Rachel Kambury

It is really weird to me when people don’t like reading and books.

I get not having enough time to read. I get wanting to read more, but there are just too many distractions around you. Obviously, I get having disabilities that make it difficult to read.

But just not liking books? Who are you?

Rebecca Solnit Says the Left’s Next Hero Is Already Here

Always listen to @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

(and get her new book, duh)

It is difficult even for Americans who live east of the Mississippi to comprehend the vast emptiness of the western interior.

A new book unearths the influence of Margaret C. Anderson, early champion of literary greats Through her iconoclastic magazine "The Little Review," the queer, first-wave feminist introduced American readers to Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot and the great Irish modernist James Joyce.

“She knew that great art required taking big risks."

Huge thanks to the Chicago Sun-Times and Stefano Esposito for speaking with me about A DANGER TO THE MINDS OF YOUNG GIRLS. chicago.suntimes.com/books/2026/0...

The sports argument is the on-ramp. Politicians who say "I support trans rights except in sports" are either too naive to understand what they're agreeing to, or they understand it perfectly.

Sports bans aren't the destination, they're the foundation. Once you have a law that codifies trans girls as "male" for purposes of athletic competition, you have a precedent. And that precedent gets cited in the next case. And the one after that. Bathrooms. Passports. Employment.

90s media: THESE AREN’T YOUR GRANDPA’S MUFFINS

2020s media: Your Grandfather had better muffins than you but the immigrants took them, we need concentration camps to restore you to the muffins of old.

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

Listen to Past Lives

Maryland lawmakers to make unannounced oversight visit to Baltimore ICE facility A group of Maryland lawmakers is planning to make an unannounced visit to an ICE facility in Baltimore to conduct oversight of conditions and press for answers on several issues.

NEWS: This morning, Maryland lawmakers, including Sens. Chris @vanhollen.senate.gov and Angela @alsobrooks.senate.gov made an unannounced visit to an ICE holding facility in Baltimore. They are scheduled to talk about what they saw soon here: www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...

WOW. Rep. Glenn @ivey.house.gov: I just got back from Selma for the Bloody Sunday anniversary. We toured old slave quarters, they looked like what we just saw upstairs [in ICE holding facility]. In fact, they might've been a little bit better than what we saw upstairs."

Hey look everyone the Trump regime is funding the Gestapo visits to the slave ports A reminder that reparation would have been cheaper.

I love this image

usually if you ask experts why an empire fell they’ll say it’s nuanced and multifaceted, so i think it’s kind of cool that with America future historians will get to just say like “oh they took the idiot train to moronsville”

Who could have foreseen

Long lines, delays at New Orleans airport amid apparent TSA sickout and government shutdown The New Orleans airport was plagued by security lines that stretched through multiple floors of the building and into the parking garage Sunday morning amid an apparent Transportation Security Adminis...

Nola newspaper is reporting a “sickout” by TSA workers who are working with no pay, though there is no official confirmation of a strike or similar action (as you would expect since strikes are illegal).
Good.

www.nola.com/news/politic...

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie War is the force that gives Pete Hegseth meaning

if pete hegseth doesn't do war crimes he can't shoot youtu.be/EJjkdEOnC_M

there's so much bad in the world but there's also people who lift up and carry an elderly bat around every day so he can pretend he's flying again, and that's the part of the world I think is worth fighting for

I agree with this, but I also feel like Gaza has shown us how dehumanized our concept of “personhood” has become anyway, which means people conferring personhood on LLMs (and intelligence on artificial “intelligence”) to be, if alarming and repulsive, consistent.

Hazing or "dedovshchina (дедовщина)" is central to the Russian Army.

It produces terrible men and even worse soldiers. It is a scourge on the army, on Russian society, and on their victims.

Cruelty never makes anyone better, and few enabling environments for it that start playful stay that way.

Having some of the most thoroughly redacted thoughts of my life.

Lidia Terrazas on Instagram: "BREAKING NEWS OUT OF DILLEY 🚨" 3,097 likes, 112 comments - lidiaterrazasnews on March 7, 2026: "BREAKING NEWS OUT OF DILLEY 🚨".

This is another deaf child who has been kidnapped by ICE, along with her mother and sibling - 12 yo Anyeli Valentina Quintero. At the moment, she is believed to be in one of the ICE warehouses in Arizona.
www.instagram.com/reel/DVmBo8c...

We are at AWP today through Saturday. Stop by to hear about new initiatives at The Rumpus, our redesign, buy amazing books from my imprint and merch and also we have candy and swag! Booth 1240.

I just had someone try the “you should be nicer to me because I follow you” response and I really think if you say that to a woman online, you are admitting you have dehumanised her enough to feel entitled to her kindness no matter how you behave with her.

If you have a union, when your boss does this you are allowed to knock him out and leave him splayed on the clean kitchen floor. Unionize your workplace today.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/d...

Great news! This still exists. There are still <squinting at image> normal playgrounds and parks. I did this with my kid today. Does this mean we can call off the apocalyptic pedophile cabal

Pete Hegseth's murderous buffoonery, coming amid a lifetime in which he's betrayed everyone close to him and failed up from one disaster to the next, is a perfect example of how the appeal of Trumpism is that it creates a permission structure for people to openly be their worst selves

They blew up an elementary school Tom
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

White Nights (1985) After his plane crashes in Siberia, a Russian dancer, who defected to the West, is held prisoner in the Soviet Union. The KGB keeps him under watch and tries to convince him to become a dancer for the...

the timothee thing is goofy but what’s important is that all of you should watch White Nights, the 20th century’s most batshit ballet movie boxd.it/1KRw