In other words, I don't want to slide through life like a soapy butt on a slip 'n slide, okay? That's actually not my goal.

At events I always insist that I enjoy the daily act of writing, and I'm often met with skepticism. But an activity can be frustrating/challenging and still bring joy. In fact, that's part of it-- like playing a video game on a too-easy difficulty setting, a frictionless existence is not rewarding.

I was talking to a friend-colleague last night about how little vocabulary we have for the depth of friendship, relationships unregulated, uncontrolled — built on intention & choice, of shared vision & values. And thus how durable, how fragile: Prince Rupert’s drops.

Blessed are those who catalogue minutia, for they shall know the names of the stars.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

In Monrovia, California, protesters are purchasing 17¢ ICE scrapers from Home Depot and immediately returning them to create long lines and slow down the entire store. Their aim is to disrupt sales and convey a message opposing ICE raids occurring in their neighborhood.

Moreover I've never understood the point of trying to keep votes away from the far-right by adopting their pet hatreds. The far-right is bad because they're bigoted and xenophobic, it's not like putting that poison in a bottle labeled "social democracy" makes it less poisonous.

"Ukrainians can enter legally only by first flying to Sheremetyevo International Airport in Moscow.... By changing many street names and building numbers, the authorities have rendered Ukrainian property deeds invalid."

This is just true, though.

#BREAKING: A student intern at Rhode Island Superior Court was briefly taken into custody by ICE this afternoon before a judge intervened, 12 News has learned. Story by @jusolyn.bsky.social and @timwhiteri.bsky.social: ⤵️

I don't know where Chevy Chase is these days, but in his honor, all together now: Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. (For 50 years, today.)

"Greeks living in Afghanistan were Buddhist 500 years before China and a thousand years before Southeast Asia" is one of those things that sounds made up but is in fact true

Illinois State Police have been assisting ICE at Broadview. "I’ve never faced as much violence in my life as I have from Illinois State Police. I would really like for the governor to watch the video of my arrest and answer whether he thought that was an appropriate use of force."

Unfortunately real. Here’s the AACN response. www.aacnnursing.org/news-data/al...

We are DELIGHTED to reveal the cover for Laura Weymouth's The Castle and the Cloister! A refugee, a heretic queen, and a priest attempt to shape the fortunes of a continent shattered by war in this new political fantasy tale, coming August 4, 2026 from @sagapressbooks.bsky.social!

Cancel your Spotify subscription until the ICE ads stop. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky

E.P. Thompson discussed the ‘pilgrim’s progress orthodoxy’ where history is ‘ransacked for forerunners’: ‘Only the successful (in the sense of those whose aspirations anticipated subsequent evolutions) are remembered. The blind alleys, the lost causes, and the losers themselves are forgotten.’

“I believe the crime is not what we were doing. The crime on that day was on the other side of the 10th floor door, where ICE agents are keeping our neighbors in cruel detention conditions,” Lander said outside court He could face a 30-day jail term, if convicted

NEW: Brad Lander says he wants a trial, not a deal to drop his charge stemming from an arrest by ICE.

LRS article is from 2017 and much progress made in ending child marriage in the US since--check your state though because not all have!

Child marriage is heinous, but one thing I never see brought up in those discussions is that if you are under 18, you cannot file for divorce. If you are under 18 and married to an adult, they are your legal guardian and make decisions for you. That is not a partnership.

reminded of eric williams's observation about britain's relationship to its history with slavery. "British historians wrote almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it."

ICE Ads On Spotify? NYC Comptroller Says The Platform Has Explaining To Do. www.huffpost.com/entry/spotif...

It's not that I want to tell you "haha you stupid plebs there is no chance that Lois McMaster Bujold will ever like your work, no multiply award winning author will because they're so far above you." It's that if they ever do, they will be a bit shy and NEVER ASK FOR YOUR MONEY.

I hung out with Lois yesterday and we talked about these things. She is NEVER involved in ANYTHING like this. If you get a message or a social media DM claiming to be her, IT NEVER IS.

