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What are you up to this weekend? Anton and I have been playing a lot of ping pong, and my birthday is on Saturday, so we\u2019ll all be having cake. We\u2019re also sharing the link list today, since tomorrow is a national shutdown<\/a> as a way to protest the funding of ICE. Hope you are hanging in there \u2014\u00a0take gentle care \u2014 and here are a few links from around the web\u2026<\/p>\n Minnesota proved MAGA wrong<\/a>. Bravo. Also, Stand with Minnesota<\/a> put together a list of local organizations that help folks get groceries, buy diapers, pay rent, get rides to work, etc.; and here is a St. Paul public schools fundraiser<\/a> to support families who have lost their incomes.<\/p>\n People photographed with their vehicles<\/a>.<\/p>\n We made pea and potato curry<\/a> last night, and it was delicious.<\/p>\n A new generation of readers arrives at Wuthering Heights<\/a>. Warms my heart! (NYTimes gift link)<\/p>\n Everything we know about rape is wrong<\/a>. \u201cThe majority of women who are sexually assaulted don\u2019t fight back, Percy notes. (In addition to \u2018fight or flight\u2019 responses to danger, advocacy groups indicate that other common responses to rape include \u2018freeze,\u2019 \u2018flop,\u2019 and \u2018friend,\u2019 or trying to placate one\u2019s attacker.) She compiles a list of accounts from her reporting of things women have done after they were raped. \u2018I made him chicken soup,\u2019 one woman tells her. \u2018I comforted him because he was crying,\u2019 another says.\u201d (Atlantic gift link)<\/p>\n Love these pajamas<\/a> for a relaxing night in.<\/p>\n Helena Bonham Carter and Chris Messina have been cast in White Lotus season four<\/a>.<\/p>\n What a pretty hairstyle<\/a>.<\/p>\n Three great documentaries to stream<\/a>. (NYTimes gift link)<\/p>\n Our favorite things this month<\/a>, including Heated Rivalry and shepherd\u2019s pie. (Big Salad, gift link)<\/p>\n \u201cTinder hasn\u2019t worked, so I\u2019m putting myself on Zillow<\/a>,\u201d hahaha.<\/p>\n The tiniest nail<\/a>. xoxo<\/p>\n Plus, three reader comments:<\/p>\n Says Emily on is this the sexiest move you can do<\/a>: \u201cMy husband was teaching our three-year-old how to wink the other night and said, \u2018See, like this,\u2019 and turned and winked at me across our messy, chaotic dinner table. I tell you what, it worked.\u201d<\/p>\n