Monica Wright

A very pampered house rabbit in a red mortarboard hat with gold tassel

A painting of a bird next to the words "this shit is not what I needed right now"

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From the State Department:
Dear FLTAs,
We are writing to you about your next Fulbright stipend payment.
As with many federal agencies, State Department funding has been temporarily paused in order to facilitate a review of programs and activities.

Fucking over the international TAs who have come to US universities to teach classes in their native language, which is particularly important for lesser taught (and usually more strategic) languages. They're stopping their pay. Is this what winning feels like?

To President Zelenskyy, From Embarrassed Americans Please help the voices of the American people reach President Zelenskyy, the people of Ukraine, the US Government, and the world.

I signed this a few minutes ago: sign.moveon.org/petitions/to...

To President Zelenskyy, From Embarrassed Americans Please help the voices of the American people reach President Zelenskyy, the people of Ukraine, the US Government, and the world.

There is this petition/letter to Zelenskyy collecting signatures: sign.moveon.org/petitions/to...

To President Zelenskyy, From Embarrassed Americans Please help the voices of the American people reach President Zelenskyy, the people of Ukraine, the US Government, and the world.

If you are as embarrassed as I am, please sign: sign.moveon.org/petitions/to...

It falls into my overall movement to buy less, not buy from amazon, and downsize. I think a lot of people are feeling this way, and today is a good starter. Kinda like a NY resolution... Hopefully we'll keep it!

Tomorrow, February 28, let’s disrupt the status quo by spending ONLY at businesses that uplift our communities.

That means:
🚫 No gas from corporate giants
🚫 No fast food chains
🚫 No big-box retailers (Target, Walmart, Amazon, etc.)

I mean, I wouldn't use my activities as a yardstick for determining "not weird." I'm pretty sure I'm weird AF. 🤣 But, you are definitely not alone!

Reading, playing games, streaming crime shows, and playing with the bunny.

If you’re cheering for a South African sociopath to fuck over US military veterans then you should probably stop with that America first bullshit.

Unbelievably ugly inside and out!

Yes, we'd both had MMR as children, but we are in the range of birth years when the recommendations were for only one vaccine. We cannot be sure that we received two, and it doesn't hurt anything to get another booster.

Five bullet points for the DOGshit chief moron:
–More than you did
–More than you did
–More than you've ever done
–More than your dumbass can understand
–More than you did

Hubs and I got two vaccines today: MMR and TDAP. Both of us are professors with health issues.

The biggest coup the ruling class - billionaires, the giant corporations, the ones who own the means of production and derive their profit from the undercompensated toil of others - ever effectuated was to make the very people they're exploiting into apologists for their exploitation.

No amazon or big box stores, try not to use credit cards, and make only absolutely essential purchases preferably at local businesses.

Thank you to everyone who has joined the resistance! Our ranks grow stronger every day.

I'm looking for the most ethical way to purchase new CDs (yes, I am a dinosaur and do not care). Is the best way to purchase through websites like portmerch? Is that the most direct way to buy from the musician?

So, I guess now it will only be Kid Rock and Jason Aldean who perform at the Kennedy Center for a while?

Cover of Paula Hawkins' novel The Blue Hour, a black cover with a window in the center, opened onto a scene of the sea.

It's all just unbearable.
Reading helps.... some.....
Recently finished this book.

Taken with a really old pocket camera. Flowers leading off to the horizon with a blue sky and wispy clouds

Somebody somewhere
Needs flowers tonight

Cover of Uprooted by Naomi Novik, including a block print of woods, a tower, and a rose growing from vines.

Reading helps me cope.
I recently finished this book.

I am still in my post-election need to disengage and focus on my own sanity and health. This stage won't last forever, but it's the only thing I can do now. And, I only imperfectly manage to maintain a sufficiently news-free bubble...

I recently finished Louise Erdrich's latest novel, and it did not disappoint!

Yup.

Interviewer: Can you explain the gap in your résumé?

Medievalist: