~Tamara~

My thanksgiving outfit is usually a shirt I don't mind getting splashed when I'm cooking (because I hate aprons), a cardigan to cover up the evidence when its time to sit down, and pants that are just a bit too stretchy for my own good.

This is the president of the United States taking a break from gold-and-marble interior renovations to say he’ll defy a court order to feed hungry Americans.

Nero would be proud.

I'm very familiar with the attitude, unfortunately. My mother worked hard and still needed help, but everyone else somehow was "lazy" and unwilling to work hard and just wanted "a handout." She became a nurse and no longer needed assistance but her attitude toward the working poor never changed.

I have heard the phrase "Felony Footlong," and good people, I am undone. 🤣

This is the most entertaining day I have had since somebody broke into the Louvre. 😆

A cat lays on an open laptop and a dog rests her head on an open notebook as they lay together on the couch sleeping.

They stole my seat, the least they could do is finish my homework.

Waited till after I got off the phone with billing to cry. 😭😅

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Oof.

I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak

I'm old enough to remember when Michelle Obama planted a vegetable garden on White House grounds and Republicans were incensed. I remember someone saying it was a slap in the face to farmers. I'll see their organically grown tomatoes and raise them one demolished East Wing.

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

A picture is worth 1,000 words.

The world joined us and said, “No Kings.”

One of my favs

These four billion open tabs brought to you by my deep appreciation for a good footnote.

Hand drawn sign reads ACTION ABSORBS ANXIETY

One of the most TRUE signs I have ever seen at a march. Write this down and act upon it, friends.

#NoKings #Manhattan

Kansas City. No Kings.

Anise swallowtail chrysalis and anise swallowtail newly-emerged butterfly are in opposite ends of a small stick being held in a pink/white hand with a thumb in the front, fingertips facing us. The anise swallowtail is butter yellow and black, with royal-teal blue with red dots on wings. Both the chrysalis and butterfly are about 1.5” long and small. He wings of the butterfly are rumpled. A pale green stucco wall in the background.

Anise swallowtail newly-emerged butterfly on the end of a small stick. The anise swallowtail is butter yellow and black, with royal-teal blue at wing edges, two red dots on wings. Butterfly are about 1.5” long and small. The wings of the butterfly are rumpled. A pale green stucco wall in the background.

Anise swallowtail butterfly held in a pink/white hand, green in background. The anise swallowtail is butter yellow and black stripes with stained-glass like sections, with royal-blue dots with a hint of teal blue on black at the bottom, with yellow scallops on black below that and two red dots designed to look like eyes to confuse predators on the. base of the wings.

Leave the leaves AND sticks. That brown bit? This Anise Swallowtail butterfly origami’d out of that. Then pumped fluid into their shrunken rumpled wings, and voila! 🦋 🌱 Leave the sticks and leaves! 🍂🍁

The most dangerous form of government is theocracy. 

Because the only thing worse than a tyrant is a tyrant who thinks they're on a mission from God.

😂

Thoughts 'n prayers.... 😬

Whatever version of me that used to prep and plan ahead well enough to bake multiple things and put them in the freezer and then clean up afterward all in the same day has left the planet. I made bread today. Might clean up sometime in late May-early June.

Mental health is health too. 😤

So I guess it’s the Democrats + Marjorie Taylor Greene out here fighting for Americans. 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Truth is, I'm asking an awful lot of this dark chocolate right now...

YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren Donald Trump is using this shutdown to hurt federal workers.

On top of ripping away Americans' health care, Donald Trump is using this shutdown to hurt federal workers.

Federal workers like this one, who told me her story after being needlessly fired earlier this year, deserve so much better.

thank you!