The world is on fire and work life is bonkers right now but my family is the best and also Tell Me Lies season 3 is on right now and Summer House is back.

Another very good, very fun day to be a Swiftie!

Amazing.

Today was a very fun, very good day to be a Swiftie. Way to go, Taylor. You win! You own EVERYTHING!

Taylor Swift surrounded by the vinyls of her first six records.

Taylor Swift now owns her masters for her first six albums.

Okay, I'll say it: Tonight has been an absolute DRUBBING for Texas book banners. Texas voters stood up and said clearly that they're sick of trustees demonizing teachers. They rejected the absurd policing of libraries & books that has plagued our state for years.

I had the literal best time at #TRLSummit2025 today! I felt affirmed in things that I'm doing, challenged in my thinking, pushed to continue to grow, and rejuvenated by my teammates and the ridiculously brilliant and inspiring panelists. This is urgent work, so let's go!

Want a good series that isn’t written by a transphobe?

Try Percy Jackson by Rick Riordan

The Supernatural Investigations series by B.B Alston

Shadowshaper & the sequels by Daniel José Older

They’re all fabulous

‘I’ve pulled myself out of a very dark abyss’: Garbage’s Shirley Manson on depression, sexism, dodgy hips and happiness The press loved her – but also hated her. Her band was huge – and then it fractured. She started two tours – and had to abandon them. The singer talks about 30 years of heaven and hell

Shirley Manson is the fuckin' bomb

www.theguardian.com/music/2025/a...

Checking in from Chicago suburbs!

I hope being able to publicly say the r word again is worth it.

I heard this too. It's just still too much for me to hope for any sort of real action or vocal pushback.

Madison Square Garden’s surveillance system banned this fan over his T-shirt design MSG uses tools like facial recognition on attendees.

Madison Square Garden banned a fan for life over a t-shirt he made criticizing Knicks owner James Dolan — even though he didn't wear the shirt to the venue. MSG won't say how they identified the fan, who suspects facial recognition played a part.

www.theverge.com/news/637228/...

imagine being accidentally added to a second, slightly smaller group chat where they're talking about how to handle this scandal

The Good Place Committee needs to be run out of their jobs, one by one, until none of them are left.

Directing REVENGE and THE SUBSTANCE as your first two films is probably the coolest thing any Director has ever done.

So much of this is illegal. We can fight back. Let’s go educators, parents and decent humans. We have been fighting and we will keep fighting.

"Not Exactly Consequential": NYT Dismisses Trump's War on Trans Americans After years of trans panic coverage, the paper now claims attacks on trans rights barely matter.

Either transgender Americans are important enough to warrant year after year of breathless coverage questioning their healthcare and existence, or they're so insignificant that destroying their rights is the "least consequential" action of a presidency. www.readtpa.com/p/not-exactl...

Has he even said thank you to Vermont since he arrived?

I think a massive opportunity for children with additional needs would be to scrap the Friday spelling test. I cannot emphasise the amount of anticipatory anxiety and stress this can cause our children who (in a lot of cases) don’t benefit from it. Often they have memory difficulties. #EdChatIE

I'm crying about an anglerfish.

Cool, cool, cool, cool.

i'm tired of being told to stop doomscrolling. i'm just scrolling, it's not my fault there's doom on there

This this this. I teach creative writing, which is *why* I’ve been talking about the news w/ my students. This is what we talk about when talk about cliche, the way it can collapse & erase meaning. Don’t just accept the words you’re given. Find the words you need.

I wrote about my pet peeve: the lack of focus on dosage in Science of Reading conversations.

How much time should be spent on the different aspects of instruction? How much practice is ideal? What’s actually supported by research? When do diminishing returns kick in?

I'll go further. If you don't care about the Oscars, that's totally fine. But if you care about movies and moviemaking, you shouldn't insist on their meaninglessness. They have had many meanings through the decades, and studying them is a fascinating door into the history of an art and a business.