I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.
Good grief
A musician playing a guitar in sugarcane that is somehow in the middle of a football field
First shot: sugarcane
The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times
Still used to make rum of course!
Deputy Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney, Jess Miller
Reposting to read later
Saving to read later
Guess I missed the Spotify memo…running ads to recruit for ICE?
Thanks Hannah I’m all set!
You prolly have seen Allotment Stories, Justice and O’Brien Ed’s.?
Looking for recommendations for a developmental editor. Would especially be interested in BIPOC recommendations and bonus if they have worked on Haymarket books. Thank you!
Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.
This 1000x over
Defund the police: something that never really happened, but everybody talked about.
Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.
Socialism is what they called public power.
Socialism is what they called social security.
Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.
Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people.
—Harry Truman, 1952
Exactly. Even I get this and I am horrible at math
Goodness gracious WHO IS this Queen??? Love her, love all of it
This list of figures for the "National Garden of American Heroes" is something else...
trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential...
BREAKING: Coalition Sues to Protect the National Science Foundation from Trump and DOGE Assault
We’re suing on behalf of educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students to stop the latest effort by the Trump administration to weaponize federal funding to push their anti-equity agenda. 🧵
Mahmoud Khalil is pictured speaking into microphones on a road. Headline reads: "Mahmoud Khalil Is Released on Bail After Federal Judge’s Order." Photo credit: Annie Flanagan for The New York Times.
Mahmoud Khalil walked out of the detention center in Louisiana shortly before 7 p.m. local time Friday.
“No one is illegal — no human is illegal,” Khalil said. “Justice will prevail no matter what this administration may try.” trib.al/dZtYU0u
Every one of these petty, ideologically driven visa denials is an assault on *our* freedom of association, our right to hear, and our ability to learn about the world around us. They are meant to make us stupider, more susceptible to manipulation, and less free. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...
In the past months I must have spilled 10,000 glasses, bottles, cups of water. Any Jungians out there got any theories?
We cut our hair for mourning….pretty soon I’ll be bald ☹️
So, “vegan leather” is basically plastic…correct?
So pleased UConn has joined this group! Stay tuned for how the work of the Tribal Educational Initiative (TEI) will intersect with this initiative through our Indigenous Elders and Aging subcommittee! today.uconn.edu/2025/05/ucon...
2-0 baby
Any academics out there at institutions that have offered blanket PTR extensions (like the COVID moment) due to the current state of things....
