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Starting to hear about some interesting drag shows in 2026 -- that's the upside of authoritarianism. The underground will be strong. That's my one prediction for 2026.

Same. I saw "FIFA Ethics" trending, laughed, and had to see what it was about.

Abolish FIFA

please do not make me deliver a 3-hour well-cited lecture in the center of town on the dangers of off-leash dogs in sub-freezing weather on icy sidewalks. please, people. you don't want to hear that lecture.

you do not even want to see the look in my eyes right now

I have no doubt. I believe in you. (Also if you use all Marden's makeup it will take off faster. My MBA/PhD tells me so lol)

And I wonder how many "employees" were actually on contracts and won't receive unemployment.

I'm in a job search community and I keep dropping the IRS guidance on job classification. People keep saying to me: that's not my experience. I get it, me either but also, that doesn't make it legal.

Be sure to join us tonight for our last webinar in our Transformative Justice Under Authoritarianism series - we’ll be speaking organizers from @abolisyon.bsky.social & Dr. Aurora Parong about community based TJ in the context of the drug war and accountability and repair for state violence @8 pm ET

I dug out the little silver tinsel tree I got "for Lizzie" years back for "the holidays. I'm kind of excited TBH. Once it is up it will stay up until her made-up Valentine's birthday. I picked that day so I wouldn't be alone on it.

It's like a Charlie Brown Disco Collab from Bed Bath & Beyond LMAO

Reposting this since it's Sunday and someone might feel the love. Or need a Christmas gift.
Thanks, peeps.
#kikorangi
#handknitting
#handspinning
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Mainers,
Here's an easy thing to do. Ask your library to order this. From what I see there is one copy in Maine & it's coming to me. We need more!

#mepolitics

Title: Read This When Things Fall Apart: Letters to Activists in Crisis
Editor: Kelly Hayes
Publisher: ‎ AK Press

It will be trending on #MaineTok if you make a GRWM

I just did all the productivity hacks: caffeine, put on a sweater, took off sweater, put desk in standing position, cleaned desk, made list, etc.

Then I realized I needed rest.
Am resting.

What a time to be...Catholic (?)

Also thank you @itsflanoy.bsky.social (momb) for suggesting online yoga

I realize I have some odd freedoms in having had to give up on living so many times -- it allows me to think long term. It has allowed me to give up on reform and liberal strategies as a white person. And I know long term strategies are necessary to queer/all liberations. I deeply know/feel that.

this morning I thought: I can move these words

It reminded me of working with a poet who brilliantly reminded me that I could save multiple drafts. I remember her words so fondly: "Michelle, you can delete the comma. You can always put it back later."

can we have a day without talking about the ME Senate race?
also, the lawn signs -- zero escaping it

Don’t leave anyone behind.

YouTube video by Move with Shaunneka REST'MAS Day 1 | 25 Min Morning Stretch Routine & Gratitude Practice for the Busy Holiday Season

I just did this online Yoga YouTube video (Yoga with Shaunneka) and really loved it. I had to modify because of my rotator cuff injury but still found it doable (after 5-ish years without always beginner yoga).

Learned:
Left and Right -- smh
Gentle -- sometimes lmao

Enjoy! (my random content)

Did some hard-for-me things before 5am.
If you can't sleep, do?

Thanks. In many ways I’m sure that talk show saved many people’s lives — just like social media. It gives us words, context, somewhere to begin ♥️

Are people organizing in signal chats at 3:40 AM ET? Yes.

This is not a joke. I only started to realize what I was experiencing by seeing episodes of Phil Donahue. The isolation is the foundation of the abuse in so many cases.

more to the point imo, purposefully isolating youth & cutting them off from the vital safety of support systems that can build is flatly abusive. it's all but openly about preventing kids from finding out what is being done to them by authority figures in their lives is wrong and violent

Woman linked to Trump Press Secretary Leavitt freed by immigration agency The mother of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew was granted bond from ICE amid conflicting claims.

The mother of White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's nephew was granted bond from ICE amid conflicting claims.

Forecast 8° now and clear. Wind is making it feel colder, about 6°. Clear conditions tonight, continuing through the morning. Today's temperature range is from 2° to 23° and feels like 4° to 27°.

temp check

Bschool is similar. I didn’t realize *everyone* wasn’t there to unlearn and critique capitalism, move onto a PhD and keep doing that becoming unemployable in racial capitalism. Actually not joking un/fortunately

Law school cost me $190,000.

I have paid $206,000 since graduation.

I now owe $223,000.

I pay $830 per month, and next year it will be more.

I genuinely believe law school student loans are designed to make pro bono representation impossible.

Also, don’t let those architects do that or those builders or… Maine is a small place — our economic power can be leveraged.

I saw some Maine anti-ICE testimony tonight. Some was in praise of police — so they can “keep [insert geography] safe.”

This same community has a police HQ with enviro problems & *needs* to build a new one. False

They have an opportunity to be police free. I hope they can see the possibility.