I counted. It took me 67 emails and two months to get my tiny staff to get all their signature blocks correct. This is a stupid and massive waste of time.

If you went to the Arlington Circuit Court today and found some quarters above the paid coin lockers for your phones, that was me. I don’t need them and I’m betting at least one other tired single mom didn’t have one today the way I didn’t.

A three word love story: Three bean salad

"They say". They = The Constitution

“Biden Covid bonuses” makes my head wanna explode

My assessment of the Trump national security strategy: "it sees the United States’ adversaries as partners in that war, but it does not see how much U.S. power relies on the voluntary assistance of other countries."

I’m not opposed to frozen food at all. But there are certain dishes I think should pass inspection before being unleashed on the public and I think one of those should be lasagna

Fairness is a human negotiation concept. Children don’t need fairness. Children need stability, safety, and meaningful attachment relationships. Fair is about adults. Attachment is about children.

I cannot fathom how it’s just OK now to go on television and tell people that you’re a fucking idiot

Well, actually, we arrest people because we have due process and that’s in the constitution. It’s not because we “sometimes get it wrong“. Due process is not a bug fix. It is a structural safeguard against how power behaves.

He seems even less concerned with the fact that all children born within the borders of free states automatically free, even though the enslaved parents had broken “the law” by fleeing across state lines— it didn’t affect the child’s entitlement to freedom.

Ohio FTW

Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory) Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)

This makes you wanna do a whole series of posts about how fucking awful it is to be beautiful

Well, now I can never go to Reagan national ever again

No one is owed your time

Finland ended homelessness with a housing first strategy that gave people apartments before they secured employment Now they’re proposing a 4 day work week and 6 hour work days True work life balance Meanwhile in the US, people work two jobs and can’t afford food or healthcare.

Eating a whole bunch of imported cheese given by a dear friend who loves me before going to court is either the best idea I’ve ever had or the absolute worst

The thing about a career with the government is it’s wholly and unquestionably transactional. Not even in your favor. It’s easy. You know what to give and what you’ll get back—even if it’s categorically less than you deserve. You don’t have to wonder if you’ll get more or less than you anticipate.

Idk man have you seen some of these cookie tables? And the state of affairs these days? Eat the God damned cookies

And on Monday she threw a grenade of an email. A real hissy fit.

It turns out a lot of stress + air travel really fucks with a digestive system

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, or Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

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I can think of several things with which that’s incompatible

Today we remember the thousands of Americans who died in the attack on Pearl Harbor 84 years ago. Nearly half of those lost were aboard the USS Arizona, and I remember what a moving experience it was when Gabby and I visited the memorial. We’ll never forget their sacrifice.

This is called DARVO and it’s a hallmark of narcissistic abuse.

My nervous system has never learned how to coexist with another person without surrendering my autonomy.

Wurman is so wrong but he’s also incredibly butthurt at how wrong he is so there’s that. Hell hath no stubbornness like a man who refuses to be accountable for how stupid he is.

We chase unavailable people because at some point, someone convinced us that receiving love, care, or validation had to be earned from the most emotionally unavailable person in the room. Your nervous system isn’t seeking them. It’s seeking completion of an old wound.

Seeing the Capitol building from the NB GW Parkway, coming out of Alexandria is a something I’ve done hundreds of times. Maybe thousands. And each time it made my heart swell with pride. It’s not like that now. It hurts. My country is being cannibalized.

I hate this God damned city

Guy on plane next to me thinks nuts are a whole meal

I had to tell someone I wasn’t promoting them yesterday. At the end of the hour long conversation she thanked me. I think that’s all you can ask of a manager. To make the shit smell a little less.

Hey it’s December where’s my vote on the ACA tax credits

If you see this, repost with your model of positive masculinity.

Well I can’t speak for you but whatever freedom or sanity this $50k divorce is going to buy me is absolutely not worth it. I am not worth that.

Temu ACIP has just voted to discontinue the recommendation for the birth dose of HBV vaccine against the advice of all scientific experts. They have now established beyond a shadow of doubt that they are not a legitimate scientific body. Meissner says “we are doing harm”.

Lord let these beans treat me right

Every time I think about the next two weeks, I am seized with panic. Away from my job. My home. My partner. My kids. My support. Into the lion’s den.

Idk what mom of very young kids need to hear this but when mine were very little, I used to dread (and I mean DREAD) winter break. They are now 7 and almost 10 and I cannot wait. Truly counting down the minutes until it starts. If you’re in the trenches, just keep going. It gets better.

On November 20 Charity Beallis filed a letter asking for an emergency hearing citing safety concerns. A letter rather than a motion because she’d run out of money due to financial abuse and was representing herself pro se. Two days later she was dead.

Rich people discounting their health privileges by attributing their wellness to algae smoothies

It doesn’t irritate him. But it irritates me. Your anger doesn’t excuse your racism, asshole.

Retsef Levi is pontificating again, using his personal beliefs and anecdotes to support a push for “personalized medicine.” THIS IS NOT PUBLIC HEALTH. MIT should be utterly ashamed to have this man on their faculty. He is a danger to the health of the people of the U.S.

Retsef Levi is now claiming that people who support the birth dose of HBV vaccine are being “emotional”, while he spews anecdotal bullshit like a misinformation sprinkler.

Often one of the most supportive things someone can do for a CPTSD survivor is patiently sit w/ them as they take their time finding their words through the haze of dissociation & internal "noise," staying open & gently attentive, not pressuring the conversation forward.

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