How did she win the primary after running such a bonkers ad? I know there were other factors in play but it calls to mind Britney Spears' 2007 VMAs performance, which, despite being a total trainwreck arguably relaunched her career:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbT9...

I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.

Still, I found the part where her doctor wonders about the point of being a good person if there is no afterlife: "If nothing happens after we die, what’s the point of striving for justice and caring about others in this life? Might as well be selfish, greedy, live the good life and then die.”

It's so nice to read an op-ed in the NYT that doesn't make me want to set myself on fire!

2. This is the full name of the venue on Google Maps, which took me all the way out, #becausemiami

Even before we looked it up, my husband goes, "I think I went to somebody's quinces there."

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1. This place is fully in Homestead, which explains why they took a sprinter. From the Design District. Homestead is where all of the farming happens in Miami-Dade County, and it's where Julia's farm is. They should have just stayed overnight so how long a trip it is.

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When I looked up Villa Toscana, the location of Alexia's goddess party, where they're all going to read misspelled Successories-style messages about narcissism written on mirrors in lipstick, I learned two things:

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And Syracuse!

What I love about your work is how well grounded it is in historical scholarship, and how often you center that grounding in your writing. It's so contrary to this caricature, because you stand out as a public thinker who is rigorously faithful to the historical record, and I appreciate that.

I haven't changed the way I use my account, and I certainly don't use it for anything illegal. Mostly it's my husband and I paying one another for bills and groceries, or I'll use it to pay for stuff at estate sales. I know it's a small thing in the grand scheme of things, but it's mind-boggling.

Also I ended up not even using the Lost Cause slides because I ran out of time 😂

...and work from there, like I was planning a lecture on Reconstruction where I wanted to also talk about the Lost Cause and I was like, screenshotting the title cards from Gone with the Wind before I had even written a slide for the 14th Amendment.

also SWBAT= Students Will Be Able To

My husband (who taught secondary) and I were just talking about this last night and he told me to reverse plan, starting with outcomes (he said "SWBAT") and working backward. I need to get better at this because I usually just start with some weird corner of what I think might get included...