Sarah Archer

I hope you’re right about the future; that outcome sounds like a little slice of heaven.

I'm partial to this one.
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2025 was actually great for me in MyChart Wrapped: I fired my gynecologist and found a different one who had ideas other than just agreeing with me that perimenopause really sucks. [Aristocrats voice] SCIENCE! 🧪

A brown and green lizard perched on the arm of a woven outdoor chair against the backdrop of a chain link fence.

I can’t explain it but “same.”

I’m so deeply envious of people who didn’t know who Batya Ungar-Sargon is until today 😑

Christopher Rufo is just a white supremacist, and I think it’s silly that we’re still doing news stories where he’s called a conservative activist or some other harmless sounding term.

I am not a Know-Nothing. That is certain. How could I be? How can any one who abhors the oppression of negroes, be in favor or degrading classes of white people? Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid. As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes" When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty -- to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy [sic].

Abraham Lincoln, 1855.
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They should do MyChart Wrapped

This is more or less the plot of “Oh, Mary!”

“She’s always talking about the Constitution provides me with–“ seems awfully specific 🙄

Insanely perfect: fantastic little bouquet of flowers in a glass vase by Daniel Seghers of Antwerp, painter & Jesuit priest, whose day is today.

i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.

I actually do wonder what they’d come up with in response.

Agents in Key Largo, Florida ripped this woman wearing medical scrubs out of her car as she screamed she is a US citizen. Agents cuffed her and put her in one of their cars.

She was eventually let go, per David Goodhue of the Miami Herald, who also took this footage:

A public hungry for scandal might be more satisfied if “American Canto” were uniformly excellent or uniformly terrible. But in our unsatisfying reality, it is what most debut books are: highly uneven and largely forgettable. To be sure, vast swaths of it are impressively and aggressively awful. When Nuzzi is trying to sound literary, as she often is, her syntax is tortured and halting: “I have only a flight instinct, and reporting, I never had to consider it until now, is a way of fleeing yourself.” Sometimes, the resulting garble has an almost Trumpian cadence: “From the front porch I heard laughter. It was 3 a.m. I moved my ear to the window. Laughter, I was certain. Three a.m.”

I am going to die
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I have been thinking and talking about Israel my whole life, and have taught about Israel, Palestine, and the Middle East since 2008, well before TikTok existed. I can attest that young Americans’ opinion of Israel has gotten more negative over that time, and the main reason is Israel’s actions.

Thank you! 💚❤️🤩

I can’t believe they say this shit out loud

Two screenshots. Top is homeland security post saying “Want affordable housing? Help report illegal aliens in your area.” The bottom is excerpt from a speech by Hitler in 1922 in which he says Adolf Hitler speech, 1922 8. WE DEMAND IMMEDIATE EXPULSION OF ALL JEWS WHO HAVE ENTERED GERMANY SINCE 1914, and of all those, too, who through trickery on the Stock Exchange or through other shady transactions have gained their wealth. 9. The housing scarcity must be relieved through energetic action; houses must be granted to those who deserve them. Eisner said in 1918 that we had no right to demand the return of our prisoners - he was only saying openly what all Jews were thinking. People who so think must feel how life tastes in a concentration camp! Extremes must be fought by extremes. Against the infection of materialism, against the lowich nockilone we must hold olof o Homina ideolAndif othere

DHS’s post suggesting “if you help kick people out of the country you’ll be able to afford housing” is OG Nazism.

I didn't think losing Newsmax was even a possibility, I have to admit.

this raccoon is really emotionally resonating with everybody

They should invent deadlines that are a few days later

Poster from 1970s curriculm entitled "Who Needs Freedom?" that illustrates our constitutional rights.

70s curriculum going hard.

Oh boy does this mean @ifbookspod.bsky.social

As so much reporting about RFK Jr. fails to meet the moment or worse, this piece about what it's like with people with actual expertise and the goal of saving lives rather than culling them to work for his HHS from @kerryhowley.bsky.social is should-win-major-awards good: nymag.com/intelligence...

I'm back @99percentinvisible.bsky.social talking about the Pulitzer and design for kids in an episode devoted to Sesame Street 99percentinvisible.org/episode/649-...

it’s self care, though.

They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research

Yes, I’m reassured.

Read these words. This is your country doing this:

“Pregnant & postpartum women report starving in ICE custody, freezing cells, invasive procedures, miscarriages, their pleas for help going unanswered.”

Thank you @rfkhumanrights.bsky.social @the-independent.com for shining a light on these horrors