And thus I clothe my naked villainy
With odd old ends stol’n forth of holy writ,
And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.
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"If you don't know a tree, even if it's in front of your house, because you never take the time to look at it, you don't mind it being cut." -Marjolijn van Heemstra
Protection isn’t the only way that gendered narratives mobilize violence. What we are seeing in Minnesota is also about punishment.
From our colleagues at @msmagazine.com:
Dreading doing your taxes? Billionaires aren’t.
While Trump does nothing to lower the cost of living for you, he's making it even easier for billionaires to get away with cheating on their taxes.
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"To make something well is to give yourself to it, to seek wholeness, to follow spirit. To learn to make something well can take your whole life. It's worth it."
-Ursula K LeGuin
the knitters too. this is the top pattern on ravelry right now
This 2018 essay by Sasha Hemon has never left me.
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Fantastic.
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That one person can drag us into a war without consulting or even notifying Congress, or our allies, or fully explaining to the American people why this is necessary, is absolutely bonkers.
Reminder that Congress has the power to stop all of this. Where the hell are they?
Oligarchy (noun):
A government of and by a few at the top, who exercise power for their own benefit. Their power and wealth increase as they make laws that favor themselves, manipulate financial markets, and create monopolies that put more wealth into their pockets.
the main thing to know about the maduro arrest is there are hundreds of thousands of epstein files we still haven’t seen
This whole Venezuela war thing feels like a “Break glass in case of emergency” tactic. people.com/mar-a-lago-s...
The @chicagotribune.com did back of the envelope math and conservatively found that Operation Midway Blitz cost the taxpayer $59 million. Good reporting from @danvock.bsky.social
www.chicagotribune.com/2026/01/04/o...
One day, everyone will always have been against all this By Omar El Akkad
“Rules, conventions, morals, reality itself: all exist so long as their existence is convenient to the preservation of power. Otherwise, they, like all else, are expendable.”
-Omar El Akkad
Casual reminder that the myth of “pulling yourself up by your bootstraps” is a cruel hoax designed to convince poor people from all walks of life that the injustices they face are a result of their own actions, rather than an oppressive system rigged against them.
Sign at the Weiners Circle: "F k T mp we can redact too."
Chicago is having none of this administration's BS.
Live long and be merry.
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There’s not a single filmmaker who is so magically good it should excuse them being a bully. Not one. Give their money to someone else. We have plenty of talent and too many assholes hogging the resources.
“The National AIDS Memorial, through a partnership with the AIDS Quilt Touch team, presents all 50,000 panels of the AIDS Memorial Quilt in an interactive experience so people around the world can experience the beauty of the Quilt and witness the love and stories stitched into each panel.”
At necessary moments in my life, Tom Stoppard, the preeminent British playwright who died last Saturday, has popped up like one of his frenetic characters, spouting enigmatic lines and leaving me t...