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This has 100% happened. The DOGE boys have an unmonitored, unsecured Signal chat where they make their plans and openly exchange data that are completely illegal for them to have viewed, let alone exfiltrated.

I am naturally impatient and a workaholic. It’s been a fraught transition to “what is balance, what is realistic” and my nature is like “balance is working all the time, duh.” I am embarrassed by the fact that I’d even try to work when in the ER or admitted to the hospital.

One of the worst things about disability is the utter randomness of your ability to function. I had plans today. My calendar was full. Then I was sick as hell for hours this morning. You become so unreliable, but it’s beyond your control and I have not made peace with it.

this is probably the least interested i’ve ever been in paying my federal income taxes, i tell you what.

Why...did CNN do this

Columbia releases report on ‘institutional failures’ enabling Hadden’s abuse nearly two and a half years after launch <i>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.</i>

I’m currently listening to “The Adults in the Room” podcast (in which major abuse problems are covered up at a high school), and then this story comes out today and it’s like—at what point do bosses and peers stop covering for serial abusers? (Content warning obviously)

It may make people mad, but it may not—as a much older person than you who’s managed people older and younger than me, mistakes are expected and should be seen as a lesson learned. (This is especially true for younger staff, but applies to everyone.)

Remember when he and the mayor were going on TV talking like they were all tough and people who didn’t know our city were all starry eyed about how great they were?

Big talkers.

My tween child asked me today when was the last time things weren’t awful politically.

It’s really rough to explain that there were times of progress and hope and there will be again.

We were literally chanting “we have hope” 😭

I’m wearing sandals. I’ve decided we’re done.

I can’t even make an Adam Ant joke about my lack of drinking and smoking at the doctor because everyone is so young now.

(For the young, the song goes “don’t drink, don’t smoke, what do you do?”)

I know it’s not even funny, but I hate clinic visits and also god I’ve gotten old.

It’s probably why I really didn’t think anything of living in an apartment. When I watched Sesame Street, they all lived like us. Though when we eventually bought a house, it definitely felt enormous and was exciting.

This made me remember something else—if you look at old Sesame Street episodes (like 1980s), the people they have in them are very, very normal. Things have gotten increasingly stylized since the 1990s and it has given people a weird sense of normal.

(My mom loved Roseanne for the reason below)

Just made another call. It's voicemail most of the time. You can do it.

We definitely have income inequality problems, but there are so many grifters out there trying to encourage despair. When people stitch them or quote them with a list of what their family used to do I’m just like—your family was well off, my friend.

We were not poor. That was a totally normal way for a family to live. I did sports and dance lessons and whatever, but you have to budget and live within your means.

I thought Hard Rock Cafe must be so fancy because the kids who flew to warm places on airplanes came back with those shirts.

I’ll add to this, because the quoted nonsense is all over the internet and massive disinformation for young people or those who were actually well off and think they weren’t.

I grew up with only one parent working. Four of us lived in a 2br apartment. Vacation was driving to visit grandparents.

Minneapolis schools are still being targeted by 🧊

What’s described in the article reminds me of the 1980s/90s. I was trying to remember what was going on that compelled me to phone bank for NARAL in the 1994 elections before I was old enough to vote, but I think it was just the cruelty and violence of the anti-abortion movement.

Here is the spreadsheet DOGE had ChatGPT produce, to determine which grants were too DEI www.historians.org/wp-content/u...

Donate to Help Kelsey, Adam and Abel Rebuild After House Fire, organized by Claudia Stephens Kelsey Anderson (my niece) is a hardworking single mother and ski… Claudia Stephens needs your support for Help Kelsey, Adam and Abel Rebuild After House Fire

There was a serious house fire earlier this week on Polk street. Not only is the family suffering from the damage to their house, but early in the morning after the fire their house robbed and belongings were stolen. Let’s help our neighbors in Waite Park recover.

gofund.me/37db535f8

Also mentions Charles Coughlin, the rabidly antisemitic and increasingly pro-fascist during the ‘30s Catholic priest whose radio show spewed poison in far too many willing ears. That stuff doesn’t just disappear.

Following the completion of the book yesterday with Posner’s “Unholy,” which covers part of the same time period and includes a thorough history of the roots of anti-desegregation politics of the evangelical movement, which Alberta was either ignorant of or ignoring. (My guess is both, in a way.)

North Tehran’s Aqdasiyeh oil depot is ablaze tonight after it was targeted by multiple US-Israeli airstrikes. Apocalyptic scenes filmed by Iranians driving on the nearby highway. Local reporters saying firefighters can’t put it out. This depot is critical energy infrastructure for Iran.

Not sure why I torture myself, but I like to try to understand people and make myself suffer, I guess.

I know there were people who celebrated that book, but I come away from it knowing that the lack of any criticism of the content of the culture wars means that while Alberta would be nice to my face, I don’t know what he’d have done to my marriage or my rights.

The culture war nonsense has always had its flames fed by the Falwells of the world—this has been going on for my whole life! Political power over people as an end that justifies the means has been the overarching goal regardless of the movement for at least 50 years.

Public Opinion on Abortion | Pew Research Center While public support for legal abortion has fluctuated some in two decades of polling, it has remained relatively stable over the past five years.

Support for access to abortion is such a good proxy for this. Evangelicals are out of step with the people in other denominations (even if the leadership of those denominations are absolutist, that doesn’t translate to the people).

Finished the book this afternoon and since it predates the election there are some things that can’t get resolved in its pages. My main thought overall is that the desire to control others will be the Achilles heel of any movement (religious or otherwise).