Make America Get Cholera Again

For the record, do I think a one-day boycott is going to make much of an economic impact? No. Do I think that a sort of "Baby's First Boycott," performative though it is, might be useful to make some folks aware of the impact of their economic power, and how it might be wielded politically? Maybe.

This is How They Ban Birth Control

"One of the reasons some people don’t believe that Republicans are banning birth control is that they’re imagining some sweeping bill that says contraception is now illegal. But that’s not how it works."

For the [wealthy] people

Will you strive for justice and peace among all people, and respect the dignity of every human being?

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”

This is like a bank robber getting to fire the cops and disable the alarms just before he strolls into the bank lobby.

Picking flowers for a cut flower garden this year. What are your favorites?

(For example, I just learned that there are “chocolate cosmos” and they are on. my. list.)

I gave my office skeleton a Santa hat last year, and didn’t move it when I got back from winter break. But this year feels like a skeleton-all-year kind of year. So I guess it’ll need some new seasonal accessories.

This year, I have several guiding keywords, and one of them is creativity. I’ve been trying to make time for fun crafty things, and because it is the Wicked era in my house, I made these 😊

I don’t only care about climate change because I’m a scientist. I care about climate change because I’m a mom.

Climate change is already impacting the people, places, and things that we love most. And who doesn’t want to protect what we love?

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Going to choose hope and groundedness this weekend: starting seeds and a cut flower garden workshop.

And maybe, just maybe, remembering to water the existing houseplants. But let’s not get ahead of ourselves.

Democratic leadership really needs to summon the persistence, urgency, and loud refusal of unsatisfactory answers of a four-year-old.

My current ADHD life hack is using this little birb (Finch app) to give me the dopamine that my brain prefers not to. As an added bonus, it’s also got a very useful “first aid” toolbox for mental health.

I sincerely don’t know why people aren’t physically stopping those dorks. Move shit. Lock doors. Lose the keys. Everyone switch seats. Turn off all the lights. Switch the signs on the elevator lobby. Make the settings all silly. Use a different language. Wear costumes. Fill rooms with balloons

Jumping into Bluesky for the connections and real time updates. But in real life, simultaneously, working to stay grounded, be present, and avoid doomscrolling. Hi everyone!