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get away from before the door

despicable cowardly deeply wrong

wait, if you wouldn't mind lmao

lol because we know billionaire influence stops at the border of the countries they live in. westafricaweekly.com/bill-gates-u...

Slop is slop, even (or especially?) when offered up by a well-known if overrated "let's get funky with over the shoulder shots" director. Who the fuck wants this? No one. Aronofsky can fuck right off into the sun. www.avclub.com/american-rev...

Max loves you.

Around Portland after a long writing day and a jaunt to Powell's for a browse with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social.

Maybe there are stronger electoral messages than “we’ll kidnap your kids”

All these particulars are faithfully narrated here

Guys I promise we do not need any more opinion pieces arguing that it’s okay to want to be thin

Oh my god THIS IS NOT A DRILL

no absolution for you

Every time I see districts shaped like this, I remember the meme comparing them to Pokemon

Yearning for someone? In this economy?

Knocked his shit back like a can opener oh my GOD

Anyone got a cigarette and a manifesto?

Not really a great thing that the world increasingly seems to be dominated by a close-knit cabal of pedophiles, rapists, and other assorted predators.

Tonight's Marple MVP: Patricia Hodge, by a mile. Respectable runner-up: Rita Tushingham, in the role of Geraldine Chaplin

almost all the tapers, lamps, and candles that burn round the globe, burn, as before so many shrines, to our glory!

Probably time to update this, though a lot of the strategic career and creativity advice is still applicable. Most hilarious part was Publishers Weeky having to buy the booklife domain from me because they had launched their own booklife initiative without checking to see if the url was available.

Support your local child molester on February 7th

As I’ve noted before, I got my titers checked last year and my mumps protection was zilch. My measles number was so high they said I must have had an exposure recently.

This is a country that cannot imagine the abolition of youth prisons and jails.

I know too much about what we do to incarcerated children in the U.S. I started and ran an organization focused on this for almost 15 years. Immigrant children are being treated terribly.

No need to imagine. The country incarcerates children as young as 9 years old daily in youth prisons and jails. Those children are routinely sexually and physically assaulted and also emotionally tortured. They are fed terrible food and given barely any education. This country has done this for yrs.

You can always check here to find some bail funds to support: www.communityjusticeexchange.org/en/nbfn-dire... - not all bail funds are part of the network but all who are part of the network are vetted.

Struggle is cumulative.

I've been happy this week to see that some people have caught up to the fact that in MN and across the country, the resistance to fascism has actually BUILT ON what came before. The networks created in 2020 and earlier have been reactivated, expanded etc...

shocked that the guy who runs the kiddie porn generator kept trying to get an invitation to the special island where pedophiles hunt middle-schoolers for sport

Looking forward to our book discussion about "Open Admissions:" tomorrow afternoon! www.dukeupress.edu/open-admissi...

What Tamara said about fear also applies IMO to jealousy (thou to a lesser extent). Some people are jealous of others and cover that up by being extra judgmental of them.

doubting those traditions did not make those traditions one whit the less facts

Even if this is fake I am also cackling

I did nazi this coming from the guy who literally wears a Nazi getup to work 🌝

Of course you shouldn't date someone who doesn't share your core values if you want to be in a long-term relationship with them.

Never assume that the person who is letting the other person act like a fool is losing. Sometimes she’s waiting. And thinking. And remembering.

I want the most open borders of all time. I want borders so open they’re downright loose. I will go down there and pry them open with a crowbar myself.

Seconded. I have never had a bad time reading one of his books.

Never mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took in college: Elementary Russian Beginning Latin* Chemistry and the Environment Discrete Mathematics Introductory Logic* *These titles are approximate; it was a long time ago (also Introduction to Astronomy, high five)

This is absolutely fantastic. Bravissimo, @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

That's a terrible job and I wish Stanley well.

I stand with Mahmoud Khalil. The order to arrest and deport him is the Trump Administration’s latest attempt to silence those who speak the truth about Israel’s genocide in Gaza. We must fight back against the president’s weaponization of DHS to attack our 1st Amendment rights.

"I'm very devastated, spiritually. Why did they kill the man? He didn't do anything," he said. "I was there. I was there. I saw everything."

The people who are saying shit like "well it's either this or the borders are totally open" are doing their best to convince America that we should have completely open borders.

I love a good boat story

One last post on this baby, then back in the box it goes.

"With application deadlines coming up, we’re organizing an information session to walk you through what Community Boards do, how to apply, and how you can participate—even if you’re not serving on a board." - Feb 2 6:30-8 pm actionnetwork.org/events/commu...

I just cannot imagine Pierre Poilievre asking Hudson Williams to hug him with his leg up the way Prime Minister Mark Carney did while wearing the famous Team Canada fleece

What of it, if some old hunks of a sea-captain orders me to get a broom and sweep down the decks?

In the good news department, I'm hearing that Alberta's premier is conceding that Carney's desire for a bitumen pipeline that would endanger the Great Bear Rainforest is untenable and thus this dangerous initiative will wither away. Due in large part to pressure from coastal first nations.

this is why i am always yelling about not using biometrics for security. they cannot compel a password but they can compel access with these.

not to be naive but is it … legal to premise an AUSA job on support for the president? are these not career positions?

GIVE HIM HIS HAT AND BACKPACK BACK YOU GHOULS

Why. Can‘t. Y’all. Just. Let. People. Post. That. They. Enjoyed. Something.

