Asheville Kathy LaLaLa

Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE.

Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

Funky little pot I made with lime green crawling glaze and various embellishments on a very dark clay body.

I’m quite pleased that a few of my Happy Little Pots are going up in the Odyssey Gallery this week. Art is great therapy.

Also: Abolish ICE, impeach DJT, release Epstein files, stop bombing, etc. We’re not distracted.
Meanwhile we’ll keep loving each other and voting.

Why are we calling it
war WITH Iran
vs
war AGAINST Iran?

Annual Seconds Sale Odyssey Gallery In Asheville’s River Arts District Saturday, March 14 11-5

In case you need a little fun and/or beauty, here’s Odyssey’s annual “seconds” sale

Good reminder! Take ID.

The UN human rights chief Volker Türk urged for the bombing to stop as he implored all parties “to see reason” and return to the negotiating table. He said: Bombs and missiles are not the way to resolve differences but only result in death, destruction and human misery.

Bottom line:

Fewer and fewer people having more and more power and wealth will surely end well.

The way people tell me “you’re much too political” bitch, do you think I WANT TO BE? I want to be sitting on a fucking beach and drinking cocktails without a care in the world but you fuckers keep voting in FASCISTS!

Last day of early voting in NC today

It is sickening to think about what might happen next. Thinking of the people in the path of this folly, and of the people of Ukraine, who could have really used those munitions in year 5 of their brave resistance to Russian aggression. 9/9

OK I got through.

OK, so we’re waking up to this horrific news. He’s defying the constitution again and the risk to our country is high. I think our first move this morning is to call our representatives. I just tried to call Thom Tillis and couldn’t get through. I’ll keep trying. Impeach and remove.

Do we still have a Congress or no?

Hate of the Union

Late to this but so important. The current policy attempts have roots in Gitmo. We need to stop them now.

Also, definitely follow @andreapitzer.bsky.social

Are you playing Store with a toddler, by chance?

Magic! 🤣

This is so cool 👇

Heat map form CDC data with PMC estimates of 1 in 71 actively infectious, nearly 700,000 new daily infections.

PMC COVlD Report, Week of Feb 16, 2026 (U.S.)

14 states are still experiencing High/Very High COVlD levels amid a lingering 12th wave.

Minnesota may be at an all-time high.

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Empty warehouses make great artist spaces. Just saying’.

State Department orders nonprofit libraries to stop processing passport applications The State Department has ordered nonprofit public libraries to stop taking passport applications, cutting off a popular local service.

This scheme to make passports harder to obtain comes as Republicans are trying to make passports one of the few documents that can be presented in order to be permitted to register to vote.

If this is an alert he set for himself why is it redacted?

Similarly we always ask how we can fund mental health care, addiction care, other diversion services. We NEVER ask whether we can afford a sprawling prison system.

My mom would have said, “Mean Secretary Noem?” Wellllllll…

The best way to get the pedophiles out of your city is to pass a billionaires tax.

This is rich. Glad to see my Alma mater on there but really wouldn’t most universities qualify?

At least half a dozen top Trump administration officials appear in the Jeffrey Epstein files The degree to which each individual was connected to Epstein varies significantly, from a single email to years of communications.

The President, two of his current Cabinet secretaries, his former strategist, his biggest donor, and his pending Fed Chair nominee are all in the files of a pedophile who ran a sex trafficking ring, while the attorney general and a former Cabinet secretary let him get away with it.

Seems kinda bad?

I think he’s trying to say that we’re bound together by whiteness.

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. The decisions amount to a huge legal rebuke, but the administration has continued jailing people indefinitely.

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped.