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Each new day gives us another opportunity to try again. That's really all of it.

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

Long-delayed Jan. 6 plaque honoring police installed in Capitol at 4 a.m. "...no announcement, no ceremony, no news cameras—just two employees on their routine overnight shift working while most of Washington slept." Gift link:

bit blustery out rn

A romance cartoon for the @theguardian.com

"We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words." - Ursula K. Le Guin November 19, 2014

They absolutely can. The question is, why AREN’T they?

Republicans in Congress: you can stop it all anytime. Any. Time.

😆🔥 Praise be! First trailer: The Testaments, drops 4/8 ✊️🇺🇸

American tax dollars used to enrich stockholders and kill children. "The laws of war are crystal clear. Civilians, and civilian objects are protected. All States, and armed groups, must abide by these laws," U.N. human rights office spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani said

Reported a story with Kat Lonsdorf and @jjoffeblock.bsky.social, laying out the ways in which ICE and DHS are using a broad set of tech tools to monitor, apprehend and intimidate both the people it seeks to deport and the U.S. citizens critical of its policies. www.npr.org/2026/03/04/n...

I can say from personal experience that Putin is threatened by strong women. As I argue in a new piece in @foreignaffairs.com, he and his fellow autocrats have reason to fear us: Defending women's rights and combating authoritarianism is the same fight. www.foreignaffairs.com/united-state...

Furthering the right's attacks on trans kids, the Supreme Court has issued a new 'emergency' ruling overturning a California law protecting trans students from forced outing. Read @alyssaur.bsky.social's latest piece here.

“If something inside of you is real, we will probably find it interesting, and it will probably be universal. So you must risk placing real emotion at the center of your work.” — Anne Lamott #writing #quotes #emotion #writingcommunity

Bingo: If the deal goes through, two pillars of American journalism will be controlled by a hard-right billionaire who already has a track record of suppressing credible reporting, silencing dissent, and slanting the news at media properties he owns.

NEW: Contractors for Meta say they've been tasked with reviewing smart glasses footage in order to train the company's AI. The contractors say they've seen videos showing wearers having sex, undressing & using the bathroom. san.com/cc/what-your...

How to get your company off X, a short guide for social media managers:

Here’s last night’s story about Twitter, how it went from bad to worse under Elon Musk, and the real reason why John won’t be tweeting in the future. Hint: it has something to do with his amazing feet. youtu.be/p7ZG_xWYLzI

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 181015: If you're feeling creatively exhausted, then fill your tank with creative things. Read books. Watch films. See plays. Listen to music. Look at art. Remind yourself what creativity means to you.

🤣🔥 Comedian Learnmore Jonasi appears on the One54 Podcast, tells podcasters the meaning of the Zulu song lyrics in Circle of Life

It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

this is like an episode of Black Mirror. Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees, and will check if employees say “please” and “thank you” www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

The First Lady on the LEFT never even met Jeffrey Epstein. The First Lady on the RIGHT had a sexual relationship with Jeffrey Epstein and knew him even before Donald Trump met him. So which First Lady do you think Republicans called today to talk about Jeffrey Epstein . . .

Their number-one priority right now is taking away your vote. DO NOT LET THEM!!

Our tax dollars at work "As Karen got to know the guards at the Northwest ICE Processing Center..., she kept hearing the same thing from them: that ICE officers are paid a bonus every time they detain someone. 'Individual ICE agents get money per head that they detain—the guards told me that'"

"I don’t think it’s a controversial opinion that you shouldn’t smile when you’re asking questions about a sex trafficker and sexual assault victims," ~Kaitlan Collins, CNN Chief White House Correspondent Article: people.com/kaitlan-coll... Video:

"I don’t think it’s a controversial opinion that you shouldn’t smile when you’re asking questions about a sex trafficker and sexual assault victims," ~Kaitlan Collins, CNN Chief White House Correspondent Article: people.com/kaitlan-coll... Video:

"When a major American broadcast network caves to Donald Trump’s pressure and pulls a lawful, substantive interview off the air, that’s not editorial discretion. That’s intimidation. That’s what you expect from state-controlled media, not from a network that claims to value journalism."

I do. I need to hear this. Rest in power, Jesse Jackson. 🙏

🙌🔥 Lookit at our li'l guy!! 😂👏 The Mandalorian and Grogu 5/22 youtu.be/8i_1IUJqlKg?...

10/ We’re not done reporting. Please get in touch with us via Signal at 917-512-0201 if you or someone you know: • Has worked at an immigration detention facility • Has been detained at such a facility • Has info about the companies contracted to build and provide services

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.

We Caved. Newsday.com/matt

"Remembrance is not a violation," Zelenskyy told Heraskevych. "Ukraine will always have champions and Olympians. But above all, Ukraine’s greatest asset is Ukrainians—those who cherish the truth and the memory of the athletes killed by Russia" ✊️🇺🇦

So they agree, he’s a pedophile?

"In public and private his message was the same: he would not back down. And if the IOC barred him from competing in his 'helmet of memory', which commemorates some of the 600 Ukrainian athletes and coaches killed by Russian bombs and bullets since 2022, he would accept his fate." ✊️🇺🇦

Speaking to journalists following the IOC’s decision, 27-year-old Vladyslav Heraskevych was asked how he felt. "Emptiness," he replied. "...this situation plays along with Russian propaganda and it does not look good. I believe it’s a terrible mistake that was made by the IOC."

Our editorial image for World Briefing. Headline: the Olympics Amnesia Problem - Banning a Ukrainian athlete for honoring the war dead - while approving “neutral” Russians with troubling links - exposed troubling fault lines open.substack.com/pub/worldbri... #Ukraine #olympics

he's a nazi. he told us he was a nazi, he keeps doing nazi things. he's a nazi.

Thank you @weratedogs.com

I’m post-menopausal and somehow managed to not become a fascist, whew. The largest temper tantrums and irrational behavior i’ve ever witnessed in 5 decades on earth? Not toddlers or teens. It’s grown men losing their shit when a woman isn’t compliant. “I’m not emotional you are” — men™️

We told you they were coming for the 19th Amendment (They’ve already burned the first 18, they won’t stop)

Please try to enjoy each announcement equally. Apple Acquires ‘Severance’ As It Grows In-House Studio; Series Eyes Summer S3 Start, 4-Season Run & Universe Expansion

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