“I insist on being shocked. I am never going to become immune. I think that’s a kind of failure to see so much of it that you die inside. I want to be surprised and shocked every time.” ― Toni Morrison

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are illegally cutting off funding to our nation's essential services. But no one dares touch the Pentagon budget. Join us as we fight to slash the Pentagon and invest in our communities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rx6E...

The U.S. spends more than $400 BILLION annually on prescription drugs. The Pentagon budget is quickly approaching $1 TRILLION. Taxpayers hand over $20 BILLION in oil and gas subsidies every year. But sure, let's ignore the real problems & focus on getting rid of the penny.

we can have a vibrant community of trans people or we can have Singal and his followers maybe that’s not a choice you want to make as a platform, but if you don’t make it the trans people will make it for you by leaving

Yes person on the internet Syrians are aware that everything isn’t perfect and that there are challenges ahead. I think they didn’t need you to tell them that given that it’s been 5 decades of tyranny and no country ever emerged from tyranny without challenges ahead.

I'm once again asking for a show where a librarian, a bookseller, and a carpenter travel around helping people manage their out-of-control book collections. Discuss their sentimental value, their rarity, their histories, then build amazing book nooks and shelves and little libraries to organize them

DAMASCUS: 1000s of prisoners have been freed from Sednaya prison, now flooding the streets, an monumental moment. For many, the frantic search begins, desperate to know if their loved ones are among the living or the lost. Either way, the "human slaughterhouse" is no more.

do you know how unwell you have to be to be in the top 0.005% of So Long, London listeners? because I do lol

the feature I have craved since childhood has DROPPED 💌📮❣️

Massive away win for the little fella.

New Standing Room Only! Today's excerpt: Why the rape accusation against Pete Hegseth matters. Subscribe today! salon.com/newsletter Music by Fever Ray.

I used to love going to the salad bar but then they put up a sneeze guard and turned it into an echo chamber

cannot overstate what a good time it is to be (1) a generally obsessive person who (2) RELISHES when people obsessively nerd out about something as a society and (3) had somehow never seen Wicked until Thursday

In Replicator analysis first shared with us, Public Citizen writes: "Tech companies have swept into the military-industrial space with gusto, claiming to bring an innovative edge to an otherwise clunky and slow-moving, albeit lucrative, industry." www.axios.com/newsletters/...

Love to ban trans women from capitol restrooms in order to “protect women and girls” while suppressing a report about the incoming attorney general paying for the statutory rape of a minor while in congress and showing women’s nudes on the House floor

The Biden administration plans to send internationally banned antipersonnel landmines to Ukraine. @marywareham.bsky.social details this "shocking and devastating" development:

This place has big coffee shop inside a bookstore vibes and I’m here for it

my house is the Big Free Library!!!

I appreciate liberals suddenly caring about disinformation again, but those of us that've been tending this home fire for the past four years are gonna need y'all to recognize the covid disinformation you need to undo in your own mind if you want to stand in solidarity with disabled people.

Octavia Butler being a time traveler or seer, will forever be a hill I'm willing to die on, because there's just no way. Parable of The Sower was published in 1993. Look at this date. #BlackBookSky #BookSky

I am so glad that Bluesky has taken off and evolved to the point where it is as useful and vibrant as Twitter was at its best. For a while, Bluesky didn't have the features I needed as a journalist, and it didn't have the same audience. Now it has both. It's nice to feel optimistic about this place!

I hope that the people who are usually not politically engaged but worked really hard to get Harris elected wake up soon and realize that they are not the only ones who are tired of a struggle that is full of defeat & in fact they could learn about surviving from the leftists they mark as enemies

im on every app. im in your city, in your neighborhood. the sales associate who handed you a large when you asked for a medium? that was me. i am now behind you.

Now that’s a subskeet

tbh the world might be better if many people in DC would go home at 5:30 pm and stay a while lol

With a fully remote team of just 20 employees, Bluesky has surpassed 20 million users in its first year since opening to the public and is stealing thunder from rivals hundreds of times its size. At a time when conventional wisdom among bosses is that workers must be in-person to be productive.

📌 this one! It is spot on!

“I'm writing a first draft and reminding myself that I'm simply shoveling sand into a box so that later I can build castles.” This was probably my most viral tweet. I've seen it pop up in a lot of quote aggregators, sometimes attributed to a wonderful but definitely not-me filmmaker.

This is how you become a writer: just pick one of the things that is deeply wrong with you. Make it a character. Now send it on a self-help journey or try to kill it. Now call it a book.

Imma need some of you to think about thriving out of spite. I had big plans for 2025 and I’m definitely not gonna pre-derail them for likes of Elin and Tromp. I’m getting more involved. Loving harder. Writing hornier. Having more fun. I’m gonna be so kind to my neighbors, bitch.

our ancestors accomplished more, with less, against worse. stay locked in.

another X-pat! hello bluesky, it's us

The pentagon failed its audit, again, for the SEVENTH year. The pentagon has NEVER passed an audit. And guess what? After failing to account for their $824 billion budget, they'll get even more money next year.