A 4th grade boy just walked past the room where I'm working at the school (he didn't see me), stopped in the empty hallway, and sotto voce said, "Yassss, queen!" Then snapped and kept walking.
As hard as working in schools is, there are sparks of joy all around.
As another hot girl summer comes to a close, I welcome Baba Yaga crone autumn, where I can unleash my inner thot (that hut over there) and roam the countryside, searching for victims and peepin leaves
Welcome to Texas. Today abortion, a medical procedure, is now a felony. Punishable with up to life in prison. No exceptions for rape or incest. If you don’t think this will seriously impact medical care, you are wrong.
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As the 2 women and their chick step aside, a young man approaches the desk.
Secretary: How can I help you?
Young Man: Uh, yes. How do I drop out of school?
Secretary: -[blinks a few times] I have no idea.
Young Man: Oh. This kind of seems like a place where someone would know.
Waiting in the lobby at a board of ed right now. It's been an unexpected treat of people watching - think DMV vibes. Whatever the secretary at the front desk gets paid, it's not enough.
2 women walked in, one of them carrying a chick. As one does.
The secretary: Oh my goodness, I just love that you have a little baby chick. It's just the sweetest!
The woman: Actually, we have over 100 chickens.
The secretary: Oh, dear Lord!
Headline should read: Utah, a red state, gets $10,000,000 bailout from federal government to try to save a lake they've diverted water from for years.
https://t.co/cO9mbH3WyK
If you haven’t heard first-hand stories of how the system has failed victims, consider the possibility that it’s not because such occasions are rare, but because you have made it clear that you’re not someone who can be trusted.
for my LDS friends responding to the AP report about abuse in the church:
this is a reminder that sometimes (often) love looks like demanding someone or something do better, like not letting your community perpetuate cruelty or injustice, and like mourning with those who mourn