Grief Doesn’t Follow a Script

“Grief is a part of love, & love isn’t just sadness — grief can be full of life.”
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/w...

The bill has been approved. Israeli prisons will turn into guillotines for Palestinians. Hundreds will be executed in the next few weeks. 9300 hostages now in Israeli custody. Dark day for humanity. Unforgettable memory in the Palestinian cause history.

Israel’s holocaust of Palestinians reached a horrific new low today. No different than trains heading to gas chambers. Shame on everyone silent about this.

we’re at over a trillion in new borrowing by trump. we could have EASILY wiped out student debt

If we had ten more of this guy, we could fix this country

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

I'm tired but you know what may actually get people to realize that there's something wrong about catching COVID?

Talking about its effect on driving. That resonates because a lot of people are seeing a lot of aberrant driving. Now I just hope they can translate that to not wanting to get sick.

graph showing wealth concentration

Vast concentrations of wealth have sometimes - but not always - generated political pushback. In some cases, the very wealthy tolerated higher taxes or committed to philanthropy to offset populist dissent.

Now they pretend to be the populists, and keep the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

I want to say that if this dragnet snags enough white people, we might finally get meaningful action. But I am pretty sure the elites have already called off even the pretense of caring about poor white people AND they’re actively making middle class white people poor. Sooooo…

Long COVID leaves thousands of L.A. County residents sick, broke and ignored Six years after the COVID-19 pandemic began, doctors are still treating long COVID patients with complex symptoms and unknown futures.

“…as the virus continues to circulate, more people are being forced to reckon with a life-altering yet often invisible disability whose relative newness offers few answers for the future and few avenues for support.”

I'm sure this regime change will go just as well as the last one, where we spent billions of dollars and destroyed thousands of lives to replace the Taliban with the Taliban

Ursula K. Le Guin — Nominate a Book for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

It's time! Nominations are now open for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction, which will be given to a work of imaginative fiction, published in 2025, that reflects the concepts and ideas that were central to Ursula’s own work.

An Interview with Sahar Delijani Evergreen Review

“I was born in an Iranian prison. My parents were held in their jails. My uncles lie in their mass graves. Nothing you can tell me about the crimes of the Iranian regime that I haven’t lived in blood and bone. That doesn’t mean I want my people bombed, killed, their homes in ruins.” - Sahar Delijani

Viola Davis so happy about Michael B. Jordan winning a SAG award that she transcends time space and white supremacy.

When it finally happens:

A protest quilt from quiltcon that says “fuck you. make me.”

she said what she said

Jeff Chang points out that “cultural change precedes political change." I think about this all of the time.

“As we prepare for more waves of bad news, I’m remembering that there is always a next right thing to do, that I am never alone in my despair, and that when we come together, we can create new worlds that are kinder and more of what we all deserve." - B Loewe

“Hope expands the space of the possible and becomes a way of recognizing and naming the incomplete nature of the present.” Henri Giroux

Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people… |... Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

Ramadan Mubarak

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Matching funds on all donations up to $50,000 for each of these Minneapolis area rent relief funds this week.

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A beautiful rosy dawn over the hills of San Francisco on the first day of fasting for Ramadan.

Welcome, Ramadan. 💛

Emma Corrin and Jack Lowden Star in Dolly Alderton’s Pride and Prejudice Series It is a truth universally acknowledged, that each generation gets its own adaptation of the Austen classic.

Forget about the Ramadan moonsighting wars—Netflix casting Rufus Sewell as Mr. Bennet is creating fitna amongst the Colin Firth as Darcy madhab adherents. www.netflix.com/tudum/articl... 📚

Made some light lamps for Ramadan ✨️ #b3d

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

In all seriousness, I see the UK arresting a MEMBER OF THE ROYAL FAMILY for Epstein ties and here we sit, our thumbs up our butts, in the country where our 6th grade social studies teachers smugly assured us this kind of lawlessness and nepotism could never happen

from the family of Virginia Giuffre: “At last. Today, our broken hearts have been lifted at the news that no one is above the law, not even royalty.... He was never a prince. For survivors everywhere, Virginia did this for you.”

“Don’t be fooled by those in E’s circle who say they didn’t know. E not only didn’t hide what was happening, he took a certain glee in making people watch.& people did watch-scientists, fundraisers from the Ivy League & other heralded institutions, titans of industry. They watched &they didn’t care”

Of all the things we are doing in MN, this one is just beyond. Imagine being released from hell alone in the cold. And a total stranger has waited all night with a blanket just to be ready to hug you and carry you home. Every job we do is crucial, but this one is what restores humanity and dignity.