This whole thread is so enriching. Books matter, teachers matter, creating a community of readers lasts a lifetime.

Texting back and forth with my husband about people dying at 36 and 11, immobilized by sadness.

Thank you to the stranger at the Vince Lombardi rest stop who bought my young daughters rainbow cake from a vending machine just because. They were delighted and it inspired a conversation about generosity and helping those in need.

Just here to say I love this story! What a special legacy to leave behind. Yay Dacie Moses. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/d...

Every time another death in ICE custody is reported, I think about the fact that not a single death should be acceptable. Not a single one.

This regime is stocked full of unserious charlatans. They all must go. IMPEACH. CONVICT. REMOVE. #Resist #SavetheRepublic #ImpeachConvictRemove #UnitedWeStand

Worst cabinet in history. Not a single one of these people should be helming an agency. Certainly not Patel.

I cannot believe it was 90 degrees today in the middle of April. Truly wild.

Dear god. Very, very serious allegations of mass civil rights violations at the State of Florida's Everglades immigration detention center (officially known as "Alligator Alcatraz").

I just educated my husband about Clavicular; he just educated me about Mr. Beast. What a time to be alive.

Last week was diagraph “sh” at Montessori prek. My daughter wore a dress with shells. This week is diagraph “ch” and she’s wearing a chicken dress. Not sure how long we can keep this streak going…

Saw a Prius today with a bumper sticker “I identify as a Prius.” Do people think that is funny, cute? I’m dumbfounded.

This is so stupid.

You can read about how much pre-k and 3k workers earn in a center working full time hours compared to their peers in the school district here: www.chalkbeat.org/newyork/2026...

I have cancer. mRNA technology is already being used to develop some of the next cancer cures. He’s condemning some current and many, many, many future cancer patients to early, preventable deaths.

This is enraging!

Every single one of the astronauts who went to the moon and back on Artemis II was educated at a public school. Thinking of the teachers who poured into Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch, and Jeremy Hansen tonight. You helped send a kid to the moon! 🌕 💛

Dear @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social Hey. Fun idea. How about if you get caught trying? Step out of the focus group idiocy that guides your every word and look around. The President is insane. People are dying because of it. SHOW US YOUR FIGHT. #RemoveTrump

More amazing astronauts and feats of science; way less of this evil administration and their constant evil acts.

women still have to deal with the pink tax, wage gap that widens over span of career, lack of medical studies that work for girls' & women's health, safety, ergonomic & industrial design that favors men, algorithmic bias against women, lack of representation in media, femicide and more.

Are Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries aware that the average Democratic voter despises them? They have no courage and no backbone and they such at messaging their position. Both should resign.

I just got a Graham Plattner text and immediately unsubscribed. Not a fan of that guy, and mad at Warren for backing him. Maine can do better than him (and Susan Mills too)!

I did not know Epstein on a boat I did not know Epstein with a goat I did not know Epstein in the air I did not know him anywhere!

The story of our age is billionaire narcissist men who are widely known to be frauds or creeps within their industries but are allowed to destroy the world in plain sight because American media & business view rich confidently-speaking white men through an infinitely-forgiving lens of merit.

These stories are enraging!

TIRED: the screens and the social media are poisoning kids and making them cynics. WIRED: we're showing kids the absolute worst moral and political examples and they're learning awful lessons from that.

This is like a bat signal for @marniekaplan.bsky.social and me.

I want to weep for humanity every day. And yet there are children to take to school and feed and read to, and other children to advocate for and fight for. We all deserve so much better than this deeply broken reality.

it's really so beside the point by now, but i cannot believe people gave this psychotic motherfucker a second chance.

He basically lit our tax dollars on fire when they could have been used to provide healthcare and universal child care or fund science research and climate change policy. I don’t want to hear ever again that we don’t have money for policies that help people.

We could have avoided all of this. I will never forgive people who voted for that horrible human being.

How are we supposed to just go about our day like everything is normal and we don't have a genocidal madman as a president? Seriously, how are other people handling this, because I am frankly freaked out.

So many main characters to despise in the year 2026. I will try to focus on amazing astronauts instead.

I feel like I’m losing my mind, we’re gambling with a generation of kids so the tech bros can be emperors

Love this framing!

Parents in our district are fighting back against the use of phones and Chromebooks in our public schools. And yet I know of places where students are being forced to use AI tutors. No one wants this. There’s no need for AI in any aspect of K-12 education. Just say no.

Absolutely fucking not.

When Covid was first spreading my husband and I talked all the time about the fact that his grandfather had post polio syndrome as an adult. We understood clearly that viruses can have life long affects…

Hey btw, I NEVER EVER EVERRRRRRRRRR want to hear another person say that women are too “emotional” to be leaders. Saying such a thing around me in 2026 will having you wishing your mother didn’t bring you into this world.

Proof again that who owns the media matters. The @inquirer.com is one of the few major American papers meeting the moment. They don’t shy away from being honest about what Trump is doing and how unhinged he is. share.inquirer.com/oTwgKn

Criselda Vasquez’s evocative and loving portrait of her parents captures their dignity and pride so beautifully in “New American Gothic” (2017). Her father was taken by ICE on March 31st. Please help her and her family bring him home by sharing: www.gofundme.com/f/27wnkd-hel...

The four year old now responds to statements with: “I’m not sure you are actually right.” Considering this turn of phrase as my new response to people making objectionable comments.

Saw some peak cherry blossoms today at Branch Brook Park in Newark. Did you know Branch Brook Park has more cherry blossoms than DC?

Love this thread!

Malapropism from the four year old: “my voice sounds like a horse.”

The funniest thing about trying to make Rahm Emanuel a Presidential candidate is that he’s the least likable of the Emanuel brothers. Even in a race of the three brothers, he’d come in dead last.

Also did not have on my 2026 bingo card getting health updates about a possible measles case at my 7 year old’s elementary school in NJ (the student does not have measles thank g-d).

Things about modern life that are pissing me off this am: 1) Podcasts with advertisements for AI, “Claude is for the creative blah blah” ; 2) Podcasts with advertisements for online learning programs that have not been proven to help kids; 3) Text messages from brands.

I want podcasts without AI advertisements.