Remember when teachers spent the majority of their time planning lessons, grading, and thinking about new units for their students? Now we have ICE protocols, AI protocols, lockdown trainings, & we have had to become experts very quickly in taking care of young people who are suffering from trauma.

I have had to go to doctors appointments so much I am looking at bluesky and it’s all my favorite people from online but just marinating in this particular 2025 flavor of misery which is bad for my and your soul! Send me an email I miss u

Woo woo is the worst shit for obviously troubled people looking for answers

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

So anyone else getting weird rounding errors from the IRS or is it just me

Ok it’s very funny that Zohran’s “it’s m-a-m-d-a-n-I” riff in the debate, which was great but he clearly backed down from “learn how to say it cuz I’m your next mayor” … he could’ve said it! He is!

What job is Heems getting in this administration

Crazy that the song of the summer dropped 8 years ago! www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZ1O...

Oh so you just need a fun night of elections for blue sky to feel rad

Brad Lander also found the 83 million federal funds doge deleted from NYC

I’m too depressed to be able to be on bluesky, chicken littles favorite social platform, even though it is nice to interact with some of my favorite online folks. Miss you all, Gonna nuke my account in like an hour

The doubling down on this bullshit just seemed to me like this loser wanted us to think orange all week … it sucks

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

Every Val Kilmer anecdote is like this and I love them all, keep them coming

When you are a member of the bean club but don’t … cook beans frequently … are there good trusty bean recipes to use?

Like, this actually gives me hives in a personal high school wounds never die kind of way

And I know online we’re all too evolved to say “not all blah blah blahs” but like come on the election was decided by people that googled is Biden running and people staying home the side that didn’t want fascists, the coasts, were doing their best

I think this might be the only place where I can say that as an A student rules follower who would never vote for the worst, I really resent being painted with a broad damming brush (especially in this Canada/US thing) when it’s the dumbest motherfuckers alive who got these fascists their job

Tonight’s white lotus made me realize that I would be deeply into a No Reservations reboot hosted by Walton Goggins and Sam Rockwell. character actors eating food around the world. Give it to me!

Ok he’s being funny but Obama as ex-president influencer who will peep out just to fight battles that help the dems further lose has been … pretty awful tbh but I’m just retroactively a Bernie bro so what do I know. I do actually think our ex presidents need to be loud & annoying & anti fascist

The problem with movies is that I literally tell my relatives and siblings about things these days and they just haven’t heard of them

Libraries, national parks … like, come on man

Oh wow my tiny YA books written with @stusherman.bsky.social are in the meta database, jeez!!!

Nobody wants to get their ass up and write longform highly reported stories that you get 5000 for months later anymore and that makes me sad

Just feeing some feelings. I miss that hunk Mando

Wow, rude of Schumer. Kind of Republican of him tbh

Monsters attack libraries because they don’t want another will hunting in this world

Thought experiment, what is the most Obama-era movie? I say this:

Somewhat related but it is also wild to spend months on a piece, have some hopes it will lead to more, it comes out and is doing decent but then a disaster happens, which is a real argument against trying to have a career right now, basically

I have a friend that works at VOA and this situation is terrible!!!

There is literally a girls 5 Eva episode where angel sara barielles sings an angry song about wanting to dump chuck (she’s in a fight with a politician named chuck) and naturally I cannot find it anywhere online because did girls 5 Eva even exist?

I am doing it but FUCK it feels bleak to every day have to call my safe Democratic representatives and be like "please do not vote for the They Shoot You With a Gun act. The writers of this bill have promised to shoot you, personally, with a gun"

Donald Trump. Eric Adams. Andrew Cuomo.

Just further proof that Congress isn’t fighting for us the way they should because so much of Congress is owned by corporations. None of this is surprising but it’s depressing to see it laid out so blatantly. Need more Bernie, AOC, Crockett, and heck Chris Murphy and his strong divorced guy energy

That said just fucking wow to Chuck Schumer for taking a day to write about MK and to pre-empt the rightful protest against authoritarian as F tactics with “I think he did bad things blah blah blah” like, I get it, aipac matters more than people. Kinda bullshit

I feel like bluesky can overcome this scoldy lib vibe it has but maybe it … never will, and it will never be fun to pull up, so it won’t replace any social media? I dunno. I like everyone I’m friends with on here but I also want to talk about daredevil 🤷‍♀️

An actual leftist needs to primary Chuck Schumer next time, like the kind of dyed in the wool socialist who believes people need health care and taxes should pay for it and that fighting fascism is important. Plus there are a lot of slogans we can use to Dump Chuck

I can’t picture a free press-style publication for the left … would it just sound like bluesky tweets? Bummer Jones? Would I have to marry an heiress to make it work?

I am finding the amount of things to call my reps about at 5 calls a little overwhelming at the moment// weird when there’s a presidential administration at war with the American public for existing and not being billionaires & or obsequious religious bootlickers

Also, politically, I’m super tired of bullies whose parents didn’t love them but they did succeed enough to get a lot of money, it’s a recipe for being an awful politician who operates through cruelty

Gonna be super fun when a faux progressive/do nothing democrat type runs for the house/senate in NYC on his parents’ fortune, made by privatizing the environment in Canada. I’m so tired of the middle. At least they were pretending to be left in 2020.

The democrats should really get it together to get veterans’ votes in the future. It’s possible…

Having broken the glass on Frozen and frozen 2, @sternbergh.bsky.social is right and they are the best, I’m actually so into and emotional over frozen 2 all the time: www.nytimes.com/2019/11/27/m...

Honestly would make politics and priorities so different if that was first (and not state-sovereignty over women’s bodies)// don’t even get me started on billionaires who give no shits about children going hungry

It’s continually bugged me how Pelosi has hindered AOC’s rise in the party…tonight it made me furious. Senior dems are promoting younger dems who they can still use as puppets for their desired tactics.

Well this is good news (adaptation of Julia May Jonas’ peerless, funny book) deadline.com/2025/03/rach...

I dm’d a Canadian brand - that sells in the states, nyc in particular - last month and they responded to me today, bitchily. Which: come on, dudes!

Andrew Cuomo Would Be a Lousy Mayor, According to Former Cuomo Staffers