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My 87 yo grandma mentioned podcasts three times within 2 hrs of being picked up from the airport. We HAVE to get the seniors off of youtube
December 28, 2025 at 2:51 AM
My 87 yo grandma mentioned podcasts three times within 2 hrs of being picked up from the airport. We HAVE to get the seniors off of youtube
People think that growing up in the LA area I must have all these celebrity stories but truly I have nothing on the previous 3-4 generations of my fam who lived on the south side of chicago c. 1910-1970
December 28, 2025 at 2:41 AM
People think that growing up in the LA area I must have all these celebrity stories but truly I have nothing on the previous 3-4 generations of my fam who lived on the south side of chicago c. 1910-1970
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as of now my transition is protected by the fact that i work for a liberal city government. this is one of the better positions I could be in but the precarity is obvious and I'm haunted by a dangerous feeling of isolation from communal or activist practice
December 18, 2025 at 8:11 PM
as of now my transition is protected by the fact that i work for a liberal city government. this is one of the better positions I could be in but the precarity is obvious and I'm haunted by a dangerous feeling of isolation from communal or activist practice
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there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”
December 12, 2025 at 3:44 PM
there is a certain condescension in the idea that “racism should be publicly unacceptable and come with consequences” is an attack on the “working class.”
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christmas has gotten so far from its religious roots, wish we could celebrate our holidays like medieval christians (cross-dressing, being told by the bishop to stop cross-dressing, resolutely refusing to stop cross-dressing, threatening the bishop in defense of cross-dressing)
December 6, 2025 at 9:14 PM
christmas has gotten so far from its religious roots, wish we could celebrate our holidays like medieval christians (cross-dressing, being told by the bishop to stop cross-dressing, resolutely refusing to stop cross-dressing, threatening the bishop in defense of cross-dressing)
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man we should bring back the pamphlet
Hey historians 🗃️: Do you know of presses that publish short books (around 30K words / 90 pages plus notes)? I have been working on an article project that could easily turn into an great micro-history of that length, but I'm not sure it would make it to the usual full 60-90K words...
November 19, 2025 at 3:48 AM
man we should bring back the pamphlet
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who up libbing out rn
November 5, 2025 at 2:44 AM
who up libbing out rn
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i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
October 29, 2025 at 4:49 PM
i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times
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When administrators try to soft-pedal censorship of student press by cutting only the print edition, they are reminding us that paper is the medium of liberatory potential.
October 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
When administrators try to soft-pedal censorship of student press by cutting only the print edition, they are reminding us that paper is the medium of liberatory potential.
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Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.
Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.
Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.
Black Unemployment Is Surging Again. This Time Is Different.
www.nytimes.com
October 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Attacks on the federal workforce are also attacks on Black workers, who are overrepresented in the public sector.
Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.
Black unemployment is 7.5%. I'm reminded of Coates' observation that Black Americans regularly experience conditions that would be considered a crisis if whites faced them.
Excited to be helping make this happen!
libwww.freelibrary.org/calendar/eve... i am reading from and talking about my book with free library philly’s trans book club in 2.5 hours!
Events: Trans by Trans Book Club presents: Hal Schrieve, author of Fawn’s Blood
Hal Schrieve is a writer, cartoonist, and librarian. Hir YA novels Out of Salem, How To Get Over The End Of The World, and Fawns Blood are about queer trans teenagers surviving stuff that could have k...
libwww.freelibrary.org
October 14, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Excited to be helping make this happen!
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What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color
Every queer press org should be picking up this story
Every queer press org should be picking up this story
Cruising crackdown in Penn Station bathroom puts at least 20 men in ICE custody
State and city laws prohibit local police departments from turning people over to ICE. That restriction does not apply to the federally run Amtrak Police Department.
gothamist.com
September 26, 2025 at 3:15 PM
What might not occur to you upon reading this headline is that, in other words, ICE is targeting gay men of color
Every queer press org should be picking up this story
Every queer press org should be picking up this story
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"The problem does not start with the individuals buying and eugenically curating pregnancies from working-class women, but with the “soft” eugenics, competitiveness, and individualism that permeates our culture’s entire approach to baby-making to begin with." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
That Wild “Wired” Article Is Not a Case Against Surrogacy
It’s a horror story about Silicon Valley, and an extreme example of what happens when we conceive of children as property.
www.thenation.com
September 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
"The problem does not start with the individuals buying and eugenically curating pregnancies from working-class women, but with the “soft” eugenics, competitiveness, and individualism that permeates our culture’s entire approach to baby-making to begin with." www.thenation.com/article/soci...
who up perserverating?
September 4, 2025 at 3:40 AM
who up perserverating?
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SEPTA defunding is going to go down as a cautionary tale against fiscal responsibility. you can count every penny, achieve efficiencies that put your costs an order of magnitude below peer systems, never expand the network and focus only on maintenance, and still get curb-stomped
August 13, 2025 at 8:27 PM
SEPTA defunding is going to go down as a cautionary tale against fiscal responsibility. you can count every penny, achieve efficiencies that put your costs an order of magnitude below peer systems, never expand the network and focus only on maintenance, and still get curb-stomped
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Four puppies cuddling. Pompey, 1 century CE.
August 13, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Four puppies cuddling. Pompey, 1 century CE.
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This strike is bigger than one union, and bigger than one city. It’s a fight for every workers who’s been treated as less than, as disposable, as unimportant.
All eyes on Philly, my friends. They’re striking for you, too.
All eyes on Philly, my friends. They’re striking for you, too.
July 3, 2025 at 5:16 AM
This strike is bigger than one union, and bigger than one city. It’s a fight for every workers who’s been treated as less than, as disposable, as unimportant.
All eyes on Philly, my friends. They’re striking for you, too.
All eyes on Philly, my friends. They’re striking for you, too.
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every now and again i think about Dogor, the ice age barely-domesticated wolf puppy that they found in iirc siberia with clear signs of healing injury, buried with ochre like human remains deposits in the era
June 21, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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what is it called when people who aren't cops and don't have a warrant drag you away, because I don't think "arrest" is the word
Brad Lander, NYC comptroller and mayoral candidate, is arrested outside immigration court
New York City comptroller and Democratic mayoral candidate Brad Lander has been arrested at a federal building in Manhattan as he was trying to accompany a person out of an immigration courtroom.
apnews.com
June 17, 2025 at 4:58 PM
what is it called when people who aren't cops and don't have a warrant drag you away, because I don't think "arrest" is the word
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PPD is bold rn for a few reasons, one of the big ones is that our mayor & city council have given them unfettered permission 2 brutalize unhoused ppl & visible drug users in Kensington regularly all year. They get funding, positive PR & citywide propaganda 4 mass incarcerating homeless folks
June 11, 2025 at 5:43 AM
PPD is bold rn for a few reasons, one of the big ones is that our mayor & city council have given them unfettered permission 2 brutalize unhoused ppl & visible drug users in Kensington regularly all year. They get funding, positive PR & citywide propaganda 4 mass incarcerating homeless folks
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it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up
June 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
it really doesn’t matter if someone is in america illegally or not. who cares, grow up