Here's a nuance for the Greenland issue. Europeans own a substantial percentage of US Treasuries. Some actively sold their bonds while this crisis was pending. A substantial selloff would flood the market and be awful for the US economy.
I understand that different areas of the country have different snow infrastructure, but maybe it’s time for Kentucky to invest in more plows? It’s wild to expect a week off school due to 8-12 inches of snow. Just south of Buffalo, we got about 18 inches on Tuesday, with an additional 2-4 inches per day on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and our only snow day was Tuesday!
I’m very glad we’ll be avoiding the ice in this weekend’s storm. Ice is brutal and destructive. (As is ICE, I suppose.) Warm thoughts to those of you expecting it!
My Dad worked for the DOT in Kentucky in district 6 at the end of his career but covered the state as an attorney prior to that. The argument in the past is that often plows would sit unused and then need significant repairs due to not being used. 🤷🏻♀️
I wonder how long they need to sit unused for that to happen. Our plows are unused for 6 months in a row out of every year. So if it’s now snowing every winter in Kentucky as Sarah said, that seems like advice that no longer applies.
Halfway through. Taking a break. I think it's time to bring Elizabeth Oldfield back?
Seriously, though. The episode with Elizabeth has stayed with me and I'm trying to look to history and leaders and people most affected to show the path forward. Sarah, your point about listening to immigrants hit. And there's something there across the board. Isn't it true that the further you are from an issue, the more likely you are to be radicalized about it? (My most recent example being the mom who came to our school board meeting last week and went on a rant about something that happened to her kid at school, only to end by saying that if there is money for Israel there is money for schools, and then shouted an expletive and Renee Good's name as she was escorted out for going over time.) I guess she's probably been persuaded to vote Democrat, but otherwise who is that helping?
I’ve been pondering at least since 2016, maybe earlier, if who the US President is can disrupt the entire world so much, is that a power we should have? Or really any country should have?
I keep thinking about Sarah and Beth saying that enough is enough and feeling like something about America has fundamentally changed. I said to my husband that I don’t know how America gets out of this mess.
I’m curious how y’all are navigating talking with kids and teens about this stuff .
With my 18yo and 16yo young men, I ask them questions about what they're seeing and how they're feeling about what is happening. I share my thoughts and opinions about it and we don't always agree. We keep talking anyway.
Kids home for a week?! 😱 My kids were home today in IL for cold and that’s enough for me, granted, they’re younger and do not leave me alone. 😆 Stay safe out there everyone!
Hello from Denmark. It’s almost my bedtime here, so I can’t write everything I want to express. But mostly I just want to say how much grief I feel over the building up of our (Danish) military and militaries in general. And diverting funds away from services that help people here. It’s just….not at all the direction I want the world to move in. And I’m angry that a few bullies seem to control this.
Also, my husband is navigating two rounds of layoffs at his human rights NGO. It’s generally due to more competition for funding after USAID left the scene, but more concretely last week received news of 800,000 euros of their promised funding will be taken away and put toward war in Ukraine.
Agreed. Building up arms is not the answer. More conflict is not the answer. The leaders pushing and terrorizing their own citizens and their fellow citizens of this tiny planet are all men. It’s time to have women in the highest leadership roles in this country, not narcissistic and insecure men.
"Let's not elect a jerk again" -Beth Silvers. I originally commented and said put that on some merch but honestly I don't want more merch, I just don't want a jerk president
Beth saying she thinks a lot of people voted for him because they want him to be a jerk to others rings so true with me. For years I’ve said that I think a lot of Christian men (my dad included) like Trump because he’s the asshole they “can’t” be.
I listened to this episode while reading press updates and seeing images of ICE moving around the cities where i live and work here in Maine. They've moved into Maine this week. It's still not equivalent to the presence in Minnesota but it's terrifying to think they've invaded this area so quickly. They took a (legally in the country) college student from a grocery store ten minutes from my house.
I'm reaching out to my neighbors and finding organizations that are already on the ground doing work to fight the feeling of helplessness.
Thank you as always for helping me process what's going on.
Canada removing tariffs on Chinese EV’s is huge and not being talked about enough. Trump’s “economic policy” is going to have lasting repercussions that I’m not sure the US will ever recover from. What world leader is going to want to enter a deal with the US when it can all be undone at a whim in less than 4 years?!?
I think Sarah’s dad is my mom. It’s so frustrating. Always some excuse. Some reason to trust Trump. “But he’s really helping our country.” So no, I don’t think everyone can see this is bad. Oddly, or maybe not, she thinks Mamdani is interesting and his ideas might be good. 🤔
This is why I have hope this movement doesn’t survive Trump. They don’t really like his ideas and policies, they’re just so used to blindly following dear leader. He’s a sunk cost for them at this point. You think they’re going to give Vance or bondi or Mike Johnson I’m sure he has his reasons level Grace?. The spell will be broken, I think, if and when we can get rid of him.
Also, can we talk a little more about the logic behind the simple fact that these immense immigration crackdowns are predominantly happening in Blue states?
