Katie Jam

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

We won’t amplify it, but the president posting that Dems are “sick of mind” and “hate our country” immediately after 2 Dem lawmakers and their spouses were shot in their homes is the opposite of leadership. Gas on the fire.

We need to have been building a world that sits in recognition of its relational interdependence thus giving rise to a kinder, more compassionate, more equitable, and more just version of itself for the past… entirety of all human civilizations, but we really need to be working to build it Right Now

Funded by your tax dollars.

Perhaps it seems like Oops All Heels (love this) because we aren’t necessarily the exact target audience?

A day apart.

Why did Tommy Tuberville vote in Florida if he lived in Alabama? Election records show Tuberville voted in Florida after he says a homestead exemption puts his residency in Alabama.

Tommy Tuberville says his wife's homestead exemption established his residency in Alabama, but election records show both of them voted in Florida after that. And that's only the beginning.

Yard treasures.

It is Little Purple Flower Season here, one of my favorites.

It was a not-great chapter of her life but she used to come pick me up from campus when I was in college. She was an important part of my teen years.

We were, indeed, so fortunate.

I was also on that cruise. I remember standing in the surf at the beach with a friend, who said, “let’s remember this as one of the last normal moments.” I think about it sometimes.

This makes me laugh every time I am in the awful line.

It makes me smile to see you in this and to immediately recognize Jana’s glasses.

Iceland was one of the places I felt the safest.

The stage is set. Now to wait for the temperature to stabilize a bit.

Today in the garden.

NEWS: In USDA, multiple people have been asked to report the names of LGBTQ employee resource group leaders to higher-ranking officials, according to interviews with workers and a document reviewed by Mother Jones.

+ similar in the Department of the Interior

From yesterday’s 19F woods walk.

“scrub your website of trans people to save your funding” MIGHT seem like the rational choice when it’s put to you, but if you agree the main lesson they learn is that you can be strong armed

Is any conference call really complete without someone nervously muttering "if we all still have jobs in a month?"

Your art posts are a bright spot in my feed.

I appreciate you saying this. Distilling everything down to memes and bumper stickers is part of how we got here in the first place.

Doesn’t even have to be an emergency. You can just have it.

I’m going to start asking myself if Bunny would appreciate whatever weird festival outfit I’m putting together.

JUST IN: Another medical horror story in an affidavit from a USAID employee stationed overseas. Says his pregnant wife was not medevac-ed for emergency health care because of directives from DC. Took intervention of a U.S. senator to reverse — but was too late. s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

Today is my personal holiday, the Feast of the Unfortunate Lion. Please enjoy some unfortunate-looking lions. I love the look of critters illustrated by people who are going off of other people’s descriptions and questionable representations.