all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

"all art is political and says something about your worldview" yes that means that when I write a fictional construct suffering the horrors you can tell that the horrors weigh on my mind and I'm scribbling big crayon marks about it, not that I'm secretly overjoyed when a real person is hurt

his dwarf guy has a cool car tho so Pete would be jealous

“You’re alienating half of your audience by being political”

Motherfucker, my “audience” is people who aren’t pieces of shit, who care about others. That’s who I make stuff for.

There is no “other half”.

A Baltimore-based thread to explain one singular, overriding reason why American journalism is incapable of compassing and explaining the astonishing misrule and the implosion of all our governing norms. To wit:

A few decades ago, as a police reporter covering the Baltimore department, a new...

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jubilee (2025)

Bookstore owners want each other to succeed.

We are all working to create a dynamic and diverse culture of literacy that benefits all of us. Those other bookstores are not, in any real way, 'competition.'

Happy Black Bookstore Day! Here's to thriving together.

"Why don't Americans-" The ruling class of America has intentionally disempowered its citizens spread across 3,000+ miles of land and then funded the police force as an occupying army that happily murders anyone who opposes them and imprisons whoever is left as slave laborers. So phone calls it is

All I have control over is the work. That goes for everything in my life: the novels, the garden. I have total control over my thoughts, attention, and (for now!) my everyday actions. After 10 years of saying "it's coming!!" it is finally here. This is it. Now we ride it out. Only way out is thru

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:

- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal

Antarctic whales’ remarkable comeback is threatened by krill fishing Huge industrial trawlers are competing for krill – the main food source for whales – in the Southern Ocean, removing vital nutrients from the ecosystem

Antarctic humpback whales have recovered to nearly pre-whaling levels. Humpbacks have been the fastest to rebound since commercial whaling was banned in 1986, with multiple groups of more than 100 whales recorded near the South Orkney Islands. The Guardian buff.ly/eSXtvdN
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Rep. John Larson files articles of impeachment against Trump U.S. Rep. John Larson announced Tuesday that he has introduced articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, following his escalating threats to end “a whole civilization” if Iran doesn’t co...

"People across my district know he is unfit to lead and are calling for impeachment. While Republicans in the majority have so far failed to uphold their constitutional responsibility to initiate impeachment proceedings, that does not absolve others of their duty."

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Yeah so he is just going to keep doing the thing where we are in a constant state of uncertainty, confusion, stress, and tension because that is what abusive people do and the people who are in a position to address this are asleep at the switch.

Defeatism is really easy right now, I know. Given all the precedent that's come before, I don't blame you.

But before you post, think of who you're going to discourage. It's easier than you realize, and if people are going to get a head full of steam, let it be about this.

I really support going to a protest btw I mean no disrespect. But the saying goes to tear this down we gotta push from every direction. The onus is one YOU to notice and defend those putting real skin in the game to end this war machine. Don't wait til the mass movement arrives. We live here now.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

a guess for why it seems like congressional democrats seemed a little slow on the social media draw for this is that they’ve been working the phones trying to get thune and johnson to come back to session and neither will

And if it comes and goes and nothing happens, and the apologists say “it was just a threat to get them to buckle, he never meant he’d actually do it,” it is morally correct to punch them in the face.

I think the point is actually that Donald Trump is a deeply unwell man who is increasingly out of control and disconnected from reality and his allies on Fox News and elsewhere saying "listen, Dementia Grandpa just says shit sometimes" is both true & not the defense they think it is

A gray bird with an orange breast stands on the green grass with its feathers all fluffed up.

Things are bad and I can’t make them better so I’m just gonna keep posting nature. Take good care of yourselves. Here’s a Robin having a floof

#birds 🌿

Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children.

Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future.

If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it.

So must you.

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Give them no peace. This is not normal. Don’t let them normalize it.

5calls.org

#resist #callyourreps

"Moon's haunted"

The thing about there needing to be a path of redemption for people who have been “canceled” is: there already is a path to redemption and it’s called “redeeming yourself.” The path is open! No one is blocking that! You just have to do it!

“But there has to be a path to redemption for people like Louis CK..”

Let me stop you right there: no there doesn’t. You made that up.

throwback to a few years ago when easter, passover, and ramadan all overlapped on margaret thatcher's death day

it's easter: one man, one lord, one faith, one baptism, two nunchucks

happy easter

I'M DOING MY PART 🫡 🤼‍♂️

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"post something random or you'll have an absolutely awful April"?

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