Jackie Reitzes

@GrantGinder Will you repost your hilarious tweet from a few years ago about how you hate Halloween in general? “Grow up” 🤣🤣🤣

I hate gay Halloween. What do you mean you’re a tweet about hating gay Halloween?

There have always been two Joe Bidens. The empathetic, decent, big-hearted leader, forged in loss and grief, finding the good in his friends and opponents, in love with America, arms wide and open with space for everyone. And there’s the blowhard with a chip on his shoulder, stubborn, something to prove, his fellow senators rolling their eyes as the finger wags harder and the stories get longer. Statesman and politician, hero and fool. Joe Biden ran for president for 50 years. He finally won because he ran as that hero at a time when the country was desperate for empathy and normalcy and wisdom and grace. It was still too close. But even when he was doubted by insiders and pundits (hi!), he persevered; he knew Democrats, he knew America, and he was right. And then! To his great and everlasting credit, Joe Biden governed as that statesman too. He built a coalition wide enough to hold Joe Manchin and Bernie Sanders. He defied Washington’s stodgy consensus when necessary, a consensus he spent a lifetime living inside. He adapted, he governed with humility and purpose, whether on how to revive the economy, or take on monopolies, or address student loans, or press for the largest investment in clean energy by any country anywhere on earth. And even as he showed the capacity to listen to the rising progressive voices inside the Democratic party, at the very same time he achieved bipartisan legislative successes in defiance of every political trend of the last thirty years. Joe Biden has been an extraordinary president! Statesman. Hero. But it’s hard to deny that in the two weeks since the debate, it’s the arrogant and small Joe Biden we’ve seen most - hanging on, bragging, defensive, angry, weak. Who else but him? he wonders aloud. Only God could change his mind, he tells us. The stakes for the country are all that matter. The stakes for Joe Biden are beside the point. But it’s worth saying just the same: Joe Biden can leave office as one of the greatest presidents in our lifetimes, who defeated Trump and put his country first at every turn; or he can leave a stubborn old man who allowed hubris and insecurity to destroy his legacy and perhaps our democracy with it. We all have our best and worst selves, scrambling over each other, battling it out in the moments that define us. Where is the Joe Biden we elected? Where is the statesman? I hope that version of him shows up soon. And I hope the people around him know where to look.

This is what you need to know. If Trump is elected, you will lose: Abortion Contraception IVF

@GrantGinder @HarperViaBooks And as we know… you’re there at JFK browsing because you’re hours early and Mac is still at home? 🤣

I’m having a lovely morning browsing books at a Hudson News at JFK, where I picked up a novel I liked and blurbed, opened it, and was pleasantly surprised to see that @HarperViaBooks had misspelled my last name.

@GrantGinder Mazel!

Today I finished the first draft of a new novel, which, after reading this, somehow feels like less of an accomplishment.

@GrantGinder There's even a WIKI page! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Know_….

I’m being very serious this changed my life.

Pretty soon the name you give to your hypothetical future child when you’re 12 years old is going to have more rights than a woman in Alabama.

@larsonrichard Have fun, Richard!

Always freaked out when they’re like “a water landing is unlikely” when there are zero bodies of water in the flight path. Anyway, see you soon AWP!

@larsonrichard 👏👏👏 🤓⚡️👻 ⚰️

The woman next to me on the train uses DEATH as her Wordle starter and then follows it up with LURKS

Still doesn’t change the fact that he stole my table at a restaurant during Sundance in 2007

@DavidClewett 👏👏👏

Lets goooooo Sawry Not Sawry 💸👏🏾

@GoStripers 🤣

You know what Michael Harris II? We forgive you for skipping us last year.

@ev_goldfarb Yes Lizzie!

Now published at jneurosci.org/content/early/…!

@vpmurty YAY DEEPU!!!

I’m excited to announce the Adaptive Memory Lab is moving to Univ. of Oregon summer 2024. I’ve been a lucky duck to forge such great relationships at Temple and am looking forward to developing new ones. I’ll be recruiting grad students next year so feel free to reach out. #OMG

@dylanlyons91 @GrantGinder ^+1! 💯

As a writer there’s NOTHING cooler than getting emails from a reader* *(Cindy Wallace, I don’t know who you are or why you’re sending me emails from your husband’s email address, but my answer to your email asking why my mom made me ugly is why did yours make you a bitch?)

@cmmcguire This was my question, too!

@vpmurty Love you, your silly goose energy, and your realness the most!! ❤️ academia needs more like you!

A thought on mental health in academia. I have MDD/GAD. I have made accommodations for my well-being (including taking leaves), so I can do this job I love. But these decisions could have been easier with less stigma in the field. I hope sharing is a step in the right direction.

“I’m teeming with emotions which a chatbox couldn’t begin to understand.” Best #TonyAwards shade from Sir Tom Stoppard