"Also newsrooms, do better. No wonder everyone is sick of reading your shit.".... just a brilliant piece. Please read.

North Carolina GOP lawmakers vote to strip incoming Democratic leaders' powers Republicans passed a sprawling bill after they lost races for governor and attorney general — and most likely their veto-proof legislative majority — in this month's election.

Heads up:

North Carolina Republicans just voted to strip the state's incoming Democratic governor and attorney general of key powers — passing a sweeping bill before the GOP most likely loses its veto-proof supermajority in the Legislature next year.
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...

Trump is nominating his daughter’s father-in-law to ambassador of France — he previously pardoned him for tax evasion & illegal campaign donations, after he hired a prostitute to lure his brother-in-law into a motel room and sent the recording to his sister (the man’s wife) https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-charles-kushner-new-jersey-elections-crime-0155d15fa31108fd2c0e6360a3b597dd

Trump is nominating his daughter’s father-in-law to ambassador of France — who he pardoned for tax evasion & illegal campaign donations, after he hired a prostitute to lure his brother-in-law into a motel room and sent the recording to his sister (the man’s wife) apnews.com/article/dona...

Most of our problems could be solved by properly funding public education.

people who use goodreads: jeff bezos owns goodreads and if you want a better alternative there is a black woman owned company called storygraph that you can use to replace it. you can transfer all of your data from goodreads to storygraph and have your mind be free of trumpie jeff bezos! win win. 💙

We need to get back to reading and critical thinking Because 2024 feels different from 2016.

Feels like I'm just posting to the void since I'm just getting started here, but why not. I write a weekly newsletter, and this week I write about how far away from reading and critical thinking we’ve come. It's lacking in our education, COVID learning loss, social media attention spans, all of it.