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Everything is political. Every choice a journalist makes or doesn’t make is political. Abiding by the power structure’s rules of decorum and “neutrality” is a political choice. You are an activist for the ruling class unless you’re speaking truth to power and holding their feet to the fire.

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Journalists at mainstream US publications are absolutely allowed to engage in activism as long as it is aimed at reinforcing existing hierarchies and undermining progressive change. NYT news reporters recently engaged in a startlingly effective campaign against trans rights, for example.

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3 of the books i read this month were over 500 pages lol, hello february depression hole

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New from my @roomofonesownbooks.bsky.social book subscription 🤩 the author lineup in this looks amaaaazing #booksky

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I'm about 50% through Death of the Author and am annoyed that I feel like I need to finish it today because it's the last day of the month. Idk why I do this it does not matter what month I start or finish a book in! (I will likely not finish it today, IT"S FINE)

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if you notice my terrible punctuation/grammar in my posts it's because i'm a copyeditor and proofreader for my job so sometimes i just need to not care or spend 30 minutes editing one mangled sentence lol sorry

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Love the feeling of finally picking up a book that’s been on my shelf for YEARS, like yessss our time has finally come #booksky

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At bottom, the problem with Beinart's book is that it assumes Zionists, especially Jewish Zionists, will decide Palestinians are human beings if a fellow Jew tells them so. And that is itself, alas, a colonialist endeavor. Palestinians can tell their own stories.

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hard to believe that our public institutions are suddenly behaving in a manner that many many people have been warning is the logical endpoint of a capitalist government for a hundred years

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power is back. after we got figured out how to make coffee (the plus side of a gas stove)

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Uhhh our power just went out 🥴

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i know i should take a walk because it's so nice out but ugh i just want to be a gremlin and crawl into bed instead

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"Octavia Butler was not just imagining how bad things could get. She was looking at the history of America and predicting, with uncomfortable accuracy, exactly how bad it is designed to get." - Parable may be one of the most impactful books you will ever read. See below for details on how to enter!

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update: 185 pages in and liking this a lot! #booksky

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Age yourself with a film you saw in the theater 🎥🍿🥤

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i put some supportive trans stickers in my little free library and i just saw a neighbor take one 😭😭😭 (i try not to be nosy when people are looking but i can see the library from my wfh desk in the winter since the trees are bare)

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Currently reading: Death of the Author by Nnedi Okorafor #booksky

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i would like to just stop feeling overwhelmed but i realize that is probably not going to happen any time soon 😣

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I’m going to make a thread of my trans book releases IG posts here, starting with January/February!

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It is impossible for me to have a movement/fitness routine when chronically ill, like anytime I get into a bit of a groove just walking regularly, I have a flare up or some setback or get sick for a long time. I really miss being able to run regularly but that was another life and another body

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The people in the replies smugly talking about the mostly conservative ppl who did this back then and not realizing that if they're not still masking now - it's about them. Right now. Still. sigh

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"In my nightmares, I look at their proposed "wellness farms" as the newest iteration of reformatories, residential schools and--more recently--detention centers and prisons. But it could just as easily look like criminalizing mental health care and/or wokeness as child abuse." 💯 #booksky

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"By the Fire We Carry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land" by Rebecca Nagle is on sale from @libro.fm It's a must read, and the audiobook is beautifully read by the author. #booksky libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

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Finished The Reformatory last night, devastated 😩 #booksky

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I thought I was going to stay up late to finish The Reformatory but then a chapter was so devastating I had to stop reading. This book is a roller coaster 😩😮‍💨 #booksky

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i really can't believe we have to work through the apocalypse

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ugh it's so cold out my dog is having trouble going to the bathroom fast enough before her paws freeze and she has to limp back inside 😖

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We had planned to go back to st Thomas this winter to visit family again but with my dog being sick we’ve been waiting. But now I’m like welp planes continue to crash so maybe I just never leave my house 🥴

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Was only JUST getting over being afraid of flying so uhh… For real tho, wtf

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When people talk about the "descent into fascism" there's a passive voice that misses that with every prison built, every budget dollar to police, every bomb paid for and dropped on Gaza, every student sanctioned for protest, every deportation, every border patrol, we laid the bricks one by one.

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New discovery I’ve made: if you pick up chonky books to read then you don’t have to stress out choosing your next read as often 🤯😂 I recently finished Babel and am now reading The Reformatory #booksky

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Every February I’m just like, why do I live in the Midwest!?!

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I’ve been very into playing animal crossing again but do I need to get this hello kitty game??

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Dear Democratic Party: why are you not screaming this from every rooftop? Why are you not holding press conferences with these poor fired people - putting a face on what the richest man is destroying?

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