CB
@cbloom.bsky.social
Former teacher heading for a midlife crisis, with snacks.
@tinakotek.bsky.social Oregon should do this!!
We can do away with it without a new Supreme Court. Nor do we need a constitutional amendment. There’s a far simpler way to get rid of Citizens United. Let me explain. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/how-to-get-rid-of-citizens-united
November 24, 2025 at 7:20 PM
@tinakotek.bsky.social Oregon should do this!!
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Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
November 3, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Anyway, we need some joy, so here's the Egyptian foreign minister being given a Lego Pyramid by the Danish foreign minister.
Looove a good fig
today is septidi 7 Brumaire in the year of the Republic CCXXXIV, celebrating the fig
October 27, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Looove a good fig
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My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."
We Have to Move
"There are living, breathing people all around you who need your sense of decency to be made material. Don’t give up on them, or on you."
organizingmythoughts.org
October 24, 2025 at 7:46 PM
My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."
Vaxxed up, bitches!! Flu and covid. Science is real. Fuck MAHA.
October 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Vaxxed up, bitches!! Flu and covid. Science is real. Fuck MAHA.
It's nice to be able to support one of my elected representatives!!
October 22, 2025 at 10:59 PM
It's nice to be able to support one of my elected representatives!!
Let the girls run the world
QOTD: "…if you genuinely believed that preteen girls are old enough to be mothers while males in their thirties are too young to comprehend fascism, then you logically wouldn't trust men to be responsible for anything more consequential than a balloon animal, let alone a government."
-Dean Burnett
-Dean Burnett
October 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Let the girls run the world
New workout goal
HOW I LONG TO HUG YOU WITH MY NEW HUGE MUSCLES.
October 13, 2025 at 1:54 AM
New workout goal
Always on point and beautiful and full of heart and funny as hell
October 7, 2025 at 10:52 PM
Always on point and beautiful and full of heart and funny as hell
Let's gooooo
Portland enacts emergency powers of nudity to check federal overreach.
October 2, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Let's gooooo
Post-truthiness is too real
"...people sharing AI slop and misinformation do not actually care that it’s wrong. They care that it matches their feelings. "
"...people sharing AI slop and misinformation do not actually care that it’s wrong. They care that it matches their feelings. "
The issue isn't whether people know the header image of this newsletter is fake.
The issue is they don't care.
brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/people-kno...
The issue is they don't care.
brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com/p/people-kno...
People know this header image is fake
The issue is they do not care.
brookshire-team-trash.beehiiv.com
September 14, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Post-truthiness is too real
"...people sharing AI slop and misinformation do not actually care that it’s wrong. They care that it matches their feelings. "
"...people sharing AI slop and misinformation do not actually care that it’s wrong. They care that it matches their feelings. "
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I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit
Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that culture
www.theguardian.com
September 13, 2025 at 12:00 PM
I wrote a thing. As someone who survived the 1970s and kept the receipts.
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"I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph. I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not."
The Em Dash Responds to the AI Allegations
“In recent months, a curious fixation has emerged in corners of academia: the em dash. More specifically, the apparent moral panic around how it is...
buff.ly
September 13, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"I am not some sleek, futuristic glyph. I am the battered, coffee-stained backbone of writerly panic—the gasping pause where a thought should have ended but simply could not."
Even if you don't read sf and don't know or care what the Hugos are, this is a beautiful and humane and important essay.
Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident"
grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w...
#Worldcon
grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w...
#Worldcon
August 22, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Even if you don't read sf and don't know or care what the Hugos are, this is a beautiful and humane and important essay.
Reykjavik, 2025. Street art rocks.
August 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Reykjavik, 2025. Street art rocks.
Time for the pelvis chickens to quit, let's gooooo
"Perimenopause is triggered when your ovaries—or 'pelvis chickens'—quit dependably laying eggs each month. Maybe some months they lay eggs, but other months they just sit on the couch, drinking a nice Malbec, eating corn nuts, and watching Better Call Saul."
Thank You for Calling the Perimenopause Hotline, Where Our Hold Times Are Completely Unpredictable
Thank you for calling the perimenopause hotline. Our phone lines are flooded with an unexpected gush of calls right now, but we assure you that our...
buff.ly
August 11, 2025 at 3:12 AM
Time for the pelvis chickens to quit, let's gooooo
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In memory of genius satiric songwriter (and mathematics professor) Tom Lehrer, American Musicals editor Laurence Maslon recalls his memorable e-mail exchanges with livinglegend@ucsc.edu about which stage musicals were CLASSICS, GROUNDBREAKERS, HISTORIC, LANDMARK, or simply GREAT.
