Sarah Bernstein

Diary of a Singer/Songwriter for hire

[spor @sporadica]

my entire timeline now is just two German dudes here for the World Cup experiencing America in all its normal beauty and it’s truly the greatest thing to ever happen to my feed

[Drayne Gang @Drayne_the_Wolf]

Kinda wish cars had brake lights on the front too. Would be nice to know when I'm at a red light if the altima in my mirror going 1,000,000,000mph is planning on stopping or rear ending me into the 9th dimension.

[s44nti @s44nti]

cada vez que toco 2 veces el audífono para cambiar la canción me siento como

[Sarah Bernstein @MissBernstein]

@valawakened Amen

[valentine @valawakened]

I like to imagine true love feels like walking into a house I’ve never seen before and somehow knowing exactly where everything is. No stumbling, no searching, no fear of the dark. Just an unfamiliar place that feels instinctively familiar. Like I’ve been there all along. Like coming home.

[Sarah Bernstein @MissBernstein]

@KhanSaba1278 What a fascinating take on rage bait

[The Husky @Mr_Husky1]

Circa 2010, inside a Yale Law School discussion group focused on social decline in working-class America, a 24-year-old son of Appalachian poverty named JD Vance sat down next to a 24-year-old daughter of Telugu Hindu immigrants from San Diego named Usha Chilukuri, and what unfolded between them over the following months became one of the most quietly compelling personal stories in American political history. JD had arrived at Yale carrying the full weight of a childhood defined by chaos, his mother's struggles with addiction, multiple unstable living situations, a family history of poverty stretching back through the Kentucky hills, and the specific kind of social anxiety that grips a person who has clawed their way into a room where everyone else seems to know the rules by instinct. Usha had taken a different path to the same building, graduating from Yale as an undergraduate, earning a master's degree from Cambridge as a Gates Scholar, and arriving at Yale Law as someone who already understood how elite institutions functioned because she had grown up around parents who valued education as the central organizing principle of their immigrant lives. Their law professor Amy Chua, who would later become a mutual mentor to both, described meeting them as love at first sight on JD's end, noting she had never seen anyone so immediately and completely captivated. JD himself wrote in his bestselling 2016 memoir Hillbilly Elegy that he thought about Usha constantly after their first date and that one friend described him as heartsick, a word that belongs to a completely different emotional register than the combative political persona he would later build in public. What made their dynamic so remarkable from the beginning was its inversion of every expected dynamic, Usha, the immigrant daughter, was the one who knew how to navigate the formal dinner silverware, which fork for which course, how to dress for certain rooms, how to carry yourself in settings designed to exclude people like JD by making them feel permanently out of place. JD called her his Yale spirit guide openly and without embarrassment, and classmates who knew them both described Usha as his guide throughout the entire process of learning to move in a world that had never been designed with someone like him in mind. That partnership, built on genuine need and genuine respect, became the foundation of a marriage that would eventually carry both of them to the second-highest office in the United States.

[love drops @lovedropx]

— unknown; the longevity of life and love (via theblob1958)

[PeachProof @PeachProof23]

In 1952, CBS told Lucille Ball she couldn't show her pregnancy on TV.

​The word "pregnant" was banned as "vulgar." Censors forced a priest, rabbi, and minister to vet every script.
​So, Lucille executed a brilliant, unprecedented revenge plan...

​Instead of hiding, Lucille used her leverage as the star of America’s #1 show.

​She forced CBS to write the pregnancy into the script. But she didn't stop there.
​She timed the production schedule with military precision to synchronize fiction with reality.

​Her real-life cesarean section was scheduled for January 19, 1953.

​That exact night, the episode "Lucy Goes to the Hospital" aired.

​While Lucille was recovering in the hospital having given birth to Desi Jr., 44 million Americans tuned in to watch Lucy Ricardo give birth to Little Ricky.

​That single episode pulled in 71.7% of all US television households.

​To put that into perspective: More Americans watched Lucy give birth than watched Dwight D. Eisenhower’s presidential inauguration the very next day.

​Before this, pregnancy on TV was treated as a shameful taboo. After it, it was entirely normalized.

​Lucille Ball didn't just break the rules - she rewrote the entire playbook of Hollywood business, marketing, and cultural history.
​She wasn't just a comedian. She was a genius.

[Sarah Bernstein @MissBernstein]

Somebody call Miriam immediately

[symplymtho @symplymtho_]

@TinyElNews Crying at “Decuntification” y’all good with creating your own words!That’s why I’m not leaving this app😭😭😭🤌🏾

[Sarah Bernstein @MissBernstein]

@xernue @HousewivesHub Right like you can literally walk anyway you want in that weird string diaper

[tt✮⋆ @Bluebirdeyessss]

I love the word "interesting" cuz it's so chaotically neutral

[Sarah Bernstein @MissBernstein]

@w0rdgenerator Meanwhile…