Bethany Mannon

I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined #PRRI Public Fellows for 2026-2027! Truly an honor and one of the most interesting professional opportunities I've ever had.

What gets me about this anecdote is that Mayer is "overwhelmed by the range and complexity" but then Dazzle gives her three of the most common, simplistic ways to describe a 10-year old girl

Order footlong sub sandwich Eat half for dinner Put second half in fridge and pretened like you're saving it for lunch tomorrow Pull second half out of fridge at 10 PM and eat it over the kitchen sink

That's a scary number of undecided voters

I am actively wishing for Press Secretary Minaj in the final week before the election because that would be the worst thing Trump could do to himself that doesn't get anyone killed. I am meditating and manifesting on this.

Bluesky has four kinds of users

this might rank as one of the most important outcomes of the night if it happens. would give dems the ability to begin to make north carolina a democracy

• Food: $200 • Data: $150 • Rent: $800 • Pumpkins: $3,600 • Utility: $150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying

iconic

Stop adding things to macaroni and cheese

get in, we’re gonna go scream into the void

Fuck it. Every state, county, and municipality is now named "America." Every body of water is now "Lake/Bay/Sound/Strait of America." Every person? Also "America."* *Except America Ferrera, who shall henceforth be named "Lucy."

Has TV gotten better too?

Beer, obviously

Thoughts and prayers for all my App State colleagues trying to teach today

Help this lady stay in her home while she battles a spinal tumor (and the legal shenanigans of her former employer)!

Never gets old.

Today I was the mom who forgot about picture day and let the kids go to school in their favorite (read: grungiest) tshirts

So who’s been working on a draft constitutional amendment to revoke the president’s pardon power? There’s gonna be a lot of support for it in about 27 months

If you don't have a Nation sub, here's my James Carville, Please Go Away column. (And I realize not everyone can afford lots of subscriptions, but if you can, please subscribe!) www.elizabethspiers.com/james-carvil...

I long for the day when small-minded and petulant men pitching a fit isn't what shapes politics and culture for the rest of us

"As AI reshapes the workforce, we are doubling down on our liberal arts identity, because the uniquely human capacities—ethics, empathy, cultural understanding and critical inquiry—are becoming more valuable, not less." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

My daughter told me on the way to school that each morning they watch a video of someone doing something nice for someone else and talk about it. Yesterday was about how a class set up a visitation and food schedule for a classmate (and family) in long term ICU. That's a good curricular decision.

I think it should!

Good morning #Bluesky I'm hoping some of my Irish friends can help with this. Muckross Abbey, the cloister surrounding the giant Yew tree... what are these markings? #Ireland #ruins #photography #Killarney

Wow I hope that backfires on Vivek

Babylon Bee has a lot of (mostly?) misses, but this one is pretty good

If an AI company would invent a washing machine that can detect a tissue left in a pocket I would take back everything bad I've ever said about them.

being a southerner with a lot of queer/exvangelical friends means i’ve seen a lot of people cut their parents off. and in every single case, it was an incredibly painful and difficult decision to protect oneself from parents who abused or stopped loving their child.

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been saying for years, this is the operative “brainwashing” happening at universities, not gender studies or CRT