HOLY FUCKING SHIT I AM IN THE FUCKING EPSTEIN FILES Specifically, my essay "Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting" is referenced in a 2013 Rachel Sklar article about Muriel Siebert. Why is it in the Epstein files at all? You got me. What a wild fucking discovery. I am literally agog.

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

This is what your constituents want, @slotkin.senate.gov and @peters.senate.gov . Immigrants, citizens of color, and Native Americans live in fear in Michigan.

You cannot reform a secret police force. We cannot tolerate one more day of a lawless, unaccountable paramilitary squad using terror as a weapon. We cannot allow this campaign of ethnic cleansing to persist one more day. It is unacceptable. Defund. Dismantle. Prosecute.

Kiva is an easy way to make a real difference in someone's life. Will you join me in helping Hellen in Homa Bay to pursue their dream? www.kiva.org/invitedby/je... I have been lending the same $25 to widows for 15 years. Kiva is amazing.

Renee Good's last words: "I'm not mad at you." Alex Pretti's last words: "Are you ok?" These are the people they're trying to paint as violent and dangerous

If you're in an area with ICE presence, be aware of the DHS memo - which even the Cato Institute calls unconstitutional - labels you a domestic terrorist, like Renee & Alex, for doing anything that gets in their way. www.cato.org/blog/dhs-pol...

The Minneapolis Institute of Art is four blocks from where federal agents executed another American citizen. My husband, cousin, & I were four blocks from the future scene of a heinous act, five days before it happened. Enjoying world art in a peaceful environment. Having trouble reconciling this.

Tell your senators to rein in ICE NOW act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out... These executions have to stop.

Stayed out of trouble but had fun on our vacation. Must replicate the amazing granola my cousin makes.

Warning that the photo is of a naturally mummified cheetah. But OMG squee for science bringing back Arabian/Asiatic cheetahs! www.sciencenews.org/article/chee...

🚨Border Patrol whistleblower outraged by ICE's conduct exposes over a dozen secret ICE programs in documents leaked to me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/21-secret-...

Darling, I'd appreciate it if you tell me about this directly, instead of waiting for me to read about it on your blog account on Bluesky ...

Friends, please take a moment and read this piece by poet, children's book author (and fellow South High grad - go Tigers!) Bao Phi. It's wonderful and moving and necessary. time.com/7345628/anti...

Going to the Twin Cities this upcoming weekend to attend an SCA event, do touristy things, visit cousins. (Ideally, not become news.) Looking for recommendations for restaurants, especially Hmong and Somali. Last time we were there we ate at Adama, which is Ethiopian, & that was great.

This is a disturbing read. bbc.com/news/article...

Today's ELEPHANT in the room. News room, that is. TREATMENT OF WOMEN Out of hundreds of protesters, ice-cold agents beat up, kick, and kill females and yell 'bitch.' Picture them at home. Women-haters are flying out of the woodwork calling themselves special police. Not a peep from media.

CW: The ICE murder

Must order some of these for one or other of my libraries (and read a few along the way)!

Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles. It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.

So who will protect American women and children from those violent illegal government agents? https://thedevilspanties.com/archives/16910 Check out our Store: https://store.thedevilspanties.com

OpenAI is now facing a total of 8 wrongful death lawsuits from grieving families....who claim that ChatGPT, in particular, the GPT-4o version, drove their loved ones to suicide. Soelberg’s complaint also alleges that company executives knew the chatbot was defective before it pushed it to the public

#Venezuela #kidnapping #USAggression #WTF

Good morning. This certainly woke me up today. www.cnn.com/2026/01/03/a...

Arteriovenous malformation in my cerebellum.

I like goats.

My mission this year is to explore the history and tastes of Asian dumplings. Ideally it will culminate in me making something for an event that my local SCA group participates in.

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Merry Christmas to those who celebrate! Happy Pancha Ganapati if any of my followers or those who might see this celebrate it as well!

Oh, hey, it got wintery again.

I ate a commercially prepared donut for the first time in probably more than 20 years without getting sick. I'll call it a Hanukkah miracle.

Houghton County, Michigan, declined a ridiculous proposal to limit its residents to two sexes. Even the Republican chair said they had more important matters to attend. Still, that it even happened, against a state civil rights act, should be shared as news, broadly. www.myupnow.com/news/i-cant-...

While I've kept in touch via Facebook with some of my friends, I miss the vibe of LJ.

It's International Cheetah Day #InternationalCheetahDay . Cheetahs are my favorite animal, and I hope they'll always be around.

The one year anniversary of Yoon's failed martial law takeover just passed and lots of untold stories came out proving that THE ONLY REASON KOREA IS STILL A FREE COUNTRY IS BECAUSE PEOPLE DISOBEYED ILLEGAL ORDERS. The coup was over in hours because people said no.

We're under a blizzard warning and it's raining.

I received the book from @leahrosekessler.bsky.social today!

The president really has trouble with us women from Michigan.

Are any other librarians experiencing a resurgence of people reading Georgette Heyer's Regency romances? They're going out constantly on interlibrary loan lately.

Show me proof you’ve donated at least $25 to an org that supports a need in the community, for ex: Food pantry Shelter Bail fund Abortion access Tribal support and I'll send you a copy of Rat Fair! (Take a peek here but pls don't support Amazon if possible) 2/3 www.amazon.com/Rat-Fair-Lea...

Dewey Decimal has a lot of issues, but the one plaguing me today is why both 941 and 942 exist to cover essentially the same damn thing: Great Britain.

I just signed a petition launched by the gender justice nonprofit UltraViolet demanding that SiriusXM drop Megyn Kelly. Kelly's comments minimizing Jeffrey Epstein's abuse of teen girls are reckless and irresponsible. Pedophile apologists should not have a national platform. app.sosha.ai/s/5vjo2jWX

It's Caturday! Here's Anji.

Alert to teachers, librarians, and parents: There is a line in "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing," by Judy Blume, that reads, "Dr. Brown, our dentist, said he'd have to wait until he was six or seven to get his grown-up teeth." Upon reading that, I had an upper elementary class chant, "6-7," at me. 🤦‍♀️

I had nightmares about nuclear blasts. My library building withstood whatever happened, and I was handing out KN95s from the bag in my desk to my coworkers.

It's November 1, I have no clue what I'm writing this month, but I'm all in for Novel Quest and @nano2point0.bsky.social !

Sign the petition to support H.R.5527 and stop Trump's book bans in schools on military bases in the US and abroad. action.everylibrary.org/rtrdodea via ‪@everylibrary.bsky.social‬ A judge ruled the books must be put back & accessible, but that needs to be enforced!

Being a #saturdaylibrarian so my assistant can run a writing workshop. Only one writer showed up, but it means a lot to this young person to have instruction toward their passion.

Today my little library is hosting the most famous bestselling author in our region. No pressure or anything.

Today is a weird day. I'm getting so many meaningful compliments. I even had a student, who is moving away, thank me for being a wonderful librarian. That one nearly made me cry.