I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections
Only twice as much as it would cost to end hunger!
Jeffries is just as likely senile let’s be so for real
such a disappointingly crazy turn of events
Trump wraps up a speech to military leaders that represented a major escalation of his effort to weaponize the armed forces into a tool he can use to violently quash domestic dissent. Hard to imagine how anyone with a shred of dignity can keep serving after this, which of course is the point.
Kinda weird that it’s 75• and sunny in Michigan on my Sept. 30th birthday 🫠
NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.
I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.
Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”
This is yet another affront to our democracy in the name of advancing Trump's corrupt, pro-billionaire agenda. Shame on Speaker Johnson for denying the working families of #AZ07 the representation they deserve.
People of Illinois, we need your help.
Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors.
We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.
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From Michigan but REALLY rooting for Kat!
It’s official: AIPAC is trying to buy my election to keep me out of Congress.
Apparently, I’m a “dangerous detractor”... by believing Palestinians (like myself and my family) deserve basic human rights.
But we’re not going to let AIPAC win.
Perfect reminder that @abdulelsayed.bsky.social is running as a humanitarian counterbalance to this unapologetically phony warhawk
More people should be talking about this.
As you cancel streaming services, here is a casual reminder that only 16% of Americans read for pleasure anymore, and your local library has hundreds or thousands of books you haven't read.
They would love to see you stop by and renew your library card.
I like how in school I learned about the Weimar Republic and I thought I’d never need to use it in real life
surely they must have gathered enough evidence to throw them all in the hague by now
The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years.
Pinochet was ousted with a referendum.
And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists.
Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.
Not that it’s so different but can we just admire how much less abrasive scrolling the timeline is on bsky
If i can offer my opinion: Schumer needs to get primaried ASAP. We need new leadership.
im not sure who else saw today's interview on @democracynow.org with Agnes Callamard (Sec. General of Amnesty International), but hearing her say "the united states is essentially holding the world hostage" with regards to ending the genocide....and that is just heartbreaking.
God it’s so fucking embarrassing to be a decent human watching the entire world be governed by absolute fuckin sociopaths who would rather destroy the world than give up dominion over it
Listen I was proud enough to vote for her, but we don’t need that JK Rowling style ret-con gurl we need you to call up those prosecutor friends and start suing
I hate how easily swayed so many people have been by the prospect of wealth and notoriety
This is Hollywood's McCarthy Moment.
This is the litmus test.
Learn from history.
Who will step up and fight?
Who will bend the knee and be complicit?
History will remember.
Need some philosopher recommendations for overcoming apathy in increasingly hostile times plz and thank you
I can’t be the only one who has thought Derrick White looks like Dylan G took Ozempic
THE PISTONS JUST BEAT THE CELTICS BY 20
WE ARE ON AN 8 GAME WIN STREAK
this team just keeps going and going and going
nothing to see here
I will not be the frog who makes exceptions for scorpions who seem nice.
