March 13, 2026
1. I’m grateful for our robot vacuum. It’s getting old, it can’t do corners or crevices, and is limited to the wider areas of space but even still it can do the job well enough to save me the energy of running the full vacuum everywhere.
Helping folks: There’s still time to hit up the fandom craft market! This is a fundraiser run by Our Family, Our Fight for the American Immigration Council.
AIC provides legal representation to thousands of people detained by ICE, as well as working legislatively and through the courts to challenge our broken immigration system. They also work in 40 states to help local leaders and communities fight back.
We can help Maria with living costs for college.
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March 6, 2026
Helping folks. We’re all about contributing to rent support this week.
Ian Coldwater adopting rents.
Naomi Kritzer fundraising for rent contributions. I went through the one with a match from the Wilson Foundation.
Small business Jack working as hard as he can to pay his rent, laboring under a heart condition.
Lily Meade and her mother are unhoused and she just lost her second book contract and her agent in succession. I know what it’s like to feel hopeless and I haven’t had to do it under as dire circumstances as she’s in.
Sonia Hale has been trying to get back on her feet after divorcing a domestic abuser.
Also feeding folks.
My friend in Alaska works with a refugee center and the facts are life is super bleak right now. Refugees without green cards are no longer receiving SNAP, refugees are no longer safe from DHS detaining them indefinitely regardless of their status, they will likely lose Medicaid sometime this year. This is despicable. We’re supposed to help people get on their feet and this is disgusting and inhumane. In response to this and many other problems created by this administration, the refugee center is working in with local groups to support local farms and provide food to those who need it: What is Grow Local, Give Local?
I’m adding this to my donation list for next week.
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February 27, 2026
1. This line makes me laugh out loud every time I read it: “Oh thank the stars.” Caldenia exhaled. “No offense to your cooking, but the thought of going back to it was causing me actual anxiety.”
Helping folks: Watching Minnesotans helping their neighbors has been an extraordinary experience. Ashley Fairbanks built this site, Keep MN Housed, and through it, people from all over have been able to pitch in to help the community organizers on the ground. I’m glad they’re getting some attention and I hope it brings continual support. They’re on my list each week. I also hope that our communities can learn from this to effectively fight back when it comes home.
What others can learn from how Minnesota helped its most vulnerable residents during the ICE surge
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February 20, 2026
1. My two crow friends haven’t been by in weeks but two ravens visited this week so I signaled treats to them, same as I do my crow friends, and they came over!
They are always braver than the local crows and showed it this time by hanging out by the food spot even after they’d cleaned up the offering, and let me come close enough to roll a few additional rounds of treats over to them.
The crows always require me to be a minimum distance away, and retreat as soon as they fill their beaks. They’ll come back for seconds and thirds but hanging out in the vicinity while I approach is still a solid no.
I can’t stop laughing at this, the last paragraph is priceless: Unalaska is the nation’s eagle attack capital. Why?
“Now, Ayures keeps an eagle figurine on his desk. When he’s re-stationed, it’s a piece of Unalaska he’ll hold on to — knowing that somewhere out there, an eagle with his cell phone is holding onto a piece of him, too.”
Helping folks: Carrie Mesrobian: “ICE is still here in Columbia Heights. People are still unable to work, feed their families, pay their rent. If you have a couple bucks to spare, please do. If not, just go please meet at least one neighbor. You will want to be ready if this ever comes to your community and that is the first step.” Link to GFM for this community in MN.
Greg Pak: Keep Minnesota Housed, friends!
Visit https://keepMNhoused.com today to adopt a rent or donate to a rent fund to help families affected by ICE stay in their homes.
#keepMNhoused
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February 13, 2026
1. A pink manta!
2. A friend’s willing to be the guinea pig on this crocheting pattern for me. I bought this for them to try first and tell me how tough it really is before I commit to buying yarn and trying to figure out how to crochet again. I learned more than 20 years ago but I only ever learned the one stitch and that baby blanket is STILL a WIP tucked away somewhere.
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February 6, 2026
1. Charlie Jane Anders and Annalee Newitz Humble Bundle supporting Miss Major Alexander L. Lee TGIJP Black Trans Cultural Center / Transgender Gender-Variant Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP)
2. You have to be logged into Bluesky for this but Claire Willett commentary on the current Catholic Church doings and politics is always enlightening. I had no idea that the Latin Mass was a dogwhistle for virulent antisemitism, for one.
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January 30, 2026
1. Our locks have been sticking something awful and it just occurred to me to put a drop of oil on the key and work it in there. Just one day later and they’re working perfectly again. Small win!
Helping folks: from @prisonculture.bsky.social Trusted friends in Minneapolis tell me that this fund is supporting many people but does not have enough money. If you can give, please do: https://chuffed.org/project/167138-emergency-rent-fund-support-workers-in-minnesota.
Haven Watch MN is on the ground providing support to people being released into the cold winter, dumped with no phones, wearing only the clothes they were wearing when snatched. Some folks were even being dumped in the woods, that’s a death sentence some nights.
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