RUBIO: “Imagine if Iran spent billions on its people instead of weapons... They’d have a much different country.”🤔😕 Unreal. @marcorubio Do you even hear yourselves? Your shameless hypocrisy is killing us

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Very, very good resource. www.salon.com/2026/03/24/m...

Just when I thought I couldn't love Zero Mostel more than I already do, I learn this: "In the early 1940s, Mostel’s contract with MGM was terminated for a number of reasons, among them his protesting of the MGM film Tennessee Johnson (1942) for its downplaying of Andrew Johnson’s racism."

I will never use AI to write anything. Even if it weren't ethically dubious, using AI to write is like having a robot do the reps during weight lifting. Your writing skills will deteriorate. Your voice will atrophy. I genuinely don't understand why any writer would do it. Makes no sense.

I nominate @victorianlondon.bsky.social

it was really looking like Durbin, one of the most feckless democrats in the senate, was gonna be replaced by a crypto supported "moderate" but instead we get the Abolish Ice candidate who explicitly wouldn't commit to supporting Schumer! her biggest ad was just a bunch of people saying fuck trump!

Jürgen Habermas, whose work on communication, rationality and sociology made him one of the world’s most influential philosophers and a key intellectual figure in his native Germany, has died. He was 96.

Even if AI could write a novel what problem has been solved? The problem of knowing what you’re reading was written by another person? Who loves reading novels but hates the part where your mind briefly and mysteriously touched another?

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“One of the greatest films never finished. One of Hollywood’s most dangerous alliances. One enduring legend.” My new book THE CURSE OF QUEEN KELLY will be published this month by @stickingplacebk.bsky.social – on 27 March, Gloria Swanson’s birthday, no less. stickingplacebooks.com/books/the-cu...

"They were girls who went to school to learn, with hopes and dreams for their future," Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai said. "Today, their lives were brutally cut short.” Read more: https://wapo.st/4r7izC7

Actually, it’s hurting children.

"Hey, Boo."

tell it to the hague, buddy

Rest in Power, Teresa de Lauretis (1938 - 2026). 💔

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

Happy Birthday Charles Dickens!

This is truly incredible. Shakespeare speaking to RIGHT NOW—on the “mountainish” inhumanity of punishing and casting out strangers from your country.

You’ll never guess but the solution to people not having money is to give them money.

Rep. Morrison on conditions at Whipple: "She said, 'they are treating us like animals in here. The women that are in this cell with me, we slept on a cold concrete floor last night. We were begging for a blanket, & guards were cruel'... we have to resolve that every single person deserves dignity"

Right now: the federal government has to help these folks and get the power back on, and if they can’t, they should resign After that: we need a Grid New Deal and rebuild the grid for this century

People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.

Taxing the billionaires is…a start.

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Who’s next? One demotion cannot detract from accountability. Greg Bovino and Trump’s agents must still be held responsible for the killings and the damage they’ve done to America.

We are observers, not protestors. We show up to document and film the atrocities ICE is committing. Using 5 year olds as bait. Kidnapping senior citizens. Breaking down doors without warrants. Murdering poets and nurses. Media has all of that information because *observers* were there to document it

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

we are going to win

The type of people who can engage in this behavior need to be kept away from society

they went to an emergency room seeking help for their 7 year old child. ICE arrested the 7 year old and her parents. the family is here legally. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

Spend some quality time this spring with George Eliot and @newberrylibrary.bsky.social. Registration now open. www.newberry.org/calendar/mil...

I am just a simple small-town lawyer but I really can’t think of a more toxic and self-defeating political strategy than telling your constituents the things they care about are “a distraction.”

everything is bad but teaching close reading remains so good

Hamlet: To read or not to read?

Breaking news: The leaders of the University of Virginia’s board resigned Friday after Gov.-elect Abigail Spanberger (D) asked them and at least three other appointees of her Republican predecessor to step down.

“Here is the prize for the first sack-race,” said Miss Lydia.

These barbarians are destroying everything that makes society work. Kids can't go to school, patients can't go to the hospital. We are, in effect, paying them to wreck the basic infrastructure of the country

Keith Ellison: "These poorly trained, aggressive, and armed agents of the federal state have terrorized Minnesota with widespread unlawful conduct. They're making unconstitutional arrests and using excessive force ... this has to stop."

Imagining a regime of kindness as radical as this regime of cruelty.

Sorry for limited skeets; frozen fingers! Large Chicago crowd has hit the streets in protest of the U.S. bombing of Venezuela and kidnapping of President Maduro.

Leave, delete the app, salt the earth behind you, do not look back.

Obit for Michael Slater in the @theguardian.com: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/d...

Make a Bond movie academic: Dr. No not that kind

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