… spent a lot of time & money repaying student loans to be this deep

Spent too much time (a few minutes) thinking about whether immorality or amorality is worse but it does not matter

I have a lifetime to think about what a world without Alice in embodied form looks like. To have loved and been loved by her was one of the greatest privileges of my life. I will carry her spirit with me always.

Yaaay just subscribed in the ongoing effort to _curate_ my doomscrolling 😂😐🧛🏻‍♀️

It's early in the morning, but if you're online and cannot afford a subscription HYPE US UP! I mean look at what we've recently published. You can't find a feature on Halloween Villaging ANYWHERE ELSE: the-flytrap.ghost.io/inside-the-t...

My precise age is “whistling Sebadoh in the Walgreens on Sunday night”

what a time to be teaching social contract theory

My latest is the story of how my community has rallied to protect and defend our neighbors in recent days, as ICE has targeted the Rogers Park neighborhood in Chicago. "This is not a story about a moment of victory, but a moment of being reminded of our power."

NEW: November general elections are around the corner, so it’s time to launch my cheat sheet of what’s on the ballot this fall! I guide you thru the *185* elections I'm watching, & why: lawmakers, governors, judges, DAs, mayors, school boards, & dozens of ballot measures. Explore, share, save:

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

This week, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) announced their lates project, Freedom Trucks. It is a tremendous work of propaganda. A deep dive into the project, what it really aims to do, and the curious timing and appearance of the press release. bookriot.com/imls-freedom...

That eternal question, what’s up with women in philosophy 🤷🏻‍♀️

Whether or not you support political violence won’t change where we’ve come to, nor where we’ve been for some time in this country. I am quite taken aback by how many people only invoke the term ‘political violence’ when it happens to a person with power. It’s political violence the other way too.

The APA board of officers has endorsed the @acls1919.bsky.social joint statement on the White House review of Smithsonian Institution museums. www.apaonline.org/news/708483/...

Shop With A Cop (little kids holiday shopping with cops, precious); Cops & Robbers(!) Donut Run 5k; Cop on a Rooftop??

I learned a new word today! ⚡️

The early closure of the House of Representatives leaves the future of the only agency dedicated to public libraries in question. What this means and what you can do right now: bookriot.com/imls-funding...

“...since Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency disbanded USAID and the State Department subsumed the agency, no money or aid items can move without the approval of the new heads of American foreign assistance, several current and former USAID employees told me."

This. The narratives or arguments that separate out “criminal” from “innocent” immigrants (this includes when media and politicians emphasize stories of “perfect victims”) are bad—it implies that some people are actually deserving of criminalization and deportation, of cruelty and violence.

Here's a gift link to the piece about how the world's richest man decided to kill the world's poorest children. wapo.st/3GjK8qn

i shan't be listening to the takes of centrists who believe in nothing

schadenfreudescrolling

Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated last night, was the Speaker of the Minnesota House in the 2023-2024 session, when Democrats ran the state government. That means she had a leading role in shepherding the many landmark reforms that Dems adopted in that period—an important legacy. Brief 🧵.

not the main issue here but i'd really appreciate it if democratic politicians spoke out in support of big-city life and culture with the same energy and reverence that all politicians have for small towns los angeles is "real america" and so are all the other big cities the president hates

Starting Blue Prince whilst struggling through a migraine & trying to take notes was one of my dumber ideas. I’ve made everything worse

Well this couldn’t have come at a better time www.bbc.com/news/article...

Across the country, immigrants are being ripped away from their families and communities without warning, charges, or a day in court. Today @usimmhub.bsky.social‬ launched a nationwide campaign to share the stories of the #DisappearedInAmerica: disappearedinamerica.com

Is there no late night show writer who can resist the Combs-trial-related rape jokes? Lazy, cruel, unfunny.

lol I just got momentarily hysterical thinking about the fact that the New York Times got its managing director for communications to confirm on a Saturday that it is standing by its reporting that young women in China have tiny hands and this is why Apple has its factories there

Brian Eno calls on Microsoft to cease its partnership with Israel and pledges to donate the original fee for his Windows '95 chime to victims of Israel's genocide in Gaza

All 31 closures thus far have occurred in states with majority-Republican legislatures.

Hey all, here's a post at @ssrc.org about how anti-trans talking points are getting wrapped into Google's AI search results. AI search not only cites anti-trans disinfo, but sanitizes it, making practices like conversion therapy sound legitimate and safe.

This story reminds me of how Hugh Hefner bought the burial plot next to Marilyn Monroe’s: for women, not even death offers an escape from being sexually and reproductively used. apnews.com/article/preg...

Do your moms also still take pictures of the pope on tv 🥹

For every doll you deny me I will push another jet off an aircraft carrier

just so we’re all clear: the reason they keep using dolls as their example is because they’re trying to frame caring about material stuff as feminine and thus inherently shameful

New Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article on George Eliot, who translated Spinoza's 'Ethics' and was also a significant philosopher in her own right - written by Clare Carlisle:

Rashida Tlaib discovered that CBP has detained at least 210 people who have accidentally crossed Ambassador Bridge, in Detroit, entering Canada. Over 90% of them took a wrong turn and crossed the bridge by accident — a mistake frequently made by people living in the area, locals say.

I wrote about the Trump administration’s embrace of the pro-natalist movement, and the need to combat pro-natalist misogyny in cultural terms. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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Idk if this guy is on Bluesky but I still think of this often www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mlx...

Well they blew up the Tesla by 40 last night They wrote the word penis too

Do we still have government cheese

Currently sitting through an info security awareness training, LOL

"We want to preserve public health data that are crucial for people's well-being," - social epidemiologist Nancy Krieger, on the value of the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine www.npr.org/2025/03/23/n...

Every day it becomes clearer and clearer that one of the Trump administration's objectives is a great resegregation of American life. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Talked with @andersoncooper360.bsky.social about what is, and what IS NOT, DEI. And what Trump & his confederates are trying to accomplish with erasing the accomplishments of non-white people, women and LGBTQ people.