Sarah Ford
Sarah Ford
@hagfish.bsky.social
She/her High school English teacher Speech & Debate Coach Wife of @houseofkyle.com Pixelfed: https://pixelfed.social/hagfish Mastodon: https://mstdn.social/@hagfish Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/finifrock Medium: https://www.medium.com/@finifrock
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A really poignant and quietly frustrated lament about truth and what happens when we simply choose to ignore it. Just a wonderful journey without resolution. Thanks @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...
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The Project 2025 architect who promised to put federal employees “in trauma” is spending $15 million of former USAID funding—money that would have gone toward fighting HIV, polio, malaria, and other diseases—to bankroll his security detail. trib.al/TSV3cmb
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Writing is thinking. It's not some marginal boring task you can skip. It's the heart of it.
It’s easy to think writing is mainly the transcription of ideas you already have—that is, until you try to write something worthwhile, and you find what you thought were saying transform into something far more interesting in the process. This skips that last step, and that is *not* an improvement.
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Worth the ride:
Trump has lost the culture. But what if the universal conventional wisdom—that he won the culture in the first place—was never true? What if our warped media environment, then Trump's victory, created an illusion of MAGA cultural dominance that is now slipping. This is a long one, so strap in.
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What will those feisty Gen-Zers purchase next? Recklessly splurging on the $1.50 hot dog at Costco? An actual vegetable every other day? Perhaps even a second serving of gruel?
Gen Zers and millennials are swimming in student debt and may never own homes, but they’re splurging on gut-healthy juices and rotisserie chickens.
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I’ve read a lot of dumb takes since Trump rode down the escalator - but this has got to be one of the dumbest. www.foxnews.com/opinion/dei-...
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She doesn’t think there’s enough suffering in the world? …
Katherine Boyle is a partner of tech billionaire Marc Andreessen. In 2023, she wrote that there’s a “war on suffering,” which has “robbed us of resilience.” She blamed Roe v Wade & the decision to make military service optional. She said that this “war” coincided w/ the decline of religiosity. 1/
It’s because people who say that are thinking about the imaginary “bad people” and “bullies” they would go after for the sake of their kids. It’s why I hate when people say “I’m a mama bear if you come after my kids” - what i hear as a teacher is…
People will be like "I would do anything for my kids!" right up until you suggest raising the property taxes a few cents.
Now that I’ve seen their propaganda videos I’m wondering if shooting that video was the sole reason for this?!
This is footage from today in MacArthur Park. Minutes before, there were more than 20 kids playing — then, the MILITARY comes through. The SECOND I heard about this, I went to the park to speak to the person in charge to tell them it needed to end NOW. Absolutely outrageous.
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Replying to @sarahkendzior.bsky.social
National parks were the main places I wanted my kids to see, and I wrote about them in THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP. Breaks my heart that the book is coming out as Trump tries to make good on his plans to destroy them. I hope my book helps the effort to fight back. www.thelastamericanroadtrip.com
It’s because sooo many churches have been in bed with the right for ages, while claiming not to be “political”- in fact they use the word “political” as another synonym for “worldly” (meaning unspiritual, of the world and not of God). If they say you’re “being political” it’s a slight.
From a paper I just read: the effect of worship attendance on one's willingness to pay higher tax so everyone can have better health care across nations. Note in most nations, the association is positive, though mostly non-significant. Just in the USA where the association is negative & significant.
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