Me on the days I need to work from the office

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Sometimes I get to write really fun things at work!

I am BEYOND thrilled to share my article for Public Health mag: Baltimore has cut its homicide rate by almost 60% (!!!!) by supporting those most at risk of suffering from or committing gun violence. Other cities, take note: magazine.publichealth.jhu.edu/2026/baltimo...

My AP English teacher, who hated me, was always giving me a 90 on papers when the kid next to me (who never did the reading) would get 95s or 100s. Once I hid a complete non sequitur in a paper to test whether she actually read them before grading them and she did not mark it.

DOJ Launches Criminal Investigation Into All Women

I think about this a lot.

"Other myths, such as how tanning your perineum can boost energy and balance hormones..." Excuse me, what?!?

I want to go home until June

Aha! I wondered why kids on my kid's team were getting whistled for heading the ball. Interesting thread, all around.

This is absolutely a beautiful video highlighting a project by a few of my favorite students!

This is so wholesome, though I've never before heard Elmo say "yeah, baby!" even once

What is he doing with that spacing, also Is that ... four spaces between sentences?

With the radio on. The radio's always on.

Thomas Edsall asked me how much Trump's fossil fuel handouts, attacks on cheap-clean-power, and reckless wars are costing the American people. So I sat down and did the math. This year alone, it's on pace to be $1508 per household. That's not going to be popular. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/o...

ICYMI yesterday: I wrote about Trump’s new moms.gov website, which suggests pregnant people can get medical care at anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers, and refers people to the hate group Focus on the Family for adoption information.

My husband never quits a book and we are not the same I recently gave up on "Sweetbitter" after something like five pages. Could not stand the writing.

Some of these did not escape the hipster contingent. My basic friends were not listening to Arcade Fire or Animal Collective. ("All My Friends" is my vote but I'm biased because it was the last song we played at our wedding. A life highlight, for sure.)

Recently had to collect faculty headshots for folks who are retiring and the newest photo I could find for one of them was from 1995. That person has not sent me an updated one to use in its place.

Could not get past the lede here. Too heartbreaking.

Working on a longevity-related column and did we all know that one of the best-known influencers in this space is selling a $40 bottle of olive oil that's literally called "Snake Oil" You can't make this stuff up

I would like to see a loud effort encouraging him to resign and/or folks lining up to primary him (I know, I know, we've got another two years)

That feeling when you FINALLY place the famous(ish) person the guy you've worked with on and off for a year and change resembles (It's this guy; would it be weird to tell him?)

As someone who lives in an area with terrible air quality, thanks in part to the many freight trucks traveling through the area, I look forward to whenever the U.S. catches up with China in this regard.

At a higher ed conference at which an institution's president just quoted Larry Summers (admirably) Do you not read the news, my man

Here's the definitive answer to the debate over "who started it": Republicans. Before Trump pushed TX to gerrymander last year, the GOP had drawn 42% of all districts, versus just 14% for Dems (the rest were by neutral parties). The maps below from @stephenwolf.bsky.social make this explicit.

Decided to do a little more digging to learn more about those 2020 Biden voters who skipped 2024, why they skipped, and what sort of message might win them back, and found this helpful research by Celinda Lake from last year: waytowin.docsend.com/view/rnv5spt...

This is so heartbreaking.

Now who the hell are these federal pricks Hiding in the senate like a bloated ass tick Air conditioned Fuckstick loafers Sitting in a room full of army posters TOM WAITS

I married into a family with a conservative Catholic wing (a couple of these people worked at the Heritage Foundation) and I am dyyyyyying to know what they think of all this

I work in an ancient house converted to office space and every few weeks a smoke alarm starts chirping and it's never a quick fix The last one was in the (locked) attic. This one's stuck tight on a water-damaged ceiling that is bending when we try to pry it off. Working in higher ed is

Bring me the blue pages

In 2010 I went to a surprise party that began with an hour-long special on Four Lokos. Within three hours the birthday boy had gotten in a fistfight with his friends outside the bar. The night ended with a party guest throwing up purple in his hand while sitting in the birthday boy's recliner.

I'm not sure how you can be against removing this man from office right now. What will it take? A nuke being dropped? It's too late then. The purpose of impeachment and the 25th Amendment is to prevent that type of thing from happening, not just to react to it.

Exactly — when you've been committing regular crimes your whole life and never experiencing consequences, why expect to experience any for war crimes?

Representative Mackenzie's office, which (at least) always answers the phone: "The representative hasn't issued a statement on this matter at this time." Yeah, I see that, thank you. I think we need more than a statement, guys.

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

As someone who used to work for the international arm of a publishing house, trying to keep partner publications "on brand" and following standards of journalism across very different countries... ...I'm really glad I don't have that job in the AI era

Brought this into the office to keep it away from the kids and see if anyone else wanted to read it when I was done. Folks were delighted to discover there's a print edition!

I’ve watched this four times and will not be stopping anytime soon

“We’re in this is a stage of pre-middle-age, we can still feel cute and relevant, we’re not old yet,” Zulkey said. “I don’t know what old is, but we’re not there yet! But we’re also not young! What to do with this?” RELATABLE

"What is a TikTok video if not a digital Dorito?"

No Kings. St. Paul, Minnesota. March 28, 2026. 📸: Pam Springsteen

“After major breakthroughs in obtaining the penises of a manatee, an armadillo, and a pygmy jerboa, I’m pleased to announce that my experimental anticancer elixir is mere weeks away from completion,” said Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

patiently explaining to national political reporters that the people who organize No Kings are also doing the daily advocacy, voter registration, mutual aid, and immigrant defense, and that just because the cameras show up for the big crowd does not mean that work did not exist before and after

Few hundred people in Bethlehem Township, PA, for the first of at least three #NoKings protests held in the Lehigh Valley today.

The top fear about EVs in my unscientific assessment (people reacting to the fact that I drive an EV) is, "Well, how do you charge it? Have you taken it on road trips?" Yes, those require more planning. Yes, charging took a little while to figure out. But we're all smart people! We can do this!

omg don't call me send me an email unless it is an emergency do not call me ever the end —me, every time my work phone rings

Holy shit www.wsj.com/tech/meta-an...

How could plants grow in your stomach where there is no sunlight and everything is acid? Kindergarteners would even know this is not a thing