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honestly just always thinking about this little gem from Edward Gorey’s The Lavender Leotard: Or, Going a Lot to the New York City Ballet

ok last one i promise but this is for anyone else watching Off Campus to cope with election anxiety and/or looking for book recs to keep the Garrett Graham effect alive open.substack.com/pub/taylorsa...

uh oh turns out it is extremely fun to make little top 5 reading lists. this time, monster romance! open.substack.com/pub/taylorsa...

finished the latest episode of The Other Bennet Sister tonight and immediately started thinking of what to read to survive without it so i wrote a little list in case anyone else is looking for stories with this precise vibe: open.substack.com/pub/taylorsa...

charlottesville city schools happily announcing their new police hires on the same day the nyt puts out yet another damning report on police violence against school children 👍 great policy work guys what could go wrong 👍 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Real public safety means investing in people before tragedy strikes: summer jobs, mental health support, community programs, safe streets, and trusted messengers who grew up in our neighborhoods. Watch the full video here: youtu.be/huD67kN5csU

“It’s just frustrating to see them come into our community and run all over us like the citizens don’t matter, and then they’re above the law when they do break it,” resident, James Clifton said. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Grim.

speaking as a fellow policy researcher listening to a fascinating charlottesville school board meeting, i've gotta say wow this is an egregiously misleading way to present the literature on restorative practices and school climate

ooo very excited for this

some work news: www.dailynews.com/2026/04/07/n...

so, so grateful for all the parents, teachers, and community members quoted in this article 💕 www.cvilletomorrow.org/charlottesvi...

Jailing people increases crime in the long run

i have finished the unselected journals of emma m. lion and am now adrift. there is nothing to be done but turn to my grandfather’s wordsworth with dried flowers between its pages and hope for the best

help i can't stop watching alyssa liu's short program and getting teary-eyed youtu.be/FpYOUUW3c0Y?...

Libraries are among the few public institutions that represent the kind of world we want to live in. They must be fought for.

I hope New Yorkers will challenge Mamdani about this. Too often, people feel they need to be absolutely for or against a politician — ignoring their missteps or throwing them out with the bathwater. You can like and/or believe in someone and still challenge them to deliver on their promises.

ALL THINGS ARE DELICATELY INTERCONNECTED

I think about this basically every day now.

This Friday, November 14, the Los Angeles County Department of Youth Development (DYD) will host its annual “Rooted In Us” youth summit, a free, interactive event designed to uplift youth leadership and community empowerment.

baseball is cinema, actually

got to experience MONUMENTS at @moca-la.bsky.social today and it completely took my breath away. can’t stop thinking about this first piece by Bethany Collins especially but the whole show was beyond. LA friends, go see it go see it go see it!

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

Vibe shift in the culture towards earnestness

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

ok but what do we call the precise stage of emotional distress when one simply must watch the last ten minutes of North & South three times in a row?

Here’s a graph about Medicaid that everyone needs to see: open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

An hour ago in Falls Church, Virginia.

Padilla: If this is how DHS responds to a senator with a question you can only imagine what they're doing to farm workers, to cooks, to day laborers out in the Los Angeles community and throughout California.

Apropos of nothing I feel like one of the most important things to help your kids develop is an ability to self-regulate.

"Taken together, the thousands of lawsuits paint a picture of a government that failed to intervene as its facilities turned into hunting grounds for predators who held immense power over the children in their custody." www.latimes.com/california/s...

How many incarcerated firefighters are fighting the LA wildfires? What type of work are they doing? And how do they feel about it? I teamed up with @themarshallproject.org to answer all these questions we've been seeing online: www.themarshallproject.org/2025/01/11/l...

“To dismiss them as old-fashioned is to assume they are outdated because of the passage of time. But the collective pain of a high child mortality rate was eradicated not by time, but by effort.” theconversation.com/infectious-d...

The Los Angeles City Council unanimously approves so-called “sanctuary city” ordinance that bars city resources from being used to assist in mass deportations: ktla.com/news/local-n...

ok nature is healing @rwgilmoregirls.bsky.social is here ✨