Kara Barkman

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.

Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.

They are not the same.

No Good Art Comes From Greed | Defector The packages arrived square and thin and carefully wrapped on Saturday afternoon. There were three of them, but only one was mine. If I could have rejected my package, sent it back from whence it…

No good art comes from greed: defector.com/taylor-swift...

I also doom knit, what a way to get out of my head for a bit...

I did a project on "The Big One" for my Translation in Crisis course last spring, and it horrified my Irish professor that in the PNW we grow up with this impending sense of doom

Just a reminder of some of the context around the TikTok ban: In 2020, Trump tried to ban it via executive order a couple months after K-pop fans used it to organize fake signups to Trump’s Tulsa rally, which led him to publicly overestimate how large the crowd size would be.

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All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside.

A ceasefire in Gaza is just the beginning. The occupation must end. Permanently.

Time for my annual NYE tradition:
✨️ Some God self care - bath, face masks, etc
✨️ Some Journaling about dreams, goals, and how the last year went
✨️ Watch the Bridget Jones trilogy with a glass of wine
✨️ Probably cry at some point about a whole variety of things

Period