Shoutout to everyone trying to regulate their parasympathetic nervous system today but — holy moly, friends — touching grass and somatic breathing techniques aren’t meant to be substitutes for goddamn institutional checks and balances.

Apparently too many of my fellow white people never read or never had read to them “The Emperor’s New Clothes,” and now we’re all in hell.

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children. Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future. If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it. So must you.

After everything, I really needed this album. It’s a gem. Thanks, my favorite Bruce 💙💜🖤 m.youtube.com/watch?v=lwD7...

Matthew 6:5, mostly: ‘And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray… to be seen by others.’ Also, Luke 18:9-14. All of it. These people do not know Jesus.

Walz: The president said it's a bunch of radicals. You're damn right we've been radicalized. Radicalized by compassion, radicalized by decency, radicalized by due process, radicalized by democracy.

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Get ready for MRI's to start getting restricted to emergency care only. Helium is what makes MRIs run. With Iran war there will be a shrinking supply. Perhaps this is a GREAT time to talk about banning balloon releases everywhere. At least in #Minnesota it should be done, protect lakes & rivers.

Signs of spring in MN: the neighborhood Cooper’s hawk was collecting sticks in our backyard yesterday, and I absolutely lost my shit with delight over their long legs, because my assigned middle-aged lady activities are birdwatching and not minding my own business — in exactly that order.

As a longtime reader/appreciator of both Ashley Ray and Lindy West, I found this piece to be the most thoughtful, most honest — and therefore most kind — take on West’s new memoir. Lots to consider, thanks to Ray’s ever astute attention, experiential wisdom, and graceful assessment.

So many people and beings hurting right now. It feels difficult to get up and continue trying to do good in this world, but there is no other choice — you deserve a better, kinder world. We all do. I’m going to keep trying; please do, too. Love from one of your internet aunties x

I was 17 when the Iraq war started. I was livid watching my peers shipped off to fight a war for rich people. Almost 7,000 service members died. I’m now 39 and here’s a new war for rich people. But it’s a brand new rage being told our troops dying is just “the way it is”. War is a choice.

I keep thinking about the people for whom $400K is a small number and how they are the reason people for whom it is a very big number have to hustle like this Please keep circulating this so that people who have $500 to spare see it

I don't have anything I can say on here except that I want everyone, especially the kids, to be safe and well, and that my heart hurts for so many people I care about who are terrified for their loved ones tonight

They are trying to revoke this ban with HJR 140, please call your senators now because it will impact all public lands! Call every senator now. Vote no on HJR 140!

Abolition is bold, transformational, and meaningful. And basic common sense.

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesota—KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation. Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

Please - if you live outside of Minnesota, even in a "blue state," make sure your senators know that they should vote NO on H.J. Res. 140 to protect the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. It allows a Chilean mega-corp to mine and ship to China for processing - damaging wilderness in the process.

I’m disappointed in this booing of the vice president. Everyone could and should have booed so much harder.

Yesterday morning I woke up struggling, feeling overwhelmed and hopeless, worrying about my neighbors, my work and home communities and neighbors. At lunch I messaged J ‘I think I want to caucus tonight.’ /1

An appropriate reaction to the federal government attacking a WHOLE STATE -- murdering, disappearing, brutalizing, kidnapping our neighbors isn't to just haggle over the funding for one agency. It's to stop all business as usual until this ends.

So much love, Chi-Town. 🥹💙 Thank you, friends. Thank you.

Sending a lot of love to everyone who is working to protect, sustain, and uplift our neighbors in Minnesota. I see a lot of tenderness and gentleness between people, outpourings of generosity and compassion, and boldness in demanding better for our most vulnerable. We’ll keep it up, friends. 💛

Today is a good day to take care of our community harmed by ICE. Ways to help: - Neighborhood House in St. Paul: neighborhoodhousemn.org/donate/ - La Iglesia Cristiana La Viña in Burnsville: give.tithe.ly?formId=9adcb... Fellow Minnesotans, keep heart. Protect one another. Do good. 💛

Frey: I have a message for ICE: Get the fuck out of Minneapolis

Guilty as charged, your honor.

How are we still only in the first week of this year?!

The reason why MN is at the top of most quality of life & affordability metrics is because of Tim Walz & Mark Dayton. Dayton rescued our state from Pawlenty's trickle down bs & built the foundation for Walz's success. I can't think of a more successful, progressive governor than Walz in my lifetime.

My upstanding state thrice certified you a loser, you ghastly knob.

If the House Republicans had any guts, they'd hold an emergency impeachment vote on Trump today. If the Senate Republicans had any guts, they'd convict Trump of violating the Constitution tomorrow. The Constitution means nothing it if it can be ignored with impunity.

We’d be better off if this empty podium were president.

Can't help but feel like this is one of the reasons why the Constitution says If a dude in office does an insurrection, don't let that motherfucker hold office again Bc clearly they cannot be trusted with power & control over the levers of government, & they do not care about democratic constraints

Woke up to learn my country has gone completely lawless on the international stage. Am sick. Every member of this administration, its enablers, its supporters deserve to be brought before the Hague. Pictured: more highly-evolved beings basking in peace.

In 2026 I want all of the decent people to remember one thing. You aren’t meant to be this disciplined, this self-sacrificing to survive. The environment is supposed to support good living. We can have that. You are not a failure. That is politics. That is all.

Had a moment of overwhelm. Laid down. Shut eyes. Took a singular deep breath. This is what I saw upon opening my eyes again.

As a reward for almost surviving 2025, please accept this picture of Zelda taken twelve years ago. You’re welcome, besties. Here’s to better, kinder, and gentler for us all in 2026. 💙

Inside vs. Outside, the southeastern Twin Cities suburbs edition

Home Alone (1990) watches like a absolute horror movie when you are middle-aged. As soon as Joe Pesci slips off those front stairs, my back screams.

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

Trump just brazenly lied about healthcare. This corporate tool has done everything for the benefit of insurance executives and nothing for the wellbeing of Americans who need health care. Now, he's blaming his political opponents of the premium spikes his policies are causing.

Holiday grief is catching up with me, but my sweet bestie is making sure I don’t spend a single second at home feeling alone. (Her soft whiffly purr is a lovely comfort.) Wishing peace and gentleness to everyone carrying the heavy burdens, seen and unseen. 💛

If you see this, we IMPLORE YOU to post a picture from whatever device you're using without explanation.

If you are privileged enough to join a union, please participate. Attend meetings and trainings. Offer input. Join the negotiation team. Run for office. Lead together. Yes, it is extra effort and it’s not always convenient, but unions only function when the people in them show up and work!

I miss the garden in full bloom. I miss the bees buzzing and butterflies flitting about. I miss hammock snoozes. I am trying to make peace with this morning’s -12°F/-24.444°C air temp.

Movie you watched 6+ times with a GIF.

OH HI, YOU LOOK LIKE YOU NEED MORE KITTY SNOOT IN YOUR FACE - Minne, probably