Holly D.
@hollyd.bsky.social
Budding potter. Tentative poet. Active reader. Into slow fashion, friendship, and sincerity. Constantly teetering between hope and despair. (she/her)
📚 IG: fromhollysbookshelf
📚 IG: fromhollysbookshelf
Book reviews of Lessons for Survival by Emily Raboteau and We Survive by Kellie Carter Jackson, an easy go-to chicken recipe, and a few sources of hope keeping me a lot in a time that is just shredding my soul: open.substack.com/pub/fromholl...
Some reads, a staple chicken recipe, and a few sources of hope
Reviews of Kellie Carter Jackson's We Refuse and Emily Raboteau's Lessons for Survival, one-pan rosemary chicken by way of Elana Karp, and some Instagram poetry that has brought me back to center
open.substack.com
March 31, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Book reviews of Lessons for Survival by Emily Raboteau and We Survive by Kellie Carter Jackson, an easy go-to chicken recipe, and a few sources of hope keeping me a lot in a time that is just shredding my soul: open.substack.com/pub/fromholl...
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When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'
March 29, 2025 at 12:48 PM
When people say 'politics is too divisive now,' what they really mean is 'I was more comfortable when certain groups suffered quietly.'
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When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
March 29, 2025 at 4:44 PM
When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public
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One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
March 29, 2025 at 8:31 PM
One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.
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DOGE/Musk preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris in 2024.
Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.
Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.
March 23, 2025 at 1:38 PM
DOGE/Musk preferentially cancelled grants and contracts to recipients in counties that voted for Harris in 2024.
Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.
Among cancellations with election data available, 92.9% and 86.1% cancelled grants and contracts went to Harris counties, representing 96.6% and 92.4% of total dollar amounts.
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At this point we can’t see universities as cowardly - they’re complicit and they want this to happen.
Act accordingly.
Act accordingly.
Johns Hopkins tells faculty not to ‘intervene’ in potential ICE detainments on campus
Johns Hopkins tells faculty not to “intervene” in ICE detainments
A memo sent by the Office of General Council at Johns Hopkins instructs faculty and staff not to intervene if federal law enforcement detain a community member on campus.
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March 29, 2025 at 4:15 PM
At this point we can’t see universities as cowardly - they’re complicit and they want this to happen.
Act accordingly.
Act accordingly.
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RIP to the U.S. Institute of Peace — nearly all staff members have been fired.
March 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
RIP to the U.S. Institute of Peace — nearly all staff members have been fired.
I have reached sincerely-reading-the-botanic-garden-and-zoo-mail-newsletters years old.
March 30, 2025 at 3:30 AM
I have reached sincerely-reading-the-botanic-garden-and-zoo-mail-newsletters years old.
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The distance between a legal resident who's not a citizen being deported without due process and a citizen being deported without due process is a hell of a lot shorter than many folks seem to believe, and when it does happen to a citizen, just remember it started here and who was quiet in response.
March 17, 2025 at 4:15 AM
The distance between a legal resident who's not a citizen being deported without due process and a citizen being deported without due process is a hell of a lot shorter than many folks seem to believe, and when it does happen to a citizen, just remember it started here and who was quiet in response.
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An internal memo predicted that 2-3 million more people per year will die because of Musk's closing USAID.
www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...
www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...
Musk is an absolutely depraved and evil man. Defending Stalin, Hitler, and Mao in order to justify firing VA nurses and park rangers? How does one come to hate civil servants so much? Insane, and dangerous.
March 13, 2025 at 2:12 PM
An internal memo predicted that 2-3 million more people per year will die because of Musk's closing USAID.
www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...
www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...
