Issue 57 is live! www.storyquarterly.org We love it. We hope you do too. 💀🌳🛫🥀🍺🏰💸🦷📖🧠⚖🖼💋🍆🌪🌇⛵👚🥬🍄🌅

Grateful for all our contributors! @stephaniemacias.bsky.social @charlesdotsteph.bsky.social @egtedrowe.bsky.social @juliewbach.bsky.social @augustineblaze.bsky.social @montseandree.bsky.social and everyone else whose @ I could not find!

It is shameful that RAINN, representing sexually abused people, erased trans people because they are scared of Trump. To any org censoring themselves: you cannot jettison trans to save yourself. Yes, if you don't, other groups may suffer, and you might too. But we are all in this together.

Clearest image of Venus taken by Japan's Akatsuki Venus Climate Orbiter

As the future of Medicaid funding continues to be a part of the national conversation, here’s what you need to know about how it currently ensures quality health and long-term care for large swaths of people.

Maddow: If you don't have Bluesky yet, I recommend it. It is a social media network that doesn't make me want to stab myself in the eye with a rusty fork

With the Philadelphia Eagles’ decisive win over the Kansas City Chiefs, Autumn Lockwood became the first Black woman coach to win a Super Bowl. Women have only been coaching in the NFL since 2015. www.instagram.com/p/DF6F4A5Neu...

"California law is unaffected by recent changes to federal policy and continues to provide safeguards against discrimination and harassment based on gender, gender expression, gender identity, and sexual orientation. ....Our commitment to safeguarding the rights of all students persists."

“First do no harm”

These are the same picture.

Happy Black History Month. Listen to, support, fund, and uplift Black people. #BHM #BlackHistoryMonth Black journos: go.bsky.app/QvS5FNb Black scientists: go.bsky.app/Ao3Qt9a Black academics: go.bsky.app/RyKSzcb Black democracy experts: go.bsky.app/6WTBzhX Black in tech: go.bsky.app/2RAbS3g

For #BlackHistoryMonth we're offering 40% OFF Haymarket Books on the Struggle for Black Liberation

Join activist Tamara Lanier and Hrag Vartanian on Feb 12 for a conversation on her new book about her quest to retrieve the daguerreotypes of her enslaved ancestors from Harvard University.

Happy Black History Month, and yeah, we're still doing that.

Here are the options on the table (which are not mutually exclusive): 1. House Dems bring articles of impeachment* 2. Senate Dems play constitutional hardball and obstruct everything 3. State AGs litigate (and prosecute) everything they can 4. Citizens march en mass

This is a safe account for the trans and non-binary community. 🤍

I’m sad to learn that my law school classmate, Kiah Duggins, died in the DC plane crash last night. Kiah was an exceptionally talented civil rights lawyer and aspiring legal scholar. I hope you’ll read about her work and the causes she cared about, some of which I’ll 🧵 below. What an immense loss

Hello! Welcome! My name is Augustine Blaisdell @augustineblaze.bsky.social many of you know I've been working on this project for years. This is the subject of my next book, but we need PHILOGYNY now. Join us in constructing the history of a word we've never heard of but one we can't live without.

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Here's the link: www.costplusdrugs.com

For ​those who need​ their medication but had their Medicaid shut off today @mcuban.bsky.social has a digital pharmacy called @costplusdrugs.com They sell them at just above cost and you don’t need ​to have insurance​, please reshare with friends who might need this critical info.

Baby’s First Starter Pack 🥹 go.bsky.app/8uVsCiB

And here's a Starter Pack of all our 19th News Network members so they're easier to follow! go.bsky.app/NiB28aK

This is such great news. For so long Amazon has had a chokehold on ebooks. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

My first Substack: Hold on to the truth. open.substack.com/pub/jimacost...

What a chart... The US share of single moms (19%) is actually pretty similar to many other advanced economy nations. What is different? = US child poverty (20%) is way higher than other nations. From @andrewvandam.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Poverty is a policy choice.

On social media, several Navajo Nation tribal members say they have had their nationality questioned. The accounts are not verified but Navajos who live off the reservation say they are concerned about being swept up in raids by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

Dangerous temperatures could kill 50% more Europeans by 2100, study finds - Net increase of 80,000 deaths a year projected in hottest scenario, with milder winters failing to redress balance #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

TikTok took it down, so let’s share the shit out of this reading list. #HolocaustRemembranceDay #NeverAgainIsNow #BookSky #StateMediaCensorship

This piece in the @theatlantic.com is one of the single best on the LA fires I have read. It really covers all the bases. Puts to shame the @nytimes.com I shared earlier that repeated RW talking points. It's a gift article so you should have access even w/o sub. www.theatlantic.com/science/arch...

“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.” -Angela Davis Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis. "If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory." --Angela Davis

I'd like to note the outrage of overediting a Nobel laureate in his area of expertise, and that a lot of writers (including me) have had horrible experiences of overediting in the legacy media: not just changing language but meaning and often values. Making your voice and views into theirs.

Updated DEI list of companies committed to DEI Costco, Meijer,Kroger,Giant Grocery,Ben & Jerry’s,Ulta,Macy’s, Old Navy,Nordstrom’s,TJ Maxx,GoTo Foods (includes Moe’s Southwest Grill, Mcalister’s, Auntie Anne’s, Jamba, Cinnabon, and more…),Dollar Tree, Walgreens, Wegmans (for those on the east coast)

When they show you who they are, believe them. Christians against Christ.

Gift article here, a must read: www.nytimes.com/2024/03/13/m...

As I wrote about in my NYT Mag cover story last year, conservatives have co-opted the language of civil rights, but the adaptation of fuzzy terms and programs such as diversity, equity and inclusion have made the attacks on civil and BLACK rights easier as they have provided the camouflage.

If you like food you like immigrants. [Or should.]

we're hiring an associate editor to help with our advice columns! an incredibly fun position! jobs.lever.co/slate/4e9386...

Bloomsbury publishes most of my work in the UK, including the next novel. UK friends, please use any other bookseller while they work this out.

Harvard just fired me and all of my colleagues. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

An excellent interview with Claudine Monteil @claudinemonteil.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

A must read from my brilliant friend Seema Jilani www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

CBC, The Guardian and Al Jazeera. Make note.

It was a town’s only Black-owned bookstore. It is now a refuge for those displaced by the California fires

‘Contempt is a dangerous way to lead a country’: here is the sermon that enraged Donald Trump | Mariann Edgar Budde

In African Publishing, ‘There Is a Renaissance Going On’ A new ecosystem of publishers, bookstores, literary magazines and festivals is promoting African writers and changing the stories told about the region. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/19/b... 💙📚 #LiteratureSky

Getting ready and so excited with Jessica for the opening of the Hélène de Beauvoir exhibit at the Amar Gallery in #London tonight. Simone de Beauvoir's sister was a great painter who realized 3000 paintings, watercolors and engravings. #HelenedeBeauvoir #simonedebeauvoir #TheGuardian

Looking for being in #London for the inauguration at the Amar Gallery of the exhibit of my friend Hélène de Beauvoir's paintings. I have written my books in front of her painting representing her sister Simone de Beauvoir in 1935 #TheBeauvoirSisters #SealPress #HarperCollinsFrance #Calmann-Lévy

Magnifique vernissage de l'exposition de peintures d'Hélène de Beauvoir à #Londres, à la galerie #AMAR, un monde enthousiaste.La sœur cadette de #simonedebeauvoir a été une grande artiste-peintre, autrice de 3000 tableaux et gravures #féministe et signataire du Manifeste des 343 #LesSoeursBeauvoir