Laura

There is so much pent up demand for joy and to believe in the future.

My kids loved using the remote control to move the robot vacuum around to pick up the biggest piles of dirt! 🤣

Same with the Founding Fathers being mostly under 25!

another guy who never protested before radicalized to the point of tears by watching masked ICE agents terrify children in his neighborhood

the Republicans are not ready or mentally capable of comprehending the backlash they have generated

Kind of feels like Madlibs anymore.

“Oregon will not tolerate [_____ | noun, a crime]. We are [_____ | adjective, an emotion] and demand [verb, something that will continue to happen].”

A beautiful crumb shot of a cranberry pecan sourdough loaf.

I made the best loaf of sourdough yet, in my sourdough journey.

We watched this last night! I was in AWE!!!

New date for the General Strike. We demand: Stop ICE murdering, remove the regime and release Epstein Files. There are many different ways to strike:
1) BRING BACK MAIN STREET-
2) TAX STRIKE
3) JOIN LOCAL PROTESTS
4) JOIN MUTUAL AID GROUPS
5) CALL YOUR REPRESENTATIVES-

So grateful for what you do!

A swig or two!

An enormous black Daniff stretches across a red leather loveseat. His jowls are draped across the arm, with a string of drool extruding from them. He is a puddle of relaxation.

I would be remiss to leave out this tiny little man.

A white chested gray staffordshire terrier is reclining casually against someone’s legs on the couch in a very human like pose.

My dog is being very cute with her cuddles lately.

They are not! The 12 Values Collective runs on:

1) Anticapitalism
2) Antiracism
3) Decolonization
4) Anti-imperialism
5) Intersectional Feminism
6) Disability Justice
7) LGBTQ Liberation
8) Sex Positivity
9) 1312
10) Expansive Spirituality
11) Covid/Pandemic Realism
12) Revolutionary Love

My 19 year old crawled into bed with me this morning, sobbing. I don’t know. We are going to keep on baking for our neighbors, donating blood, calling our reps, and building the collective future we want to survive to see.

Opinion | I'm a Minneapolis sociologist who studies violence. Here's how ICE observers are helping. Research into how violence occurs shows that disapproval from the people around you can help reduce it.

For @msnownews.bsky.social, I wrote an article about how ICE Watch is grounded in sociological theories of violence prevention.

The reality is that most men will only commit public violence in extremely specific scenarios and ICE Watch disrupts the conditions necessary for escalation.

I don’t write voting guides for Deschutes county anymore, but I’m gonna tell your right now who I would vote for County Commissioner, by position:

#1: Jamie Collins
#3: Amanda Page
#4: Maddie McKinney
#5: Morgan Schmidt

You have some amazing candidates! VOTE FOR THEM IN YOUR PRIMARY!!!!

All that you touch
You change
All that you change
Changes you
The only lasting truth is change
God is change

-Octavia Butler

I haven’t read this yet (and I will!), but I want to make sure credit is given to the people who first decried the invention of TSA. If we had held the line there, we might never have had ICE.

Yes, this. It is the recipe for waking up inherent narcissistic traits.

Despite what we are often told, this line from Mamdani’s inauguration speech is what true pragmatism actually looks like:

“Beginning today, we will govern expansively and audaciously. We may not always succeed. But never will we be accused of lacking the courage to try.”

Hopefully you all know this, but frozen shoulder is on the list of perimenopause symptoms and can often be greatly subdued by proper hormone balancing!

I don’t forgive the unforgivable 🤷‍♀️

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far.

So much work remains to be done.

I’m so thankful you’re our AG!!!!

💯👆🏻

They’re most likely accidentally overdosing on nitrous — lost a family friend that way.

Video of the cave.