Leigh Ann (mad girl autumn version)

I see we’re gonna have to bust out “the holy family was an immigrant family” again

I was ready to fight you till I realized you were not talking about the animated series.

#worldaidsday

Am spending some time scrolling TikTok today and I regret to report that the white women did in fact take all the wrong lessons from Wicked: For Good.

Pope Leo with a bat

“Excuse me. I heard someone over here isn’t caring for the poor and welcoming immigrants.”

That was me after the election. I knew my stylist was kinda trumpy but I was ignoring it until then. Then I wanted to go chop all my hair off as a trauma response but I couldn’t stomach going back to her.

Or at least the one that’s frequently updated. Like they may have their regular hours on their website, but post their holiday hours to facebook.

This is just gutter racism and it’s a standard that would never be applied to say, the descendants of Italian immigrants who fled the lawlessness of Southern italy post unification and now staff this fascist administration bsky.app/profile/publ...

Protestant work ethic making everyone's life worse again.

It’s useful to think about things like this in numbers of tenure track professors.

$53M is 575 assistant professors. Or more than thirty percent of the total number of full-time faculty at LSU.

🥳🥳 hooray! My family did great at dinner today too!

Watching Wicked with my kids in preparation to see Wicked: For Good tomorrow and since it’s almost Christmas I thought I’d remind everyone that despite the movie being PG, Wicked is NOT a book for children!!

Cranberry Curd Tart (Festive + Mostly No-Bake!) Make-ahead cranberry curd tart with a graham crust and whipped cream. Tangy, elegant, and perfect for Christmas, Thanksgiving, and winter celebrations.

All right, y’all. I think this may be THE cranberry curd tart. I made the NYT one last year and this is clearly superior.

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It’s the cowboys: over-hyped and consistently mediocre due to poor leadership, despite having plenty of talent (I am a cowboys fan)

Best thread of the year, every year

A random thing I’m thankful for this year: I was reviewing a science lesson with my 10 yr old, which mentioned HIV as an example of a virus. She had never heard of it before. That would have been unthinkable when I was her age.

People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.

My mom has informed me I’m not allowed to be on my phone. This does not bode well. I told her if my dad starts talking about politics I’m getting on my phone anyways

As we all wait for Callais to come down, our piece showing that Shelby County increased the racial turnout gap in most of the covered parts of the country has cleared the replication check and is incoming at JOP.

Gutting the VRA was bad, actually.

Just spent a chunk of the per diem check I got for next week’s CLE on Taylor Swift merch 😅 still no luck w that damn cat though

The Norman Rockwell guy standing up to give a speech at a town hall meeting. He looks like a youngish Abe Lincoln.

A package hasn't "shipped" if you've only "created the label"

He should at least be creative. “The pope is the Antichrist” is one of the oldest ones in the book.

How long do you parbake?

No worries! I just thought we were talking about, you know, pie. 😅

Oh I missed an innuendo 🫣

Cream pies are summer pies (they are also very good and I will not say no to one any time of year but I only make them in summer)

Ok bc my mom is making pumpkin and I made a cranberry curd tart last night and was debating making don’t-you-dare-call-it-Derby pie but you may have tipped me over

Not if you pronounce it correctly, there isn’t.

Also a good healthy splash of bourbon

If the Autistic Self-Advocacy Network and Autism Speaks had to put out a joint statement refuting something I said, not once but TWICE, I would never say anything ever again. If it happened twice IN TWELVE MONTHS, I would just dig a hole and crawl into it and die.