happy birthday emily dickinson thank you for going so hard

wait what

biggest lesson I learned when I was an au pair lol

12 yr old Tamir Rice’s sister was with him and when he was shot, police tackled her and would not let her go to him. She screamed for him and had to watch him die.

thinking about the therapist I had as a teenager whose treatment plan mostly consisted of convincing me to read Rilke and listen to The Tragically Hip

Unlike other businesses in Minneapolis, Starbucks is allowing ICE agents into stores against the concerns of baristas and our community. That's why our union is taking action. Across Minnesota, baristas are demanding that Starbucks update their guidance around ICE immediately.

HAPPENING NOW: Massive crowd in Minneapolis for statewide 'ICE OUT' general strike

Cannot recommend Border and Rule by Harsha Walia enough in these times. Abolish ICE of course but the violence that always goes hand in hand with border enforcement is the true root of this evil: haymarketbooks.org/books/1553-bor…

RIP ✊🏽

This is called extraordinary rendition in other contexts

I will simply never recover from reading this sentence: "Since Georgia implemented work requirements in 2020, they have spent twice as much on Deloitte consultants and administrative costs as on healthcare for people."

when my nephews come and visit we go to the climbing gym and then they insist on going to the same soccer bar to get burgers every time. At first I was like “ok we need to start going somewhere else, this is Chicago!” but it’s so fun to have a “spot” and a tradition 😭

I remember this being a conversation back when we were setting up the brackets for March Dadness!

Brian Eno and John Cale, 1990

you can totally do cereal or pasta for dinner and keep it simple without spending $700 a week on DoorDash. another solution I suggest is getting a boyfriend who is an amazing cook and then he makes you food every night :)

Nearly every story I published at The Post included the disclaimer "Amazon founder Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post." That statement seems especially stark today.

lol

fuck amazon, get rid of your stupid prime account.