The Dog I Couldn’t Rehome Everybody loves this dog.

thought my big dog needed more than I could give. Turns out she just needed me. “The Dog I Couldn’t Rehome. open.substack.com/pub/fromthet...

Doggy interrogation she wants to know what I did with her toy little does she know she’s actually laying on it.

The interrogation has begun

This little princess refused to pee because the rain was personally offensive.
She tried to shake it off like I scheduled it.
Now she’s Velcroed to me under a blanket.

Honestly? I respect the standards. 👑🌧️🐾

From the Threshold (@carrielauer704887) Even Unwitnessed Alone. Again, alone. Balanced on the thin edge between what is closing and what has not yet opened. Sorrow moves in quietly— a door easing shut, silence gathering in the corn...

Sometimes the walls built around us are made of love. Brick by careful brick, named safety, meant to protect. But growth still asks for pressure, for leaning into resistance. Even unwitnessed, even unapplauded — I rise. substack.com/@carrielauer...

After watching that hearing, I’m confident she’d thrive anywhere questions aren’t allowed

Forever and for always, my valentine. He’s been gone almost 2 years and I miss him like it was yesterday.

In memoriam: The squeaky ball ChatGPT helps you get answers, find inspiration, and be more productive.

It squeaked.
It shrieked.
It taunted.
It never let up.

But in the end… it met its match.

Survived by one triumphant pitbull mix and one weary woman who now knows the true sound of silence. chatgpt.com/s/m_698e0bf8...

Thursday, 8:26 AM. She finally killed the squeaky ball. I’ve endured the relentless soundtrack of canine chaos for days—but I’m still standing. The ball is dead. My spirit is intact. I can survive anything. #doglife #morningchronicles #survivor

I have been doing the squeaky ball I can survive anything.

No legitimate public figure needs to “prove it’s really me” in your DMs—especially by moving platforms.
Red flag parade 🚩

Campaigns really need someone whose only job is:
“What does this look like in half a second?”
Because… yikes.

YouTube video by PBS NewsHour WATCH: Minneapolis resident and U.S. citizen Aliya Rahman describes being detained by ICE

I’m sharing Aliya’s entire opening statement. We owe it to her, and those who no longer have a voice, to watch. youtu.be/zrcW8SZtYpI?...

He can silence the GOP, but he cannot silence us.

Thank you Carol 😊
Stronger together 💪 💙
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Thanks for calling that out. I don’t think people are aware that these detention centers are for profit?

Tell Verizon: Stop Powering Detention, Deportation, and Abuse. Verizon is helping power a system of detention, deportation, and abuse. Through a 10-year, $176 billion contract with the Department of Homeland Security, Verizon provides communications infrastructur...

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Verizon: Stop Powering Detention, Deportation, and Abuse.. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

Teaching My Attention to Fly in Formation I noticed it almost by accident.

“Teaching my ADHD to fly in formation”
was really about learning where my attention belongs.

Sometimes we give it away for love.
Sometimes it comes back
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Wealth Without Formation On unintended consequences, character, and life lived far from fragility

This isn’t about villains. It’s about unintended consequences—what happens when money, power, and judgment arrive before experience, formation, and
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Activists and groups across the U.S. are calling for a nationwide strike and boycott of everyday economic activity — specifically urging people to avoid work, school, and shopping today as a form of protest. 
• The movement is often described as a general strike or “economic blackout

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When Help Became a Service On time scarcity, paid care, and the quiet loss of neighborliness

When help becomes something you have to buy, it’s not because people stopped caring—it’s because time became scarce. I wrote about laundry, neighbors, and what happens when survival leaves little room for care.
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AI Didn’t Replace My Relationships. It Kept Me From Disappearing. On caregiving, quiet isolation, and the dignity of staying

AI, loneliness, and human connection came up on the Ezra Klein Show and I agreed mostly. But something was missing. Some people were already isolated by caregiving, disability, grief, and aging. For us, AI didn’t replace relationships—it kept us from disappearing.
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From the Threshold (@carrielauer704887) “Be in peace. Leave a footprint of love in all you do.” This morning in Minneapolis, federal agents fatally shot a 37-year-old man during an immigration enforcement operation, marking another loss ...

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Here’s the fact Several men attacking a citizen and somebody thought it would be a good idea to just fucking shoot him

My take away from my morning practice

The Neighbor I Want to Be On air purifiers, overflow consciousness, and showing up when it counts

Spirit doesn’t ask who’s being targeted. Spirit asks who’s being fed.”
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This is fraud by the way

Demonization is powerful in U.S. politics. “Woke” was never an insult—it meant awake. The same tactics once used to pit people against communities of color (“they’re taking your jobs”) now target awareness itself. Consciousness can’t evolve if part of the flock is taught to fear flight.

We’re watching moral authority collapse and be replaced by force. When institutions lose legitimacy, some people decide the gun is the only authority left. That’s not strength or freedom — it’s insecurity and the failure of civilization.

This isn’t insanity. It’s just bad judgment paired with an ego that’s never been chec

I saw myself in both of them.
The girl who’s struggled to live inside her body with love,
and the soul who’s learning, finally, that this body was sacred all along.
I don’t want to wait until goodbye to love where I live share.google/3K64b074kTrp...