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She Is Too Fond of Books, and It Has Turned Her Brain. On Goodreads. https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/6894519-andrea

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The trailer for EVERYONE IS LYING TO YOU FOR MONEY. In select theaters starting April 17th ๐Ÿฟ๐Ÿค‘๐Ÿคฃ

10.03.2026 20:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 1248 ๐Ÿ” 430 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 38 ๐Ÿ“Œ 74
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The war makes it more urgent for journalists to call out Trumpโ€™s derangement | Press Watch The commander-in-chief is unfit for duty.

New! The war makes it more urgent for journalists to call out Trumpโ€™s derangement. presswatchers.org/2026/03/the-...

10.03.2026 19:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 57 ๐Ÿ” 16 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Turn It Up - 3/10/26 Earworms, obsessions, recommendations

Turn It Up - 3/10/26
open.substack.com/pub/nofences...

10.03.2026 16:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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8 Badass Librarians We Need to Celebrate This International Womenโ€™s Day In the late Victorian era, Melvil Dewey, inventor of the Dewey Decimal system (and a womanizer) argued that women make excellent librarians because we have โ€œa clear head, strong handโ€ฆ and great heaโ€ฆ

SALUTE!

07.03.2026 13:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 44 ๐Ÿ” 14 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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3/6, 1st Round: (4) The Black Crowes vs (13) Kristin Hersh โ€” March Sadness 90s Edition

The Black Crowes weren't just recycling Exile on Mainstreet they were also drawing from early REM & college rock. As I worked on my @marchxness.bsky.social essay I realized just how 1990s the Crowes really were. My essay has music history, sexist teen bullshit & naysayers.

06.03.2026 23:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 12 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Pete Townshend Takes The Colbert Questionert
Pete Townshend Takes The Colbert Questionert YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

youtu.be/qU07-6AMUpk?...

06.03.2026 20:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Mar-a-Lago face couldn't save Kristi Noem The former DHS secretary's firing shows women are disposable to Trump โ€”ย no matter how hard they try to please him

Happy Friday! Enjoy my piece about how Kristi Noem was disposable to Trump, despite being the saddest booklicker in his Cabinet.

You can destroy your face to please MAGA, ladies, but it doesn't matter. You're still a woman and they don't respect you.

www.salon.com/2026/03/06/m...

06.03.2026 15:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 182 ๐Ÿ” 44 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

1. The House Republicans narrowly defeated a bipartisan war-powers resolution Thursday night. The Senate voted on its own version Wednesday night. It failed, too.

Does that mean Donald Trump gets a free pass? Yes, for now.

06.03.2026 13:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 127 ๐Ÿ” 42 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 8

Come see my popular talk "How Maps Lie:"
At the Salter Library in Longmeadow MA on March 10 at 6PM
and at the Norwood Library in MA on March 12 at 7PM

06.03.2026 01:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 38 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

A great interview with Vince Gilligan and Frank Spotnitz looking back THE LONE GUNMEN 25 years later.

How the hell can it have been that long? www.televisionacademy.com/features/onl...

04.03.2026 07:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 15 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Mass. close to reaching 'no kill' animal shelter status Best Friends Animal Society says if 300 more dogs and cats are adopted this year in Massachusetts, it'll become what the organization refers to as a "no kill" state. That means at least 90% of shelter...

Best Friends Animal Society says if 300 more dogs and cats are adopted this year in Massachusetts, it'll become what the organization refers to as a "no kill" state. That means at least 90% of shelter animals get adopted.

04.03.2026 21:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 83 ๐Ÿ” 31 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair

a pack of kittens closes in a a large dog standing on a chair

David Attenborough [whispering]:

โ€œAs the predators close in on their helpless prey, we can only watch in silent horror, for it is not manโ€™s role to interfere in the hierarchy of nature.โ€

04.03.2026 13:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 8446 ๐Ÿ” 1741 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 155 ๐Ÿ“Œ 75

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

03.03.2026 23:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 9139 ๐Ÿ” 3040 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 430 ๐Ÿ“Œ 163
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Anyone Want To See Kash Patel Fall On His Ass While Playing Hockey? | Defector It was a busy week for FBI Director and special little guy Kash Patel. On Sunday, he was slamming Michelob Ultras in Team USAโ€™s locker room. Midweek he was firing a dozen veteran agents in retaliation...

The Batkid Arc continues. defector.com/anyone-want-...

03.03.2026 17:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 262 ๐Ÿ” 24 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

02.03.2026 15:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 10162 ๐Ÿ” 2172 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 440 ๐Ÿ“Œ 160
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new mcmansion hell to cleanse the horrors: mcmansionhell.com/post/8099372...

02.03.2026 01:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 1275 ๐Ÿ” 296 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 76 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Worth a re-up 11 days later.
And I honestly wish it wasn't.

02.03.2026 09:13 ๐Ÿ‘ 489 ๐Ÿ” 105 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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โ€œWiiings!lโ€ ๐Ÿชฝ๐ŸŽถ

02.03.2026 11:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 45 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Heroic Chicago trans comedian recalls saving infant from ice-cold Lake Michigan: โ€˜I guess Iโ€™m going inโ€™ โ€œThe most important part of this entire story is that the baby is okay,โ€ Lio Cundiff told The Advocate.

โ€œItโ€™s weird,โ€ he said. โ€œI just did something that I would think anyone would do. What do you mean you would watch a stroller and a baby just sink?โ€

27.02.2026 22:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 1906 ๐Ÿ” 402 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19 ๐Ÿ“Œ 86
Claude at war
Claude at war YouTube video by Paul Krugman

About Anthropic, Iran, and dumbing down www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjUo...

01.03.2026 14:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 365 ๐Ÿ” 82 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21 ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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Kameron Hurley | Patreon creating Short Stories

You donโ€™t need more bad takes.

You need better stories.

Start here.

www.patreon.com/kameronhurley

28.02.2026 23:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 159 ๐Ÿ” 21 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
โ€œOf course,โ€ Astrid says with great professionalism. โ€œThere are many wonderful women-loving-women stories to choose from. Do you have any other parameters for me to narrow the search for you? Do you like stories set on the high sea? In the Old West? Or maybe with a speculative element, you know, likeโ€”โ€ โ€œLike in Barbarella?โ€ Gus Andersonโ€™s eyes light up. Astrid has only the vaguest impression of a young Jane Fonda in a skimpy outfit on the Barbarella movie poster, an image that serves the male gaze as its raison dโ€™รชtre. โ€œComparable titles in the sense that these stories are also set in the future, or in space, or sometimes both,โ€ she says firmly. โ€œWould you like some recommendations?โ€ โ€œAbsolutely.โ€ The old man sounds giddy. โ€œBring them on.โ€ Astrid writes down This Is How You End the Time War and Gideon the Ninth for him, and then personally takes him to the stacks to retrieve The Stars Are Legion, by Kameron Hurley. โ€œThere isnโ€™t a single man in this book. Everybody on this planet is a woman.โ€ โ€œOh, my!โ€ Gus Anderson, his head probably brimming with images of thousands of chicks making out with one another for his delectation, checks out the book and leaves happily.

โ€œOf course,โ€ Astrid says with great professionalism. โ€œThere are many wonderful women-loving-women stories to choose from. Do you have any other parameters for me to narrow the search for you? Do you like stories set on the high sea? In the Old West? Or maybe with a speculative element, you know, likeโ€”โ€ โ€œLike in Barbarella?โ€ Gus Andersonโ€™s eyes light up. Astrid has only the vaguest impression of a young Jane Fonda in a skimpy outfit on the Barbarella movie poster, an image that serves the male gaze as its raison dโ€™รชtre. โ€œComparable titles in the sense that these stories are also set in the future, or in space, or sometimes both,โ€ she says firmly. โ€œWould you like some recommendations?โ€ โ€œAbsolutely.โ€ The old man sounds giddy. โ€œBring them on.โ€ Astrid writes down This Is How You End the Time War and Gideon the Ninth for him, and then personally takes him to the stacks to retrieve The Stars Are Legion, by Kameron Hurley. โ€œThere isnโ€™t a single man in this book. Everybody on this planet is a woman.โ€ โ€œOh, my!โ€ Gus Anderson, his head probably brimming with images of thousands of chicks making out with one another for his delectation, checks out the book and leaves happily.

