After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.
“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.”
It costs a lot less to house people.
A grainy screenshot of the sidebar of the desktop version of Goodreads. It says: RECOMMENDATIONS: Because you enjoyed A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America's turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of Americans woke up to the impossible... View all books similar to A Wedding to Protect Her Fortune
You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes.
#romancelandia
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When I put her brother in the bath, she ran out to get a present to make him feel better.
Dog who can see knows that blind dog loves plums. He loves plums so much that we blocked his access to the tree with a baby gate. Dog who can see has figured out a sneaky way to army crawl under the deck to get there. Plums are currency, and she’s making it rain.
if you were looking for signs that Jeff Bezos's obeisance to Trump has bled over into newsroom coverage it would probably look something like this article getting top billing over the story of 3-5 million people marching yesterday www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
This week, after a whole adult life of dealing with every unread email in my inbox, I decided to abandon the habit. I can’t even explain how liberating it feels. I probably have a whole new Myers-Briggs personality type now.
“The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, the librarians —because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.”
—Madeleine L’Engle
Anybody know any Tacoma attorneys?
It would be really, really awful if people abused the Department of Education’s new snitch portal and filled it with so much spam that they couldn’t possibly sort through all the claims.
enddei.ed.gov
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Embroidery says Books 2025 and lays out a key using dashes and straight lines to measure the length of books, as well as different patterns for reading or listening. Each genre has a different color thread. French knots are used for star ratings.
My #embroidery #bookjournal is almost caught up. I’m only stitching each color on a genre when I read a book from that genre—it’s making me diversify!
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This is Nature Dog. She really likes nature.
Stole this from a friend - Admin V
We're expediting sex designation change requests on birth certificates. People born in WA who want to change the sex designation on their birth certificate can do so by filing a request with us. . doh.wa.gov/DesignationC...
Embroidery book journal! 💙📚
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list of banned keywords
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
Feel free to join me!
Book covers that go hard #4
Canto Contigo
Artist: Felix Deonart
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Book covers that go hard: #3
Compound Fracture
Artist: Evangeline Gallagher
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Book covers that go hard: #2
Libertad
Artist: @el_zanate on IG (if anyone knows their name, lmk)
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Book covers that go hard: #1
So Witches We Became
Artist: Marco Mazzoni
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As a member of the 2025 Printz book award committee, I received 500+ books in 2024. I have decided to make my own list of “YA book covers that go the hardest.” I have no rubric, just vibes. This is not endorsed by YALSA or the rest of the Printz committee. 😂 💙📚
Biggest snowflakes falling in Tacoma rn.
