Unsurprisingly, Mark Twain is going to get some shine this coming week. Here’s the first of several reporters tasked with creating America 250 content who I gave quotes to. Nobody asked me how he felt about July 4 celebrations, literary canonization, or democracy’s longevity.

Still struggle with the “not reaching your potential” narrative and also still terrified of really giving myself to a project again and also still believe the “mediocre at many things but great at nothing” myth somewhere deep down. Wherever you go, there you are.

I like to think of diagnostic criteria as though mental disorders are literary genres—both genre & dx are attempts to pin a thing down based on attributes assigned from the outside, and thus both may say more about what’s exterior rather than interior to the thing we’re attempting to define.

Plessy v Ferguson, passed thirty years after the alleged end of the Civil War, was alive for sixty years before Brown v Board killed it. Let’s hope the lifetimes of our bigoted C21 SCOTUS rulings are much shorter.

and verily all the women of the city beseeched them crying “be normal” but the men would not be normal and they brought sorrow upon the land

Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing.

Do men need a language of worth empowerment and identity? Absolutely But a man’s sense of self is not greater than a woman’s actual life Read it again

Foucault argues fascism lives in our heads and everyday behavior, generating a “desire [for] the very thing that dominates and exploits us.” That thing is power. So, how does one who "believes oneself to be a revolutionary militant" combat their inner fascist? medium.com/@m_ganster/f...

in the late 1900s my school had a nurse a custodian (his workshop housed the chalkboard eraser cleaning machine) an entire room just for paper (countless shelves; every color weight size shape) lunch: $0.25 playground: slivers principal: AIDS we sang rainbow connection and planted a tree

#Art #StreetArt #Buffalo

I’d like to thank the Buffalo sky for its endless and relentless support for the trans agenda, especially in these volatile times.

Just a reminder that Jackson Pollack didn’t invent or premiere drip painting, he just copied the technique of Janet Sobel, a Ukrainian Jewish artist history dismissed as a “housewife” and a footnote to *his* career. www.moma.org/artists/5503...

The New York Knickerbockers!!!!

READ THESE BURNING STARS BY BETHANY JACOBS (aka girl dune)

I find it funny that boarding a plane first is seen as a special privilege or w/ev bc it only means you’re stuck in that cramped metal tube for longer when we inevitably get held on the tarmac for over an hour only to have the flight canceled in the end, ya know?

What is a lobbyist if not a paid protester?

Very excited to announce that we are hosting a virtual event with Danny Caine author of How to Defend Books & Why that is also a fundraiser for @authorsabb.bsky.social July 17 at 7PM. Link to register & for more info 👇

Flight delays and fire alarms here at DCA. Good times, good times.

NEW: Several fmr @signal.org devs + others have a new project out today, Encrypted Spaces, which provides the technical model for building end-to-end encrypted versions of collaborative apps like Slack/Discord (& maybe a lot more). @agreenberg.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/signal...

if an autistic person asks if you're autistic, you're no longer self-diagnosed, you're now peer-reviewed

Oh no 🥺 The French-Iranian artist, comic book author and director Marjane Satrapi, who became world-renowned with the graphic novel and film "Persepolis," has died at the age of 56. She also directed Chicken with Plums (2011), The Voices (2014), Radioactive (2019), Dear Paris (2024)...

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current lyrics earworm courtesy of RAYE: Cold girls get by Cold girls don’t cry I’ll become a winter woman I’ll wear floor-length fake fur coats In the middle of July (baby) I’ll be sad and beautiful I will be sad and beautiful And I’ll wait and pray for warmer days to come Until then I’m numb

unnoticed by whom, npr

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

If your only value in the classroom is knowing more than the students, you don’t understand pedagogy

So…. Inspired by a t-shirt one of my older brothers had back in the day AND just in time for Pride, I made this beaut. Spread the love 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🕊️

Today’s bakes: - cinnamon roll focaccia - classic brownies - mother-effin’ dark chocolate mousse

Do you or do you not believe in self determination?

Proposing some sort of rule that makes people who have an “x” in their names where a good ol’ “cks” or “ks” would do ineligible for public office…..

I guess this was just a less concise way of saying "bottoms, tops, we all hate cops."

2nd May Otter

at 45, i think i'm realizing i have a low tolerance for spending breath or time simply bitching for bitching's sake. if ima use myself, ima use myself bitching about things/people that have power over more than my mood.

Idaho AG Raul Labrador is a 🤬🤬🤬🤬 who can 🤬🤬🤬🤬 all the way to hell.

This is huge news.

A society that relegates caretakers, home makers and domestic labor to the lower caste, is a society that hates itself and it's mother.

"He's been right about a lot of things" is nearly meaningless in the sense that you could insert any other human as the subject of the sentence & it'd be, generally, accurate bc holy shit, we are each of us right and wrong "about a lot of things." I hate the evacuation of meaning under fascism.

I regret to inform you that you are actually capable of not being a dick to someone just because they or their take annoyed you that one time. You, too, can just keep scrolling.

“Lorde’s point is not that strategy is futile; it is that strategy must be congruent with the freedom it seeks. Otherwise the movement becomes a renovation crew for the very house that harms it.” ‼️

Look, if you wanted your student loans, healthcare, or retirement paid for by the government I suppose you should have stormed the Capitol on January 6th.

“every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you” as a retort.

The people who are the most right about things have the least power and those who are wrong about everything rule the world.

So they want us to push out babies and then NOT vaccinate them? B’okay, Bobby.

some wisdom from james wilson, framer. "The truth is that, in our governments, the supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power remains in the people."

"As our constitutions are superior to our legislatures, so the people are superior to our constitutions."

Discourse about finding "the Rogan of the Left" or "the liberal answer to Fox News" rarely accounts for the reality that the entire conservative media universe is the enormously unprofitable vanity project of a few rich sociopaths. It "succeeds" because they don't care how much it costs.

the death of the VRA is really just bleak to see

Good morning! Here is a three-day old sea-otter pup, snoozing on their Mama. The image is by one my favourite wildlife photographers, Suzi Eszterhas, who runs girlswhoclick.org - an organisation that mentors girls and young women interested in nature photography. Feel free to share.

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