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A model is emerging, which is simply pretending the First Amendment doesn't exist
Florida mayor seeks to evict cinema for showing Oscar-winning documentary
Miami Beach mayor also proposes withdrawing grant after O Cinema screened Palestinian-focused film No Other Land
www.theguardian.com
March 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
A model is emerging, which is simply pretending the First Amendment doesn't exist
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An imbalance I think about a lot these days is how much harder it is to build things than it is to destroy them
March 13, 2025 at 3:10 AM
An imbalance I think about a lot these days is how much harder it is to build things than it is to destroy them
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Ten years ago if you had written a dystopian SF story in which the person in charge of U.S. public health did a press event at a fast food joint to say that fried food is good but measles vaccines cause measles the ghost of Philip K. Dick would have said that you were being too bleak and unrealistic
RFK Jr on the measles vaccine: "There are adverse events from the vaccine. It does cause deaths every year. It causes all the illnesses that measles itself cause."
March 12, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Ten years ago if you had written a dystopian SF story in which the person in charge of U.S. public health did a press event at a fast food joint to say that fried food is good but measles vaccines cause measles the ghost of Philip K. Dick would have said that you were being too bleak and unrealistic
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US added to the global human rights watchlist due to declining civil liberties.
March 11, 2025 at 4:47 PM
US added to the global human rights watchlist due to declining civil liberties.
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There’s just no reprieve. Like just take one fucking day off so we can catch our breath for the love of god.
March 12, 2025 at 1:26 AM
There’s just no reprieve. Like just take one fucking day off so we can catch our breath for the love of god.
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I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?
March 11, 2025 at 11:01 PM
I know this is going to sound naive or earnest, but I genuinely find myself shocked by how little people seem to be upset by the levels of corruption we're seeing. Is that the median voter assumes everyone is corrupt already? Or isn't actually getting stories about the corruption?
Idk how @schumer.senate.gov can take himself seriously as a *representative* (and party leader) while not allowing voicemails to be left on his office lines. It’s cowardly and dismissive of his constituents’ voices.
March 12, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Idk how @schumer.senate.gov can take himself seriously as a *representative* (and party leader) while not allowing voicemails to be left on his office lines. It’s cowardly and dismissive of his constituents’ voices.
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I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.
CDC Staff Prohibited From Co-Authoring Papers With World Health Organization Personnel
It’s just the latest “Orwellian” crackdown on government scientists.
www.huffingtonpost.co.uk
March 1, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I don’t even know how this could be presented as being in service of anything other than hindering scientific progress.
Nothing like resigning from the governorship in disgrace following sexual assault allegations to make you think you are a good fit for… *checks notes*… the Mayor of NYC.
At this point the whole country and government feels like a farce. #AndrewCuomo
At this point the whole country and government feels like a farce. #AndrewCuomo
March 1, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Nothing like resigning from the governorship in disgrace following sexual assault allegations to make you think you are a good fit for… *checks notes*… the Mayor of NYC.
At this point the whole country and government feels like a farce. #AndrewCuomo
At this point the whole country and government feels like a farce. #AndrewCuomo
I have a morning playlist and three podcasts that I intersperse in the queue. This morning, the poem read on The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org was accented by “A is for airplane!” and “C is for cow!” from my son’s interactive alphabet book. There’s some motherhood poetry in that somewhere.
February 20, 2025 at 2:11 PM
I have a morning playlist and three podcasts that I intersperse in the queue. This morning, the poem read on The Slowdown @slowdownshow.org was accented by “A is for airplane!” and “C is for cow!” from my son’s interactive alphabet book. There’s some motherhood poetry in that somewhere.
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Well, I was going to write today about Trump throwing our allies and democratic values under the bus for Putin...then GOP said they'll cut Medicaid, so I wanted to write about that...now Trump is coming out and saying he's King after quoting Napoleon a few days ago...
February 19, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Well, I was going to write today about Trump throwing our allies and democratic values under the bus for Putin...then GOP said they'll cut Medicaid, so I wanted to write about that...now Trump is coming out and saying he's King after quoting Napoleon a few days ago...
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It appears irony is not dead after all.
February 19, 2025 at 9:07 PM
It appears irony is not dead after all.
Finally saw #InsideOut2 and predictably bawled. The panic attack scene is *exquisitely* done. I broke at Anxiety saying “I was just trying to keep her safe.”
February 20, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Finally saw #InsideOut2 and predictably bawled. The panic attack scene is *exquisitely* done. I broke at Anxiety saying “I was just trying to keep her safe.”