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They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
June 24, 2025 at 9:43 PM
They’re planning on building a detention center for migrants in the middle of the fetid swamps of Florida.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
If you think this is something new, the first internment camp they sent me and my family to in 1942 was a barbed wire prison called Rohwer. It was located in the swamps of Arkansas.
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“They asked me, where did they go? The trees, the salamander, the tropical fish, Edgar, the poppas and mommas, Matthew and Tony?” Fiction by Donald Barthelme, from 1974.
“The School,” by Donald Barthelme
Fiction, from 1974: “They asked me, where did they go? The trees, the salamander, the tropical fish, Edgar, the poppas and mommas, Matthew and Tony?”
www.newyorker.com
June 10, 2025 at 1:20 AM
“They asked me, where did they go? The trees, the salamander, the tropical fish, Edgar, the poppas and mommas, Matthew and Tony?” Fiction by Donald Barthelme, from 1974.
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“Seven of the 10 judges in the majority also joined the opinion that “a library’s collection decisions are government speech and therefore not subject to Free Speech challenge.” This is bad. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
Appeals Court Reverses Texas First Amendment Ruling
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit on May 23 reversed a district court’s preliminary injunction and dismissed free speech claims in Little v. Llano County, a Texas case challenging the re...
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May 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
“Seven of the 10 judges in the majority also joined the opinion that “a library’s collection decisions are government speech and therefore not subject to Free Speech challenge.” This is bad. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...
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our infographics department have been hard at work for the 100th anniversary of "mrs. dalloway", creating this infographic, showing all the food mentioned in the novel
May 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
our infographics department have been hard at work for the 100th anniversary of "mrs. dalloway", creating this infographic, showing all the food mentioned in the novel
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My kid has a bleeding disorder and we just received an email from the National Bleeding Disorders Foundation that yesterday "nearly all staff within the CDC’s Division of Blood Disorders and Public Health Genomics" will be fired, so fuck you, RFK Jr, and all the senators who approved his nomination.
April 2, 2025 at 4:15 PM
My kid has a bleeding disorder and we just received an email from the National Bleeding Disorders Foundation that yesterday "nearly all staff within the CDC’s Division of Blood Disorders and Public Health Genomics" will be fired, so fuck you, RFK Jr, and all the senators who approved his nomination.
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Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
March 20, 2025 at 10:57 PM
Every time you see someone powerful acting like a craven coward in the face of this authoritarian menace, let it stiffen your own spine. We are all we've got.
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All of the Republicans who for years railed about "unelected bureaucrats" destroying the government are awfully quiet as an unelected bureaucrat destroys the government.
March 5, 2025 at 2:55 AM
All of the Republicans who for years railed about "unelected bureaucrats" destroying the government are awfully quiet as an unelected bureaucrat destroys the government.
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Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
Five Failures in the Oval Office (video)
America hurt itself badly today.
snyder.substack.com
February 28, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Here I react to the shameful encounter between American leaders and media and the Ukrainian president. No doubt there were more, but I saw five failures on our side: of hospitality, decency, democracy, strategy, and independence. Please watch and share.
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
snyder.substack.com/p/five-failu...
Next Sun, 2/9, at 2pm — meet the authors: Lisa Stringfellow & Phoebe Sinclair!
January 31, 2025 at 1:04 AM
Next Sun, 2/9, at 2pm — meet the authors: Lisa Stringfellow & Phoebe Sinclair!
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Another bit of counter programing for tomorrow from @authorsabb.bsky.social A national watch part for Banned Together watch.eventive.org/bannedtogeth...
Banned Together | Banned Together Inauguration/MLK Day Virtual Event | Banned Together
A diverse cast of visionary teenagers and intriguing characters, stirring public protests, private threats, criminal charges, and profanity-laced school board meetings: this is the world of the explos...
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January 19, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Another bit of counter programing for tomorrow from @authorsabb.bsky.social A national watch part for Banned Together watch.eventive.org/bannedtogeth...
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Collection of travel photos of South Carolina (and some collage/paper research) taken while doing research for my debut novel THE WEIGHT OF CLOTH. If you’re local to Boston/Newton, I hope you’ll join me for a reading at @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social this Sunday Jan 26 at 2 pm
January 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Collection of travel photos of South Carolina (and some collage/paper research) taken while doing research for my debut novel THE WEIGHT OF CLOTH. If you’re local to Boston/Newton, I hope you’ll join me for a reading at @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social this Sunday Jan 26 at 2 pm
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Just have to recommend this book 📕 - it challenges you to think about your finite life differently and stop making is more difficult than it has to be -
also makes a brilliant gift 🎁 for just about everyone #Oliverburkrman #bookgift @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social
also makes a brilliant gift 🎁 for just about everyone #Oliverburkrman #bookgift @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social
December 4, 2024 at 11:44 AM
Just have to recommend this book 📕 - it challenges you to think about your finite life differently and stop making is more difficult than it has to be -
also makes a brilliant gift 🎁 for just about everyone #Oliverburkrman #bookgift @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social
also makes a brilliant gift 🎁 for just about everyone #Oliverburkrman #bookgift @newtonvillebooks.bsky.social
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From restaurants to seed stewarding, tribal members are working to reconnect with their foodways and culture. "Our food is our stories. It's our sovereignty," said chef Sherry Pocknett. "And without food, without the stories, there wouldn't be language."
Local Indigenous communities are reclaiming their food sovereignty
From restaurants to seed stewarding, tribal members are working to reconnect with their foodways and culture. "Our food is our stories. It's our sovereignty," said chef Sherry Pocknett. "And without f...
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November 26, 2024 at 11:07 AM
From restaurants to seed stewarding, tribal members are working to reconnect with their foodways and culture. "Our food is our stories. It's our sovereignty," said chef Sherry Pocknett. "And without food, without the stories, there wouldn't be language."