It was a new respiratory illness that we didn't understand very well and certainly didn't have a vaccine for. It killed millions of people around the world. Of course we closed schools. Move on.
High school English & social studies teacher. Grad student. History, literature, sociology. Mom. Liberal. Regular desert woman in Michigan. Every account of mine inevitably becomes a political account, so assume that's where this train is headed as well.
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It was a new respiratory illness that we didn't understand very well and certainly didn't have a vaccine for. It killed millions of people around the world. Of course we closed schools. Move on.
Ever since we gave him the vaccine my dog has been non-verbal
This “explicit” is a weird editorial choice. The constitution gives the president no power over this at all. It’s not ambiguous.
Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.
Uh...guys...
If a family brought a loose cat into my classroom, I'd be weirded out, but I'd probably still pet it tbh.
two part strategy; shame ICE, be friendly and supportive to the Guard in a 'I can't believe you guys are having to go through this shit' way.
It's possible ... hear me out, here …. It may well be that these people lie their asses off whenever they exhale
Simply reading about Elizabeth Gilbert’s life choices gave me so much second-hand anxiety that I felt physically ill.
Dearest Martha, The National Guard stand solemn watch at the Krispy Kreme tonight. I cannot tell if they defend the people from the donuts, or the donuts from the people. Powdered sugar hangs in the air like cannon smoke. Jensen took a hot coffee to the face, he may never recover. Yours in glaze,
Every lawyer should get the day off in observance of the fact that they actually failed to indict a ham sandwich
As an English teacher: This doesn’t bother me. It hadn’t even occurred to me that it COULD bother anyone until I saw social media being weird about it. I thought it was a cute caption. Say “yes” to joy and free yourself from this burden!
Obsessed with the “Taylor Swift English teacher stolen valor” discourse. Incredible.
Is Blue Rose doing anything other than public statements & analyses & doing interviews? I may be wrong but I doubt they’ll have much influence within the party going forward. But they’ll continue to get press, & people will blame Dems for what Blue Rose said to do, even if Dems ignore the advice
Aggressive campaign of multiracial civic nationalism propaganda directed at the public and schoolchildren, many people are saying this.
I don’t recognize it as anything sketchy.
media doesn't have to pretend that every statement from Donald Trump, a serial liar with a long record of proven falsehoods, has to be evaluated in a vacuum.
OH LOOK IT'S WHAT EVERYONE SHOULD HAVE SEEN COMING.
Sure is weird how both Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris said true things that were nonetheless passed off as hysterical by a vichy press.
I'm pretty confident in America's ability to comeback from this, but it's dependent on more or less a single thing with a further condition: a working constitutionalist majority in both chambers of Congress, and one that can be sustained for more than a single term
Fuck it. We ride for the Khan. Pritzker 2028.
We figured out that allowing kids to use their phones in class is fucking stupid JUST IN TIME for districts to pretend that AI can write lesson plans and grade papers. Oh boy! Oh fun!
I won't be "integrating AI into the classroom" no matter what anyone says, so I guess I'll just spend that day surreptitiously course planning instead.
Just found out that one of our teacher PD days will be focused on "integrating AI into the classroom". Gonna go walk into traffic now!
Good climate news this week 1 China: Coal and gas consumption lower this year, emissions continue to decline 2 UK: Green power surges in Q2, up 195% on same quarter last year 3 Turkey: EVs up a fantastic 128% in 2025 to 18% share 4 China: Battery capacity now above 100 GW, up 110% vs. last year
a very bleak development in terms of my view of the world in the last few years has been both ‘the Israeli govt is much worse than I thought and deserves an enormous amount of criticism’ and ‘yeah a lot of people geniunely are just low-grade antisemitic’ both apparently being true.
Anya is great, and people are so mean to her for no reason! Also the series finale pissed me off so bad that I nearly punched a wall.
Don’t be afraid to share your writing. There are six Sharknado movies.
D.C. has more residents than two U.S. states. They pay more per capita in federal taxes than any other state. But they don’t get a serious seat at the table to decide how they’re governed. D.C. statehood now.
Is this a planter or a fire pit?
The first twenty people at my funeral can have a finger or toe while supplies last
The death deadline used to be 2024 or 2025. Wonder why it got pushed back.
I posted about his third term shit recently and some people were like “eh he said he probably won’t run” and like, January 6th. “Running” is probably the wrong paradigm to lock ourselves into. If we get to 2028 and he wants to retain power, we’re not in a “campaigning to win votes” place, not really
Tucson is turning 250! From its deep Indigenous roots to becoming the beating heart of Southern Arizona, it’s a city rich in history and community. Feliz cumpleaños to the Old Pueblo!
