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Madeline Vega

TRYING TO BE NORMAL

I don’t remember coloring Easter eggs last year. It was the Tiger King phase of the pandemic, back when we weren’t sure how to make masks or how school would ever resume. This year we colored eggs and didn’t worry the Bunny wouldn’t show. —MV

Madeline Vega

SERIOUSLY?

The Target I like usually has “hard to find” toys according to accounts Luis follows. But then one day there were way too many Jar Jar Binks, like a stock person had held onto them, expecting The Mandalorian to reveal Binks really was a Sith lord. Binks was a Sith the way Officer Potter meant to draw her taser. The toys were all marked for clearance the next week. Meanwhile, Representative Maxine Waters’ government page includes links to a range of legislative issues. Reach out to your representatives to demand better.

Representative Maxine Waters

NEVER ENDING

The bingo board below in response to how predictable tweets were after a woman suggested a female Joker could be an anti-hero was supposed to go in the previous issue, but it ended up being one of many things cut. Did you know 64 people were killed by police in 20 days of the Chauvin trial? New York Times analyzed a number of reports to come up with that number. Meanwhile, Advancing Justice AAJC is fighting for human and civil rights for Asian Americans because, even if not everyone believes AAPI are discriminated against or the victims of hate crimes, the super white pro-America stance has added to the harms non-white people suffer. Join the fight at https:// advancingjustice-aajc.org because ordering takeout is not enough and they have a huge list of ways to help. —MV

MOM HUMOR

Referencing other accounts in captions is an old game, but, now that we’re more than a year deep into the pandemic and full-time remote schooling, I have too much time to scroll. I’ve begun clicking every referenced account to see if I can fill my feed with more random observations. It looks like all the screenshots of what I think are funny now come from accounts with some reference to being a mom in the handle. (None of my screenshots are being auto-cropped in a way that makes sense, so I'm not including them here.) A year ago I used tags to start following accounts like @TamikaDMallory and more people fighting for social justice. Now that we’re in a state of going to the playground and possibly interacting with people socially again, I’ll keep scrolling mom accounts to remember how to laugh at being a white mom stuck at home.