so many things happen in one day

“Two weeks before this year’s primary elections, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced the creation of a tip line for the public to report people or groups suspected of voter fraud,” the Texas Tribune reports.

“The announcement linked to guidance from his office about election laws in Texas, which included a requirement to be a U.S. citizen, a prohibition on collecting mail ballots on behalf of others and a warning that ‘it is illegal to misrepresent your residence on election records or to establish a residence for the purpose of influencing the outcome of an election.'”

We're reading this book this month about farm animals and opposites and the first page is like "some cows are thin/some cows are fat/but how big is a pig?/can you tell me that?" And this chick REFUSES to say the word fat. She replaces it with "big" or "large" every time which like 1) is fucked but 2) you're FUCKING UP THE RHYME SCHEME!!!!!!! lol

And it's so incredible in one of those "laugh hysterically so you don't cuss her out" ways because like, the first time she did it I thought she just fucked it up, but then when it was my turn to read it later in the day I watched her pop her head around the half wall to the other infant classroom and like, do that insecure pathetic thing you try to get other people to laugh about something that's making you uncomfortable to justify it??? Like "oh my gosh hahaha have you guys seen this book haha it says FAT" (I don't think my other coworkers took the bait but they probably just didn't get it rather than being pro fat allies or whatever lol)

And also, obviously, every time I've read it since I say fat loud as shit because duh, I'm also fucking fat, we work in a preschool and every year I've had a former student or older kid with babies on the brain because they looked through old photos of their mom or whatever ask me if I'm pregnant and I gleefully tell them no, I'm just fat! Because when you work with kids (which includes fat preschoolers like I used to be) it's a word that comes up all the time and needs to be presented to them with positivity, if not the bare absolute MINIMUM of neutrality, fucking obviously.