Are owls also known to hit themselves in the head with a giant mallet when they see a sexy lady?
If you go back ~600 years (I think this is the correct figure, it may be a little more), every European alive at the time with any living descendants today is an ancestor of *everybody* living today with European ancestry.
Russia does this for many reasons, but one of them is to show that Putin owns Trump. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/u...
The US has gone through, depending on your definitions, at least 2-3 previous cycles of attempting multiracial democracy and then a crucial block of white people deciding to wreck things and attempt to create an ethnostate. We're now going through another attempt. Maybe we'll do better this time.
QUICK, EVERYONE MAKE SIGNS CRITICIZING OR MOCKING ICE SO THEY SPEND TIME TAKING DOWN SIGNS THAT HURT THEIR FEELINGS INSTEAD OF ARRESTING 9 YEAR OLDS ON THEIR WAY TO CHEMO TREATMENTS! What a bunch of snowflakes…
I think I’m becoming a pro immigration psychotic. The number of people who fell off the freighter from Genoa about 30 seconds ago clutching their pearls about the ability of other people to assimilate is radicalizing me
The number of immigrants you’d have to let in annually for me to experience the mildest alarm is “try me”
states need to start passing personal liberty laws. the nineteenth century has a lot of models.
Deploying the National Guard against the Epstein files
The diff between 20th and 21st century journalism is that if this had happened in the 90s, we'd already have video interview up with the guy who sold the sandwich, the guy who made the sandwich and 3 other customers who also bought the same sandwich
In the performative deportations system, the people are represented by two separate, yet equally important groups. The DHS civilians, who are total losers, and the National Guard, who don’t wanna be there. These are their stories.
I absolutely would've said him, I would've said him before anybody else in the world
🎶God, what have you done? You're a pink polo guy And you just threw your club...sandwich. Oh mama, I'm just having fun On the street with the fuzz is where I belong. I'm a pink polo guy.🎶
"Be advised, suspect is armed with a sub-style sandwich."
The report calling it a "sub-style sandwich" like it's a type of gun is just perfect.
I like that 12% of respondents can’t recall whether or not they have a nemesis.
My partridge peas are blooming, and the bees are going absolutely ham on them. Dozens of fuzzy little bee butts poking out of flowers, as far as the eye can see.
again, i get how we got here and i'm not sure how to avoid it, but the shift in understanding "religion" as protected by the 1st amendment from "membership and participation in organized faith communities" to "whatever idiosyncratic beliefs you happen to hold" is potentially pretty destabilizing
crime is rampant in DC
FEDERAL AGENT PULLED FROM THE FINAL STAGES OF A TEN YEAR INVESTIGATION TO CAPTURE THE KILLER RESPONSIBLE FOR THE "HOUSTON HATCHETMAN" SERIAL MURDERS TO PATROL TOURISTS ON THE NATIONAL MALL: hey. you can't vape there
“sandwich based assaults on our brave officers are up 1000% percent”
a university is not for generating profit, it provides cultural enrichment via weird little gremlin people who love visigoths or haikus, and very occasionally a scientist who figures out faster than light travel
Everyone who works on this should be purged by the next lib president with the same thoroughness the current administration purged women and black people from the top of the military.
Ok, hear me out: as far as resistance tactics go, throwing sandwiches at the feds is perfect. It's absurd, and they look idiotic chasing down a random civilian for chucking a footlong at them. It's also a great counterpoint to the bs argument that DC is a crime-ridden hellscape.
I hope he befriends the guy who threw his shoes at Bush.
Ah yes, American's Reichstag Sandwich.
Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…
Every Democratic state that can do this, should do this. Then, when we control the levels of power in DC, we ban gerrymandering for the entire country. Once and for all. Everyone playing by the same rules.
“It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can restrain him from lynching me” is one of MLK’s more underrated quotes because it’s a very good observation about the limits of politics.
At the Department of Attorney General, we are working tirelessly to protect state funding for Michigan. We’ve sued the Trump Administration 29 times and saved Michigan $1.6 billion in programming and funding our residents are entitled to.
usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”
“May I have a pierogi?” “No, you may not.” “Goodbye.” “Goodbye.”
Big “Do you like my hat? No, I do not.” energy
Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.
reverse heist movie where a single snake has to chase all the priests back into ireland
God if only
I think we’re on the cusp of mass attempts to automate teaching, and I also think it is going to be a massive wasteful failure in ways that will make the “learning loss” of the pandemic look like a speed bump next to a mountain.