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How to Write Trigger Warnings This blog will give you some ideas of how to write trigger warnings with the intention of giving your readers control over what they read and protecting those struggling with the effects of trauma.

How to choose, phrase, and format your trigger warnings ✍️📚
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The ADHD ability to make hard stuff look easy so people think you're being ridiculous when you struggle with easy stuff is my favorite part.

Elon Musk: For a country to survive, there has to be a common culture. Nobody dies to defend a “multicultural economic zone”! American culture, with its English-Scotts-Irish origin, is great and worth fighting for. Some may not realize it, but that’s why people come here.

Hillary Clinton: "More people were deported under my husband and Barack Obama without killing American citizens and without putting children into detention camps than were in the first Trump term or this first year of Trump's second term."

Gallup poll on immigration Increased: 26 Kept at present level: 38 Decreased: 30 https://news.gallup.com/poll/692522/surge-concern-immigration-abated.aspx

How about trying pro-immigrant? Stand with the Statue of Liberty. To be a magnet for the skilled and striving, which benefits the US as a whole.

Could a party please represent the majority of Americans who want immigration maintained or increased, not only cater to the 30% that want it decreased?

listening to audiobooks counts as reading. in some instances like historical nonfiction where the author will spend hours demonstrating how year-over-year falling grain yields caused a revolution to happen, it actually counts as reading with a 1.2x multiplier

I think it’s time for Democratic leaders to start saying “if you’re a pilot or ground crew involved in a deportation that was stayed by a judge, you’ll be held criminally liable for human trafficking.” Everyone involved in these flights should have that fear in the back of their minds.

The left is missing out on AI As a movement, it has largely refused to engage seriously with AI, ceding debate about a threat and opportunity to the right

www.transformernews.ai/p/the-left-i... i wouldn't call this "directionally correct" as much as i'd call it uninterested in confronting the left critiques of the AI industry that the right has no objection to: the amorality of its leaders, its model of theft, and its environmental damage

‘People ought to know’: Blue Boy Trial brings Japan’s trans history up to date Kasho Iizuka’s feature casts trans actors to revisit a notorious 1965 trial that made gender reassignment illegal for more than 30 years. He explains why the history remains unfinished

In my most important journalism to date, I spoke with Japan's only mainstream transgender filmmaker, Kasho Iizuka, about bringing Japan's hidden history to cinematic light. For @theguardian.com

www.theguardian.com/film/2026/fe...

Corpses, Fools and Monsters by Willow Maclay, Caden Gardner: 9781914420580 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books A radical history of transness in cinema, and an exploration of the political possibilities of its future. In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as ...

Every time there's a Twitter purge, I share the link to my book. I co-authored "Corpses, Fools and Monsters" and it is about transness in cinema. People seem to like it!

www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/725695...

i don't think ted needed to say all this but it's very cool he did!

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Folkloring Life | Tracy Nicholas | Substack Bring folklore and magick into your day to day life. Click to read Folkloring Life, by Tracy Nicholas, a Substack publication. Launched a few seconds ago.

I am doing a new thing! Check out my first post on substack (and read the introduction to my book Mind Over Magick)! tracynicholas.substack.com?r=1nxcck&utm... #authorsky #writersky #substack #folkloring

Obama Clarifies His Aliens Are ‘Real’ Comments In an interview that aired over the weekend Obama was asked if aliens were real and he replied “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them.”

In an interview that aired over the weekend Obama was asked if aliens were real and he replied “They’re real, but I haven’t seen them.”

Leave it to Shakespeare and Ian McKellen to so eloquently speak of man's mountainish inhumanity. See Ian McKellan in AN ARK, a new play for mixed reality, at @The Shed now! #Colbert #IanMcKellen #Sh... TikTok video by colbertlateshow

"this your mountanish inhumanity"
Shakespeare of course had the words to describe attacks on immigrants, writing 400 years ago. (1/7)
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Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."

One way concentration camps become zones where law doesn't apply is by neglecting policies & standards that would protect health & provide healthcare. You deny laws & norms & dehumanize your victim.
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...

hey i wrote an article about folk names for birds and you should check it out!!!

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a book page with a coat of arms showing a skull, next to it is written Caterine Morte

they had goth baddies in the 17th century as evidenced by the fact that a woman named Caterine Morte had a skull coat of arms

i wrote a 2500 word substack article about this and other weird medieval dogs!! it is paywalled you can for it to support the weird medieval cause!! or you can enjoy the many articles i have available for free!!
weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/why-did-me...

a medieval painting of a scruffy white dog with a strangely human face

normal dog, switzerland, 15th century

Why did medieval people dig thousands of narrow, dead end tunnels approximately 1000 years ago? And why were they kept so secret?? more on this mystery in my new blog post!!!

weirdmedievalguys.substack.com/p/the-secret...

some essays on how to write essays (p. 1) intro / choosing a subject

Love this piece from @katewagner.wehwalt.net

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how to cure your phone addiction (sitting through the ring cycle)

So much of this regime's playbook recycles Kremlin tactics and rhetoric.

The Language of Public Violence; My Conversation with the Anti-Authoritarian Experts of STROIKA US government agents behave like Fascist blackshirts and state security forces in Turkey, Iran, and other autocracies.

"The behavior of ICE and CBP agents reminds me of the Fascist blackshirts who arrived in trucks, armed with clubs, knives, guns, and castor oil, to subjugate towns in early 1920s Italy, before Benito Mussolini declared dictatorship."

The latest from @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social...

One of the best things I’ve read in a while:

Classic authoritarian logic: corrupt people by giving them an incentive to do the wrong thing. In 1933 and 1938, years of major assaults on targeted groups, the Nazis forgave the debt of other Germans to bind them to the regime.

Opinion | History Shows Trump’s Worst Impulses May Backfire on Him

🎁🔗: History Shows Trump’s Worst Impulses May Backfire on Him >>> "Trump appears to be testing the depths of the hole into which he can throw himself — and drag America with him." via @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/o...

Oligarchs usually operate outside government. But under the Trump administration, they moved inside — accelerating the dismantling of the civil service by using anti-democratic tactics.

Sometimes very hard not to feel like the rest of the country has abandoned Minnesota. We STILL have ICE everywhere. Our schools, businesses, and economy are in profound crisis. But without Bovino here throwing tear gas, much of the country seems to not care at all what’s being done to us.