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This is art. 🤗

submitted 5 hours ago • 39 comments

ICYMI: We're back cataloging Trump's cruelties, collusions, corruptions, and crimes.

submitted 17 hours ago • 1 comment

I am glad that Senators are grilling DNI Gabbard and CIA Director Ratcliffe today. Today should be the start of a 4-year drum beat on Trump's team putting US troops in jeopardy by sharing operational war plans with a reporter before undertaking the operation. Too much is not enough.

submitted 14 hours ago • 37 comments

TIL the one place that it's very clear cut tha tCPB cannot search your devices without a warrant is JFK

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New in @theguardian.com from the President of @ala-acrl.bsky.social: "Cutting [federal library] funding is more than just budget trimming. It means dismantling essential community infrastructure." Read President Lo's full article: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... #ForOurLibraries #FundLibraries

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The Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) is now officially a propaganda department. bookriot.com/imls-propaga...

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And having posted a recipe in honour of the Spring Equinox, it seemed only fair to offer a suitable recipe for those in the Southern Hemisphere, where they’ve just had the Autumn Equinox: my Chicken with Red Grapes and Marsala www.nigella.com/recipes/chic...

submitted 5 days ago • 7 comments

Love this essay/manifesto by @anandwrites.bsky.social "Because having, and nurturing, in your life a sphere for joy and connection and community and love and food and music and human difference and living and letting live is everything they are not and is everything they are trying to take away."

submitted 5 days ago • 15 comments

I was asked today how I can keep working when everything is waves hand like this. Honestly? It’s BECAUSE it’s waves hand like this. Because if I don’t, who will? Because if I sit down, I may never get up. Because the only way out is through, and I believe in a better world on the other side.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

I get that everyone is riled up, and that's a good thing, but maybe instead of saying, 'More people should be doing this' and 'You should be doing that,' try saying, 'I am doing [this specific action], and please join me!' Be active!

submitted 10 days ago • 514 comments

Pro tip: if you aren't sure if a protest is legitimate, ask if they have legal support and who the lawyer for the legal support is. If the answer is no, don't go. Because experienced organizers don't have sign up sheets for protests. They do, however, have legal support beforehand.

submitted 10 days ago • 9 comments

If you’re protesting this weekend, know your rights.

submitted 10 days ago • 64 comments

I feel the weekend calls for slices of Bara Brith, the traditional Welsh fruit-speckled tea bread, spread so thickly with butter you leave tooth marks when you bite into a slice. (The Danes call this happy state of affairs tandsmør, incidentally.) www.nigella.com/recipes/bara...

submitted 10 days ago • 34 comments

🚨NEW🚨: Donald Trump is attempting to strip away federal support for libraries. We will NOT let that happen. Last night the President signed an order to gut the Institute of Museum & Library Services. But together, we know we can show up & defeat it. Full EO: www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

submitted 10 days ago • 60 comments

"The social science research is clear: In the absence of a countervailing message, a 1-sided debate will powerfully shape public opinion. As long as he faces no public counter-argument... Trump will punish universities & pay no cost in the court of public opinion" www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

submitted 10 days ago • 4 comments

About damn time.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

If you are tired well before 11pm, it is because you are juggling daily tasks with everything in the news going on and trying to navigate rapidly changing circumstances. Remember how tired you were for most of 2020?

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

Massachusetts is losing $12 million in federal funding to help schools source food from local farms, thanks to Trump administration cuts. State and industry officials say the move will rock local farmers who built their businesses around the contracts: www.wbur.org/news/2025/03... @wbur.org

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

📅 Tues. 3/25 @ 7PM: Come hear Roxane Gay discuss her new exciting feminist canon "The Portable Feminist Reader" at First Parish Church! She will be joined by WBUR senior arts and culture Cristela Guerra. For tickets and more info visit: buff.ly/77MZgzi

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

New: we've obtained a leaked list of the more than 200 sites, services, apps an ICE surveillance contractor monitors. Bluesky, OnlyFans, many more. Used to track targets. Highly relevant with the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil by ICE. We've published the full list here: www.404media.co/the-200-site...

submitted 13 days ago • 150 comments

Judith Butler: "Once you decide that a single vulnerable minority can be sacrificed, you’re operating within a fascist logic, because that means there might be a second one you’re willing to sacrifice, and a third, a fourth, and then what happens?"

submitted 32 days ago • 76 comments

How God and good men hate so foul a liar.

submitted 21 days ago • 20 comments

14 censorship posts from the last several years to dive into, as they're still timely and relevant today (plus get to know a few anti-censorship heroes along the way). That, plus this week's extensive book censorship news roundup: bookriot.com/book-censors...

