I read it when it came out and found it gorgeous and affecting, like all your storytelling, but seeing the whole thing in high-quality print is a whole other depth of emotional experience

BLER tonight I showed this article around library craft circle in the branch's copy of the magazine and the librarian GAVE IT TO ME TO KEEP

Here’s the (actual) first Jewish woman to finish the Iditarod sled dog race - The Jewish Standard

Good quotes, but Ms. Braverman was not the first Jewish woman to finish Iditarod, despite being initially reported as such. It was Susan Cantor, in 1992. jewishstandard.timesofisrael.com/heres-the-ac...

The New York Times Spelling Bee game returns a message of "Missing center letter," which in this puzzle is N, for "anon."

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social (from Wednesday) wtf

finally watching hacks. having a great time, except i feel rose abdoo is being gravely underused, something this show has in common with gilmore girls

Screenshot of the New York Times's Spelling Bee rejecting "zoonotic."

in this economy?!

COVID Advocacy NY - Stop Mask Ban NY Action Toolkit

If you live in New York, please call the governor and your state lawmakers and tell them to oppose any anti-masking laws. This toolkit from @covidadvocacyny.bsky.social has the numbers and info you need.

Screenshot of excerpt with text that reads "For Republicans to call yet another Congressional hearing to investigate the so-called “censorship industrial complex” of Biden administration officials, nonprofit organizations, and Big Tech companies allegedly collaborating to censor conversative speech—a conspiracy theory so ludicrous that even the current Supreme Court, stacked with a supermajority of far-right conservative judges, dismissed it out of hand last year in Murthy v. Missouri9—while ignoring the current wholesale assault on the First Amendment by the Trump administration is a betrayal of the American people. As I stated in my testimony last year in a House Small Business Committee hearing on this same pernicious trope, Counter-speech is not censorship. Criticism is not censorship. Research, even when government-funded, is not censorship. Providing information to advertisers or businesses about what content their ads appear next to is not censorship. Efforts to convince consumers, businesses, and the public that certain kinds of content are false, fraudulent, harmful, extremist, harassing, or exploitative—regardless of whether that content is protected by the First Amendment—is not censorship."

Excerpt:

Download File: 2025-03-25_Testimony_Franks | United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary

My written testimony for yesterday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the so-called "censorship industrial complex," which is more detailed than my opening statement, can be downloaded here: www.judiciary.senate.gov/download/202...

it's been years upon years of labored "campus culture" op-eds from salaried writers hectoring students about free speech, and now the state is kidnapping students for their speech in broad daylight

I Lived through a Stupid Coup–The USA Is Having One Now 11 Nov 2020 - What else do you call Donald Trump refusing to leave, consolidating control of the military, and spreading lies across the media? That, my friends, is just a coup. You take the power, yo...

Reminds me of this, from 2020

www.transcend.org/tms/2020/11/...

Zuckerberg fuming that it wasn't WhatsApp.

😮 Hmm ...

Figuring out his own post-finish vet care and transport back to Anchorage must have been interesting!

Bollinger discusses Khalil detention, campus antisemitism with Chronicle of Higher Education Former University President Lee Bollinger, Law ’71, discussed Immigration and Customs Enforcement <a href="https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/03/09/palestinian-activist-mahmoud-khalil-sipa-24...

Non-paywalled source for excerpts from that Bollinger interview. Is it unfair of me to wish he'd do more? I guess he's not above nefarious collaborations with state power, despite his illustrious history.

www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/03...

The comment process in this is a little complicated- the replies to the post give some advice on navigating. If trans healthcare is something you care about, consider commenting. Heck, if a trans person is someone you care about, even.

Myn idiom for ꝥ ys Tesla

You're an example of why mushing is important.

I don't mean to instrumentalize your pain, but in times like this, when I'm having trouble enjoying major feats of mushing as I normally would, I try to go back to reflections like yours as a reminder that the intensity of this love for the dogs is what mushing is all about.

Jess, your dog care never ceases to inspire me!

I think so!

Lovely to see this tribute to Helli. She was and is my souldog, despite being a more natural athlete than I will ever be.

I think it was! Wasn't it at the lodge on the Denali Highway where they stayed during Iditarod training? And her sore abs were one of the main impetuses for excusing her from the race team.

Do you think the huge mess is going to involve the same dogs as in times past? I truly do not get it.

🙄 I thought the mushing world was collectively over that

Someone is your powdered donut!

boy this is really testing my deeply held belief that we are all entitled to imagination, fantasy, and a rich and private inner life

This is fine meme, but with dog saying “So I have a book coming out”

Chuck Schumer right now:

a man in a suit and tie is standing with his hands in his pockets . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing with his hands in his pockets .

I don't want to say the Schumer optics are bad but Gavin Newsom just invited him on his podcast.