After a 10K this morning (my son’s first), we found an adorable diner that offered tomatillo sauce as a side, served frijoles de la olla with breakfast, and was attached to a cat cafe/rescue next door. I was the Vince McMahon meme this morning.

My husband turned 40 a few days ago and has immediately turned into a Yard Guy. He’s saying we should check out the next home and garden show, fretting over what’s eating our broccoli leaves, wants to try his hand at making kimchi with bok choy we planted.

My local bookstore is doing their annual “entire store is 50% off” sale today and why did I feel like crying to see the line to get in go past 6 other stores and onto the sidewalk of a major road? And all of us gathered in the rain too, a rarity in the desert.

Tonight as I was leaving a black tie optional event, I said to a woman whose dress I was admiring “Is that Irina Sabayev? Mine is too and I love your dress!” She said no, it’s Marina Nevin. We were like wow, well they kinda look the same. Got home, checked the tag, & the brand is Sabina Musayev.

I’ve had a vegetable garden for about 10 years now and what is it lately with people referring to their gardens as their crops? I have 9 plots and some herbs in containers, not acreage and not crops. Did I miss something?

Was eating a toasted potato, egg, and cheese burrito while driving and both times food fell on me, it landed on the seatbelt. Winning!

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

I was grocery shopping today when the fire alarm went off. One man ran out with his baby. The rest of us looked around and kept filling our carts. I was sad about dying apart from my husband and son. But my self-preservation instincts have uh, suffered under Trump. In the end, it was a false alarm.

Parents of young kids, if you are paying for Disney+ and you think canceling it will take away quality programming, check out Hoopla and Kanopy. Both are FREE with your library card, and both have a LOT of kids’ programs, including Disney movies. 🤟🏽❤️😊 Follow my IG: KingRon4L

At my dental appointment today, I asked to put on music even though I didn’t have my earbuds. I selected Mariah Carey’s last album, 2018’s Caution and yep I gained her two new lambs. I reminded them her new album is out on the 26th too. 🐑

My trans community, this is not a time for us to go into a defensive crouch. When they come after us for this, we go on the attack. Demand to know: 95% of all shooters are men, and 84% of them are white. What restrictions are you proposing for the White Male community?

This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...

Autumn, snap him up!

Wildflowers for the win !!!! 🌾🌻🌸🌼🍃

The baseball coach in this article is my cousin Rico! www.abc15.com/news/uplifti...

Just spoke with my CDC sources. RFK Jr. has reportedly told officials to hide cases, even as symptomatic farm workers test positive for H5N1. Pandemics start with cover-ups. I'm exposing the Trump administration through direct CDC leaks.

It’s spring, the season where once a day, I see a young family biking with kids all in helmets and no helmets on the grown-ups. I always wonder who’s gonna take care of the kids if there’s a biking accident, so mom or dad can look cool, I guess, for 30 minutes.

It's also the day for my favorite meme! If this aging Klingon warrior can get it right, so can anyone.

Two Thursdays ago, I reached for a coworker’s mouse to show her something in a spreadsheet after saying “Can I drive?”, and in that motion, unrelenting back pain and nausea began. No relief yet from Toradol, rx muscle relaxers, yet the cringe from saying “Can I drive” is also lingering.

I told my husband this morning that I like when I fart when I run, which I immediately regretted sharing out loud. After a pause, he said “Me too! It’s like I’m Mario hitting a gold brick” and that’s how you know they’re the one.

Safe to say that no one at corporate in this home furnishings store knows Native slang.

This is Winston Churchill visiting the White House during World War II. Funny how he isn’t wearing a suit either. Almost like he was a wartime leader defending his country from being slaughtered and wiped out by an authoritarian aggressor.

Many Medicaid recipients do not know they receive it because Medicaid is called different things in different states. The public narrative of Medicaid focuses on a distant other, but 40% of US children and 60% of nursing home residents receive Medicaid. Just SOME of the names by state are below:

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New: DOGE's spending has been secret. No longer. My colleagues have uncovered it. www.propublica.org/article/doge...

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At least 7 plane crashes since Trump and Musk destroyed aviation safety in the United States. That's an average of 1 plane crash every 3 days. 1/29 – Washington, D.C. 1/31 – Pennsylvania 2/5 – Washington 2/6 – Alaska 2/10 – Arizona 2/12 – California 2/16 – Georgia

Reading management books as a Native is different. Struggling with Stephen Covey asserting why humans have dominion over animals (exec functioning), & saying at a late stage of human development, we begin to nurture interdependence. Idk if I can finish this one.

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

Totally unrelated to layoffs of highly qualified US federal employees, did you guys know that Korea has a whole website devoted to posting jobs for overseas research and professorial talent? No Korean-language knowledge necessary! global.hibrain.net?_hv=m

This profile has been scrubbed from the site. Rose Ferreira grew up without reliable electricity, immigrated to NY, then survived homelessness and cancer on her way to NASA. She was so moved by images from the Webb telescope she wept. This is what’s at stake web.archive.org/web/20231206...

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Close Suns game with two minutes left in the third, so I angrily shout “where the fuck is Stingray? He needs to put his bandanna on”, Stingray being my cat and the bandanna being a Suns bandanna.

Scientific breakthroughs we might not have had without NSF funding: The Internet Smartphones DNA analysis MRIs Doppler radar Bar codes And this is just the tiniest tip of the iceburg.

There are too many milks.

At a family gathering today, there was a clear age gap about the sweetness of the fruit punch. The older you were, the more your eyes bulged, your mouth squinched up, and you had to turn your head to one side at the first taste. Ages 12 and under started hanging around the jug, constantly refilling.

I went to a Native college graduation tonight and on the teleprompter, they spelled Tohono O’odham Nation (one of my tribes) as “otter damnation” and I’m not even mad. I’m picturing otters asleep in a river holding paws adorably, but oh no lookout the massive waterfall is coming!

I’m at the panicky stage of Xmas shopping where I’m doing curbside pickup at Walmart. Cannot emphasize how much I hate Walmart. I need oven bags & asked the curbside lady if it was ok to run in. She shrugged and said “they don’t pay me enough to care” and honestly, she’s what’s right with America.

For lunch today, I had a knockoff McRib from the gas station on my rez bc we don’t get things from the outside and I wanted to drive up demand for it. In the 2000s, we had a plywood shack with a lady selling bootleg DVDs. She painted the plywood red and called it RezBox.

For my hs-aged son’s birthday, I got him tickets to see Weird Al this summer. I had initially offered to get him a GoPro + accessories. And after paying what I did, I’m sorry, Weird Al. I wasn’t really familiar with your game.

Everytime I hear Raekwon-Ice Cream, I get a fresh wave of embarrassment from when I loaned my CD to my high school crush’s younger brother. I had filled out my order for a Butter Pecan baby tee in the CD insert and forgot I wrote in my crush’s name in bubble letters all over the order form.