I've been thinking about this poem by Langston Hughes recently and although it was published in 1931, it remains relevant as ever.

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Ohio's Lt. Gov. Jon Husted, goes all-in on axing the U.S. Dept. of Education. Closing it would rip away $18 billion per year from high-poverty schools, $15 billion from special education, $28 billion from Pell Grants to help high-performing kids in poverty go to college.

Hot Take: The single best part of the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy is the Hobbits returning to the Shire and kicking the shit out of the fascist dirtbags who took over.

Reading Lord of the Rings again because it’s nice to hear about some fat little stoners who wreck an asshole’s shit

Jean Cocteau being very Jean Cocteau on the set of Testament of Orpheus.

I made sure not to learn any survival skills because I want to be one of the first to go

When your local librarians have mastered the art of book placement...

All those books about the declines and falls of empires that I never read.... do they cover how dumb things were? I was unprepared for how dumb things were going to get.