Liz Michalski

OH GOD THIS

Empathizing with the Mother Figures of Peter Pan Is an adventure an adventure if there’s no one waiting at home at home to hear about it? I’ve pondered this off and on ever since rereading Peter Pan. As a child, I loved Peter, the Lost Boys, and …

“Barrie’s book may ostensibly be about the boys’ eternal childhood, but it’s the mother figures who are the scaffolding upon which his story rests.”

— @michalskiliz.bsky.social, author of DARLING GIRL, on the mother figures in PETER PAN – via @literaryhub.bsky.social
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18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want – yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.

18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.

We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org

🚨ATTENTION

The deadline to register to vote in Florida’s special elections in CD-1 or CD-6 is THIS MONDAY, March 3rd.

These two seats are crucial with a narrow majority in the House.

Double check your status and register to vote at iwillvote.com.

If your representative is dodging in-person town halls, call them out! Tag them and demand they face their constituents.

Word of the Day is ‘ingordigiousness’ (18th century): extreme greed at the expense of principles.

Says the guy who won't even respond to the mothers of his own children

Rep Raskin has been great. Rep Ocasio-Cortez has been great. And Rep Frost and Rep Crockett. Senator Murphy. Maybe no one knew exactly what to do. But such people laid down a clear marker. Let’s respect these and other elected federal representatives who stood out these first few weeks.

That’s how you write a headline, people.

Van Hollen: "Can you imagine FDR in the middle of WW2 saying to Churchill, 'you know, we're not going to continue to help you until you turn over half of your coal and mineral reserves.' That's not how you behave when you want to support a friend who's under attack by an authoritarian like Putin."

The flying public needs answers. How many FAA personnel were just fired? What positions? And why?

Just a note that National Park Service is fantastic, and inclusive, and fundamental to the values of American wonder and democracy.
What’s happening at Stonewall is a clear Musk and MAGA move.

New Yorkers: tomorrow is the last day to register to vote in this year's mayoral primary — don’t count on others to get rid of the corrupt & compromised collaborator Eric Adams, who's mayor because 79% of eligible NYers failed to turn out last time.
Do your part, dammit:
vote.nyc/page/registe...

I had ridgies for years. They are such great dogs.

Reminder: Musk’s staffers are using space characters to identify information leakers. Before sharing any information, please use a checker to detect and remove these. Avoid directly leaking images; instead, request that the information be rewritten and the image recreated

This is the kind of stuff I’d like to see my members of Congress do.

Happy to see you anywhere!

Howdy!

So gorgeous!

Parks and Recreation has never been more relevant.

LOL

So, the same Republicans who spent years & tens of millions of our tax dollars demanding to see the contents of a laptop belonging to Joe Biden’s private citizen son, don’t want to see the ethics report on the former Congressman Trump wants to make our nation’s Attorney General?

Post from Latino pollster Mike Madrid: “Doing some research for an upcoming article on the last “mass deportation” of Mexicans during the 1930’s. Over half of those deported were US citizens.”

Indeed. When they rounded up the Japanese Americans, myself and my family included, for internment during WWII out of fear over Japanese spies and saboteurs, two thirds of us were U.S. citizens.

Don’t think it won’t happen again when they come for the “undocumented.”

One of my favorite places!

Sorry but all the fables and fairy tales I read as a kid led me to believe people would be learning WAY more lessons than they actually do

Lovvvvvvve your books!