Hi- I follow you on threads- you’re marked as spam here. I followed your other acct- maybe contact admin.

I don’t want to plant an American flag on Mars. I want healthcare that isn’t tied to my job, and won’t bankrupt me if I get sick. I want to be able to retire. I want my kid to be able to afford a house. I want the planet to be safe and healthy. Mars is not it~never was, never will be.

Did you hear the Moth Radio Hour story on NPR last night? So funny- and relatable for those of us who started down the “let’s raise chickens” path in 2020.

I read the link you attached and it’s true that I don’t understand how all of that is figured. It’s awfully complicated. However, it’s taken two decades of work to get to this place, and a lot of retired teachers lived/died with less than they should have in that time. I’m grateful it passed now.

The system has been essentially gifted the SS deductions and employer contributions of private sector workers that went into public service since Reagan. I’m ok w/ those “few years” recipients getting an advantage. Relatively speaking it’s little enough anyway.

Don- I paid tens of thousands into social security for over a decade before I started teaching. People who never paid in won’t be getting anything, but for people like me- my teaching pension is less because I went into it later, and I should be able to claim from a system I paid into.

My husband and kid talked me into Red One. I was skeptical but glad they did. Made for a fun, relaxed Christmas night!

Red or French

Same sister.

I’m glad it wasn’t traumatic for you; the idea freaks me out!!

Omg I’m so sorry. That’s awful.

What could possibly go wrong?

Also I think Ms Alcott looks pissed off. Maybe I’m projecting.

Oh Jo. My livelong ever first and favorite heroine. Because she wrote. Because she was brash. Because she cut her hair. Because she loved truly, and not typically, and because she was so very, very every woman.

Same. When I have some time (at my maga in-laws when I need a LONG break during Thanksgiving for example) I’m going to start going through and vetting my initial follows. I’ve mostly only met lovely people, but a couple of trolls have popped up, and I have the strong need to keep my feed clean.

Seems a small ask

I know. Thanks. It’s just that such a line ought to be quoted exactly right imo. I need to proofread before I post.

3/20

*Jem* need a flippin’ edit button for my flippin auto-correcting phone.

“Atticus—“ said Jen bleakly.
He turned in the doorway. “What son?”
“How could they do it, how could they?”
“I don’t know, but they did it. They’ve done it before and they did it tonight and they’ll do it again and when they do it—seems that only children weep. Good night.”

2/20

2/2 That juxtaposition is brilliant (and maybe unintentional on Lee’s part?) and if you haven’t picked up this book in a while, I 10/10 recommend. It’s beautiful, and horrible, and god help us still fucking timely.

Reading To Kill a Mockingbird alongside my teen. Her first time, my 3rd or 4th? And this time around omg. It’s devastating.

My kid (who often explains the world to me) says it’s cause we’re reading from Scout’s perspective- and she doesn’t get it cause she’s too young- but we as readers do. 1/2

It would make my Thanksgiving if you could tell me something optimistic.

“If your Social Security number ends in an odd number, you’re out. If it ends in an even number, you’re in,” he explained in a podcast interview in September. Per Ramaswamy re cutting federal jobs. It was the Nat. Parks feed that was talking about him applying that same logic to federal aid.

I think this is what was being referred to- federal jobs not Medicaid- but still.

Column | The dream of gutting government, offered with a technocratic veneer The department run by Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy has no obvious insight into government spending but very obvious plans to put thousands of people out of work.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Already has

Right?

Oh yes- 😊 Thank you!