Too many heist movies set all the sneaking around to cool jazz music. I wanna see someone crack a safe while a Stone Temple Pilots song plays in the background.

Also very Japanese American internment. So many family homes and farms seized for pennies on the dollar by white neighbors

There are in fact expansive projects of building that people could demand.

Also very Japanese internment. So many family homes and farms seized for pennies on the dollar by white neighbors

It’s been really fascinating watching the right freak out about…Abigail Spanberger. Really? The most blandly normal and moderate of centrist Democrats? The former CIA agent? Really an object lesson in how they will call literally any Democrat a radical Marxist

The public library is an essential component of a 21st-century left political project as an example of both what is already available to us and what can be improved upon in the future. The library is a public good, and it is free as a public service. I want more people to make the connections.

That kid better get his hat and backpack returned too.

Remember to RSVP for my salon on the Bund on February 3. It’s a collaboration with @socialists.nyc and is my very last public Bund event before the book launches actionnetwork.org/events/salon...

This is so profoundly true. If just one kinky polycule that had somehow managed to stay drama-free were put in charge we’d achieve world peace

I gotta say giving Mariah Carey a tribute concert when she notoriously has the worst poker face in the game was BOLD

The post-Me Too era has really taught me that the underlying issue with the persistence of sexual violence isn’t exactly women’s credibility, as the “believe women” slogan suggested, but rather with rape’s moral status. It’s not that people think it doesn’t happen. They think it doesn’t matter.

All of a piece with the efforts to portray scholarship, theory, and activism associated with oppressed people as particularly corrosive to free society along with the Harper’s Letter…

Starfleet Academy episode 4: stunning ♥️

"The world isn’t ending. A world is ending. Our job is to midwife the next one."

Yep! And this is part of why people insist on acceptance from the Democratic Party as the metric of success in defining what’s been a durable lens that’s moved people to action at the ground level.

This is incredible???

Just no longer engaging with people who can only imagine social progress through the lens of legislation. Y’all got it.

I recommend reading Chris’s work not just because he’s very good at explaining legal things, but also because there is an avalanche of legal filings and decisions, and he’s exceptionally good at explaining where to put your attention and which things *sound* significant but probably aren’t.

Here are some nice mushrooms

All things taken into account, I’d be surprised to learn that Greg Bovino *isn’t* an anti-Semite.

All things taken into account, I’d’ve been surprised to learn that Greg Bovino *isn’t* an anti-Semite.

It’s kind of crazy to me that the Gowanus can freeze

Honestly relatively rare that I see a judicial order I wanna praise

Am I the same man that helped kill this whale?

* bolding "Clearly written to be shared widely" * Here is a judge who knows he has a platform and is acting like it

Even the children who have not been kidnapped are victims of the gestapo youtu.be/0Cw36_u3_7k?...

Striking means you accept that you may in fact not have a job to return to.

"But only the worker actually goes on strike. As such, the only people who should call for a strike are the workers who will be striking." open.substack.com/pub/tabithaa...

'slide into the DMs if you're MAGA and want to become a * checks notes * federal prosecutor' is simultaneously insane and extremely on brand for these people

It’s fascinating to see how some judges are responding to governance by fash posting with some posting of their own

I was just in St. Peter last year and this is an *EXTREMELY TINY* town and it is nuts that they are there at all much less doing this It’s good the chief intervened but the gestapo needs to GTFO

"The case has its genesis in the ill-conceived & incompetently-implemented government pursuit of daily deportation quotas, apparently even if it requires traumatizing children" "for some among us, the perfidious lust for unbridled power & the imposition of cruelty in its quest know no bounds" LORD

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

I like the hats and want one. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Hanging out with billionaire donors is always at best questionable but I do actually think it matters whether a physicist only appears in the Epstein files before 2007 or also after He, like other rich assholes, gave money to physicists, some of whom cut him off after they found out what he was

The date is a typo. Judges make typos in urgent circumstances and they’re not that hard to fix.

Years ago, I was on a podcast that asks guests to peg key life events to particular meaningful songs/music. One of the songs that I chose is Black Steel in the Hour of Chaos: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZM5_... - This song is actually a masterpiece. There's a key difference between the video & lyrics+

every time i do taxes it hits me again how insane it is that i get paid 3 lump sums per year without withholding and then the federal government penalizes me if i neglect to pay quarterly lump sums to them

Some of you may be too young to have appreciated Bruce's 41 shots: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQMq... - if yes, you should listen to it. And you should know that the NYPD and NJ cops pitched a MAJOR FIT over it.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUj2...

I closed this because the number of people lecturing me about doing things that (1) I did or (2) don’t apply to my situation was absolutely intolerable. But thank you all for making my point.

Out, out, brief candle!

“There’s no single answer that will solve all our future problems. There’s no magic bullet. Instead there are thousands of answers—at least. You can be one of them if you choose to be.” ― Octavia E. Butler, A Few Rules for Predicting the Future: An Essay

Incarcerated artist Keith LaMar reflects on an iconic painting by Faith Ringgold. www.moma.org/magazine/art...

On general strikes 🧊 lithub.com/kim-kelly-on... @lithub.com.web.brid.gy

most young candidates for the pains and penalties of whaling stop at this same New Bedford