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Good Its time 👏👏👏 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/n...

Oh AOC is pissed at the Democratic establishment. Can't blame her. "It doesn't matter how much you work with them they still will choose their old friends and an old generation, every, single, time."

Apparently a lot of white people need to hear this: the sit-ins of the civil rights movement were about people being in places they weren't legally allowed to be, ie. Black people in "whites-only" establishments sitting there so someone would have to pick them up to forcibly remove them.

Chuck Schumer is readying a devastating post as we speak

Pulitzer prize for this Jay L. Clenendin image of LAPD stormtroopers in front of Barbara Kruger's "Untitled (Questions)"

Straight from a Chaplin film from 1918.

If you didn’t know, there is a #kidlitchat at 9m Eastern/6pm Pacific today right here on Bluesky. If you did know, please tell your friends who didn’t! It’s an hour long chat related to #kidlit, btw, and there’s frequently dessert. So join us, if you can and want to. And I’ll see you then….

Hello. I live in Los Angeles. The president is lying.

Precisely this.

This massive, joyfully learned thread just goes to show (once again) that William Goldman was one of the GOATs. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Imagine being so scared of a flyer that you send a cease and desist. Cuomo threatened a union after they distributed their top 10 reasons not to support him. Here’s the flyer that he didn’t want you to see 🔄 #NoCuomo #NYC #Union #AnybodyButCuomo

A pretty! and useful! mayoral voting breakdown card made by @gregpak.net Don’t. Rank. Cuomo.

As terrifying as these ICE arrests are, when ppl are fully masked w/ no legit uniforms beyond fatigues in unmarked vehicles w/ no plates carrying weapons of war, how do we know they're actually ICE? Imagine your daughter being pulled into a windowless van. We tell our kids to run from such monsters.

There's still time to vote for this year's World Fantasy Award! Could you help spread the word? The ballot's here: worldfantasy2025.co.uk/wp-content/u... And the convention's Facebook page is here: www.facebook.com/WorldFantasy...

There's still time to vote for this year's World Fantasy Award! Could you help spread the word? The ballot's here: worldfantasy2025.co.uk/wp-content/u... And the convention's Facebook page is here: www.facebook.com/WorldFantasy...

i love pedro pascal

sorry, gang. this is where we are now. jkr is actively using that money to hurt trans ppl (kids and adults). supporting her is supporting her bigotry and hate. the wiggle room has evaporated. it totally sucks but sometimes the line between an author’s politics and their works is non-existent.

we gotta celebrate the wins and this is one helluva win!!!!

"Yes, Cuomo is awful, but I have some policy differences with the progressives, so this is hard." This is not hard. What you do is, you set aside your precious little checklist, and YOU DON'T VOTE FOR THE AWFUL PERSON.

ADD a letter and ruin a movie Star Warts

ADD a letter and ruin a movie Lady Chatterley's Liver

4-year-old Bakersfield girl facing deportation could die within days of losing medical care - Los Angeles Times Don’t ever tell me that Christians support the GOP. There is nothing Christian or Christ-like about this. Just plain old cruelty and callousness:

ADD a letter and ruin a movie Diet Hard

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Even if you don’t rank Zohran first, DO NOT rank CUOMO. Rank five candidates (so many great candidates are running!) and leave Cuomo off your ballot. [reposted because autocorrect helpfully changed the spelling of Zohran to Zohar, whoever that is]

Thx to LOCUS, f&sf's news mag, I learned about Clarion West, attended & ended up in this strange career. It is a force for good in the industry, constantly bringing to light new & diverse voices—just one reason I’ve chosen to donate to their 2025 fundraiser. Every bit helps! igg.me/at/locusmag2...

Absolutely surreal to have lived through the Napster days and watched as the titans of industry moved hell and high water to lock down any possible chance that someone's song might get swapped online without giving the studios a cut and now those same people are just like "well we gotta steal music"

No, say it louder. It's absolute bullshit how Across the Spider-Verse made over $300 million in profit, yet neither Marvel nor Sony could be bothered to defray the hospital bills of the man who co-created Miguel O'Hara. Instead they left his wife and family scrambling to afford to live.

A very necessary lesson for every creative endeavor.

The treatment of trans people by the U.K. and U.S. governments often takes the form of state-sanctioned sexual harassment and assault. Contrary to the idea that this protects women from sexual violence, it demands it. Giving officers access to women’s bodies ensures it

I did the survey in January you cockwomble