sometimes i think about how my dad called me the morning after trump won in 2016 and told me i was overreacting while I sobbed. i don’t talk to that mf anymore but i sure hope wherever he is he feels like a real dumbass

If U.S. Customs and Border Patrol can unlawfully detain someone in secret, without notice or access to counsel, then no ones’ due-process rights are safe, one attorney said this morning. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

as a seattle freeze experiencer it always baffles me that PNWers don't make a bigger deal of this. like if you don't want new people to come here this is all you have to tell them. it would have worked on me but no one said anything and now i live in abject fear every september

This should be headline news - the implications are horrifying …

Context that didn't make it into the story, a quick 🧵 About 60,000 people are currently in custody across the country, said Matt Adams, legal director for the nonprofit Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. 1/9

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

This article just reminded me of this old tweet

i see they're swapping the blackshirts for the white hoods

"America is not a good place to be an early adult" lmao no shit i entered the workforce 12 years ago this month and it's been an increasingly awful nightmare with each passing godforsaken year

starting to think the only way to survive All Of This is to have a consistent supply of donuts around at all times, so that i can have at least 1 if not 2 donuts per morning. has anyone tried this

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

ok, here is a strawberry rhubarb pie i rage-baked with stuff from the farmers market

thinkin of this tweet for no particular reason

this book about this guy literally changed my life, please read it and happy pride month bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

people being in the streets means something. never let your cynicism convince you otherwise.

yesterday was a hell of a day to come back from a weeklong vacation but at least i got to look at these incredible plants before food, let alone travel of any kind, becomes prohibitively expensive

i don't know if i've ever felt more hopeless than watching an elderly black man get dragged out of the room for calling out fascism while dozens of white people sat silently with their lollipop signs and watched and did nothing

Staff at NOAA forecast extreme weather like hurricanes, wildfires and floods, guard against overfishing and track the effects of climate change. They're a crucial part of understanding our world. The Trump administration just fired 880 of them. www.seattletimes.com?p=18243961

Hey, artists, in case you were wondering if your work matters: I'm a scientist working on climate change and biodiversity, and I would not be who I am today without The Lorax, The Secret of NIMH, Watership Down, The Last Unicorn, and The X-Files. I know I'm not alone. Thank you for all you do.

A great read from @climatehuman.bsky.social

waaaaay too many people in the middle imo

The bomb cyclone perforated Washington's grid in thousands of places. Hundreds of thousands sat in the dark (and cold) for days. This storm has exposed the weaknesses in our system. The electrical grid needs an overhaul. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Matt Gaetz is severely underqualified to serve as Attorney General. For more on this Google “Matt Gaetz barely legal”

tried being On Here last year and failed but now with ✨everything✨ the way it is i think it’s time to try again. luckily my last post was evergreen but here’s some more frida content regardless

Stuff sucks right now so here’s Frida smiling at you

Breaking news: An attack on the al-Ahli Hospital in the middle of Gaza City is believed to have killed hundreds of people, a spokesman for the Palestinian Civil Defense told The Washington Post. Live updates here:

I officially graduated from the Colorado State Master Gardener program this week (!!!), so naturally I’m reminiscing on the 2023 season that got cut short because we had to move and trying to channel the sadness into excitement about a 2024 PNW garden 🌱

"no one wants to work anymore" my dna says i should be foraging amongst the bushes and eating berries by the handful

rainy day, frizzy dog

The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality. ~James Baldwin

Palestinians living in Gaza are running out of clean water and will die from severe dehydration soon. - Gazans are barely urinating due to a lack of hydration. - Gazans are drinking water that is mixed with untreated wastewater and seawater. Read More:

California has put a water-stressed farming region on notice for having “inadequate” plans to curb its overuse of groundwater, bringing officials closer to directly intervening, for the first time in state history, in the way growers manage their underground water supplies.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Steve Scalise ends his bid to become House speaker after failing to secure the votes to win the gavel.

Hi, I’m Kayah! 👋 I’m a certified Colorado master gardener, the western comms director for the Sierra Club, and generally like going outside, so I post a lot about earth. I also post a lot about Frida Pawlo (see photo). I am very excited to try and salvage my masochistic love of twitter here.

I got in the bluesky club 🥲