Solidarity coming your way. I’m sorry you have to worry. A Muslim friend who was working in DC after 9/11 also says this feels like that, but worse - in his case partly because he now has children.

I’m working on my inauguration playlist. Russians is on there, obviously, as is It’s the End of the World as We Know It. And Get up, Stand up. Thoughts?

A friend at a party this weekend responded to a sarcastic “We’ll be fine!...” with “No, seriously, most of us in this room will be fine. And we need to remember that if things seem bad to us, they’re a thousand times worse for many others.”

It makes me feel ever-so-slightly better to be reminded that Kellyanne Conway actually saw Trump with clear eyes once upon a time, and her promotion of him really is completely cynical and not the act of a true believer.

glamorization of vapidity and thirstiness is everything I ever thought about the Kardashians but couldn’t put into words.

I unabashedly love I Love This Bar and hope he plays A Little Less Talk, a Lot More Action in a nod to PEOTUS.  but imagine the set will instead include every Toby Keith song whose title contains the word America(n), of which there is no shortage

It wouldn’t have to have been live-in care. There are limits in the tax code for what you can pay one single person off the books. $1900 last I checked - which is a fair number of random yoga classes or Saturday nights out, but adds up quick if you’ve got someone on a steady 10 hours / week deal. I babysat for a…

Yeah, same. I have a graduate degree, loved school, love teaching (my narrow discipline, to adults). I don’t remotely think I can do the job of an elementary school general education teacher, let alone a special education teacher. I can provide enrichment activities, I can add supplementary materials on particular…

So many mismanaged charter schools out there. Plus the ones that are successful but flat-out refuse to admit special needs students because they require additional resources

That may be the single most obnoxious inconsistency about the GOP. And there are many to choose from.

Stepdad Tim might like church too, but he wouldn’t force you to go every darn week and if you said you’d rather go volunteer at Planned Parenthood he’d be ok with that.

Ok, that legit scares me as much as anything else she’s said. Public schools explicitly CANNOT be used for your God’s kingdom’s causes.

It’s a hard time to be an IEP parent. :/

ExACTly. Homeschooling exists as an option already for those who choose it, and I have my doubts about it even for average-to-high functioning students. Putting a parent with no education background and who had no interest in homeschooling in charge of their moderately-to-highly-impacted child’s education because the…

That’s true. But I have to think that the federal government is a better horse to bet on than some of the poorer red states.

I can’t even imagine how furious he is inside. He was going to be America’s Next Uncle!

And absolutely everyone had a gun because one-room schoolhouses literally were at risk of grizzly attack.

Tim Kaine touched on the possibility that parents would shop around for a system that was friendlier to their children with disabilities, and BDV seemed to think that that, too, was also best left to the states to hash out. I think this has the potential to create sender-states and receiver-states, personally, and a…

On the education of kids with special needs:

Always one more.