How do you know it's still cold in Minnesota? Your little dog won't leave his cave of covers.

#Epstein #EpsteinFiles

Today at school dismissal, I followed a suspicious pickup around for a bit, keeping an eye on them, trying to figure out if they were ICE. Then I realized they were keeping an eye on me also. Then I realized they were, in fact, other parents. Life in Minnesota, January 2026.

In between all the fascism, it's also a MASSIVE crime wave.

Chance warming by the fire.

Good morning! It has warmed up to 1 degrees F this morning. The view from my window...

Outside the Twin Cities this morning, where it is -19F— Minnesotans are gathered early outside the Whipple Federal Building. ICE and DHS agents currently arriving at work to much disapproval.

Actual temperature: -15F. With wind chill: -38F. Millie has claimed her place by the fire.

A snowy, dark morning.

Perimeter check at 15 minutes past sunrise.

Good morning!

Are you available today?

Here are the Top 5 Dogs of the week!

Blue says, "It's my ball and no, I am not going to share."

"I am just keeping all the toys safe", Piper explains.

We are digging out from the storm. The wind blew drifts against the back door and garage doors. We had to dig out the back door 4x yesterday to let the dogs out.

DH and his Christmas gift.

Beginning of the storm.

I made it home last night just before the storm. I took a picture of the nearby train depot in the fog.

There are three kinds of dashes: the hyphen(-)links compound words like Anglo-Saxon, the en-dash (–)shows ranges such as Mon–Fri, and the em-dash adds an inserted thought, as in "I memorized the state capitals—all fifty of them."

Finland's data centers now heat entire neighborhoods. The servers that power cloud storage are keeping thousands of home warm all winter long. Zero extra energy.

After buying it for $18.8 billion, Walgreens' new private equity owner has eliminated paid holidays for all hourly workers on Christmas and New Year's. Last year, Walgreens had a CEO-to-Worker pay gap of 410 to 1. Corporate greed that would make even Scrooge blush.

I need a reverse Shark Tank where CEOs explain why they deserve tens of millions of dollars while standing in front of 5 people who work for them making $7.25 an hour, don't know where their next meal will come from, and can't afford rent, groceries and childcare.

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Having to watch a bootlegged copy of a video from another country because my country censored it is making me feel as if I'm living in 1980s Eastern Germany.

A beautiful fire to warm the house this Christmas Eve morning.

"It's the year 2025 and Americans have to watch a bootlegged international version of a new program because it was censored here in our country to protect a criminal president." @JojoFromJerz

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The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

Thanks GlobalTV Canada! 🇨🇦

From 2018 to 2024, the tax rate paid by eight major retailers was slashed from 30% to just 17.5%. The CEOs of those major retailers were paid a collective $1.3 billion. Meanwhile, the average worker at those stores was paid less than $32,000 in 2024. Nothing trickled down.

My DH is watching Iron Chef and I swear it sounds like a baseball game but with knives and ingredients instead of bats and baseballs.

If this doesn't motivate you to vote in the Midterms, nothing will.

This is why people say our economy is rigged. Watch.

The wind caught the front door as we were going through it and ripped part of the door out of the door frame. We are lucky the glass did not break.

Anything worth doing is worth doing poorly...when that's all you can do.

Read this. Then read it again.