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It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can start now.

Beastie Boys songs are even funnier when they became socially conscious and started doing rhymes like to rock the mic is my intention / I’m smart like the women at the Seneca Falls Convention

I’m sorry but as a Gen Xer I promise you I will never, ever wear a barn jacket, this will never happen

I don't know if the #DepartmentOfEducation will cease to exist, but I do know we've been here before. And the Heritage Foundation was at the back of it last time, too: thinkofthechildren.substack.com/p/a-nation-a...

Here's something lovely: I got to interview Lisa Phillips about her new book, FIRST LOVE, which is such a caring, thoughtful, nuanced look at young adults' love/lust/desire lives. thinkofthechildren.substack.com/p/the-pursui...

After living here for more than 20 years, I finally have a few of the kind of friends you can text and say "I'm flying to see my parents tomorrow and I'm hyperfixating on what to read, help" and they will lend you two books and make you feel taken care of. This is everything.

Just gave my 13yo this hypothetical: I'm a new student at your school. Name 3 things I need to have in order to be "cool." That was an enlightening conversation.

It's surreal doing all the "normal" things--watching my kid's soccer game, folding laundry, grocery shopping--in the middle of a kleptocratic coup.

All you people with backyard chickens must be feeling SO PLEASED right about now

Girls only want one thing and it is to play the vertical scrolling 1988 shoot 'em up SIDEWINDER

My life changed forever the day I learned that I could insert a link by pressing Ctrl + K. What keyboard shortcuts changed your life? Also, an em dash is Alt + 0151

I really wasn't mentally prepared for the hesitation I now feel before clicking on a link to a federal government website. That's new. And I don't like it.

Y'all, I am BEGGING YOU to turn on your alt text switch and alt text your images. Take the time, please. Make this place different in the ways that matter. It has gotten much worse, and we need to be moving the other way.

Right now, #accessibility is actually MORE important than ever. Write the alt text. Upload the captions. Put copy in the body of your post (not in a JPG) And for god’s sake, if it can be web page instead of a PDF, let it be a web page. Do the right thing because it’s the right thing to do.

I recently interviewed Nancy Reddy about her new book, THE GOOD MOTHER MYTH, and it feels so urgent and important to look closely at the lies we're told about what we have to do in order to be good moms: thinkofthechildren.substack.com/p/a-figment-...

I saw a snowy owl yesterday That's it, that's the post

I wrote this list after the 2016 election. It feels like that was a lifetime ago. I'm sharing it again today because I believe these things are more important than ever:

Why Am I Lying On The Floor? A January quiz: a) life is a barren wasteland of endless snow and darkness b) grab bag of outrage/sorrow/horror-provoking news headlines c) the fragile mortality of you, me, and everyone we love (including our dogs) d) I ate the last of the chocolate chips

Idk if it's better or worse for me that all the local summer camps will trickle out their information in a slow, uneven stream that starts now and ends in May, but we can all agree that planning summer care absolutely sucks

My daughter and I were pretending that you could petition a government board to have the spelling of an American English word changed. She wanted to change "tomorrow" to "tommorow" because she likes it better that way. I, pettily,

Every year I do a numbers roundup, cataloguing some of the numbers that defined the last 365 days. Here are a few of my numbers for 2024: - 71 nights spent away from home - 3 bylines - 137 online sales - 1 quilt completed (cont.)

Happy Public Domain Day to all who celebrate! web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicd...

My kid's bday is in early January, which means that the U.S. postal service plays a huge role in determining whether any particular item will be a Christmas present or a birthday present