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Trump Renames Institute of Peace for Himself

hey @nytimes.com i had the scoop on this story hours ago. add a reference in your story to my name and outlet. thanks.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/u...

Inara: Light of Utopia Inara: Light of Utopia is a groundbreaking anthology th…

Not enough people are talking about INARA: Light of Utopia. I feel like I’ve not done my bit. It’s a recent anthology of utopian art, poetry, and fiction by Trans and Queer Palestinians. You should read it. It is #ReadPalestine week after all. www.goodreads.com/book/show/21...

Oh dang, it's true. You're not losing Whammageddon, you're listening for a good cause.

www.thegeorgemichaelfund.com

I think "financialize everything and create a tradable asset out of any difference in opinion" might be the worst thing I've ever read

the competition is strong but it's a real contender

Larry Summers Banned from American Economic Association Over Close Ties to Epstein Former U.S. treasury secretary and former Harvard President Larry Summers has been banned from the American Economic Association over his close ties to the late Jeffrey Epstein. Recently revealed emails show Summers stayed in close contact with Epstein …

Former U.S. treasury secretary Larry Summers has been banned from the American Economic Association over his close ties to the late Jeffrey Epstein.

A powerful thread about how tempting the Easy Path can be.

That's President Wilson alright -- a Segregation-happy racist who helped reinforce Jim Crow...

...y'all know. The system of American Authoritarian governance that, bare decades later, helped the Nazis develop their Antisemitic Nuremberg Laws?

"Borrow," indeed.

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

We’ve just stopped talking about the disgraceful complicity of every MSM outlet and reporter that has chosen to remain on a site that is an explicitly racist, Nazi cesspool.

It is unconscionable that they have CHOSEN to continue using it as their primary social media platform.

Once again, ILL remains the purest representation of scholarly community. I use it so much I often write little notes back and forth with the librarians when I’ve borrowed a lot from their library. It’s the closest you can get to those old penpal schemes and I love it.

Other reports from 2021 said 10Billion. Either way it's a lot of money.

A photo of a hand holding paperbacks of "Magica Riot" and "Magica Riot: Full Bloom" on a Portland street corner. "Magica Riot" is primarily purple and features protagonist Claire in her purple and black magical girl costume, while "Full Bloom" is primarily orange and features the characters Iris and Bloom laying on a bed of orange rain lilies.

It’s my duty to remind you of my queer Portland magical girl stories 📚💙 I’ve created an entire new magical girl series that happens to center on trans women and lesbians and Oregon and I’d love for you to get acquainted with it!

Two full novels and a tie-in novelette await you: magicariot.com/buy

In many ways this is the widest ban on trans healthcare yet. In some states Catholic Church-run healthcare systems are over 40% of all healthcare.

This ban also applies to the many doctors, urgent cares and specialists in the church's sprawling networks. And they're buying up/taking over more.

You do NOT have to paste these one-by-one, there's a config search!

Just type "browser.ml" in the config search and turn the ones listed below to "false". You can then search for the last two and make them "false" as well.

Also, it's still 2025. 📅

I'm an American with multiple kettles which all go to 212, not 100. ;)

Obviously this is impossible because Alan Moore looks like he's genetically a wizard, it's simply impossible to imagine what he would look like as a schoolboy oh there he is.

Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

My friends, you MUST follow Chanda. Please waste no time.

The canceled TV show you'll never stop thinking about

(First Kill was so much of what people claim to want in a Netflix show, but didn't know what to do with, when they got it.

Especially since the Black Woman who was co-lead? Was positioned as the person to be romantically chased. Too damn rare!)

This Rosa Parks Day, let us remember her and learn from her example--challenging powerful forces with courage and determination and working with others to change the world for better.

Free Palestine lit??? Free Palestine lit. 🇵🇸 🍉 📚 ✨

It’s official: this is now my best book sales month ever 🥹

What that means, specifically: the Maidensong Magica series has sold 771 copies this month. This is also the “Magica Riot: Full Bloom” launch month, and it accounts for 563 of those. 🥹

I like a lot of the work Indivisible does but imo it cheapens boycotts as a tactic to call them for multiple retailers at once, and to deploy them repeatedly during price drop events.

Pick one target and go hard.

Which is what happened with Lenten Target boycotts, incidentally.

The actual "worse than watergate" scandal is how much news media collectively worked to ratfuck a Democratic presidency by largely inventing health/mental acuity concerns for hyperventilate about while largely ignoring the very real & worsening issues in front of their faces from Trump

Lincoln was re-elected on a party platform saying "That foreign immigration, which in the past has added so much to the wealth, development of resources and increase of power to this nation, the asylum of the oppressed of all nations, should be fostered and encouraged by a liberal and just policy."

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Calling RFK "The Most Powerful Man in Science" is like calling Jason Voorhees "The Most Powerful Man in Camp Counseling."

I always suggest that people think about what urban centres like New York or London were like 150 years ago — dangerous, unbelievably polluted air and water, desperately inequitable, few trees or green space.

And then imagine building the cities where we look back to *today* and see the same thing.