It is my pleasure to finally announce that my colleagues and I at Hachette Book Group are unionizing! We're asking for any authors, artists, and fellow workers of the world to stand in solidarity with us, and sign our open letter of support at hachetteworkers.com/open-letter

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

I think technically Superman is Krypto-Jewish.

The Jedwabne pogrom of 1941 was one of the most brutal acts in the entire Shoah, committed by Poles against Polish Jews, not by the occupying Germans. Now the local government and people are denying that Poles committed this act. www.timesofisrael.com/polish-towns...

Death doulas and other end of life support roles should be celebrated, but what do I know … (a lot, actually)

One thing I'm seeing proposed more and more as a prophylaxis against another Trump is to ban felons from holding public office. And this might be an unpopular opinion, but I *hate* that plan. Here's why.

i'm going to be beating my "get off substack" drum again. because seriously: get off substack. stop helping literal sex traffickers make money.

this being the thing that crosses the line for many rightwingers is so illustrative of how they don’t really care about anything real that actually matters. their problems are all entirely fictional

How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽

The TikTok girlies (gender neutral) are hatching a plan to all buy copies of communion by hooks on Vance's release date. I will be participating.

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

Be a snack. Buy a snack.

I reaaaaaally think people should reconsider defending Susan Abulhawa solely because she’s Palestinian and an anti-Zionist without at least checking out what she’s said. Because… it’s bad. It’s really bad.

"The Oregon Wildlife Foundation, ODFW, the state transportation agency (ODOT) and PGE, are working toward a permanent fix: a wildlife crossing designed specifically for frogs." I hope this happens.

it's time to tap the sign again -- understanding the origins + history of classical antisemitism tropes means that you can be clear on what legitimate critiques of a state you might want to critique might be & what might be promulgating 2000 year-old scapegoating conspiracy theories

We used to get Powerpoints before going to war.

the days of doing branding campaigns to make a tech giant feel like a hipster sandwich shop are over, the era of being a freak is now

once more with feeling for the people who are wise enough to stay off socials on the weekends

I thought about posting that Tyra Banks bagel video that's recirculating with a joke about how it feels antisemitic, but everyone is suffering enough right now.

Fuck Gavin Newsom

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I’m writing an article about the unseen labor it takes to become a successful online adult content creator, and would love to hear from more #spicysky #nsfwsky workers: What’s the hardest or most time-consuming part of your job? What do you wish customers understood about the work you do?

Students have started a petition. Sign here: www.change.org/p/keep-mlc-s...

If you have a goofy name you should be required to be a goofy guy.

I have an appointment this morning. I'm glad I actually got up early for once because the first thing I had to do was fix my toilet.

This ANTM docuseries should have at least twice as many episodes.

Best sports movie www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7co...

It’s once again Girl Scout cookie season so it’s time for me remind everyone to please consider buying from NYC’s Girl Scout Troop 6000, which is entirely made up of girls living in NYC homeless shelters 🙏❤️

You can tell this nazi kid has been doing shit like this all year. People are exhausted by him.

Everyone’s talking about Swarovski right now so let’s take a second and dive into the fact that they were NAZI Nazis. Like full-on Seig Heil, prosecuted after the war level Nazis and the modern company has done everything they can to hide all their archives and prevent anyone accessing them.

✨Free preschool is a proven silver bullet to build the local economy, but Multnomah County Commissioners still need a push to bring Preschool For All to full universality. ✍️ Sign to support! ⤵️

ICE must be abolished, and it will be. The American people won’t stand for this. In the meantime, we need every elected official at every level of government to leverage the powers that we have to hold them accountable. I will be doing my part and I will expect other leaders will too.

If your children got tear gassed today I want to hear from you, even if you don’t live in my district. You can contact my office at [email protected]

Not only did this happen in a residential neighborhood, the park is right next to a hospital campus and the Ronald McDonald House/patient recovery housing.

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

Feeling pretty vindicated for my decades-long distaste for Chomsky (genocide denial, regrettable sentence structure, etc.)

I am. But there are three things at play here regarding ICE collecting private data. Quick rundown on the issue, why you should be paying attention, and what I'm doing about it:

I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101

The flimsy politics of citizenship might seem like the detail that distinguishes Liam’s story from the stories of our own kids. But his innocence, like the innocence of all children, is unimpeachable.

More training won’t fix this, because they don’t want trained agents. They want hair-trigger goons juiced up on hate. They are going to keep doing this until someone gives them what they really want and fires back.

CNN: DHS officials have come to FEMA staff and told them to limit the use of the word ice…they are worried that by posting something like, watch out for the ice, that it's going to become a meme….

Great thread if you need some hope

Another friend put it to me like this: "ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."

This feels like a weird thing to ask at this point in my career, but the industry is a mess lol. If you are an editor who is accepting/commissioning FEATURE stories, could you just reply to this & lmk! I have so many things & nowhere to send them.

I need someone to give me a cute house so I can level up my hermitage. I'm so close to apex recluse status.

Condé Nast forgot to renew the trademark for Gourmet and so a group of journalists grabbed it and are relaunching the food magazine as a worker-owned co-op. Love it. [gourmetmagazine.net]

You can feel like something is inevitable and still experience shock. Many of us knew something like this would happen, bc things like this have already happened, bc law enforcement functions with impunity, bc ICE kept drawing its guns on observers. But emotional and moral shock can still occur.