“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
— James Baldwin
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“I love America more than any other country in the world and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.”
— James Baldwin
Being asked to remain 100% peaceful while absolutely bursting with rage has given me a more profound appreciation for everyone in this country who marched for civil rights.
Villain, thou know’st nor law of God nor man
And then — incredibly — the *aftershow* conversation.
It is impossible to overstate the relief felt by queer people when, in the midst of ever-present caution and uncertainty, they realize they are in a safe space. If you are an ally, please remember this when considering how clearly you need to signal your allyship. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”
— Milan Kundera, The Incredible Lightness of Being
#sundaysentence
If I were trying to kill people, I’d make it harder for them to get vaccinated against disease, reduce funding for meteorological science in the face of increasingly destructive storms, and limit loopholes on the sale of weapons while simultaneously cutting resources for mental health programs.
“Mary Jane let go the curtain and wandered back to the blue chair, passing two heavily stocked bookcases without glancing at any of the titles.” — JD Salinger, “Uncle Wiggly in Connecticut” #sundaysentence
A restaurant called “Don’t fill up on that” where all we serve are the free bread courses from other restaurants. Cheddar Bay biscuits, chips and salsa, brown bread from Outback, breadsticks from the Olive Garden, and the servers are always all “now don’t fill up on this” and we all laugh and laugh
It would be amazing and so relatable if Pope Leo is actually a diehard Cubs fan but his brother told the world that he’s a White Sox fan just to mess with him.
For college professors, it’s nearly unbearable to look at this problem straight on. That’s how massive, and massively complex, it is. With all the issues facing higher ed right now, I think this one, coming from inside the house, poses the most profound, long term threat.
The devastating, shortsighted attack on literature continues. List from Magic City Books. Who'd they miss? Note: the small publishers selected here for financial attack include (among other very worthy and important presses) @transitbooks.bsky.social, publisher of 2023 Nobel laureate Jon Fosse.
I wondered what it would take for me to finally become unhinged. Now I know. It’s the quote below. To @electricliterature.com and every other essential, brilliant organization impacted by the NEA cuts, you are my parents and I am Batman.
NEW from me — National Endowment for the Arts rescinds grants, dazing publishers and theaters
Arts orgs across the country saw their grants pulled with little explanation, while a proposed federal budget sought to eliminate the arts funding agency altogether. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
So far I’ve only seen posts from individual people/publications/organizations. Let me know if you find something that looks at the big picture.
The silence you hear is the silence of thousands of future writers and musicians whose community arts programs were defunded today.
“I am not the kind of woman who dreams of doing things.”
- Three Days in June, Anne Tyler
#sundaysentence
World press Freedom Day
If Biden, who is actually Catholic, posted a picture of himself as Pope there would be a thousand op-eds and cable news hits for months about how it was the most blasphemous thing an American president has ever done and we’d assume he had gone insane.
He can't defund PBS. Federal money makes up 15% of its revenue. The rest is from private grants and "viewers like you!"
It is as we all suspected: he is not the man we elected. But still, it's staggering to see it laid out so explicitly.
If you want to supplement your real friends without lining the pockets of billionaires, destroying the environment, and contributing to the decline of human imagination, may I suggest reading a book?
Unleash is what you do to animals.
We must take away hundreds of age-appropriate books from kids to ensure they learn about certain topics the old fashioned way: wildly inaccurate speculation from peers.
In picking the next Pope, they should just have all the candidates stand next to Trump and whoever comes closest to this expression wins.
See you then!
One of my all time favorite photos. Of anyone. Doing anything.
I’ve recently realized I’d rather be killed by evil than stupid.
“Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” — Elie Wiesel