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Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

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Masking discourse is on again and I’ll just say if you see people masking when few others are it’s likely because they’ve determined that for them, in that setting, the benefit of not catching (or spreading) whatever’s going around is worth the cost of masking. It’s rarely more complicated than that

submitted 3 days ago • 307 comments

my new theory is that once you have a certain amount of money and wealth you start to go crazy and detach from reality. that number is different for everyone. for me it's $20

submitted 3 days ago • 656 comments

Do Dems need to throw gays, lesbians, and trans people overboard to win elections? No. What Dems need is to look towards our community, particularly the trans community, for the sort of courage and moral leadership and American values that can get them winning again.

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How do you transform lies into truth? By erasing the VERY REAL past.

submitted 7 days ago • 103 comments

The cruelty may not necessarily be the point, but the self interest certainly is. And, well

submitted 7 days ago • 172 comments

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

submitted 6 days ago • 238 comments

“Writing a novel is a terrible experience, during which the hair often falls out and the teeth decay. I'm always irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.”―Flannery O'Connor (born March 25th, 1925)

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26 March 1905 | An Austrian Jew, Viktor Frankl, was born in Vienna. A neurologist & psychiatrist. One of the founders of psychological humanism. He passed through Theresienstadt and the camps of Auschwitz, Kaufering & Türkheim. He survived. Author of 'Man in Search of Meaning'.

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I finished the rough draft of my first novel!! I’m so incredibly proud of myself. Never thought the day would come - or at least not this soon! Now onto editing next week 🥳

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Any time it rains you should be able to leave work early to go to the bookstore

submitted 23 days ago • 154 comments

Justice for Breonna Taylor Justice for Sonya Massey Justice for Sandra Bland Justice for Tamir Rice Justice for Kalief Browder Justice for Eric Garner Justice for George Floyd Justice for Daunte Wright Justice for Alexia Christian Justice for Rayshard Brooks Say Their Names!!!

submitted 23 days ago • 165 comments

13 March 1931 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Ilona Junger, was born in Miskolc. In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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Indie bookshops have always been the most magical places for me. My favorite was Book Revue in Huntington. Though Covid may have taken her from us, she lives on in our hearts forever 🩷

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“we have to be able to commit war crimes to win wars” is the type of thing a 16-year-old dumbass says and — well, yeah, hegseth is basically a 16-year-old dumbass

submitted 23 days ago • 1309 comments

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

submitted 49 days ago • 539 comments

Look this sucks but news outlets need to start realizing there's limited journalistic value in sitting in a room and letting a person behind a podium lie to you. You're not holding anyone to account when you do that.

submitted 50 days ago • 117 comments

silently counting out fourteen-ish months

submitted 50 days ago • 106 comments

15 February 1924 | An Italian Jewish woman, Enrica Mieli, was born in Rome. In October 1943 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

submitted 50 days ago • 13 comments

With college / no college the biggest D / R predictor even for stem or biz students, yes I think the Rs intend to smash universities across the board until they either turn off the 'indoctrinate' switch GOP imagines they have, or until kids just stop going to college

submitted 49 days ago • 58 comments

this is the sort of thing you post when you’re ramping up to defying lawful court orders

submitted 55 days ago • 3654 comments

Hell yeah. Hold the line. This is what we need people to do. Slow things down, don’t comply in advance so the courts have time to stop them. It’s starting to work.

submitted 57 days ago • 2138 comments

SCOOP: A US Treasury threat intelligence analysis has designated DOGE staff an ‘insider threat'. An internal email reviewed by WIRED calls DOGE staff's access to federal payments systems “the single biggest insider threat risk the Bureau of the Fiscal Service has ever faced.”

submitted 57 days ago • 730 comments

i really hope democrats are listening to @jvl.bsky.social www.thebulwark.com/p/how-to-win...

submitted 57 days ago • 72 comments

Proud of myself for getting 3 pages of writing done while going down strange research rabbit holes. They were necessary for the novel, but man. I wanted to more of the writing part of things though 😭

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6 February 1907 | A Jewish woman Kornelia Neumann was born in Turnišče in Slovenia. During the war she lived in Szombathely, Hungary. In July 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz. She did not survive.

submitted 59 days ago • 25 comments

i don’t even know if crime is the right word for the illegal destruction of USAID. it is an autocratic power grab and a direct attack on the sovereignty of the american people

submitted 60 days ago • 1743 comments

To PROTECT Americans across the country, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and I are standing together on a bill to fight back against meddling in the Treasury Department’s payment systems. STOP THE STEAL!

submitted 60 days ago • 932 comments

I attempt a very rough historical materialist breakdown of the tech ascendancy:— www.unpopularfront.news/p/what-happe...

submitted 60 days ago • 24 comments

“…the real threat is if he persuades the rest of us to believe he has power he does not have.” Don’t believe him. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/o...

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WRITING TIP: if you get stuck, try making the font really really big. This will remind you of being a baby, when you only knew twelve words and didn't know about death

submitted 61 days ago • 61 comments

Documentary about librarians fighting against book bans #libraries #booksky #librarians #resist #bookbans www.theguardian.com/film/2025/ja...

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At 16 I was going on to anyone who listened about America’s parallels to the Weimar Republic. I was laughed off and brushed aside as paranoid and histrionic. Almost ten years later and, well, doesn’t sound like anyone’s laughing anymore

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if you work at OSHA or the Department of Labor and wanna share a tip about what’s happening with a friendly labor reporter, I will protect your privacy and am ALL ears I’m on Signal (kimkelly.666) and you can email me securely at [email protected]‬

submitted 61 days ago • 25 comments

I want disabled people to know that while Canada won't take you, there are lovely European nations that do not ask for or consider any health data in their visa application process and have free healthcare and civil rights laws protecting disabled and queer residents. I'm in one right now.

submitted 62 days ago • 5 comments

The most surreal and maddening feature of the campaign was that everyone agreed that high prices were the main issue but the guy explicitly, consistently running on a platform of raising everyone’s prices won voters most concerned about high prices. We hammered this time and time again and yet.

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Bruno and Gaga’s voices together are just pure bliss

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🚨 Lady Gaga premieres the ‘Abracadabra’ music video during a #GRAMMYs commercial break.

submitted 62 days ago • 109 comments

I’ve been working on my first novel for roughly a year now and it blows my mind to see it all coming together. I’ve got four more chapters to write of my rough draft and many hours of editing ahead. Even still, I keep pinching myself in disbelief. At long last, the ends in sight 🥰

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PSA ‼️ A black author writing a contemporary romance with black characters does not make it urban fiction novel. Black Romance is not synonymous with Urban✌🏾 #booktok #blackbooksky #booksky

submitted 72 days ago • 45 comments

• Get a library card • Use your library card • Support indie booksellers • Read banned books • Read diverse authors • Resist • Repeat #booksky #resist

submitted 72 days ago • 183 comments

Hi #Booksky! Excited to join you all here. What all are you reading? I’m returning to ‘The Bell Jar’ as a nostalgic comfort

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