each time I feel myself starting to panic about this godforsaken country, I try to take action. The action itself brings calm, proving to my body that hope is a verb, etc.

calling my reps takes minutes, for instance, & the 5 calls app makes it especially easy:

apps.apple.com/us/app/5-cal...

8-ish years ago I got strangers to pay off $300k in “lunch debt” so kids who were being punished for owing money could do things like eat, go to prom, and, walk at their own graduation. In the 20 years I’ve engaged in social media, I have never received more hate for anything else I’ve said or done.

Wow. Caroline Kennedy breaks her silence on RFK Jr in a message to Senators: “We grew up together. It’s no surprise that he keeps birds of prey as pets because Bobby himself is a predator. He enjoyed showing off by putting baby chickens & mice in a blender to feed to his hawks.”

Ta-Nehisi Coates wields words like sledgehammers.

Anthem backtracks on decision to cap anesthesiology coverage in Connecticut

www.bookweb.org/news/january...

THE PERFECT HOME by Daniel Kenitz is a January 2025 Indie Next Pick 🎉🤩 So excited to be publishing this in the new year!

Literally...

i'm helping fundraise for Maha and her baby so they can afford food, clothes, and shelter.

i know it's rough right now but if you can donate at all, please do. anything, even just reskeets, helps! xoxo ❤️🇵🇸❤️🇵🇸

gofund.me/600f3954

Call your senators if you haven’t and urge them to support Senator Sanders’s effort here.

for anyone trying to extricate yourself from the clutches of Amazon: bookstores make more than a third of their money between now & New Year’s, & most bookstores ship nationwide 💌

Help I can’t find the ppl who have abandoned Twitter that I follow 😭