This is a throughline I'd like to ask the "Deport them all!" crowd: If these immigrants are the reason why "real Americans" don't have jobs or homes or are to blame for whatever problems you think you have, then why isn't ICE in their neighborhood "making things better"? Why have they started in communities that love their immigrant neighbors and are fighting back because they don't want ICE there. How do immigration crackdowns in L.A. or Chicago help the pro-Trump voter in, say Alabama or South Carolina?
Let me summarize this hot take so you can anger your MAGA neighbors in a different direction. Here's the narrative that we spread:
Donald Trump cares more about Blue states than he does his loyal voters in Red states. How do we know? Because he is freeing up jobs, housing, and making safer the streets of all these liberal cities instead of focusing his ICE efforts on the communities where these "illegal aliens" have wreaked havoc on economies and used up all their valuable resources. If I were them, I would call my representatives right away and demand that ICE be deployed to their city right away! I would be so offended that Trump has abandoned those most loyal to his America First agenda.
I'm just saying - psychological warfare has its place. 🤷🤔
Very early and listening, but I had to stop to say I don’t think that you should have to live with that in your household Sarah. Time for some real boundaries around conversation and conflict. Your home is your home and respect should be higher, person to person respect, regardless of age. Respect for our elders does NOT mean the safety and sacredness of our home is violated
I woke up this morning to see that the local branch of US National Weather Service had circled where I live on a map for worst ice impacts for this weekend 😬 We are as prepared as we can be but I think we will be at home for a week and probably without power for that long if the ice tracks as they predict. Sarah, the glazed v sprinkle metaphor was helpful! I lived in Louisville in 2009 and remember the ice storm. We could hear trees crashing down all night. It was wild.
I loved the conversation and wholeheartedly agree that we are living through the consequences of electing a jerk, not once but twice. Unfortunately this time he’s built a posse of jerks around him too so it just seems extra bad. My heart is so heavy for Minnesota and all the other places where ICE is carrying out its reign of terror. I have no other way to describe it. I live in Middle TN and our state legislature just went back into session with tons of anti-immigrant bills on the docket. Apparently our state Speaker has been working with Stephen Moller directly. Doing little things to spread awareness and goodness where I can. My birthday was a few weeks ago and I did a little fundraiser for anti authoritarian and diverse books to add to local Little Free Libraries. It’s not much, but it’s something.
Here's a nuance for the Greenland issue. Europeans own a substantial percentage of US Treasuries. Some actively sold their bonds while this crisis was pending. A substantial selloff would flood the market and be awful for the US economy.
I'm in the half inch or more "glazed donut" ice zone. I'm hoping we don't lose power. Everything is electric, including our well pump.
I understand that different areas of the country have different snow infrastructure, but maybe it’s time for Kentucky to invest in more plows? It’s wild to expect a week off school due to 8-12 inches of snow. Just south of Buffalo, we got about 18 inches on Tuesday, with an additional 2-4 inches per day on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and our only snow day was Tuesday!
I’m very glad we’ll be avoiding the ice in this weekend’s storm. Ice is brutal and destructive. (As is ICE, I suppose.) Warm thoughts to those of you expecting it!
My Dad worked for the DOT in Kentucky in district 6 at the end of his career but covered the state as an attorney prior to that. The argument in the past is that often plows would sit unused and then need significant repairs due to not being used. 🤷🏻♀️
I wonder how long they need to sit unused for that to happen. Our plows are unused for 6 months in a row out of every year. So if it’s now snowing every winter in Kentucky as Sarah said, that seems like advice that no longer applies.
Halfway through. Taking a break. I think it's time to bring Elizabeth Oldfield back?
Seriously, though. The episode with Elizabeth has stayed with me and I'm trying to look to history and leaders and people most affected to show the path forward. Sarah, your point about listening to immigrants hit. And there's something there across the board. Isn't it true that the further you are from an issue, the more likely you are to be radicalized about it? (My most recent example being the mom who came to our school board meeting last week and went on a rant about something that happened to her kid at school, only to end by saying that if there is money for Israel there is money for schools, and then shouted an expletive and Renee Good's name as she was escorted out for going over time.) I guess she's probably been persuaded to vote Democrat, but otherwise who is that helping?
I’ve been pondering at least since 2016, maybe earlier, if who the US President is can disrupt the entire world so much, is that a power we should have? Or really any country should have?
No.
I keep thinking about Sarah and Beth saying that enough is enough and feeling like something about America has fundamentally changed. I said to my husband that I don’t know how America gets out of this mess.
I’m curious how y’all are navigating talking with kids and teens about this stuff .
With my 18yo and 16yo young men, I ask them questions about what they're seeing and how they're feeling about what is happening. I share my thoughts and opinions about it and we don't always agree. We keep talking anyway.
Kids home for a week?! 😱 My kids were home today in IL for cold and that’s enough for me, granted, they’re younger and do not leave me alone. 😆 Stay safe out there everyone!
Hello from Denmark. It’s almost my bedtime here, so I can’t write everything I want to express. But mostly I just want to say how much grief I feel over the building up of our (Danish) military and militaries in general. And diverting funds away from services that help people here. It’s just….not at all the direction I want the world to move in. And I’m angry that a few bullies seem to control this.
