it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"
Elon Green@elongreen.bsky.social · 3w agoyes, Rod Dreher, I too am infuriated that Jamelle Bouie is Black.
In Massachusetts, we have a responsibility to protect the vulnerable and stand up for those who need it. We don’t throw trans kids under the bus for political points. We protect them—and all of our neighbors—because trans rights are human rights.
For years police have been building a digital infrastructure with personal information on people with criminal backgrounds in the name of public safety — often exposing people's personal information online without their knowledge.
It’s Not Just Flock. Police Can’t Be Trusted With Our Data.
An Illinois State Police database available online listed personal information, including Social Security numbers.
truthout.org
Many thanks to Kevin for letting me try @fortcircle.bsky.social x @folger.edu collab FIRST FOLIO. I may have said “this is gonna be the Pentiment of board games” which is admittedly hyperbole. But damn me if it isn’t a charmer of an entry for newbies to the hobby who are suckers for bookish vibes.
The narrow range of experience is my big thing Right now you have 9 people who have never campaigned for office, written a bill, or led an executive agency making wild assumptions about what that is like Sotomayor is the only former trial judge
Article here. This will be updated as I learn more, especially about any access difficulties. If a question is unanswered in this article, I don't know the answer yet, but I'm working hard to get more info as quickly as possible.
What to Know About New Covid Vaccines for Fall 2026 (Gift Article)
The shots have been approved for people 65 and older, and for younger people with underlying conditions. Others may be able to get them off label.
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Maggie Astor@maggieastor.bsky.social · last mo.Updated Covid vaccines for the 2026-27 season have been approved by the FDA. Article to come.
BREAKING: After the Washington Post fired me last year for speaking the truth in the wake of the Charlie Kirk killing, I fought back. And I'm happy to announce: I won my case against the Washington Post. They have been ordered to reinstate me immediately. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/24/b...
Washington Post Ordered to Rehire Fired Columnist Karen Attiah
An arbitrator ordered the newspaper to reinstate Karen Attiah, who was fired after posting about “white men who espouse hatred and violence” following Charlie Kirk’s killing.
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So, it’s not a conspiracy, and you are not imagining it. The biggest and wealthiest tech leaders are genuine fascists. They are leading an active and intentional systematic attack on labor. And they have radicalized each other while sidelining or removing the remaining decent execs in the industry.
Excellent, important books like this make me miss teaching even more than I’m already missing it! Still so much to learn and try and do (differently) and wonder about when it comes to creative writing pedagogies. www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2026/08/revi...
REVIEW: Divergent Writers: Disability, Illness, Neurodivergence, and Ableism in Creative Writing, Edited by Christie Collins and Saul Lemerond | Hippocampus Magazine
"...this is a reference text every creative writing instructor should have." -- Marissa Gallerani's reviews Divergent Writers, edited by Christie Collins & Saul Lemerond
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This book deserves aaaaalllllll the awards and recognition. It's so good, so SINGULAR -- you should read it.
Nnedi Okorafor, PhD@nnedi.bsky.social · 2mo agoDEATH OF THE AUTHOR is a finalist for the 2026 Goldsboro Glass Bell Award, 😃. The other shortlisted authors are Florence Knapp, Taylor Jenkins Reid, Beth Lewis, Virginia Evans, and Patrick Ryan. Great company! It’s wonderful to see this novel flying in different skies. It has the wings for it. ✨
Normally I just appreciatively read @jamellebouie.net 's columns-sharable video content just isn't my bag. But this is a very, very, very trenchant piece of commentary that captures a lot of how I increasingly understand the disjunction between the commentary environment and on-the-ground politics.
The pundits have completely lost the plot
YouTube video by Takes™ by Jamelle Bouie
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Today in @thenation.com: a harrowing piece written from inside the Dilley ICE detention center by Maryam Tahmasebi, a green card holder who's been locked up along with her husband and son for months despite none of them committing any crime. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
thenation.com
"The events of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” occur today: August 4, 2026. Like so many dates in science fiction, this one probably seemed far away when it was chosen, but once it was finally upon us, it passed like all days." www.rogerebert.com/mzs/silhouet...
Silhouettes and Warnings: On Reading Ray Bradbury's "There Will Come Soft Rains" On the Exact Day When It's Set
The events of Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains" occur today: August 4, 2026.
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Charles Schulz drew a new Peanuts comic every single day for almost 50 years. That is 17,897 individual comic strips. I'm sure, somewhere in that vast archive, you can find an ACTUAL DRAWING that fits whatever you want to say and easily edit in your own speech bubbles instead of using "AI" slop.
I like paper maps & directions b/c I care to know where I am relative to where I’ve come from & HOW I got there & how I‘ll leave. This has me recalling my 80s teenhood, how girls were told it was good to know how to drive stick so we could exit any situation via whatever car we could get keys to.
Rebecca Solnit@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 3mo agoI had replied to the below: Paper maps are great. Never run out of juice, let you see the close-up detail and the big picture at the same time (because they're three feet wide, unlike your phone), and the more you use them the more you learn your way around without them, unlike obeying a machine.
What is UP with this specific creepy (Canva? GenAI?) "design" "trend" or "vibe?" Just a template? I feel like I'm seeing it everywhere -- in print and online -- these are just a few examples. Why does it seem creepy to me? (I guess that's a question for ME to answer...)
They gave US zinester Elizabeth Soto *50 fucking years* in prison for publishing a zine that supports an anti-fascism stance. Prosecutors also used her feminism themed zine, and an anti-AI zine as evidence against her. This is unprecedented.
I worked on revising poems while the house was getting worked on. Both are taking a little longer than planned. Rot repair all around. You really never know the full extent of what you're going to find under there until you pull the boards off.
love this Carrie inspired poem today from Hannah Wyatt ! "and what she would have done if they hadn’t all laughed at her, or if her amber hair hadn’t been perfectly swept past her temples..." https://www.havehashad.com/0u9cl
Sometimes I think about Carrie, from Carrie (1976) by Hannah Wyatt
and what she would have done if they hadn’t all laughed at her, or if her amber hair hadn’t been perfectly swept past her temples, her breasts not so tucked in satin (and really, wasn’t her petal-pink…
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"Sexual Orientation • Heterosexual • Homosexual • Okay, so it’s 1999 and The Mummy is in theaters and everyone is falling in love with men and women and eyeliner as thick as the lid of a sarcophagus..." today from Frances Klein! https://www.havehashad.com/lk1uf
I have to say, removing a usurper king's name from a building really is a great way to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our founding.
These Erin Dorney Scrabble Poems are so great and inventive and fun. "These visual poems were conceptualized by hand on a Scrabble board using a standard bag of 100 tiles." and they come with a couple of bonus HAD poems! https://www.havehashad.com/ft5su
"The AFT has also partnered with OpenAI and Anthropic to train teachers on AI. Weingarten told NBC News that despite their collaboration, she views many of the big technology companies as “playing a really negative role in terms of trying to push more tech into schools.”
Tyler Kingkade@tktk.bsky.social · 4mo agoNEW: Randi Weingarten, the head of AFT, the second largest teachers union, is calling for screen time limits and a ban on student-facing AI in elementary schools She told me her thinking evolved in the past few months www.nbcnews.com/news/educati...
