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the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

screencap of WH tweet

the White House's official X account gloats over the arrest of Don Lemon with a chains emoji

Arresting Black journalists is also vice signaling. Their base is racist and hates journalists and they want to get them excited again. The mainstream media industry has never protected Black journalists or journalists of color the way it should.

Kill the reflexive urge to engage with anything you think is neat by finding out what the worst people you can imagine are saying about it first. Feel what you're feeling and move on with your day.

this looks like crap and also calling this animated is such an insult to artists and human-created animation

I feel like I'm seeing more indie bookstores that are announcing they're open than are announcing they're closed. And I don't know what I'd do in that position, but it is kind of funny to see that bulletin more than ones that are just outright closing.

lol this! I got worked up the other day speaking to a real person and then remembered my customer service days and said, I really appreciate you taking my call

Just a reminder, the greatest living American historian filmmaker, Ken Burns, released a 720 min exploration of every facet of the American revolution using zero generative AI and paying for all of its assets instead of cobbling it from stolen data, then he gave it away for free on PBS this year.

The idea that success belongs to the toughest people with the fiercest attitude is the same nonsense that animates Hegseth’s DoD. Success belongs to the people who have the best sandwich-distribution system.

#reylo #booksky #romancelandia

If you think a bunch of conspiracy theorists will look at evidence an then say “oh, we were wrong” then you don’t know how conspiracy theories working. Having actual evidence they can misrepresent is key to building the conspiracy theory.

‘Rage knitting’ against the machine: the hobbyists putting anti-ICE messages into crafts Makers take a stand through ‘Melt the ICE’ red knit caps and sparkly nails – all while raising funds for those affected by immigration raids

Staff at a Twin Cities yarn store put together a pattern for a red knit “Melt the ICE” hat inspired by the Norwegian resistance.

They thought they would attract 10 people to a weekly knit-along.

They’ve sold 70,000 copies, raising more than $250k for immigrant aid groups.

when i say i'm "going to bed", i really mean i am going to fantasize about my OCs kissing until sleep eventually stops me

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

Have social anxiety and hate being on the phone? 5 Calls lets you look up your reps, click on the issues, provides contact AND a script that you can just read if you don't know exactly how to frame what you want to say. Feel too stilted for you? You can still read the script and reword.

5calls.org

It’s giving the same energy as the lack of midlist titles in publishing. I don’t need everything to be a high concept. I need exciting storytelling!! Give me something to obsess over!!

Want to help a book succeed before it even hits shelves?https://buff.ly/fWsyv1a

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

Ahhhh this is amazing!

“Faster than lightning, stronger than steel, smarter than a speeding bullet…”

✨🎨 Gesso / Acrylic Gouache
On Canvas Panel - Work in Progress

fucking hell

Character art print postcards!!!

Stay tuned to find out how you can get one ♥️

Heritage Foundation blog post: A Measure That Would Force Big Tech To Protect Kids Online And Stop Censoring Conservatives

Here's the Heritage Foundation all-in on repealing Section 230 so that litigious Christian nationalists can dictate the speech rules for the entire Internet

It's so embarrassing so many Dems are falling for this www.teenvogue.com/story/some-d...

Nelly Furtado. A fluffy Pom-terrier mutt with her game face on, bubble above with “can you lock the fuck in”?

Sharing this for anyone who needs this in their life today:

Bitch, do you really want people 3D printing vuvuzelas instead?

YEP YEP! Good for you! it honestly used to get my partner so worked up, but now he tells them, "I'm doing my books today. I've got time to wait and call you back and wait and call you back..." that also tends to get their attention as well.

I paid my therapist a zillion dollars to tell me this, so I’m passing it on to anyone else in MN who needs to hear it:

Think of taking time away to recharge not as not doing the work, but as doing quality control for the work. You’re not going to be able to show up to do it well if you’re depleted

I am so sorry and also, you should not shut up and let them pay you to go away! As someone who has had to deal with insurance on many different levels (partner has a business, working in healthcare, being a parent), they want you to give up and not fight them on it.

“This is a preschool you stupid motherf*ckers!”

(From Somali Snaps)

Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass
Philip Glass boycotting the Kennedy Center