Allison (she/her)

@whereireadthisbook.bsky.social

books, sports, indie rock/pop, and musical theater (I contain multitudes of fandoms) NYC based, WI Raised Progressive 🍉 Lutheran Working on my French 🖤🤍💜

The power of ranked choice voting is that you don’t have to choose between voting your ideal values and voting pragmatically to stop a horrible candidate. By ranking as many people as you are allowed, you can do both!

what people seem to believe is that there is a large number of criminal, layabout immigrants who can be easily found and deported. they support doing so snd are dismayed by the deportation of otherwise law abiding people. the problem is that the criminal group is imaginary!

Greg Sargent@gregsargent.bsky.social · last yr.

Wow. New CBS poll finds majority (55%) supports the *general goal* of deportations, but a bigger majority (56%) dislikes how Trump is carrying them out. And 63% want due process. Again, we need a better discourse around public opinion on immigration, as I've argued: newrepublic.com/article/1961...

I know we're all busy with the AI list thing, but I just saw this: Sourcebooks is repackaging a YA trilogy of fantasy novels as adult romantasy. I wonder how many books are going to be reissued as "now with spice" or "now for adults" www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Sourcebooks Repackaging, Revising Empirium YA Trilogy for Adult Readers

Sourcebooks is repackaging and its author, Claire Legrand, rewriting the Empirium YA trilogy of fantasy novels to market them to adult readers.

publishersweekly.com

The only appropriate response to this is impeachment and removal from office. Every moment the political press spends spinning out theories about 2026 and immigration polling is a minute they are not spending asking Republicans in Congress about their plans to enforce the rule of law

A screenshot of a tweet by the official White House account. 

Text: “Fixed it for you, @NYTimes.
Oh, and by the way, @ChrisVanHollen - he's NOT coming back.”

There is also a screenshot of the front page of the NyT with a large headline and photo about Van Hollen meeting with Abrego Garcia. They have edited the headline with red ink handwriting to say “ Senator meets with deported ms-13 illegal alien in El Salvador who’s never coming back.”

Abhorrent. Nothing about this is humane. The United States already has the highest incarceration rate in the world, with 716 people incarcerated per 100,000 residents. This is cruelty for profit.

Bild

“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”

What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced

Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.

time.com

Netanyahu wants a broader war in the Middle East to pull America in. There MUST be an arms embargo on Israel now. Americans, no matter party affiliation, do not want war.

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement. Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”