The website was glitching for @Chasten when he was making this great design, so I set it up on my end. All his idea and the proceeds go to the @NOVACommCollege Educational Fund, where Dr. Jill Biden teaches. Buy here for just $20: bonfire.com/thats-34dr-bid…
Already sold 75 shirts and raised $500 for community college students in less than 45 minutes.
150 shirts sold and $1100 raised -- they're flying!
200 shirts sold and $1560 raised 😌
350 shirts sold and $3000 raised in two hours for community college students 🔥🔥🔥
450 shirts sold and $4000 now raised ❤️❤️❤️
500 shirts sold and $4,700 now raised for community college students at @NOVAcommcollege 🎉🎉🎉
650 shirts sold and $6,300 raised for community college students 🥰
800 shirts sold and $8,100 now raised for community college students in five hours 🥳
900 shirts sold and $9,200 now raised for community college students in just over six hours -- we could hit 1,000 shirts before midnight, which is bonkers ❤️❤️❤️
Friends, we have now hit 1,000 shirts sold and more than $11,000 raised for community college students 🎓🥂
Now at 1,100 shirts sold and $12,000 raised for community college students
Good morning! We're now at 1,280 shirts sold and $14,200 raised for community college students 🔥🔥🔥
We're up to 1,450 shirts sold and $16,000 raised for community college students 👩🏻🎓
Now at 1,500 shirts sold and $16,700 raised for community college students
We're now at 1,600 shirts sold and $17,800 raised for community college students. It hasn't even been 24 hours since we started selling these.
Now at 1,700 shirts sold and $19,000 raised for community college students 🥂
Now at 1,850 shirts sold and $20,500 raised for community college students -- I love doing these updates 🥰
Hey, we're now at 1,965 shirts sold and $21,800 raised for community college students ✏️❤️
We have reached 2,000 shirts sold and $22,200 raised for community college students 🚨
We have reached 2,150 shirts sold and $23,700 raised for community college students 🧠❤️
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My personal theory--and I only speak for myself here--is that the sheer uncertainty of the time in which we live has made people more sensitive and defensive of things they've always taken for granted or assumed to be true. They look to things that offer permanency for comfort.
This does not wholly explain transphobia, of course, and I certainly don't believe it's a predominating factor. Nor does it make transphobic behavior excusable at all. But the surge of trans rights has sadly coincided with an era in which people crave stability more than ever.
If all people have generally ever known are very rudimentary and incomplete definitions of sex and gender and those definitions are presented to us as irrefutable and they're intertwined with personal identity and culture, there is bound to be anger and confusion.
I'm only six episodes into "Ted Lasso", and I find myself legitimately sad at the realization that there are a finite number of episodes of "Ted Lasso". I feel like I should be rationing these over the next few months. I can't bring myself to binge and reach the end.
Is it possible to create a show that's hilarious, subversive, snarky, supremely yet modestly clever, unapologetically earnest and joyful, and actually good for the soul all at the same time? Yes, that show is "Ted Lasso".
Like... why did I get a lump in my throat when Dani Rojas ran out of the tunnel and made his goal? It wasn't supposed to be poignant. Just a lovely man unapologetically thrilled to be playing the game, and oh my god, why is this making me tear up?
Agreed. Inauguration (Jan. 20th) can't be changed without a constitutional amendment replacing the 20th Amendment.
But changing the day of the presidential election would only require a new law to repeal and replace the Presidential Election Day Act. However: filibuster. :(
It's interesting to note that in the UK, the office of the prime minister being flipped by the opposing party in a general election takes only a few days for the new prime minister to take office. They're quite efficient in that regard.
The reasoning for "the second Tuesday after the first Monday in November" in the Presidential Election Day Act of 1845 is really interesting. They chose November because it fell between the harvest season and the harsher days of winter.
It was December of 1992 and I was six, and "Aladdin" was in theaters. My sister and I weren't seeing it. My mother couldn't afford the tickets. I remember this because the three of us were sitting in the car and she cried + apologized for not being able to take us. (thread)
The strange thing is that I don't think I had even heard of "Aladdin" until she said anything. Maybe? I'm not sure. But I don't remember feeling like we were expecting to see it. I don't remember being disappointed. But to her, I think it felt like one more way she had failed us.
This was in the final year of her marriage to her second husband--our first "stepfather"--and there were reasons the three of us were in this car and not back at our place with him and his two kids. He was very abusive, and these car rides felt like a break.
This month, 19 years ago, a terrorist tried to detonate a shoe bomb on a flight to Miami. It happened 3 months after 9/11, and it's why we still remove our shoes in airport security.
Since March, we've seen 274,000+ killed by COVID, a 9/11 every three days.
Pandemics have long been considered a priority national security threat by the federal government. Pandemic prevention + response have literally been overseen by the National Security Council for years. Our military and national security leaders have prioritized pandemic prep.
So, if you were gravely concerned about Al-Qaeda and ISIS and the threat they've posed to the safety and wellbeing of Americans, why wouldn't you be concerned about stopping a pandemic that's killed 92x more Americans than those killed on 9/11?