The top 10% of richest Americans own 87% of stocks. The top 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.

Frank Capra’s 🇺🇸 American #Christmas fantasy drama film “IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE” starring James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore premiered #OnThisDay in 1946 at the Globe Theatre, New York City 🎬 RKO Radio Pictures #ChristmasCountdown2025 🎄🦌🔔🍷🕯✨☃️🎁❄️🎅🏻 #xmas2025

SNAP is a lifeline for workers in low-wage jobs. Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker. Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps. Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

We don't need an elf on the shelf because we've got a

They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida. If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.

“They asked me, where did they go? The trees, the salamander, the tropical fish, Edgar, the poppas and mommas, Matthew and Tony?” Fiction by Donald Barthelme, from 1974.

It’s a labor issue.

“Seven of the 10 judges in the majority also joined the opinion that “a library’s collection decisions are government speech and therefore not subject to Free Speech challenge.” This is bad. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

our infographics department have been hard at work for the 100th anniversary of "mrs. dalloway", creating this infographic, showing all the food mentioned in the novel

Happy birthday Tim Curry, here he is saying space like nobody else could for a Command and Conquer advert #TimCurry

My kid has a bleeding disorder and we just received an email from the National Bleeding Disorders Foundation that yesterday "nearly all staff within the CDC’s Division of Blood Disorders and Public Health Genomics" will be fired, so fuck you, RFK Jr, and all the senators who approved his nomination.

Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.

All of the Republicans who for years railed about "unelected bureaucrats" destroying the government are awfully quiet as an unelected bureaucrat destroys the government.

Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share. snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...

Next Sun, 2/9, at 2pm — meet the authors: Lisa Stringfellow & Phoebe Sinclair!

Another bit of counter programing for tomorrow from @authorsabb.bsky.social A national watch part for Banned Together watch.eventive.org/bannedtogeth...

Collection of travel photos of South Carolina (and some collage/paper research) taken while doing research for my debut novel THE WEIGHT OF CLOTH. If you’re local to Boston/Newton, I hope you’ll join me for a reading at @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social this Sunday Jan 26 at 2 pm

Just have to recommend this book 📕 - it challenges you to think about your finite life differently and stop making is more difficult than it has to be - also makes a brilliant gift 🎁 for just about everyone #Oliverburkrman #bookgift @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social

From restaurants to seed stewarding, tribal members are working to reconnect with their foodways and culture. "Our food is our stories. It's our sovereignty," said chef Sherry Pocknett. "And without food, without the stories, there wouldn't be language."