The Democratic Party is out there trying to pick the perfect candidate like they look up the perfect coffee-maker on wirecutter. If they have this doodad and that price point, they’re a winner.

That’s not how politics works. It’s a game we play together, not catalogue shopping.

GUYS. The comment period for the upcoming ACIP meeting ends on the 13TH. If you have even a little bit of time, submit a comment here:
www.regulations.gov/docket/CDC-2...

Let them know EVERYONE should be able to get COVID vaccines. They BACK DOWN when WE PUSH BACK. You CAN submit anonymously!

Congratulations!

I love the cool-toned flowers contrasting with the soft red of the background!

I love the color scheme on this, and the way you’ve incorporated printed text in the background!

I’ve been in two ungraded grad classes (both where I entered my own grades). I liked it a lot, though I definitely still had a lot of embedded grade anxiety that made the process challenging. The prof of the classes is a big fan of Ungrading (edited by Susan D Blum)

Thank you for the recommendations (especially the short stories)!

This was fascinating, thank you!

The teachers have had it (given the spelling I bet this one teaches math 😋)

“fuck Strom Thurmond” is a good enough point in 2025 tbqh

The automatic cotton gin increased the speed of cotton production — which resulted in worse conditions for enslaved people. Slaveowners pushed them harder and tortured them more to reach higher quotas. (Angela Lakwete, Inventing the Cotton Gin) (3/3)

Things like dishwashers, laundry machines, vacuum cleaners — all of these things did increase the speed of domestic labor. But that didn’t result in more time for women — because the expectation of the what a “clean” house looked like went up (Ruth Cowan, More Work for Mother) (2/3)