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a lot of feedback on the division of trash labor in our house and I want to make it clear that this is our agreement!!!
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doesn’t like replacing the bags and I don’t like taking the trash to the bins so it works
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While y'all are here, a shameless plug to check out
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's new litigation report breaking down the voting rights and election lawsuits filed in 2023 and the impacts on voters!
if you’re using the murder of an 18 year old college first-year to push your narratives of guns in nyc, a return to stop and frisk policing, or why gentrification is actually a good thing literally fuck off. Tessa is a human being not a political tool.
Accessibility and inclusion should not and cannot be an after thought. Blaming it on how terrible Teams can be is the worst excuse I’ve heard. It’s not hard to use a better video conference system!!! Especially for a court in New York!!!
New York's only public comment hearing before a new congressional map is enacted is on Friday in person, in Steuben County. An attorney for the governor & lt. governor asked to appear virtually due to her pregnancy. The judge said no — due to his tech issues with Microsoft Teams.
Just so everyone knows, to access the “Barnard Quad” mentioned in this story the reporters had to trespass onto campus and past all the signs that said “Private Property: No Media on Campus” to exploit students for an interview
via
@NYTimes
“we have made one key decision: to prepare to use the three upcoming academic terms—fall 2020, spring 2021, and summer 2021—as a unit of time” time is prezbo’s social construct and we’re just all living in it
my brother and I are watching Avatar and eating blue bell homemade vanilla ice cream while our parents read the newspaper in the other room. my mom tells us we shouldn’t eat sugar so close to bed time bc we won’t be able to go to bed. is it 2005 or 2020? who knows but it’s okay
judaism has thousands of years of traditions and my favorite tradition is children doing everything but paying attention during yom kippur services such as:
- reading a novel
- laying on the floor and coloring
- playing rock, paper, scissors
- running up and down the aisles
just found out my home state senator officially won re-election because he’s unopposed this November and he wrote/played a major in part in most of the voter suppression laws the
#txlege
passed last session. is this my call to
@runforsomething
if you heard my dog barking on the
@DemocracyDocket
twitter space today, know it was because he was mad about voter suppression laws and not because I wouldn’t give him extra treats
at what point are we gonna talk about how traditional political organizing jobs are only real options for white, wealthy elite college grads whose families can support them and how that produces political operatives that lead to house democrats kneeling with kente cloth stoles
Isn't it the first cardinal rule of perm maintenance that you're forbidden to wet your hair for at least 24 hours after getting a perm at the risk of deactivating the ammonium thioglycolate?
do u ever love being from Texas then remember that Cruz & Cronyn are our senators, teachers legally aren’t allowed to unionize without forever losing their license/pension, we have one of the highest maternal mortality rates in the world, and I-35 construction will never be done
just saw a non-profit fellowship posting for new grads and it’s a 15 week fellowship that’s 40 hours a week and pays a $3500 stipend. That’s $5.83 an hour. non-profits stop paying sub-standard wages challenges.
My best friend got a Fulbright and I am very proud of her for her hard work and research but I am especially proud that my best friend got a Fulbright to live and study in PALERMO, SICILY
found out someone I go to school with is using a drawing of me I made as their background in zoom calls for class and like 1. uncomfortable but also 2. can’t believe a drawing of me is going to more zoom classes than actual me
sometimes I think about why I’m so dramatic and then I remember I spent most of my childhood reading YA book series about wealthy kids at boarding schools whose main plot points involved like murder and arson
I got a free side of chips and queso at lunch bc I was wearing a columbia shirt and the cashier told me that I’m “paying way too much money for a degree” and this is the kinda of perks I’ve been wanting as a columbia student
okay this is a quick selfie I took for a Instagram story about birth control but I think I look pretty cute here. it may be the combo of half of my face being covered, yentl glasses, strong brows, and birth control.
a really cool thing about being diagnosed with ADD your last semester of college is finally learning all the skills to cope and work efficiently and then thinking “oh is this what my entire education should’ve been like”
since living at home with my brothers for the first time in over 5 years, I get to play all my favorite games like “who the fuck put my bras in the dryer” and “try not to smear peanut butter over every surface of the kitchen” and “is your joke funny or actually just racist”
my brother was out for a run and I texted him that they were showing the first ever episode of jeopardy on tv and he literally ran a five minute mile home bc he’s such an Alex Trebek stan
I want to go to a coffee shop to do work but I cannot go anywhere that I went to in high school for fear of regressing also I cannot take any chances to see anyone I know lol
It’s in times like these that I remember multiple people at my high school regularly paid over $10,000 a year for a parking spot at the front of the school
i hate it when people say that older people “are products of their time”. like sally and bob lived through almost every major social movement of the 20th century and they’re still like this so they’re not products of their time they’re actually just racist
fuck greg abbott, fuck ted cruz, fuck john cornyn, fuck ken paxton and fuck every single texas lawmaker and politician who consistently value guns and the second amendment more than the actual, real lives and safety of texans
everyone: could a school do worse than Harvard giving everyone 5 days to move off campus and giving little financial support to students?
