Today is my mom’s birthday. Sending appreciation for her existence because without her, there is no me. However, she is awful, and I am grateful that I no longer speak to her.

As Dr Nelson said "AI is not inevitable." Please refuse the slop whenever you can. Save the environment. Hire a creative instead.

My English dept is moving to blue book essays written in class only. I am LOVING the switch. I have been able to have one on one conversations with students and check in on their writing and see them take my feedback and rely on their skills, not AI or tech.

I think we are in terrible times and have been, but I think that things are rapidly shifting into even more terrible times. Genuinely scared for the near future.

Whiteness only demands civility and grace in response to calls for accountability and responsibility for whiteness and white supremacism.

The Great Lakes are incredible. This is from Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. I can't take credit for the photo...just sharing.

I made this peach bar recipe for book club, and they were a hit. Thought I would share. www.savingdessert.com/fresh-peach-...

The past three walks I've been on (all this week), I've seen the brightest red of cardinals that have fled the scene as soon as I've seen them. Super weird. Feels like a thing. Idk what that thing is, though.

ChatGPT is for morons and lazy people and nothing I’ve seen so far has convinced me otherwise.

I need 30 year old friends without kids, so we can go for drinks at the last minute. Or other adventures. I am bored.

If women submitting to men was a natural way of being, they would not have needed laws, religion & violence to get them to do it.

The people who build your houses, grow your food, and care for your family aren’t the problem. The ones hoarding billions while doing nothing to give back are.

A feature, not a bug. There can be no ruling class without an underclass, after all. 😒

This! Making permanent haves and have nots. Think Hunger Games.

When I explain to people that I think our public school days are limited, this is what I mean. Loss of funding mixed with shortages will lead to more teachers burning out and fleeing the profession. This is working as intended, and this was the long game.

One of my favorite things of being back is the people telling me I look happier and seem to be having the best adventure in MA.

Because it's a concentration camp. Hope that helps.

Niemöller was never the moral guide. He got the memo too late. Our job is to to understand that EVERY SINGLE HUMAN BEING IS PRECIOUS and to act accordingly NOW

It is wild to be back home after a year. There are so many things that I knew I missed, but there are so many others that are absolutely surprising to me. It is nice to be in a familiar place.

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We’re calling for a Florida boycott over the inhumane “Alligator Alcatraz” detention site. Cancel your family vacation and choose a different destination this summer.

FYI: All the AI data centers that produces all that AI slop is a major cause of the extreme heat right now.

That is who these people are. We need to stay clear about that cause it's not gonna stop with Immigrants, or Latinos, or *insert whoever they seem a threat*. It's repulsive and it's reality.

Aside from the whole “make poor people sicker” obvious bit, it’ll very likely: - shutter hospitals, especially ones in rural areas and dense metros that serve the urban poor - kick around a million vulnerable elders off of their insurance with no alternative

“When the last tree is cut, the last fish is caught, and the last river is polluted; when to breathe the air is sickening, you will realize, too late, that wealth is not in bank accounts and that you can’t eat money.” ― Alanis Obomsawin

I got on Medicaid when my kids were little. I was working when I got on it. My wage was terrible and I had a sick kid. Medicaid literally saved her life. The work requirements literally trapped me in a s***** job where I had to refuse raises. A 25 cent raise would have kicked us off of Medicaid. 1/

No Congress. No approval. Y’all let a convicted felon take the wheel and thought you could control him, thought you could trust a con man who is obsessed with power and being accepted by other men he sees as powerful… now he has created monsters that your grandchildren will have to contend with.

Reading Sunrise on the Reaping, and I am so upset for Haymitch. And I'm mad at Plutarch. (Only 30 pages in for context.)

Racism and misogyny got us here

Hardest part of going no contact with a narcissistic parent is what every 200 days or so she reaches out about something random, and I can't respond that she needs to eat shit and die because then youre engaging the enemy.

Just a reminder. You cannot meet white suprematists or bigots in the middle.

Ruthie Payno-Simmons is a brilliant mind, and I need to share her voice, as she shares her experience losing a position as a DEI consultant and the self-censoring people (particularly Black educators). Please listen if you're an educator.

There's a special relationship I have with my cousin, and I am so grateful for this new role in each other's lives.

C*VID really was such a gift to R*publicans. It didn’t matter that they & our current P*tus fumbled it & cost at least a million lives. It doesn’t matter that the life expectancy rate for Americans dropped under them & the c*rrent P*tus. What matters & what they knew v*ters would come back to…

Had a dream the other night or maybe it wasn't a dream, that a ghost woman was tapping my leg to wake me up, so I could follow her. I think she wanted to bring me to meet someone, but I was too sleepy and couldn't open my eyes to get up. I have so many questions!

Shorter: he’s trying to collapse the U.S. system of higher education, and he might succeed. The effect on the American economy, our reputation, our industries...it’s incalculable. It’s as profound an attack on American stability as would be announcing that you’re going to disband the Armed Forces.

Is it legal? Likely not. But Harvard will have lost all its international students, quite possibly, by the time we find out for sure, and international students are going to stop coming to America now because _no one_ thinks Harvard is the end of this. Trump will target all blue-state institutions.

Trying to make a decision, and it ultimately came down to: if the roles were reversed, would this person help me. The answer was a resounding no. Meeting people where they are, and it feels really nice.

Today, someone put something in some people's mailbox, and I was thanked by no less than 6 people, even though I didn't do it. It's nice that the assumption is that if there's something kind, it was from me. (I don't love that I didn't get one, nor did everyone, but alas, it was a kind act.)

Our school has a writing contest, and I feel like this needs to be shared today. For those of us grieving the pain of moving on in life, let this be comfort. ❤️

It’s global apartheid, a pyramid scheme, and landlord economics all rolled into one and it makes people lazier, less educated, and less talented, which is exactly the type of population these oligarchs need to seize and maintain control But at least we get cool profile pictures out of it, right?

If you wanted a sense of how backwards things are in Washington – today Republicans in the House defeated their own budget bill. Their reason was not that it would gut Medicaid for millions, or decimate food assistance. Their reason was that the cuts weren't deep enough.

There is something to be said about having someone in your life who you can wholly be yourself with. Grateful I was brought to my people.

I love that I am slowly turning my family into a postcard family.

Someone from college posted that we graduated from college 10 years ago, and my mind can't wrap around that fact. How?!? Wtf!?!

Shout out to all the people with complicated relationships with their mom. Who love their mom through gratitude because without them, they wouldn't be who they are in this current moment. Who are grieving a relationship that was fumbled by the person who should have loved them unconditionally.

Took the day off and rented a book from the library. It's been a hot minute since I've read a physical book, and, man, am I smitten by Emily Henry’s new novel! ❤️❤️❤️❤️

There's been a lot of ads for "depression era" things that makes me think we have bad times coming up fast.

I've had an evil eye bracelet since January, and it broke today. That shit must have been working over time, but then I think about my life at my job and the world, and it tracks. 😅

Failure to include women in medical research