A. N. Devers (Allison!)
@andeversagain.bsky.social
Writer and editor. Proprietor of The Second Shelf, a feminist rare bookshop focused on first editions, ephemera, manuscripts, and collectable but often overlooked works by women and queer folks. First book, Train, forthcoming from Bloomsbury. She/her.
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This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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Stonewall National Monument (U.S. National Park Service)
Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in the quest for LGB civil rights a...
www.nps.gov
February 13, 2025 at 10:53 PM
This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument.
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If I were near Stonewall tomorrow I'd be there to protest this. It is outrageous.
Oh my god.
They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.
"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"
WOW.
They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.
"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"
WOW.
February 13, 2025 at 10:54 PM
If I were near Stonewall tomorrow I'd be there to protest this. It is outrageous.
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Oh my god.
They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.
"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"
WOW.
They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.
"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"
WOW.
February 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Oh my god.
They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.
"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"
WOW.
They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service.
"Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights"
WOW.
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"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation."
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Opinion | Trump’s War on D.E.I. Is Really a War on Civil Rights
The genius of the right-wing crusade against D.E.I. is that the term is amorphous enough that it can mean many different things to many different people.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 3:07 PM
"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation."
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Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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February 12, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Encyclopædia Britannica will continue to use ‘Gulf of Mexico’ for a few reasons:
-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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-We serve an international audience, a majority of which is outside the U.S.
-The Gulf of Mexico is an international body of water, and the U.S.’s authority to rename it is ambiguous.
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BREAKING
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
BREAKING: NIH admits funding freeze is illegal, will resume issuing grants
An internal memo issued February 12 was obtained by Popular Information.
popular.info
February 12, 2025 at 7:36 PM
BREAKING
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
On Monday, Popular Information broke the news that the NIH had frozen virtually all grant funding in violation of 2 federal court orders
On Wednesday, NIH leadership distributed a memo, acknowledging that its funding freeze was illegal and directing staff to resume issuing grants.
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this guy is a dummy www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
Democratic Sen. John Fetterman: 'There Isn't A Constitutional Crisis'
Everyone needs to cool it on the rhetoric, the Pennsylvania senator said Wednesday.
www.huffpost.com
February 13, 2025 at 12:48 AM
this guy is a dummy www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...
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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.
i mean, the president's executive order isn't a goddamn law! as far as this doctor is concerned, who cares what the president says!
A New York City doctor said he will continue providing gender-affirming treatments to his patients younger than 19 despite President Donald Trump’s executive order aiming to ban such care.
February 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.
I am going to Venice for the first time in a few days. Please send recommendations! (So far, of course going to the Peggy Guggenheim and Doge's Palace). I'm with my kiddo so we will be doing some mask making and go see the glass blowing. Restaurants? Secrets? Lesser known?
February 12, 2025 at 11:29 PM
I am going to Venice for the first time in a few days. Please send recommendations! (So far, of course going to the Peggy Guggenheim and Doge's Palace). I'm with my kiddo so we will be doing some mask making and go see the glass blowing. Restaurants? Secrets? Lesser known?
I had no idea there were giant schnauzers.
“He always tries so hard, and we’re just proud of him,” handler and co-owner Katie Bernardin told the crowd at Madison Square Garden. www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
Monty the giant schnauzer is first of his breed to win best in show at Westminster
After coming close in the last two years, Monty the giant schnauzer won the top prize at the Westminster Kennel Club dog show Tuesday night, leaving handler and co-owner Katie Bernardin almost too emo...
www.pbs.org
February 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I had no idea there were giant schnauzers.
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Lots of signed copies of the paperback of The Book of Love at Brookline Booksmith, Harvard Bookstore, Porter Square Books, and—of course—Book Moon.
February 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Lots of signed copies of the paperback of The Book of Love at Brookline Booksmith, Harvard Bookstore, Porter Square Books, and—of course—Book Moon.
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I feel sad and angry about the UK government's decision not to sign the statement from the AI Action Summit. Not because I think it presents a rare new hope, but because they have decided to follow Trump and Musk. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
February 12, 2025 at 7:27 AM
I feel sad and angry about the UK government's decision not to sign the statement from the AI Action Summit. Not because I think it presents a rare new hope, but because they have decided to follow Trump and Musk. blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandp...
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I think I’m obsessed with this actually????
February 12, 2025 at 11:11 PM
I think I’m obsessed with this actually????
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"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
February 12, 2025 at 2:58 PM
"One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion. So now people assume that religion and morality have a necessary connection. But the basis of morality is really very simple and doesn't require religion at all."
Arthur C. Clarke
Arthur C. Clarke
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can i just say that in addition to being a bad thinker this dude is just a bad writer as well. "axiomatically true." just say self-evident!
The good news is that reactionary centrists are engaging in some self-reflection on the excesses of the right-wing backlash to 'wokeness.'
The bad news is that they are saying it is woke people's fault.
archive.is/CaC56
The bad news is that they are saying it is woke people's fault.
archive.is/CaC56
February 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
can i just say that in addition to being a bad thinker this dude is just a bad writer as well. "axiomatically true." just say self-evident!
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I mean I think the obvious answer is that no, Americans have no idea what this means for their lives
the "oh shit what have we done" turn we're all hoping for is simply not going to happen until the material ramifications become clear
we are going to have to touch the stove
the "oh shit what have we done" turn we're all hoping for is simply not going to happen until the material ramifications become clear
we are going to have to touch the stove
Really strange watching the American government become hostile to Canada, western Europe, and Mexico in order to cozy up to the dictatorships of eastern Europe.
Do Americans even know this is happening? Do they have any idea what this means for their lives?
Do Americans even know this is happening? Do they have any idea what this means for their lives?
February 12, 2025 at 6:03 PM
I mean I think the obvious answer is that no, Americans have no idea what this means for their lives
the "oh shit what have we done" turn we're all hoping for is simply not going to happen until the material ramifications become clear
we are going to have to touch the stove
the "oh shit what have we done" turn we're all hoping for is simply not going to happen until the material ramifications become clear
we are going to have to touch the stove
I woke up with a dermatitis rash having spread from the nicely hidden scalp all the way down my forehead to nose and I believe that's what one might call a stress reaction to all this. I keep failing to migrate over here, but am in earnest dedicated to continuing to try. Hello again and again all.
February 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
I woke up with a dermatitis rash having spread from the nicely hidden scalp all the way down my forehead to nose and I believe that's what one might call a stress reaction to all this. I keep failing to migrate over here, but am in earnest dedicated to continuing to try. Hello again and again all.
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“If a married woman hasn’t paid $130 to update her passport —assuming she has one, which only about half of Americans do— she may not be able to vote in the next election if the SAVE Act becomes law,” @wendyweiser.bsky.social tells Glamour
The SAVE Act Could Stop Millions of Women From Voting. Here’s What You Need to Know
The bill would make it harder for women, people of color, young voters, and other marginalized groups to register to vote.
www.glamour.com
February 12, 2025 at 6:19 PM
“If a married woman hasn’t paid $130 to update her passport —assuming she has one, which only about half of Americans do— she may not be able to vote in the next election if the SAVE Act becomes law,” @wendyweiser.bsky.social tells Glamour
Me to everyone here: Is this your new place? it looks great! Thanks for making it comfortable and cozy. I think I may stay for a while.
November 24, 2024 at 1:30 AM
Me to everyone here: Is this your new place? it looks great! Thanks for making it comfortable and cozy. I think I may stay for a while.