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trying to get the hell out of Omelas
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“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem.
Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…
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January 8, 2026 at 3:54 AM
“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.
lithub.com/renee-nicole...
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Tired: "Is this legal?"
Wired: "Is this right?"
Wired: "Is this right?"
January 3, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Tired: "Is this legal?"
Wired: "Is this right?"
Wired: "Is this right?"
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Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
January 3, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.
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If you're a fan of Ann Leckie and/or Arkady Martine (and why wouldn't you be), and/or discussions of empire and imperialism in science fiction, let me point you towards this conversation between the two on that very topic:
www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine
www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine
December 1, 2025 at 7:33 PM
If you're a fan of Ann Leckie and/or Arkady Martine (and why wouldn't you be), and/or discussions of empire and imperialism in science fiction, let me point you towards this conversation between the two on that very topic:
www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine
www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine
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All chess is 4D chess that's why they have that time clock thingy.
November 28, 2025 at 6:56 PM
All chess is 4D chess that's why they have that time clock thingy.
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I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
November 24, 2025 at 5:54 PM
I see some book piracy discourse, and, to make a positive argument in favor of buying books, your marginal ability to influence what books get published and support the careers of writers you like is massive compared to most other forms of media.
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Draw yourself from memory
October 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Draw yourself from memory
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I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.
September 30, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
September 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)
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Martin Scorsese drew these storyboards when he was 11 years old. They are for a Roman epic entitled THE ETERNAL CITY.
July 24, 2025 at 4:57 AM
Martin Scorsese drew these storyboards when he was 11 years old. They are for a Roman epic entitled THE ETERNAL CITY.
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"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
July 18, 2025 at 4:12 AM
"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪
FSA Administrator: You got those photos documenting the lives of sharecroppers in the south and migratory agricultural workers in the midwestern and western states?
Dorothea Lange: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy, just like you asked.
FSA Administrator: What
Dorothea Lange: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy, just like you asked.
FSA Administrator: What
Some National Tattoo Day trivia: When the Social Security Administration first began issuing numbers, it wasn't uncommon for people to get their number tattooed on their body. 💪
Photo from the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress.
Photo from the Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection at the Library of Congress.
July 17, 2025 at 2:59 PM
FSA Administrator: You got those photos documenting the lives of sharecroppers in the south and migratory agricultural workers in the midwestern and western states?
Dorothea Lange: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy, just like you asked.
FSA Administrator: What
Dorothea Lange: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy, just like you asked.
FSA Administrator: What
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I've been very lucky that the folks at @51st.news have let me start reporting again, but this small-yet-mighty outlet has big ambitions: including hiring me full-time. We'd love it if you'd help support independent local journalism in D.C.! (And thank you a million billion times. Really.)
The 51st recently hired our first salaried employee (!) by bringing Christina on full-time as Executive Editor. Now, we need to hire Martin as our full-time reporter!!! You can help us get there by tossing a few dollars (or more...) to our fundraiser. 🥳 51st.news/help-us-hire...
Help us hire Martin Austermuhle!
The 51st is growing — but we can’t do it without you.
51st.news
July 14, 2025 at 10:52 PM
I've been very lucky that the folks at @51st.news have let me start reporting again, but this small-yet-mighty outlet has big ambitions: including hiring me full-time. We'd love it if you'd help support independent local journalism in D.C.! (And thank you a million billion times. Really.)
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Having Martin Austermuhle as a full-time reporter for @51st.news would be so great for DC!
The 51st recently hired our first salaried employee (!) by bringing Christina on full-time as Executive Editor. Now, we need to hire Martin as our full-time reporter!!! You can help us get there by tossing a few dollars (or more...) to our fundraiser. 🥳 51st.news/help-us-hire...
Help us hire Martin Austermuhle!
The 51st is growing — but we can’t do it without you.
51st.news
July 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Having Martin Austermuhle as a full-time reporter for @51st.news would be so great for DC!
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OH THANK MITHRAS
It's a Murderbot Eve Miracle!!!!!!
It's a Murderbot Eve Miracle!!!!!!
July 10, 2025 at 5:15 PM
OH THANK MITHRAS
It's a Murderbot Eve Miracle!!!!!!
It's a Murderbot Eve Miracle!!!!!!
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the American government is effectively ending its space program.
Over 2,000 senior staff set to leave NASA under agency push
The losses could endanger the administration’s plans for landing astronauts on the moon and Mars.
www.politico.com
July 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
the American government is effectively ending its space program.
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The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House.
When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.
For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.
For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
July 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
The Supreme Court’s “shadow docket” has cast very different shadows depending on which party holds the White House.
When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.
For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
When lower courts blocked Trump admin policies, SCOTUS intervened on an emergency basis to lift those orders in 77% of cases.
For the Biden administration, that number was 0%.
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It’s Calvin & Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson’s birthday today. When I was a kid I was so obsessed with Calvin & Hobbes that I carried around a stuffed bear and called it Hobbes. There’s no official merch (which I love), so my grandma painstakingly crafted this for me. Pic of him from my mom today
July 5, 2025 at 6:09 PM
It’s Calvin & Hobbes cartoonist Bill Watterson’s birthday today. When I was a kid I was so obsessed with Calvin & Hobbes that I carried around a stuffed bear and called it Hobbes. There’s no official merch (which I love), so my grandma painstakingly crafted this for me. Pic of him from my mom today
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the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history
July 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history
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A lot of what is happening now is the Rs pushing the final vote until the wee hours of the morning so that the American people won't be watching the final debate.
July 3, 2025 at 2:41 AM
A lot of what is happening now is the Rs pushing the final vote until the wee hours of the morning so that the American people won't be watching the final debate.
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More seriously: if someone is a deranged lunatic sex criminal for an entire generation and instead of stopping him or charging him with crimes contemporaneously you wait 20 years then put together some ludicrous Rube Goldberg construct trying to reach back and capture all the crimes…./1
So. It wasn't RICO? Huh
July 2, 2025 at 4:08 PM
More seriously: if someone is a deranged lunatic sex criminal for an entire generation and instead of stopping him or charging him with crimes contemporaneously you wait 20 years then put together some ludicrous Rube Goldberg construct trying to reach back and capture all the crimes…./1
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Do not call a law that will kill millions of people "Big Beautiful."
Do not call a concentration camp "Alligator Alcatraz."
Stop promoting the propaganda and euphemisms of a fascist regime.
Do not call a concentration camp "Alligator Alcatraz."
Stop promoting the propaganda and euphemisms of a fascist regime.
July 1, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Do not call a law that will kill millions of people "Big Beautiful."
Do not call a concentration camp "Alligator Alcatraz."
Stop promoting the propaganda and euphemisms of a fascist regime.
Do not call a concentration camp "Alligator Alcatraz."
Stop promoting the propaganda and euphemisms of a fascist regime.
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The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
June 27, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.
- Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders.
- Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.