The Golden Notebook Bookstore

The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.

Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.

Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.

But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.

Small DC bookstore reports 60% decline in business since federal surge A bookstore in the Petworth neighborhood reports sales are down a whopping 60% since the federal surge in D.C. began. The small but beautifully arranged Loyalty Bookstore on busy Upshur Street near Ge...

A friend of mine co-owns this bookstore. This is not great.

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Phoebe and Her Unicorn book 1, extra sparkly new cover

Hi, I’m Dana, I was the first out trans person in syndicated comics, and I draw unicorns and kids really seem to like them. Grownups too sometimes.

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Photo: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton photographed by Bert Stern, 1962

Richard Burton’s diary, October 3rd, 1971:

“It's a beautiful morning and I'm in love with my wife....I have a whole day with E and books and ships and cabbages and kings...I shall have a cup of tea or coffee and smoke a cig and read and waste myself indolently down the day.”

Yale’s Little Histories £750 window display competition won by Pritchards Bookshop

Yale University Press London's Little Histories window display competition has been won by Pritchards Bookshop in Crosby, Merseyside 👇 #BookSky

shoals, rocks, and breakers hereabouts: beware!

In a country where bankruptcy due to medical care costs exists, America has decided to end all preventative disease infrastructure

NEW: Huge anti-Trump protests happening across the US for Labor Day.

This is the current scene in San Diego. A seemingly endless line of thousands of people on the streets!

@50501movement.bsky.social #workersoverbillionaires #NoKings

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But now, no more words, only kisses, and many of them, for a thousand reasons, since it is Sunday.

Franz Kafka, 1912.

As Trump threatens to increase ICE presence & bring the National Guard to Chicago, we're thinking about the soldiers who disobeyed & refused to serve empire. Join Aaron Hughes & Arti Walker-Peddakotla with Bill Ayers on 09/27 to talk about this history. pilsencommunitybooks.com/events/47484

Amazing that before hard drives, this is how humans stored information.

This is the make or break moment for Powell's @federalreserve.gov. If they do not defend Lisa Cook and treat her as still on the Board, the fight over the Fed as an independent agency will officially be over. see my Friday piece.

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“Black History Minute,” a Poem by Harryette Mullen sponsored by the state of Florida You could say the Atlantic triangle trade was a win-win-win deal. Intrepid traders profited by transporting essential goods. Enterprising settlers developed savage…

Read “Black History Minute,” a poem by Harryette Mullen from the collection Regaining Unconsciousness.

My original opinion remains unchanged; but it is only an opinion.

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How Medical Misogyny Impacted the Treatment of Women’s Migraines “I get ocular migraines, so they’re behind my eyes. And I can’t do anything when it’s bad. Like, even like the smallest light or the lightest noise sets me off. I wear sunglasses everywhere. It’s j…

@tomzellerjr.com explores how medical misogyny impacted the practice of neuroscience (and the treatment of migraines).

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The short and long of it is, men, will ye spit fire or not?

I am buoyed by breaths of once living things, exhaled as air, but water now.

Sometimes it takes an Irish walking stick to hold up two authors.

Photo: Beowulf Sheehan

The Great Naturalist John Burroughs on the Art of Noticing and What Artists Can Learn from Naturalists “We think we have looked at a thing sharply until we are asked for its specific features.”

From one of the greatest writers and greatest noticers of the 19th century, a wonderful read on the art of noticing and what artists can learn from naturalists www.themarginalian.org/2022/07/26/j...

Have YOU preordered the library at hellebore yet? @casskhaw.bsky.social isn't on here much, but I am.

Consider snagging one from @merrittbookstore.bsky.social (there's a neat raffle for a cool plate!) or @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social or @goldennotebkbooks.bsky.social (two faves)!

Making it (more than) halfway through the year calls for sharing the 25 Best Books of 2025 (So Far) 📚

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I SURVIVED READING BANNED BOOKS ALL I GOT WAS SMARTER AND MORE EMPATHETIC

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PEN Ukraine’s book warehouse damaged by a Russian missile strike Tonight, Russians once again launched a massive missile attack on Ukraine. And once again we made sure that they deliberately destroy our lives and our culture. On the night of July 3-4, PEN Ukraine’s...

Last week, a Russian missile attack damaged PEN Ukraine’s Kyiv warehouse storing books to distribute to libraries on the front lines through their #UnbreakableLibraries project. The damage is yet another example of the war’s devastating impact on Ukrainian culture.

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The billionaires who funded the fascist-neonazi campaign of our current regime so they could afford one more mega yacht are henceforth known as the Yachtzis.