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I love my trans brothers and sisters and siblings more fiercely than ever today. I see you, I celebrate you, and I will fight for you.

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One of the things they don't tell you about being a parent is how many of your waking hours you'll spend washing water bottles.

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There is not a single congressional district in the U.S. where more than 15% of voters support cuts to SNAP, the federal program that provides food assistance to millions of low-income Americans.

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When Arkansas implemented Medicaid work requirements, 18,000 people lost health care in 7 months — and there were no significant employment changes. If Republicans do this nationwide, 36 million Americans could lose health care. Work requirements are CUTS for people who often cannot work.

submitted 37 days ago • 9 comments

I'm having a PEP(per) RALLY! First friend to grow a fruit wins a prize! 🧪

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It is a universal truth that whenever the child care program sends a picture of the whole class, it will invariably be your child who is picking their nose.

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I am every day more convinced that being a billionaire is evidence of moral vacancy.

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Good news! We don't need feminism anymore because Katy Perry went to space for 11 minutes! We did it, girlbosses!

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Gratitude for the chips getting me through this week: chocolate and tortilla

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Babe, wake up, new Welfare Queen just dropped

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Things are...you know. But on the bright side, I've learned how to make a really fantastic egg and cheese sandwich.

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"Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for." – Seamus Heaney

submitted 96 days ago • 23 comments

The sun came out, so I did the Seattle thing and dropped everything I was doing to move all of my houseplants into the sunbeams.

submitted 107 days ago • 1 comment

Boosting this!!

submitted 108 days ago • 1 comment

I wrote a short blog post about the tragedy currently unfolding in the evaluation industry. Trump is destroying vital research capacity and decades of instructional knowledge for pocket change. 1/x rooseveltinstitute.org/blog/the-irr...

submitted 115 days ago • 9 comments

A lot of the inefficiencies in government come from efforts to make it leaner: micromanaging workers in the name of eliminating waste, withholding the perks and salaries that they could expect at an equivalent private sector job, etc

submitted 124 days ago • 14 comments

New baking achievement unlocked. French #macaron with chocolate ganache.

submitted 125 days ago • 3 comments

With the very public and chaotic gutting of our federal workforce, I'm fairly certain our country has never looked weaker to our adversaries.

submitted 126 days ago • 1 comment

Oh yes, Homer’s famous “Tes Thdpssssps.” 👍🏻

submitted 128 days ago • 279 comments

I dunno...I'm beginning to think I was misled about how long it takes to turn a battleship.

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"We're doing science. Because we're moms." - my 3.5-year-old daughter, describing the game she's playing with her sister. Yes.

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Weird that we have to say this, but the government doesn’t get to decide what gender a person is.

submitted 159 days ago • 523 comments

Social work friends and followers: I'll be at #SSWR later this week - let me know if you will too!

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Serious question: Does DOGE exist? It's not a government agency. Has it been established as a nonprofit? An LLC? A lobbying firm? An entity of any kind at all?

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every tech company in 2025

submitted 178 days ago • 75 comments