Sons and daughters of Edward Abbey:

Please don’t carry black Sharpies with you in the National Parks.It would be so easy to accidentally add a discreet dot or 3 to the QR code and gum up the process of getting US citizens to turn informers. Wouldn’t want that to happen, so: NO SHARPIES. Pass it on.

When any Republicans show spine, we HAVE to respond. Today, 9 crossed the aisle to vote against Johnson. Please thank them.

Tim Burchett(R-Tenn.), Mike Lawler(R-N.Y.), Jeff Van Drew(R-N.J.), Will Kiley(R-Calif.), Nick LaLota(R-N.Y.), Max Miller(R-Ohio), Greg Steube(R-Fla.), Ryan Mackenzie(R-Pa.)

If any of my US friends would like to apologize to Denmark, you can email the embassy at mailto:wasamb@um.dk

WNC friends: Lynn Rosser and I will be speaking/singing at the Franklin UU Fellowship this Sunday at 11 a.m. and would be ever so grateful to have you join us. www.uufranklin.org/wpz/services...

So Teddy Budd is owning DOGE. You know what to do. (Phone number in the text.)

Well this is a fun piece of digital monkey-wrenching: Send your five “What I did last week” bullet points to HR(at)OPM(dot)gov. Flood them with info, or cat pictures, or lists of favorite books. Protect our Federal Employees.

All together now.

What happens when Putin wants Alaska back?

Annoy a MAGAt; eat at the La Montañita taco truck in front of Ingles In Hazelwood. Times are hard right now, and your business will mean a LOT to them.

Resistance can take many forms. Sometimes it looks like a taco. (Also, they have fresh handmade pupusas on Thursdays and Fridays.)

My heart is moved by all I cannot save:
so much has been destroyed
I have to cast my lot with those
who age after age, perversely,
with no extraordinary power,
reconstitute the world.

Adrienne Rich

Some phone numbers

NC friends: I talked to Tom Tillis’s office and they said they are getting hundreds of calls this morning about the E-Mu data theft. Even if you’ve been feeling blocked, this might be the morning to make some calls or reach out on websites. (I asked for his detailed plan to protect us from E-Mu.)

In La Mexicanita yesterday I came across this memory from childhood: Communion wafers stuck together around sweetened condensed goat’s milk (cajeta.) Only a lot of self-control got me out of that store; so delicious, at least in memory.

See? That’s real-ish. That’s what I’m interested in.

Even with the abomination in the White House, streptocarpus blooms.

Aha! I’ve found the Bluesky equivalent of Comments! So happy—that’s where real conversation can happen. (Well, real-ish.)

It has to be said and, as the daughter of a veteran, I think I have the standing to say it:

Any legislator who voted to hand the United States military over to an incompetent drunk is a traitor to his country and an asset to our enemies.

I served 21 years in the Air Force. I would not serve a day defending what I now see us to be.