Selfie wearing an N95 mask in front of a mosaic sign reading SOUTH STATION
i’m back from my weekend in Texas. While there I had dinner with my closest friend and his mother, my “third mother,” as she rightly calls herself. We talked about my #adoptees panel. She said, “I’ve never thought that adoption was the blessing we say it is. It’s for the adults, not the children.”
Emails released on Monday by California’s attorney general show Amazon allegedly colluding with other companies to raise the prices of pet treats, khaki pants, eyedrops and other products sold online
A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."
The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.
“Keep fucking that chicken!”
Life was simpler then…
I'm so glad you're bringing a story like this to light. Cops kill so many people in mental crisis. It's why they are so dangerous as first responders for it & shouldn't be. I & other mad Black folks I know have had to be traumatized them in mental crisis. A lot of us become hashtags.
I’m hoping Kathryn finds a good landing place! More than once, during the #adoptee meetup I attended this past weekend, I cited THE CHILD CATCHERS, her pathbreaking book on the Christian adoption crusade. We need Kathryn Joyce to keep digging into things!
PM folks: Do I know any librarians at New York Public Library? Please DM me. I've got a question!
If only the US had the wherewithal. Sigh.
Our society is sick at its core
"In 2025, 92 percent of all book challenges were initiated by pressure groups, government officials and decision makers, up from 72 percent in 2024. Less than 3 percent of challenges originated from individual parents." 📚
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I’m hoping Kathryn finds a good landing place! More than once, during the #adoptee meetup I attended this past weekend, I cited THE CHILD CATCHERS, her pathbreaking book on the Christian adoption crusade. We need Kathryn Joyce to keep digging into things!
Sad to share that today is my last as investigative editor at ITT, following layoffs that affected about half the staff. For the immediate future I’ll be finishing a book about the Catholic right. Not sure what comes after that, but am open for job leads, freelancing, editing gigs, rich patrons, etc
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Better lives generally means, in their opinion, that adoptees are no longer "illegitimate" and that they have access to better opportunities and material things because adoptive parents have more money. It's a very transactional way to view what makes life "better". Very white pov. 🥚
Oh it’s in there!
Shut the fuck up, transphobe.
No amount of AI literacy can protect us because the problem isn’t knowledge, or how to use the system, it’s that the system exists in a culture that has been radically structured around white supremacy and patriarchy and your precious autocomplete incorporates it into its operations.
thomas violence @thomas_violence vegan huh? you know else was vegan? hitler. he was also a wiccan. and a feminist. and his name was claire. wait no i'm thinking of claire 3:59 AM • 2014-08-03
obviously this is bad for the reasons they are doing it (racism, xenophobia, further disenfranchising marginalized people) but also i DON’T WANNA DO ALL THIS!!!!!!!!! I AM LAZY!!!!!!!!!!!!
As a former StoryCorps facilitator, this is fucking disgusting.
End the project already, Dave.
You created a good model: you encouraged people to sit and do oral history for 20 yrs.
Turning StoryCorps into a surveillance capitalism nightmare is not worth the money to keep the project going.
"Its okay to deadname shitty trans people"
No, its not, and when you do it, you are disrespecting ALL my trans homies.
no no no NO NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
And the fact that they're always yelling it at folks who are actually out in their communities doing the actual work just does my head in
Four charcoal and ink drawings on one page. The first is an egg cracking; the second is a baby dragon emerging from an egg; the third is a dragon posing atop his impressive pile of treasure; the fourth is a distinguishedv looking dragon reading a book with wisps of smoke coming from his nostrils.
Good morning, ignoring whatever hell the discourse is bringing this morning in order to bring you my recently divorced dragon dating profile photos
whatever, man. Me, I’m too poor to fly very much so this logic holds zero appeal to me
AI is here to stay, they said
I don’t know what it takes to build a political coalition but I’m pretty sure that yelling “get off your asses and vote Dem you fucking jerks” at people who feel estranged from electoral politics is not even part of the way forward
Over just five days, the justices had decided the issue. Even as they debated the Obama plan's possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.
Next time some officious doofus explains to me that “the law” is not “political,” I am going to drive to their house and strap them into the eye speculum from ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and force them to look at this sentence for 48 straight hours www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
So exactly what are you supposed to do when there are no resources in your area (and yes, I do know that through decades of experience), and you have no community or family?
Just shut up and die so no one is inconvenienced by your voice?
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