A genuine question for those with experience: what’s of more significant value in the upcoming election, working polls or observing polls?

Listen: @ninabandelj.bsky.social speaks with @alexis-madrigal.bsky.social for @kqedforum.bsky.social about her new book Overinvested and intensive parenting:

@publisherswkly.bsky.social calls Alexandre Frenette's Blame the Intern "a clear-eyed examination of how internships can be problematic introductions to professional life." Read the full review here:

You do not critique your father for having a heart

Just imagine how different our lives would be if Democrats reversed violent policies instead of focusing on making them more respectable.

Dems just profoundly unequipped for this moment. It’s maddening beyond measure to see the most ordinary people exhibit incomprehensible bravery and Dems be like “okay but body cams plz, then we’ll be all good.”

It's publication day! A different cover, a (slightly) different title, a brand new preface! Happy (second) birthday to The Last Human Job

You’ll feel less confused if you admit to yourself that some people don’t care about the suffering of others, and some people like it.

I think a lot of us get hope wrong. Hope, I do not believe, is an emotion. In fact, hope makes space for lots of emotions to exist alongside it. You can DO hope scared, angry, sad etc... Hope doesn't find us. We make hope through action and struggle. It's a practice of living and is re-made daily.

Tell me your pet’s name with a gif

right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out

I’ve largely stayed offline today after ending up in tears a few times yesterday and opening this to see that baby, I can‘t even describe my rage.

Just cried on a Zoom call with someone in Minneapolis. My mental health is so good.

It’s the strangest feeling, reading about breakthroughs that could have cured a loved one who has died of a disease. It’s hard to describe the painful joy I feel thinking about those who won’t know the heartache we almost could have missed. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

2026, home with a six-year-old freshly positive with Covid, spiraling with anxiety and sadness but also cackling at videos of fascists soaked from water balloons in bitter cold

Yes. And if you don’t, time to become someone your ancestors will be proud of.

I spend some serious energy worrying people will think I use Chat GPT for my emails but truly, I’m just a long time, deeply committed em-dasher.

Less than a month before my debut book "What We Inherit" gets released! You can place pre-orders now: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... Lucky to have gotten to collaborate (and argue) with Sam Trejo for the last 5+ years on this.

My friend and colleague @michellesphelps.bsky.social explains how the history of community organization prepares Minneapolis for this moment. @newrepublic.com

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...” A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today. lithub.com/renee-nicole...

…it should break your heart to kill.

Richie doesn't accept that the bookstore is closed on Sundays.

Seems accurate

It’s a long day of merriment here but I woke up early and read @lilyking.bsky.social’s Heart the Lover in nearly one sitting and am hungover with grief and also struck by how good this novel is. Read it when your heart is strong — or when you need fortifying.

There are too many things to hate about the internet but I have a big one. Online shopping now means family (primarily grandparents) send gifts directly to us and suddenly it’s my job to wrap EVERY PRESENT UNDER THE TREE WHEN I HAVE NO TIME OR ENERGY. More bows more tags more paper more time gah

Richie’s transition to Winter Pup is aided by good low winter light making awesome afternoon sun patches.

My daughter’s sixth grade math teacher sent home her family’s holiday card, complete with 11 cocktail recipes telling the story of their 2025 and I LOVE IT.

New from me: In the New Republic @newrepublic.com, I wrote that we should refuse to choose between the easy way and the hard way to boost birth rates.

I'm back with an update. We've got ourselves a Democratic mayor in Pocatello, Idaho -- and by a landslide!

It's literally painful at this point to see winter weather happening everywhere but here. As my daughter said the other day: "What do we want? Snow! When do we want it? Now!"

Veggie burger and fries on Friday nights: 11yo eats only spicy black bean patty with fries; 5yo eats only Bluey sandwich (cheddar cheese with jam on pitas) and fruit, as she refuses all potato products. Cross contamination results in rage.

What’s it like to have kids? Breakfast for dinner and 11yo eats only hashbrowns and fried eggs, hates veggie sausage; 5yo eats only veggie sausage and scrambled eggs, hates hashbrowns. Cross contamination results in rage.

This article is absolutely devastating.

Yet again: don't threaten me with a good time!

I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott

Just a few days ago Ride Wit Me came out of my memory like smoke and I listened to all the Nelly I could. The songs have still got it, my sixth grader agreed.

Top 5 movie genres are: -nothing happens but it’s devastatingly sad -dancing -road trip -family at the holidays -is it comedy? is it drama?

Delighted to see Allison Daminger’s What’s On Her Mind? featured in @annehelen.bsky.social’s Culture Study. One of my favorite books that I’ve read (and was lucky enough to edit as it came to publication). www.patreon.com/posts/143290...

So saddened by the news that we have lost Alice Wong. It was an honor to know her and learn from her. May the lessons she shared continue to guide us for years to come.

Yesterday a small winter bird was on our front porch, injured. We didn’t know what to do but sheltered it in case a cat passed by, brought it water, and let it rest. It eventually flew away and what if we were all of us met with shelter, respite, water, and a caring eye?

As I age, I get more emotional about the passing of people I’ve never met, but who have impacted me so much in ways both small and foundational. Today is one of those days, losing @sfdirewolf.bsky.social.

As someone who spent a lot of money on upcoming Thanksgiving travel I DO NOT CARE DONT BACK DOWN MY GOD

In this @latimes.com op-ed, @leahegose.bsky.social draws on her research and volunteer work to show how the SNAP benefits cutoff is worsening hunger. She writes that the Trump administration could fund SNAP during the shutdown but has not, and shares ways readers can help locally. ⤵️

reposting now that I’ve found @leahegose.bsky.social!!

Fantastic op-ed from an excellent sociologist, Leah Gose, on the critical importance of SNAP and the challenge food pantries face in closing an uncloseable gap. www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...

Guys. The Democrat got the highest votes in Pocatello’s mayoral race last night. We are looking at a runoff in December since no one hit 50% (five candidates ran) but that’s never happened in our almost-12 years here.