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Author & woman around town. Married to Delia Sherman. Wrote Swordspoint. Host/writer of public radio’s Sound & Spirit. A new gig every 17 years. Back to writing novels. Seeking for further amusement. I would probably like you.
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These are the proactive steps states need to be taking right now. Another thing: every Democratic governor needs to have a sit-down now with the state adjutant general to carefully review that person's understanding of their responsibilities to their state, its citizens and the federal constitution.

submitted 47 days ago • 91 comments

JULIETTE KAYYEM: “Active duty Marines for this, Hegseth? I mean, we were just reporting on it. There's music. The traffic is moving. Most people in L.A. probably don't even know this is going on.”

submitted 19 hours ago • 196 comments

🧵🇺🇸

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

When LA riots, you damn well know it’s happening.

submitted 18 hours ago • 8 comments

wait, so the invasion along the southern border is not real?

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

Can we please have a general strike now

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Or else you’re suddenly their best pal because you live the same obscure music

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

We’re at Little Island!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

We pay into social security our entire working lives. I've been paying in since I was 16. That's our damn money. We earned it.

submitted 2 days ago • 16 comments

Tooleyhenge: yesterday morning, 5 AM. This only happens during the last few days of May, and the conditions have to be right: clear and sunny. Also, I have to be awake before 5 AM. (Unretouched photo)

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

Correct

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“.. after wiping out entire offices, in some cases imperiling key services such as weather forecasting and the drug approval process.” 🤡 @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

submitted 2 days ago • 147 comments

This is a pal of mine. She’s also a weirdly entertaining writer: It’s like reading a tragic-comic soap opera set in 🇺🇸 Healthcare Hell.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

The Head of John the Baptist brought to Herod, by Giovanni di Paolo, 1454

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

Do you have any idea how long I have been waiting for this to pop up??? Do you?

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I'm told this is Xitter this morning.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

Ah, OK - we're marching to Madison Square Park. Good! See you there.

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

I'll be there! (Does anyone have info on what happens when we get to Bryant Park?)

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Thanks for anything you can do to help our friend down in Florida. She’s supporting a family—or was—and living a nightmare of dependence on others now. And she still manages to write me funny letters…. I guess you can laugh, or you can give up.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Do you have any idea how long I have been waiting for this to pop up??? Do you?

submitted 3 days ago • 4 comments

I say this a lot but we are all so lucky this generation of fascists came of age on message boards and not stabbing people to death at close range in a trench while the world detonates endlessly around them

submitted 3 days ago • 60 comments

If you’re overstimulated, please report to the Bluesky cooldown tent where we have orange slices and someone who doesn’t understand the concept of jokes waiting for you

submitted 3 days ago • 128 comments

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 3 days ago • 127 comments

God bless 🇺🇸

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I’m not sure if you can overdose on schadenfreude but we’re about to find out

submitted 3 days ago • 314 comments

I was talking about this with my students yesterday—throughout Western Europe, Nazism is treated in public spaces and memorials as a nightmare, as horror that must never be repeated. If slavery and Jim Crow received the same commemoration in the US, we'd be a very different country.

submitted 3 days ago • 43 comments

To celebrate its 50th anniversary, the Talking Heads have released a new video for Psycho Killer. pitchfork.com/news/talking...

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

And here Donald was being all sympathetic and stuff

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Germany’s Chancellor Merz presented Trump the birth certificate of his German grandfather, Friedrich Trump. It was a clever jab to remind Trump he’s a German immigrant.

submitted 3 days ago • 469 comments

hey is it a sign of a healthy society when a company's stock drops 14% after its ceo gets in a middle school insult match with the president on social media

submitted 3 days ago • 20 comments

magic/riot shirt drop

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I really don’t think this dispute between Trump and Musk can be settled without a fight to the death. The prize? Correct, public execution

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

💯... and while one can question his wisdom re freedom of public action, one can not question his logic. Does anyone think Einstein et al. wanted to leave their homes in Europe? 😠

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I like a Yiddish book with a nice straightforward title. This one is called “The Jewish Cowboy (Novel)” and it’s a novel about Jewish cowboys. Art doesn’t get much better than that

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

I'm trying to remember what the proper word is for the form of government where policy is determined by internet flame war.

submitted 3 days ago • 6 comments

Banana Republicans

submitted 3 days ago • 89 comments

a pretty great admission by Musk that, despite being a mega donor and shadow president for a month there, he's completely unaware of the dynamics of american politics. he was merely audience captured by the only people who could stand him anymore and now he's gonna alienate them too

submitted 3 days ago • 53 comments

the enemy of my enemy is not my friend but watching them smack each other in the nuts is still very funny

submitted 3 days ago • 55 comments

Never would have pegged Katie Miller as Chudverse Helen of Troy but here we are

submitted 3 days ago • 31 comments

Aha!!! I did wonder.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

“An Englishman Italianate is the Devil incarnate” was also a popular saying

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments