Just a baby giant and her toys.

IT IS SHOUTY THURSDAY. HIT CAPS LOCK AND SHOUT ABOUT WHAT NEEDS SHOUTING. REMEMBER MY RULE, AND DON’T BE MEAN TO PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T HURT YOU, K?

Elon Musk’s staffers have been granted access to a sensitive child support database by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The data access was approved by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., despite resistance from career employees within the department. Sorry, we tried…

I read “How To Keep House While Drowning” and I loved it, but I need “How To Keep House While Society Collapses Around You As People Tell You You’re Being Dramatic And To Get Over It.” Anyone got a pub date for that one?

You can dissociate and think instead about the Muppets putting on a full production of Les Misérables anytime you want. No one can stop you.

I’m just a blue dot in Texas, staring at the approaching tornado season, and bracing myself to hear that we deserve any destruction and devastation that comes our way because we didn’t work hard enough to flip a ridiculously gerrymandered and voter suppressed state blue.

Republican reps all across the nation are RUNNING when asked about Elon slashing veterans benefits! KEEP CALLING THEM OUT!!!!

These two. Always seated next to each other, playing together but separately. This? This kind of joy is worth fighting for.

IT IS SHOUTY THURSDAY. HIT CAPS LOCK AND SHOUT YOUR SHOUTS. JUST MAKE SIRE YOU FOLLOW THE RULE AND AREN’T MEAN TO PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T HURT YOU, K?

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project www.thetrevorproject.org

Casual reminder: should you find yourself in a position where you’re being detained and someone is trying to access your phone without your consent, a fingerprint ID and facial recognition are much easier to force than a passcode.

IT IS SHOUTY THURSDAY. HIT CAPS LOCK AND SHOUT ABOUT WHAT NEEDS SHOUTING. REMEMBER MY RULE: DON’T BE MEAN TO PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T HURT YOU, K?

“Hey, I just found some cans of sweetened condensed milk. Want me to make dulce de leche?” Being partnered to a semi-retired chef who’s really bad at being still is the best thing to ever happen to my life.

Things are distinctly Not Great, and it’s ok if you’re feeling a lot of scared and sad feelings about the Not Great of it all. However. We can’t survive on angst. Because if anxiety wins, then I stop fighting for a better world; and I have children. That simply isn’t an option for me.

Kash Patel wouldn't be cleared to be AN INTERN at the FBI. We need to keep lighting up the phone lines and filling up their inboxes. Let's go actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

My daughter took scissors to her hair last night, and I mean she cut a GIANT chunk out of her hair, but somehow in the light of day she’s just up and turned herself into a junior Farrah Fawcett, and sweet jeebus there is no convincing me that she’s not one of the fae, the evidence is overwhelming.

IT IS SHOUTY THURSDAY. HIT CAPS LOCK AND SHOUT ABOUT WHAT NEEDS SHOUTING. REMEMBER MY ONE RULE AND DON’T BE MEAN HERE TO PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T HURT YOU, K?

I’m seeing a lot of people talking about boycotting PBS and DID YOU PEOPLE NOT PAY ATTENTION DURING PLEDGE DRIVES?!?! They need you more than ever. open.substack.com/pub/jessical...

We sure did go from zero air traffic fatalities to not at all zero air traffic fatalities in a very short span of time.

Today is a great day to remember that art is political.

🎶Joy Pockets🎶 because you can’t exist on a steady diet of suck. Self-deletion rates are down in Native American communities in New Mexico! The Episcopal Church has fully divested itself of fossil fuel! Mitch McConnell fell down the stairs! And more!

The recently pardoned January 6ers are gearing up to run for office. Yes, we are serious. Now is the time to stop them. www.welcomestack.org/p/insurrecti...

So the other side of porn being banned is that when something is made illegal, the regulations that were in place to make sure that thing is done safely go poof. With porn in particular, those regulations are what keep children safe.

IT IS SHOUTY THURSDAY. HIT CAPS LOCK AND SHOUT YOUR SHOUTS. REMEMBER THE ONE RULE AND DON’T BE MEAN TO PEOPLE WHO DIDN’T HURT YOU, K?

