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I hereby request proportional refunds from all the companies that sell expensive products in pump bottles that make it impossible to pump out the final ounce. Either that, or payment for the time this child of war and Depression survivors has spent extracting such product in order to use it.

Muezzin! @rejectednytwords.bsky.social

I forgive the little old man on speaker phone in the bookstore cause he was asking his wife about books she wants and he said, “We need to buy it here and support Kaitlyn and not buy it on Amazon” 🥰

Was mostly holed up following knee surgery throughout tulip and daffodil season. So glad to be in partial weightbearing mode in time to enjoy the divine perfume of this Miss Kim lilac!

POV: the longest escalator in North America is out of service

Just signed up for this. Want to join me?

Welp. I probably won’t see this grotesque-sounding rebrand on Valentine’s Day, but reading about it makes me eager to revisit Bronte’s book. www.publicbooks.org/emily-bronte...

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

"You raise your voice, I erase your voice." ICE in Minneapolis are erasing your rights. Please share our new video of what's happening in our city. youtu.be/W1dyNcRGRXY

“The Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA), the state’s chief investigative agency, said it was not allowed access to the scene.” www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

My advice to other journalists: at a minimum, whenever you’re reporting what DHS claims happened you can also mention how they’ve been proven wrong or speaking in bad faith recently

I keep thinking about how the people of Minneapolis already went through so much in the last six years and now have to survive ICE's mass brutality across the city. Melissa Hortman, her husband, and their dog were assassinated less than a year ago last June.

I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Tell Delta: ICE OUT NOW. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...

How low will this White House go to lie and gin up racist hate? Obviously, we have not reached bottom White House Posts Altered Photo Showing Arrested Minnesota Protester Crying www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

The combination of the image and headline

It has come to this.

If you thought a car was just about to hit you, would your impulse be to shoot the driver, thereby increasing the chance the car would hit you? No. No, it would not. Your impulse would be to get the heck out of the way.

Spot on. Via www.politico.com/gallery/2026...

I jumped out of a sailboat to stop it from sailing away when the wind caught it after I had removed the rudder. Sliced off the edge of my toe on a razor clam.

This Mamdani inauguration ceremony is like water for a parched world.

@zeteo.com Compare and contrast Donald Trump's response to Rob Reiner's murder with Biden and Harris's responses to Charlie Kirk's murder. There is no 'both sides'. Just one side - Trump - that is cruel, sociopathic, unhinged.

Everybody’s talking about Trump and Epstein. I’m thinking about Michael Wolff, the so-called “journalist” who is giving real journalists a bad name. 🤮

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

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The moon that dazzles me always looks much smaller when I try to capture it in a photo

📚👍 Moody. Intense. Stunning in every way, I AM WE will make you look at crows and community in a new light! A fantastic read aloud! jilannehoffmann.com/2025/10/10/i.... #kidli #picturebooks #nonfiction #crows #skybrarians #edusky #teachers @lesliebarnardbooth.bsky.social @scatterbee.bsky.social

At the beach is where I most enjoy my sweet Pip.

Never thought I would agree with Ted Cruz on anything. Cruz "called the threat of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to retaliate against ABC 'unbelievably dangerous.' ... 'right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘nice bar you have here. It’d be a shame if something happened to it.’'”

Reader, I bought a $9.45 peach today.

I just sat very still and watched a hummingbird dip its beak in the feeder 62 consecutive times

My mom, age 87, will publish her first book next month. She is so courageous. It's a case study of her own recovery from the trauma of war, dislocation and childhood abandonment. It's available for pre-order now, from Routledge. www.routledge.com/Fighting-for...

Sharing this 🧵 both because I want other writers to see it and because I want to save it!

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Prime Day is a scam open.substack.com/pub/populari...

Hungry hummer: Watched this little guy dip into the nectar 41 times in a row last night.

I get so much inspo from the comments on NYT recipes…but sometimes they are like: swap in chopped turbot for the shrimp, exchange a mixture of dill and cilantro for the fresh oregano, quadruple the garlic and saute in a wok instead of under the broiler… and I’m like, why are you even using a recipe?

Here’s my favorite feedercam visitor: red-bellied woodpecker. He comes by often!

Salem, redux. Claiming “parents’ rights,” right-wing activists in Florida are browbeating officials into denying kids access to worthy, life-affirming, award-winning books. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

Kristi Noem takes mad money to a whole new level.

Every time I see this building while driving into Columbus, I experience a spontaneous moment of appreciation for the correctly-placed apostrophe.

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

“It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order.”

Proud of alma mater.

Yes. And throw in employees of the executive branch and their families, while you’re at it.

When you buy a used book and wonder: was this really helpful?

An artist, using her voice. Bravo.

So chatGPT is both a racist AND a suckup. Best keep your kids away from it.

Gratitude and respect to Sen. Booker. We must all find the way to raise our voices.

Listening to an @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social podcast with @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social and they are talking about the rise in gambling addiction ... when an ad busts in for an online gambling platform. Ezra, did you approve this? Can you stop it? Very off-putting ...