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I'm really going to need every @npr.org and supposedly liberal news outlet to stop uncritically repeating this "tough on crime" narrative; fucking stop it

The same president that wants to call up the National Guard to handle crime in DC, which is at its lowest rate in years, instigated one of the most violent uprisings in the city, all for the purpose of maintaining power. Donald Trump is the gravest threat to peace in Washington, DC.

Violent Crime in D.C. Hits 30 Year Low Total violent crime for 2024 in the District of Columbia is down 35% from 2023 and is the lowest it has been in over 30 years, according to data collected by the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) a...

Trump's own DOJ website still has a press release up from January pointing out that violent crime in D.C. is at its lowest in more than 30 years.

"We're getting rid of the slums," says the political criminal who has bought off the super-rich with tax cuts while increasing taxes on the poor.

Not having a home is not a crime. If it's a crime, it should a crime to unhouse anyone. Being a pedophile & having an insurrection are crimes.

"Violent crime is up in Washington, DC" says man who pardoned the largest group in history that committed violent crimes in Washington, DC.

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The trans panic is maddening, because trans people are expected to defend ourselves with logic science and any sign of emotion is a failure.

And yet the anti-trans campaign is nothing but appeals to emotion unburdened by facts, precedent, or empathy.

Cornyn: FBI director approved request to help arrest runaway Texas Democrats Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) says FBI Director Kash Patel has approved his request to help state and local law enforcement locate or arrest Texas Democrats who have fled the Lone Star State in hopes …

The FBI is apparently going to arrest Democrats on behalf of Republicans who are trying to rig the 2026 election.

The Republican Party wants to make America into a one-party dictatorship in which they can't lose power--no matter what voters want.

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Big thanks to @clmporg.bsky.social for including works from ANMLY on this roundup! Read us, read em all!!

Who Reads Lit Mags? Spotlight on Joyland, Short Story, Long, Does It Have Pockets, and Mag Gently "part reunion, part discovery..."

Really kind write-up here of Short Story, Long and, specifically, stories from @abigailoswald.bsky.social & @jsavrankelly.bsky.social!

As an editor, few things better than thoughtful, engaged, enthusiastic reading of and responding to stories you got to publish.

bramakumaris listed as creator of installation - multicolored folded paper bird mobile, long vertical strands on a wire frame

Origami Cranes, 2020

The Peace Museum (UK)

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anyway I don't believe in failed drafts, you don't call every stroke that carries you to the shore drowning do you

Trump’s Deal-Making With Other Elite Schools Scrambles Harvard Negotiations The university was open to spending $500 million, but a $50 million settlement with Brown has prompted new debates in Cambridge.

C’mon, Harvard. There is no fairness in extortion demands. Any price you pay is a sucker’s bet.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

Godspeed, Texas Democrats!

We Will Not Be Complicit In The Destruction Of Our Own Communities How Texas Democrats are putting their bodies between us and authoritarianism.

Breaking quorum is permitted by the Texas Constitution.

If there is a chance of saving the remnants of representative democracy we will have to do some things. Texas Dems are doing some things. Stand with them. Here’s a very good piece by @lonestarleft.com. www.lonestarleft.com/p/we-will-no...

the front cover of Joe Manchin's book Dead Center

I seriously do not know how this title got through even a single launch meeting.

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Inspired by the poetry, literature, film, and music that have shaped me as a scientist, The Edge of Space-Time is about the way physics, astronomy, and cosmology offer each of us – not just scientists – a powerful and important perspective on the world around us.

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Senate Democrats urge U.S. to stop funding GHF, resume support for U.N. food distribution in Gaza as more starve Senate Democrats told the secretary of state they have "grave concerns" about the U.S. role in financing GHF, the main group distributing aid in Gaza.

Families in Gaza are starving to death. Meanwhile, Trump & Netanyahu are using US taxpayer dollars to replace international aid orgs in Gaza with mercenaries — leading to even more deaths.

ENOUGH.

I led 20 Senators in calling on Trump to stop supporting this barbarity:

I think that if you're a writer and you don't invent a word every now and then you're missing out on a solid chunk of the fun.

We crossed 700 followers finally on this site! Let's keep it going!

Reminder we reopen for subs next week. This month has flown by. Free sub option always available, and we pay $30/piece.

Middle East crisis live: Gaza running out of specialised food to save malnourished children, UN agencies say Supplies of ready-to-use-therapeutic food will be depleted by mid-August if nothing changes, says Unicef

The Trump Administration Is About to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste. By Hana Kiros

Here's an extreme example of the reality that there is no absolute scarcity, only distribution politics. In Gaza created as a tool of genocidal war. But the same is true of almost all human needs, including housing here in the USA.

OH HEY ITS THE EUGENICS OF DISABLED PEOPLE WE ALL TOLD YOU WAS COMING

Gaza is starving Palestinians seeking food are being killed by the IDF. It's time for the entire world to say enough.

In the past when I sat down to write about Israel, I’ve had a moment where I take a deep breath and accept that, as a Jewish woman, it’s going to be difficult. This time, there was no such moment.

I wrote about the intentional starvation of Gaza by Israel/US, and the moral imperative to say enough:

Alan Cumming on bathroom bills:

"Why on earth would a rapist go through the bother of pretending to be trans in a country that treats rapists better than trans people."