Also, my husband is navigating two rounds of layoffs at his human rights NGO. It’s generally due to more competition for funding after USAID left the scene, but more concretely last week received news of 800,000 euros of their promised funding will be taken away and put toward war in Ukraine.
It all makes me so sad.
Agreed. Building up arms is not the answer. More conflict is not the answer. The leaders pushing and terrorizing their own citizens and their fellow citizens of this tiny planet are all men. It’s time to have women in the highest leadership roles in this country, not narcissistic and insecure men.
"Let's not elect a jerk again" -Beth Silvers. I originally commented and said put that on some merch but honestly I don't want more merch, I just don't want a jerk president
Beth saying she thinks a lot of people voted for him because they want him to be a jerk to others rings so true with me. For years I’ve said that I think a lot of Christian men (my dad included) like Trump because he’s the asshole they “can’t” be.
I listened to this episode while reading press updates and seeing images of ICE moving around the cities where i live and work here in Maine. They've moved into Maine this week. It's still not equivalent to the presence in Minnesota but it's terrifying to think they've invaded this area so quickly. They took a (legally in the country) college student from a grocery store ten minutes from my house.
I'm reaching out to my neighbors and finding organizations that are already on the ground doing work to fight the feeling of helplessness.
Thank you as always for helping me process what's going on.
Canada removing tariffs on Chinese EV’s is huge and not being talked about enough. Trump’s “economic policy” is going to have lasting repercussions that I’m not sure the US will ever recover from. What world leader is going to want to enter a deal with the US when it can all be undone at a whim in less than 4 years?!?
I think Sarah’s dad is my mom. It’s so frustrating. Always some excuse. Some reason to trust Trump. “But he’s really helping our country.” So no, I don’t think everyone can see this is bad. Oddly, or maybe not, she thinks Mamdani is interesting and his ideas might be good. 🤔
This is why I have hope this movement doesn’t survive Trump. They don’t really like his ideas and policies, they’re just so used to blindly following dear leader. He’s a sunk cost for them at this point. You think they’re going to give Vance or bondi or Mike Johnson I’m sure he has his reasons level Grace?. The spell will be broken, I think, if and when we can get rid of him.
Interesting. Reminds me of 2016 and some people being for Sanders AND Trump.
Also, can we talk a little more about the logic behind the simple fact that these immense immigration crackdowns are predominantly happening in Blue states?
This is a throughline I'd like to ask the "Deport them all!" crowd: If these immigrants are the reason why "real Americans" don't have jobs or homes or are to blame for whatever problems you think you have, then why isn't ICE in their neighborhood "making things better"? Why have they started in communities that love their immigrant neighbors and are fighting back because they don't want ICE there. How do immigration crackdowns in L.A. or Chicago help the pro-Trump voter in, say Alabama or South Carolina?
Let me summarize this hot take so you can anger your MAGA neighbors in a different direction. Here's the narrative that we spread:
Donald Trump cares more about Blue states than he does his loyal voters in Red states. How do we know? Because he is freeing up jobs, housing, and making safer the streets of all these liberal cities instead of focusing his ICE efforts on the communities where these "illegal aliens" have wreaked havoc on economies and used up all their valuable resources. If I were them, I would call my representatives right away and demand that ICE be deployed to their city right away! I would be so offended that Trump has abandoned those most loyal to his America First agenda.
I'm just saying - psychological warfare has its place. 🤷🤔
I’m in Austin and their presence is steadily increasing here and in the burbs even
But I’m not mad at the idea of calling him out for caring about blue states more than red states
Oh, but they love to see us (in blue states) suffer…
It's disgusting, Hope. I'm so sorry.
I wonder how many Red staters are already doing this, because they really do believe they are under threat.
Very early and listening, but I had to stop to say I don’t think that you should have to live with that in your household Sarah. Time for some real boundaries around conversation and conflict. Your home is your home and respect should be higher, person to person respect, regardless of age. Respect for our elders does NOT mean the safety and sacredness of our home is violated
I woke up this morning to see that the local branch of US National Weather Service had circled where I live on a map for worst ice impacts for this weekend 😬 We are as prepared as we can be but I think we will be at home for a week and probably without power for that long if the ice tracks as they predict. Sarah, the glazed v sprinkle metaphor was helpful! I lived in Louisville in 2009 and remember the ice storm. We could hear trees crashing down all night. It was wild.
I loved the conversation and wholeheartedly agree that we are living through the consequences of electing a jerk, not once but twice. Unfortunately this time he’s built a posse of jerks around him too so it just seems extra bad. My heart is so heavy for Minnesota and all the other places where ICE is carrying out its reign of terror. I have no other way to describe it. I live in Middle TN and our state legislature just went back into session with tons of anti-immigrant bills on the docket. Apparently our state Speaker has been working with Stephen Moller directly. Doing little things to spread awareness and goodness where I can. My birthday was a few weeks ago and I did a little fundraiser for anti authoritarian and diverse books to add to local Little Free Libraries. It’s not much, but it’s something.