Angela Doll

Gosh, Trump lied about the ballroom affecting the current structure? Shocking 🙄

Canvas has been down alllll day. Maybe monopolies ARE bad!

Document signed at yesterday's peace summit in Egypt outlines only broad principles for Gaza's future, highlighting ongoing challenges to achieving lasting resolution to the conflict.
Trump, leaders of Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey signed the agreement. The warring parties—Israel and Hamas, did not.

Kate DiCamillo on Telling Stories Within a Story and Capturing Wonder Two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo reunites with two-time Caldecott Medalist Sophie Blackall in an original fairy tale set in the world of Norendy, Lost Evangeline. When a shoemaker discovers…

Illustrator Sophie Blackall and author Kate DiCamillo discuss collaborating on the children’s book Lost Evangeline and telling stories within stories.

Sign at rally with picture of Malort bottle reading Go Ahead...Chicago Drinks Tear Gas By The Ounce.

A friend took this at a rally today and I barked laughing.

A book stall in central Gaza is keeping literature alive amidst genocide. Photo by Esraa Abo Qamar A small bookstall in the central Gaza Strip is keeping reading alive amidst Israel’s unrelenting chaos and violence, The Electronic Intifada reports. The stall, called Eqra…

Reblogged a profile of an inspiring and resilient book stall in Gaza, for @literaryhub.bsky.social

Andrea Gibson, a Poet of Love, Hope and Gender Identity, Dies at 49 A master of spoken-word performance, Gibson insisted that poetry, especially when read aloud to an audience, was a political act.

Andrea Gibson, a master of spoken-word poetry who cultivated legions of admirers with intensely personal, often political works exploring gender, love and a personal four-year fight with terminal ovarian cancer, has died at 49.

Um.

“Nothing is more human than a book.” —Marilynne Robinson buff.ly/LC980og

As Floods Hit, Key Roles Were Vacant at Weather Service Offices in Texas Some experts say staff shortages might have complicated forecasters’ ability to coordinate responses with local emergency management officials.

Crucial roles were vacant at local National Weather Service offices as severe rainfall hit parts of Central Texas on Friday morning. Some experts question whether it hurt coordination with emergency officials.

When this punk ass presidency is over, abolishing ICE better be the platform every politician runs on.

The cruelty was always the plan.

This is priceless.

Yup. Elon is still garbage.

The Upstart Non-Fiction Writers' Residency | Upstart & Crow

The residency supports the creation of a nonfiction work that pushes boundaries in form or content — writing that sparks conversations or actions that should be happening right now, in a world of cascading systems failures but bright possibilities.

More info here. (2/2)

Feeding the children is far more important than any stupid parade!!!

Aw cool! My beloved lit mag is featured today!

Constitutional rights at stake in Abrego Garcia case, Maryland senator says Maryland Sen. Chris Van Hollen returned from El Salvador after meeting with Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported there by President Donald Trump's administration.

apnews.com/live/donald-... COVID-19 website replaced with information supporting the lab leak origin theory

I guess my autistic friends who are also poets are imaginary?

Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate...

In his 1957 filibuster, Strom Thurmond said "Negroes ... are not so well qualified to vote as are the white people.”

A Black senator just broke the record Thurmond set with that speech.
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The only article that any newspaper should be writing about the potential annexation of Canada is "Annexing Canada would be a war crime on the scale of Hitler invading Poland, which would be the duty of every American to resist"

Count me in. “We are hope despite the times”

Vital perspective here…

Will Bluesky be the way we communicate in the Resistance?

Musk associates given unfettered access to private data of government employees The Musk-connected political hires include two recent high school graduates

Several of Elon Musk’s associates (including two recent high school graduates) installed at the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) have received unprecedented access to federal human resources databases containing sensitive personal information for millions of federal employees.