white reactionaries disenfranchising black voters to secure political power? that’s a jim crow. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

The people disrupting Kamala Harris on her book tour would never do this to white men,,, brilliant piece open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

hey this is fun

Maybe Senator Collins could ask the Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee to do something.

Elise Stefanik is scrubbing photos of herself accepting awards from the vile Young Republicans caught in the Politico group chat. She supported every single one of them in New York State.

briefly interrupting my shame posting to tap one of the other signs: a society that would like to keep functioning must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Fascism sparks joy for him

Didn't you shake down Columbia and NYU and for kids protesting and revoke their visas and deport them

I'll put a positive spin on this and say maybe AI finally will just kill off the internet. Let us all finally be forced to go touch grass. www.axios.com/2025/10/14/a...

Not the point but crediting the Vice President of the United States as “longtime friend of Charlie Kirk” is wild

I like working with this Prem fellow

Big roar for AG Letitia James at the ZOHRAN rally👇🏽

A friendly reminder: I am always open to more suggestions for my spreadsheet of space opera by cisgender women, trans, and binary writers! There's a handy form on the main page. Use it!

Otherwise, enjoy the list! #books

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"Well the Department of Education wasn't really working for people" - this has absolutely nothing to do with why MAGA decided to destroy it, implicitly defends their decision to do so, and won't earn their votes.

100%. Translation is an art, especially when it comes to prose. A great translation is as rare as a great novel.

i think a lot of people don't understand what translating a text _is_. languages are not just word-for-word ciphers for each other. translation involves making a lot of complex creative choices, and the longer the text the more complex. it is, ultimately, an act of rewriting from scratch.

1.) One of those „kids“ is a state senator in Vermont. (They’re not kids)
2.) kids are bigots is a weird stance
3.) going full boys will be boys about the „I love Hitler“ chat is quite a choice
4.) What else to expect from a guy who still follows Bronze Age Pervert on X? (Rhetorical question)

Short SFF Reading Update #quicksipreviews

Kaleidotrope Autumn 2025 (12 originals, plus 7 poems) @kaleidotrope.bsky.social

A big issues as usual, covering a lot of thematic ground. A nice mix of fantasy and science fiction with plenty of horror elements thrown in for good measure.

This is an image from the story. According to Wikipedia, principal photography began on the film in Jan 2024 — less than a yr ago

It's not uncommon to see BTS production photos of people wearing masks. It's important to know this still happens. If you were thinking about masking again, do it!

Old enough to remember when kids being anti-semitic was the basis for a federal government assault on higher education

Justice Kavanaugh in the Callais oral argument keeps alluding to some longstanding requirement of strict scrutiny that use of race have a time limit. This is invented.