The Vikings were my husband’s favorite team as a kid, and I’m a Browns fan from way back, so every big play this morning is “Yessss! … I mean, that’s too bad. Sorry honey.”

I went to my six-year-old grandson’s flag football game today. (Naturally, he played brilliantly!) One of his teammates was a little girl in pigtails who was wearing her football jersey with a leopard-print skirt, and she played hard. That little girl gives me hope for the future.

BREAKING NEWS: TYLENOL RESEARCHERS FIND DISTURBING LINK BETWEEN DONALD TRUMP AND JEFFREY EPSTEIN

PSA: Corruption that happens in plain sight STILL COUNTS as corruption.

"To a supremacist society, most of us are acceptable losses. Charlie Kirk is not. To a supremacist society, guns are allowed to kill most of us, and the pundits can debate later how sad our deaths were. But guns were not supposed to kill Charlie Kirk." www.the-reframe.com/acceptable-l...

Lemme speak with directness and a sense of urgency about our most important economic threats, and what history teaches us about moments like this.

Seriously, Florida, you’ve already given me plenty of reasons never to visit you. You don’t have to keep coming up with more. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

To the rug— The good rug— NOW. No, Mom— Urrrrrp. I absolutely Hurrrrgh. Cannot wait Mmmmrgh! To get FLURRRRP! Outside.

This is so important… Sharon has been tracking license plates on cars driven by ICE agents, and she’s finding they don’t match the vehicles. In other words, ICE is using secret, illegal tactics—just like we suspected. REMINDER: the DMV is not a federal agency. @governor.ca.gov 🧵

@bennet.senate.gov I read your weekly email update, and I’m disgusted with you. Our country is descending into fascism. We have troops on the streets. We’re facing an existential threat to democracy, and you’re acting like it’s business as usual. Wake up and honor your oath to the Constitution!

pls share/RT Eff Rules, Do Good: Towards A New Liberalism www.oliverexplains.com/p/eff-rules-...

On Tuesday, we said goodbye to Bella the bestest* dog ever. I am heartbroken. She was more than 15 years old, and it was time, but it’s still too soon. *I know you all think your dogs are the bestest, and you’re right, they are. Rules of superlatives are special for dogs. Hug your pups for me.

I guess piping hot haggis isn’t the only thing in Scotland that can deliver sick burns.

The #CakeResistance has arrived! Because every person deserves not only cake but also a life full of the things that cake represents, including care, art, kindness, and enjoyment.

Happy Bastille Day! 🇫🇷🥖🍾💥 Let us always celebrate and be inspired by the fact that tyrants can be overthrow and unjust prisons stormed!

I read this ranting, and it bears no connection to any sort of reality, and yet there are people who will believe it wholeheartedly, and I have no idea how to even have a meaningful conversation with someone this deluded.

The president of the United States is threatening to strip the citizenship away from an American who says things he does not like. And our media will invariably present this not as a major crisis, an impeachable offense that must lead to his immediate removal, but as “a spat” between Don & Rosie

Alligator Alcatraz is not a merchandising opportunity. Concentration camps are not a photo op. The kidnapping, disappearing and torture of human beings should not be celebrated and exploited for monetary gain. It’s fascist propaganda.

🧵Today is Friday, July 4. Good morning ❤️ We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all [people] are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights that among these are Life Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights,

If you do knitting/needlework, consider buying something from this shop owner who is not afraid to take a stand.

SONG (arrives on streaming/music-purchase platforms on Thursday):

Dear independent retailers, why do you make things so difficult? I don’t want to give you all my info and only then discover some outrageous shipping price, and I definitely don’t want to add $50 worth of crap to get free shipping. I just want my $15 item and a reasonable shipping fee known upfront.

I was in Rocky Mtn Nat’l Park yesterday, and I came home to discover that my local ballot issue went the way I wanted AND that Cuomo lost the NYC primary. Apparently things in the world work out when I’m away. I should log off now before I discover anything that contradicts that idea.

In the linked essay, I mention Nancy Mace's standard TERF question, asked most recently to Tim Walz: "What is a woman?" My answer is simple. A woman is not a *what.* A woman is a *who.* I want to expand a bit from the essay on what I think this matters. www.the-reframe.com/shows-of-wea...

I just averted a hail storm in my neighborhood because my husband and I spent 20 minutes in the rain wrangling the cover onto our high-roofed van. Such is my vast power over nature!

Back in 2006/2007, I worked at a title company, and the signs of housing market collapse were all there. I didn’t understand how the “professionals” didn’t see it coming. I have that same sinking feeling about the state of democracy. I pre-loathe everyone who will say “we couldn’t see this coming.”

When constituents started to pry, She responded, “We’re all going to die.” With that quip she laid bare That she just doesn’t care And exposed what she’s tried to belie. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

I stand with Rep. LaMonica McIver. This is a political stunt—point blank.

Some days, like yesterday, my dog will have a good, happy day, and I think she’ll be with us for another six months. And some days, like today, she’s hurting and unhappy, and I worry about making it to next week. It’s really hard to know what to do when you’ve got an elderly dog.

Taking a bribe in a very public way doesn't mean you aren't corrupt, it means your corruption is shameless.

In order to say this with a straight face, do you have to lose your brain, your spine, your soul, or some combination thereof?

Never forget, it’s lies upon lies. Lies all the way down.

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She was released about 20-ish minutes ago... www.cnn.com/2025/05/09/u...

Evergreen mood.

Please highlight this story. ICE stormed into the wrong house, trashed the place, and made women/girls stand outside in the rain in their underwear. ICE also stole phones, laptops, and cash savings from the family, who moved to OKC two weeks ago. kfor.com/news/local/w...

In the coming days you’ll see headlines like, “ICE Can Now Come Into Your House Without a Warrant.” They will be false. Trump’s Attorney General, who once accepted a bribe from him when she was FL AG, instructed her agents to ignore the 4th Amendment of the US Constitution. That’s the story.

Arresting judges. Which page of the Fascist playbook have we reached now? This is all abhorrent, and anyone who can’t see that may be beyond redemption.

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

Note how he describes children as “our greatest resource” and then goes on to bemoan them never holding a job or paying taxes. This is how eugenicists think. So aside from being wrong about basically everything to do with autism, he’s saying children are only worth what they can produce.

You can support our Constitution and Declaration of Independence OR you can support trump. At this point, you cannot support both. They are in almost complete opposition to one another.

Be kind to someone today, and remember that a single act of kindness makes you a million times better person than the entirety of the current administration.

Me, when my husband’s burrito fell on his plate: Hey, it just made like the stock market and crashed. Him, shaking his head: Oh honey, too soon. Just… too soon.

80th day of Trump's bribery scheme operating out in the open.

Just finished reading Starter Villain by John Scalzi, and I really enjoyed it, but a few things seem a little too on point for our current situation. Talking about villains here:

Fire, ready, aim as official policy.

Those trying to understand the tariffs as economic policy are dangerously naive. No, the tariffs are a tool to collapse our democracy. A means to compel loyalty from every business that will need to petition Trump for relief. 1/ A 🧵 to explain his plan and how we fight back.