I don't knowโฆ Twitter has been so good for introverts, for people who โค to armchair travel + have friends and learn things they'd never expect + get to peek in on this smartassbeautifulmessy world & then, crucially, put it away. I've been here since 2007, & I will miss it. 2/?
Y'alllllllll... I am so in love with
@secondshelfbks
and all that
@andevers
has achieved and allowed to prosper! Loved seeing you, A., and feeling so welcomed in your beautiful space. ๐๐๐ ONWARD. โ
@susanorlean
My colleagues and I have put in our wine orders, made media (blackout) gameplans, and devised an entire week of comfort food meals. Everything related to ::whispers:: tomorrow is already too much.
USPS is only unprofitable because they are required to guarantee pensions for 75 years, which no other government agency has to do. It was instituted when George W. Bush, the last Republican president, tried to kill it as well.
"We don't look to be ruled." AND THEN QUOTES THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. *mic drops and moonwalks off stage (& into your โค๏ธ)* ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
*taps mic*
Y'ALL,
@KieseLaymon
and
@tressiemcphd
ARE GOING TO BE
@UNC
ON THURSDAY! THAT'S *TOMORROW*.
Word of the day: ABUNDANCE! ๐๐๐๐ ๐ ๐ ๐๐๐
Get ๐ Your ๐ Ticket ๐ and ๐ let's ๐ have ๐ some ๐ fun ๐!
๐.
@UNC
's self-inflicted wounds send a devastating message to current+prospective students, staff, & faculty. The administration's failure to offer a full-throated defense of academic freedom & our mission jeopardizes our future+tarnishes our good work. Y'all are f*cking it up.
By my count weโve lost 5 extraordinary female faculty in the humanities
@unc
this academic year. Mostly women of color. The problem is not going away w/one good decision that should have been made from day one. Also, female faculty still make 27% less than male colleagues
@unc
I swear to god if [the Dem establishment] doesn't write
@staceyabrams
a blank check for whatever she wants to do next, I will rage. Let her plan her next victory and fund it. THE END.
Iโm excited to share that I will be joining the faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill as Director of the Center for the Study of the American South, co-director of the Southern Futures Initiative, and Joel R. Williamson Distinguished Professor of Southern Studies, in January 2023.
This whole section of the speech. ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ
BREAKING: Democrat Doug Jones won election to the U.S. Senate from Alabama in a sharp blow to President Trump that narrows the GOPโs majority in the Senate to two. He beat Roy Moore, a former chief justice of the state Supreme Court who had been accused of sexual misconduct.
HE LITERALLY FUCKING SAID "WHAT'S GOES AROUND COMES AROUND" AND CRIED ABOUT A CLINTON REVENGE CONSPIRACY DURING HIS CONFIRMATION HEARING, BUT SURE,
@SenatorCollins
, YOU SPINELESS TOADY. Jesus wept.
Saw that Durham was trending and was like, OH LAWD, but it's just this news *that everyone should ignore*.
Newsflash: "Raleigh-Durham" IS NOT A THING. RDU is an airport (in Morrisville). It is not a city. Raleigh is sufficiently far from Durham that I never want to drive there.
Sonia Sotomayor in her dissent of the Supreme Court's travel ban decision, lashed out at President Trump, quoting anti-Muslim statements that he made as a candidate and, later, as president
@CillizzaCNN
FFS. You should be embarrassed by thisโ& by entirety of yr election coverage. It is a disservice to the candidate, electorate, & journalism.
I have him at 4529, behind the whorls of dog hair that sparrows build their nest with, but still.
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Truly DELIGHTFUL conversationโwitty, learned, generousโbetween copy editor heroes
@MaryNorrisTNY
@BCDreyer
(striking a heroic pose) and
@JohnMcWhorter
at the equally delightful
@BKBF
. Laughed and learned so much.
When the sweet nothings whispered in your ear as upon waking are: Georgia has turned for Biden, and it was John Lewisโs district that did it. ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ๐ฅฐ
The scenes out of UNC-Chapel Hill are heartbreaking, and something that no student, teacher, or parent shouldย ever have to live through. Susan and I mourn the innocent life taken. We must all continue to work together to protect our schools, confront the nation's mental health
I don't understand why news orgs don't speak with people who work with abusers. He's a sociopath and obviously abusive. How do experts handle an abuser backed into a corner? Whatever that is, do it before he hurts anyone else. Or, hey, arrest him for the crimes he's committed.
"The president is in a very fragile mental state right now and he's not taking well to what's happening," Philip Rucker says. "He feels betrayed by his VP ... and a lot of admin. officials are very uncertain about what he might do tomorrow."