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LISTEN TO THE WHOLE FUCKING THREE MINUTES. ITS PARKS SINGING WITH CHARMAINE NEVILLE AT SNUG HARBOR JAZZ CLUB IN NEW ORLEANS.

This kid made me a better person and I couldn’t ever think of anything better than being his mom. Other than being horribly rich with a chihuahua addiction. Happy 16th FRUIT OF MY LOINS!

Anyone want to play a game?

Who of my Mississippi people are going to the “No Kings” thing Saturday?? Parks wants to go so I want to have back up grown ups.

This kid is going to be 16 in a week!

I’m making pork chops for dinner.

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tired of yankees pretending to know something about southern gothic. like what do YOU know about the withering and diluvian atmosphere of the south that sanctions violence as a system. what do YOU know about the southern aristocracy that constantly reinvents itself from generation to generation

Having kids while swinging from Ob*ma’s 8yrs 2 Trmp, then COVID, then Biden & now Trmp again has really showed the kid heading to college, just how much this country despises it’s children. There is no collective goal or hope for them other than to fall in line, stfu & do what they’re told.

Republicans in Utah commissioned an investigation into gender-affirming care for trans youth after banning it in 2023. They're now rejecting the findings of that investigation which showed access to care reduced suicides and improved "positive mental health and psychosocial functioning outcomes."

To play “gotcha” games with victims of government cruelty to feed some perverse appetite for political schadenfreude would be depraved. "FAFO” may be a popular way for some on social media to answer the suffering of political opposites, but it’s poison to the journalist’s soul. My editor's note:

President Donald Trump has approved disaster assistance to Mississippi counties affected by tornadoes that struck that state in mid-March.

I've been writing a newsletter mostly about DOGE for the last few months. This my last one, in no small part because at this point DOGE is indistinguishable from the broader Trumpian project. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

I’m trying to get some clothes/shoes/underwear together for a kid. If anybody wants to throw some money at me please DM. Because I’m poor right now but he doesn’t really have anybody.

American levies on Chinese goods will drop from at least 145% to 30% for an initial period of 90 days, while Chinese levies are set to fall from at least 125% to 10% on American goods.

BREAKING: Food security experts say Gaza is at critical risk of famine if Israel doesn’t lift its blockade and end its campaign.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV calls for peace in Ukraine, a ceasefire and the release of hostages in Gaza in his first Sunday noon appeal.

I am finally going to see Sinners with Parks at 7:30 bc I wanted to go see it at the IMAX and it’s been sold out.

I am so drunk right now

Parks is doing Shakespeare in the park today. He plays a drunk uncle (Sir Toby Belch) in the 12th Night.

Might as well figure out what I’m doing for group therapy since I’m awake. 😭

No shit...

Guys he wants to reopen Alcatraz

Same! It’s why I’ve always loved reading fiction over everything else. It was necessary for my survival through childhood. ❤️‍🩹

“Young men are told they’re bad” Let’s break down what young women are told they must be: an incomplete list *attractive but not too attractive *confident but not conceited *smart but not showy about it *have a good sense of humor but at the end of the day, men will insist women aren’t funny

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How are we gonna deal with people that don’t seem to grasp the seriousness of this situation?

Don’t Fall In Love With An Elf

The kid is singing first.

Is it talking about Parks’s performance tonight or national politics?

People are NOT understanding what empty cargo ships from China means. It means no work for dock workers. No work for truck drivers, no work for retailers, fewer dollars circulating. The cascade effect is just mind boggling.

“This dinner is going to feel a little different than usual,” White House Correspondents’ Association President Eugene Daniels told the roughly 2,500 people in the Washington Hilton ballroom. “There’s no president. There’s no comedian. It’s just us."

When the ports stop having stuff to load onto trucks and trains, the entire domestic supply chain starts to break down, too; it will not just be Chinese goods disappearing from the shelves.

Parks has made it to finals at state championship debate/speech finals. So yall send good vibes to him. If he gets in the top three I gotta take him to Waffle House. 😭😂

I got some smoked Gouda pimento cheese and grilled it as a grilled cheese. And dear Jesus it’s good.

"When women are in charge, things work" - Pope Francis

So I found out our HR software tracks if we’re a retention risk and what our impact would be if we left the agency and my impact was listed as “significant”. So I need to ask for a raise. Because I had to look over three shoulders and around a corner to see that computer screen. 😭

The acting administrator of the GSA says there is no DOGE team at the agency...it just lists half-dozen DOGE affiliates on payroll and has a section of its building for DOGE use only. www.wired.com/story/elon-m...

"Light-bringer? How about you bring some light to your turn signal!"