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Me: In my Swedish class, everyone’s favorite word is “pyttelite.”

CR: They don’t know about “potatis”?

Me: Do you have any white-out?

CR: No. 1987 called, and...

Me: But you use paper all the time!

CR: Yeah, but I don't make mistakes.

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Week 1: Birth Story & First Week at Home with a Newborn

This week’s episode is in two parts. >> Subscribe in Apple Podcasts

Part 1: Birth Story

We share the details of our quick birth that largely took place in a Lyft while zooming into Manhattan.

>> Listen to Part 1 on Soundcloud

Part 2: What Do We Do With This Thing?

We talk about how it feels to suddenly have a new baby in the house, and the accessories needed in week 1, from cabbage to Depends.

>> Listen to Part 2 on Soundcloud

Show Notes:

4-5% of babies born on due date - Actually about 6% are born by their due date: https://spacefem.com/pregnant/charts/duedate1.php

Cognitive Dissonance: https://www.simplypsychology.org/cognitive-dissonance.html

“Chinese” Water Torture: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_torture

“Baby Come Back”: http://www.metrolyrics.com/baby-come-back-hall-oates-ml-video-ypz.html

Baby Connect App: https://www.baby-connect.com/

adriennes

Long time no see, Tumblr. We had a kid and started a podcast!

Conservative women, anti-feminist women, apolitical women, it is simply a fact: You are participating in feminism just by being alive. In the most passive sense, you are beneficiaries. You can vote, you can work, you can have your own bank account, you can bring a sexual harassment claim against someone at your place of employment, you can prosecute your husband for rape, you can get an abortion. These rights weren’t just won by the women’s movement of the past; they are protected by the feminist movement of today — and they are under constant attack by the Republican Party, particularly the current administration.

Lindy West (NYT)

It's either Salt and Pepper or Beyonce group.

CR trying to figure out who sings the song currently in his head

#destiny's child #salt and peppa

Indeed, for a sense of the stakes, Mr. Trump need look no further than President George W. Bush’s response to Katrina, which pummeled New Orleans in August 2005, crippling the city and leaving well over 1,500 people dead. The response of Mr. Bush’s FEMA administrator, Michael D. Brown, and the perception the president had incorrectly assessed the storm’s impact, are widely thought to have undermined the rest of his presidency.

Trump Administration Faces Hurricane Harvey, Its First Major Natural Disaster https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/25/us/politics/trump-hurricane-texas-fema.html Pretty sure that even the worst response from Trump would have no negative results for him.

The "good news," and one of the many reasons the fallout shelter program was scrapped, is that New York is the U.S.'s densest and most populous urban center and, as such, would be high on the list of targets for a nuclear attack. In other words, if the U.S. was attacked by one of the world's nuclear superpowers, rather than having to hide out underground for weeks, then trek through the irradiated landscape ducking air strikes and keeping up with the doings of the remaining members of the Freedom Caucus operating out of a shipping container in Annapolis, we'd probably all be vaporized instantly.

NYC’s Fallout Shelters Basically Don’t Exist Anymore (Gothamist)

Cool.

You need to take care of yourself today. No Trump. No negative energy.

CR's prescription for a cold

Setting up my mom's new Amazon Echo. Me: Do you know what this is? Dad: Yeah. You talk to it and it's like Googling.

One woman’s dystopia is another woman’s reality.

Why Saudi Women Are Literally Living The Handmaid’s Tale (NYT)

I don’t feel responsible at all.

Andrew Wakefield, anti-vaccination movement founder who is part of a group who has targeted Somalian immigrants in Minnesota to convince them not to vaccinate. (NYT - Minnesota Sees Largest Outbreak of Measles in Almost 30 Years)

Has life just been too easy for too long that people need their own kids to get the measles before they realize it’s horrendous?

Today’s listening -- Paranoid Android live 2017 vs. 1997.

#radiohead #thom yorke #coachella #paranoid android #ok computer

Art creates pathways for subversion, for political understanding and solidarity among coalition builders. Art teaches us that lives other than our own have value. Like the proverbial court jester who can openly mock the king in his own court, artists who occupy marginalized social positions can use their art to challenge structures of power in ways that would otherwise be dangerous or impossible.

Why Authoritarians Attack the Arts (NYT)

Get ready, 'cause this ain't funny! My name's Christian Ryther and I'm about to make brownies!

Beastie Boys inspired rap overheard in my kitchen at 4 pm on a sick day.

What Americans have cited as the most important problem facing the country at the beginning of each presidential term.

Putting this here so I can find it next time I’m thinking about it.

Really interesting to visually see how people’s fears have changed over time in this country.

#gallup poll

Thanks, Casey.

#keep going

There are no racists in America, or at least none that the people who need to be white know personally. In the era of mass lynching, it was so difficult to find who, specifically, served as executioner that such deaths were often reported by the press as having happened "at the hands of persons unknown." In 1957, the white residents of Levittown, Pennsylvania, argued for their right to keep their town segregated. "As moral, religious and law-abiding citizens," the group wrote, "we feel that we are unprejudiced and undiscriminating in our wish to keep our community a closed community." This was the attempt to commit a shameful act while escaping all sanction, and I raise it to show you that there was no golden era when evildoers did their business and loudly proclaimed it as such.

Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between The World and Me

#ta-nehisi coates

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