Briefly in Minneapolis and have learned about the phenomenon of Minnesota-Nice, and, frankly, these good manners are deeply unsettling to my New York heart

My students skillfully texting under the desk while pretending to listen

Best feeling ever

In related news, I don't have to plan a birthday party...I just have to go to NJ

Preach 🙌🏼

Tfw your emotional toddler is finally no longer in your care or space but your body is still fully wrapped around their giant feelings

A classic:

You haven’t lived until you’ve seen someone shout “LUCA!” in a Brooklyn Heights playground.

Yes. Major crisis here.

If Lucia and Mia die so will I

Same thought!! What about the OUTFITS!?

Certain CVS shelves are bleak rn: Gatorade, all the GI meds, children's ibuprofen...seems as telling as sewer water

Oh, you don't read fiction? How do you expect to be constituted as a bourgeois subject whose deep interiority replaces hereditary rank as a form of class distinction?

Something tells me Jesus would *not* spend millions of dollars on Super Bowl ads to make fascism look benign

the supplies from our last apocalyptic event are coming in handy for the current apocalyptic event

1) Thread for today: I am not going to opine on the Supreme Court's ruling except to tell a story about a late and valued friend. The story will suffice for the sum of my thoughts about affirmative action. I was working at the student newspaper at the University of Maryland...

Haha!! Had the same experience yesterday. Like explaining “she won the game” doesn’t mean she won the WHOLE game. Oy