Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning.

Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

Been under the weather and my sweetheart of a husband made me a hot toddy 🥰

I was 15 in 1970, grew up during assassinations and riots and four dead in Ohio, hundreds of thousands of US military deaths in Vietnam etc.

Too much horror to go around. This seems much worse to me now. Comparison is complicated. But I never imagined a full-on madman as president of my country

Jim Jordan will humiliate himself, my home state of Ohio, & The Ohio State University today at Jack Smith's public testimony. Jim Jordan didn't get that seat through gerrymandering. That's a lie Ohioans tell themselves. He is very reflective of that part of Ohio near where I grew up.

I think it's a family thing? We said "oops" or "oh", not "ope" with a p on the end. I grew up in Columbus and my family is from southern Ohio. There were a lot of words that they stopped using once they lived here a while, like "warsh" (wash).

Really throws into stark relief the lack of civic pride in his administration.

Filled almost top to bottom with people who despise where they grew up.

Miller: Los Angeles
Vance: Ohio
Trump: NYC

I suspect Rubio is the exception. He likely has real affection for Florida.

I’m on blue sky…

Hello world 🫡✊🏼

Vive la resistance

Chief Judge Patrick Schiltz, the top federal judge in Minneapolis, rips into ICE:

"ICE is not a law unto itself."

"ICE has likely violated more court orders in January 2026 than some federal agencies have violated in their entire existence."
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Watercolour drawing (quite large) of the garden a couple of summers ago. A very hot year and we had a good crop of plum tomatoes.
#watercolour #penandink #pleinair