Jaimee Garbacik

“The first people a dictator puts in jail after a coup are the writers, the teachers, the librarians—because these people are dangerous. They have enough vocabulary to recognize injustice and to speak out loudly about it. Let us have the courage to go on being dangerous people.” - Madeline L’Engle

Jesus Fucking Christ

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's first images are stunning — and just the start The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly spot previously unseen astronomical objects.

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory has just released some of its first images. Its powerful new telescope will be able to quickly spot previously unseen astronomical objects. https://n.pr/405DN8P

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

It's also not true that RFK Jr has identified a real problem but proposes the wrong solutions.

The "problem" he's identified is that Americans are unhealthier than we've ever been (false) and that prescription drugs are making kids sad, autistic and trans (deranged).

Goodness, I’m so sorry to hear this and hope you get everything you need and out in the sun, STAT.

Nothing says child of divorce like this bruh who can’t even handle conflict between Nazis.

must be incredibly frustrating and disheartening to have federal funding that was promised to you for important work suddenly and arbitrarily ripped away

One of my favorite (favorite like “interesting” not like “good”) things about how language reveals power: the way modification highlights the standard. “White trash”, “man whore”, etc reveal where the standard provenances for those words fall. The original modifier is silent, but understood.

“The fundamental division between “dope” and medicine has always turned on racial and economic difference.”

– Donna Murch

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Tiffany D. Jackson Empowers Teens Through Gripping Page-Turners Beloved YA author Tiffany D. Jackson, winner of this year’s Margaret A. Edwards Award, speaks to SLJ about the award, her expansive work, and how real life influences her stories.

Tiffany D. Jackson Empowers Teens Through Gripping Page-Turners
www.slj.com/story/tiffan...

Worth noting that this is also what the UK government review found, it just ignored all the evidence in its conclusions.

I feel like I'm losing my mind. I understand the part about the "cost-savings by outsourcing to theoretically nimbler private sector" and the "cuts to NASA" but also. the rockets keep exploding. didn't they used to not explode

ok I feel completely insane asking this but like

weren't we NOT blowing up rockets, like, 50 years ago. weren't we successfully sending rockets up that did not rattle apart. also weren't we like "ah yeah that was a fail" when the rocket fell apart instead of calling it a "partial success"

Philip K. Dick and the Fake Humans - Boston Review We live in Philip K. Dick’s future, not George Orwell’s or Aldous Huxley’s.

“The bombardment of pseudo-realities begins to produce inauthentic humans very quickly, spurious humans—as fake as the data pressing at them from all sides. My two topics are really one topic; they unite at this point. Fake realities will create fake humans.” —Philip K. Dick

12 Books that Center Work and Working-Class Lives - Electric Literature The inner workings of job sites come alive in these stories, from construction sites to offices

12 books of poetry and prose that capture the language of labor, and the surprising intimacy that a workplace can provide.

Two Dollar Radio turns twenty this year. Here’s where to start with their radical backlist. Two Dollar Radio has been quietly rocking the publishing world since its inception in 2005. The Ohio-based indie publisher and “family outfit” turns twenty this year, and we at Lit Hub …

A Two Dollar Radio retrospective:

President Trump’s Comment that Tesla Protest May be Labelled “Domestic Terrorism” is the Next Step to Quash Dissent, Says PEN America - PEN America PEN America condemned President Trump’s comment that he may label protests at Tesla dealerships and showrooms and other American companies as “domestic terrorism.” Floating the idea of labeling protes...

“This is what dictators do”: PEN America condemns President Trump’s comment that he may label protests at Tesla dealerships and showrooms and other American companies as “domestic terrorism.” pen.org/press-releas...

Department of Education to lay off nearly half its workforce – US politics live Education secretary Linda McMahon announced hundreds of staff were subject to the ‘reduction in workforce’

Republicans really went from “Leave No Child Behind” to “Fuck Those Damn Kids.” 😩😩😩

Hands Off Our Passports: Stop Attacking Transgender Americans The Trump administration is denying accurate passports to trans, intersex, and nonbinary people – so I’m joining the ACLU to fight back. Urge the State Department to reject this dangerous attack on ou...

Action alert! Submit comments to state department to reject this BS exec order attacking the Transgender community.

action.aclu.org/reg-action/h...

I just heard this as well. The entire staff of the National Center for Education Statistics, created in 1867, has been fired.

Tiny Love Stories: ‘Serendipity Still Exists’ Modern Love in miniature, featuring reader-submitted stories of no more than 100 words.

Shout out to my amazing client, Erin Leach-Kemon, who has a Tiny Love Story up on Modern Love today!

Opinion | America Is Pushing Its Workers Into Homelessness (Gift Article) The working homeless are casualties of our prosperity.

Things didn’t used to be this way:

“Today there isn’t a single state, city or county in the United States where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a median-priced two-bedroom apartment.”

“Since 1985, rent prices have exceeded income gains by 325 percent.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/o...

I knew I shouldn’t have used that @!*$# AI!

Benney’s sociological prose is not to be forgotten!! Consider this hyper-relevant quote: “Journalism was a constant exercise in selecting from a grim, mechanised world its trivial accidents and hazards, and refocussing them until all else was blotted out of the world picture.”

Guernica has a new fiction editor, @williampeishih.bsky.social. Send him stories.

Montana Bill Would Charge Women for 'Trafficking' Their Own Fetus The legislation, House Bill 609, is the first of its kind in the country

At the newsletter right now: Republicans just dropped their first open attack on women's right to travel. jessica.substack.com/p/montana-bi...

HUD Grant Delays and Planned Staff Cuts Are Sending Homeless Service Providers into Panic Widespread grant delays, plans for drastic layoffs and rescinded job offers at the Department of Housing and Urban Development could threaten the agency's basic functions – and take down countless hom...

Widespread grant delays, plans for drastic layoffs and rescinded job offers at the Department of Housing and Urban Development could threaten the agency's basic functions – and take down countless homeless service agencies and nonprofits along with it.

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WASHINGTON, Feb. 25 – National Press Club President Mike Balsamo today issued the following statement after an announcement that the White House plans to break decades of precedent and handpick members of the press pool. “The White House’s announcement today is a direct challenge to the independence of a free press in the United States. For nearly a century, the journalists who make up the White House press pool have ensured that the American people know where their president is, what he’s doing and what he’s saying in real time. In times of crisis — whether it’s a national emergency or a sudden world event —independent journalists must be there to relay accurate information to the American people and the world. By seizing control of this process, the White House undermines a crucial pillar of our democracy and opens the door to favoritism and secrecy. The National Press Club stands with the White House Correspondents’ Association in calling on the Trump administration to uphold the tradition of an open and independent press pool. The press pool, working weekends, holidays and often at great personal cost, should never be replaced by a handpicked group of insiders. We urge the White House to reverse course immediately and preserve the integrity of the press pool for the good of our democracy.”

National Press Club president Mike Balsamo issued the following statement after the White House seized power over press pool access from the WHCA: "The White House’s announcement today is a direct challenge to the independence of a free press in the United States."

Good afternoon. We have just lost any assurance of knowing what is going on in our executive branch.