He’s out of surgery and doing so well! His tonsils and adenoids were “massive” according to his surgeon, and there was fluid behind both ear drums.

Is administration is full of ignorant liars.

This is actually who Gavin Newsom is, folks He's not even a Liberal. Just a moderate-right conservative who registered under the one party that would get him elected in California.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

PhDs are interesting because you're called a "trainee", and paid less than minimum wage. However, I have not received any actual training lmao. I'm just doing labor for other people who have normalized not paying me for my labor.

ICE has existed for 23 years, and it has been an unnecessary and expensive mistake for the entire 23 years. It's time to terminate this expensive and dangerous error.

I think they literally must have instructed these ice goons to say “didn’t you learn from what just happened” because videos keep popping up of them saying it. It’s thespian hour at the goon squad. It’s not going to work to stop people from giving them shit. Delusional jackasses.

He will also want their names, thanks in advance!

Elliott's surgery is this Friday. He enjoys looking at pictures, particularly those of animals. Please send your dogs and cats, etc. He is an AVID horse boy, as well. Bonus points for "horsies".

we’re in the vet’s office waiting room and they just called for Agamemnon. we all looked at the Great Dane but it turns out Agamemnon is an orange kitten in a backpack that makes him look like an astronaut cheese puff

I can't imagine looking at this and thinking, "Yeah, he'll make us healthy again." WOOF. Like gnawed on fruit leather.

Elliott: "You hurted my feelings. They are very hurting." Me: "I'm sorry-what did I do?" Elliott: "You wipe my butt." Well...at least he used his feeling words.

The disconnect required to praise Ashli Babbitt while pretending Nicole Good instigated her death needs to be intensively psychologically studied. Absolute most batshit thing I’ve ever seen.

El and I are still alive, just needed a break. Poor bub has surgery January 16th to remove his tonsils and adenoids and a myringotomy, as well. I am very nervous.

"Watson was also famously insulting and arrogant as a professor at Harvard, even for a professor at Harvard." I wrote this 11 years ago and had forgotten the details of just how awful he was. He was awful.

Elliott’s daycare closed early due to staffing. He’s one of few non-native Spanish speakers there and I’ve been wondering how many workers are afraid to step out their door in the morning for fear of being profiled and just…disappearing.

White Christian Nationalists spamming feeds with "Never forget" with Mamdani's face superimposed over the twin towers are so genuinely unhinged. Can you IMAGINE if we said white Christians couldn't serve on the PTA bc WCNs are statistically more likely to be terrorists?

guys I’m sorry but have you looked through Getty images for yesterday 💀

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Easily several hundred people have packed into this plaza in Chicago's North Center tonight in response to ICE abducting a daycare worker early this morning. This is a neighborhood that has largely been spared until now from the "Midway Blitz" terror campaign. But everyone knows someone affected.

If you don’t invest in your trainees they will remember and you’d better hope they aren’t mouthy.😘💋

So I love when potential trainees reach out to me about a former bad PI bc TBH throwing the bad ones under the bus so they can get less trainees and science can heal and other, better PIs can train those people instead is one of my fave hobbies.💁🏼‍♀️🫡😏

The oligarchy came out in full force against Zohran Mamdani's fight for a more affordable NYC. It didn't matter. Let his victory in the face of Big Money serve as a reminder that people have the power.

Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.

Dick Cheney died doing what he loved most- ending a human life

Hi, I'm God and I have called the NYC race for Zohran Mamdani. Hey corporate assholes, go fuck yourselves.

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Dick Cheney AND a Mamdani win on the same day? 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Faculty! Help! I don't think I'm contagious but still have a bad cough. Our seminar is supposed to be in-person. Is it worse if I attend via zoom when I haven't been in person in a while (illness/ traveling), or is it more rude/ disruptive to go with a cough? What do you truly prefer students do? 1/

Great mssg but, again, I had to modify the image to protect innocent viewers #NOkings #impeachhimagain

The super-wealthy would rather crash the entire economy and starve millions of people than slow down their accumulation of wealth. That's what's actually at stake for them; not becoming less rich, but becoming more rich less rapidly.

Still struggling to breathe.

This journey through academia has cost me SO much more than it has ever or will ever give me and it’s so hard not to be sad about it. None of it was worth it. I hate science with every fiber of my being and would never recommend this career to anyone else.

If anyone knows of any remote lil editing gig work type things, please send them my way.

Went to a conference and learned I’m not gonna be reimbursed for a significant portion of it. I guess it’s a good thing the metformin is so effective bc I’m gonna start cutting out meals to make up the cost. I fucking HATE academia.

The cough is worse again and I feel like providers just...don't care. I'm struggling for air and at the point where I'm taking so much more than prescribed of dextromethorphan, Xanax, anything to just suppress the cough long enough for me to get oxygen and doctors just do not fucking care.

This is the first day I am not gasping for breath.

I wouldn’t wish this cough on my worst enemy

I think I've taken like 240 mg of aspirin, 60 mL of Dextromethorphan, 800 mg of Benzononate cough pearls, and an nebulizer albuterol twice in like 8 hours. It's barely touched the cough-only my headache and fever is gone. Send help.

Watching people go off about how they're not racist, they're just proud of being white and someday white people will be gone and it's everyone's fault who isn't white is fucking WILD. You will NEVER convince me the planet isn't objectively better off without people like that in it. So gross. 1/

I LOL when I see shit like this because SES is the SINGLE biggest predictor of outcomes for kids-it’s not having a SAHM. I’m really not sure where the moral superiority comes from.

This is on top of physical therapy now costing me $300 a session because my insurance doesn't cover it anymore. I've posted a million times about having cerebral palsy and disability tax, and here it is. I'm so fucking tired of this absolutely fruitless rat race and this is absolutely not worth it.

I paid $70 for a checked bag for this conference and UA won't reimburse me. All I had other than a large suitcase is a fucking backpack. KILL REIMBURSEMENT CULTURE AND STOP SENDING GRAD STUDENTS TO CONFERENCES THAT COST THEM OUT-OF-POCKET. I'm a fucking single mom. I can't afford that.

I have never told my two year old I cannot talk because I had a long day in his entire life. Please explain to me why he looked me dead in the eye last night and said, "Can't talk now momma, I have long day." before sighing dramatically. Kid is already tired of this capitalist hellscape.

I've had a fever between like 101--105 for days, and this cough is absolutely insane. The coughing fits are so bad I can't breathe during them. I'm nebulizing albuterol every 3 hours and doubling up on cough syrup just to BREATHE.

This is truly the STUPIDEST TIMELINE

Being a single mom is great 9/10 times but right now I’m so sick I’m actively hoping to be hospitalized so I don’t have to move until I can breathe again.

We can't quote Charlie kirk's own garbage words, but Republicans can apparently learn of undocumented people being shot or run over and laugh and say things like, "Serves them right." or "They earned it."? Make it make sense.

Getting to the point is always good advice. Keep it short and simple. Write for a 4th grade reading level. Outline the plot so you don't lose it. If you want to write, here's some stuff I know about it: