It never fully sinks in until you're holding the copy in your hands... Thank you to @oldfortunatus.bsky.social for trusting me with the introduction! I’m quite proud of how it turned out. 😄🍾📖 #Shakespeare #EarlyModern

You all saw this, right? www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

It took less than 24 hours before ICE agents at airports violently brutalized a woman in front of her daughter. Republicans need to fund TSA and other essential functions and get ICE out of our communities. We must abolish ICE and dismantle DHS.

On March 17th, a House Committee voted in favor of H.R. 7661, a book banning bill using a vague definition of “sexually oriented” materials. Tell your Representative to oppose H.R. 7661 and support the right to read: https://app.oneclickpolitics.com/campaign-page?cid=KOQDC08atRCJ0J1U6j3C5&lang=en

My kids tried to convince me their friends were getting $20 per tooth. No way!!

Toss-up between 3 Henry VI and Richard III. Historical fanfiction in the best sense of the word, you get four* queens for the price of one, plus the incomparable Richard, and they are SO AMAZINGLY EXTRA. Hon. mention to Romeo and Juliet, which sucked me into Shakespeare at age 9.

Child, BAFTAs edited everything BUT the racial slur.

I regularly see people wondering how it's possible that there are so many musicians and writers and film makers and artists from a tiny nation like Iceland. And the answer is really simple: State funding for art education and artists. I literally get a salary from the government to write books.

WCK Founder José Andrés sat down with @npr.org to discuss what it means to serve 1 million hot meals each day in Gaza and why increased aid is urgently needed. Listen: www.npr.org/2026/02/11/n... #ChefsForGaza

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

This is a fantastic essay on parasocial relationships, creativity, social media, and ethics, all rolled into one. For those people seeing certain unwelcome names in the news again.

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

“Education is for the student’s benefit, not for the benefit of their future employer…students go to school not merely to acquire skills but to develop an entire social and intellectual life: to have something good and to have it forever” @thepointmag.bsky.social thepointmag.com/examined-lif...

Everyone should be putting up NO ICE NO CPB NO FEDERAL AGENTS GET A JUDICIAL WARRANT OR STAY OUT signs everywhere.

Hey y'all! While the fight in Minnesota is FAR from over, I have been keeping an eye on Maine as well. I connected with the awesome folks over at No ICE for ME and got some links to share! The biggest one is the Maine Solidarity Fund. They are doing EVERYTHING right now. We just sent them $1000.

Dear Adobe, No, I don't need the AI to summarize. No, I don't need the AI to help me search. No, I don't need the AI to help me resize the margins. No, I don't need the AI to do anything. What I need is to hit the print icon without your product crashing from all of the AI popups.

Can confirm, @casablancacomics.bsky.social is a lovely place to visit! Especially recommend their used graphic novel section, but that might just be my little niche.

As a result of introducing a class of fourth graders to Michelangelo, there now exists a cartoon for a proposed fresco of the Minions.

Sesame Street is now offering tips for parents on post-trauma comfort because the federal government is physically and mentally abusing our country's children.

“Get it all on record now — get the films — get the witnesses — because somewhere down the road of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened.” Dwight D. Eisenhower, after visiting liberated concentration camps in April 1945

And donate. Every time they kill one of us, help us make the resistance even stronger.

Abolish/defund ICE to fund health care might be a good electoral and policy position. But that is currently the stance of only a few elected Dems. The mainstream stance is saying ICE under Trump is bad and offering vague reform ideas while allowing bills to pass that keep ICE operating as is.

If any Democrat in the Senate votes to fund ICE, they are voting for the summary execution of American citizens. It’s really that simple.

Good morning to everyone but especially our friends in Minnesota bravely organizing a general strike & protest in -20F weather. In their honor, no wishlist posting today. Please check out standwithminnesota.com for ways to help them! 💕

’Tis bitter cold, And I am sick at heart.

Finland-Swedish political cartoon from 1938, by Tove Jansson the creator of Moomin. Hitler as a crying toddler that demands more cake.

That is an AMAZING ad. Standing ovation.

An invaluable new report. A "premortem" is exactly what we need.

"#SayHerName is grounded in the sad reality that Black women and girls who are targeted, brutalized, and killed by police are all too often excluded from mainstream narratives around police violence." www.aapf.org/sayhername

A refresher that may be necessary.

250 years ago today, Thomas Paine published his greatly influential Common Sense, which helped catalyze the American Revolution. “We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”

once again we are all tapping the sign

What ICE is doing to immigrants and now white Americans in Minneapolis is what US law enforcement has always done to Black Americans, indigenous people, and poor white folks in rural areas. Your outrage is justified and welcome but this fight didn't start this week.

#SomethingBeautiful a little orange dragon from a medieval manuscript

The first time Charlie Chaplin spoke onscreen, he implored the people of the world to resist the rising tide of fascism. Nearly 90 years later, it remains a timely message.

“They are killing us. They’re showing no mercy. In Kermanshah, we’ve all come out, we’re all under pressure. At noon in the square they beat a woman so badly she couldn’t stand up. I’m begging all the people of Iran, let’s all rise up together” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Sometimes all you can do is make the world 0.0000000000001% less awful by being a good person and it feels very meaningless but it’s also the only thing that really matters

Walz: "To Minnesotans, don't take the bait. Do not take the bait. Do not allow them to deploy federal troops into here. Do not allow them to invoke the Insurrection Act. Do not allow them to declare martial law. Do not allow them to lie about the security and decency of this state."

I got to introduce my kid’s 2nd grade class to Shonibare’s work a few months ago. They were fascinated. Really hope to see this in person someday!

Not counting book manuscripts I read for work (8-10ish) or rereads (like all of The Hunger Games series last week, definitely not inspired by my present anxieties)…at least 60. I read when I’m worried.

Our government’s priorities are entirely backward. And purposefully so.

I will never forget the time my mother was working her ER shift and a guy came in with a daikon in his butt.

Rama Duwaji’s first big interview. Amazing pics as well www.thecut.com/article/rama...

This piece, alongside the excellent one on AI in education from @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social earlier this week should be required reading.

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