Why not cast Richard???

Small Rain Review I’ve been eyeballing Greenwell’s bluecovered Small Rain since the hardback hit my local bookstore’s shelves in 2024. I felt it reaching out for me, I could tell it would be sad and I didn’t kno...

#SmallRain by @garthgreenwell.bsky.social is one of my favorite reads of 2025 - perhaps only rivaled by Mark Hyatt’s “Love, Leda.” My thoughts here: tblibrary.com/books/small-...

Small rain, by Garth Greenwell

Travelogue Chicago Five Days and a near-silent birthday in my favorite city.

A Travelogue: 5 Days in Chicago tbindc.substack.com/p/travelogue...

#travel #reflection #essay #substack #chicago #writing

Critics?! Critics should be outraged at this headline. Mourners was better, but how about just, Americans? Or people with respect for our national institutions and history?

"The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command."

On this date, Matthew Shephard died 27 years ago. He was beaten, tortured, and left for dead on fence for being gay. Please keep him and his wonderful mother Judy in your thoughts. And let's all work for a world where such horrific things do not happen to anyone. ❤️🏳️‍🌈

This Office like most of HUD is closed thanks to the GOP, but neither democrats nor republicans have properly funded public housing programs at the level they need or needed for decades.

Apple removes ICEBlock app after criticism from Trump administration Apple said Thursday it is removing an app that allows users to share information about sightings of Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, which the head of ICE had criticized

The third largest company in the world capitulating without a fight in a move that assists the most brutal part of the Trump regime. I hope employees rise up over this.

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Jesus Christ, how are you so unbelievably bad at this?

A deeply unpopular president is recklessly destroying our government, wrecking our democracy, covering up pedophilia and now threatening to use military force against our own citizens but you're tsk-tsking about protecting healthcare?

Spoilers less than an hour after air?

Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor Robby Starbuck has been appointed as an AI bias advisor at Meta with the goal of making the company's chat bot less "woke."

Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor with a mandate to make the company's chat bot less 'woke.' www.advocate.com/news/meta-ro...

The correct lesson to take from this.

Getting Away with Murder | David Cole During his first presidential campaign Donald Trump famously claimed that he could “stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody” and not lose

Chilling article. The first bombing was covered, the second a drip. I hadn't heard of the third at all. Will anyone bother offering consequences, or even reporting the fourth, fifth, sixth?

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Podcaster with no medical training says dopey BS. Shocking.

A Critique of Cass Sunstein's "On Liberalism" Cass Sunstein hopes to reassert what it means to be a liberal. Does it only have history and vocabulary, or does he have a vision for liberalism for our tomorrows?

Cass Sunstein’s new book “On Liberalism” feels like it was written in 1990, or maybe 1960. Does it say anything to inspire passion for liberalism? My critiques here: tbindc.substack.com/p/a-critique... #books #criticism #liberalism #politics #booksky #essay #literature #substack

As an old who survived the 80s when many many did not:

These fascist freaks are perfectly serious and now, like then, we will not let them win.

The greatest minds in history are on the case

Darth Vader was a husband and a father

1) pic of Melissa and Mark Hortman 2) pic of Melissa Hortman and dog Gilbert

Remembering MN house speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their beloved dog Gilbert. Murdered in June at their home by a rightwing Trump-voting evangelist, who also shot another MN lawmaker and his wife at THEIR home, 9 and 8 times, respectively (miraculously, they survived).

We simply cannot live in a country where the death of hate mongers is a tragedy and the death of everyone else only warrants a shrug.

Not sure whose fault it is primarily that most people don't seem to know that the president is basically a manager whose job is to carry out the will of Congress, and not The Country's Boss

Are A.I. Tools Making Doctors Worse at Their Jobs? Physicians are using the technology for diagnoses and more — but may be losing skills in the process.

Physicians are using A.I. for diagnoses and more. But a new study found evidence that relying on A.I. tools might erode a doctor’s ability to perform fundamental skills without the technology, a phenomenon known as “deskilling.”

lol, no. Never voting for an anti-trans Dem (nice scare quotes around "transphobic"). I don't have to do shit. You're a ghoul.

Every city should aspire to have a flag as good as Chicago's

My first attempt at printmaking!

#darkroom #printmaking #analog #photography #analogphotography #35mm #blackandwhite @ilfordphoto.com

Justice by Means of Democracy: A Critique Danielle Allen's 2023 theory almost feels of a different time. Can its ideals lead us out of a slide into Authoritarianism?

Danielle Allen’s 2023 “Justice by Means of Democracy” almost feels of another time. In this #critique, I explore Allen’s valuation of “middle course” #politics, along with her emphasis on employment as the foundation of human flourishing — open.substack.com/pub/tbindc/p...

#books #philosophy #essay

A 1940 newspaper clip from the Springfield Leader and Press, declaring: Superman Poisoning American Children, Irate Nazis cClaim."

"Superman Arouses Teutonic Anger" reads the headline in the Amarillo Daily News"

The right-wing backlash against #Superman this week got me thinking: Has this happened before?

That led to the discovery of these headline — from April 1940, when the official newspaper of the SS took umbrage at the comic book hero and ridiculed its creators.

My how times change ...

Bubbles @ Pride.

DC WorldPride 2025

#pride #worldpride #washingtondc #film #filmphotography #nikon #analog #kentmere100 #analogphotography #35mm #35mmphotography

Adjectives: order

100%! You mentioned grammar earlier and that’s another analogy. Not everyone is a grammarian, but if a sentence looks odd, most folks can tell even if they can’t remember concepts name. Or more like adjective order, where something isn’t exactly “wrong” but it definitely doesn’t feel right