Why is Dostoyevsky so relatable?

Here’s a research piece I did many moons ago on Revolutionary News during the French Revolution. Feel free to share/ print for reference!
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Day Three of asking all 10,000 of you to subscribe to my publishing imprint for $5 or $12 a month to help fund Black and brown books! Come join! It’s a good time over here! And you get to be a part of bringing change to the industry! ✊🏾

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Reading List for Black History Month: Stories of Liberation, because we have been here before.
Enjoy and may you learn lots this month and every day!
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“You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.”
-Angela Davis

Happy 81st birthday, Angela Davis.

"If you live long enough a defeat will turn into a victory."
--Angela Davis

I just saw the 2025 US banned books list. I just want to say, go read books. Talk about them. Share them. And please write them.

While many of these books will still be published, they do become less accessible when removed from libraries

Be a book punk. Read them all

Running on syrup and spite today

I believe the general internet tradition on these kinds of things is well known.

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I think of this video often. We shouldn’t be fighting the same fight. Waiting for comfort and decorum isn’t the way. Progress happens when you don’t stop.

I don't think I need to clarify my stance on the topic but these soccer folks summed it up

thoughts on today as a queer person who will survive the next four years #inauguration #queer
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i will not feed the algorithm my fear, i will alchemize it and bring it to you as strange beauty

do something to proclaim your bodies sovereignty today

David Lynch gave us the language we needed to better articulate the indescribable strangeness of our shared reality. “Lynchian” is so overused because it’s a viscerally understandable word without any known synonyms. I can’t imagine a more beautiful artistic legacy than that.

vinyl spread of the week - LA fire moodiness

“I like feel-bad French movies with frontal nudity” -John Waters