if denver didn’t want jaden to hit that layup they should have just stopped him from doing it :)

I love my country of Minnesota

Love this. Including Joe’s reaction. 💙

At some point I’m just going to start screaming and never stop.

Texted the kids to tell them I made tator tot hotdish for dinner. I’m irrationally annoyed about my phone putting the squiggly red line under hotdish. Check the location! It’s a real word, you bum!

Boomer parents ask more questions than toddlers. Next time all four grandparents are at an event I’m going to keep a tally of how many I’m asked. Two points for every time they ask the same one. (I love them. I’m glad they are active participants in the kids’ lives. Sometimes it’s just a lot.)

Just tried to explain to L2 that when I was her age my mom painted my room white, peach, and pale purple using feather dusters. “That doesn’t sound like a real thing, but if anyone would do it, grandma would.”

The best response I’ve seen to Vance thinking he’s somehow more Catholic than the pope, “You’re not Thomas Aquinas, b*tch.”

Al Franken was replaced by Tina Smith and Minnesotans were better for it.

I will support my kids in anything they want to do (within reason), but man, club sports are not for me.

Watching House Hunters with L2. “These people don’t even like each other. Why did they get married?”

Never giving it back. Ever.

Now is an interesting (Midwest definition) time to have your kid visiting DC with their AP US History class.

Next to the worst kind of sports mom at an AAU basketball game. Taking up a ton of already limited space with her tripod and camera to record and complaining about every call/non-call from the refs. My kid isn’t currently playing so I’m cheering for the team playing against hers out of spite.

When everything feels like a weird, bad joke, recognizing April Fool’s is even more unnecessary than usual.

On a trip last week I made a comment about how I have a tendency to drag my family to out of the way things they don’t care about, giving the T. Roosevelt Inaugural site in Buffalo as an example. L2 jumped in, “We care! We care about them because they’re important to you & you’re important to us.”

As long as his fancy loafers are the first to hit the ground. Here’s his opportunity to actually earn a Purple Heart instead of being gifted one.

This does not feel like an ideal time to have a trip planned for south Florida (In two weeks. Not exactly our choice, it’s a baseball team trip). Or for L1 to be going to DC with his AP US history class in early April.

I like to imagine former presidents haunting the current one (Theodore Roosevelt, we could use your bloodlust about now…) but I hope the ghost of Marjorie Merriweather Post never lets him rest for the dishonor he’s brought to her beautiful home.

I had maintained a long streak of not crying in the bathroom at work. Unfortunately, that streak was broken today. (Everything is fine, just some disappointing news that struck a raw nerve.)

If you showed up to an event where the team leading it were all wearing identical shoes would your first thought be “oh, that’s cool” or “is this a cult?” Would your answer change if the shoes were Nikes?

My husband: If Chloe Kim and Myles Garrett don’t make it, love is dead.

A few years ago I went to a funeral on my birthday. It was a big perspective shift. Aging is a privilege I don’t take for granted now. We’ve done fancy dinners and trips to celebrate in the past, but today I’m working and going to my kid’s basketball game. The every day stuff is a celebration too.

That was a perfect example of joy being a necessary part of resistance.

This version of the anthem sounds like a Christmas carol.

Pim, the little glasses-wearing Girl Scout selling cookies on TikTok, single handedly pulled me out of a deep funk last night. If you haven’t been graced with her presence yet, I highly recommend seeking her out.

T-Pain

Living in Minnesota right now means getting your heart broken every day, multiple times a day. Some days it also means having your faith in humanity restored. Please keep watching Minnesota, if you live elsewhere. Things are still dire.

Jessie Diggins is a Minnesotan. Lindsey Vonn is from Minnesota. There is a difference.

It’s been a daily task for weeks.

When we finally get through to the other side of all of this shit in Minnesota, the leadership at Columbia Heights that enabled folks there to speak the truth about their students deserve recognition - so many other institutions, private and public, are so badly failing the community now.

Is this supposed to make people feel sorry for this loser? Do us all a favor: go to therapy and then use some of that sad-making money to end poverty.

Wolves win! That felt good.

Don’t know how many more examples it’s going to take for people to realize that billionaires are an existential threat to democracy and its institutions.

Ugh. I know there are far bigger things to be concerned about, but Mike Conley was traded to the Bulls? And Julius Randle might be the next to go? Why? I love this team. I don’t want anyone to leave. I don’t care about a championship. I just want to watch this Wolves team play together.

I am so tired of incompetent bullies thinking their unearned position in life gives them the authority to ruin things for everyone. This applies on the micro and macro level today.

My dad understood the assignment six years ago (technically longer, but I don’t have digital evidence for it).

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

All involved in disrupting will be pursued and arrested like the protesters and journalists at the church in St. Paul, right?

I feel like someone here was recently mentioning Pat Garofalo being terrible. Immediately remembered this incident but didn’t go searching for it. Fortunately Timehop always has my back. PG being awful is evergreen.

This is how Tom Homan reacts to losing a court case to free a medically fragile 5-year-old who was used as bait to lure his dad so they could be imprisoned in a measles factory. Fuck any de-escalation stories that come out.

I am fortunate to live a comfortable life, and I have never aspired to be incredibly wealthy. The only reason I would want to, right now, is to send massive donations to every service/organization that pops up in my feed. I’m doing what I can, but it feels insignificant when there’s so much need.

Text from husband: Don’t check the internet. Me: Too late. 💔

Proof we are living in different realities: we have a program at work where $1000 is donated each week to a nonprofit chosen by one of our internal departments. This week’s choice was a SHIH TZU RESCUE. I support animals of course, but it feels very tone deaf and I may have had a minor crash out.

Northfield is a town of 20,000 people in southeast #Minnesota, outside of the metro region. That 20,000 people includes two college populations. Agents in plain clothes raided a local bakery this morning, and masked agents continue to raid local apartment complexes. That's where we're at.

It's just like the Trump occupation of Minneapolis. An asshole storms in and assaults her, expecting her to be cowed into submission, but she pushes back, exposes him as the clown he is, and carries on as before.

Owning a farm doesn’t make you a farmer, Chuck.

Go ahead and ban the whistles. We’ll come up with something else. If for no other reason than to prove Megyn Kelly is trash.

When I was a school board rep, my home address and phone number were public record. Easily accessible for anyone with access to the internet.