George Orwell is everywhere; quoted, misquoted, meme-ified. But who was he really? "George Orwell: Life and Legacy" goes beyond the soundbites to rediscover the man behind the masterpieces and offer an authentic portrait of Orwell: oxford.ly/4sV08CO

Um, excuse me, I thought I was buying an America the Beautiful Pass??? 🤡

Heart broken for many reasons. But there REALLY REALLY should be archaeologist on site of the destruction when digging and potentially destroying valuable historical artifacts (I know they don’t care, clearly) but further future harm above & beyond harm above ground. More broken laws forthcoming. 😞

BREAKING: Letitia James has announced a Government portal for Videos and images of ICE Agents who may have committed crimes. Please Use it and SHARE! ag.ny.gov/federal-acti...

2025 feels like that late-stage game of monopoly where you just go round and round paying rent and utilities forever and nobody knows what the rules are anymore and everyone’s just waiting for it all to end except the one player who cheated and has all the money

It's textbook season, and that means it's time for this reminder: Always use an aggregate site to comparison shop BOOK PRICES. AddALL, Bookfinder, and viaLibri.net will all search multiple websites for you, so that you can see the prices everywhere - so that you won't be fooled by bookjackers.

All those perimenopausal women that stocked up on tampons when they were on sale only to hit menopause the next month are really going to light up the revolution 🔥

CIA Realizes It’s Been Using Black Highlighters All These Years

Makes me think of some birdwatching advice I once got: If it's a bird? It's a crow. If it's a beak with a bird attached? It's a raven.

What an amazing document: a four-volume journal/sketchbook/scrapbook kept by Jacques Gogois, a French child in Amiens, during the First World War. The first volume begins in 1914, when Jacques is seven years old. @sommecourt.bsky.social archives.somme.fr/ark:/58483/8...

Shoutout to @bookshopghost.bsky.social for the best abebooks order I’ve ever had - those books were exactly as described & there was no way a dropped box was going to result in banged up corners! The graphic design book is beautiful & you’re going to be on my regular bookstore rotation from now on!

Highly recommend @pbs.org's new documentary, Hannah Arendt: Facing Tyranny. www.pbs.org/wnet/america...

I made some placards to hand out today - be safe protesting out there everyone!

“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”

If you are National Guard or Active Duty Military & are being ordered to violate the Constitutional rights of American Citizens, you do not have to follow illegal orders. 1-877-447-4487 GI Rights Hotline

Here is the official Harvard University website! www.harvard.edu Here is their # if you'd like to speak to someone there!! +1 617-495-1000 The link to the Free Government courses is ... pll.harvard.edu/subject/gove...

I don’t mean to alarm anyone, but the orcas now have two F/A-18 Hornets

Back in Feb, @ryancordell.org shared this incredible woodcut from @skeuomorphpress.org collection. He shared the original illustrator file for all! I was so inspired by this woodcut, I wanted to clean it up and redistribute it to the public 🧵 1/2 #printsky #academicsky #typophile

Napa, CA 4-6 pm Veteran’s Memorial Park www.mobilize.us/mobilize/eve...

hello from Vienna, which I found out tonight has a fast food place called "Hab's Burgers"

"We can react by seeing all of this for what it is, and naming it by name: incipient state terror. We can react by associating ourselves with others who are repressed before we are. Only in solidarity do we affirm law."

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

Good morning,

"The language that is being used has a specific resonance, which, historically, has been used to change regime type. It is important that the rights of human beings were violated. It is important that the rule of law was ignored. It is important that the executive is trying to define reality."

NEW: A searing editorial in the The Kyiv Independent. “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up. “A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” @kyivindependent.com

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Do not forget tomorrow's economic blackout #revolution2025

I made this the other night while procrastinating, mainly because I thought all the posts about the blackout were boring. It feels like there is momentum bringing people together!

Volodymyr Zelenskyy..... Leader of the free world.....

We're launching a new platform to bring Californians together to engage, interact, and share ideas that will help shape government services and create policy solutions. Government works better when we build it together — which means making it easier for everyone to be involved.

Federal workers launch a new site to share inside information about DOGE www.theverge.com/news/617014/...

El Capitan displays a massive American flag upside down—the traditional signal of distress or extreme emergency.

Love my new morning routine of waking up, brewing some coffee, logging on and checking the End Times Billboard to see what new Calamities were pinned there overnight. Then I ride that cortisol high, like I'm surfing on piranhas and broken glass, baby.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

people say “just stop doomscrolling” like we’re not literally live-streaming the series finale of american democracy

Napa Creek flooding into the Oxbow Commons - 2025-02-04

might be a good time to start pulling together a few resources for muni civil servants, you know, for just in case times

We're just going to leave this here…

You may not familiar with the term “mutual aid” so sharing a primer. We will defeat fascism by coming together as communities.

I haven’t lived through the collapse of a civilisation before I study history so I have read the guidebooks, but they don’t quite capture the experience of being there

@jenlavrismakovics.bsky.social @nellejoy.bsky.social I wish one of the many guanacos I’d excavated had been riding a skateboard 😆

Some light weekend reading

The birds know what's up

Morning sky before the storm