Amazing. I hope it's useful...would love to hear once you've had a chance to check it out.

Don't usually promote my own work, but Thinking on the Page, co-authored with Gwen Hyman, is a book about essay writing that focuses on using close reading to get to a claim. We have a section on annotation and what to look for.

Yes, and why not, but I like other books of hers better.

You can buy them used at thriftbooks.

"yes, but not like you," and keep moving. Also, I'm pissed off when they approach me AND when they don't.

Probably already read but for those who haven't, Torrey Peters Detransition Baby is great.

Evergreen skeet.

Yes: And set up a city-funded organization that helps all immigrants learn how to set up a remote hearing.

In India, to sad effect: VD Savarkar.

1000% secular and now find myself doing activism/politics with Jews/as a Jew (primarily with jfrejnyc.bsky.social and jvp@bsky.social.) Feels weird, but has led me into good actions/feeling less helpless.

Not a common occurrence but that Penguin is totally outdoing you, Joe...

I have low expectations for @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social, and even I was shocked by the naked Islamophobia that she was engaging in, including falsely accusing him of "global jihad".

I called her office and told them that this behavior is unacceptable from a sitting senator

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Fun for whom, one wonders.

THIS!

He's charismatic and fun to listen to and it's been SO long since we've had that....

I think the anti Zohran folks are worried that he might drink their milkshake. Plus, of course, they're racist, sexist, self-preservation-minded, zionist creeps.

And everyone who picked Cuomo is either a schmuck, a 100 years old, a landlord, or all of the above.