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Didn't think the Dystopia we are in was the Unwind series by @scottwesterfeld.bsky.social but I do believe I just heard our government refer to roving bands of criminal teens they want to legally class as adults so they can get harsher punishment-including death penalty.

Just finished Jade Legacy and @fondalee.bsky.social I have never once cried more when reading a book in my entire life. I cried a total of 14 times. And once for about an hour while I kept reading.

Bravo.

My least popular (and most correct) view is that cars should be automatically limited to the local speed limit. Put the pedal to the floor and you still can't go over 25mph in a residential area.

(15 in Manhattan btw)

I love horror, books and movies, but yall I hate jump scares so bad.

Woe betide the people who craft the jump scares. Im wishing that you would stub your toe and that they always get your order wrong at McDonalds

The Library Generation: Why Gen Z and Millennials Need America to Fund Libraries Now Despite the digital age, younger generations are turning to one of America’s oldest institutions: the public library

A growing body of research shows that Gen Z and millennials not only use libraries more than older Americans, but they also depend on them.

Young people are utilizing libraries for job hunting, academic support, mental health resources, and as a place to feel safe and connected.

Not fleeing: New report shows more wealthy residents in Mass., 2 years into 'millionaire's tax' Despite previous concerns, Massachusetts' "millionaire's tax" hasn't seemed to deter high-earners from continuing to live here, according to a new study from the Institute for Policy Studies.

1. The extra marginal tax rate will affect millionaires' daily lives almost not at all, which is why in reality none of them would leave the state.

2. When you have this much money, your accountant/financial folks are already making you as tax efficient as possible.

www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

Obviously, a huge part of the Columbia shakedown is about conservative angst over admissions, but they're also shaking down George Mason, which accepts 90% of its undergraduate applicants. Much like with USAID, they think that if they find the right button, they can simply turn liberalism off.

Food constantly shows up as a gateway drug to dangerous vaccine narratives. "If you can't pronounce it, don't eat it" got applied to vaccine liposome ingredients during COVID to spread fear. Folks in the food & nutrition space need to be vigilant about the thinking/messaging that gets normalized

Op-Ed: Katie Wilson is the Zohran Mamdani of Seattle » The Urbanist # Progressive mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani’s victory in Tuesday's Democratic primary is a watershed moment for New York City, and Seattle is on the cusp of its own watershed moment with the opport...

Seattle has its own Zohran v Cuomo mayoral race going on: A young charismatic upstart who actually wants to make the city cooler vs an establishment dinosaur who once pulled a gun on a pregnant woman in a road rage incident.
www.theurbanist.org/2025/06/29/o...

Everyone who thought the anti-woke anti-DEI rhetoric was a pathway toward refocusing on class struggle gets a fell-for-it award

Often don't like mafia-ish books, and I thought it was going to prevent me from enjoying the Green Bone Saga.

But let me tell ya--give Fonda Lee some pages she'll get you there. 1/3 of the way through Jade City and I've gone from dreading picking it up to getting choked up about clan oaths.

Trump's Brazil tariffs are 'grotesquely illegal,' says Nobel Prize-winning economist Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman believes tariffs President Trump has threatened to impose on countries, including Mexico and Brazil, are here to stay and will cost U.S. consumers.

Some guy says something about tariffs www.npr.org/2025/07/14/n...

Nobody is “forcing” you to check out books you don’t want to read at a library.

But people are forcing libraries to keep you from checking out books.

Missouri Governor Signs Bill Rolling Back Voter-Approved Minimum Wage and Sick Leave

freedom for republicans means the freedom to do whatever republicans want you to do. and if you decide otherwise, they’ll just nullify your choices www.nytimes.com/2025/07/10/u...

Absolutely no one’s forcing anyone to buy queer books they don’t want to buy, but quite a lot of people with a lot of power are literally banning queer books from libraries, bookstores, curricula, so maybe fuck all the way off with this slimy hand-wringing bullshit & fix your fucking hearts

Trump administration backs away from abolishing FEMA As Trump heads to Texas to see the impact of last week’s deadly flash floods, the White House has backed away from plans to abolish FEMA, officials said.

As President Trump heads to Texas to see the impact of last week’s deadly flash floods, the White House has backed away from plans to abolish FEMA, officials said.

Thread. There's also the issue that good, intensive journalism costs money and takes an editing/publishing infrastructure - more than many individual writers can afford and manage on their own. Single-writer newsletters can't and won't save journalism.

My brain has decided the solution to doomscrolling is letterboxd.

I've reviewed like 40 movies in the last 4 days. Feels like a better use of my time than ruminating on my back pain and all the things I cannot change.

It's Murderbot Eve/Day for the season finale:

Internet controversy in 2015: Oh no, I did something wrong and people are mad at me on the internet. My career is over!!

Internet controversy in 2025: Excellent, my carefully crafted outrage bait has landed. My career is taking off!!

When a government starts targeting former intelligence officials, law enforcement leaders, and anyone who once investigated or criticized those in power, it’s not just a red flag, it’s a page straight from the authoritarian playbook.

11,000 more TB patients died after Trump's USAID cuts. That number will rise. | Opinion The potential for thousands of new deaths from TB is not worth the less than 1% in federal savings that came from cutting USAID.

Great op-ed @usatoday.com from longtime TB Fighter Quinn Yates: www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...

“Books won’t stay banned. They won’t burn. Ideas won’t go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost.”

— A. Whitney Griswold

Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"

Look at this amazing sign. #NoKings #butterfly

Edith Massey “the world of a heterosexual is a sick and boring life”

The 18- 28 gay demographic’s sense of passionate fun and lightly deviant sexuality is being held together entirely by Sabrina Carpenter and furries at this point.

And God bless them for that, because if it wasn’t for them, yall would be sitting around listening to contemporary Christian music.

Don't just say it's unconstitutional, remind people that the constitution is full of very good ideas designed to prevent authoritarianism, and most people who want to ignore it want that specifically because they are authoritarian.