathroom real quick and then vanish for over an hour.

The 4yo was really into Santa delivering presents on Christmas Eve; she was less thrilled when I told her that he’ll be returning tonight to pick them back up.

I don’t vibe with a lot of Texas culture but brisket for holiday meals instead of turkey (snore) or ham (blargh) is definitely the move.

Can’t believe my 4yo bought this Santa business, I guess she’ll just believe anything I tell her.

And Baby Freddy who did NOT sleep…

When you have a baby, you feel so inspired and powerful like you could do anything. But then all you can do is endlessly joggle a screaming baby 24/7 for months. This is nature’s way of keeping women from becoming corrupt.

Edith quietly “reading” a book about where milk comes from to herself: “And then the cows, and milk comes out of their butts.”

Establish dominance at your weekly meeting by leaving abruptly in the middle of it, declaring that you may have put your underwear on backward and can't live with the mystery any longer

But when you consider the cumulative time saved being able to pee standing up, it really pays for itself.

I love putting on leggings, going to the gym, dropping my baby in the daycare, and then spending two hours looking at my phone.

Me: “Listen, baby, since all you do is lay around anyway, why don’t you just lie quietly next to me while I read my book until we both fall asleep?” Baby: “This can never be.” Me: “Why not?” Baby: “Baby code.”

One thing I kind of hate about the customer experience in 2025 is that everything sucks ass but then asks you to take a five minute survey on it sucking ass

I still see people — smart, moral people — defend Woody Allen in the year 2025. The man is garbage. He’s been confessing since at least MANHATTAN, in 1979, and you refuse to listen to him.

I support this because very few people need a truck and trucks are obnoxious, but at the same time every so often you do need a friend who can help you move a couch.

One weird side effect of misogyny and patriarchy is that there’s really no concept for cowardice in women, and there needs to be. Many women are shamefully cowardly and they intentionally raise their daughters to be cowards.

one of my longstanding takes is that car manufacturers should be forced to install mandatory speed limiters in every new vehicle and people react to that like I'm advocating to strip them of their right to free speech

One might conclude this is part of the purpose.

I relate to the cicada as I also silently mind my own business for years, but people only ever talk about the one day I was annoying