Elizabeth Wants ICE Abolished

Thread about how Minnesota is taking care of its neighbors.

On the one hand, begrudgingly inviting the women’s hockey team to the White House because you feel like you HAVE to is disrespectful to athletes.

On the other hand, I can’t imagine being a woman athlete and wanting to set foot in that building while it’s in the hands of an adjudicated rapist.

Edge of the stashbuster spiral showing the four most recent rows, alternating between dark blue and light green. The edge of the spiral now has 252 stitches and will have 264 when I finish the current row.

Like, it’s taken me most of the last couple of hours to put four rows on.

Or maybe 2 feet. That would probably be 10 more trips around the orbit. It’s starting to get kind of arduous to make one orbit at this point.

I have some thoughts about next steps once I reach 24 inches diameter though.

The stashbuster spiral is a good 20 inches in diameter now. I am starting to feel like it gets to 3 feet in diameter and then we’re done.

I took my driver’s test in 1981 in my grandfather’s 1978 Pinto. It was a fun little car, easy to drive, much easier for then-5-ft-1 me to handle instead of my parents’ Suburban (I could barely see over the dash).

I will never set foot in a Cybertruck.

a man in a suit and tie is wearing a crown and saying yeah boyy ! Alt: Flavor Flav says YEAH BOOYYYEEEE,!!!

If the USA Women’s Hockey team wants a real celebration and invite ,,, I’ll host them in Las Vegas. Do some nice dinners and shows and good times.

I’m sure I can get a hotel and airline to help me out here and celebrate these women for real for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Yeah, the more I think about it... I was going for excommunication, but this will serve just as well. It's been changed.

Pope Leo to spend US July 4 holiday on Italy's Lampedusa, known for migrant arrivals Pope Leo, the first U.S. leader of the global Catholic Church, will spend the Independence Day holiday this year visiting an Italian island known as the first port of call for migrants sailing from No...

I need a judgment call.

I have a Bingo Quilt square, currently red, that says "Pope Leo gives JD Vance the spiritual boot." Based on how the Pope publicly spurned JD's personal invite to the July 4 250th fiesta, I'm tempted to make it black.

Because it's a kick in the pants.

What do you think?

Closer and closer to turning my "AI Bubble Bursts" square black on the Bingo Quilt

Chicago’s newest snow plow name ‘Abolish ICE,’ Mayor Brandon Johnson says Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced “Abolish ICE” as the winner of a citywide snow plow name contest. He had earlier given it a “full and complete” endorsement.

We've reached the point in the storm where if I look out the window all I see is white, and even the animals who normally enjoy snow are trying desperately to avoid going outside.

I'm not commenting on our power situation for fear of jinxing myself.

For one heartstopping moment I thought that was a photo of my childhood home in Evanston, but clearly the snow wasn't high enough and that was in '79 not '78.

And now I'm having a moment of nostalgia for a time when failure to meet the needs of the public costs government officers their job. #IYKYK

Photo of the 2/23/26 blizzard in New England

I can't hear you over the 35 mph wind gusts anyway

@turhansbeycompany.bsky.social you've been summoned.

If I got a newspaper, I could do that. But I'd have to buy the newspaper for that purpose, when I already have the paper bags.

"Be ready, because I may call you to account at any time" is NOT THE SAME as "Let's manipulate sociopolitical events to make it kind of match up to what our favorite apocalyptic prophesy says will happen so we can trigger the destruction our weirdest prophet describes."

(John was on shrooms)

MessiahMouse be like, "No amount of scrumptious gouda goodness will bring me until I'm good and ready, BLASPHEMERS."

👆 that statement is way less loony and way more reverent than anything the End Times junkies are doing or saying

And may I add, the very idea of pushing circumstances toward the prophesied End Times is absolutely blasphemous. They act like they're putting out cheese to lure a mouse into a trap. Their own scripture tells them none can predict the hour of His return, so thinking they can initiate it is loony.

I mean, I know Huckabee is nuts. All those extreme evangelicals who cozy up to Israel bc they're HOPING to trigger Armaggedon / return of the Messiah are nuts. It's equally nuts of Israeli politicians to join up with them when their hope is that the Middle East INCLUDING ISRAEL goes up in flames.

Three Myths Fueling Companies’ Icy Silence on Politics | Andrew Winston In turbulent times, leaders must question their assumptions about the role of business in society and politics.

Andrew Winston's column on MIT SMR never disappoints. He holds business leaders' feet to the fire on a routine basis and I'm here for it.

mitsmr.com/3Ov31dO

I was talking to Seth Moulton's staff about that this week with regard to the Burlington ICE office. One thing they said was that closing an existing facility is really hard but preventing a new one from opening is comparatively easier. We have to stop these camps now while we have the chance.

It's going to be paper bags anyway. Plastic bags are banned where I am, so every time I go to the supermarket and forget my reusables (about 50% of the time) I get paper bags. Which I store away for tomato season if they are in good shape when I'm done with them.

Exactly the same experience for me. When the X appeared, I shut down my account immediately.

And I've never regretted it.

Most of my old Twitter friends are here now. I'm not looking for followers (and wasn't on Twitter) but I have more here than I ever did there.

I’m on this website because 1. I have fun here and the vast majority of my friends are here and 2. posting my little jokes on here does not benefit Zartog the Heart-Eater Who Feasts on Screams, unlike Threads or X/Twitter

Interesting. That's exactly what I do with green tomatoes at the end of tomato season. I will try this! Living in the Frozen North as I do, access to decent mangoes is erratic at best and they're never ripe so I usually don't bother.

I came here to say that

So the fact that they're even stocking all these plants thinking they'll sell? They're responding as if this were the 2024 economy, and it isn't.

It's going to be chocolate or a plush toy. Yes, the person who receives a (healthy! blooming!) beautiful orchid might find it pleasing for a few days. But the minute they have to actually take care of it? If they're not a plant person? And don't think the giver hasn't made that calculation.

But it kind of tells me just how clueless retailers are about the state of the economy.

When you feel obliged to give your sweetheart something for Valentine's Day, in this economy, it's not going to be a fussy plant that only a limited number of people know how to keep going.