Worth considering that one reason Bluesky doesn't always feel super fun is that current events are relentlessly horrifying and bad

30 Years Later, 'Jagged Little Pill' Is Still the Perfect Conduit for Female Rage With her Grammy-winning album, Alanis Morissette helped women channel their anger as a force for good. Three decades on, she’s still at it.

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30 Years Later, Jagged Little Pill Is Still the Perfect Conduit for Female Rage

buy #crueltyfree please

NPR Music Honors Black Music Month 2025 With Iconic Album Anniversaries In celebration of Black Music Month 2025, NPR Music spotlights 10 legendary albums through live 'Tiny Desk' performances, artist interviews and more, honoring Black musical legacy.

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EXCLUSIVE: NPR Celebrates Black Music Month 2025 With Iconic Album Anniversaries and Special Tiny Desk Performances

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20 Lessons on Tyranny: by Timothy Snyder / read by John Lithgow YouTube video by PoliticsGirl

20 Lessons on Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

Read by John Lithgow

"Now, more than ever, we need the wisdom of our intellects, the patriotism of our citizens, and the passion and talents of those who still believe in the American experiment."

Share widely.

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Huckleberry!! 😭

Letter: The Department of Education is a unifying force. Eliminating it affects the most vulnerable students. Letter: The Department of Education is a unifying force. Eliminating it affects the most vulnerable students.

Letter: Wealthy students in private schools are not affected by such a horrendous decision. The most vulnerable students are again most at risk.

I double dog dare them to touch that majestic museum that is clearly the best museum on the National Mall. Double. Dog. DARE THEM.

Did you know?

In 1968, 24 Black men in Pittsburgh revolutionized emergency medicine.

The Freedom House Ambulance Service was established to provide emergency medical care to underserved Black neighborhoods—creating the world’s first paramedics.

Please stop using “revisionist history” as a stand-in for falsehoods.

Any worthwhile work of history uses untapped sources, novel methodologies and/or new connections across fields to improve, alter and, yes, revise our understanding of history.

Truly revisionist history is a *good* thing.

A key asymmetry of this era of American politics and how it’s covered is that Trump is expected to do bad and corrupt things, so when he does it barely qualifies as news. But Dems are expected to be beyond reproach, so anything that seems even slightly suspect is a huge scandal.

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I would pay extra for an Uber/Lyft where the driver let me practice my Spanish with them. #DuoLingo #BlackSky #LanguageLearner #Uber #Lyft

The World’s Best Places To Move (Or Retire), Ranked In A New Report Thinking about living abroad? International Living just released its Annual Global Retirement Index—which highlights the best places to move.

Thinking about living abroad? You’ve come to the right place. International Living just released its Annual Global Retirement Index, which highlights the best places to move in 2025.

Every single school should have a library & a librarian, to help every single child find the books that will make them readers, and give them all the lifelong benefits of literacy. Libraries & librarians change children's lives FOREVER!
#literacy #libraries #librarians

a man wearing a top hat and a coat is standing in front of a building ALT: a man wearing a top hat and a coat is standing in front of a building

Gentleman Jack

Find Your Representative Find your representatives. Learn how to find and connect with them. Stay informed about their bills, committees, and contributions.

Morning! Got 5 minutes in your day?

1. Call your Reps to voice your strong opposition to Nancy Mace's bigoted trans bathroom ban.

2. Call your Senators to tell them to vote NO on HR 9495.

Then reply here + tell others how easy it was and how good it felt.

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Preach.