Hello, Friends. How are you? How has your week been? Since the kids are out of school this week, we have been using our mornings to explore off-the-beaten-path Normandy — and doing a lot of baking. This weekend, maybe we’ll visit a couple of brocantes we haven’t been to before, maybe do some bike riding, and Olive will head back to Paris (sad face). How about you? Any plans?
I’ve got a great link list for you this week. Here are a few things I’ve wanted to share:
-‘Nobody came, nobody helped’: From San Francisco to New York, violent attacks against Asian Americans have left the community reeling.
-Lindsey Boylan wrote about sexual harassment from Andrew Cuomo.
-The growing evidence that the Covid-19 vaccines can reduce transmission. (This is good news!)
-“Not all Southerners believe the lies about climate change trotted out by Republican politicians enslaved to the fossil-fuel industry.”
-The Prices on Your Monopoly Board Hold a Dark Secret.
-A profile of Sylvia Federici, the socialist feminist theorist of housework.
-Grandma and Grandpa sent a microscope set for Christmas and the kids love it so much.
Here are some tweets I saved for you:
-I wish the Democrats would push through as much as possible while they have power.
-An interesting thread about the idea of a “pandemic tax” we’ve all been paying. Click to read the whole thing.
–The country supports the Equality Act. Republican elected officials should not be fighting this.
About 83% of Americans support legislation like the The Equality Act, including about half of conservative voters, according to the most recent reporting from @PRRIpoll. This is consistent with polling in recent years from other sources. Americans want this.#EqualityAct
— Charlotte Clymer 🇺🇦 (@cmclymer) February 25, 2021
-Have you seen coverage about this? This seems to have a typo — they’ve found the parent of 105 kids so far. Which is great news! I wish they would shout it from the rooftops so that hopefully it will go even faster for the rest.
The fact that they found the parents of the 500 stolen migrant children in 30 days doesn’t seem to be getting the coverage it deserves.
— Janet Johnson (@JJohnsonLaw) February 25, 2021
–Me too.
Personally I think it should be easier to raise the minimum wage than to drop bombs on Syria
— Kate Aronoff (@KateAronoff) February 26, 2021
Absolutely no one asked for gender neutral Mr. Potato Head and yet it will still be the talk of Fox for six years
— Louisa 🌈👭 (@LouisatheLast) February 25, 2021
–Double standards for women — especially women of color.
how it started how it’s going
— Anna Maltese 💛 🏹 💛 (@MalteseAnna) February 25, 2021
BUT HER EMAILS BUT HER TWEETS
If you wrote a single line for every person in the US to die from Covid, you would have an elegy of half a million lines. It would occupy roughly ten thousand pages, or 20 reams of paper, and would weigh approximately one hundred pounds.
— D. A. Powell (@Powell_DA) February 23, 2021
-A perspective I hadn’t heard before.
-A thread on the different agencies covering immigration.
I want us to understand what to where to hold our government accountable and how the immigration system works. That's how we transform the system to something that is fair, humane, and functional. As we know, right now it's…not. (2/?)
— Jess Morales Rocketto (@JessLivMo) February 24, 2021
–Hahaha.
at no point during the reading of this sentence did i have any idea what would happen next https://t.co/B0uqxwlIHC
— Josh Crutchmer (@jcrutchmer) February 25, 2021
I hope you have such a good weekend! I’ll meet you back here on Monday. I miss you already.
kisses,
Gabrielle
I did see this article about the family separation. Wish it was already 500…
Oh man, Gabby. You nailed the subtle art of these weekly round-ups. Ending with that rolling stone headline, added the perfect cherry on top. The right touch of levity to all kinds of important and beautiful items. I almost missed it, but was cry-laughing as I read it out loud. Keep up the great work!
FYI the Lindsey Boylan link is going to the equality act Twitter thread instead.
I appreciate the heads up. All fixed now.