I loved reading this book to students in my library.

If the government really is worried about Iranian sleeper cells, then it was probably a mistake to systematically reorient the majority of US counterterror resources toward arresting immigrant grandmothers and five-year-olds in bunny hats

fascist trash

Damn

Why Do Some People Still Wear Masks In 2026 And On A Completely Unrelated Note Why Is Everyone In The Office Sick Right Now Apart From The Guy In The Mask?

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

Which celebrity death hurt you the most? (recency bias)

may I offer you a loaf in this trying time (one week until Election Day)

Pixar has had movies subjects like: Death & grieving. Depression, anxiety & emotional regulation. Family trauma. Childhood ending. The collapse of reality as you knew it. And suddenly just the existence of LGBTQ+ people in a movie is too hard for kids to deal with? Ok.

porting over my “banger novel openings” thread from the bird site

He had grown up in a country run by politicians who sent the pilots to man the bombers to kill the babies to make the world safe for children to grow up in.

What do you call the fallacy that says, "We must have zero tolerance for rule-breaking, otherwise the system will collapse. In order to enforce this, our agents of course must be allowed to break the rules." Because it seems like the whole country runs on this now

Sigh

A Helpful explainer about our wildly misunderstood immigration laws from @sawyerhackett.bsky.social

Your last saved photo of a celebrity is your therapist. Pretty sure this is going to cross some boundaries.

Hemingway was once bet that he couldn’t write the world’s happiest short story in just 5 words. He replied,

Wow.

Gratitude to editor Roberta Beary for including my #haibun “Body Work” in the latest Modern Haiku 🎻

Can confirm

what makes something "vulnerable to AI" is not the capacity of machines but the credulity of management.

Virginia Woolf book cover designs by her sister, artist Vanessa Bell ( 1920's - 30's) #WomensArt

The ‘You Don’t Have to Apologize for Being White Anymore’ guys have now made it against the law to use the word Black at college.

happy #smallpoemsunday! 💜 feel free to post small poems you wrote, or ones you like by other poets :) here’s a little one I love by Tom Pickard~

Spring Bird. #Art © Seiho Takeuchi

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

This moment is bringing out the best in some of us (like this speaker) and bringing out the worst in others of us. This is a time for choosing to live a life that you're proud of, or not. ❤️

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

DeMisty D. Bellinger’s PECULIAR HERITAGE (@masonjarpress.bsky.social) is on our reading list for #BlackHistoryMonth! This poetry collection is “a resistance narrative to the present political climate and a regime in the US that rejects culture and inclusion.” masonjarpress.com/chapbooks-1/...

Missed all the Gen X discourse yesterday, but those of us who are actually in the generation have explained this ad nauseam. We had the ultimate worst bullies and mean kids in our generation growing up, and they were never, EVER checked because adults didn't GAF. Also, Black Gen X is Democratic.

The murder of Alex Pretti might prove to be a political turning point for the GOP. It should be a turning point for Dems, too. For the current leadership, and the consultant-industrial complex, which just fatally endangered the careers of seven members who chose to put morality last.

Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔

Fuck you. I won’t do what you tell me. Stay till the end.

“Please get the truth out about our son.”

"They say they're coming to save us from some evil? They're talking about our neighbors who take care of us ... Alex was murdered while he was helping. Mr Rogers said look for the helpers, & right now the helpers have a target on our forehead ... Mr Rogers would be here right now too, so I'm here."

In 2025 America the only way the truth wins is if it gets more ratings, and more virality, than the lie

a woman was being assaulted by a federal agent, and the victim placed his body between her and her assailant, trying to protect her... agents pepper spray him twice in the face, gang tackle him, take away the gun he was concealed carrying and made no visible effort to touch, and then murder him

The existence of this agency, staffed the way it is today, is just completely incompatible with a democratic society.

Nation Yearns For Relative Calm Of ‘President A Giant Pedophile’ News Cycle https://theonion.com/nation-yearns-for-relative-calm-of-president-a-giant-pedophile-news-cycle/

Feeling more and more true by the day. Also, season 5 of Fargo was cooking something fierce with this.

Everybody should watch this and see this woman, who has a baby in her arms and is thrust into basically a standoff, develop courage in real time.

At some point I gotta go east of the Mississippi.

Emily Heller, an eyewitness, is speaking out to set the record straight. Officers were screaming at Renee Nicole Good, “Move, move, move.” So she moved, and they shot her multiple times? Then Noem and Trump branded her a domestic terrorist. Does everyone see how absolutely insane that sounds?

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

Quoted For Goddamn Truth

Linda Gregg is a treasure

Apparently I'm doing this -- my open letter to that open latter about AI in writing and publishing. I emerged from Hibernation Week to write it, so god only knows how much sense it makes. But at least a human wrote it, so that's nice. Bonus: picture of my "cat," sweet baby Boomba.

"By making life for trans youth too difficult to bear, the GOP is hellbent on a genocide by suicide." slate.com/life/2025/12...