Today in @TheAtlantic, I go on the record & say that if one of my kids is doing something you think they shouldn't be, whether invading your space or otherwise misbehaving, you have my permission to just go ahead and tell them that.

incredible

Something deeply ironic about this exchange. I guess if your argument is that women can’t handle direct truth-seeking conflict, skirting a straightforward question about whether there are female virtues with “ugh what a female-coded question” is one way to demonstrate as much.

The authors found no statistically significant link between a pay bump and divorce. But a pay decrease, especially if it’s big, does significantly increase the likelihood of divorce. This is especially true if the husband lost wages. via @stephmurrayyyy

Just in case anyone is wondering, it's not just SNAP that isn't being paid during the shutdown. I just got a $645 Bill from O&R for gas and electricity. The last bill I paid, with HEAP, was $94.00 I was told, by them, that I am responsible for the entire amount, as they

People in the UK often talk to me about Halloween as if it's an American thing. And part of me is like hm yes this is ours. We did this.

I know Americans didn't invent Halloween but it somehow feels like we kinda did.

The Secular Quest to Reimagine Death Rituals: Griefbots, futuristic cemeteries, corpse-fueled public installations … Americans seemingly want to face death. Or do they? @stephmurrayyyy: https://t.co/SMbsMCjUrO

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Delighted to share that my first piece for @tabletmag is up. Link in comments.

Gift link: https://t.co/i6Z3G0OvIP

Just in case this becomes discourse, here's a piece I wrote about this a while back. I think it holds up decently! https://t.co/i6Z3G0P3yn

*different yikes something something baby brain

My husband and I inhabit entirely difference worlds in the twitterverse so tonight I spent like 10 minutes trying to explain to him why everyone is mad at @CathyReisenwitz and then he spent 10 minutes trying to explain to me why everyone is mad at Luke Kwon.

The @CathyReisenwitz pile-on in a nutshell

You should also read @IvanaDGreco's "Great Feminization" take @thedispatch! https://t.co/cGAYhiGt23

Comms job candidate engineers a 4M view tweet about looking for a job. Boss move.

Not sure if this is directed at me but I did work as a server at Cracker Barrel for a while. Probably my least favorite serving job. At least at the time, the average bill was low enough that you needed super high table turnover to make decent tips. Not sure what it's like now.

I am fascinated by people's interpretation of "center-left or center-right" as "having no principles/wanting to do nothing" rather than "wanting to effect actual change by meeting voters where they are at and seeing opportunities to do so in orgs that lean both left and right."

@dfarecs Feel like @CathyReisenwitz blowing up for saying "I need a job" is a sign that someone should hire her.

Update your priors, folks. Increasingly, more income = greater likelihood of becoming a parent. For men AND women. (Also subscribe to Family Stuff we covered this a while back).

Having children is becoming the luxury of few.