Mark Wulfenstone

#BlackAFHistory by #MichaelHarriot is a deep dive history book that will forever change your perspective, if you genuinely engage with the severe and intensive care taken to look at the systems of power and oppression of black and african americans who did not get to write history in their favor. 📚💙

The image is an X post by Mike Nellis (@MikeNellis ) from 19 hours ago, stating: "So let me get this straight: a Blackhawk helicopter and dozens of masked, armed federal agents roll up on a Chicago apartment building, cuff everyone—including kids—and then run checks for warrants and immigration status? What the hell is going on in this country? How is that not fascism?" The post includes a verified badge.

Narrator: This is fascism.

It is unfortunate for me that I am incapable of the level of ignorance that is required to simply ignore what is happening to our educational & scientific infrastructure of this country. Because thats what it is. Ignorance; not naivete, this is the age of information. You know, you just don't care.

Kamala Harris warned us that Trump would turn the military against civilians. She warned us that he would pursue Project 2025. The media mocked her, but she was dead right about both.

A screenshot of an X post by Senator Alex Padilla (@SenA ..., 8h ago) stating: "BREAKING: The guy who sent the House home for the week claims he's praying government reopens without them." The post includes a quoted X post by NewsWire (@NewsWire_US , 10h ago) stating: "SPEAKER JOHNSON SAYS PRAYING FOR A VERY SHORT SHUTDOWN," with a NewsWire logo and verification badge.

Where are the House Republicans? NOT in D.C., that’s for sure. Speaker Johnson won’t even seat Rep. Grijalva because of the Epstein files.

A screenshot of an X post by Aaron Rupar (@atrupar , 5h ago) quoting Trump speaking to generals: "America is under invasion from within. We're under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in any ways because they don't wear uniforms. At least when they're wearing a uniform you can take them out." The post includes an image of a man in a suit speaking at a podium with the presidential seal, set against a backdrop of the American flag.

There is no “invasion from within” just like there is no “Tren de Aragua” invasion from Venezuela. You can’t make things up, then use them as an excuse for going to war or disappearing innocent people into foreign prisons.

Easily, his most elaborate and destructive distraction from #TheEPSEIN_Files... yet.

Banned Books Week Event Calendar. Add an event or find one near you! BannedBooksWeek.org/events Censorship is so 1984. Read for your rights. Banned Books Week, October 5-11, 2025

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I Believe in Libraries. EveryLibrary's Executive Director, John Chrastka, discusses why he believes in libraries.

EveryLibrary's Executive Director, John Chrastka, discusses why he believes in libraries as next week we celebrate national banned book week!

www.everylibrary.org/i_believe_in... via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Yeah, I've got a nemesis. It's those double blue underlines in Microsoft Word that want you to throw in commas with the precision of a drunk darts player who hits the bartender in the ass.

CHOTINER: but I thought you were already reading a book.

ME: that one is fiction. you can read novels and personal essays at the same time, it's different parts of the brain.

CHOTINER: and the book of poetry?

ME: right, different part.

CHOTINER: and you're progressing on all of them?

ME: listen

Imagine being a fan of Indiana Jones and being so media illiterate that you did not know he hated Nazis and Fascism or being such a defensive snowflake that you can't handle a picture of a cat with subtitles.

This is what politicization of the Justice Department results in.

Good tips! As I'm getting more into writing flash fiction myself atm

#VerityVoxandtheCurseofFoxfire is a YA fantasy that captures the nostalgic feeling of wanderlust woven with whimsical horror of the unimaginabe nature of ancient places like Appalachia.
Verity uses my favorite version of magic & I love the real to life perspective of intimate magic in folklore. 📚💙

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Cincy—on Oct 18, 2025, we gather at Smale Park to say NO KINGS. END OCCUPATION.

Oct. 18 | 1–5 PM | Smale Park, Downtown Cincinnati

#50501 #Protest #Cincy

Might fuck around and re-read all the dystopian literature I was assigned in high school with a newfound sense of dread and resignation.

I am not old, but my body would like me to be fooled to be.

#Apeopleshistoryoftheunitedstates is a brief overview of what you should have learned in high school. #MythAmerica is what you should have learned your senior year. #OrdinaryMen is a cautionary example of what happens when citizens accept dogmatism & identity privilege over education & sympathy. 📚💙

"Only children are so selfish and inconsiderate" The most selfish people i've ever met have 3+ siblings what are you talking about

Analysis | ‘Sammy’s Law’ would help parents monitor kids online. It’s gaining steam. The parents of a teen fentanyl poisoning victim are finding allies in Congress for a bill intended to save others from the same fate.

"If we want to protect children, we should be fighting for privacy laws, protecting encryption, and learning from Bluesky's model, where they allow third party algorithmic feeds and moderation tools."

Turns out some of the “we want small government” people kiiiinda wanted the government to be just one guy.

How to Choose the Best POV in Fiction Award-winning writer Barbara Josselsohn discusses how to choose the best point of view in fiction by looking at how each of them work.

"The emotional state of the characters is paramount. For this reason, I want the reader to have complete access to my characters’ inner lives, without any narrative interference."

www.writersdigest.com/how-to-choos...

#TheFloatingWorld by #AxieOh I happened to find serendipitously & It is a solid YA fantasy read! The setting is one we've all imagined before. However, the author's blending in of korean mythology and folklore into the worldbuilding & characters that brings the story new life in a satisfying way! 📚💙

RFK Jr. axes $500M in mRNA research. Texas GOP threatens to arrest Dems for blocking a Trump-backed gerrymander. A judge halts construction at Florida’s “Alligator Alcatraz” as a whistleblower reports inhumane conditions. The cruelty is loud—and growing. thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/august-8-w...

#OverSeaUnderStone by #SusanCooper is a 1965 childrens mystery that would be categorized as middle grade today. The book has some charm within the children's sense of wonder but has dated stereotypical dialogue and structure.

⚠️Fair warning a hard left from a villian in black face towards the end 📚💙

“It’s just a tool! People used to hate on photoshop too.”

Take away my photoshop, take away my tablets, I can still draw. Take away your plagiarism machine and what are you gonna do? Shout prompts at me?

Happy Friday to everyone who might be concerned that he has possession of the nuclear codes, blames the messenger for tanking the economy & would gladly pardon a monster to save his own thin orange skin.

As much as I would like to meme about the BLS commissioner getting canned, it does feel like small potatoes next to what’s happening to our immigrant/trans/Palestinian/activist/whatever neighbors, so before I meme about it (which I will) just let it be clear that I see all of you and I feel for you.

Survive. Adapt. Overcome.

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