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

No, the meeting did not go badly for Ukraine. It exposed in the most undeniable, unequivocal way possible the pro-Putin commitments of the president and vice president. That was information Americans and allies needed to have clear before them.

submitted 25 days ago • 857 comments

My mentor and dear friend @roxanegay.bsky.social recently joined me here at Harvard Medical School for an incredible event. We both read new work and then had a wide-ranging discussion about the creative life, politics and culture. I’m delighted to be able to share the video now:

submitted 25 days ago • 42 comments

Anti-vaccination is literally a eugenics project that is the actual stated goal it's to kill your unworthy children

submitted 26 days ago • 61 comments

Be Good Ancestors. Become, right now, the Ancestors your descendants will call upon to help them when they face their own daunting circumstances. You don't have to be perfect; just have integrity. Make the best choices you can. Be a Good Human, even if they never know your name.💖 #WitchSky #PaganSky

submitted 28 days ago • 9 comments

House Republicans just took the first step towards passing their plans to cut health care and hike the cost of groceries for millions of people. Why? To pay for tax giveaways for billionaires and billionaire corporations. Working people won't forget this. We need to fight back.

submitted 28 days ago • 144 comments

Anger is useful, but it burns hot. Use it before it burns up.

submitted 28 days ago • 18 comments

What secrets lie on the far side of the Milky Way? An invisible supernova, a killer magnetar, huge spiral arms, and what might very well be the galaxy's largest star-forming nebula which absolutely stomps on the Orion Nebula. www.scientificamerican.com/article/what... 🧪 🔭

submitted 32 days ago • 11 comments

"A new generation of young women garment workers are organizing across factories and borders. They are even building relationships with women workers in the US. The fashion industry has no idea what's coming."

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

This opposition tells you a lot about how often airlines destroy wheelchairs.

submitted 34 days ago • 16 comments

"“DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS” is a recognition of the current political moment, and it is an indictment of the past colonizers want to erase."

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment

We could just be reading great books, watching good movies, and eating fruit. Instead we have to survive/fight miserable power hoarders. What a waste of limited time.

submitted 41 days ago • 127 comments

As we head into fashion month, we’re taking a step forward to also highlight the impact of our clothing with #TheLastStop, a package emphasizing the long journey of our discarded clothing. First up: What really happens to your used clothing ⤵️ www.teenvogue.com/story/what-r...

submitted 47 days ago • 12 comments

I can. In fact, the Canadian version is so great, I can't think of an American equivalent. 🧵

submitted 49 days ago • 284 comments

the remarkable and flashy adult male Habronattus hallani, fairly common in our local desert palm oases

submitted 52 days ago • 27 comments

Launched a newsletter YESTERDAY and I'm not only posting essays there, but also trying to do some of the news aggregation there I used to do on Facebook. Like this. meditations-in-an-emergency.ghost.io/week-three-t...

submitted 50 days ago • 22 comments

In February, the darkness of night in the Arctic is nearly absolute. Then, in late March, something shifts: With a slight increase in light comes just enough photons for the sea’s photosynthesizing microalgae to get to work. www.quantamagazine.org/how-does-lif...

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The common ol' Goldfish is becoming a dangerous invasive species in North America academic.oup.com/fisheries/ad...

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Discworld QOTD, from Small Gods “Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”

submitted 51 days ago • 18 comments

For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation

submitted 52 days ago • 48 comments

In honour of our 100th episode, we've compiled this list of 101 places where linguists and linguistics fans get enthusiastic about linguistics, featuring recs of books, podcasts, videos, games, irl activities, and more! 🐦🐦

submitted 54 days ago • 6 comments

The reality on homesteads is that what they largely did was (a) plant a large amount of cash crop and (b) plant a smaller kitchen garden. If your cash crop came in, most of it would get sold, which would then get traded for machinery / subsistence food to make it through winter.

submitted 55 days ago • 23 comments

i think it is important to say that the open and explicit racism of the president and the vice president isn’t just uncouth or “controversial” but a direct attack on tens of millions of americans and a dereliction of their duty to represent the entire country

submitted 54 days ago • 2298 comments