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It is impossible to overstate the relief felt by queer people when, in the midst of ever-present caution and uncertainty, they realize they are in a safe space. If you are an ally, please remember this when considering how clearly you need to signal your allyship. 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.” — Milan Kundera, The Incredible Lightness of Being #sundaysentence

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If I were trying to kill people, I’d make it harder for them to get vaccinated against disease, reduce funding for meteorological science in the face of increasingly destructive storms, and limit loopholes on the sale of weapons while simultaneously cutting resources for mental health programs.

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“Mary Jane let go the curtain and wandered back to the blue chair, passing two heavily stocked bookcases without glancing at any of the titles.” — JD Salinger, “Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut” #sundaysentence

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A restaurant called “Don’t fill up on that” where all we serve are the free bread courses from other restaurants. Cheddar Bay biscuits, chips and salsa, brown bread from Outback, breadsticks from the Olive Garden, and the servers are always all “now don’t fill up on this” and we all laugh and laugh

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It would be amazing and so relatable if Pope Leo is actually a diehard Cubs fan but his brother told the world that he’s a White Sox fan just to mess with him.

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For college professors, it’s nearly unbearable to look at this problem straight on. That’s how massive, and massively complex, it is. With all the issues facing higher ed right now, I think this one, coming from inside the house, poses the most profound, long term threat.

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The devastating, shortsighted attack on literature continues. List from Magic City Books. Who'd they miss? Note: the small publishers selected here for financial attack include (among other very worthy and important presses) @transitbooks.bsky.social, publisher of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.

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I wondered what it would take for me to finally become unhinged. Now I know. It’s the quote below. To @electricliterature.com and every other essential, brilliant organization impacted by the NEA cuts, you are my parents and I am Batman.

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NEW from me — National Endowment for the Arts rescinds grants, dazing publishers and theaters Arts orgs across the country saw their grants pulled with little explanation, while a proposed federal budget sought to eliminate the arts funding agency altogether. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

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The silence you hear is the silence of thousands of future writers and musicians whose community arts programs were defunded today.

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“I am not the kind of woman who dreams of doing things.” - Three Days in June, Anne Tyler #sundaysentence

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If Biden, who is actually Catholic, posted a picture of himself as Pope there would be a thousand op-eds and cable news hits for months about how it was the most blasphemous thing an American president has ever done and we’d assume he had gone insane.

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It is as we all suspected: he is not the man we elected. But still, it's staggering to see it laid out so explicitly.

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If you want to supplement your real friends without lining the pockets of billionaires, destroying the environment, and contributing to the decline of human imagination, may I suggest reading a book?

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We must take away hundreds of age-appropriate books from kids to ensure they learn about certain topics the old fashioned way: wildly inaccurate speculation from peers.

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One of my all time favorite photos. Of anyone. Doing anything.

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“Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” — Elie Wiesel

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I, too, was a snob. And I, too, became a convert during Covid. I can no longer imagine my life with audiobooks. Terrific piece by @andrewporter01.bsky.social.

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Things there are more of than the number of transgender athletes currently competing in the NCAA: - Texas kids in the hospital with measles - Sexual assault allegations against the president - Challenged novels by Toni Morrison - Seasons of “Cheers” - Your fingers

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This is it right here.

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Imagine putting magic and joy out into the world and then spending the rest of your life doing all you can to take it away.

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Four of the Big Five Publishers Sign Letter Urging Congress to Restore IMLS 📚 www.wordsandmoney.com/four-of-the-...

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Best sign from Strongsville Ohio Hands Off protest 4/5/25

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Omelas, folks, what a wonderful city. So beautiful. So beautiful. Streets are clean, the economy, oh the economy, it's so beautiful. Really beautiful economy. They—and the liberal media won't tell you this folks—they keep a child in a dungeon. This child dungeon. They showed it to me. So beautiful

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You should read @thesunmagazine.bsky.social because it's thoughtful and smart and honest but not in the way that makes you want to die. In the other way. Also they've been ad free forever. I have a very small story in this month's issue, starring cats. www.thesunmagazine.org/articles/592...

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yes

submitted 69 days ago • 159 comments

Great story collection. Get it now at bookshop.org!

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Not an April Fools’ joke! @leahfolta.bsky.social and I got published in McSweeney’s today!

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This is new. This is different. “I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

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Listen. I believe ardently in criticizing our leaders for their failures and inaction but if you refuse to acknowledge their efforts when they do make them and if you refuse to recognize a step in the right direction, you don’t really want change. You just want to complain.

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It's not nothing he's doing tonight.

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Don’t spend any of your precious energy worrying about a third term. Focus on today.

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Brutal. Beautiful and brutal.

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