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but if i'm not allowed to feed artists into my artist killing machine it's going to be basically impossible for the machine to keep killing artists. is that what you want?? and before you answer keep in mind this is a very expensive machine

Somewhere around 1am last night, when I was combing Zillow's aerial view to compare roofline shapes with a "Coming Soon" teaser photo a realtor posted for a house in a neighborhood we like, I started to think ... maybe house-hunting *isn't* having the best effect on my mental health! 🫠

I'm glad they did this and better late than never. But it would have been nice is this spine evolved when a racist mob came for the university's first Black woman president.

Ashton Lattimore on her debut novel All We Were Promised - Write Now Philly Ashton Lattimore is an author, award winning journalist, and former lawyer. Her debut novel, All We Were Promised, follows the lives of three young Black women in pre-Civil War Philadelphia. Lattimore...

Write Now Philly has published an interview with @ashtonlattimore.bsky.social about her novel All We Were Promised. I’m happy that our student-interns get to talk to such interesting Philadelphia-area writers.

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If the webpages existed before the term "DEI" was even in effect, seems like these purges might in fact be about something else!

If we're going for accuracy, the headline should be "Amid purge of any content that doesn't solely glorify white men, Pentagon removes webpage on Iwo Jima flag-raiser"

Apparently a constitutional crisis is like the horizon - always just out ahead, “near,” “looming,” a glittering mirage we can always “approach” but never reach, no matter how many court orders the president brazenly defies.

The historic Black press and the attempt to criminalize journalists I've long thought about the potential for U.S. journalists to be jailed in America for doing our jobs. We should remember how the government came after Black journalists in the not-so-distant past.

It's Black Press Day. And the historic Black press understood what it was like to be targeted, surveilled, charged with crimes, even jailed. As similar threats loom, we should take a look at this history. Read/Listen/Share/Subscribe to Fortify here: nicolefcarr.substack.com/p/the-histor...

Both of which are, you know, crimes. Already. No court order needed!

Also, it's worth asking whether news headlines should use the word "deport" for this. Deportation is a legal process with multiple steps (you might even call it "due process!"), & if none those steps were taken here then the admin hasn't "deported" anyone. It's perhaps "kidnapped" or "trafficked"!

The closest is this, which is still wildly off base. Presumably the reporter is capable of reading the court order themselves, using their eyes and ears to figure out whether or not the admin complied, and saying so. Instead, we get stenography of the administration going "Nuh uh" and call it news.

Yup, I saw that version earlier, and even "In Face Of" is such a mealy-mouthed way to say they violated the order.

I literally just had to explain this to my mom, who is a very informed person, because the newspaper is covering it in such a passive and piecemeal way.

Not only deported, but effectively sold into forced labor. It is GRIM.

The closest is this, which is still wildly off base. Presumably the reporter is capable of reading the court order themselves, using their eyes and ears to figure out whether or not the admin complied, and saying so. Instead, we get stenography of the administration going "Nuh uh" and call it news.

This. I've been waiting all day for a single headline that states "Trump administration deports 300 in violation of court order" - the actual, undisputed facts of the situation. Instead, mainstream outlets have been twisting themselves in knots to avoid just SAYING WHAT HAPPENED.

Love to see Belarus shoved in there for cover, otherwise we'd have to start asking what all these countries have in common. 🤔

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Thank you so much, I hope you enjoy the rest of the book!

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I’ll check it out, thanks for the tip!

Awesome, thank you for the intel!

Woke up to nearly 2k new followers. Welcome! Stick around for history nerd-outs, media and journalism talk, bookish things, and very millennial-core pop culture stuff.

I’m curious though, would someone kindly tell me where you suddenly all followed from??

Hi new followers! This seems like a good time to introduce myself, so here goes:

I'm Ashton, and I write historical fiction that unearths overlooked historical Black communities and puts brave, complicated women at the center. My first novel, ALL WE WERE PROMISED, came out in April. Next one TBD!

RFK’s racist blathering harkens back to the yellow fever epidemic in Philadelphia where Black people—told we were immune—were asked to care for the perishing and neglected sick. 10% of free Black Philadelphians died.

A few words from the Prism team:

This blitz of violent and fascist executive orders starting last night from and into today is meant to seed chaos and create deep fear and utter hopelessness. Media is critical to keeping the relentless deluge of fear spinning. They want your views.

Said with apologies to any living descendants of Mr. Garfield & Mr. McKinley. All presidents matter. ✊

Forgive me for history-nerding on main, but it's hilarious that there's such a clear hierarchy of assassinated presidents & nobody remembers the second-tier guys. Imagine getting elected to the nation's highest office & being murdered, all just to wind up the answer to an obscure trivia question. 😂

I don’t want to make a fuckin account to use my toaster. I don’t want to fuckin subscribe to software. I don’t want to create a fuckin profile to watch TV. I don’t want to fuckin register my whatever to unlock whatever. I don’t want to download a fuckin app to access anything. Death to new logins

Bring back paper menus. I shouldn’t have to use my phone just to order at a restaurant.

And on the same note, lemme add a Disney-specific millennial complaint: Bring back paper fast passes at Disney World. Having to be on a screen all day booking ride reservations ruins the vibe!

This is amazing, thank you so much! I haven't seen Respect or Get on Up - so excited to dive in.