✨ Harmony ✨

Michael Rennie and Patricia Neal in, The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)

Stephen Colbert's Emmys acceptance speech: "I have never loved my country more desperately. God bless America. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor."

Feel like I’m going insane with the revisionist history that Charlie Kirk fostered open debate. He chilled speech and his targeting of professors for wrongthink led to threats, harassment, and being forced out of their jobs. His legacy is chilling speech right now, about him

The thing that is hard to communicate is that that specific flavor of “brainrotted 4chan slug with incoherent beliefs” is also downstream of the right wing politics factories dumping glowing nuclear sludge into the river

there’s a reason nihilism has risen and it wears Rush Limbaugh’s face

Every WSJ journalist and other journalist who pushed the lie that the shooter was pushing "transgender ideology" is as bad as journalists who pushed anti-Jewish libel in Nazi Germany.

Nazis are openly calling for violence against trans people under the assumption the shooter was trans.

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

The Wall Street Journal is now walking back its earlier reporting that "transgender ideology" messages were found on the shooter's ammunition.

But it's too late. That story is all around the country and the world. Most who have read it will not see the update.

Thanks, WSJ.

Goddamn, I always forget how much nicer it is over here than on that Other App lmao.

Full thoughts on "Feeders" here.

I freaking loved this book.

#booksky #books #read #freedomtoread #horror

💚 June 2025 Books 💚

✨ "Big Swiss" by Jen Beagin
✨ "Disney High" by Ashley Spencer
✨ "Feeders" by Matt Serafini
✨ "Red Queen" by Victoria Aveyard
✨ "The Final Girl Support Group" by Grady Hendrix

Most favorite: "Feeders" by Matt Serafini. Thoughts below 👇

#Theatresky!

Who are the contemporary (as in, still alive) playwrights we should stay away from? Whose work should we NOT be supporting?

I just discovered that the author of one of the plays we licensed is a secret homophobic dickwad, so trying to avoid future unpleasant surprises. 💖

Full thoughts below! 👇🌹

#booksky #books #read #freedomtoread

⭐️ May 2025 Books ⭐️

🌹 "The Unworthy" by Augustina Bazterrica
⭐️ "The Pretender" by Jo Harkin
🌹 "Divine Rivals" by Rebecca Ross
⭐️ "American Scary: A History of Horror" by Jeremy Dauber
🌹 "Intermezzo" by Sally Rooney

My most favorite: "The Pretender" by Jo Harkin.

Full thoughts and review on "The Queen" below! 👇💖

April 2025 Books 🐝

🌺 "Iron Widow" by Xiran Jay Zhao
🌺 "Fantasticland" by Mike Bockoven
🌺 "Blood of Hercules" by Jasmine Mas
🌺 "The Queen" by Nick Cutter

Most Favorite: "The Queen" by Nick Cutter. 🧵👇

#booksky #books #read #freedomtoread

I don't understand how some folks are unable to see that the illegal disappearing of people is a class issue. The wealthy and well-connected get due process. The rest of us don't. This is part of the oligarchy, not a distraction from it.

#BSU friends!

Charlie Kirk is apparently coming to BSU on Sunday to dunk on college kids.

DO NOT GO. Do not engage. Do not "debate." They WANT your reaction for the clicks and views and will try to provoke you into giving them one. Do not give it to them.

Focus your energy elsewhere.

Full thoughts below! 👇

💜 March 2025 Books 💜

✨ "The Covenant of Water" by Abraham Verghese

✨ "Hera" by Jennifer Saint

✨ "Sunrise on the Reaping" by Suzanne Collins

Most favorite: "Sunrise on the Reaping."

Here’s your reminder that the healthcare pros aren’t leaving Idaho because of a single issue.

- Anti-vaxx
- Bad COVID 19 protocols
- Low wages
- Housing availability
- Abortion bans
- RACISM

@governorlittle.bsky.social managed to make it worse this session.

Go check on your local hospital.

If you like what you've seen from Sen. Cory Booker and other Democratic lawmakers this week, call and email their offices and let them know that. Evidence of public support gives lawmakers more clout with their colleagues to keep doing what they're doing. Constituent encouragement becomes influence.

Everytime says to move, I need them to open their wallets. Are you buying me shelter? Do you have a job for me? Are you making sure my pets eat? What about healthcare? Nothing? You can't afford it? Me neither!

If moving was as easy as 1-2-3, I'd have done it already!

I'm sure this is something wheelchair users have been yelling about forever but y'all, the amount of accessible bathrooms in town that are actually NOT wheelchair friendly is pretty appalling!!

Idaho friends! The Idaho Young Democrats are officially here! 👉 @idahoyoungdems.bsky.social

If you have 5 mins, 10 mins or more >> @uabookbans.bsky.social has concrete ways to help protect the #RightToRead

Huge thanks to @natepowell.bsky.social for this #DrawnToFreedom artwork & the tireless support

#tlsky #booksky #skybrarian #RightToReadDay

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If Linda McMahon and the Department of Education believe in "efficiency and accountability" (after laying off half of the department), then I'm sure they'll gladly publish a list of every position that has been eliminated and why that position is no longer needed.

I once mentioned that my friend had to terminate a pregnancy bc her baby was developing without a brain, and I had a weird pro-lifer yell at me for two days straight about how encephalitis is just a simple disability.

Full thoughts on At Dark, I Become Loathsome and Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries below! 👇

#booksky #books #fantasy #horror #freedomtoread