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Jew. Playwright. NYer. Bleedingheart. Fan of John McPhee, Kiese Laymon, and Paco & Ca7riel.
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I'm late to this but just joined the Guardian and PBS. Please do the same and support other threatened media forms trying to keep the flame of truth alive.

Jocelynn Rojo Carranza took her own life after months of relentless bullying from her sixth grade classmates over her family's immigration status, with some students even threatening to contact ICE. She was 11!!! Are you happy MAGAts??? Are your eggs cheaper? www.latintimes.com/11-year-old-...

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A good, workhorse building we should build more of: Either 12 units for singles or 6 family-sized units. Everyone gets a balcony. Easily fits on a standard 5,000 square-foot lot. Fits around six parking spaces in the back. And yet, illegal to build in the typical US residential neighborhood.

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GHASTLY. Boycott the Super Bowl.

Trump had a terrible week. Let the emminent @deanobeidallah.bsky.social walk you through. open.substack.com/pub/deanobei...

Americans: What do you love about the United States of America? I'll start. I am proud of jazz. Black Americans invented jazz, and jazz is cool, and it is American, and I am proud to be American because of jazz. #proudtobeamerican

The shortest summary of what we’re witnessing is that the right lost a decades-long ideological battle over the proper size of government, and then, instead of moving on, decided to impose their will criminally.

File under "strange bedfellows (for me)," but I am loving these guys: www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBcT... Thank you, @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWf_... When a principled representative quotes Abraham Lincoln, whose beliefs were greater than his deeds and who *wrote* a better national soul than he and we possessed and maybe possess yet. Thank you, Sen. Bernie Sanders. @sanders.senate.gov

TYP.IC.AL!

“The Harvard Medical School physician received a stop-work order for a program designing treatment plans for people with the most drug-resistant forms of tuberculosis. Infectious diseases do not know borders, she pointed out. 'It’s terrifying'...” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

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Thank you, Trump voters.

Given that the only thing holding my psyche together these shadowy days is the morning practice of reading the creative nonfiction writing of John McPhee, I am hereby commencing upon the journey of obtaining and absorbing every one of his books. #johnmcphee #thenewyorker #mentalhealth #selfcare

Here's a clip from 2009, when President Obama spoke about the Continental Airlines crash -- the LAST time we had an airline crash with fatalities in America. He didn't blame Bush. He didn't blame Reagan. He just consoled America. A REAL Commander in Chief.

It bears repeating and repeating ad nauseum: If you withheld support from Biden/Harris as a means of advocating for Palestinian nationhood and the aspirations of the Palestinian people and you did not see this moment coming: You are a performative, sloganeering and politically incompetent rube.

this is an illegal order. the president does not have the legal authority to discriminate against entire categories of americans on the basis of sex. this order is no different than if he had issued one reinstituting segregation.

Peter Beinart on Nonzero with Bob Wright. Watch it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mgM... Beinart's is a crucial voice for morality when we need it. #gibbor #navi

GO SEE THIS FREAKIN' PLAY We need to remember Art in these times.

🚨NEW: Senator Lisa Murkowski has announced her opposition to Pete Hegseth: “After thorough evaluation, I must conclude that I cannot in good conscience support his nomination for Secretary of Defense.” REPOST to thank Murkowski for putting country over party!

YES!

youtu.be/5823XKpz3ng?... Peter Beinart is a moral lodestar. @peterbeinart.bsky.social

This morning I came to work as usual: excited to be in the office and working on my assigned tasks. Seriously.

I'm not a Christian, but I agree with this 1,000 percent. I mean SERIOUSLY.