tiny tiny 3 week old gray kitten with white paws, chest, and nose

come on, now

Dead Language In the hours to days to weeks to months that followed Renee Good’s murder, I was beset by an emetic intolerance for words newly written or spoken about the American situation, even those that came from pacifists, Marxists, anarchists, decent people of whatever professed ideology who spoke in anger and anguish. All expressions felt the same: like ash. Factual truth did not give the circulating phrases power or meaning, nor did a speaker’s emotional sincerity, because the words I encountered were not in touch with these sources. They may have been, once, but the vibrant, almost vascular process that occasioned their creation was not active anymore. Now, they were secular catechisms, repeated with an attachment that facilitates detachment, the energetic evacuation that comes with retreat into familiarity. It was sloganeering, even when wordsmithed into ostensibly original speech.

"I don’t want more dead material poured into the pool of my mind, or careless hands stirring up the old muck. I don’t want to be in spaces on or offline where agitating our fetid little ponds is all we do to each other."

meantforyou.beehiiv.com/p/dead-langu...

A Black congresswoman faces 17 years in prison for visiting an ICE facility. Jan. 6 rioters got pardons. Trump’s DOJ isn’t pursuing justice; it’s sending a message to every member of Congress who dares do oversight.
Stand with Rep. LaMonica McIver.

@replamonica.bsky.social

There's also a good essay to be written about Black-led protest being the main form of legible protest in the US for the past 75 years & how part of why so many white people feel adrift & also keep "asking where are the protests" is because Black protest is shifting since 2024. Folks are unmoored.

RIIIItzy....RIIIIIItzy......RIIIItzy.....RIIIIItzy and the foooooooooot

2 week old gray tabby kitten with white face (Ritzy) sleeps on one sibling while another sticks his white paw in Ritzy's face

*to the tune of benny & the jets* Ritzy and the foot

March Notebook — CS My diagnosis is that we are suffering from an inability to talk about what we actually want to talk about: connection, respect of the other, respect of the self, the possibility of living with decency...

Hard to quote just a few words from this piece by @charoshane.bsky.social about the Lindy West discourse but not really about it. But really about white culture and uninspired writing about love & sex at this time.
www.charoshane.com/blog/2026/3/...

Electricity prices are rising across the country — but even as they become an increasingly heavy burden for households and businesses, the reasons behind those prices have remained stubbornly opaque.

Until now.

INTRODUCING: The Electricity Price Hub

electricity.heatmap.news

Sorry, uhh, *legal* analysis is "I have no idea what Alito is talkign about but it's probably evil in some way I haven't thought of yet."

Bad Lieutenants | Molly Matalon with Charlotte Shane It is the nature of authority to court its deflation.

"Every uniform suggests the prospect of removal." A little piece from me about cops (real and make believe) in @thebaffler.com's new issue alongside Molly Matalon's excellent photography thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

2 orange and white tabby kittens ineptly cuddling

Baby check: still babies ✅

wow, thank you!

picture of gray and white kitten stretching his back legs while pinned underneath an orange and white kitten. Three siblings are also in the pile.

thought you all should know this is the type of thing going on that the news won't cover

March Notebook — CS My diagnosis is that we are suffering from an inability to talk about what we actually want to talk about: connection, respect of the other, respect of the self, the possibility of living with decency...

"These women might be afraid that a man will one day ask them to be polyamorous ... but I think there’s a crueler mental jockey wielding the whip. Women fear being publicly humiliated by their male partners, whatever form that humiliation takes." <3 @charoshane.bsky.social

thank you!

thank you, that makes me very happy to hear!

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March Notebook — CS My diagnosis is that we are suffering from an inability to talk about what we actually want to talk about: connection, respect of the other, respect of the self, the possibility of living with decency...

Some thoughts about non-monogamy, the sad state of culture, our ignored, ever-growing hunger for conversations about respect, love, and decency charlotteshane.com/blog/2026/3/...

So it has begun

I think it is really important for us to understand just how big of a defeat the We Are All Charlie Kirk thing was, because I don't feel like there has been much writing about the larger meaning of it

Father Knows Best Daniel Berrigan’s spiritual radicalism – Charlotte Shane

So happy to have read this essay by @charoshane.bsky.social about Daniel Berrigan. This is how you write about a complex person.

www.bookforum.com/print/3203/f...

always honored to be read by you! Thank you

'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.”

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men."

Just saying it right out loud now.

newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

The tech industry realized in the 1990s that if you make digitization about “access” everyone will think you mean for “the public” and not for them and well here we are.

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:

2008: 0.3%

2024: 19%

@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

A Businessless Person: William C. Anderson on Thich Nhat Hanh’s Zen Battles Podcast Episode · Reading Writers · March 11 · 1h 5m

Today is Reading Writers' season finale, and I’m honored to have on @williamcson.bsky.social, who brought us the conversation of my dreams. Buddhists, anarchists, anyone yearning for liberation—this one’s for you.

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Both showers and public transit rides have 3x multipliers to Thinking Time. You'd think stationary bikes would be too because they're both moving and mindless but actually they're 0.5x at best. Long flights have 10x to Thinking Time but only if you're in the sweet spot of tired but not TOO tired