L.J.

Sometimes I feel like a furniture store, like it’s either grand opening energy or everything must go energy and there’s just no in between anymore

This is so peaceful 🤩

Prudenci Bertrana Compte,a significant Catalan painter and writer, was trained at the Escola Llotja in Barcelona. This work from around 1917 shows the houses on the River Onyar in Girona and the Basilica of Saint Felix.

😍😍

Tonight I weep and grieve because neither little ones in Gaza nor elders in Colorado should be burned because of the impact and consequences of Israeli apartheid.

Palestine should be free, Gaza should live, and our Jewish kin should be free from harm. Period.

Wow, that is gorgeous!

existentialease.substack.com/p/feel-to-heal

I want politics to be about a better everyday life.

Here's what that can look like:

a brown and white bulldog puppy sits on a counter. the computer monitor, pamphlets and model of an animal skull in the background tell us he's in a vet's office. the puppy is hunched over and begrudgingly looking over at you with an expression of disdain.

This is Tuna. You have once again taken him to the vet instead of the park. Fool him once, shame on you. Fool him twice, even more shame on you. 13/10 (IG: tunathekahuna)

four panel black and white doodle comic with a person and their cat. panel 1, the cat yells, "I WANT!". panel 2 the person says "What do you want". panel 3, the cat stops and stares blankly. panel 4, the cat yells "I WANT" again

what do you want

When everything gets overwhelming, I make a point to seek out the natural world.

The trees and mountains stand witness to the fact that every despot and petty tyrant is nothing to the grandness of it all.

It truly is healing to me.

Blue Mountain - Missoula, Montana

Zooey is doing WORK in Montana and teaching everyone several lessons:

1) You can stand on your values as a Democrat and not harm trans people.

2) Doing so can actually move hearts and minds in a traditionally conservative state.

3) There is value in having representation in our halls of power.

TERF-ism is oxymoronic as it seems increasingly clear that transphobia is deeply misogynistic.

MAJOR Victory in Montana!

Bill that would criminalize parents with felony child endangerment DIES in Montana after 15 Republicans cross party lines.

The bill would have criminalized even parents of trans kids driving through the state.

It died after nonbinary rep Howell delivered a strong speech.

I’m seeing a lot of negative reviews on games along the lines of “this isn’t exactly what I wanted, even though it was exactly what was promised”.

I can’t overstate how much more joy you will have if you allow art to unfurl in front of you, instead of demanding it be what you imagine you want.

Anxiety + Joy this week on
Existentialease.substack.com

“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.”
― Toni Morrison

JAPANESE CHIN ALERT!!

I'm cat furniture and I'm okay with it!

Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Greg Casar on stage in Tucson in front a crowd of 23,000 people.

Tucson, Arizona today.

Original projected attendance was 3,000 people.

23,000 showed up.

I’m so grateful that art exists, it helps me with so many tough times like literally

Yep

Ummmm WTAF Gavin?

Crockett: We had an opportunity to have a woman lead this country and I promise you, she would have led us to the promised land. But instead we got somebody that seems like he wants to take to us hell

The Leaky Bucket Get loved, fool!

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Read.
Read books.
Reading books is resistance.

Buy.
Buy books.
Buying books is resistance.

Share.
Share books.
Sharing books is resistance.

Celebrate
Celebrate books.
Celebrating books is resistance.

Still haven’t seen Wicked, but it does warm my heart to know that there is now an entire other generation that is going to attempt to read, and inevitably decide not to finish, the book it’s based on

What do we want?
LESS CLICKBAIT
When do we want it?
THE SECOND ANSWER WILL SHOCK YOU