“Earth is a pleasure cruise for 1000 people and we're all just the staff.”

Trying something again for the first time in 20+ yrs today. I'm excited nervous! This year is about growth & pushing myself more though. I want 2027 me to look back on this year & be happy with my choices. The world's a dumpster fire. I figure I should take more chances & invest in myself more.

You know you're settling into your new home country when you can give text msg directions/help to your teen trying to find something in the grocery store when theyre solo shopping. Jam has been located. 😅 I guess maybe I'm starting to know my way around.

A valentine for my sweetheart as it first appeared in The Literary Review of Canada

How did I not know this exists??

If you come to Kansas City, you have to go to Cafe Ca Phe. Some of the best coffee you'll find anywhere. It's also immigrant and woman owned, and is a staple in the local community.

Fergal Keane: veteran Irish foreign correspondent leaves BBC after 37 years Threats to a free press from oligarchs are now greater than ever, warns journalist as he departs reporting role www.irishtimes.com/media/2026/0...

“I only knew a kind and caring man. That’s what’s terrifying.” Gisèle Pelicot Opens Up About Surviving Years of Secret Abuse | The Interview youtu.be/RKc6OvAakIc?...

Really glad to be inside a cozy flat on a stormy night with happy kids, a good dinner, and emails in my inbox that have me a little bit excited for my future in a way that I haven't felt in a while. Nice start to the weekend.

I'm pretty sure I know. They aren't. We're not going to really be able to make a lot of progress in dealing with the implications of this tech unless and until we get rid of all this "woo-woo" talk about LLMs. Anthropic pushing this line is PR, unserious.

A spokesperson from the Trump administration's Department of Health and Human Services said the agency would cut funds "because they do not reflect agency priorities."

I see people making Iraq analogies in the QTs, but not one that seems quite relevant to me: when Maliki’s Office of the Commander-in-Chief took direct control of the US-trained ISOF Brigade and used them to target peaceful Sunni political opposition ahead of the 2009 provincial elections.

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incredible how white men are given the benefit of the doubt when anything coming from marginalized groups are treated with utmost suspicion and distorted beyond recognition

Just because Ring announced they are ending their data sharing partnership with Flock, that doesn’t stop them from sharing data with law enforcement without a warrant or sharing through third parties. They still suck.

Bovino advanced all the way to within eyesight of Paisley Park, but his supply lines were stretched too thin and ultimately his frozen troops were encircled by Will Stancil and wine moms with whistles

I was so excited earlier to see blue skies and sunshine on my afternoon walk for dinner groceries. Just finished eating, and I get text alerts for heavy rain and flood warnings for tonight/tomorrow. 😅 We're not quite done with the stormy weather just yet, it seems.

Children, this is why regulations are good.

History rhymes. At the beginning of the Japanese American incarceration- I’ll never call it an “internment” again because fuck euphemisms - the WRA camps weren’t prepared to feed/house not just the sheer # of people, but whole families. Many prisoners had to plant illicit gardens for sustenance. 1/x

www.motherjones.com/politics/202... using his platform as a fishing influencer to call attention to what he describes as a federal siege of his hometown.

Major earthquakes don’t run to timetable ⏰ BAS' Dr Zakaria Ghazoui-Schaus has overturned a common assumption about earthquake prediction: that major earthquakes follow predictable cycles, and that regions can be ‘overdue’ for the next big one. This has big consequences for disaster planning ⬇️

This is your periodic reminder that Rod Serling, beyond creating “The Twilight Zone” and producing some of the most powerful stories ever written, was a badass WWII veteran of fierce fighting in the Pacific and an outspoken anti-war and equal rights activist at a time when neither was popular.

You can joke about Pam Bondi’s ridiculous unprofessionalism all you want, but I’m deeply shocked by it: She acts as if she fears absolutely no consequences, convinced that there will be no more political power transfers. — This should shake everyone to their core.

Oh no, not the Monopoly money!

Glad to be home after two nights of eating in restaurants alone. I like how this poem finds meaning in a quiet, ordinary moments. There is also a paying of attention, a joy in noticing what is often missed when you are not alone #poetry #poemoftheday

dinner music:

Well, this sorta crap was the logical conclusion from the get-go. The lists and data they have been assembling added up to one final goal: strike packages. Next logical step is people being labeled as terrorists and put in camps. Wont take long for those warehouses to be ready.

“I was asked to write something…about what the KidLit community should be doing in this moment to support those of us surviving the siege. My answer to that is the same answer I have to everyone right now: Help us fight. Help us save ourselves and our neighbors in an impossible situation.”

This is the aftermath of an ICE kidnapping a few blocks from my home in St. Paul—an hour ago. A quiet street full of broken glass and at least three wrecked cars. The target of the kidnapping was taken away by ambulance. He was on a stretcher and covered by a sheet, though a cop said he was alive.

Hell yeah

What’s the charge? Eating a succulent ham sandwich?!? This is democracy manifest!

Dinner smells and tastes SO good right now. But we've got to wait for the beans to finish cooking. I just want to eat it all up right now! 😅

We all need help at some point. Make a call, start a chat, or send a text. Someone is ready to provide support. You’re not alone. #YouMatter

You all do know that Occupy Democrats is a shady disinformation op, right? If you’re still following them, please do your research and unfollow them. Stop giving these nefarious people credibility and traffic and clear your information environment of them. Yes, the “far left” can be dangerous, too.

I don't even have words for this.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Absolutely tearing thru this tonight. It's so good! Picked it up today at the bookstore, and I'm already half finished. (I also love the formatting inside. The editor in me is *very* happy.)

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

"Well, I went home with the waitress The way I always do How was I to know She was with the Russians, too I was gambling in Havana I took a little risk Send lawyers, guns and money Dad, get me out of this" youtu.be/K4q_K52TYsE?...

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

I've started a little habit of going for a glass of wine at a little local shop on Tuesdays when my teens go to their STEM class. And it's helping my language learning immensely!

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le

I really appreciate the work of @leejamiller.bsky.social, a former lawyer now video essayist who lives in Minneapolis, and her recent piece on ICE detention camps is excellent (harrowing but excellent):

And while you’re at it, use our warehouse tracker tool to see who owns each facility, and apply the power of public pressure to dissuade them from selling to ICE! tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

I could use some good book recommendations!! Feeling stagnant with my current reads. If you've got a good well-paced spy novel (any era), or a cozy mystery, or a thoughtful fiction to suggest, I'm all ears! Preference for authors who write women well, obvs.

Jazz singer, composer & bandleader Blanche Calloway was born #OTD in 1902. Her #music career spanned 50+ years. First Black woman to lead an all-male #jazz orchestra (Joy Boys), she performed alongside musicians such as Cozy Cole, Chick Webb & Cab Calloway (younger brother whom she mentored). #BHM