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I'm making a point of reading more short stories and poetry, living more intentionally, and processing more and doom scrolling less. I'll let you know how it works out.

submitted 8 hours ago • 1 comment

NEWS: Kenneth Chesebro, "architect" of the 2020 fake electors plot who pleaded to criminal charges in Georgia, has been disbarred from the practice of law in New York, per order issued today by New York appellate court.

submitted 9 hours ago • 633 comments

Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets? I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.

submitted 12 hours ago • 678 comments

Most churches, like most schools, run on the unpaid labor of women…

submitted 13 hours ago • 281 comments

"digital asbestos" is fantastic framing.

submitted 2 days ago • 49 comments

1 in 6 Americans are food insecure & wealth inequality is worse now than after the Great Depression If you oppose Govt subsidized grocery stores so people can eat, but not Govt subsidized corporations that let billionaires hoard even more wealth—it isn't socialism you hate it's working class people

submitted 12 hours ago • 6 comments

Everything Trump's advisers say officially should be seen through the prism of this important quote from national security lawyer Brad Moss on our pod. newrepublic.com/article/1972...

submitted 14 hours ago • 44 comments

I know it's by design, but it's something how brazenly stupid this entire cabinet is.

submitted 13 hours ago • 100 comments

When you know you will never again in your life get in trouble for anything…

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

I think everyone should keep a journal and start recording their thoughts during these four years. Something physical, not digital and definitely not online only. It needs to be preserved for years, decades perhaps. Just write down your feelings, so nobody can deny or forget how these times were.

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

An unexpected plot development is not a plot twist, it's an unexpected plot development. A plot twist re-contextualises the entire plot so far (as in "Sixth Sense" or "Use of Weapons"). #writingCommunity #justSayin

submitted 19 hours ago • 1 comment

The maddening thing is that this would have been PAINFULLY OBVIOUS if they had ANY EXPERIENCE AT ALL working with the government! In any way! Or if they had asked a single question!! 😖

submitted 1 day ago • 68 comments

I'm investing in art-- time, money, the creation of it, the support of artists, the necessary consumption of it in all forms. It's keeping me sane. It's making the world better. It's changing hearts and minds. Art makes us human and humane. Support artists. Nurture your creativity. Fuck fascism

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This is a poem

submitted 20 hours ago • 3 comments

Today, I made southern style collard greens, chicken pot pots for my kids and a neighbor who just lost a family member, visited a friend in the hospital, and about seven other things around the house, and STILL got some writing done. Somehow, this day seemed to have extra hours in it.

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Yesterday, I finished another short story, started several new poems, drafted an outline for book three of my Iron and Earth series with Falstaff Books, and got some writing in my Gothic romance. Today, I got feedback from my editor that has me even more motivated to keep creating.

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Two senators _each_.

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Still not over the fact that Brad Lander is the serving NYC Comptroller, rather a demanding position, AND a mayoral candidate, also a demanding FT job—& he found time to go to the courts to tell folks their rights & walk them past danger & the only reason we know is because ICE assaulted him.

submitted 2 days ago • 10 comments

If “affordable housing, decent insurance, not bullying minorities, and rich people actually having to pay taxes” are called socialism for forty years now, guess what you just did?

submitted 1 day ago • 6 comments

Today started with a Pedro Pascal Vanity Fair cover and ended with a Zohran Mamdani primary win. It’s almost like empathy is making a comeback.

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

I TALK ABOUT THIS CONSTANTLY This bizarre expectation that people (mostly women) have unique menus every evening for their families with low repetition/freshly prepared foods is EXTREMELY MODERN. Personally, I love to keep a pot of perpetual stew. Delicious, easy, and requires almost no thought.

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this is my local ice cream guy! he’s great! everyone loves him! fuck these fucking assholes! free enrique

submitted 2 days ago • 64 comments

We eat home cooked meals most nights, but 1-2 nights a week are either crock pot meals or something from the freezer we reheat (chili, spaghetti, ect), and 1-2 nights a week we're reusing things we've already cooked (chicken becomes soup, ect). And everyone in my house cooks. It's not just Mom.

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Best alt text

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I presume Stephen Fry would like the people of Venice to stop expressing their vitriol lest it harden Bezos' resolve to kill all the poors.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Brownshirt ICE rolled up to my local Home Depot today and got the F-off treatment. Shoutout to this woman because this is exactly how it’s done. No badge, face covered = F*ck all the way off. 📌 It’s on us citizens to stand up for our vulnerable brothers and sisters.

submitted 3 days ago • 2745 comments

Resist. Refuse. Ridicule. Repeat. Repeat. Repeat. This unnamed, off camera woman, is the hero we should all aspire to be. "Armed" with only her voice she sends the whole array of kidnappers packing.

submitted 2 days ago • 46 comments

Stunned my son when we were doing ballet stretches, and I showed him I could almost still pull a full split. I still got it. (Can still do downward dog with my heels on the ground too, which astounded him. Yoga might not make me skinny, but I'm flexible as hell.)

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This is pretty stupid considering the government is offering release and possible asylum for two, maybe three undocumented convicted smugglers who are actually members of MS-13 in exchange for their testimony. Someone should ask Blackburn if that's okay.

submitted 3 days ago • 79 comments

As we mentioned when we attended the hearing, government witnesses almost all had something to gain… and their story that Kilmar took his family (3 kids, 2 with autism) on almost all his alleged cross-country smuggling trips — “3-4x weekly” — is preposterous The judge agreed👇🏽

submitted 3 days ago • 63 comments

Repost with Alt Text. ...bc yeah, THIS.

submitted 7 days ago • 28 comments

My daughter had her first dance recital today, and I 100% cried the second she stepped on stage, just like I do every time her brother dances. I'm so proud of my kids it hurts.

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Among those who had advance word of the attack on Iran: Steve Bannon, Fox News, the governments of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Bahrain... but not the Congressional Democratic leadership, or the Gang of Eight. www.thedailybeast.com/steve-bannon...

submitted 4 days ago • 19 comments

MAGA Friday: No new wars! MAGA Saturday: Ok bombings but no regime change! MAGA Sunday: There’s really no other solution than regime change.

submitted 4 days ago • 310 comments

Bold of you to assume we are actually functional out here

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BRENNAN: Why would Iran agree to any peace deal if the US has already pulled out of one that they had, as President Trump did in 2018, and now launched surprise attacks? RUBIO: The ones that shouldn't be trusted are the Iranians

submitted 4 days ago • 485 comments

... direct quote

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Went to bed before 9, woke up before 5, made the horrible mistake of checking on the world, now existential dread is keeping me company. Good thing I have my daughter's dance recital to attend later to allow me to disassociate from the rest of the world.

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I emerge from the fog of throwing a 7yo a birthday party and find we're at war with Iran thanks to the illegal attacks by our president. I will process this tomorrow. I'm going to bed now, because I just can't find the energy for this world tonight.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Literally lighting billions of dollars of public investment on fire

submitted 5 days ago • 14 comments

One thing you will never think after reading a great book or listening to a great album or seeing a great piece of art is, “I’m really glad this person remained cautious while they were making this and guarded against being perceived as weird.”

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

submitted 6 days ago • 27 comments

Tomorrow, I'm throwing my third party of the week, and thanks to a ridiculous productive two days, my house has never looked better. I even made a home cooked meal today and finished reading a great book. I'm pretty damn proud of myself for all I've accomplished this week. And I'm exhausted. 😅

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I FUKKEN CALLED IT

submitted 7 days ago • 63 comments