I'll go first.

Seen while walking yesterday: A mom giving the ol' back-of-the-frame support to a pink-helmeted little girl working out her training wheels-ed balance.

(Bonus beauty: The wheels LIGHT. UP.!)

Still here. Just lurkish. Making the effort to be fueled more than righteous anger.

The season of Lent feels like a good time to regain a discipline of intentional and appreciated beauty.

What little thing did you see or hear today that revealed something lovely rising among the ashes?

A quick resistance task:
1. Google Gulf of Mexico
2. “Gulf of America" is the top
3. Click on the three little dots to the right of it
4. Select "Send Feedback"
5. Click on "Gulf Of America"
6. Select "Inaccurate content"
7. Select "Incorrect" and type in "The correct name is “Gulf of Mexico"

Been thinking of you, Carlito. Much much love.

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System

I can't even be shocked anymore but I remain entirely enraged & absolutely horrified. What in the actual autocratic dictatorial sociopathic complete and utter bullshittery is this.

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Full Access to Treasury’s Payments System www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

We said the same - clearly created to start a series.

We enjoyed it. Wanted more Georgiou, but when wouldn't we?!

I’ll be honest, this week there was more to destroy the rule of law than in trumps first term,

And i have no idea what the Democrats are doing to fight back. Or even saying. Crickets

"sparking confusion"

Why on earth would they be confused? Because literally no one in this administration knows anything about anything besides shooting their mouth off? Why would "stop everything federal" be confusing when coming, y'know, from the federal?

What a freaking nightmare.

HELP OVER HATE WEEKEND OF SERVICE MLK JR. DAY JANUARY 17TH-20TH

On this upcoming inauguration weekend, our groups across the country will unite for a weekend of service by hosting events designed to empower their communities — because as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. taught us, injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

And will it matter? These "confirmation" hearings feel like the most foregone of conclusions.

Still getting used to getting on this wee app. But if ever a season of life begged for some blue sky, this would be it.

Hi friends. Let's do this.

Computer off at noon.
Car loaded at 2pm.
Annual Thanksgiving trip commences.

Passenger seat dance party in full effect.

Oooh, do we bring the annual Day After thrift/antique Holy Cow What Is That photopalooza to the 'Sky this year? Hmm ...

a woman sitting at a desk with i don 't know written on her arm ALT: a woman sitting at a desk with i don 't know written on her arm

The nationwide Outlook shenanigans today? (not sending, not receiving, doing both occasionally at will, no search feature)

I ain't mad about it.

#FreedomFromTheTyrannyOfTheSupposedlyUrgent

What. Linda. Said.

Matt Gaetz allegedly paid two women for sex in 2017, attorney says The woman, who was 19 at the time, said she encountered Trump’s pick to lead the Justice Department at an invitation-only party in Orlando, Florida.

That this happened at all.
But while he was in the House.
And also, certainly, with minors.

But yes, please, by all means, let's make him attorney effing general.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/pol...

"Not long," history suggests, in answer to your last question.

So. Whatcha been up to, troublemakers?