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"...it is important to realize that the 1979 Iranian revolution was no revolution at all. It was a cunning bait-and-switch."
If you don't know your Iranian history, feels like a good moment to learn. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/o...
"...it is important to realize that the 1979 Iranian revolution was no revolution at all. It was a cunning bait-and-switch."
If you don't know your Iranian history, feels like a good moment to learn. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/o...
We are living through a period where we have mass government layoffs literally causing countless deaths while at the same time DHS has so much money that Noem will have a different luxury jet for every day of the week
Ooh, I'd love to meet you in person! I have to go home before the 804 event, sadly, but I hope to see you at the Thirty West table!
Being a parent is just saying “I really need to take a shower at some point” until you die
Hey DMV! On Sat., Feb. 21, 5 p.m., there will be a tribute to Book World at @politicsprose.bsky.social. Several former editors and contributors will be sharing memories in honor of the late lamented BW. See link below for the lineup. #BookSky 📚 politics-prose.com/tribute-book...
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"...They are desperate for advice on how to stay in science when there are no grants available... If you delay and terminate training grants, it’s like a snowball effect. Eventually you start wiping out our next generation of scientists."
- Anonymous NIH Program Official
Wait. What??
Iranian authorities have without prior warning transferred Nobel peace prize laureate Narges Mohammadi to a prison in the north of the country as concern grows over her health. Keep talking about Iran.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...
Trying to decide if my friend has enough $$ to be considered eccentric, or if she's simply a weirdo. Love her either way!
"A consumer is a person whose preëxisting tastes you strive to satisfy over and over; a reader is someone you hope to change, convince, and surprise."
Must-read explanation by Becca Rothfeld of what we are losing with Book World's shuttering: www.newyorker.com/books/page-t...
I had to unsubscribe from my hometown paper when Bezos started censoring the Opinion section to kowtow to fascists. Still, I'm always rooting for this once-great institution to succeed, and for the hardworking staff who aren't responsible for these choices.
Absolutely infuriating.
I’m disgusted, furious — as a frequent contributor to the books section, a friend to beloved people on staff, and as a hometown reader. It’s hard to summon a response beyond “how dare they,” because truly, how dare they smash an entity that performs such crucial, illuminating work.
For fucks sake
Stop scrolling for a minute. Read this micro by @djpoissant.bsky.social. Feel your own heart expand as the story does.
Thank you for sharing this.
Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.
I finally, finally have a few hours to myself to write, my only chance all weekend, and all I can do is fret about the state of the fucking world, and now I am crying because I am both sad and frustrated with myself
I wish my local newspaper hadn't succumbed to fascism, I really want a weather update
Ad on the wall of subway that says: rejection is hot
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I have no idea yet!! Waiting for someone to tell me where the fun will be.
At a restaurant, sitting in a booth, laptop open to Scrivener, with a cup of tea and massive slab of chocolate cake
I don’t often manage to get away to write—but when I do, I make it COUNT, bitches
It's particularly galling to call for ICE to wear body cams when Renee Good's murder literally recorded the whole thing on his phone. He was so confident in his impunity as part of that organization that he recorded and allowed for the release of footage of him shooting a woman at point blank.
