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Writer--essays and fiction in NYT, Electric Literature, The Forge, Cutleaf, Brevity Blog, Sunlight Press, Phoebe Journal, and elsewhere. BAE Notable, Pushcart Prize nominee. Environment, New Jersey, Mets, books, kayaking, biking, kindness. Doting grandma.
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well it has certainly been an amusing prank to let the worst people alive take over the american government for a few weeks, but I think it's probably gone on long enough

submitted 15 days ago • 104 comments

“Be careful. When a democracy is sick, fascism comes to its bedside, but it is not to inquire about its health.” Albert Camus

submitted 15 days ago • 240 comments

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

submitted 15 days ago • 786 comments

Listen to Secretary Pete. And remember, these are our funds. These are our courts. And these are our streets.

submitted 19 days ago • 772 comments

Does “Golden Age” refer to a time when planes keep crashing, eggs cost $10–15 a dozen, the U.S. is being booed and protested by all our allies, workers are losing their jobs, and Americans’ personal data is being rummaged through by unelected oligarchs and their strange crew of 20-something incels?

submitted 20 days ago • 3060 comments

Senator Schiff (as Dems filibuster the nomination of Project 2025 author Russ Vought): “The moment you say it’s ok to violate the law to shut down USAID you have said it is ok to violate the law and shut down anything.”

submitted 22 days ago • 668 comments

Whenever you can, be a Jasmine Crockett.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

FBI Uncovers Al-Qaeda Plot To Just Sit Back And Enjoy Collapse Of United States

submitted 23 days ago • 1103 comments

@mikiesherrill.bsky.social , @andykimnj.bsky.social , @booker.senate.gov New Jersey needs you to stand up like this.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

It’s pretty insane that a private citizen can come in, hijack federal government servers, fire people, and steal their PII.

submitted 27 days ago • 1779 comments

Every time I remember Stephen Miller designed this rush of orders to burn me out specifically I get a new burst of energy from the spite alone. The very thought of my exhaustion giving him an ounce of joy makes me want to burst through walls

submitted 27 days ago • 139 comments

This is it.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment

AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Jim Acosta announces on air that he's leaving CNN and says, "it is never a good time to bow down to a tyrant ... don't give in to the lies."

submitted 31 days ago • 3338 comments

Excellent post

submitted 32 days ago • 2080 comments

Exactly what I've been saying. No appeasement--total opposition.

submitted 34 days ago • 0 comments

Regulations exist to protect what cannot protect itself!

submitted 37 days ago • 122 comments

If anyone is playing Orwellian bingo at home, this is the part in Animal Farm where the pigs change the rules and act like they have always been that way.

submitted 38 days ago • 4 comments

We are reviewing the President’s Executive Order on birthright citizenship. Make no mistake, birthright citizenship is enshrined in the Constitution, and we will stand up for the rule of law. Stay tuned.

submitted 38 days ago • 7 comments

Honored to have this essay appear at Manifest Station this morning. How the Cracks Heal | The Manifest Station search.app/ZD63DDJoAmti...

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I can’t love this more.

submitted 54 days ago • 564 comments

So glad to see @jamellebouie.net debunking this ridiculous stance. No, it is NOT cost effective to order food every day. It just is not. And that's not a generational prejudice. It's just basic facts (which my millennial kids know, too.)

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Quotes from the tourists, basically: "As long as the leopards aren't eating MY face, it's just fine." www.nytimes.com/2024/12/29/w...

submitted 60 days ago • 0 comments

This.

submitted 61 days ago • 52 comments

Sen. Patty Murray, Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee:   "I'm ready to stay here through Christmas because we're not going to let Elon Musk run the government. Put simply, we should not let an unelected billionaire rip away research for pediatric cancer so he can get a tax cut."

submitted 70 days ago • 89 comments

Read this read this read this! A lovely, luminescent, piece of writing.

submitted 70 days ago • 1 comment

just blurted out in class "yes, you have to cite where you got your info. in a world in which lying loudly is the only thing that seems to get rewarded, citing your sources is an act of resistance" and folks, I really believe that.

submitted 71 days ago • 215 comments

The federal government spending money on pediatric cancer research is good, actually.

submitted 70 days ago • 208 comments

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH

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submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Trump invented a gov't agency to destroy gov't agencies to prevent working-class taxpayers from accessing gov't subsidies. Who'd he put in charge? A billionaire who built his fortune on gov't subsidies, of course. 🤷🏽‍♀️ Trump is unfit for office! *Source in 'ALT'

submitted 72 days ago • 7 comments

This is what's so baffling about so many suggestions for AI in the humanities classroom: they mistake the product for the point. Writing outlines and essays is important not because you need to make outlines and essays but because that's how you learn to think with/through complex ideas.

submitted 78 days ago • 155 comments