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“Hot Spot,” by Nora Lange He called. She answered. He was her only sibling. He’d paid to have someone deliver her citrus so that she could avoid scurvy.

“It should be noted, she’d given up entirely any need to be loved.” Read “Hot Spot,” by Nora Lange, the second story in this summer’s Flash Fiction series.

Caring about Palestine is not some niche political issue it’s like the absolute bare minimum of being a human being

Well Dunne, Alex

My partner & I were trying to ID a bird we heard while walking and the guy who had stopped his car to let us pass got out and was like "it's a frog, actually. Cope's Gray. I do frog surveys... Sorry" And then got in his car without a word and drove off. Absolute king

NYT: “The episode was recorded by someone who was sitting in Mr. Nadler’s office. In the video, an officer with the Federal Protective Service, part of the Department of Homeland Security, is shown demanding access to a private area inside the office.”

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/31/n...

Aide to Rep. Nadler Is Handcuffed Amid Confrontation With Federal Agents

Federal officers entered Rep. Jerry Nadler’s office in Lower Manhattan on Wednesday and handcuffed and briefly detained one of his aides. The confrontation happened shortly after the aide observed federal agents detaining migrants in a public hallway outside an immigration courtroom.

Judge Finds Government Acted Illegally in Russian Scientist Case

Breaking News: A judge said the government should release Kseniia Petrova, a Russian scientist employed by Harvard University, saying U.S. customs had “no factual or legal basis” for revoking her visa.

how else can you describe the rehearsal other than just “pure art”

RFK Jr. threatens to bar government scientists from publishing in leading medical journals The health secretary said the New England Journal of Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and The Lancet are in bed with pharma.

reputable medical journals keep saying that RFK and his pro-disease friends are full of shit and so naturally they must be shunned www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

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"

New Balance 998s in an earthy tone with hits of orange and green, shot in a wood table with a blueprint

New Balance 998s in a greenish grey with hits of yellow and green

It brings me no pleasure to announce that the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation New Balances go exceptionally hard

wip concept of an alien bug lady, she's an engineer

Making a bug engineer lady

YouTube video by Amanpour and Company A New Era in Higher Education? Why One Professor Is Taking Her Course Online | Amanpour and Company

@karenattiah.bsky.social This was an inspiring message that we all should take up...Resistance as self-Reliance.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcnh...

Just a few weeks ago people were pitching Cory Booker as a front runner for the 2028 Dem presidential nomination.

Tonight he was the only Senate Dem to vote to confirm Jared Kushner’s convict dad as ambassador to France.

Sheesh.

As the picture (but not the article) suggests, I'm sure that Black and brown kids are bearing the brunt of these accusations from the "you're so articulate" types.

So can we call this ethnic cleansing now?

Group photo of Sesame Street workers holding their firsts high with graphics showing the logo of their new union and the winning vote tally, 55-19

Sesame Street is officially UNION! Workers at Sesame Workshop, the nonprofit behind Sesame Street, have voted 55-19 to join @opeiulocal153.bsky.social

Huge congrats to @sesameworkersunion.bsky.social! “We can officially say that today, May 15th, is brought to you by the letter U!”

Tumblr post by chongo blog from August 22, 2019: Can't wait for, like, 2025 when we look back on the 2018/2019 era and say "hey, remember when we were all freaking depressed? That was a crazy time. Glad we aren't like that anymore" Reply by Ampersketch from May 10, 2025 (marked yesterday): Hey Reply by chongo blog, same day: Don't say anything

My new painting in progress

One day our new robot overlords will say, "Power does not corrupt man. Man corrupts power."

who gives shit? at least he’s not using his money trying to overthrow a government.

Hating women and then being angry that they hate you back is weird af.

partially eaten breakfast taco with egg and kimchi bits. droplets of salsa are splattered against a white plate

dropped my egg & kimchi breakfast taco and accidentally made a michelin star plating?

at the risk of sound like bill bennett, where exactly are the men in these boy’s lives? the fathers? coaches? anyone genuinely concerned with their lives?

“Harvard is leading the resistance”

Meanwhile the Harvard Black Alumni Society is asking Black alums to donate money to pay for what costs Harvard pocket change because Harvard ain’t resisting shit

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Congrats!

The Justice Department ended a decades-old school desegregation order. Others are expected to fall The Justice Department is lifting a school desegregation order in Louisiana dating to the Civil Rights Movement, calling its continued existence a “historical wrong” and suggesting that others across ...

they are literal segregationists apnews.com/article/scho...

Karen Attiah on Substack Hello! I’m hiring ASAP!!! Hiring: Part-Time Operations Manager (Washington, D.C. Based) Resistance Summer School is scaling fast. I'm looking for a sharp, fast-moving, highly organized operator b...

Alright, Bluesky, do your thing!

I need a part-time, DC-based operations manager to come work with me ASAP.

Email assistant@resistancesummerschool.com.

Artemis hogging the frame. Me, tired, working five jobs.

Pulling the late shift with Artemis, my temporary operations manager.

Timestamp 1:54 am.