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Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

submitted 5 days ago • 85 comments

Tomorrow, a certain online mega-retailer launches a book sale, just days before Indie Bookstore Day on 4/26. This is no coincidence; Bookstore Day is one of the largest revenue drivers for indies. Indies need our support to thrive & build community spaces for all...mega-retailers do not.

submitted 27 days ago • 23 comments

Happy Earth Day! This is an oldie but goodie, and more true now than ever!

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments

HEALTH CARE IS NOT A REWARD FOR OBEDIENCE. DUE PROCESS OF LAW IS NOT A REWARD FOR OBEDIENCE. HUMAN RIGHTS ARE NOT A REWARD FOR OBEDIENCE. THESE ARE THE UNIVERSALLY ENSURED GUARANTEES OF A SOCIETY THAT TREATS ITS PARTICIPANTS AS PEOPLE RATHER THAN THINGS.

submitted 29 days ago • 28 comments

The real question is--why do so many Americans believe the MAHA message, despite it being so obviously false? And I'd argue--it's because that message offers both a sense of control in the face of uncertainty and a sense of moral superiority as a reward for good health. Let me explain... 1/🧵

submitted 37 days ago • 34 comments

We heard the rumors. Maybe president panican will declare martial law, maybe he won’t. But do you think this clown car of incompetent sycophantic signal leakers can keep all 300 million of us down? Absolutely not. We will not comply. Here’s some advice from Oliver Kornetzke. Let’s get weird.

submitted 38 days ago • 142 comments

I don't know . . . maybe it wasn't such a good idea to give so much power to a mean-spirited simpleton with no empathy.

submitted 40 days ago • 292 comments

This asshole raised prices and ruined your retirement savings, and now he's out golfing for the rest of the weekend.

submitted 45 days ago • 5299 comments

I told him about tariffs.

submitted 46 days ago • 282 comments

@drquuxum.bsky.social posted this and I thought it looked fun. I’m going with “Where Have All the Cowboys Gone” by Paula Cole. I cuss every time it comes on.

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

Yes.

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

Line of storms rolling in. Looks like it’s going to be a fun night!

submitted 48 days ago • 0 comments

I actually left mine in 2016.

submitted 48 days ago • 1 comment

Yes--Germany invented the modern university. In the 1930s its universities were the best in the world until the Nazis destroyed them. German universities have never recovered their preeminence. We risk repeating this history here in the US.

submitted 50 days ago • 50 comments

I don't want Canada or Greenland… I want PBS, Social Security, and The Smithsonian. CAN YOU SAY THE SAME?! 🤚

submitted 50 days ago • 647 comments

It boggles my mind every day that half this country has decided that what will make America great is getting rid of health care, worker protections, and environmental regulations and sending our children back to work in factories like we live in some sort of American Dickensian novel.

submitted 52 days ago • 0 comments

Goodnight friends ♥️ Our hearts are with all of us at HHS who receive bad news tomorrow. And all those at health departments across the country who received bad news this week. Call us cheesy, but Lord of the Rings is on our minds.

submitted 52 days ago • 74 comments

If Dems fail to make Signal leak an incessant story demanding resignations/impeachment, it would be a mirror image of Benghazi, her emails, etc. In face of GOP zone-flooding, Dems cowered instead of calling bullshit; now when GOP says Signal leak is NBD, a failure to push back would be catastrophic.

submitted 55 days ago • 327 comments

Is this for real? 🤦‍♀️

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

I would like to nominate Maxwell Smart for national security advisor.

submitted 55 days ago • 3120 comments

Just watched a video from Mr. Lindsay on Instagram comparing and contrasting Millennial memes and Gen Z/Alpha memes (link in replies). As a Xennial, I’m a little old even for many Millennial memes. 😂 Realizing this got me thinking about pre-internet “memes,” and I’m asking you to share your faves.

submitted 61 days ago • 2 comments

How badly do you have to fuck up being the Democratic leader that Trump is praising and congratulating you????

submitted 66 days ago • 159 comments

All of this.

submitted 67 days ago • 0 comments

one great mystery of our age is how the only way to motivate rich people to work is to give them loads of money for no reason but the only way to motivate poor people to work is to take away loads of their money for no reason

submitted 69 days ago • 42 comments

“If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington Good morning, beautiful humans. We hope you find strength in your communities today.

submitted 69 days ago • 16 comments