Italics Mine

Italics Mine

It's Friday, Issue #143

I'm mad

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Edan Lepucki
May 22, 2026
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I’ve been really pissed off this week. I keep muttering The 1.8 billion dollar fund? The 1.8 billion dollar fund?! like a string of curse words. This brazen corruption! Can you believe it? I’m foaming at the mouth!

The other morning, I read about the fund and then, a few minutes later, discovered Ginger barefoot in her room, drawing with a highlighter in her journal like it wasn’t 7:41 am and time to leave for school. I lost my mind. There is only so much bullshit I can handle!

Since I’m riding a wave of anger, here are three other parenting annoyances I want to stew about…

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