“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

The news from Minneapolis is horrific. Abolish ICE.

Republicans: WE NOMINATE SKELETOR Democrats: We dislike Skeletor but we will vote to confirm him. Please give us between 5 and 50 dollars. <Later> Democrats: I stand before you to condemn the actions of Skeletor. He should have never been given this power. Please give me between 5 and 50 dollars.

This morning, I am moving slowly as I recover from the flu. It hit my whole family, and we were ill for about five days—a credit, I think, to our annual flu shots. My child is drawing dragons in the steam of the shower. I am sipping at a hot coffee. For a moment, life feels very vivid and good.

the feminine urge to watch facism crumble

I further put forward that we be allowed to be a little bit rude about it. look what the obsession with civility has gotten us. if a person is being hateful or saying something untrue, you should be allowed to get a little bitchy if you need to!

Dark Prophecy

Trump is a terrorist.

It is very important that your federal electeds hear not only from you on social media, but through direct contact as well. Tag them and then Call and email. Do both. Tell them to move to immediately impeach and remove for an unconstitutional war of aggression.

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

The 25 of December is when the "Twelve Days of Christmas" actually begin, known as Christmastide. And there are theories that "the partridge in a pear tree" started as a magpie in a pear tree as it was a motiff in older popular songs. 🐦🎄 Happy Holidays!!

Made a from-scratch gingerbread house at the request of the child—not bad for my first time! There are eight frolicking reindeer, but one fell off of the roof and broke his face, and so now is hiding behind a pine. Happy Christmas!

I reread A CHRISTMAS CAROL and rewatch A MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL every year, and this is true.

NEW: Colorado Sens Hickenlooper and Bennet announce they're putting a hold on the Senate appropriations package to demand funding for NCAR. Bennet said today that the Trump administration's move to dismantle the climate/weather lab is retaliation for Tina Peters' imprisonment.

That's the NORMIE version

Listening to the radio: a Bowie song plays, and my child gasps in the backseat. "Oh my god!" he says. "Is this the guy that stole that baby?! Is this the guy with the fart swamp?!"

making a gold foil postcard print :>

the siren

I breastfed my child for 2 years— I believe that feeding a baby is an act of love, whether done by breast/chest, formula, or feeding tube. The choice a parent makes is a choice made from a place of wanting to see an infant thrive, full-bellied & warm. MAHA rhetoric around breastfeeding is gross.

introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: elk bison ringtail cat pronghorn coyote

Tryptophan, the essential amino acid behind the Thanksgiving myth that eating turkey can make you sleepy, has been found to exist on Bennu, a small asteroid that swings by our planet about every six years. https://cnn.it/4rlWctI

If I had a nickel for every time a doctor offered an antidepressant instead of a medical treatment, I’d be able to buy a night out on the town—for two!

Where are you finding joy? I am having a hard time finding any, and I think it is crushing me.

How blow? How blow?

The room is almost all elephant. Almost none of it isn’t. Pretty much solid elephant. So there’s no room to talk about it. -Kay Ryan, “The Elephant in the Room” #everynightapoem

The storm intensifies, and so do the northern lights.

The Aurora Borealis, from my front yard in suburban Colorado.

The Aurora Borealis, from my backyard in suburban Colorado.

everything is bonkers right now and we need a timeline cleanse. let’s play a game. if I handed you a blank check but you could ONLY spend it on an Advent calendar, what absurdly pricy collection of little treats are you buying yourself?

Proud of my state for voting to fund free meals for school children! Glad to see the school board election results roll in. Happy to see so many Americans making local waves.

MIDNIGHT UPDATE: Union-backed school board candidates in Durango, Colo. are beating their conservative opponents by 40 pt margins. Conservatives, including anti-furry fmr Gov candidate Heidi Ganahl, have made Durango the center of education culture war issues lately. #copolitics

Stunning.

Everyone: love my pumpkins. I am handing out full-size candy bars tonight!

43 years ago today, readers the world over opened their newspapers and gazed upon cow tools for the first time. happy birthday cow tools. you look great.

So here’s an example of love: My husband and I are boycotting Amazon, Target, and—more recently—Disney+. This has been a big adjustment because my child loved watching Disney movies—and frankly, so did I. But—

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in ’s own house.

Lately, the #FlowerReport is the last feed I scroll before logging off for the night. Every day, I think, "so, that's the news report... what's the flower report?" 💐 Huge shout out and gratitude to @alyssaharad.bsky.social who started the hashtag on the old bird app: www.good.is/articles/usi...

I donated to Food Bank of the Rockies today, which serves people across Colorado and Wyoming. I hope you will join me in donating to your local food banks in advance of SNAP losses during the government shutdown!

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

When I was younger, I had myself a crow husband. He followed me from window to window, or left dead snakes at the doorstep. When I did not eat his offerings, he drowned them in the birdbath, peeled their skins like stockings, and feathered their meat from their ribs.

"You cannot be explaining your Nazi tattoo and defeat a multi-term incumbent."

I don't think it's possible to come up with a better metaphor for Trump's presidency than him cheerfully flying a plane that dumps literal shit on America

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

Y'all need to see this Bilbo and Gandalf from the Portuguese version of The Hobbit. Illustrated by António Quadros

Tag yourself! Every cookie is me.

I’m really impressed with my child’s cookie cutter skills. … I try hard to offer magic or some sort of future, even though I have stopped believing in both.