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17 Jul, 4 tweets, 1 min read
I seriously wish Stanley Ann Dunham had written a mothering guide.

But then she wouldn’t have been Stanley Ann Dunham.
Also, her intellectual pursuits, global travel, study, trust in her kids’ independence & love-em-and-leave-em adventures wouldn’t have left her the time.
How to raise a president: Do whatever you want
WWSADD: Leave them with their grandparents. Read. Travel. Marry, divorce, get another degree, travel more, read more, marry and divorce again, enjoy your kids’ company.

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16 Jul
The oppression continues
Gonna Karen out at this Dunkin’
What kind of America is this if I can’t get a bucket of iced coffee and a half-dozen glazed shirtless?
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10 Jul
I get the sense today that most Americans believe that all other Americans hate them.
Ever since the widespread disapproval of sex “out of wedlock,” I’ve never gone wrong assuming that most people think their crowd’s creeds and practices are right and mine and my crowd’s are misguided or even evil.
And vice-versa. Who cares? Why do so many people care if other people believe they’re racist or immoral or or ungodly or simply wrong?
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9 Jul
Kind of a great expression: “uncalled for.” I remember it as a charge leveled at my Behavior in high school.
Some things a person does are called for.

Other things are uncalled for.
I think this was before people got called OUT.
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6 Jul
At the insistence of a child, we did something called The Billionaire’s Morning.

Wake at 6, remember dreams, make bed, water, meditate, cold shower, 2 mins intense exercise, coffee or tea, journal, breakfast.
Our exercise was dancing around a stone singing about being rich.

Suddenly she wondered if this is just what people who are already billionaires do, or if the routine MAKES you a billionaire. Great question.
I figured the latter.

We did the whole thing to the LETTER. 20 mins of meditation. 4 min cold shower.
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5 Jul
The most disturbing parts of TikTok, incl the old Claudia Conway vids, remind me of Samuels Richardson’s Pamela (1704), one of the first novels in English. In it Pamela is repeated sexually assaulted & somehow keeps real-time notes under her pillow & gets them out to the world.
I was going to post TikTok screenshots of bruised women hiding in bathrooms & bedrooms making TikToks but the images are too sad & terrifying.
That would be 1740. Robinson Crusoe came first. Mea culpa. 18th-cent English Twitter, if you exist, check out epistolary / hiding / fleeing corners of TikTok and see if you see similarities to Pamela & Clarissa. @AaronRHanlon?
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