My odyssey take is that if they were gonna do the whole “odysseus causes the bronze age collapse” thing they should have leaned hard into the “and he abandons his son to run a floundering kingdom” implied ending. Telemachus and eumaeus tend pigs in an abandoned palace . Telemachus learning the lute

bookriot.com/12-more-book... note the PLSN link about nypl’s censorship and pro AI spin from this awesome roundup by kelly jensen

12 Book Censorship Posts to Revisit: Book Censorship News for July 11, 2026

From the necessity to talk about sex in books to building voter guides to local elections, catch up on previous book censorship posts.

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It's pretty telling that the same people crowing endlessly about how we need more small-c conservative art, are also upset about a big-budget adaptation of Homer's "Odyssey" because of woke. It really gives away the contradictions in the project.

With Gaza in ruins and under siege, the food, medicine, and clean water my friend Sama'a needs to keep her family safe come at a heavy price. Please give what you can. chuffed.org/project/1575...

Help Baha and his family rebuild their home and meet their d

Lying on my back feeling helpless and powerless, I decided to tell you my story from the beginning.

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Cåråbine à Citron 🍋@carabinacitron.eurosky.social · 3w ago

Donations have decreased significantly, While the needs of Samaa's family remain. Every day she tries to provide food and basic necessities for her two daughters amidst harsh conditions. Thank you to everyone who stands by them. . chuffed.org/project/1575...

ICE has killed 3 men—either with gunfire or by chasing them into traffic—in 7 days

gofund.me/051440c2f this is the gofundme of the family of the guy ice killed in houston

Donate to In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Years Old, organized by LULAC Institute, Inc.

On the morning of July 7, 2026, Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was ta… LULAC Institute, Inc. needs your support for In Loving Memory of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, 52 Years Old

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“Generative AI doesn’t generate information,” Cyrus said. “It generates words.”

Tim Ellis 🍁@djdynamic.ca · 4w ago

"They just want to turn it off." A fascinating story of the librarians who have started teaching classes showing people how to remove AI "features" from their phones and apps. www.bangordailynews.com/2026/07/02/m...

They should make a version of The Odyssey, only it’s set in Dublin, Ireland in 1904 and Odysseus is a Jewish man whose wife is having an affair and Telemachus is an aspiring author who gets into fights in pubs and wanders the strand brooding on his mother’s death.

From my orgs website: “Being an ‘individual socialist’ is like being a fish out of water. You can have the best analysis of the world as you read about what’s happening on the internet, but you have no power to do anything about it unless you’re organized.” — Todd Chretien One of my favs

The whataboutism on animal agriculture should be a "yes, and" rather than a deflection. I'm a vegetarian for a reason, and I do my best to navigate the ethical minefield of global capitalism. I believe we should reduce meat consumption on environmental grounds while also reducing data center bloat.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last mo.

this is an extremely common headspace in climate, though not everyone is quite as blunt as this guy. Most lines of defence follow these same themes

my husband prayed to st brigid that i get a new job and he donated to a scholastic nonprofit once i did as thank you but he also was telling me abt the schism and i was like “is this the century where the catholic church ends” and he was like “god willing”

Satire as a genre is dead

Bylines Network@bylinesnetwork.co.uk · last mo.

Heatwave halts Reform bid to scrap climate emergency A council debate on scrapping West Norfolk's climate emergency was postponed after extreme heat made the chamber unusable | Henry Durand

Spokane asylum seeker self-deports to Nicaragua, fearing detainment and separation from 1-year-old The Department of Homeland Security states 2.2 million unauthorized immigrants have self-deported since January 2025. Written by Monica Casillo-Casas, originally published by The Spokesman and SPR.

Spokane asylum seeker self-deports to Nicaragua, fearing detainment and separation from 1-year-old

The Department of Homeland Security states 2.2 million unauthorized immigrants have self-deported since January 2025.

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real bad look from an established graphic novelist & publishing team who should know better in every conceivable way. very disappointing. (buy link & alt text in subsequent posts)

Rachel Hope Cleves@rachelcleves.bsky.social · last mo.

An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride

"exploitative trans voices trying to keep the community in line by telling them the entire world is out to kill them every day." The world:

SazCaz@sazcaz.bsky.social · last mo.

Yeah it's time to block him and just deny him the space to do shit like this

I could not be prouder to be nominated for the Le Guin. To be acknowledged as part of her tradition is an honor.

Ursula K. Le Guin@ursulakleguin.com · last mo.

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

This narrative during Pride month was absolutely intentional. The corporate media is fully in for fascism and desperate for you to agree.

A key point in Fahrenheit 451 is that books were banned because they made people depressed and uncomfortable. The novel's protagonist, Montag, is taken into custody after he reads a poem that makes a woman cry because she realizes the emptiness of her life.

The turnback policy, euphemistically called “metering,” allows immigration officers at border crossings to block asylum seekers from setting foot on U.S. soil.

In “Devastating” Immigration Ruling, Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin to “Turn Back” Asylum Seekers

The Supreme Court has sided with the Trump administration in a major blow to the rights of immigrants, refugees and asylum seekers. The court ruled 6 to 3 along partisan lines to sanction so-called me...

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Nuremberg Laws, anyone?

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · last mo.

“…ICE could proceed with what Ohio-based immigration advocate Lynn Tramonte calls a strategy of “attrition.” This would entail taking quiet steps to make the Haitians’ lives more and more unlivable, perhaps with pressure on local employers to fire all their Haitian workers…” A must-read from Greg

Its been a year since @vivianblaxell.bsky.social's generational essay WORTHY OF THE EVENT came out but its resonance only increases each day like the radiation from the approaching black star which will consume us all in time God, how bright the future 😎 Would that we are worthy of that event

Today, we launch a series @drilledmedia.bsky.social has been working on w/ @propublica.org for almost two years, looking at how Big Oil used universities to turn the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself. The first two stories are out now: projects.propublica.org/carbon-captu...

Carbon Captured

How the fossil fuel industry turned the plan to solve climate change into a plan to save itself

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many things bad but socialists who can hopefully deliver won a whole bunch of elections this week and also my husband has been lifting weights two months and his gains are already visible

She just won her primary. Woo!

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · 2mo ago

That candidate (Claire Valdez) has been attacked by right-wing media for supporting trans rights. Her response has been really good!

This does rule

its so nuts that in 2021 i spent seven weekends canvassing and we couldnt boot dilan and now hes lost by like 30 points . different electoral era for sure

i don't really know how "the government is sending deportees to dangerous countries on purpose to imprison or kill them" is not a bigger story

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · last mo.

Amazing news: Thanh Tuan Phan, one of the people ICE sent to South Sudan last year, has been released. Source familiar tells me he has arrived in Vietnam, a place he left as a child in 1991. www.eyeradio.org/joyful-to-re...

The UAW, a union with some 400,000 active members across the U.S., has voted to divest its estimated $400,000 from Israel bonds. The divestment vote makes the UAW the first major national union to vote to divest from Israel.

United Auto Workers Vote to Divest from Israel in Historic Victory

The divestment vote makes the UAW the first major national union to vote to divest from Israel.

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