When David Brooks joined the Republican Party in the 1980's it was already a racist cesspool.
Lee Atwater's famous quote (predating the 1980's BTW) proves every claim otherwise to be as false as claiming the sky was somehow pink in the 1980's.
Our March piece is live! @amandaraeprescott.bsky.social goes deep on racism in period drama fandom, tracing the history of responses to inclusive and racebent casting, and zeroing in on the complicated dynamics of Bridgerton's global fandom. Read the piece or listen to a full audio version:
I’m gonna try to join you. Oh and I’m watching Murdoch Mysteries… Watts is such an interesting neurodivergent to add to the mix.
Kim is a jewel in paranormal romance's crown--her stories are clever, fun *and* funny, and wildly creative. If you need a joyful distraction from, uh, everything, this is it!
“We’re your pets now. Feed me.”
I want that book!
Yes, yes. We know it's a click-bait title. Click it anyway. I'm worth it. 🤣🤣 #oathbound #blackbooksky #booksky #leftunread
My copy of Oathbound by Tracy Deonn
She’s here🙌🏾 Remember, it’s never too late to join the Breehive🗡️ #blackbooksky #fantasybooks #oathbound
To the Black readers who introduced me to this series, you did this & thank you, forever grateful 💜 So happy to see @tracydeonn.bsky.social & this series getting much deserved recognition. Not pictured Oathbound is #1 on the Indie Bestsellers list & Legendborn is #6
#oathbound #legenborn #booksky
And there you have it kids! Join me tonight to celebrate My Big Fat Greek Wedding winning this year’s #RomComBracket!!! Surprisingly besting voting on two different platforms 😱
You know… this is really splitting the anti-Romancing The Stone vote.
You just want to hurt me. It’s okay though.
I was going fine. It was easy. And then THIS!!! How Dare!!! How am I?????
2025 #RomComBracket Round 3 The Controversial 32
Welcome back! We made a lot of tough choices yesterday. Feelings were hurt. Hearts were broken. But we’re back today for for Round 3: The Controversial 32 #RomComBracket
Fall Guy is THE choice #RomComBracket
I’m so late one the RomCom Bracket, but THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING!!
Region 1 matchups.
Region 2 matchups.
Region 3 matchups.
Region 4 matchups.
I am late. I know. But you've had a month to watch all the movies. The official set bracket is here! Images of the 4 individual regions and the full bracket can be found on this post, and a PDF of the same found at this link: https://bit.ly/RCBrackPDF #RomComBracket
What does it really mean to eliminate DEI programs? Michael Brice-Saddler spoke to the VA's first chief diversity officer about efforts to ensure mammograms for women vets and improve health care access in rural communities — all of which is now under threat.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
I forgot that the Eaton Fire started in a national park maintained by the federal government. Same with the blazes that burned Altadena. Since 46% of CA is federal land, most wildfires start on federal land too.
www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/open...
Trump Pauses Disbursements to Program Supplying H.I.V. Treatment Worldwide
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/24/u...
The fact that NIH grant-making has been switched off so haphazardly, for reasons that remain unclear, and despite the scope of troubles it creates, suggests that higher ed will be profoundly vulnerable during the second Trump era, writes @ibogost.bsky.social:
Trump's immigration crackdown is not about law & order. He has a vendetta against immigrants who followed the law, too
His EOs threaten to punish legal immigrants by doubling their taxes (invoking a never-used 1934 law); expatriating their kids; and blocking them from the US entirely
wapo.st/4hkbEB6
Very well written article on Bishop Budde and her sermon
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...
Incoming administration pauses federal health agency communications. Why? Disorganized transition? (Best case) Political censorship of science? (Worst case)
wapo.st/4aqfN44 #healthcare #policy #HHS #CDC #FDA
How Trump Is Pushing at Limits of Presidential Power in Early Orders 👀🇺🇸😐
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...
Going forward we're going to have to label very clearly which trump stories are satire. This is NOT satire.
nyti.ms/42ok5qL
Not sure how this isn't superseded by the civil rights act and similar but there it is.
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/u...
Powerful NYT piece on first person witness testimony from around the world - in the wake of new regime in US - on how to recognise tyranny @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/22/o...
