HEY I AM DOING A FUNDRAISER FOR MINNESOTA RENT FUNDS AND GIVING AWAY A SIGNED ARC (advance review copy) OF OBSTETRIX THAT'S RIGHT YOU CAN HELP MINNESOTA FAMILIES AND MAYBE GET A FREE EARLY SIGNED COPY OF MY BOOK

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Jan 29 Advocate: Trump admin is now trying to deport gay and trans asylum-seekers to countries like Iran and Uganda where they face imprisonment, torture or death, arguing these nations have agreed to accept them and adjudicate their asylum requests.

I need a break from the relentless (bad!) news, so I'm poking through some recent photos, and I figured hey, maybe you want a momentary break as well. So here are four of those photos. All by me.

4 journalists in total, and all 4 of them are black.

Unless you live in Philly you would not believe the way people are parking right now. Its actually more dangerous than when the cars were snowed and iced in.

Alanna, downstairs, making coffee: HEY! We have a treat! Me, upstairs, putting on shoes: A treat? Alanna: BIG BOAT STUCK

Potato leek soup and garlic bread

Not pictured: Haruki Murakami’s wife, or indeed whoever is cooking, cleaning, paying bills, running errands, doing the laundry, answering emails, etc like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine

Senators blocked a package of six spending bills that includes funding for the Department of Homeland Security as Democrats continue to push for reforms to immigration enforcement. n.pr/45zPhEi

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social s 2026 Jan 29 KS Reflector: Altho Dems fought furiously for 6 hours, House & Senate pass bathroom ban apparently targeting Wichita Rep. Abi Boatman who is trans: “I have sat here for 5 1/2 hours & listened to this entire room debate my humanity & my ability to participate."

Kitty!

this means the world to me

I've long said that I don't want the "grimdark" reboot of things like Gilligan's Island, I want the "light fluffy" reboot of something that was too grim to begin with

People wonder why Philly Folks are the way they are. Between the way the city lets us down time and again and the way we sometimes only have our neighbors to depend on I totally get it. The phrase no one likes us, we don't care does sum it up

Small mercies. Watched a Utube video on AWD on new car. Spent 3 days prior digging out car. Used the fancy new system (altho new braking system? The one that spots a car in front of you & brakes? Won't let you move forward to rock the car in snow.) finally got the car out of parking spot. Success!

One more phone call to make. Call your council person and tell them to support this bill

(Despite the weapons and heavy gear, they were amateurs.) (Amateurs are terrifying.)

Yes but also whomst amongst us does not want a treat treat

To paraphrase Dave Barry, someone who is nice to you, but cruel to most of America, is not a nice person. Narcissists tend to like superficially charming but awful people because the superficial charm satisfies their need for admiration.

"We want documentation, and we are going to make sure we get it,” said New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/politics/new...

Lost my favorite uncle in the 'sota. He did three tours in theater. Went back even after a girl with blue hair was mean to him at a Dairy Queen. Got taken out by an IEHD on his last patrol.

Fashion houses keep getting bodied by indie knitting designers, because look at this arm scythe silhouette from YSL - not to mention how the cables stop before the ribbed neckline. Tsk.

Informational exhibits about slavery removed by the National Park Service from the President’s House last week are being kept in storage at the National Constitution Center, according to a legal filing from the Trump administration.

I hope by now everyone gets that all struggles are intertwined, but if you had any doubt— this bounty hunter model is based off of Texas’ SB8, which was the death knell for Roe— & allowed ppl to pull these same vigilante lawsuits against anyone assisting in someone getting abortion care.

Sandwich tonight: Peanut butter and strawberry jam and apricot preserves and blueberries and honey and dismembered Little Debbie Oatmeal Creme Pie. I don't want to say I'm currently experiencing a sugar rush, but my walls are transparent and I can see through time.

It’s the 1990s. I’m trying to explain many abuses we see at Ruby Ridge and Waco reflect entrenched practices of law enforcement. It’s the 2000s. I’m trying to explain many abuses we see under the PATRIOT ACT reflect entrenched practices of American law enforcement. It’s 2025. Guess the fuck what.

This is reminiscent of the Marc Maron bit about how he wants him to build 1/3 of the wall so it can stand as a monument to his failure.

Trump’s illegal domestic deployments cost taxpayers $496 million—and counting. Including $21 million in Illinois. There’s no money for health care. But half a billion to waste on intimidating Americans in their own communities.

I tried to join the marsupial observatory unfortunately, they said I didn't have the requisite koalafications

Pierre Polievre is pushing for this. during the parliamentary break he was campaigning on the taxpayer's dime in Nova Scotia, vowing to close the illegal fisheries. That high pitched whistling sound is that illegal = indigenous.

Practicing being cool and calm. Look how much I’m not screaming

I love that a hair salon is currently coordinating rent help for people ❤️💇

90% of conservative political analysis is just "this group I don't like does this thing I don't understand due to motivations I made up."

TL;DR there is a role for you in this work that is at a pace you can handle. Find your lane.

Fyi, if you've been looking for a place to donate in Minneapolis I went thru this org. www.dhhmn.com/operations

Squirrel superhighway from the tree to the bird feeder. 🚙🐿️🚗🐿️🚙

Sen. John Fetterman is facing pressure from constituents and fellow Pennsylvania Democrats to vote against funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

My husband is working with a group delivering groceries to families from an overwhelmingly Hispanic school in Mpls. He will be buying groceries this Friday. $350 will finish covering their food needs for the week; if he raises more he will buy TP/laundry detergent. Venmo: Edward-Burke-MSP.

HARLEM ALERT

3rd day of shovelling at lunch to free my car. Hopefully I shovelled enough to be able to get out of my spot tomorrow morning.

Still waiting for your street to be plowed? You’re not alone. The city says it’s working through 311 requests while citing worker safety and the difficulty of navigating Philly’s narrowest roadways.

We had eradicated this disease. And now because of targeted disinformation, children, immunocompromised people, elderly folks, and so many others become victims in this proxy war and we have a new avoidable pandemic.

Sharpie, colored paper, and sandwich boards have become resistance art at the President’s House site. “I hope people will think about what other information is under threat of being disappeared,” said one Philly-area resident. 🔗 www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

Designers of the President’s House are grappling with the dismantling of its slavery exhibits last week following orders from the Trump administration. “It’s sort of now a memorial to the death of democracy and truth,” said Troy C. Leonard, an architect who helped design the site.

I love that the reactions I’m seeing to “ban whistles” are things like “3D print vuvuzela.”

Oh, I love McSweeney's.

just a reminder: if fire hydrants near where you live are buried in snow after this week’s storms, it’s a mitzvah (and a gooooood workout!) to dig out around that hydrant so fire crews can get to it faster if need be.

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter is backing a proposed fan boycott of World Cup matches in the United States because of the conduct of President Trump and his administration at home and abroad. n.pr/4t3yQtH