A totally normal lolling built in bookshelf.
A book that is a switch.
A secret bookshelf door.
Less looksmaxxing, more bespoke secret cabinet booksmaxxing.
Carlos Dada's informed and superb advice to US journalists: "First, don’t quit because you’re necessary; then don’t make any concessions, because making concessions is even worse than quitting. I would also tell them... not to normalise what shouldn’t be normalised."
Another thing I love about Alysa is that her embracing joy, whimsy, artistry, authenticity and prioritizing having a healthy body and mind over aesthetic conformity and optimization blows a massive hole in much of the cultural messaging being pushed on women, esp young women, right now
Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization
we need a rom-com that unites the people in revolutionary struggle
Rare disclosure alert.
My partner saw me arguing with men and sent me this to refocus my attention. Truly, not marrying an idiot is absolutely a huge improvement on my past behavior. Huge.
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"The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone."
My latest newsletter is a response to @jerusalem.bsky.social on the politics of immigration, and why ticky-tack policy solutions won't save Democrats.
This is very good. I return to the illiberal's epistemic dishonesty: he wishes to participate in liberal discourse yet refuses to play by liberal rules upon which democracy is based: pluralism, empiricism, skepticism, philosophic doubt. For his ultimate authorities are predetermined traditionalisms.
Graphic is white with black text. "Today we are proud to introduce a new, unified place for DC community members to send information about police sightings and interactions. This new unified resource will help us better protect people both in our communities as well as in court."
Graphic is white with black text. "As DC communities experience increasing rates of harassment, profiling, and violations of our rights by law enforcement, filming the police is a crucial way we can all keep each other safe."
Graphic is white with black and red text "Send photos, videos, and tips*: report@filmthepolicedc.org FilmThe PoliceDC.org FILM THE POLICE DC *For active enforcement (arrests, detentions, active checkpoints) please still call the MSMA hotline at 202-335-1183)"
Vital information to include in the email: • Date & time • Location (include quadrant) • If anyone was detained • What type of cops/ law enforcement agencies were present? • Any other information about what the cops/ agents were doing
Per DC Migrant Mutual Aid & Harriet's Wildest Dreams.
They've created a new resource for photos & videos to protect our communities.
Send photos, videos, & tips* to report@filmthepolicedc.org
*For active enforcement call 2023351183
Include date/time, location, names etc
#FreeDC
Interesting paper and helpful thread. Bottom line: publicly supported independent media and reducing uncertainty lead to positive cycles; lower quality media and perpetuating uncertainty lead to downward spirals in this Austrian study.
From the ACLU Washington, DC Chapter in case there are still laws:
@hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social, with all due disrespect, fuck off.
When you see a journalist ascribing human motivations to these energy-hoovering stochastic parrots they're baring their entire ass and loudly telling you they don't understand the technology they are writing about
5. Other signs of durability & commitment during this period include historic turnout at the One Million Rising online trainings, the first of which on 7/16 had over 130,000 sign-ups. This was probably the largest nonviolence training in U.S. history.
My team at the Crowd Counting Consortium (@djpressman.bsky.social, Soha Hammam, & Chris Shay) has finalized our participation estimates for No Kings Day on 6/14. Here are five key takeaways🧵:
I can’t say it enough: U.S. culture is scam culture. It pervades everything we do. We don’t notice it because it’s the water we swim in. A party would do well to remind everybody how awful this is and propose to fix it.
This. Right here. Classic Fish maneuver. (Fish-esque? Fishistic?)
So reporters and editors should look to scholars of authoritarianism in covering these stories. The deal-making frame is playing right into the hands of these autocrats. @ruthbenghiat.bsky.social
Total 🦗 from the “socialism” crowd that spent the last 50 years accusing <checks notes> the Democrats of not respecting private property, free markets, limited government, the Marketplace Of Ideas, & the very sacred institution of Capitalism.
New York has the worst senate delegation of any blue state
Someone needs to bear witness as masked agents of the government brutalize members of our community. It doesn’t surprise me that a Philosophy professor would do so.
Be at least as brave as a Philosophy professor.
(And demand that ICE release Prof. Caravello.)
also thrilled to see @assignedmedia.org shouted out in this @literaryhub.bsky.social roundup of independent media as well
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Ninety years ago, the Wagner Act was signed. Labor historian Joseph McCartin says it doesn't really exist anymore.
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The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
If youre in dc: the analogous venue is U St Saloon, Open Piano every Wednesday night
ideology helps candidates win not because voters are ideological, they’re not, but because voters don’t like frauds l. and believing in something more than the next election/poll gives you an air of authenticity