Lindsey Babuder 🐊📚

Gwen kept more than her ex’s scarf in her drawer. Instead, a shoebox holds every memory from their childhood to their engagement. She’s finally ready to toss it all, but she’s got one more Question…? On 1 last road trip together, will she be able to ask it? #swiftiepitch #c #a

Stop the escalation. End the war now. No one wants this.

Republican congressional leaders: Whatever he may or may not have on y'all, there's no way it's worth risking a nuclear war.

Pete Hegseth repeatedly mocks "rules of engagement." But now that a US pilot is missing and possibly capture, a reminder, rules of engagement don't just protect people we go to war against, they also protect OUR troops.

First they came for the em dash and I did not speak out. Then they came for the Oxford comma…

Sorry, no you're still not 'doing the work'

Paige is redoing her Holiday House when she learns she has the BRCA gene mutation that took her sister. Not one to ruin things, she hums You’re on Your Own Kid as her Wildest Dreams slip away. To have a chance at a future, she’ll need to redefine her dreams. #swiftiepitch #c #a

On the day you move back home to renovate an old beach house, you’ll learn you have the BRCA gene mutation. It’s very important that you… Do nothing. Tell nobody. Lie to everyone. I mean, this house isn’t going to fix itself, amiright? #UnhingedPit #wf #a

@sammylebans Love this! Our stories have some definite similarities, and this seems like the perfect summer read!

The Fear of Falling - 🖤 An obsessive, messy romance. "She’s like the very first hit of a brand-new drug."❤️‍🔥 Blair and Ace's song ⬇️ Camila Cabello - Never Be the Same (Official Video) youtu.be/Ph54wQG8ynk?si… via @YouTube #UnhingedPit #R #Q

Britney Spears’ “Crossroads” -minus her friends -minus the old convertible +plus her ex and his pickup truck Will they make it to California without killing each other? #unhingedpit #wf #a

@chicagotechmom @_samantha_joy Came to say the same thing! We loved the Sandra Boynton books especially, and I do believe the rhyming and repetition played a part in their early talking.

@_samantha_joy I think the one thing you are missing here is that the best board books are written with much heavier amounts of rhyming and sonic awareness which are tools that engage babies with language even before they can comprehend the story.

I'm open to being convinced I'm wrong, but I feel dubious about the value of 'baby books' and don't plan to buy/use them. And I'm someone who is so bullish on the value of reading/literature, I'll be using Montessori to start phonics at ~2.5yo. But 'baby books' seem like they fit in the category of "looks educational to adults, but not all that valuable from a child's perspective". At least for a child under ~12-18 months. If the goal is building vocabulary, it's far more effective (and easy) to let your baby engage with real objects in the world and provide the names that way. If the goal is the child regularly hearing rich language, it's far easier and more effective to just talk to your baby and narrate everything you're doing. You can also just read *real* books and poetry and get the added benefit of providing varied prosody. I see a lot of parents stressing out, like "my baby won't sit still while I read to him/her" or "my baby just wants to rip/turn the pages or throw the book" and idk, my response is just ... what are we even doing here? for whom? again, I'm open to arguments, but I highly doubt handling board books at 8 months old really makes that much of a difference in whether a child eventually loves reading, especially if you're going to invest heavily in them loving to read once they're a toddler.

Racism is anti-neighbor and anti-Christ. Where it is dismissed, it breeds. Where it is downplayed, it flourishes.

If the Church’s only response to evil is whataboutisms, then we have utterly failed in our sacred calling to be salt and light in the world. Why can’t we simply deal with the issue at hand?

There’s a strategy behind Trump’s Truth Social posts: push the boundaries, normalize the degradation, and hope the public eventually shrugs. But democracies don’t survive on numbness. They survive on people refusing to let cruelty become the standard.

I'm kind of tired of Christian influencers who don't seem to have been influenced by Christianity.

I would offer that Alex Pretti putting his body—with his hands up—between a woman and the BP agent who had just violently shoved her into the snow, offer stark competing visions of manhood. Pretti, a nurse caring for veterans, who took a face full of pepper spray to shield that woman, is a much better masculine ideal that the masked coward shoving the woman and executing a man on his knees. MAGA may venerate the latter, but most people in a healthy society want the former.

Mr. Rogers, they’re shooting the helpers.

To be clear about what this depicts: An immigration officer threw a woman onto the ground. Alex Pretti, a registered nurse on scene as a legal observer, is filming and goes to help the woman up. He is then pepper sprayed and thrown to the ground for no discernible reason. Many officer surround and assault him; one removes his firearm, which police say appears to have been legally registered. They then execute him with a hail of bullets. They are, objectively speaking, both cowards and criminals, while Pretti is what we teach people an American ought to be.