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No. We are not living beyond our means. We have simply been denied the means to live.

submitted 14 hours ago • 60 comments

I am autistic. I pay taxes, I have a job. I dated. I get the desire to push this narrative autistic people DO accomplish these to rebut Kennedy. But there was a time when I DID NOT have a job. And non-speaking autistic people or thise with intellectual disabilities don't. They have worth as well.

submitted 13 hours ago • 88 comments

there’s only two ways to write about millennials: “you’re poor and that’s hurting literally God” or “I see you treated yourself to some five dollar thing, I hope you know you deserve all of your suffering ha ha ha”

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Just received a notice from a medical debt collection service and did you know (I did not) that they don't tell you who the original creditor is unless you call or send them a little mail-in form asking for that information?

submitted 15 hours ago • 2 comments

when we said launch the rich people into space that's not what we meant

submitted 19 hours ago • 3 comments

Every NYC friend I have This is tomorrow, the final Worthy of the Event tour with Vivian Blaxell Harron Walker and Emily Zhou are also going to be with her on stage It's at Topos Too Bookstore in Ridgewood Go if you can, it'll be incredible I wish I could be there 💜

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

Okay how about this

submitted 58 days ago • 19 comments

We've reached the point where Republicans are flying to El Salvador to visit one of the most vicious prisons in the world to have photo ops so they can prove their loyalty to the President of the United States.

submitted 23 hours ago • 842 comments

If you thought that the blue origin launch was crass, just wait until you hear that Amazon has unveiled a huge book sale that just so happens to run right through Independent Bookstore Day weekend. Despicable. Shop at an indie store or order on bookshop.org if you don't have a store near you!

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Hey guys! I am in People Magazine! Rambling like a weirdo! And you can see my book cover! I’ve never had an exclusive before! This is so weird and cool tbh people.com/see-the-cove...

submitted 1 day ago • 44 comments

I reviewed Austin Kelley's book, "The Fact Checker," for the @latimes.com (New Yorker nerds, this one's for you!): www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

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WORTHY OF THE EVENT is a smart, funny, sad, sexy, violent, beautiful and more than anything thought provoking collection of essays by @vivianblaxell.bsky.social - AND it’s our May pick for the Queer History 101 book club that Peppermint and I run for Allstora.com allstora.com/pages/queer-...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Also, if any journalists would like to do a story on our book club - why sharing queer history matters in a time of rising fascism, perhaps! - Pep and I are just WAITING to be interviewed. Our goal with this club is to create a huge tent for queer history readers - from scholarly nonfiction to YA…

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

I see a lot of people still trying to illustrate the contradictions in Trump’s foreign policy posturing and I absolutely get it but the very act of identifying contradictions implies that he has even a kernel of good faith behind anything he says or does

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Note to fellow journos: If only one "economist" agrees w Trump tariffs—as evidenced by fact that this particular "economist" is now being interviewed and cited everywhere as only "expert" willing to publicly defend them—consider confirming that he's actually an "economist." Check CVs, for example.

submitted 2 days ago • 57 comments

Everything they’re doing is bad! So how about we agree to stop scolding people with “this is a distraction!!” and instead think quietly, “I’m glad my friend is so passionate about this issue. Knowing they’re calling their senators about that allows me to focus on what I think is most important.”

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Reposting with alt text

submitted 2 days ago • 27 comments

This chart showing 80% of Americans think it’d be great if more of us worked in factories, while just 20% would actually work in a factory, applies to much of the fake populist promise They celebrate farmers but don’t want to farm, miners but don’t want to mine, soldiers but don’t want to fight etc

submitted 3 days ago • 24 comments

“The majority of book censorship attempts are now originating from well-funded, organised groups and movements long dedicated to curbing access to information and ideas.” www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

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rfk jr wants you dead

submitted 3 days ago • 717 comments

Not if RFKj has anything to say about it they won't

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The thing that always gets me about people who think that online spaces should include more of a "diversity of opinions" or whatever is that they always claim that it would foster in-depth conversation or informed debate and like... have you ever been online?! That's not where this happens!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

My IG is currently flooded with ads recruiting people for class action lawsuits about everything from the LA wildfires to phone games and I'm wondering if this is meant to be the way Americans earn a living in the future or something?

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

To start off another amazing ACCOMPLISHMENT SUNDAY, contributor @ilanaslightly.bsky.social 's review of Torrey Peters' STAG DANCE for @washingtonpost.com is an excellent read! Find it here: buff.ly/B1xUt9C

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

I just logged onto Facebook to see what my family members were posting in advance of Pesach, and the first post Facebook fed to me was literal Nazi propaganda. This is social media in 2025. And this is how this sort of rhetoric gets increasingly normalized as a part of regular discourse.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

totally normal things happening in this country yup mhmm

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

If I were a Dem, I’d be holding a press conference rn about how Trump is thinking about giving people in Greenland $10k a year at the same time he’s inflicting a 145% tariff tax on Americans who buy goods from China.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

Coping with everything by reading political metaphors in every children's book I read to my kid

submitted 6 days ago • 2 comments

Even if you’re a leftist who sees corporate DEI as a con, or a conservative who sees it as the wrong way to address diversity, you should recognize that this has nothing to do with that. It’s powerful corporations aligning themselves with a fascist government, consolidating into a regime.

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

Minnesota has launched a new tool to track federal funding cuts that affect services ranging from heating assistance and flood mitigation to tracking diseases.

submitted 6 days ago • 13 comments

also wish non jews wouldn't parrot what their jewish friends are telling them online as if it's their conversation to be having. also wish non jews who talked about jews collectively knew even a fucking ounce about what they're talking about.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

really wish non-jews would take our goddamn names out of their fucking mouths

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Yikes I was very caught up in caving and driving and didn't reblog the event details! But I am reading at Women and Children First in Chicago with Vera Blossom TONIGHT at 7 PM, please come through okay!!! (And then tomorrow in Columbus OH w @caseyplett.bsky.social aaaa it's going to be VERY GOOD)

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

NEW EPISODE! "She seduces and manipulates people. She'll do anything she can." In which we attempt to unpack what the heck Basic Instinct is under the impression it's trying to say.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

We frequently criticize headlines for not conveying what is happening, so lets this. Clear, concise, and does not use the authoritarian's frame. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/09/u...

submitted 7 days ago • 17 comments