Me, as a 4-leaf-clover:

Das Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz hat die #noAfD als gesichert rechtsextrem eingestuft. Der Inlandsgeheimdienst sieht keinen bloßen Verdacht mehr. Wer Demokratie schützen will, muss handeln. Keine Bühne, kein Mandat, kein Zweifel. Diese Partei gehört verboten. Jetzt.

@carolinecarlson.bsky.social recommends ten new universe-expanding children’s books.

Having a great day with a friend in Hannover.

I freaking love Germany on days like this.

I know I keep going on about the house getting hit by lightning, but to us, it was kind of a big deal. We lost two ceiling lights, a set of fairy lights (they melted), and some Ethernet, but we were lucky. If we hadn’t had the electricity redone in 2023, we might have had a house fire!

After the lightning, my husband burned stuff on the stove and was airing out the place. Then the cat was acting weird—a mouse had walked inside. We had a nursery rhyme going on—me chasing the dog, dog chasing the cat, cat chasing a mouse. All while E was playing a waltz on violin in the basement.

Our house got struck by lightning tonight, and it was LOUD. Thankfully, only a tiny piece of the roof fell off (we’ve got 70 year old clay tiles, and they’re strong), and the whole street has electrical problems, but no fires!

Well, the dog figured out how to jump the fence and my neighbors now have photos of me chasing him all over their yard with a dandelion because I was out of treats so there goes my chance at a sensible reputation.

Larry David just ended Bill Maher. This is death by satire. My Dinner With Adolf (gift link): www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

Other news: the magic of life is still magicking

Sorry I’m mostly a lurker. Life at home isn’t fun to share, and I don’t want to add to the world’s weight. Anyway, tomorrow I’m taking my 2nd born to the suicide watch clinic. The one my first-born went to 4 years ago. Why is this happening? Why both kids? What did I do wrong?

The turnout in small towns across the country has been incredible drawing crowds of thousands. We’re already seeing over one million in attendance nationwide, and events are still underway. Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Ohio all had especially surprising showings.

If you're going to watch Murderbot on Apple TV, consider adding it to your watchlist. It's kind of like pre-ordering a book, it tells the streaming service that you're there for our show. Link for US viewers: tv.apple.com/us/show/murd... (You can also search for it on the app.)

1/4. On the White House’s theory, if they abduct you, get you on a helicopter, get to international waters, shoot you in the head, and drop your corpse into the ocean, that is legal, because it is the conduct of foreign affairs.

After I took that photo, Plankton wandered over to an area he isn’t allowed in, where the cats go, and came back with a dead mouse, crawling with maggots. Life is so full of ups and downs and horrors.

Now that’s it’s not freezing outside, we’ve got a game: put all the balls in, and take then out.

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

This is terrifying in America. ICE agents are showing up masked—these abductions must stop. If you’re going to detain someone, show your face, present a warrant, and proper ID. Disappearing people from their families without evidence or accountability isn’t law enforcement—it’s state-sponsored fear.

Really not here for dire wolves. Not bc I hate wolves, but because I can’t stand the Alpha Male fetishization (that’s a word) of anything, and also we have dogs; we don’t need to play with their DNA anymore than we already did.

A teeny tiny four leaf clover from my yard. (We sowed micro clover instead of grass.)

Today, my mom introduced my nephew (he’s autistic) to a woman with a puppy, and explained that “he’s 5 but can’t tell you that.” Then the woman said, “there’s a cure for that, you know. It’s all natural, and will get rid of his toxicities.” 🤬🤬🤬 I wanted to slap her through the phone.

Youngest and I have turned in our applications for German citizenship and answered the loyalty questions. Now, we wait!

🪶Need a pick me up? The hummingbirds are on the way back from their non-breeding grounds in Central America. Ruby-throateds have made as far north as D.C. and St. Louis, Black-chinned are in southern Utah and Rufous are passing through Seattle already!

Inside of you are two wolves….

3.5% is all we need. 3.5% of the population being engaged and committed is the magic number to overthrow a dictator. And I'd bet that if 2% of us were *out protesting* yesterday, more of us are out there than that. Keep up the pressure.

This is part of the big manufacturing lie: that people can get jobs with no education or training just wielding screwdrivers. Apple cannot make iPhones in the US without an army of tooling engineers, and we don’t even have the tooling engineers here to educate an army of tooling engineers.

THIS. #HandsOff

So proud of American Resisters today! #Handsoff

Also I hope we're all on this same page EVERYONE needs to be brought out of that El Salvadorian hell hole they were ALL wrongfully deported. I mean it's good to focus on 'And this guy was here legally and not ever a gang member AND they're Venezuelan' but NO ONE should've been sent there

Hate to be millennial about it all but it is just mental that my whole working life has just been a series of recessions and “economic shocks”, underpinned by stagnant wages

A friend asked if we can go to the Stasi museum at the exact same time my youngest child sent me this video: (yes that’s me)

Mein Staubsauger und ich teilen das Talent zur Selbstsabotage.

Sen. Booker’s speech was a substantive and moral account of this moment. He did not read the phone book. He did not babble. For 24 hours @booker.senate.gov laid out a detailed, damning, and critical narrative of truth, history, politics, morality, humanity. What will you do?

Cory Booker Cory Booker Cory Booker is 25+ hours strong

Who are all these people who have the time to just sit at cafes and chat with friends?

When I can’t find my sunglasses.

I asked a number of people who study democracy and history where they thought the U.S. would be in 5 or 10 years. Gift link: wapo.st/44bN4i6

A while ago a lovely German man appeared at our church. He came a few times to look around during our Saturday opening hours, before asking if the piano abandoned in the corner worked. I told him it was horrendously out of tune, and the cathedral piano tuner had deemed it not worth sorting out.

Federal law has named the "Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Management Council." I'm told it's now being referred to as "the Gulf of Mexico Fisheries Management Council in Charge of Managing Fisheries in the Gulf of America." Strongly considering making a t-shirt that says that.

Protect trans kids. Message will repeat.

No one was there so I went in and talked to an imaginary old woman from hundreds of years ago sitting there, bewildered at my accent and my green witch tendencies.

In Japan, an Iceless Lake and an Absent God Sound an Ancient Warning. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/w...

Happiest dogs in the world.

I served three combat tours in Iraq & Afghanistan. In the military, you lead by example. The cornerstone of leadership is accountability. Every American should be concerned that Donald Trump & his administration won’t take any responsibility for their serious mistakes.

How many more signs do you need to finally agree it’s fascism, right here, right now? apple.news/AB9VWK82uTCK...

People who followed me because of my ramblings on imperialism and aren't Palestinian, please consider a donation to assist Palestinians in Hebron in protecting their homes and lives from settler/soldier attacks. I am not Palestinian and those who are know >> www.hebronfriends.org/eyesonhebron

On Sunday, I did a day-long pilgrimage, and we walked over the old East-West german border. We carried rocks from the west to the east, and left them at a chapel that had been used by DDR soldiers as a hangout and then restored in the 90.