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Environmental public health scientist. Owner, Bear & Bee Bookshop @bearbeebooks.bsky.social . Trans 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 BLM✊🏼 326 🧁 Todo para todos. Unceded land of the Muh·he·con·ne·ok, Western Mass.
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@sally.gay pitching a timely/newsy piece to them; any chance I could send it to you?

Thank god someone is finally protecting women from multiple-time Vogue cover models

Pretty sure I'd have used "three or four" here, since "three to four" strongly suggests that the answer may lie between

I rode the back of the bus. I buried Dr. King. You want me to participate in your little hate-a-thon against some other group? Kindly kiss my black ass.

Western Mass, we're gonna get walloped again this weekend! Are you stocked up for the storm? Check our handy chart to make sure you have enough books to see you through!

Men will destroy the entire federal government instead of going to therapy to deal with the fact that their child hates them because they’re a xenophobic piece of shit.

Something I wrote elsewhere but is relevant here, as we start this first full week of February 2025:

One of my party facts is that according to polls, Americans believe foreign aid is about 25% of the federal budget and on average that it *should* be about 10%. The actual number is less than 1%. Foreign aid has long been a boogey man of the right, so it's not surprising they're vilifying it now.

MORE OF THIS FOR THE LOVE OF GOD

I'm struck by the near-total failure of leadership across civil society, in a country that fetishizes the concept. Whole sections of leadership books at every bookstore. Named, endowed "leadership" institutes and curricula across higher ed. Awards and special recognition for "leaders." AND YET