Zohran flip your hair again we need healthcare get him to give us healthcare.

Baristas on ULP strike holding picket signs

Say GOOD MORNING to our baristas in Aurora, IL who joined our national ULP strike this morning!

And remember: don't buy Starbucks while baristas are on strike! #NoContractNoCoffee

The one Celsius conversion I can make! As a midwestern- then New England-transplant from the mid-Atlantic, my strongest conviction is that 40 F is colder than 30 F.

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And it was so odd to not be able to read her history into her physical being. This was a while ago…but I remember it clearly. Uncanny valley.

I once met a nice woman on a train and as we chatted, something she said allowed me to clock her age, and she saw my confusion and explained she was older than she looked, and that her husband was a surgeon. It wasn’t mask face, she looked perfectly normal except…not her age, or *any* age really.

I grew up with a malignant narcissist father, and the gaslighting around these people! People I know saw my father at his worst, and it was always “keep the calm.” So frigging triggering.

Older women too.

BREAKING: Dozens of Starbucks baristas & hundreds of allies are demonstrating at Starbucks’ largest regional distribution center in the country in York, PA.

Workers are escalating their ULP strike RIGHT NOW to shine a light on how Starbucks is failing partners at every level.

Weinstein not Epstein (the latter was surrounded by coconspirators). Weinstein’s raged all over in public and everybody knew it and sucked up to him anyway cuz he had the power.

Also, my mom AND mother-in-law are both 92 and goddam!

the way to respond is to register your disapproval, disgust, and then turn and walk away. The bully wants a fight, and he wants a crowd, and if everyone rejects his behavior and then turns away, he gets neither.

I think for me it’s that no one shuts it down. The bully keeps bullying because no one meaningfully calls him on it. Like how Epstein got away with everything, including the raging against his employees out in the open. No one says anything. No one stands up to him. And honestly

I’m of the droopy clan, but haven’t looked into it yet. The stickers are amazing, but kind of fatiguing.

Oh, but we are going to have so much NEGOTIATING POWER we’ll be paying pennies!! But the sad part is there are folks who believe this (kinda like swapping your pension for a 401(k), what could go wrong?).

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Eyelid surgery can be covered by insurance if they affect your vision. I’m sure that’s a wink-wink. They also make these awesome little eyelid stickers that do the same thing. I wear them if I’m dressing up. They’re like a surgery preview!

The Epstein Files must be released NO MATTER WHO is in them: Republicans, Democrats, or anyone in-between. No one is above the law.

Trump could release the files RIGHT NOW. Why won’t he? I think we all know.

Zadie Smith said just the other day on The New Yorker Radio hour that she has to remind herself that what her Americans readers view as radical socialism (free childcare, education, healthcare) the Brits just see as “government.”

a great strike captain once said “anyone can cook, but only the fearless can be great” and we're putting that into practice on the picket line. we’re on national ULP strike to demand higher pay, better hours, and an end to union-busting at starbucks 🐁✊ #nocontractnocoffee

I’ll *never* understand folks who’ve opposed any reasonable form of reform my entire adult life. From 1993, the WI woman who worried about the quality of “socialized” medicine, to my 🍊🤡 supporting boss who was pushing for HSAs because “it’s my money.” Never had luck convincing any of these people.

To be very clear, Virginia Giuffre was made to say she mistakenly identified Alan Dershowitz as one of the people who sexually abused her. Here is the proof from this week's Epstein files dropped by the House Oversight Committee.

Shocked. Shocked!!

Can’t stop thinking about this! I mean, is gramma immortal while little Johnny ages? I love how gramma tells Johnny, “I don’t care about basketball.” Would there be versions of your critical, withholding, alcoholic parent? (SNL skit?)

Egress…through levitation? Imagining trying to get out of that hole as the room fills with smoke! 😱

Some podcast did a whole show on a woman whose mom wrote her decades of birthday letters before she died, and the takeaway was that it ended up being really oppressive to the the daughter who changed and grew while her mom’s vision of her was static.

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The intimacy of…watching him floss? 🤢 🤮

Whole milk, and a pinch of salt. Mmmmmm…