Pardon my suddenly watery eyes, but a long-time regular just stopped in with this. He'd been reading, found this line, and thought of me, so he wrote it out and brought it in. "I am a handmaiden of civilization. I am a bookseller." 📚❤️

American politics makes a lot more sense when you realize that the GOP is afraid of pissing off the GOP base, and the Dems are afraid of pissing off the GOP base, but neither party is afraid of pissing off the Dem base.

I knew it would take less than a day for a tiktok dj to make something.

Cuomo’s sobbing in a corner right now, wondering if he should have called in even more sex pests

Has Mike Johnson ever considered holding his daily presser an hour later to give him time to read a paper?

This

This rapid response guide for reporting ICE is specific to San Francisco. For the other counties in the bay area, the second post on this thread links to a list of hotlines and resources. To read more: sfilen.org/resources/sf...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

🤌🏾 ART!!!

Morning walk

“Nothing but sincerity as far as the eye can see.” — Linus Van Pelt

This morning, I sought comfort and found it once again within the pages of Let This Radicalize You. It is a profound source of solace and a necessary guide for navigating a world on fire. I cannot recommend this book strongly enough to anyone looking to understand how to shape their path.

Wow. History made. Clipse just became the first hip-hop act ever to perform at the Vatican, backed by John Legend and the Voices of Free orchestra. They performed “The Birds Don’t Sing.”

There is no better explainer of internet culture than @garbageday.email. If you're confused by what in the world is going on with Charlie Kirk's killer, this might help. It's, you know, pretty bad. www.garbageday.email/p/charlie-ki...

Can someone leak all the Epstein stuff to Teen Vogue?

Jeff Daniels speaks out.. He's everything that's wrong. We’re supposed to elect the best of us, not the worst of us.

This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I... Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…

Grab some tissues and watch Zelenskyy being interviewed by 2 kids at the NATO Summit.

amazing q&a with paul krugman

#NoKingsDay San Francisco

LMAO 🤣

This is the spirit of Los Angeles. This is California. Don't let anyone tell you otherwise. #FreeDavidEndRaids

“Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always.” - Mahatma Gandhi, Gandhi: An Autobiography

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Writing advice from some guy called John Steinbeck.

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

Dr. Kiran Rabheru, geriatric psychiatrist, helped stop the World Health Organization from designating "old age" as an illness. In the passage screenshotted below, he gives his "Rule of 20s" prescription for extending your "healthspan," the length of quality, healthy living. Full text in alt.

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Legit! #writers #booksky #writingcommunity

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*Terminator hands you a collection of Joan Didion's nonfiction writing* "We tell ourselves stories in order to live if you want to live."

Might save a life.

This is why. This is woke. This is normal. That other shit is not.

The real heroes in this fight so far have been the men and women attending those Town Hall meetings!🔥

As Donald Trump turns the United States into one of the closest allies Russia has worldwide, it's worth revisiting the news item below, which came out immediately after Trump won a surprising victory in November:

This is Winston Churchill visiting Washington DC to request assistance in the war against Germany. Notice he is wearing a "zip suit" and not a traditional suit. This was to honor the British troops--the same reason Zelensky dresses the way he does.

Guessing a lot of Americans have no idea about this. The US guaranteed Ukraine's safety for the disarmament of Ukraine's nuclear weapons. The accord was reiterated 2009. Six years before Russia attacked Crimea. www.armscontrol.org/factsheets/u...