Yay! The Progressive shared an excerpt from my book: progressive.org/magazine/the... ❤️❤️❤️

i don't think we fully appreciate how funny the outcome of this is going to be

I feel unreasonably betrayed by snoring... like my body is making me bothersome without my consent.

I left Substack for Buttondown! Please subscribe! buttondown.com/lachrista ✨✨✨

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

Taking the plunge and leaving Substack for Buttondown. Hoping I, at least, break even 🥳

i am 99% anti-robot but i’ll admit this kawasaki rideable robot goat looks sick as hell

Honestly given where things are heading, and have been, we need more prison journalism. Every beat exists in prison: health care, education, labor, inequality, markets, media, the arts, the law, politics…

I wrote about spring and my difficulty with it as someone with summer seasonal affective disorder: lachrista.substack.com/p/everything...

Please don't put in the newspaper that 28 children laughed at me

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tell the people that you love that you love them, not just lovers and family, but your friends, too. often. people die and disappear and things change and people grow apart and move. soak up all the love you can. be in the moment with people. gift them your time.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

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“We are concerned at the appearance of targeting publicly pro-union worker leaders,” said a union official about a raid in western New York.

In the 1880s, labor leaders believed that the eight-hour day was one of the only demands that could unite all working people, writes Andrew Berka for StudentNation. Could the four-day week do the same for workers today? www.thenation.com/article/acti...

This will sound weird but love yourself enough to write your own term papers.

“Straight black men and white women will always be the weakest links in the struggle for equality because they view equality as achieving status with white men. The problem with that is that white men's status is contingent on the oppression of other people.” -Angela Davis

We must normalize masks as a public health tool before it’s too late. If you care about social justice, disability rights, fighting fascism or your health… you should be wearing a mask. Ideally an N95 or better. The more of us wearing them, the harder they will be to ban.

ICE Agents Wait At Edge Of Delivery Table To Deport Newborn

US Citizens living abroad being denied passport renewals www.tiktok.com/t/ZTjr4h5cv/

Someone on TikTok pointed out that Pedro Pascal’s two sentence Instagram comment got more press for trans rights than all trans people combined in the wake of this ruling- which is infuriating but also a reason for more cis people to speak out

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When people break the law, and their actions are righteous and appropriate, we should applaud them. When people abide by or enforce the law, and their actions are repugnant, we should condemn them. We should never pretend the law is a moral dividing line.

I think about that quote often. No wonder “Wuthering Heights” is one of my favorite books.

The FBI executed search warrants at multiple locations in Michigan targeting a number of student organizers who were connected to Gaza protests at the University of Michigan. Agents seized the students’ electronics and a number of personal items.

Oh damn they’ve chosen a new Grimace.

this legit sounds like the origin story a villain tells before dropping the hero in boiling oil

I just always come back to this (@kathleenhanna.bsky.social)

they want us poor, sick and desperate

America is wearing me OUT. My nervous system is absolutely fried.

Time and time again, I’m reminded that the more wealth a person accumulates, the less humanity they have.

the last few days has been a reminder that people really want to believe that not only is there this real thing called a “criminal,” and that if they need to, anyone can just prove they aren’t one

How much longer are we all gonna just keep going to work? I can’t and won’t pretend things are ok.

I had an instant and overwhelming "come ON" reaction to this shit. Rolling my eyes and gesticulating like Luka Doncic contesting a foul call.

Serving unimaginable levels of cunt

If you love your library, listen up…

if we can't riot about concentration camps what can we riot about

I absolutely love this.

swallowing raw cadbury creme eggs as part of a fitness routine

Senator Chris Van Hollen has requested an urgent meeting with President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador to address the situation involving Abrego Garcia, a Maryland man who was “mistakenly”deported from the United States to a prison in El Salvador.

The only cast reunion I’m jnterested in watching is the 90s Disney show, “Bug Juice.”

Please teach your kids not to refer to them as “special needs” -signed someone who was in special ed

How do you deal with being afraid of sensations?