A fan messaged me about this passage from Sherry Thomas's book, "The Librarians," in which a librarian has an annoying older male patron ask her for some woman-on-woman sf๐Ÿ˜‚

28.02.2026 20:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1351 ๐Ÿ” 131 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12 ๐Ÿ“Œ 14
Iโ€™m currently reading The Power Broker. Are you impressed? You should be. I am big-boy writer who reads big-boy books. A thousand-page investigation into the life of a powerful bureaucrat is nothing to me. Iโ€™m gonna finish The Power Broker, and then you will regard me as one of the worldโ€™s elite readers, as you should.

Thereโ€™s just one problem. Iโ€™m also reading Paper, by Mark Kurlansky. And Island of the Blue Foxes, by Stephen Brown. And Coffeeland, by Augustine Sedegwick. And a dozen other books too, all at the same time. I also paused in the middle of reading all of those books to read, in its entirety, a history of The Cars, even though I was never that into The Cars. Reading that book led me to reading an entire oral history of MTVโ€™s first decade on the air, which led me to reading an entire oral history of the Sunset Strip hair metal scene in the 1980s. Oh and after that, I finally started in on Mick Herronโ€™s Slow Horses novels, which Iโ€™m definitely gonna finish before I return to all of those other books Iโ€™m reading, like the first one I mentioned. The Power Broker. I think that was the name of it.

Iโ€™m currently reading The Power Broker. Are you impressed? You should be. I am big-boy writer who reads big-boy books. A thousand-page investigation into the life of a powerful bureaucrat is nothing to me. Iโ€™m gonna finish The Power Broker, and then you will regard me as one of the worldโ€™s elite readers, as you should. Thereโ€™s just one problem. Iโ€™m also reading Paper, by Mark Kurlansky. And Island of the Blue Foxes, by Stephen Brown. And Coffeeland, by Augustine Sedegwick. And a dozen other books too, all at the same time. I also paused in the middle of reading all of those books to read, in its entirety, a history of The Cars, even though I was never that into The Cars. Reading that book led me to reading an entire oral history of MTVโ€™s first decade on the air, which led me to reading an entire oral history of the Sunset Strip hair metal scene in the 1980s. Oh and after that, I finally started in on Mick Herronโ€™s Slow Horses novels, which Iโ€™m definitely gonna finish before I return to all of those other books Iโ€™m reading, like the first one I mentioned. The Power Broker. I think that was the name of it.

"Clearly, I do not read like a normal person." defector.com/confessions-...

28.02.2026 21:21 ๐Ÿ‘ 78 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Itโ€™s horrible that this happened, but itโ€™s not like he has ever had a problem hurting children. Especially young girls.

28.02.2026 16:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 74 ๐Ÿ” 15 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Happy 30th birthday to all Pokemons who like dancing to Enya

27.02.2026 18:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 357 ๐Ÿ” 117 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 6 ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
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Neil Sedaka, the singer-songwriter behind dozens of hits of the 1960s and '70s, dies at age 86 Neil Sedaka, the million-selling singer and songwriter, has died. His many hits included โ€œBreaking Up Is Hard to Do,โ€ โ€œCalendar Girlโ€ and โ€œOh!

apnews.com/article/neil...

27.02.2026 22:53 ๐Ÿ‘ 25 ๐Ÿ” 10 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
No check in the mail
No check in the mail YouTube video by Paul Krugman

New video on why you wonโ€™t receive a tariff check www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEDA...

26.02.2026 13:42 ๐Ÿ‘ 299 ๐Ÿ” 73 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 12 ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Balloon Juice - Wednesday Night Open Thread Letโ€™s just cut to the quick. Things that pissed me right off today, starting with this: Vice President JD Vance announced Wednesday that the Trump administration would โ€œtemporarily haltโ€ some Medicaid...

I said this on my blog, but I will say it again here just in case any of you are confused where I stand on things. These laws in Kansas are simply about being cruel to trans people until they all just die, get killed, or flee to another state.




balloon-juice.com/2026/02/25/w...

26.02.2026 02:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 99 ๐Ÿ” 28 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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This is the story of how Isabella went from fospice to family โค๏ธโ€๐Ÿฉน

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the cover of the replacements' "tim" album

the cover of the replacements' "tim" album

Wrote a bit about the Replacements' "Left of the Dial" this week. anniezaleski.substack.com/p/sweet-geor...

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