Baltimore -- take note!

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

As just such a journalism professor, I invite Chris here to lay out his own pedagogical vision for the only private profession mentioned by name in the Constitution. If it’s “let the machine write for you” then I further invite him to resign and make room for real journalists

For @literaryhub.bsky.social, Harriet Murav and I wrote about translating Holocaust literature in times of genocide: some thoughts that have accompanied us during our work on “In the Shadow of the Holocaust” in the last few years, the years of genocides in Ukraine and Gaza lithub.com/translating-...

I think we are going to have a Democratic-controlled Senate. And all we will need for the leadership of that Democratic Senate to do is hold actual, real, impeachment trials. As the Constitution requires. Not the bullshit fake trials like the ones that the Senate held in 2020 and 2021...

... Real trials of charges against Bondi and Noem and Vance and Trump. With real evidence and witnesses. Make clear to that jury of 100 that the world will forever remember their votes and whether they were faithful to the Constitution they've sworn to uphold.

Many people in South Africa, where Elon is from, died to create a genuinely multiracial polity. They were killed by people who thought like Elon. The people who thought like Elon also lost. Seems their “common culture” of white supremacy wasn’t enough. bsky.app/profile/alan...

Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact

This is what ICE does every day. Hunt little kids who are here legally. They get sent to a place called the “baby jail” in Texas. Very little of it ends up on video like this. But it’s routine. And disgusting.

We'll be working and in the bookstore until 3(?) and watching hockey probably. Swing on by if you are looking to get out of the house. Remember to support indie bookstores, you know the ones NOT trying to build surveillance networks....

Lots of reports today that Navalny was murdered with exotic dart frog poison. Why? Because they can. These two books by Zygar and Lebedev can give you insights into Putin's Russia.

Just as ICE and CBP have no legitimate role in "election security" neither does the head of DHS. The mere existence of this press conference should be a scandal, much less this tone-deaf comment.

The sun is shining, ice is melting, @fcstpauli.com is on the radio and the bookstore is open! Hope to see you today!

Today marks the 81st anniversary of the bombing of Dresden. Having survived the firebombing while being held as a POW, Kurt Vonnegut memorialized the event in his classic work Slaughterhouse Five. #Dresden

And here we were, silly us, thinking everyone knew this story...

Are you, like us, waiting impatiently for the April release of Egana Djabbarova's book My Dreadful Body (@newvesselpress.bsky.social )? You are in luck - we have some of her other writings, not yet translated, though! This is an author you need to read.

NEW: Border Patrol intelligence is getting access to Clearview AI, according to CBP procurement records reviewed by @wired.com. @dell.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/cbp-si...

Loving the Olympics? The beautiful mountain scenery in the cross-country and biathlon events? Imagine if you could enjoy that nature year-round. Well, you can, we still have a calendar in stock with the beauty of this unique German-Italian region!

Really surprised that more people have not read the work of German investigative journalists for Handelsblatt in researching the files given to them by a Tesla whistleblower.

Wow - turns out that Bad Bunny worked with @uwmadison.bsky.social Prof. Meléndez-Badillo @jmelendezbadillo.bsky.social on aspects of Puerto Rican history for his show!

it never even occurred to me that this was happening as it happened because it seemed impossible but gotdamn that's the best thing to ever happen during a super bowl halftime.

Bunny > ICE

In 1979, the “New York Times” asked Isaac Bashevis Singer if he planned to watch the Super Bowl.

"Transformation." Yeah, that's a word for it. Back to the British tabloids with his ass; he crossed the pond long enough to butcher one of the great grey ladies of journalism. What trash he proved to be.

"When there's nothing left, you bust the joint out. You light a match."

There should be no American history book that makes it pass the censors either.

For readers of all ages in the original or in English translation, discover the books of Erich Kästner! Live in the DMV? Come browse our German language selection or translations! #indiebookstores

I suspect there are a lot of House Democrats in their 70s or 80s who think they're going to coast back into a comfortable leadership position by keeping their head down and riding the blue wave, but they're going to have to navigate these kinds of challenges first and most are not ready at all.

How do you want your decades of service in the House to come to an end? Gracefully bowing out on your own terms? Or getting bodied in a generational fight, with a primary loss after a bruising fight filled with moments like this?

⏱️ 86. #Sinani zieht aus der Distanz ab, Nübel lenkt den Ball noch über die Latte. #fcsp #fcspvfb | 2:0

It's cold - it's very cold - but we ARE open today from 10am to 6pm, swing on by!

No matter the language, it's time to celebrate #BlackHistoryMonth. Here, the Ukrainian edition of Colson Whitehead's groundbreaking novel, Underground Railroad.

Books > ice We're open today. The streets near the bookstore are cleared for parking. The farmer's market is open. The cafes have hot coffee and the restaurants are open. Don't suffer the tyrant ice, get out in the fresh air. Remember, spring is coming. #read #indiebookstores

Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year. Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.

would be nice if the arrest of journalists for doing journalism resulted in dems in congress saying "asbolutely fucking not" and completely shutting this shit down but ah well nevertheless

Texas A&M University announced Friday that it is eliminating its women’s and gender studies degree program.

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Turns out that you can simply chose not to sell your warehouse and prevent it from becoming a detention center www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and Donald Trump’s other lackeys should find lawyers because they must be held responsible for the killings and the damage they’ve done to our country.

Or how about this headline — “American citizen arrested without cause after exercising his Constitutional rights.” Very important that government propaganda not become the default framing.

Serious question to my Maryland delegation @vanhollen.senate.gov @alsobrooks.senate.gov @raskin.house.gov how long are we going to allow this Palantir police state? Will our data ever be safe? Will we really dismantle this after this horror has ended?

Just a friendly reminder that today's national shutdown was called by Somali and Black students in Minnesota - learn more here nationalshutdown.org

They're going to get sympathetic treatment. On the cover of the Magazine. It's Been Ten Years Since [TK ATROCITY]. But People Won't Leave This Former ICE Agent In Peace. And you will be the villain of the story.

A Shout-out to our fellow Maryland/DMV booksellers participating in tomorrow's National Shutdown: @mahoganybooks.bsky.social @loyaltybooks.bsky.social @greedyreads.bsky.social Lost City Bookstore @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social

More grift. A nursing home super PAC donated millions to Trump’s campaign. And, lo and behold, he made it easier for them to cut staffing to pad their profits. Literally wheeling and dealing on the backs of the elderly and the disabled. This man’s grift knows no low.

An important message to our friends. Bergstrom Bookstore will be closed this Friday to participate in the National Shutdown to stand with our fellow citizens across the country. This is not a decision a small business takes lightly, especially as January's storms have been brutal to business.

ROSEN: Yes or no -- was Hernandez convicted of trafficking approximately 400 tons of cocaine into the US? RUBIO: I'm not involved in the pardon process ROSEN: I'm just askin-- RUBIO: I don't do yes or no. I don't play games.

Sometimes the Internet delivers, not sure who created this, but..

It's been days and I still can't maneuver my mind around just how contemptible the words of the President of the United States were, or how deeply he shamed us all in the eyes of the world. This brief, sincere essay put the disgust back in my mouth like vomit.