she’s got a point

The GOP's education agenda is a Trojan horse for ideological indoctrination. They're using schools as a battleground to shape young minds and suppress critical thinking.

#DontDefundPublicSchools

To all those who said boycotting Target was a waste of time. It wasn't. Keep it up, y'all!

Pope-Pourri (feat. Andi McNew) Podcast Episode · The Daily Beans · 04/23/2025 · 56m

GOOD TROUBLE SUCCESS! On today's podcast, we asked you to flood the anti-christianbiasreporting@va.gov mailbox. I've just learned they received over 54,000 reports which had to be manually reviewed and ZERO were real. WELL DONE! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

The Art of the Deal

Registries for pregnant women and children with autism, but no registry for guns?

This feels… like they’re missing the mark…

Every state needs to do this ASAP

On Being a Hope Doula Mothering Adult Children Through an Uncertain Future

How do we parent young adults when we can’t promise everything will be okay?

We become hope doulas.

In this essay, I reflect on parenting in the face of an uncertain future.

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#hopedoula #youngadults #motherhood #crisis

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Dispatches From the Hearth: Conjuring Dinner Time Motivation with Whimsy

I’ve long struggled with dinner time, and regular motivation tips are no match for my executive dysfunction. I’ve stopped trying to strong arm dinner time motivation and started summoning whimsy instead. Read about it in today's substack.
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The Art of Imperfection How a Book About a Persian Rug Maker Changed My Perspective on Making Mistakes

Ironically, I spent about ten minutes trying to come up with the perfect title for my essay on overcoming perfection

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#recoveringperfectionist #perfectionism #BloodofFlowers

my offer to america: we bring woke back

Just got to the Mall and saw this sign, which no one is going to top.

#HandsOff2025

Beauty From the Ashes The Healing Power of Saying "Fuck This"

How do you cope when your life is falling apart and gratitude journaling doesn't work? Today I write about the power and evidence behind the Fuck This List.

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a pink bunny wearing sunglasses is holding a drum with the words `` still going '' written on it . Alt: a pink bunny wearing sunglasses is holding a drum with the words `` still going '' written on it .

Cory Booker

As someone who has written a little about performance and legislative politics, I am begging people to stop using "performative" pejoratively. Politics *is* performance. All human interaction is performance.

There are 45 D senators---could we please have one of these every week? A girl can dream

We’re going to annex Canada and invade Greenland but we can’t request return of an innocent man from El Salvador.

Kill a white millionaire, get the death penalty. Kill two black protesters, get invited to CPAC to be celebrated.

DOGE claims to have found billions of dollars in fraud yet not one criminal charge has been filed against anyone, just mass firings of federal employees.

Which means they’ve been wasting millions of dollars finding absolutely nothing on purpose. The fraud is DOGE.

Give me it. ❤️

Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery WASHINGTON—Lambasting the current program as wasteful, bloated, and entirely unnecessary, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth called for steep cuts Monday to the number of steps in the Alcoholics Anonymous...

Pete Hegseth Calls For Steep Cuts To Number Of Steps In AA Recovery

Danielle Moodie @daniellemoodie.bsky.social It's really fascinating what happens when you remove diversity—white male incompetency is placed on full display and with no one to blame for their actions —so they just lie. March 26, 2025 at 6:07 PM 83 Everybody can reply our moral imperative

The Roots of Belonging Discovering Home as a Biracial, Third-Culture Kid

I've lived on two continents, and in many different states but never felt fully at home in any of them. Today's essay is a reflection about not-quite-belonging. I hope you'll give it a read.

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Vance argues in Greenland that its people would be safer under U.S. leadership

Would that be because the only threat to Greenland and its people is the US?