JTS: hold my drink
shout out to all the library and tech staff moving mountains for students to keep learning, they deserve much love and appreciation all the time but especially now !!!!!!!!!!
BLAIS's
@BarnardIMATS
team is preparing 👉864 classes👈 to go online and running back-to-back training sessions. In 2 days. 7 people, some working since Sunday morning. ⏰Shout out to
@melanie_cecile
Patrick Eisenhauer
@elana_explains
@benjirosner
Marko Krkeljas Karl-Mary Akre.
I grew up watching football with my family literally whenever a game was on and as I watch the Cowboys game it’s amazing that after 22 years, I don’t know any of the rules of the game. I have absolutely no clue what’s going on.
once my cowboy boots I bought tonight are stretched and shipped to New York and my podiatrist gives me the clear to wear shoes with a heel and I figure out how to style them it’s over for you losers
Name a stronger unspoken bond than young women who don’t know each other all choosing to sit next to each other on a southwest flight because we cannot handle sitting next to anyone else
I love that I never have to actively look for my gate when I’m flying back to Texas bc I just have to find the gate where 70% of passengers are wearing Texas clothing of some sort
FUN THINGS THAT COLLEGE STUDENTS CAN DO FOR FREE IN HOUSTON:
- going and voting YES for proposition A
- going outside for three seconds and turning right back around to the inside bc it’s too damn hot
- ???
Not to be dramatic but the fact that this has to go all the way to the Supreme Court in order to rule that people should punished when they lock a person in a room full of sewage and feces means that the bar is literally underground
BREAKING: The Supreme Court just ruled that the Texas prison officials who locked Trent Taylor in cells full of feces and raw sewage for six days will NOT receive qualified immunity.
All government officials must be held accountable for violations of human rights and dignity.
forever thinking about that post where a woman was like “my fave seasonal crackers are back in stock” and it was matzah. the bread of affliction is her favorite seasonal cracker.
as I pickle onions and beets on the upper west side of manhattan, I feel connected to my great-great grandmother, who used to make her own pickles in her bathtub in brooklyn in the early 20th century. in this essay on modern jewish identity and the memory of food i will,
group projects in college sucks but have you ever had to sit through your classmates modern adaptations of Yiddish plays in a too hot room bc let me tell you it’s hell
Someone explain to me why the fuck, out of everything at a grocery store, this Publix in south Florida is sold out of fucking mayonnaise how much mayonnaise do people need
maybe college Facebook groups should have a 24 hour waiting period before you can post after the school sends out a corona update some of y’all are truly revealing yourself
hey did u know that there are humans on the other side of the political calls you get and if you don’t want to be called u actually can just ask to be removed from the list instead of yelling
being mexican and jewish means that my mom makes v delicious dinners that i love to eat but also that my tummy usually hurts after eating them bc i got my dad’s bad digestion. wont stop me tho, it’s me and tostadas forever
in my last few days at my current job, I share my greatest trick: how to do a mail merge using google spreadsheets and gmail
give them something to remember u by
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For a visual aide, here is Chewy🐶. He loves democracy, lots of walks and fair voting laws. Hates the rain and voter suppression.
Hello everyone, my mom has left me and my brother and dad alone for less than 24 hours and my dad has already messed up two of the three explicit instructions she left
super cool to try and do finals when all of my books are stuck on campus and I’m across the country and professors require you to cite quotes from class readings
at this point if u don’t support universal mask mandates and providing money to people in the middle of a pandemic so everyone can stay home & stay safe bc of an infringement of ur “liberty” or whatever just admit ur an awful person with no humanity and u only care about yourself
I slipped on ice in riverside and sprained my ankle and as I laid on my back in the snow crying, a woman walked over and looked straight into my eyes and said “Hi, beautiful day isn’t it?”
years of online shopping and live tweeting trained me for the new york online vaccination appointment system. i have secured four appointments i am unstoppable if you need help getting vaccinated in nyc lmk