What a tremendous, heart-bursting surprise! Not to mention a great idea for column. Should be a whole symposium!
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What a tremendous, heart-bursting surprise! Not to mention a great idea for column. Should be a whole symposium!
Lordy! And this is the point of @joannarakoff.bsky.social’s column: “this is the one work in which I understand why, perhaps, it didn’t become an everyone-on-the-subway-car phenomenon: Bad timing. It came out in May 2020.” Sadly, this li’l book of mine will become more relevant every day.
THIS IS ALL I GOT is “an intimately reported story that possesses the narrative urgency of great fiction, fueled both by authentic rage at the brutality of American governing systems–the lack of a safety net for the most vulnerable–and by a novelist’s attunement to character, dialogue, and place.”
"They estimated 64,260 deaths due to traumatic injury during this period, about 41% higher than the official Palestinian Health Ministry count. The study said 59.1% were women, children and people over the age of 65. It did not provide an estimate of Palestinian combatants among the dead."
cosign
NEWS: Amid the climate crisis, California has preserved a costly tax loophole for fossil fuel giants as the state faced deficits & cuts to wildfire preparedness — including cuts to LA’’s fire department.
Incarcerated people make up a third of CA’s firefighting force, earning “between $2.90 and $5 a day … slightly more when actively fighting a fire.”
When compared to professionals: 4x more likely to be injured. 8x more likely to suffer from smoke inhalation.
www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-...
Jimmy Carter, a visionary on ending fossil fuels, put solar panels on the White House. Big Oil-backed Ronald Reagan ousted Carter in 1980 and ripped them out
Tonight, as Carter lies in in state in the Capitol, a climate-fueled wildfire is destroying Reagan's former hometown of Pacific Palisades
Musk’s wealth in 2012: $2 Billion
Musk’s wealth in 2024: $447 Billion
Bezos’s wealth in 2012: $18 Billion
Bezos’s wealth in 2024: $249 Billion
Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2012: $44 Billion
Zuckerberg’s wealth in 2024: $224 Billion
Minimum wage in 2012: $7.25
Minimum wage in 2024: $7.25
“Dissidents are born out of this choice: either assert their authentic selves or accept the authoritarian’s mafioso bargain, safety and protection…. “a blend of boldness and despair in the same mind and the same person.””
@galbeckerman.bsky.social wrote exactly what I’ve needed for 2025.
A CEO making $10 million/year by denying healthcare is a "working-class hero": straight outta @nytpitchbot.bsky.social.
Gramercy Mark
Went to Sunset Blvd. last night for my 50th (belated), to find that in this 2024 production, washed-up, forgotten Norma Desmond is now... 40.
Congratulations! Huge news! Hard to imagine any of those kids could beat you at talkin’, though.
If you’re not familiar with Aretha’s cover, may I recommend.
Truth.
my spotify wrapped summary for april
absolute #1 forever crush, right there
Rest in Power Nikki Giovanni. Here is her iconic conversation with James Baldwin in full.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=y4OP...
"Officers were ordered to take Mangione alive."
cc: @alissawilkinson.bsky.social, @katherinestewart.bsky.social. Also, don't sleep on Nicholas Boggs' BALDWIN:A LOVE STORY from FSG.
5th Ave, 6th Ave -- tomato, tomahto.
One of *2 Steve-O books! Is it even worth confirming that other than the Hunger Games on his read list and Atlas Shrugged on his TBR, there isn't a woman amongst the predictable Harari, Gladwell, paleo guides, etc? (DFW, TBR, FTW.)
It’s a weird day for me on this site as an ardent supporter of trans rights — and Jesse Singal’s cousin.
You can't just drop this scene into a feed without buying me a box of tissues first
Here's something to add: this is not a top-down movement of a few men in power. There is a vast network of churches who preach this nationalist gospel, and whose millions of members voted for this exact result.
That Emma Goldman aphorism about revolution? THIS IS IT.
I lurked around about a semi-hated film yesterday and felt *so alone* until I found @thehighsign.bsky.social's review of THE SUBSTANCE, and I no longer feel like Elaine hating THE ENGLISH PATIENT.
Hi! I have some good stuff from when I was writing ONE AND ONLY -- which delves into this topic plenty, albeit 10+ years ago, before a cottage industry of books came out. Will peer at my shelves.
And yet this isn't one of them.