Hey, uh, not for nothing, but if you purchase Scrivener to use for writing purposes? You own it henceforth. No license renewals, no need for internet access to be able to draft, no link to a cloud where someone else can access your content✌🏼

Friends who are planning to participate in protests over the coming days, PLEASE be careful, I am begging you.

Oklahoma’s trying to ban smut, and it won’t stop with just that one state. I wrote about it, and you reading the thing I wrote would sure help a romance girly out.

This is normally for a country to invest their budget surpluses. Since we don’t have one, and won’t have one anytime soon, unclear whose money is going into this and where it will be going. We are going to borrow more money to invest it?

Tell your senators to do their jobs: Vote no on all nominees Refuse a quorum Call for quorum checks Object to unanimous consent requests Be LOUD about why they are doing this and demand a stop to the coup. Thank you @indivisible.org indivisible.org/resource/how...

Super strange that *gestures at the horrors* is what they claimed we needed all the guns and the 2nd amendment rah rah squad for.

Education Department employees have been placed on leave for attending diversity training. Meanwhile, Republicans have introduced a bill to eliminate the Department of Education.

This is how we need to talk about what Trump and Musk are doing. Keep it simple and understandable.

It’s been inspiring to see everyone come together for LA,,, but there’s one community I need to highlight. Not enough is being done for the black families after the LA fires. Ive partnered up with GoFundMe and the BMAC to create ONE main GoFundMe campaign to immediately help those in need. 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾

So my daughter has profound hearing loss, and there are treatment options available, but none that we can pursue without an MRI to confirm her diagnosis. And the program that is supposed to pay her her $20,000 procedure is on the chopping block.

So the same group of people who said they were voting for him for cheaper groceries are now saying it’s patriotic to *checks notes* pay more for groceries.

USAID.gov is down. Why is this concerning? Trump has no legal authority to eliminate a congressionally funded independent agency. The work of USAID is vital, and if this can happen to them, it can happen to any of us.

Hi, I need TikTok to manifest a “you want me to go swimming?” and “Get In The Water” mashup RIGHT now.

If you are a federal worker being offered a buyout, I would advise against taking it. Of course, this is a personal decision for everyone and it’s your choice. But these offers are a rush job. The legality is questionable and this admin does not keep to its word. They aren’t firing for a reason.

IT IS SHOUTY THURSDAY. HIT CAPS LOCK AND SHOUT YOUR SHOUTS. REMEMBER: DON’T BE AN ASS TO PROPLE WHO DIDN’T HURT YOU IN THE COMMENTS, K?

“This is not the camps” sounds like something one would say when they are in fact, the camps.

We are deeply concerned about the current state of our country. As civil servants, we are doing everything in our power to resist, even if it costs us our jobs. We are proud to be Americans, but what is happening right now does not reflect the values we, as Americans, stand for!

My theatre group has a silly tradition where they announce the beginning of the next show by using my butt. It seemed like the world in general could use some silliness right now, so. Here you go.

My husband is a stay-at-home-dad now, and one of the only pitfalls is that he actually monitors my coffee intake (which is good, I HAVE A PROBLEM); but then the kids were home multiple days for the weather, and he quietly stopped doing that, because he is wise.

Perfection is truly the enemy of progress.

IT IS SHOUTY THURSDAY. HIT CAPS LOCK AND SHOUT YOUR SHOUTS. MY ONE RULE IS TO NOT BE AN ARSE IN THE COMMENTS. FOLLOW IT, M’KAY?

When I was little, I knew that my Grande could trap you in the best bear hugs. But one thing I didn’t know about the sweet, gentle farmer that was my grandfather? He flew planes over Germany in WWII.

Our power was shut off yesterday due to the wildfire risk with these Santa Ana windstorms. A new fire broke out by my son’s school and we just got notice that they’re closed today. I’m glad we’re safe and pray the fire gets put out before anyone gets hurt. Please help me amplify this intention. 🙏🏽

Some of y’all skipped Addy’s books in the American Girl series, and it shows.

Whelp. It’s time to give my big kid the refresher course on where his place is if the police or angry white people show up in a space where he’s playing with his Black and brown friends. Between his friends, and the people who would harm them based on the color of their skin. He’s 11.