My 6 year old just asked why the bread has a Mohawk.

I think this is going to look cool, guys.

I am particularly pleased to welcome back the elephant.

I just re-assembled my favorite “art wall” in our house. It had been in boxes for months while we were doing repairs on the house. It is bringing me *such* joy.

Maybe it’s that everyone realized that the only use cases for crypto was “crimes”? Nah. That’s not it.

Guys. I’m starting to think that Birtherism was actually a bit racist. Hashtag-brave hashtag-progressive.

Has USPS been running *extremely* slow lately?

I have fallen off of my Diet Coke hiatus so dang hard. All my resolve…*poof*

Cutting up all the blues and stripes in linens and wovens from our clothing discard bin and scraps to make the softest quilt ever

Scholars of hate groups will often point out that what these groups talk about, primarily, is not hating outsiders. They talk about love and care for insiders. They don't think they are the bad guys. And I think it's really important to understand that.** **Not for sympathy, but for tactics.

The bread says “mnah mnah.” And the people say “do do do do do.”

School was just canceled again for tomorrow. It is 42 degrees and raining. My children have become feral. I stand alone at the gate.

It is a good thing that both my children have basic literacy at this point, since they are apparently never going back to school because it snowed at one point in the last calendar year in this state.

The true joy I felt when I found out that my 3rd grader still sees School House Rock at school…

Someone explain to me why you can open an airport after a storm, but not a school. I'd love to understand that.

I took apart a VCR this weekend to save a family home video. 10/10. Fully recommend. A truly joyous experience.

Once again, shouting from the rooftops that @christinafattore.bsky.social called the political activation of feminized spaces (*especially* Romancelandia) years ago, and she’s basically to greatest. You should read her work. Always.

Remember when he demolished the East Wing?

""We’re going to have to live with our discomfort in making other people uncomfortable,” Ingrid Rasmussen, the lead pastor at Holy Trinity Lutheran Church...told me."" So say we all.

I mean who among us...? ...oh... ...wait... ...none of us? Right. None of us.

But "sicko fan" is actually better

Reporting from the scenes of the winter-storm-palooza: Zoom teaching is as bad as you remember.

Prof Lazarus seems to have way more faith in the predictive/prescriptive aspects of our discipline than I do… …but the point stands.

So like…are we all moving to Illinois and Minnesota? Let me know when and how.

You might say to yourself "this seems like bad politics" which is almost certainly true, but the truth of the matter is that this is who they are. They cannot help themselves. It's White Nationalism and a desire for social dominance all the way to the bottom.

Thought I keep having while baking my almost 6 year old kid’s hotwheels-themed birthday cake: …I wonder if Liam likes hotwheels.

People *love* to hate on Mississippi, but I'm here to tell you that Bennie Thompson has risen to the occasion many, MANY more times than some blue-staters I might mention...

Hugging my own 5 year old especially tight this morning while thinking about Liam and his mother. Unimaginable. But here’s the thing: We don’t have to imagine it. We have to face it.

And then I’ll take someone else’s teaching award.

Separating out sports by gender happened because men didn’t like losing to women. Not because women “couldn’t compete.”

I’m going to tell my students that they will all fail unless they all pay me $50. I’ll repeat it until everyone laughs, and then many get angry, and they tell me that’s not how grades work. I’ll repeat it until someone whispers “I think she’s serious.” And then I’ll strike a “deal” with them.

Student volunteer: “would you like to sign a petition for Campus Carry?” Me: “No.**” **understatement of the century.

I think the more clarifying question is where the F are: 1) George W. Bush 2) Mitt Romney 3) Dick Cheney 4) John Bolton 5) Mike Pence 6) Paul Ryan And the list goes on...and on...

One of my favorite songs. Now with so many new voices: www.youtube.com/watch?v=McaD...

How anyone’s love of cooking survives having to regularly feed children is truly a mystery to me.

Stupidly awesome......

Blues Brothers The pope That pass

Do I care about football? Aggressively no. Am I cheering for Chicago like crazy? Obviously yes. #BearDown

I still blame this whole Greenland fracas on the Mercator projection.

eating a borderline toxic amount of muttar paneer, doing some slow sewing, and watching a movie because sometimes you just need that. Back to it tomorrow, friends.

Truly one of a kind.

I think Political Science *really* needs to deal with the bias we have against good news. I get that everything is dark/terrible, democracy is in retreat, etc. etc.... But we can't even tell stories that are glimmers of hope, because there *must* be a downside? At least according to R2?

IU, flagrantly trampling on academic freedom, cutting programs and cancelling events aimed at making the campus more inclusive, arresting peaceful protesters and ejecting them from campus… But the football team is winning, so… www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

When people ask “how were your holidays?” in a cheerful tone, and the actual, honest answer is “completely terrible, and kind of traumatic, actually”…do you actually say that? Or nah?

I’ve been stocking the freezer to get ready for the semester. In the last few days, I’ve made: - saag paneer - spanakopita - gnudi - baklava - cinnamon rolls What’s that? Are my syllabi ready? ~Actually~ in my culture that is a *super* rude question.

The way I want to scream at parents who sneer “you send your kids to the after school program *every day*?” Because yes, Lisa, I do. I have a full-time job (as does my husband), and no local family. I don’t love my children less because I can’t be at the school at 2:40 every day to pick them up.

Chicago. Bears.

Still at it.

The porn aspect of what ICE/CBP crucial. Here's an excellent piece of journalism on how they literally stimulated riots for the camera in Chicago. chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...