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This is a moral moment. It is not left or right, it is right or wrong.

submitted 19 hours ago • 319 comments

How am I coping with everything? Well, I read 12 books adding up to 4,293 pages in March.

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submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

Here's the thing: I'm just a teacher, and I am more careful with my students' confidential information (eg making sure to bcc and also that only the correct people are on email chains) than the LITERAL NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR with LITERAL BATTLE PLANS.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

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I do not care if every single person disappeared to El Salvador is a hardened criminal. There is no justification in the world you can make for this. A regime with clear contempt for laws of God and humanity forfeits its legitimate claim to power.

submitted 17 days ago • 2 comments

I just keep thinking about MLK's definition of an unjust law as something that a majority in number or power binds a minority to follow, but does not follow itself.

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Breaking: everything

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

people say The Great Gatsby is “no longer relevant,” but careless people have never been more brazen, or more prominent.

submitted 13 days ago • 46 comments

Mood:

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Madeleine L'Engle; this is why they want you illiterate

submitted 16 days ago • 33 comments

Absolutely. See also reading, baking, and puzzles.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

Shit, shit, shit.

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

If you are in one of these places, use your voice while you still can to urge your senators to hold the line!

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Senate Dems, repeat after me: "We will not vote for cloture until the Trump administration obeys court orders. We cannot fund a lawless government."

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

"They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.” Man if only this quote had contemporary relevance!

submitted 22 days ago • 6 comments

The fact that the people who did Watergate, Iran-Contra, and Guantanamo got away with it is part of how we got here

submitted 23 days ago • 14 comments

Is anti DEI the new HUAC?

submitted 27 days ago • 0 comments