Deborah Ahrens

I was an only child and my parents (who had high school degrees) got by on … two incomes (my father worked full-time during the day and worked nights as a security guard). My grandmother and aunt paid for a lot of my dance lessons.

You can’t swing a cat here without sending it down one of those slides and I live in big bad Seattle.

With the caveat that I am not 100% sure because I didn’t meet either, one was a truck mechanic and the other was a farm worker who started driving trucks eventually.

I don’t know how much spine it takes to stand up when you are confident of success.

I follow a cheese tiktok account and my favorite series is “unhinged pairings,” where she finds the best cheese pairings for gummy bears or oreos. Even hinged cheese pairings would be great.

I am just pointing out that if you had *stayed here* you could enjoy her :P.

And I want to point out she was at the Torrent game last night supporting women’s hockey and still manages to do her actual job.

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Streisand effect though (immediately went to find the name of the extern).

I’m a Brown alum and PWHL season ticket holder and no one has ticked me off more in the past 36 hours.

Causal inference is my passion.

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I was at a women’s sports bar watching the hockey final and we were screaming for Amber Glenn on a side screen. Alyssa Liu’s brilliance and autonomy gives me hope for my sports kids, and heals something in the former me that trained in ballet. At the risk of sincerity, what an Olympic day.

Those waffles were the only thing I could get down for months when pregnant with kid #2 in South Carolina.

“Gadflies.”

NEW: Today, an immigration judge terminated removal proceedings for Mohsen Mahdawi, the Columbia student, Palestinian activist, and U.S. permanent resident whom the Trump administration arrested in April 2025 and attempted to deport under the foreign policy provision.

“That’s my jam” and it’s Erasure at the QFC.

Thanks to this, just did! That felt great actually.

If they need a data point, my two oldest kids applied there (ended up ay other small liberal arts colleges) and based on this alone I would advise my other kids against considering Bard.

It is near happenstance that I went to an Ivy rather than my state public flagship and glad to know people think my education should be radically different based on whether or not my parents relented on me leaving the state.

With a side of “the real problem here is not the rape, but the victims saying anything about it.”

My dog has more self-respect than this and my dog is on point of fact a pug.

Honestly my first reaction.

Age verification? The Love Boat promises something for everyone.

If you follow Joanne Freeman she reported last week that Holocaust survivors living in assisted living homes, I think in Florida, we asking home administrators if they could hide their Haitian nurses and care-givers in their apartments to keep them safe.

Pray for me, a professor teaching a morning class in Seattle today.

I am a pro-legalization scholar who thinks that drug use generally isn’t great!

Speaking of Jesus I was hoping these folks got this out of their system complaining about the Cynthia Erivo Jesus Christ Superstar that none of them saw in the first place but it seems not.

I imagine they will be hesitant to work for any DOJ because you don’t want to have to upend your career every time the presidency changes hands.

ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps.

This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people.
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