genuinely been wondering what the fuck is going on the past few days in this race. Parker swoops in as my guardian angel to give a brief explainer. and I'm still like, ???.

my 92-year-old Minnesotan grandpa who can't see or hear well wishing he were younger so he could be out in the streets with everyone else in Minnesota. he's so touched by the people's efforts, said there's so many protests even in Northern Minnesota where he is. my whole heart. 💜

proud to have cancelled my WaPo subscription and used that money to donate to ProPublica monthly instead.

Joaquin Castro is the best of Texas. "I picked them up...and escorted them back..." my whole heart.

this is such a balm. I hope it gives more Texans just that: hope. all our statewide offices are up for election this year. imagine what hope could do and if we won those races.

This administration is weak. This administration is cowardly. And this administration is going to lose. We're going to defeat them. Together.

starting the day by screaming.

lots of things happening all the time.

heart-wrenching. and it brings up something I've been grappling with the last few weeks. I spent the first 11 years of my life in the Minneapolis area. I have not stopped thinking about my childhood friends lately. we lost touch; I moved before the internet was really a thing...

My report from Minneapolis, about the things you'll never see. newrepublic.com/article/2057...

my credit card statement this month is just gonna be a bunch of GoFundMes plus the two random bras I bought in a disassociated stupor last week.

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

we are crying about The UK Celebrity Traitors, precious.

tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors. i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare. thank you. thank you.

my super Minnesotan mom who lives in North Texas lamenting that she cannot use their "Minnesota shovel" because they got more rock-hard ice instead of snow and how she was "looking forward to a little snow workout." 🥺

sometimes I want to go back home to Minnesota, have happy hour with my grandparents, crawl into the wonky pullout bed in their den with my parents sleeping across the hall. maybe we meet my uncles in Duluth or at one of their houses and we tease each other, laugh, eat, and drink. and nothing hurts.

amongst everything else, the nervous jitteriness to be in Texas right now and hope the power and water stay on through the freezing temps and freezing rain because you're still traumatized from 2021. the anxiety is felt the most in my heart area.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

All I see is federal agents getting violent with residents, over and over, while Democratic leaders repeatedly tell those residents to calm down and not do anything in response. This is not sustainable.

There has been an increasing sense in Minneapolis that we are on our own, that our elected representatives are unwilling and/or unable to take action to get these murderous Nazi thugs out of our community. I really hope that changes today. The time for pleading TV hits ended weeks ago.

spiraling. refreshing because I need to know it's not someone I know. but also, these are all people I know because they are all our people, our neighbors.

we are distraught, precious.

I Photoshop Paddington into a movie, TV show, or pop culture until I forget: Day 1760

it’s up to 126,000 unique visitors now. doing my best to keep my head above water with updates!

Democrat leaders looking for "creative ideas" to fight ICE, I've got a crazy one called "go outside to where the shit is actually happening."

Me, reading and studying history: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! Me, realizing I am living through a historical event: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.

crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours. please keep sharing with your networks.

the people of MN have been murdered, brutalized and kidnapped for weeks now and have remained *amazingly* peaceful in the face of it. lecturing citizens to not “take the bait” etc is pretty disrespectful after a point and avoids the real question: how long are they supposed to take this, undefended?

For ease of navigation and sharing, I have turned my little list into a website: standwithminnesota.org

I just love my home state so much.

fuck ice. fuck cops. fuck colonialism and capitalism. fuck the transphobes and the bigots and the people who use their religion as a weapon and a boot on our necks. fuck everyone who tells us that is impossible to build a world where we are all free and fed and housed and loved.

I was desperate for some organization, so I put together a list of places you can donate or buy things for to support folks in Minnesota. If you have places for me to add, please DM me.

"I would do anything to stop this violence. to scoop up our hearts and our minds and plop them wholesale in a meadow..."

I know that we will win. but today I also know that I just feel really sad.

On Wednesday, Renee Macklin Good was fatally shot by a federal ICE agent. Becca Good, her wife, shared the following statement with MPR News.

There are a lot of half-formed notions of Renee Good circulating right now. This poem is the most accurate artifact of her we have access to; a piece of her soul that remains in the world. Read her words and become her for a moment; let her live in you. So long as men can breathe & eyes can see.

sometimes I want to go back home to Minnesota, have happy hour with my grandparents, crawl into the wonky pullout bed in their den with my parents sleeping across the hall. maybe we meet my uncles in Duluth or at one of their houses and we tease each other, laugh, eat, and drink. and nothing hurts.

NEW: At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. Our latest:

can't we all just have a damn minute.

my brain is soup and I'm sorry.

I love this so much. I'd love to live in a world where our government officials were powerful in the beautiful softness that art provides. more background in arts, less background in the coldness of capitalism.

isweartogod.

wanna see a grown man crash out? omg, a king. 😂😭 perfect time to get out, y'all! best Survivor podcast.

we're getting two native trees planted today. ☺️ the next phase of transforming our front yard begins.

this will be known as the weekend that a Lily Allen song called "Pussy Palace" made me sooooo damn sadddddddd.

WITH WHAT WATER? AND ON WHAT POWER GRID??

but if I buy a rug for my entryway, then all my anxieties will go away.

do. you. understand. the. ASSIGNMENT.

I'll go ahead and say it. Texas book banners got their butts kicked in tonight's school board elections. Again.

it's so dispiriting. and I feel like it reeks, once again, of how uninformed Texas voters are. there was no reason to vote FOR most of those amendments, and yet. Texas just takes so much work.