List of Congresspeople signed onto Tlaib's resolution to recognize Gaza genocide AOC Omar Carson Casar Balint Dexter Frost Garcia (IL) Green (TX) Jaypal Johnson (GA) Khanna McGovern Lee (PA) Pocan Pressley Ramirez Simon Velazquez Watson Coleman

On 1 November 1956, E.P Thompson and John Saville published the third issue of The Reasoner in protest against the Soviet invasion of Hungary. The Amiel and Melburn Trust has digitised all three issues of The Reasoner published in 1956 by Thompson and Saville. banmarchive.org.uk/the-reasoner/

Between Larry Summers and Tom Homan, Obama sure knew how to pick 'em...

developing a shitpost theory that clinton never trusted epstein to keep clinton behavior secret and thus never did anything untoward because he knew ken starr was also a ln epstein friend

i have not yet seen in an official House release any emails overlapping with those in the Ehud Barak leak, which are all incredibly damning, so you can actually be pretty sure that what's been released is not everything bad

just opening up the new Epstein docs at random:

Shame on him.

My friend Henry Dee's new book "Militant Migrants: Clements Kadalie, the ICU and the Mass Movement of Black Workers in Southern Africa, 1896-1951" has just been published by @livunipress.bsky.social . Check it out here: www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

This exact same reporter was ousted from the NY Times for soliciting a $30,000 donation from Epstein— and you're telling me that as an employer, the NY Times never bothered to circle back and review this person's correspondence with a convicted pedophile?

alt-QT: we shoulda known this was coming when he tried to get rid of Pence

Indivisible groups across NYC are telling @schumer.senate.gov to step aside & make room for leaders who will actually fight!This Fri 11/14 at 4pm at 780 3rd Ave, btw 48th & 49th. See you there! www.mobilize.us/nycindivisib... @indivisible.org @nychange.bsky.social @targetmajoritynyc.bsky.social

Will make a separate thread about Biko's I Write What I Like as the founder of Black Consciousness deserves a thread on his own words not shared with a white person. Currently about a third of the way through the book, which starts with his efforts to create a positive identity--black--for >>

Isam Jihad Muala, 13 years old was hospitalized teo weeks ago due to smoke inhalation as a result of tear gas in Beita, Nablus has died. Caught up in a settler attack during the olive harvest Since the beginning of Nov 5 minors have been killed. A boy, harvesting olives on his own land, dead

Just read The Mandela Brief, about Kentridge, who also served as a lawyer for the Treason Trialists, Bram Fischer, anti-apartheid clergyman Gonville ffrench-Beytagh, and at the inquiry into the Sharpeville massacre. Now reading Biko's I Write What I Like. Biko would be 78 now if not murdered.

We started Indivisible in 2016 because a future Trump appointee was talking about the WWII Japanese internment camps as a model for immigrants at the same time that Schumer was talking about finding common ground with Trump.

Made by Holborn Trades Council, the leaflet survived as part of the Trades Union Congress archives Author Peter Abrahams, future organiser of the 5th Pan-African Congress in Manchester, spoke at the protest meeting advertised on the leaflet's other side cdm21047.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

Brass neck is certainly in evidence...

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a new genre of photo in the last year is federal agents working for ICE pointing guns directly at photographers

This is no time to support the current leadership at the expense of challenges from the left--I hope Mamdani reconsiders because imo he risks undercutting the very sentiment that helped him win by not supporting others doing the same. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/n...

Russia is preparing a “final maneuver” in Pokrovsk aimed at seizing all of Donetsk region, according to Ukraine’s Commander-in-Chief Syrskyi. He confirmed the situation is tense, with Russian forces concentrating 150.000 men and trying to break through Ukrainian defenses in a key offensive push.

When Ukrainian soldiers are wounded in action, Russian drones target both them and the people who come to rescue them. Join me in a fundraising campaign for vehicles with drone-jamming equipment. snyder.substack.com/p/freedom-is...