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US expat in DE, Publisher of bilingual kids’ books, PhD in French Lit Northwestern, mom to 2 sons (one 🏳️‍⚧️) and a borrowed son (Ukrainian refugee), happily married for 30 yrs, pretty sure I’m the luckiest person alive.
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david hogg off the top rope on the other site

submitted 8 hours ago • 185 comments

Why push for impeachment? Because politics is an exercise in moving public opinion as much as counting votes in the senate. The Jan 6 Hearings were not a criminal proceeding against Trump that would end in jail, but they focused public attention. Performative public investigations matter

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

Americans have no room to bash the rights of Iranian women as a justification for war when our country literally just forced a woman’s rotting corpse to carry & deliver a baby against the wishes of all those involved.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

ICE arrested Job Garcia while he was running errands in LA. Job is a US citizen, a scholar, and a brilliant photographer. He’s also my friend. But none of that should determine his humanity. ICE must release Job Garcia immediately.

submitted 4 days ago • 162 comments

In light of Pride month I'm fundraising for Point of Pride, an incredible trans-led nonprofit that provides direct gender affirming care & things like HRT to trans ppl in need. Please, please donate any small amount that you can. Every bit makes a major impact! secure.givelively.org/donate/point...

submitted 5 days ago • 17 comments

What is common knowledge in your field but shocks outsiders? A good children’s book is really hard to write.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Honored to sign this proclamation on Transgender Day of Visibility. Let’s uplift our transgender community members by focusing on their strength, resilience and accomplishments.

submitted 84 days ago • 38 comments

“A deranged maniac impersonated a police officer and killed lawmakers but if you’re an immigrant be sure you immediately comply with plain clothes people who won’t identify themselves telling you to get in a van”, what a fuckin country

submitted 9 days ago • 384 comments

Munich showed up. Couple hundred ex-pats in almost 90-degree weather. #NoKings #DemocratsAbroad

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

Folks, look who I'm with

submitted 10 days ago • 6 comments

I will be damned if I allow a bunch of Confederate-waving January 6th apologists give the American people a lecture on flag waving. There is ZERO reason to enter an argument about patriotism with people who still worship traitors to America 150+ years later. They. Are. Breaking. The. Law.

submitted 13 days ago • 1463 comments

FTC's latest move is to see how many trans kids they can kill. This is dangerous and beyond stupid, and way beyond anything the FTC is supposed to have authority over.

submitted 14 days ago • 14 comments

Briefly wandered over to The Other Place to gauge the response to the NASA budget devastation to encounter a bunch of gleeful 'we spend too much money, so this is great.' TO BE, ONCE AGAIN, PERFECTLY CLEAR, THE BUDGET REQUEST MOVES ALL THIS MONEY TO DEFENSE. IT SPENDS IT. NO MONEY IS SAVED.

submitted 23 days ago • 17 comments

submitted 26 days ago • 13 comments

"Yes, Cuomo is awful, but I have some policy differences with the progressives, so this is hard." This is not hard. What you do is, you set aside your precious little checklist, and YOU DON'T VOTE FOR THE AWFUL PERSON.

submitted 26 days ago • 177 comments

Work requirements hurt poor people AND are a waste of money. Arkansas spent $26 million on administrative costs for work requirements — and saw no increase in employment. Georgia’s program cost $40 million in one year — 80% of that went to administrative and consulting costs.

submitted 29 days ago • 407 comments

I say without any irony or sarcasm: yes, thank you, we want parliamentary sabotage. Again, I'm 100% serious. It's one of the few things a minority party can do, and which Republicans themselves did. It's essential.

submitted 33 days ago • 63 comments

The House Republican reconciliation bill will now ban both surgeries and HRT prescription under Medicaid for all Americans. Earlier, I posted that it wouldn’t affect HRT. This is incorrect. I was mistaken, because the bill refers to medications for trans people… as “procedures.”

submitted 33 days ago • 26 comments

DOGE cut off Social Security Administration spending so now workers have to use their own money to buy office supplies. Meanwhile Elon Musk makes $8 million every single day from the government.

submitted 37 days ago • 126 comments

Impact of GOP tax bill by annual income: 17K to 51K: -$700 4.3 million or more: +$389,000

submitted 37 days ago • 169 comments

I don't know what this means, but I'm the one who wrote a fully updated, 624-page hurricane response plan at FEMA that took over 2 years of work and careful coordination among state and federal agencies. He could start by studying that.

submitted 39 days ago • 329 comments