Beth K

The crowd has gone silent at Cuomo's party.

roses are red
big laughs are hearty

Great reporting from @washingtonmonthly.com Contributing Editor @timothynoah.bsky.social.

Meet the New Host of Reading Rainbow: Mychal the Librarian After 20 years, Reading Rainbow is back! The new host is Mychal the Librarian, who has been spreading library joy online for years.

Well, this is delightful news. 📚
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I raise money for a unit of a large nonprofit currently targeted by the administration…

I'm looking for someone based in Boston to spend a day copying some manuscripts for me at the Boston Athenaeum. I can pay well. Bonus points if you've researched at the BA before, and you are neat and detail oriented. Thanks! 🗃️

Major role played by a fine product of the potato

Same. I was living in NYC and working in the arts.

In Jamie Lloyd's production of She Loves Me, when Amalia thinks she's been stood up, she will exit the theatre. The cameras will follow her down 8th Ave to the Port Authority. She will sing "Dear Friend" in a bar, and strangers will assume she means something else and offer her money for sex.

Hope you kids like the Ramones, because I’m working on my dream non-fiction book and I also get to work (again) with my dream editor and publisher.

in Brasil, when something is certain to happen under some circunstance, you say "é batata" (it's potato)

<swoons onto fainting couch>

Last night, A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit to defend the Institute for Museum and Library Services. It requires the Trump administration to reverse the steps it has taken to dismantle IMLS, restore employees, and release grant funding.

Anyone who dares to pspsps will be immediately exiled, for the cats cannot be distracted from their important work. Spectators may join in silent meditation.

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I am so very sorry, Kevin.

Harvard Will Not Comply With a List of Trump Administration Demands Federal officials said Harvard must enact “merit-based reform” in hiring and admissions, among other things. Harvard called the demands unlawful.

Proud of my alma mater for this. Any institution that bends the knee to this fascist madman at this critical moment in American history should be permanently shunned—be it law firm, university, or state agency.

Everyone should make a pilgrimage to nmaahc.si.edu while they still can... The realest American history, told so powerfully. Allow at least a full day. (You need a timed-entry pass, but it's free.)

My first thought was, Judge Rifkind must be rolling in his grave. Sad.

I am begging blue state governors to have lunch this week with your adjutant general of the National Guard.

Cannot stress enough how important this relationship is going to be in the near future.

His voice has always set me off.

How did I miss it? Hope you had a great day, and have a reasonable year forward.

Lambda Legal is doing a Virtual Info Session on Passports for Transgender, Nonbinary, and Gender-Nonconforming People in the afternoon of Wednesday, February 26th, 12-1 PST.

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May Gray in February!

I've been writing a series of essays for PBS on men whose style I admire. The latest is about James Baldwin, a man who knew how to sing through clothes.

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EXCLUSIVE: Email from a Federal Worker at EPA to Lee Zeldin I have obtained a copy of - and permission to publish - an email sent from Jason Poe to the EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin. Jason has asked me to share this email, along with his name, with the public.

EXCLUSIVE: A federal worker at the EPA sent an incredible email to Administrator Lee Zeldin. He's refused to stay silent, and has asked me to share the email - and his name - with the public. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

You guys! I wrote a screenplay. It's called Daily Public Briefing.

From my friend @ashmont.bsky.social, this is how a daily opposition briefing could and should be done.
open.substack.com/pub/rovingwo...

You guys! I wrote a screenplay. It's called Daily Public Briefing.

You guys! I wrote a screenplay. It's called #DailyPublicBriefing

Yet—both spellings of a certain Yiddish word. Go figure!

Read “your” for “you” (hangs head in shame)