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They also make me feel ancient. They’re watching Princess Bride and said Cary Elwes is the kind of old guy their social studies teacher thinks is hot.

My 13 year old and eight of her friends are having a slumber party and they are such a chaotic in-between age— but they are also super sweet and supportive and kind. They give me hope for the future!

I find this with teaching coding, too. Making a mistake and figuring out what went wrong makes you a far better programmer than reading over code that works.

I read this and just cried. She deserved so much better.

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

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It’s so good!! Enjoy!

I re-upped my subscription before the reminders went out! The Flytrap is the highlight of my inbox every week— I’ve learned so much!!

God Has Heard Your Thoughts and Prayers and He Thinks They Are Fucking Bullshit Hi. God here. I am contacting you in response to your prayers regarding the most recent and totally horrific mass shooting in a college/ high schoo...

"If you don’t like my tone, it’s called 'tough love,' America. You need to change yourself or this will keep happening, and it will get worse."

This breaks my heart because my absolute favorite part of parenting is witnessing my kids growing up and developing their own interests and ideas! I hope I’m never so wedded to the idea of authority that I refuse to see what amazing adults they become.

I went to delete a text from an unknown number but it was a statistics question so I wrote back and answered it… my Achilles heel!

So thankful for these scripts! I’ve left messages for Tillis and Budd and really appreciate the helpful language here.

NC Court of Appeals gives over 60,000 challenged voters 15 days to prove eligibility The majority wrote that, even though they have the authority to completely throw out the contested ballots, they decided to instead mandate a cure period for most of the challenged voters.

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It is INSANE but the GOP is still fighting the 2024 election in North Carolina and their judges just said 60,000 voters don't exist 4 months later)

You have 15 days to prove you exist -
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Post this every day 4 next 15 days
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I helped judge our graduate student research symposium today and it just broke my heart to contrast these brilliant students presenting AMAZING and important work with how science and research are being treated by our government right now.

I made a glaze tonight in the pot we boil eggs in every morning and as I was washing up, I told the pot (out loud) that it must’ve been a nice change of pace! 😂

Wore my dumpster fire earrings today… feeling like they’ll be in the regular rotation for the foreseeable future.

A metal mixing bowl outside and on top of a bush with Christmas lights on the bush. It’s starting to snow.

Hoping we get enough snow to make snow cream tomorrow— the forecast is calling for three inches!

I’m teaching my Sunday school class this week and our book chapter has a ton of stats in it— went on a deep dive to update them with more current data and they’re basically all wrong. I’m thinking I’ll never be asked to teach again…

Ok well, Rockin’ around the Christmas Tree at 0.25 speed is pretty entertaining, and now hopefully dinner is over.

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One is advocating for brain rot Christmas music and the other found a one-hour loop of Mariah Carey and is arguing that it counts as one song.

Told my older two they can take turns playing Christmas songs at dinner and both of their faces lit up so much that I must have made a terrible mistake. Parenting tweens and teens is tough!

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I teach an intro Python class and one of my students sent me code they wrote on their own to calculate their grade! It’s commented and even prints everything with nice formatting at the end. Made my day!!

It’s the last day of class and even though I am ready for break, I am going to miss all my students! They’re truly been delightful this semester and I hope they keep in touch!!

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I wish there more more tests like COVID tests that you could do at home— it’s such a relief to know I just have general crud. More importantly, I love the little swabs and tubes. I always pretend I’m a bench scientist when I use one of these kits.

It’s going to be so much fun! I’ve figured out the food situation so am feeling more zen.

I love how middle schoolers are just a chaotic mix of kids, teens, and adults. I have ten sixth graders over and they’ve gone from dancing like we’re at a club to wearing costumes and playing restaurant with the toy food and cash register. The best!!

I lost my voice but am at work and it is so cute how all my colleagues are whispering back to me.

I’m Emily, and I work really hard but don’t understand anything.

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Gave a virtual seminar at Vanderbilt biostats today! First, what a great group of people with lovely and interesting questions and comments. Second, I decided this is the last time I’ll give this particular talk and I’m really going to miss this one.

A little devastated that work-life balance looks like me and all the other parents working on our laptops during gymnastics… both moms and dads.