Purely Speculative

If you don’t understand the difference between abortion being an individual decision that affects only oneself & vaccine refusal being a public health choice that affects herd immunity & thus the health of your community, you have zero fucking business working in, let alone overseeing public health.

"Here, finally, is a worthy use of the NIMBY impulse that is so easy to activate for worse reasons." Friends, you can use that. I highly recommend going full Karen for the right reasons.

my feeling is basically that we're never gonna have more D friendly environment as in 2028, and we're never gonna have more political capital as we'll have from 2028-30. i want us to put forward someone who will actually use it and actually revolutionize politics, rather than a rehash of biden

No choice but to survive. Stepdad, sister, and sister-in-law are all January Capricorns.

Thank you for taking the time to reply, your insight is greatly appreciated!

And their shelf life is relatively similar?

Plus more book for your money! If they last as long, seems like an easy choice.

Amazing! I had sort of assumed that the reason publishing clings to HC (especially for kid lit) is because they had to do HC for libraries anyway. Gonna ask my local librarians about this next time I go in!

…do libraries not need books to be hardcovers?

I've said this before but I truly believe we could revitalize YA and kidlit overnight by switching to MMPB and paperback first. Kids want paperbacks! It is by far the biggest request I get from teen readers.

More and more people are learning Starbucks' CEO flys a private plane from his house next to his first office in Newport Beach to his job in Seattle with the office that has actual people.

DHS isn’t old enough to rent a car!

This! Both vertically and horizontally.

In other words, Spanish is not a foreign language. It's woven all through the history, culture, and communities of the United States, especially the Southwest, California, and Florida. You cannot name the most important parts of California without Spanish.

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

I read it and my brain was filled with the sound of dial-up internet.

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

Lawsky: who can help with this???

Criticism Is Literature. Why Is It Vanishing?, by Adam Morgan What do the best book reviews do? What is the current state of the critical ecosystem? Chicago Review of Books founder Adam Morgan takes stock of book reviewing in the US.

With Ron Charles and Becca Rothfeld laid off from WaPo, there are now only 5 full-time book critics working in the United States.

That's down from 7 when this pubbed last year, though you may find my definition of a "full-time book critic" arbitrary.

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One thing I’d like to see is my senators and governor every day on tv at 5pm holding a press conference with video of every documented abuse that ICE is doing. Curate all of the witnessing we’re doing and show it to the press.

Abolish ICE. Shut down Dilley. Defund and shut down CoreCivic.

Bi Soccer Referee Pascal Kaiser Attacked Following Viral Public Proposal Kaiser said that he had received threats containing his address.

Everyone celebrating or encouraging athletes in men’s sports for coming out post-Heated Rivalry need to understand the context the show exists in. This soccer ref went viral for proposing to his fiancé on the pitch & then they were assaulted in their home after receiving threats.

They're Coming for Our Daughters The conservative plan to shrink girls’ futures

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.”

The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there.
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This song "Yo Perreo Sola" is an anthem about women's right to throw ass in the club without men creeping on them

Happy seventh annual Laura Dern Day, please be reminded that you are LEGALLY OBLIGATED to watch this masterpiece *at least* once today!

Same. Love having healthcare and regular hours but my sensibilities may have been irreparably damaged from my time bartending and are now unfit for corporate culture.

Like seriously, rewatch the Ring ad. It's worth outlawing and then breaking up Amazon. This is surveillance state technology the worst authoritarian dictatorships of the past always dreamed of.

Keeks is doing important work in this thread

union creative talent at work

Amber Glenn, a queer Texan who started ice skating at the stonebriar mall in frisco at age 5, who plays magic the gathering, is an olympic gold medalist