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Advice from a Congressional staff member (sources at the end of this post): MAKE 6 CALLS A DAY -- two each to your 2 Senators and your 1 Representative (their DC office AND their local office).

That there was *too much* content moderation is just an incredible lesson to have taken from the last 10 years

let's hope

this whole thing tho..

Historical markers are important because they are an extremely accessible form of history, and are a community-based imprimatur of what and who matters.

My latest is a reflection on how people have responded to the killing of a health insurance CEO. "Rather than centering Thompson’s humanity, as scolding voices have demanded, they centered their own, and the humanity and suffering of others who were harmed by the insurance industry."

*touches the ground* A battle was fought here.

Gays be like “we’re Louis and Lestat”

I recommended, as part of this brief, a few children's book that can help children to better understand prisons. edtrust.org/blog/why-chi...

choice to get on this app already paying heady dividends

Throwback to this incredible street art that forgot that Yiddish is spelled right to left and so wrote borsht as tshrob (באָרשט ,טשראָב) 🥣

firing my therapist because he refuses to change my diagnosis to melancholia and prescribe me a tincture of laudanum

i’m rooting for everybody gay

"I get a lot of serious thinking done, drinking and driving," James Crumley tells Tim Cahill as they tool around Missoula bars in this 1979 Rolling Stone profile.

I couldn't resist picking up some old Life magazines at the Ft Missoula book sale today. Paging through an old magazine is one of the easiest ways to time travel.