performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO! tell me about a book that changed you for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"

Before Elvis sang it, she owned it. Big Mama Thornton — the original voice behind “Hound Dog” (1953)

Appreciate your boosting/sharing of this episode in particular. Action items at the end include a petition for Leqaa

Yo, @support.bsky.team, bring back @sarahkendzior.bsky.social.

No one has asked for this cut. Not librarians, not Alderpeople, not the library’s union, and certainly not the residents who rely on Chicago’s 81 branches every day. buff.ly/mjWTT4g

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

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From North Carolina to Mississippi, Black-owned farms are filling the gaps left by SNAP funding delays

Those kids are now radicalized. They'll never forget.

“I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time.” aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Trains forever!

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Federal immigration agents pepper-sprayed an infant today. Story by @ckubzansky.bsky.social and @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social

A rallying cry for my fellow journalists to put their boots on and grow a backbone. drilled.media/news/media-b...

I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

The People Want to Read: on the massive budget cuts proposed for Chicago Public Library. What's at stake and what you can do, whether or not you live in Chicago. buttondown.com/wellsourced/...

Hi everyone!! As the holidays approach, it is time for a mass boycott! Just imagine the impact if people didn’t flood Amazon with holiday orders this year?? If the economy didn’t boom these last two months with billions in sales as it usually does?? Please share this everywhere!!!!

Bail out the people who are harmed, not the bad companies that caused the harm.

Finally found the ICE video that I fully could not watch and it was the man having the seizure while they pulled a child from his arms. Countries are fake, borders are fake, nothing can justify this inhumanity. It’s all just for the abstract comfort of withering country clubbers and their pawns.

Did you know a former White House climate advisor flipped a GOP stronghold in Virginia by running entirely on putting a stop to more AI data centers? For @heatmap.news I profiled John McAuliff and a campaign that will be a roadmap for all future anti-AI politicians moving forward.

I have tried working what are often labeled "low-skill" jobs, including fruit harvesting, apartment cleaning, food service. I tried so hard but suuuuucked at all three. Always letting my team down. Found other things I was good at, thankfully. But yeah, those are super high skill jobs.

THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

the fact that Sandwich Guy is facing this 'wich trial at all is evidence of subpar justice. he is a hero being put through the judicial grinder. i hope the jury wraps up a not guilty verdict without delay or loafing around

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

Theresa Gillespie Isom, a North Mississippi Democrat, has won a special election for Mississippi Senate District 2, flipping a Republican-held seat. Her victory means Democrats could be on the verge of breaking the Republican Party’s supermajority in the upper legislative chamber. buff.ly/oW1ugOe

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Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

this was incredibly important to ward off future fuckery

Blah blah blah men…Young women are ready to set the country on fire

Elizabeth Warren, who endorsed Mamdani fairly early, says he has a lesson for Democrats: “that Americans care about what living costs them every day. Zohran put together an entire campaign around bringing down the cost of child care, groceries and transportation, and he's going to win on that.”

The FDA is conducting a senseless inquiry into the safety of mifepristone, the abortion medication first approved in the U.S. 25 years ago. The science is clear: Mifepristone is extremely safe and effective. Let’s talk about it ⬇️#AbortionAccurate

Finally

Hoo boy does this Cheney obit hit hard defector.com/dick-cheney-...

HERE IT IS!!!!!

The number of dead from post 9/11 wars: directly around 940,000, of which 432,000 were civilians. A estimated 3.6-3.8 million indirect deaths. Cheney's decision to use the Al Qaeda attack as a pretext for invading Iraq led to this. costsofwar.watson.brown.edu/costs/human

Condé Nast finally achieved its dream of wrecking Teen Vogue and killing its politics section. www.thecut.com/article/teen...

This is crazy - there was a terrorist attack on one of the most famous universities on earth and I, someone who follows the news fairly closely, haven’t heard anything about it.

Such a perfect example of what we all give up when we refuse to address basic inequalities. I don't want to live in a country where all the public space is militarized to keep hungry people from stealing food, just give them money to buy food!

There is no such thing as a good billionaire. The sooner everyone internalizes that, and votes for policy accordingly, the better.

France should have kept its language at home then.

If you have been or personally know someone who has been arrested or detained by ICE despite being a US citizen, raise your hand ✋

Kristi Noem: "No American citizens have been arrested or detained. We focus on those who are here illegally. And anything you would hear or report that would be different than that is simply not true and false reporting."

The Walton family surely does

“Other countries have social safety nets. The U.S. has women.” @jessicacalarco.com www.forbes.com/sites/adiaha...

What in the actual hell? www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

I almost never write on the 'What should the Dems do???' front. Involving strategy, tactics, 'messaging.' I recommend this @pbump.com column on why so much of that discussion is pointless, and what else to think and talk about. www.pbump.net/o/politics-i...

democrats of all stripes should be rallying around kat abughazaleh asap. it doesnt matter where you stand ideologically. trying to jail dissenters is fundamentally unamerican and 100% fascist. democratic leaders at all levels should be making noise about it. you dont need a poll or focus group.

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle: