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Omg, I wish I had this in my vocabulary years ago…

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Also, please beware of performative activism. This mess we're in is exceptionally nuanced, and is going to take a lot of work to get out of it. Frankly, the folks NOT preening about their accomplishments are often the ones doing the most impactful work. Judge less. Worry about yourself more.

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

We apologize to our Ukrainian supporters. We are embarrassed by how our president and vice president have behaved. We are fighting to redeem the soul of America. 🇺🇸

submitted 6 days ago • 528 comments

Today, in a meeting at the White House, the only person actually defending American interests was Zelenskyy. Let that sink in.

submitted 6 days ago • 541 comments

‘Deeply concerned’: The N.C. official leading the effort to allocate $1.4 billion in federal disaster block grants says more funding is vital to help communities hit by Hurricane Helene recover. www.bpr.org/bpr-news/202...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

There is no way for for “democracy” to function in a world that looks like this

submitted 8 days ago • 37 comments

Ah yes...the right to choose. In not surprising news, fishtailing from the privileged class.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I run QBW, which I hope will one day be BookBub but Queer. And also not $800 for a single spot. And also not just limited to books you can get on Amazon. And also not just books. So, overall, better than bookbub! Consider both signing up for the weekly email and also submitting your books, etc 💜

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

At long last, I’m thrilled to announce that my new book, WITHOUT CONSENT: A Landmark Case and the Decades-Long Struggle To Make Spousal Rape a Crime, will be published on November 11, 2025 and is available for pre-order wherever books are sold! www.sarahweinman.com/book/without...

submitted 9 days ago • 72 comments

On the cutting room floor is the bit where the host introduced their interview series, The Interview, and I asked how long it took to come up with the name. Anyway, here’s me talking about birds and science and burnout and moving through the world. The photo’s nice! www.nytimes.com/2025/02/22/m...

submitted 12 days ago • 53 comments

If you read one thing today… www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 12 days ago • 868 comments

Checking a reference, I've had occasion to reread Ursula K Le Guin's Foreword to 'Tales from Earthsea'. The following passage struck me forcefully in the light of current international events. "Past events exist, after all, only in memory, which is a form of imagination. (continues) 1/3

submitted 14 days ago • 15 comments

To turn it off!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Over 50% of nonviolent movements to overthrow governments are successful within one year of their peak. The key is to engage over 3.5% of the country, a cross-section of society—clergy, kids, grandmas, teachers) using DIVERSE & CREATIVE tactics, with women in leadership. We can do this. More:

submitted 48 days ago • 114 comments

I know it well! She haunts me...

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

If your writing didn’t matter, they wouldn’t be going after our books and our stories and desperately trying to rewrite them and/or destroy them. Language is power.

submitted 15 days ago • 4 comments

The author talks and signs for the third book in a marvelous trilogy, @natania.bsky.social (my dear sister) will be in Raleigh at Quail Ridge Books! 📚 I will see you there!

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

Today, I found out that the Department of Defense banned the Well-Read Black Girl anthology by Glory Edim. I was one of its contributors. I'm really hurt right now. So if you have it in you, please buy books by Black women from independent bookstores.

submitted 15 days ago • 463 comments

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submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

Random PSA / Reminder: Bisexuals / Pansexuals /Omnisexuals in a committed, monogamous relationship haven't chosen a side, they've chosen a partner.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Doorbell just rang. A package from Australia. The bookseller Nicholas Pounder sent me a small press print of my Times Literary Supplement poem, "Criseyde." It's a private, gift copy, and it has brought tears to my eyes this morning, for so many reasons.

submitted 120 days ago • 23 comments

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty.

submitted 24 days ago • 636 comments

Congress was denied entry to both the U.S. Department of Education and the Treasury, where Musk staffers blocked the doors. Along with its appropriations responsibilities, Congress holds oversight authority over federal agencies. Blocking congressional access to these agencies is illegal.

submitted 26 days ago • 580 comments

they are mostly targeting black employees so this is quite literally just a repeat of woodrow wilson’s segregationist purge of the federal government

submitted 29 days ago • 1275 comments

You are an artist regardless of skill. You are an artist regardless of skill. You are an artist regardless of skill. You are an artist regardless of skill. You are an artist regardless of skill. You are an artist regardless of skill. You are an artist regardless of skill. You are an artist.

submitted 30 days ago • 119 comments

I’m a part time librarian and I just want to echo what I’ve seen other librarians say recently: there is a HUGE uptick in requests for social justice, climate justice, abolition, history, etc books and I just want to say nobody is giving up the fight. If anything people are fighting harder #library

submitted 30 days ago • 67 comments

This is very good. Clear and succinct.

submitted 30 days ago • 83 comments

Any university that voluntarily shutters a DEI program, office or personnel “Because of Trumps Executive Order” is making a PR decision. Not a legal one. Trumps EO does not change anti discrimination law. If anything, the EO is unlawful. Universities should treat it that way.

submitted 34 days ago • 27 comments

1. BREAKING Several of Elon Musk’s associates installed at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) — including two recent high school graduates — have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.

submitted 31 days ago • 313 comments

One day when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold everyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this. - Omar El Akkad

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

Roses are redde Noble are the manatees Yf we wante a bettir future Teach artes & humanityes

submitted 33 days ago • 5 comments