“That Was the E-Mail Exchange That Was”: Tom Lehrer Weighs In on the Greatest American Musicals - Library of America
American humor lost one of its great voices this summer with the death of genius singer-satirist Tom Lehrer at the age of ninety-seven. The mind behind such madcap classics as “We Will All Go Together...
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August 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
In memory of genius satiric songwriter (and mathematics professor) Tom Lehrer, American Musicals editor Laurence Maslon recalls his memorable e-mail exchanges with livinglegend@ucsc.edu about which stage musicals were CLASSICS, GROUNDBREAKERS, HISTORIC, LANDMARK, or simply GREAT.
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🧵Today is Friday, July 4.
Good morning ❤️
We hold these truths to be
self-evident:
that all [people] are created equal
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
that among these are
Life
Liberty
and
the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights,
Good morning ❤️
We hold these truths to be
self-evident:
that all [people] are created equal
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
that among these are
Life
Liberty
and
the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights,
July 4, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🧵Today is Friday, July 4.
Good morning ❤️
We hold these truths to be
self-evident:
that all [people] are created equal
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
that among these are
Life
Liberty
and
the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights,
Good morning ❤️
We hold these truths to be
self-evident:
that all [people] are created equal
that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights
that among these are
Life
Liberty
and
the pursuit of Happiness.
That to secure these rights,
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If you're reading this, whoever you are & whatever you're doing to try to make this world better, whether it's calling, protesting, providing mutual aid, making art, raising awareness, training & teaching people new concepts & skills, journalism, surviving through it all, or whatever else: thank you
July 1, 2025 at 8:37 PM
If you're reading this, whoever you are & whatever you're doing to try to make this world better, whether it's calling, protesting, providing mutual aid, making art, raising awareness, training & teaching people new concepts & skills, journalism, surviving through it all, or whatever else: thank you
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Really proud of this piece,,, it’s something I’ve never done before and out some really TIME and thought into something real important.
www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...
www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...
Why Flavor Flav says the US must ban firearms now | Opinion
The lack of U.S. gun laws has created a violence epidemic unlike anywhere else on Earth. This is domestic errorism
www.newsweek.com
July 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Really proud of this piece,,, it’s something I’ve never done before and out some really TIME and thought into something real important.
www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...
www.newsweek.com/2025/07/18/f...
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Did we really squeeze the big sound of Living Colour behind the Tiny Desk? Yes, we did. And, yet, the band lost none of its intensity.
Living Colour: Tiny Desk Concert
Did we really squeeze the big sound of Living Colour behind the Tiny Desk? Yes, we did. And, yet, the band lost none of its intensity.
n.pr
June 25, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Did we really squeeze the big sound of Living Colour behind the Tiny Desk? Yes, we did. And, yet, the band lost none of its intensity.
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Rolling Stone has excerpted an essay from my forthcoming book. It's about what happens when you get all of your info about the world from the TV (cops are heroes!), and then go out into the world and see for yourself. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
Copaganda and Me
Maris Kreizman writes about the way police are mythologized in popular culture in this excerpt from her book 'I Want to Burn This Place Down'
www.rollingstone.com
June 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Rolling Stone has excerpted an essay from my forthcoming book. It's about what happens when you get all of your info about the world from the TV (cops are heroes!), and then go out into the world and see for yourself. www.rollingstone.com/tv-movies/tv...
I live on the other side of the country but have become quite invested in this race. Do the right thing, New York!
NYC 🚨
IF YOU HAVEN’T VOTED, GO NOW
FIND YOUR POLLING PLACE HERE: vote.nyc/page/find-yo...
RANK ZOHRAN 1, LANDER 2, MYRIE, ADAMS, BLAKE 3-5.
DO NOT RANK CUOMO UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
LET’S FUCKING GO.
IF YOU HAVEN’T VOTED, GO NOW
FIND YOUR POLLING PLACE HERE: vote.nyc/page/find-yo...
RANK ZOHRAN 1, LANDER 2, MYRIE, ADAMS, BLAKE 3-5.
DO NOT RANK CUOMO UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES.
LET’S FUCKING GO.
June 24, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I live on the other side of the country but have become quite invested in this race. Do the right thing, New York!
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Last night, I had the privilege of delivering a keynote speech at the Locus awards. You can view the speech and read the full text here.
stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/
stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/
Hammer Speech
Last night, I got to stand up in front of the audience at the Locus Awards ceremony. I wound up presenting the Locus Award for Best Short Story (congratulations, Isabel J. Kim!) – but first, I deliver...
stone-soup.ghost.io
June 22, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Last night, I had the privilege of delivering a keynote speech at the Locus awards. You can view the speech and read the full text here.
stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/
stone-soup.ghost.io/hammer-speech/