This is a great goal: Help people quit smoking. And encourage others to not start.

Tag yourself. I am everyone in this damn photo:

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The trees are glowing practically in the morning sun 🌱

“What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.” -Japanese-born, British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, born on this day in 1954. #WriterSky #BookSky #BOTD

“I tell you loneliness is the thing to master. Courage and fear, love, death are only parts of it and can easily be ruled afterwards. If I make myself master my own loneliness there will be peace or safety: and perhaps these are the same.” -Martha Gellhorn, born on this day in 1908. #WriterSky #BOTD

[chuckling snort]

I see James Watson died. So it's time for a science joke. "What did Watson and Crick discover?" "Rosalind Franklin's notes." Good joke.

“Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was or what freedom really is.” -American writer Margaret Mitchell, born on this day in 1900. She is synonymous with her masterwork, "Gone with the Wind." #WriterSky #BookSky #History #BOTD

Lol. A know-nothing president and a do-nothing congress. All put in place by voters who crawled up their own assholes and died.

“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.” -Irish writer Bram Stoker, born on this day in 1847. He is synonymous with his masterwork "Dracula." #WriterSky #BookSky #History #BOTD

“The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.” -English writer Sarah Fielding, born on this day in 1710. #WriterSky #History #BookSky #BOTD

On this day in, 1933, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt introduced the Civil Works Administration. It was meant to create jobs at the depth of the great depression. In five months, the Civil Works Administration put more than four million unemployed Americans back to work. #History #OTD #Labor

On this day in 1892, Black and white union members in New Orleans went on strike, together. This was a first in the U.S. The businesses facing the strike tried to split the workers by skin tone. #History #OTD #Labor

On this day in 1837, Mary Lyon established the Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which is now Mount Holyoke College. #History #OTD

The Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service are issuing rules that provide hundreds of billions of dollars in tax relief to big companies and the ultrarich.

youtu.be/5FmiMVZkdFo From the scourge known as Jim Crow, & the Great Migration, to the Harlem Renaissance, from Black-owned businesses & media to the start of the Civil Rights Movement, these continuing AAHIAH episodes reveal the powerful stories and events that rarely make it into U.S. classrooms.

“I wish I had a river I could skate away on.” -Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, visual artist, and voice of generations, Joni Mitchell was born on this day in 1943. She has released around 20 albums, won more awards than I can list here, and influenced millions. #MusicSky #Joni #BOTD

“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.” -French writer Albert Camus, born on this day in 1913. #WriterSky #BookSky #Philosophy #Absurdist #History #BOTD

On this day in 1916, nearly four years before ratification of the 19th Amendment which granted women across the U.S. the right to vote, Republican Jeanette Rankin of Montana became the first woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. #Politics #History #OTD

On this day in 1893 that women in the U.S. state of Colorado were granted the right to vote. It was the second state to allow it after the year 1800. The first state to grant women’s suffrage in the 19th Century, was Colorado’s neighbor to the north, Wyoming. #History #Women'sSuffrage #OTD

On November 7th, 1837, abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy was shot and killed in Illinois by a mob trying to destroy his printing press for the third time. Lovejoy’s death made him a martyr and it further radicalized abolitionist John Brown. #History #OTD #Abolition #JohnBrown

Call me old-fashioned but....

On this day in 1775 the Royal governor of the colony of Virginia offered to emancipate people held in slavery across North America. #History #OTD #Slavery #Revolution

Wow!

So… They know. THEY F-ING KNOW. Criminals.

This is kind of encouraging?

I love this b/c it’s such a nice way of saying “Stop enshittifying the lives of people who aren’t cis white men.” And it seems everything I say lately has an implied “comma asshole” after it.

800+ flights cancelled today because Elon took a chainsaw to the federal government and Trump won’t pay the remaining airport personnel. Elon’s on his way to becoming a trillionaire. Trump’s net worth has more than doubled inside a year. Glad everything worked out for them. How about you?

Hm. It’s almost like we need a functioning government to do things. It’s a shame that the hominid-adjacent malefactors currently in power have no ability to keep things running. Hm.

While millions of Americans went hungry … the government thought it necessary to waste tax dollars prosecuting a man for throwing a sandwich. They’re wasting money trying to determine if a sandwich can be a weapon. A sandwich is a sandwich. You know what it can do? Feed people. Let’s do that.

The “trillions” of dollars that trimp claimed from tariffs are now “incidental.” Why must we put up with this buffoonish horseshit? Actual five year olds are better liars than this shit stain.

trimp is crazier than a shit house rat. I don’t expect him to be rational or helpful to anyone. But no one should allow his behavior. Squeaker johnson, thune, and roberts should rein in trimp’s bullsh*t. They’re responsible and must be held accountable for this f-ing lunacy:

In Obama's first term, it looked like republicans might have been able to defeat the Affordable Care Act. Many of the top Dems said they'd try to pass a "light" ACA. Pelosi refused. She said we're passing the ACA we drafted and then rounded up the votes in the House and Senate. She got it done.

Shes right.

In case anyone's wondering, this is how you do it:

Hamilton Nolan - "HamNo" - has been writing must-read stuff for decades. Don't miss this one:

BREAKING: Starbucks workers have just authorized a massive strike. Union Starbucks baristas voted to authorize the strike by 92%. Now baristas in over 25 cities could launch an unfair labor practice strike on Thursday, November 13th.

Yet another reminder that Lucy Maud Montgomery and "Anne of Green Gables" are gifts that keep giving:

“The world may be mean, but people don't have to be, not if they refuse.” -Colson Whitehead, born on this day in 1969. He is one of only four writers to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction twice: "The Underground Railroad" 2016 (also won the National Book Award for Fiction) and "The Nickel Boys" 2020

This is one of the best responses I've seen to the madness of king trimp, right down to the name of the skeeter:

“We live in a system that espouses merit, equality, and a level playing field, but exalts those with wealth, power, and celebrity, however gained.” –Derrick Bell, American lawyer, professor, civil rights activist, and author, born on this day in 1930. #History #BOTD #AntiRacist #CRT #HumanRights

This is what terrifies trimp and his minions. If people get sufficient energy - cheaply or free(!) - from renewable sources, single-source, fossil fuel companies won't be able to enrich themselves while controlling others. That's the game. And this is a sign that they're losing.

On this day in the year 1217, the Charter of the Forest was sealed in London, which sounds mysterious, but the document is believed to be the first law protecting the natural environment and peoples' access to land where they could raise livestock, hunt, and collect fuel. #History #OTD #EcoSky

Katyal quotes Justice Robert Jackson, head Nuremberg lawyer as his final bow:

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After being arrested and fined for voting, Susan B. Anthony told the world about it. #History #WomensRights #HumanRights #Vote

On November 5th, 1914, France and England declared war on the Ottoman Empire. It is an often overlooked part of WW1, but it changed the world. #History #OTD #War #WWI

On this day in 1895, George Selden was granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile. He did not make any cars, but he used his patent to collect royalties from other automobile manufacturers. #History #OTD

Bwahahaha!!! Oh he was on the ballot. Feckin’ idiot