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“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”

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I read widely. But in Feb, I focus ONLY on Black authors. My 2025 list: - All About Love, hooks - Parable of the Talents, Butler - Good Dirt, Wilkerson - The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (reread) - Memphis, Stringfellow - South to America, Perry (in progress) Highly recommend them all! #BookSky 📚💙

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Cancelling @joyannreid.bsky.social means the door she held open for the next generation of Black voices will slam shut. Without her, the next her, won't get platformed by white media. That, of course, is why white media pushed her out. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

submitted 12 days ago • 420 comments

Speculative fiction at its best from Laila Lalami. Minority Report meets Black Mirror in the most thoughtful and terrifying way. Themes of privacy, surveillance, private prisons, and big tech + capitalism. Highly recommended! Thanks to Pantheon and NetGalley for the eARC. #TheDreamHotel #BookSky

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

The attacks on DEI are a pretext for a much more radical agenda of reversing the gains of the civil rights movement, an objective the Trump administration is pursuing with zeal. A Great Resegregation. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

submitted 15 days ago • 140 comments

One danger of embracing generative AI as a learning device and in language assistance is that you're letting the keepers of that AI have power over what you learn and how you write. It will be programmed with biases, unintentional but often quite intentional, that you will unknowingly adopt.

submitted 17 days ago • 32 comments

from “Parable of the Talents” by Octavia Butler

submitted 21 days ago • 384 comments

That article is here: thecorrespondent.com/5696/were-he...

submitted 22 days ago • 22 comments

The Stonewall Inn released a response to the National Parks Service removing the word transgender from the park outside of the Inn. A great reminder that we have to look after each other

submitted 23 days ago • 16 comments

I’m in post-biologic recovery mode, so I spent the day with Charmaine Wilkerson‘s incredible new novel, ‘Good Dirt’. If I didn’t require food and a nap, I’d be done already. Highly recommend! #booksky 📚💙

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

A truly sickening story, and another reason not to tune in today.

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

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Murphy: "We need to act like a real opposition party in the middle of a constitutional and democracy crisis. That means we should not be moving forward nominees or legislation in the Senate. Ds should not be giving votes to nominee or legislation in the Senate until Rs get serious about this crisis"

submitted 32 days ago • 2605 comments

Every Feb, I further my own education by solely focusing on Black authors. Feels esp important rn. This year’s list: - Books in photo - Parable of the Talents, Butler - Salvage the Bones, Ward - all about love, hooks - South to America, Perry - The Fire Next Time, Baldwin (annual reread) #BookSky 📚💙

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

Hi, I am @motherjones.com' disability reporter. In the following weeks, I am very interested in hearing how tariff nonsense impacts getting your meds and medical equipment. My email to get in touch is [email protected]. Reposts appreciated.

submitted 34 days ago • 125 comments

I want to spell out the basic reason it’s so dangerous for Elon to have control of the U.S. payments system. It may seem like a technical matter, but the dynamics are simple. 1/x

submitted 35 days ago • 166 comments

Yes! I saw this recommendation from Celeste Ng earlier and already used it to make my 5 calls. Definitely going to keep it up, because it’s so easy to use. It feels great to do something to make my voice heard on Capitol Hill. Highly recommend!

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Reread an all-timer. Quite a ride living in both this USA & the novel’s timeline. “Embrace diversity. Unite— Or be divided, robbed, ruled, killed By those who see you as prey. Embrace diversity Or be destroyed. Earthseed: The Books Of The Living” - Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler #BookSky 📚💙

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

VERY good news from @bookshop-org.bsky.social!!

submitted 40 days ago • 88 comments

Hello BookSky! I am disabled due to autoimmune disease, diagnosed initially 15 years ago this month. I spend my time reading anything and everything. Currently in the middle of a timely ‘Parable of the Sower’ reread for my book club — an all-time favorite. Can’t wait to chat books with you all!

submitted 41 days ago • 1 comment

There it is.

submitted 44 days ago • 18 comments

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

submitted 47 days ago • 505 comments

Trump has rescinded Biden’s Executive Order 14087, “Lowering Prescription Drug Costs for Americans,” which included things like lowering state Medicaid costs for the most expensive therapeutics, reducing Medicare payments for proven drugs, and creating a flat, $2 Medicare copay for generic drugs

submitted 47 days ago • 157 comments

IMPORTANT The US CDC has announced that, going forward, reported SARS-CoV-2 wastewater levels will be normalized to an endemic baseline "Zero" on this baseline will be levels in the previous year @evanblake17.bsky.social @benjaminmateus.bsky.social

submitted 50 days ago • 60 comments

Anti-abortion advocates are running ads to find & encourage men to betray and sue their partners. This makes me sick. wapo.st/40nfmD2

submitted 51 days ago • 217 comments

UnitedHealth has overcharged some cancer patients for medicine by over 1,000%. An FTC report finds that OptumRx, United Health's pharmacy benefit manager, has made billions by charging patients a huge markup for life-saving drugs. www.yahoo.com/news/unitedh...

submitted 53 days ago • 332 comments

Oh... www.axios.com/2025/01/13/w...

submitted 55 days ago • 15 comments

This is the first week I’ve missed publishing a Disabled Ginger article I’ve been in a flare that has made it impossible to finalize any of my 25+ drafts Instead of being gentle with myself…the harmful inner narrative crept in. The “coulda woulda shouldas”. Today I’m trying to take my own advice:

submitted 57 days ago • 7 comments

A serious constitutional crisis is taking place in North Carolina where Republicans are trying to steal a state Supreme Court election by disenfranchising 60,000 voters AFTER the count and recount have showed the Democrat won. Please watch and share. www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5yW...

submitted 59 days ago • 538 comments

Los Angeles received just 0.16 inches of rain since May 2024, the second-driest period on record. Wildfires are now engulfing the city in January. But some politicians still claim the climate crisis is a "hoax" as they do the bidding of Big Oil. What planet are they living on?

submitted 60 days ago • 1176 comments

I talked to 10 current and former Meta employees about the company's surrender to the right on speech issues. All were upset. One person called the changes "a precursor to genocide" www.platformer.news/meta-fact-ch...

submitted 60 days ago • 896 comments

The crisis of democracy didn't end with Trump's victory—it got worse. When North Carolina's state Supreme Court is blocking certification of a state Supreme Court election, the house is on fire.

submitted 61 days ago • 23 comments