No new pictures. Where are you at mentally?

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to get Abolish Ice across the finish line

We signed up for pet insurance and we had to submit medical records. I'm reading over Stella's records and this quote struck me as hilarious: "Pt is in hard-sided carrier, charging at anyone who approaches; sedated in carrier, under towel"

"If Romeo would have just masturbated a couple times a week, he would have saved both those families a heap of trouble" Daisy Adair. Dead Like Me

This is the result when. Physical Therapist does deep tissue massage on hip flexors that are like beef jerky. It looks worse than it feels and, yes, it hurt while it was happening.

Never mind jobs you had, tell me 5 classes you took in college (mixing undergrad and grad here) -Religions of Native North America - History of Chicago Architecture - Public Opinion & Mass Media -Sex, Gender, & International Human Rights - Sociology of Education

The Democratic Party of Illinois doesn't know the difference between a Democratic Socialist and DOGE or, so it seems, from the ridiculous oppo mailer they sent out on behalf of Jaime Andrade. Desperation and dishonesty just oooze from that mailer. It's really pathetic.

I’ve never felt prouder.

The jokes write themselves after this point

Today is my last day in work purgatory! I do not have to do any more back & forth QA for the consultants' work and I am FREE

Drop someone screaming

I mean... Not wrong

First time riding the revamped 93 California/Dodge bus from Albany Park to Logan Square.

Confirmed! Arthritis in both hips and in my lumbar spine. I need to get serious about getting active dropping weight.

It probably sounds insignificant to most, but I can now lift my right ankle onto my left knee. A few days ago, my hip would lock up about 3/4 way up.

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

Name your fav dinner scene (ok, so it's technically lunch)

Proud to be one of the 9200 and, if it doesn't win this year, there will be more than 9200 demanding a recount.

Reform vs Abolish. Reform means you think the thing is generally a good idea, but can be improved. Abolish means you don't think it should exist. It's not hard.

Dry needling is acupuncture based in anatomy using acupuncture needles to release muscle trigger points. It is friggin weird. It hurts. But I'm hopeful it will help my stubborn hip muscles loosen up.

I don't know who needs to hear this today but, if you hang a tea tag on your mug, nobody on Teams will know it's whiskey.

Atta Girl!

Guess who needs a hip x-ray? Gramma over here. Stubbornly tight muscles might actually be arthritis.

DHS is less than 25 years old. It was created in the insanity after 9/11. We functioned fine before that.

None of these Republicans and most of these Democrats are not all of a sudden “seeing the light on ICE.” They simply understand the worm turning on public opinion and saving face. They will ALL go back to voting for minority brutalization as soon as they can. You can’t keep falling for this.

I'm debating sending a letter to my aunt who, I've always liked, except... She's not MAGA, but she's die-hard Republican which, in these times, means MAGA by default. I want to ask her where she stands and if she still supports this administration. If she does, we're no longer family. Lines drawn.

Nuremberg this fuck

There's an intermittent noise from the basement that sounds like a tuba blowing for about 5 seconds. We think it's coming from around the furnace, which is running fine. Had a tech come out. Nothing wrong and, of course, no noise. Anyone else have this experience? Resonance in the ductwork, maybe?

ICE agent: “It’s like Call of Duty, so cool huh?” Other ICE agent: “Did you take the shot? Take the shot.”

Mood

Timeline Cleanse

Not one January 6th rioter was killed by law enforcement that day. Just let that sink in.

Pam Bondi just sent a letter to Minnesota officials saying ICE will leave if the state turns over its voter database to Trump. Guess what? This has never been about safety or immigration. It’s a pretext for Trump to take over elections in swing states.

Nothing like standing outside at an antiICE protest for an hour to remind me of the importance of winter footwear. I don't really have good winter boots anymore because I don't have to commute.

The only way to keep upstairs from being 80° is to keep downstairs at 68°. Yes, the dampers are set correctly, it's just THAT COLD

The cruelty is the point. It always has been.

People are being executed in the street over a problem that straight up does not exist and both parties are complicit in the lie

We have been told for nearly 30 years that America needed to tolerate mass shootings because the broad availability of guns would help us defend ourselves from an overreaching federal government. That day has come. The people who said this are supporting the federal agents. Many have joined them.

Decided to distract myself by giving a go to The Dark Tower movie they made a bunch of years ago. I know you can't condense 7 books into 90 minutes, but I'm less than 2 minutes in asking "what in fresh hell is this?"

I urge anyone who still has anyone in your life who still supports this to show this to them, and if they defend it, distance yourself as much as you can. They need to learn that support will not be tolerated. I've reached the point where, if you can't bring yourself to do that, you are an enabler.

Pro-tip: if you don't want to be a meme, don't do memeabale things

I always assumed that people who wanted AI glasses were creepy pieces of shit, so...

Five concerts you're seen with women lead singers. Belly Concrete Blonde L7 Mavis Staples Shamekia Copeland

Watching Mike wrestling with the Tupperware drawer is its own unique form of entertainment

I just bought my tickets: gracielafor20.nationbuilder.com/karaoke_birt...

Tell me again how they're going after the worst of the worst criminals... I'll wait.

This is beyond disgusting. What is it going to take to stop this?

Democratic leadership is terrified of being seen on the side of the people of Minneapolis, least they lose the potential future support of pro-cop people whose support they do not and never will have.

The $64,000 question came up again in therapy: Why do I have no problem keeping commitments I make to others but can't keep commitments I make to myself?

he absolutely nailed the Bourdain impression