Danielle, Petty Hate Machine

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

Nothing winds me up more than Luxon and assorted other suits saying we need to be wealthier before we can afford doctors, nurses, water we can swim in etc. Meanwhile wealthier kiwi households have stacked up huge piles of savings (cash, shares, equity etc). The economy works for the few. [🧵 1/n]

I haven't gone to bed because I want dessert. But I am too tired to stand up and make dessert

The eternal quandary

Facebook just showed me a clip of Eli Matthewson saying that Luxon told him that he watched every episode of Celebrity Treasure Island. WAS THAT IN 20 MINUTE INCREMENTS THEN #nzpol

Grumpily! He's over six foot now

She's nine months old, she doesn't have much more growing in her

This one stays the same mostly

She can't go on proper walks until her final vaccine in about ten days but eeeeeeee

Unfortunately parents generally love uniforms because people suck

Perhaps we should just admit that the country only works at all because of the network of Aunties, and start electing governments that are basically made up of Aunties

#nzpol

A wrinkly dog sleeping on a couch with her face squashed up even more on a cushion

Wrinkly Dog you say? What about making her *even wrinklier*

She's probably 90% grown

I like the way the whole vibe of the show is "fuck unions" and "fuck class mobility" while pretending to approve of both

BOOOOOOOO

Luckily no! Year 13 is non-uniform

Fuck uniforms and the horse they rode in on

The Limpet walked into the lounge while I was doing my Gilded Age hatewatching, stood looking at it for 20 seconds, said "so is this show just about old rich snobby people?" and I was like "nailed it bro"

Just spent another $367 for the final year of school uniform for Son One because he had grown out of the last lot. Luckily the Limpet will be able to use it but if he was my only child I would be so mad

Someone pointed out that influencers use serotonin/dopamine/cortisol/oxytocin like they’re the four humors and now I can’t stop seeing it

"You were right! But also you couldn't be more wrong" is destroying my tenuous grasp on sanity

we gotta open the schools…or close down the schools. not sure. yikes

She is! Like a plush toy

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

The right wing 10 year cultural delay phenomenon has them all using millennial therapyspeak right when the left has dropped all civility. Really funny times ahead

Taking your own food when you’re going TO ITALY. truly the sign of a demented mind

a lego diarama version of the hot dog suit scene from I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE, complete with tiny hot dog suited tim robinson and hot dog car, all the business people have scowling faces

photo from a friend at a lego convention right now, amazing 🌭

I've been singing this to myself all day

She is actually quite wee. Like beagle size? Spaniel size?