Really enjoyed last night’s Intro to Review-Writing class! You still have time to register for tonight’s (Thurs July 17) BAD REVIEWS webinar, featuring panelists @alixrosenfeld.bsky.social & Wendy Rosenfield. Going to be a GREAT convo. www.eventbrite.com/e/bad-review...

LAST CHANCE to register for our Intro to Review-Writing webinar TONIGHT (Wed July 16) at 6:30pm ET. There’s a PWYC option! www.eventbrite.com/e/intro-to-r...

BAD REVIEWS is back! Boost your cultural criticism skills with my webinar on how to write “bad” reviews and why we need them. July 17, 6:30pm ET on Zoom. www.broadstreetreview.com/previews/our...

Call your senators and keep making a ruckus. They will take health insurance away from millions like me so they can give billionaires a little treat

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on. slate.com/technology/2...

Millions march, corporate media calls it thousands. Dozens of Broad Street Review writers joined #NoKings day. Here are the protests in their own words: www.broadstreetreview.com/editorials/b...

This isn’t grabbing headlines, but the @septaphilly.bsky.social doomsday budget would kill Philly’s arts & culture scene. Tips for action in my story. Time is running out to save public transit in our city. www.broadstreetreview.com/editorials/s...

I don’t make the rules

Chat with top Philly authors! Super excited for BSR’s June 4 author panel (on Zoom!). Join us and bring your questions for @elisejuska.bsky.social, @ericsmithrocks.bsky.social, @trejohnson.bsky.social, John Morrison, and @aliontas.bsky.social 👀📚❤️

Lots of reporting on effects of SEPTA “doomsday” cuts; not enough practical info to know what we can do to save the transit we rely on. I want to help change that with my clear resource guide. Read, choose an action to take, and spread this info widely! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

I'm sure someone has already said this more eloquently, but autistic folks who don't pay taxes are still valuable human beings, and people with criminal records should still not be disappeared to foreign extra judicial prison sites. Inherent human worth is the hill.

Thanks everyone who showed up today. Keep showing up. I don’t think patriotism is its own end. I don’t think there’s any point in loving a country or America in particular. But a functional country with basic rights can protect people who need it, including me.

You might not need this yourself, but I bet someone you know does. Keep the info rippling in your network.

last year @nobordersbooks.bsky.social sent 600+ books to Rikers; this year our book drive is for teens who are incarcerated in Brooklyn. please purchase a book if you can—most of these are requested titles, and a $7 Goosebumps book would mean A LOT to a kid in detention bookshop.org/wishlists/70...

Keep talking to loved ones who haven’t woken up yet. If they refuse to wake up, keep doing what you know is right.

I want to start an anti-fascist crochet circle. Knitters welcome too.

Hi, sending me a pitch or press release that’s a joke or prank is a quick way to get yourself blocked for today and all the days that come after April 1. Maybe other journalists have the patience for this in the year of our lord 2025 but I do not 🤗

Cultural & literary folks (and anyone who likes libraries & museums): you need to call your House rep NOW about supporting IMLS in the face of cruel Trump cuts. I had a good convo w Rep Dwight Evans’ Philly office today. Pls make the call. More info: bit.ly/4c8dVO3

Bonus: this yarn was a gift from a Trump voter.

I want to know what you’re doing to stay sane(ish) lately and whether any of you has as good an accomplice as my dog.

Long Bright River, the new show based on the book by @lizmoorebooks.bsky.social, starts streaming today. Series stars joined locals in Philly last week to talk about how our community informed the show: bit.ly/4iKKSCh

I feel like a lot of people aren’t really plugging into the fact that banning someone from the bathroom is absolutely the same thing as banning them from the building. Disabled people know this too, including ppl who use wheelchairs & ppl w medical conditions that need a handy bathroom

When I feel down about the fascists I remember that if we keep going we are in solidarity w the activists of history. They were in it for life under much worse circumstances. Act with them: bit.ly/4i5lk33

Congrats to the adult person near me in the audience at Alvin Ailey today who spent the entirety of Revelations on their phone. You’ve disrespected some of the greatest artists in America & degraded the experience for others. I weep for the @ensembleartsphilly.bsky.social ushers.

Philly pals, who are your fave historical activists from our region? William Still? Octavius Catto? Alice Paul? The Germantown Quakers who made American’s first anti-slavery protest in 1688? Activists for disability rights, abolition, suffrage, science, the environment? I want to know for a story!

Is it just me or are we all buying bottles of detergent that aren’t QUITE full anymore? Every brand on the shelf looks like this. I know far bigger injustices are afoot, including some that’ll probably kill me, but I hate the scale of this scam on consumers.

I guess the “threat” of mood stabilizers is that people like me are able to have decent productive lives, stay out of the hospital, and protest fascism instead of just dying. (A big welcome to everyone who is just now realizing that yes, these folks just want disabled people dead)

Emil Bove won’t see your posts about his looks but your friends who drank from the curséd chalice and aged 50 years in the span of a moment will

I cope with my crushing existential doom by knitting sweaters for my dog. At this point I don’t even know how many she has but I think we can all agree she needs more.

Cashier at the convenience store on E Passyunk is saying “you too” to everyone who says “Go Birds”

BRB obsessing over the 1976 knitting manual @retrogambit.bsky.social got me as a Valentine

It’s really silly that I don’t already own this book. Will order it tomorrow from my fave little neighborhood book shop

In These Unprecedented Times Kyle V. Hiller (left) & Neil P. Bardhan (@neilpbardhan.bsky.social) may be all that’s keeping me going. We’ve been running Broad Street Review together since 2019.

If you don’t care about disability on a human rights basis, and you don’t love anyone who is disabled, try remembering that ANYONE CAN BECOME DISABLED AT ANY TIME and fight for your own rights.

Very fine new art by @retrogambit.bsky.social

Erin Reed is doing essential work every day reporting on the landscape for trans folks in America.

Today my therapist gently reminded me that a person who is always, ALWAYS acting like a victim is, in fact, being narcissistic. Maybe you need the reminder today too. Let’s go forth and quit fucking with these people.

Schadenfreude check: Are we wondering how the Supreme Court feels about crowning King Donald now that they and all their colleagues will be irrelevant by the time Daylight Saving starts? Or are we just sad about our one remaining branch of government