Went on a deep dive of Wicked Original Broadway Cast recordings last night, as I had absolutely no memory of Act II the show (which I saw once in 2008) but I did buy tickets for the new movie on Sunday. Will be internet blacking out until then.

Me 🤝 Taco Bell Despite a myriad of digestive issues

You olds don't need to hear this, but to you youngbloods out there, I come to you from the future: when the news begins talking about ways to save money for the holidays, rather than getting you hyped to drown in debt buying shit, that means shit is WAY FUCKING WORSE than they are letting on.

I have been a teacher since 2007. In my College of Education classes in 2005, we were instructed to Google ourselves regularly. Not use full names online. Post judiciously. It wasn’t a huge sacrifice & it has saved me sooooooo much pain over the years. People need to remember all that now.

Had a great time consulting with the “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” team over the past couple months, and they kindly gave my book a shoutout during the episode.

vocal fry implies the existence of vocal onion ring and vocal tater tot

It puts the *rough* in rough draft, but I just sent a rough draft to my advisor of my dissertation proposal. PLEASE CLAP!

I live for Chris’s “good night” & “good morning” posts. To say nothing of Tina Tuesday!

I told myself I was going to take a social media break for about two weeks but forgot this morning but it’s okay, I’m Pope-Posting.

This is great [with added alt text].

More threads about religious guilt & filmmakers, I beg of you.

A genuine concern I had for New Pope before they chose Leo was that he wouldn’t be friends with Viggo Mortensen but those fears have been allayed.

I slept really deeply last night but now recall that I had a dream where I got into an argument with an ICE agent. So many of my dreams are about long periods of time where I am with others and we are waiting to do things. Last night the long awaiting plan was to mess ICE up.

God forbid some of us are trying to figure out /how/ to accomplish systemic change instead of just demanding it

too real lol

I’ve had a brief burst of potentially wine-induced good writing in the face of oncoming indigestion; please clap.

“With so many marginalized communities, we’re basically the oracles…we’re the ones who see shit before it happens.” In June 2020, I interviewed Alice Wong for TVU before she lost her ability to speak. I asked her how she’d first learned of SARS-CoV-2. She began with the 2016 election of Trump:

what are they telling us WHEN we take the time to ask this question? These concerns emerged in the student-interest-centered social media course I built this semester.

Sometimes (not often but sometimes) I long for the days of “meet me in Temecula.”

“Fuck you, make me” as praxis.

This thread, up & down. 💖

ORLANDO! Care about building transit, affordable housing, reducing traffic, and protecting the environment? Then listen up. We have an election coming up in City Council District 3 and I've endorsed Mira Tanna. Vote on or before December 9th.

I'm such an easy mark for this shit. Guy who's wished being Catholic was actually good for 45+ years now.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

It’s hard to explain to a lovely young second grader that this is a big part of the reason you don’t like Starbucks but you take the gift card anyway (will use it at a future time).

Anyone who genuinely cares about sexual assault and abuse survivors cares about them *regardless* of their age. There is no one who cares about abused children but not abused adults, only people who used feigned care for children to oppress adults.

First time I watched my husband play GoldenEye with his friends, he straight up said “this is why I didn’t have a girlfriend in high school.”

we could solve a lot of problems if we stopped making video games always online, and made it so if you wanted to play games with friends you had to skip school and go to a guy from your class' house who sells weed through the McDonalds Drive Thru to play Goldeneye

I care a lot less about those files because I suspect that the supporters of the main guy we’re targeting do not care about those files. If I really thought justice would be carried out, I’d care more, but I don’t.

What's from Chicago, hates Illinois Nazis, and is holy as fuck? It's the Pope in 1982.

ANYWAY

Ran musical performances for EVERY GRADE LEVEL tonight, for our multi-cultural night. I wrangled probably about 200 elementary kids, with minimal assistance, and while I’m frustrated at logistics, I am also really proud.

If Warren is against it, generally means it’s a terrible idea!

#hamsterwatch2025 has ended. Mr. Pancakes passed peacefully, likely on November 6th, while we were on the road. He was the best boy.

lol she got his ass and he knows it

Drove through Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia yesterday. Beautiful scenery. Stunning. Very very little insane Trumper stuff. Upon arriving in Volusia County, FL: a billboard for a MAGA Mega Store.

The ICE raids in Chicago harm students’ ability to learn and the faculty’s ability to teach at Hispanic-serving institutions like the University of Illinois - Chicago. Aaron Krall, President of University of Illinois Chicago Faculty United, discusses this & more in our recent AAUP TV episode.

You should have seen me last night getting low at Li’l Jon’s instruction. (But not lower than the bride.) And then this morning, stepping v e r y slowly & carefully down the steps of the AirBnB as we packed up. #eldermillennial

Hell yes folks. Go to a local shop that day if you must.

Oh no

I mean my parents were cowards who left New York 40 years ago. (Noted: neither were rich. Both had degrees from SUNY schools but when we moved my dad was a roofer & mom was a SAHM. I was three.)

Driving through South Carolina on a clear November day listening to Mary Chaplin Carpenter: 35/10, highly recommend.

In my own mind’s eye, I am a teenager, and despite having typical teenage things on my mind, I am joyfully skanking my days away. In present corporal form, I am lamenting not being asleep.

We made it to our destination & now I’m going to have Less Than Jake in my head forever.

So much of what happened yesterday is a direct consequence of Lindsey’s courage, both in speaking up initially and then campaigning to ensure the world didn’t forget about what had happened, even as it seemed like it would all be ignored

Headed to TN tomorrow, driving, stopping & staying at roughly the halfway point in SC. Off to a wedding, the younger sister of one of my very closest friends, and while I cannot wait to see my people, I am a little nervous about the trip (more so about last minute changes we’ll have to make).

This is so good—and in particular, I feel like in all the buzz about what a great campaign Mamdani ran, this point often gets lost He started by—guess what—*talking to people who voted for Trump.* He went on the Bulwark podcast. He went on Fox News. He demonstrated a willingness to talk to anyone

“Cost of childcare won’t send them to Long Island” Christ on toast