AND! New Jersey elected an African American woman Lt. Governor. She is the first person of color ever elected to a statewide executive position in NJ.

My husband surprised the shit out of me. He’s a great dad. He’s been completely smitten with our daughter from the moment she was born. He is the youngest in his family by 5 years - all his siblings and cousins on both sides of the family are older. So he wasn’t around younger kids at all when he was growing up. I’m…

Someone tweeted that every courtroom sketch of Martin Shkreli looks like it is from the trial of Rumpelstiltskin and every time I remember it, I dissolve into giggles. It is so perfect.

No one is being forced to attend college, forget about being forced to attend a sub-par school or forced to take out loans. They are being encouraged to apply to at least one college, and to consider college as an option.

Here’s what I took away from this: the kids chose to do this as a class. They are being pushed to consider college in addition to any other option, like going into the military, going to career or technical school, or immediately joining the work force. I recognize that a 4 year college education is incredibly…

The way I’m reading this, “meets with students individually to come up with a post-graduation plan” means that they were getting tailored, individual counseling. All the students agreed to do was to apply to college. College isn’t right for everyone, but what is so wrong about considering it as an option, and applying…

RE: how much guidance students got:

You don’t have to guess if Ballou is a charter school or a public school. That information is readily available, including in the linked article. The class of 2017 in this public school in Ward 8, one of the poorest areas of DC, made it their collective goal to apply to college. Every student did apply to at least one…

What if you were super sleep deprived when the world became obsessed with this dress because you had a newborn baby?

Agree! Women have such a hard time proving they are qualified for executive leadership, and framing Ivy’s appointment in relationship to “her own merits” feeds into that frame. The point is that Alabama voters have not elected women, not that there haven’t been women who are qualified to serve as governor.

As a Democratic consultant, literally NO ONE I work with is trying to blame the 2016 losses on one small tactical mistake. In every meeting I’ve been in since the election, and I’ve been in many, fellow Democrats have agreed that a number of factors contributed to Democrats’ losses up and down the ticket. Folks are…

Crispin tweeted this earlier today: I want to write a book called “Heterosexuality is a Fucking Nightmare.”

“so all those polls during the summer are meaningless.”

Yeah, this is a bad thing to hope for. People live in DC. 90% of DC voters voted for Hillary Clinton. Congress tells us how to spend our money. DC has incredibly high income disparity. If there is a riot here, Trump will be fine, Members of Congress will be fine. Regular people will suffer. Can we not?

#NotallDCwomen are schedulers

Oh man, Ann Richards is spinning in her grave.

We pay $16,400 to send our toddler to daycare. This includes breakfast and snack. We pack her lunch and additional snacks. This will drop down to $12,500 when she is pre-school aged. My husband and I are also pretty well-paid, but it is brutal. And I can tell her teachers still have to hustle; things are brutal for…

Lauer has a lot of pull. He can say let me moderate the forum. And NBC has to keep him happy.

Having a black president is not new or different or revolutionary for every child under the age of 14. It does matter. God willing, we’ll elect Hillary and have about two decades of kids who can’t remember anything but a black man and white woman as president.

Boys will be boys!