Donate to Help a Medford Family Stay Together, organized by Sarah Vickery We are a community group supporting individuals in Medford who are impacted by ICE p… Sarah Vickery needs your support for Help a Medford Family Stay Together

Putting the word out for some neighbors who need help with immigration-related legal costs, consider helping out if you can! gofund.me/2d3bf2326

Transgender Healthcare: Explainer — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

20,000 words, 150 footnotes, 100+ timeline events = our attempt at documenting and synthesizing all the ways that the federal government has attempted to destroy access to gender-affirming care since January unbreaking.org/issues/trans...

“When the administration began routinely denying bond hearing to members of our class, it upended 30 years of standard practice and signaled a dark new strategy designed to demoralize our clients and close off well-established avenues for legal relief.”

Without downloading any new pics describe your gender

Exclusive: Trump DHS Plans Immigration Raids on Churches Over Holidays The Trump Dept. of Homeland Security is briefing federal agencies on plans for immigration enforcement operations inside churches over holidays.

"Agencies within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, including ICE, ERO, and CBP intend to implement a comprehensive plan to target Spanish-speaking churches across the country during the upcoming holiday season between Thanksgiving, Nov. 27, and Christmas, Dec. 25."

Okay folks, I'm doing the thing. Want a no-commitment, low-stress writing workshop? Welcome to No Write Time.

We'll meet on Discord every other Tuesday, 7:30-9 PM CST. First 10 min is a reading, next 60 we write, last 20 we discuss. DM me for an invite link & follow @nowritetime.bsky.social!

I was 3 seconds away from recommending your own book to you before my brain caught up

4 yrs ago today, a family member managed a truly spectacular own goal, splintered his domestic bliss, & in the process, united the world for a day.

On popular request, I shall now recreate the livetweet thread from that day

So gather around children, for this is the tale of The Rice Truck Saga

People say that being a vegetarian is good for the environment. I think you can fight climate change more as a carnivore. A billionaire has 1 million times the average carbon emissions. Therefore, a carnivore eating just one billionaire would do more for the environment a million vegetarians.

Painting of Sisyphus pushing a boulder up a hill with the caption “keeping my fucking glasses clean”

bruh I’m tired

Also I definitely don't want to volunteer other people's time, but there are a bunch of librarians in the Liftcord including at least one near Boston so you might get some useful pointers if you ask in there!

If you haven't tried it already https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search might be useful? I was able to find building exteriors from Boston in that time period, so there might be interiors mixed in. Local library special collections might help too - I know Medford has a local history room.

I received coffee so I'm counting it as a success

I have never spoken more than beginner German but I once asked for my coffee "with pity" instead of "to go" (which isn't even a plausible mistake it was just.a brain fart)

It was a school assignment when I was (I think) 7, I wrote and illustrated a story about a horse that solved mysteries.

Lifting is good because it makes you strong and capable and resilient and also .... butts

Perfect ears, no notes

A Minneapolis yard. There is a little free library with "take a book - leave a book" painted on the door. There is a laundry basket full of sticks with a sign saying "Dog Library: Take a stick - leave a stick." And there is a dog. (Not holding a stick.)

Seen in Minneapolis...

A manicured hand holding a round blue button that says "We add more genders every time you complain"

I have this problem too. It worked fine when I was a kid who spent 100% of my free time reading! Maybe I just need to go back to carrying books everywhere I go.

One Seltzer Brand Towers Above the Rest—and It’s Not Even Close I don’t even have words for the seasonal flavors.

I wrote for Slate about Polar Seltzer and the joy of a regionally-based I-told-you-so. https://t.co/f2KC0yP08c

Nothing like driving west on the Pike and waving at the inflatable polar bear on the roof while drinking your liter of ginger lime mule seltzer.

The bard really did coin every phrase...

An elderly yellow dog of no particular breed naps on a light green towel. Her head is curled up on her front paws in a very cute way.

Hello world, have a dog picture.