O Holy Night
If there was ever a year we needed something magical, and aligning, we all know this is the one. And that magical alignment comes tomorrow night.
Mauve Quarterly: Volume One!
December 2020: A Year in . . . what was that exactly? How’s America doing? Read how The Mauve Report got started, and how it really got going. Plus, the Best of Autumn. And what are we looking forward to for Winter? Maude reports.
Vote. Certify. Elect!
In an event that normally doesn’t receive nearly this much attention, the Electoral College votes today, in the third phase of our Presidential election process! But because it doesn’t normally receive this much attention, it may have escaped notice that there is more to the process, to take place between now and Inauguration Day.
A Journey Just Beginning
Five hundred children were brought to our border and began a new life, but not the ones their parents had planned.
Exhibit Q
America reckons with the most powerful conspiracy theory it’s ever seen. But it’s all been seen before.
Learning from Reality
It’s the worst the pandemic has ever been, I’m in one of the states with the worst numbers and the most resistance to public health measures, where education isn’t the highest priority even in the best of times, and I just signed up my last remaining virtual learner to return to in-person learning, effective yesterday. And I feel great–and terrified.
The Overlooked Laws of People and Sex
How anti-trans sentiment and sexism end up in the same bed, and take us all with them.
Month Ten
Depending on where you live, it’s been about nine months since the coronavirus pandemic first caught up to the United States.
Put this in your pocket.
Do you need a little bit of joy? I came across an article in the New York Times last month, and maybe you saw it too. If you did, surely you’ll want to see it again. If not, you’ll want to see it again too.
Chill of December
Lisa Montgomery was scheduled to be executed by the United States, December 8. Following a delay on account of her lawyers contracting COVID-19, she is now set to die January 12, 2021. If she is executed on that date, she will be the first female federal inmate executed in nearly seventy years, and the 55th woman executed since 1900.