You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Look, they do not have the capacity or competence to do this at the scale they want you to fear they do, and your fear is precisely their greatest force multiplier. Everybody who is cowed into silence by their threats allows them a smaller pool to focus on.

Revival Cafe in Cambridge embracing the infinite buffalo

Love this. Churches ringing their bells for protests & popular uprisings has a long history. Out my window is Florence’s Badia bell tower, built 978 CE but rebuilt in 1330 because the tower was demolished in 1255 as punishment for ringing its bells to support a workers’ revolt 💪🔔

This is why I’ve been donating to Democracy Forward since the election. They understood the assignment. They studied Project 2025 and prepared lawsuits.

I didn’t know until now that in the original Rosie the Riveter painting, she is crushing a copy of Mein Kampf under her foot. Happy feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary, remembering all the women who crush the serpents of Satan under their heel.

Spent the week camping in New Hampshire. “Inventing the Renaissance” by @adapalmer.bsky.social is excellent hammock reading.

there’s an election for Cat Mayor currently happening in Somerville, Mass. and every cat deserves to win

This is a 🧵of things that feel awesome. Add your own. The pleasure of taking off constricting shoes & clothing at the end of a day. When the cat falls asleep in a bagel on your hip and you can feel the moment it goes completely boneless. When a toddler uses you as trusted steadying furniture.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

here’s what the onion’s full page spot is running next to this morning

Five things to remember about war:

1. Call your reps about Trump's violation of the War Powers Act 2. Demand Congress haul Hegseth etc. in for hearings/briefings on justification 3. Demand to know why the Gang of Eight was not kept in the loop. Do it NOW.

The United States should not wage war against Iran. Donald Trump’s bombing of Iran is unconstitutional. Only Congress can declare war — and the Senate must vote immediately to prevent an another endless war. This is a horrific war of choice.

I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan

I just like to post these data from time to time to puncture the mythological aura of mid 20th c protests. They were less popular than pretty much any 21st c mass action & people criticizing them used the same lines. Protest is about people coming together, shaping narratives, & building power.

The Polish foreign minister, a writer and journalist who covered the Soviet war in Afghanistan in the 1980s, clearly knows a thing or two about a patiently-timed response.

So are we just teaching our kids they have to obey anyone with a mask and an unmarked car and an oddly-fitting vest and zip ties now and go with them? Is this where we’re at?

DEAN: What's the tariff on bananas? LUTNICK: Generally 10% DEAN: Walmart has already increased the cost of bananas by 8% LUTNICK: If you build in America, there is no tariff DEAN: We cannot build bananas in America

Buddy, if you think I can’t both laugh at something and be full of incandescent range at a different thing at the same time then have you even been an American?

applying for jobs again

I occasionally use my grocery list as a quick place to note other things. Stuff gets weird sometimes as a result.

With alt-text for accessibility, because this teenage Bronze Age sheep-ankle-bone gaming champion girl deserves to be known. #JoyScrolling

If you think COVID vaccines should continue to be available to all: take 5 min and add your comments at the link below. (Advice for what to say in the linked thread.)

I’ve got one of these outside the living room window. Life finds a way.

Justice Jackson nails where we are right now: “Your argument turns our justice system into a catch me if you can kind of regime from the standpoint of the Executive where everybody has to have a lawyer and file a lawsuit in order for the government to stop violating people’s rights.” 🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯🎯

I check the little screen, I check the big screen, I check the watch screen, I check the tablet screen. I check the screen that reminds me of the good times, I check the screen that reminds me of the better times.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

so they're mycoblogging

If you'd like to see and hear @hcrichardson.bsky.social deliver her blow-by-blow account of the lighting of the lamps in the Old North Church – where she gave this address – and the Ride of Paul Revere 250 years ago, someone did us the service of recording it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bv5l...

This is high art

This video, better than stills, illustrates just how many people marched in Boston yesterday. City hall plaza, filled from the JFK federal building, stretching across Cambridge St and all the way down Tremont St to Boylston. (From: Reddit)

500 people in Rapid City, South Dakota. @maddow.msnbc.com

My friend’s daughter dressed up the Boston Common Ducklings for #Handsoff

The Golden Gate Bridge. It was about here on my walk that I started laughing like a crazy person thinking about onshoring a factory in a hurry. I’ve helped build and ramp a line for heavy equipment. It takes years to get right. This is fucking madness by men who’ve never owned steel tipped boots

Harvard alumni: add your name to this letter to the administration calling on them to defend the university’s freedom and integrity! bit.ly/HarvardAlumL...

I have tariffed the penguins that are on Heard Island and which you were probably assuming did not export goods forgive me they were taking advantage of us so cunning and so cold

NEW: Tufts files a declaration in support of Rümeysa Öztürk: "The University has no information to support the allegations that she was engaged in activities at Tufts that warrant her arrest and detention." www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

what booker is doing right now is an example of what i mean when i say things like “we need more ambition right now.” there is room in american politics right now for people with ambition to take big stands and reap the rewards. he’s doing it!

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

Boston is turned out against ICE today--Rumeysa was illegally sent to an ICE detention center in Louisiana despite a court order against moving her! Come for one, face us all.

Pete Hegseth must resign or be fired immediately.

The latest crazy just proves what we all know. They are discussing everything on Signal to avoid any discovery or FOIA or archival laws. So illegal but here we are.

This continues to be the biggest story in the country: DOGE has already squandered half a trillion dollars in 6 weeks. Not billion. half a trillion, $500 billion talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/irs-p...

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The reactions are fantastic: “Mark Zaid, a lawyer whose clearance was also revoked, voiced similar skepticism, writing, ‘This is like the third time already I've lost my security clearance? How many times does it take? Is this like a [Beetlejuice] thing where something magical will now happen?’”

being an indie bookseller in the helltimes has felt both very stable and very stabilizing, and part of me wishes everyone could be on my side of the counter for a little while, because I think it would help some of you be a little less cynical and doomy right now. so here is my VERY anecdotal data:

Tucson, Arizona today. Original projected attendance was 3,000 people. 23,000 showed up.

Chart of cumulative protests reported from Jan 22 - Feb 28, 2017 vs 2025: