Teaching ppl to see lies & misinformation is vitally important, but we have to go the distance to include specific examples of how misinfo damages, destroys, and ruins human lives. How the lies block human rights and freedom. We have to tell the stories of people to be effective. Keep it in empathy.

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

My first academic article was on the dictatorship of Uzbekistan inventing a group called "Akromiya" that did not really exist but which they used to arrest anyone with whom they disagreed under the pretext of "terrorism". Just bringing this up for no reason whatsoever!

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

The title of this piece by @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social says it all: www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/getting-ye...

Can't overstate how much the movie Ordinary People and director Robert Redford's intuitive, sensitive work on it meant to me when I was in college. It's a masterpiece of acting, subtle direction, and overall vulnerability. RIP. ❤️

Book banning is white supremacy. Taking it to this extreme - shutting down the public library bc of diversity on shelves - is the goal. It's the same move psychopathic racist trash pulled in the 60s when they poured acid in the public pools after desegregation. www.libraryjournal.com/story/samuel...

"War and parenting are close. Children are killed and parents live on. Parents are killed and children live on... I admire friendly parents and kind children in the best of times, and I will admire them in the worst of times." Reading today by @timothysnyder.bsky.social: substack.com/home/post/p-...

A must-read piece from @heidicuda.bsky.social on the Nazi martyr Horst Wessel and Charlie Kirk: www.bettedangerous.com/p/nazi-marty...

Our politics seems to be entering a phase of "right supremacy" where only the lives of right-wingers have value. Assassinating the leader of a state legislative body in her own damn home was business as usual, but all of America has to have a reckoning if it's a far-right online influencer.

They want us dead and we want everybody to be able to read books if they want to but yes, tell me more about how “fractured” we are.

Reporting on a crime should not entail adopting or whitewashing the victim’s hateful and antagonistic views.

it always feels like we're being forced to throw a dinner party for the worst people on earth, and we have to shut up and smile and be gracious, no complaints, while the worst people on earth are our honored guests and we best not embarrass ourselves in front of them no matter what they do to us

Oralè Resister ICE OUT OF CHICAGO Emergency Protest Tonight! #NoICEChicago #Chicago #HandsOffChicago #USDemocracy

I occasionally write fan letters to voice actors whose narration of an audiobook manages to deepen my emotional connection to the work thru their performance/interpretation. This essay on the irreplaceability of humans in this kind of storytelling says it all beautifully. lithub.com/why-ai-narra...

I've had to make a number of messages to folks who are otherwise intelligent sharing this without checking for a source or anything. Mis and dis information are endemic.

Maybe one of the most ridiculous new products from the anti-library, book ban crowd.

Nothing "devalues and demeans the Christian faith" more than a group of lying grifters who just bragged about murdering a boatload of people and are protecting a pedophile sex trafficking ring pretending that they are, despite all their actions, Christians.

Reading: www.contrabandcamp.com/p/a-history-...

Dear Illinois Democrats serving the people who hired you to represent them in (&who can fire you from) the US House: The minute this illegal, hostile military invasion of our state commences, we expect Articles of Impeachment to be introduced. Get drafting. @democrats.org @illinoisdems.bsky.social

What I'm reading: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/the-end-ti... @sarahkendzior.bsky.social

Listening to the stories of the brave women who suffered Jeffrey Epstein’s abuse was devastating. Their courage demands action and full transparency. The time for justice is NOW. Release the files.

The cat wins. And so does the library. www.cbsnews.com/news/library...

Reminder: Knowing how to spell is hot.

What I'm Reading Today: daily.jstor.org/punks-vs-cow...

Years of racist disinformation/smearing of Chicago on right-wing propaganda channels &in the mainstream media ("Chi-raq," etc.) has primed white Americans to believe the looming criminal military invasion of the city is warranted. No "well, actually..." info showing accurate crime stats will matter.

What I'm reading today: Celeste M. Davis on the suppression of thoughts and writings about women's liberation and equality written by women for women over many centuries. celestemdavis.substack.com/p/reinventin...

What I'm reading today: @sarahkendzior.bsky.social's post below. sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/mafia-stat...

What I'm reading today: www.theunpopulist.net/p/what-is-th...

#trumpisdead reminds me of The Death of Stalin. If you haven't seen it, I highly recommend. Just imagine the pathetic, careerist, ass-wipes farcically engaging w Josef's corpse (Stalin doesn't die! To state otherwise is disloyalty!) are Vance, Miller, RFK et al. www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-...

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

An element of fascism is a kind of upside down where the meanest, most rapacious, and least virtuous of society are loosed to bully and abuse people who genuinely uphold civic ideals of service and sacrifice. Public service isn’t what the system is about. It’s about conditioning the national body.

I wrote this in May: "Here in Canada, we are not immune to the influence of our neighbors to the south... As we watch what is happening in the US, I hope we will continue to speak up for the freedom to read." As Alberta bans books, I'm glad to see people pushing back! macleans.ca/society/how-...

More what I'm reading today: jacobin.com/2025/08/cens...

My son didn't even have to wait three full days to see his dread realized. We don't care what you say, lock the fucking guns away. #minneapolis #anunciation

What I'm reading today: www.contrabandcamp.com/p/how-the-tr...

My son didn't even have to wait three full days to see his dread realized. We don't care what you say, lock the fucking guns away. #minneapolis #anunciation

From @bookriot.bsky.social: "if the number of Americans who read for pleasure drops another forty percent by 2044, we’ll be looking at a nation where less than 10% of people read books, magazines, or newspapers in any format. Literacy matters." bookriot.com/today-in-boo...

My son the night before his first day of school: "Great, a new year. Can't wait to start hearing about all the school shootings again." America is deeply ill.

One of the most terrible crimes of Russia’s terrible war. www.newsweek.com/president-pu...

WIRT: "That’s why the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture exists—to teach these uncomfortable truths with the hope that the combination of discomfort and knowledge will motivate them to make America a more perfect union." www.contrabandcamp.com/p/the-great-...

This is going to be a must-read. Wake Now in the Fire by @jarrettdapier.bsky.social and AJ Dungo #libcomix 📚 www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/786824...

It's easy to sow panic over content in books when you're just lying about the books. This piece is a prelude to a longer one coming next week, but it's a look at the lies being spread via RatedBooks. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

This literature would deeply impact the psyche of youth by promoting a culture of grievance, victimhood and terrorist heroism." I expect it's the human rights violations & horrors these books investigate & expose are what will aggrieve readers, NOT the books themselves. indiawest.com/arundhati-ro...

Banned books news and reporting I'm reading today: frontline.thehindu.com/interviews/k...

What I'm reading today: "Federal judge overturns large part of Florida’s book ban law" via @cfpublicmedia.bsky.social #censorship #bookbans #resistance www.cfpublic.org/education/20...

What I'm reading today: How a Group of Michigan Parents Defeated Anti-Trans MAGA Activists #censorship #bookbans newrepublic.com/article/1983... via @newrepublic.com

SURVIVORS RARELY LIE. Believe them. www.complex.com/life/a/backw...