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I read a lot of books and occasionally post about them. Like cats, coffee, autumn days, and books…always books.
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the single most un-american and anti-constitutional statement ever uttered by an american president

submitted 16 days ago • 5653 comments

This is so smart. @petebuttigieg.bsky.social , thoughts ? And if you see this. A reminder. This is not Twitter. You can engage here and have thoughtful discussions ! We all look forward to reading your thoughts

submitted 17 days ago • 6081 comments

Nailed it 🏆

submitted 20 days ago • 581 comments

A Conversation Between Cheetah Cubs And Mom

submitted 23 days ago • 64 comments

Courtship dance of the peacock spider 📹 Michael Lun / wa_peacock_jumping_spiders

submitted 24 days ago • 504 comments

In entirely other news, I saw a ~500 year old narwhale tusk today (Baddesley Clinton house, quite hidden away in a corner) www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/343036

submitted 23 days ago • 5 comments

Wait … they … 𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙙 ???

submitted 23 days ago • 259 comments

Ooo this is a good one ☺️

submitted 23 days ago • 1198 comments

I was looking forward to a quiet retirement. Instead I have a front seat to the destruction of America. Damn.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

This has been the dream of white supremacists since the end of segregation. Trump preps order to dismantle Education Dept. as DOGE probes data www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

submitted 28 days ago • 76 comments

All the people saying Trump can't do this or that because it's illegal and against the law or yadda yadda yadda don't realize that REPUBLICANS DON'T CARE. They have power. They will flex their power. This is why elections matter, folks.

submitted 28 days ago • 105 comments

The State Department has fired about 60 contractors who work for its democracy, human rights and labor bureau, a division whose programs have often been criticized by authoritarian leaders, according to two U.S. officials and two former officials.

submitted 28 days ago • 68 comments

honestly think some of the hesitation here is that no one wants to sound like a crank. i was talking at an event last night and even i felt like a crank while i was speaking!

submitted 28 days ago • 1568 comments

The coup-ing continues. l.smartnews.com/p-iBWt4yl/Iv...

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

Several conversations today w people in the key executive departments. And while the particulars are hard to pin down my impression is that the Musk take over stuff is considerably worse than is being presented in the press. By this I don’t necessarily things they *done* yet but the level of …

submitted 30 days ago • 591 comments

From Heather Cox Richardson Democracy Awakening "To win, current Western-style civilizations must be completely reconfigured to put a few wealthy, white, Christian male leaders in charge" and to dismantle the administrative state and isolate the US. We're seeing this play out in real time now.

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What happened to us America? How did we let these people take over? And can we fix it? 2/2

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Reading about Johnson’s Great Society…I remember growing up in the 60s and seeing such a hopeful future. I could never have predicted that I’d be facing retirement and the racists and oligarchs would be back in power, and be working to undo all progress since the New Deal. 1/2

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I think Liberal Consensus would be a great band name.

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submitted 42 days ago • 141 comments

Thinking a lot today about the "what can we do?" question & I keep returning to the story of Abel Meeropol. I'm sure many of you know his story, but for those who don't: Abel was a Jewish English teacher in the Bronx in the 1930s. Disturbed by all of the lynching in the news, he wrote a poem.

submitted 42 days ago • 15 comments

Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.

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Guess who got hired by Reader's Digest and immediately started using their position to push small press and books by marginalized authors? www.rd.com/list/the-bes...

submitted 47 days ago • 53 comments

The Pillars of Creation, towering columns of gas and dust in the Eagle Nebula, captured in stunning detail by the James Webb Space Telescope. These pillars are stellar nurseries where new stars are born, located about 6,500 light-years away. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

submitted 47 days ago • 102 comments

Today, 130 million Americans—54% of adults aged 16-74—lack the literacy skills that many take for granted, reading below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level. www.apmresearchlab.org/10x-adult-li...

submitted 47 days ago • 668 comments

I think Bluesky is a great platform and I’m here to stay. However, a bookmark function would make the experience SO much better and much more functional for research/ information gathering, especially for reporters. Pretty please @support.bsky.team @bsky.app ?

submitted 48 days ago • 412 comments

Anyone know of a way to save posts to read later? I don’t see that as an option.

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

"Walmart makes the places it operates in poorer than they would be if it had never shown up at all. Sometimes consumer prices are an incomplete, even misleading, signal of economic well-being." Fascinating studies on the broader effects of Walmart: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Head into next week with the confidence of a crow. 🪶

submitted 78 days ago • 254 comments

I love this town.

submitted 80 days ago • 117 comments

If you as a parent do not want your child to read about something, that is your job as a parent to oversee their reading. It should absolutely not affect what children who are not yours are reading.

submitted 89 days ago • 288 comments

If you’re afraid that books might change someone’s thinking, you’re not afraid of books, you’re afraid of thinking.

submitted 90 days ago • 851 comments

A lot of people think everything will work out if we just play by the rules but don’t seem to recognize that rules only matter when everyone agrees to follow them and, well, that isn’t our present reality.

submitted 92 days ago • 372 comments

Libraries are absolutely the best places on earth.

submitted 92 days ago • 522 comments

Here is a nice mushroom

submitted 93 days ago • 823 comments

Religion does NOT belong in our schools! Agreed? ✋

submitted 92 days ago • 2512 comments

Hey #skystorians 🗃️ please take a look!

submitted 106 days ago • 1 comment

NEW: The great Trump-Musk crackdown is coming. And it will hit hard & fast. Journalists will be first. But everyone else is next. I urge you to read my 20 lessons in How to Survive the Broligarchy, inspired by & featuring the great @timothysnyder.bsky.social 1/ www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 106 days ago • 1169 comments