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I learned about Sophie Scholl and The White Rose when I was in school and lately nearly every day, I think about her. Her strength and bravery cannot be quantified. She would be appalled by the MAGA movement. May she never be forgotten.

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The New York premier of this important film is November 14th. Please see it if you can. www.docnyc.net/film/traces/

The ownest of own goals.

As some philosophers once said, "the kids are alright".

Noticed my book at the front table in Edmonton Airport Indigo. Excellent. Also noted: the airport is very efficiently run by a workforce almost entirely people of colour. Ironic, since a majority of Albertans just voted to reduce immigration. Claiming it’s a drag on the economy. Sad.

I said that this was a Russian trope at the time in testimony to Congress and am glad to see this excellent documentation of Russia’s use of Vance’s vocal chords.

A new season of my podcast, Autocracy in America! coming after the midterms... www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

Europe has stood by Ukraine since Russia started its war. And that is one of the reasons Russia has failed to achieve its goals. To end the war, we must pressure Russia, not Ukraine. Europe has the strength and influence to make a difference. My doorstep ahead of today’s European Council meeting↓

One of the most iconic photographic images of the 20th century, 'Migrant Mother', 1936 by Dorothea Lange, featured the family of Florence Thompson, who allowed the photograph to be taken to aid the plight of the US working poor #womensart

"The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone." Rod Serling: "The Monsters are Due on Maple St."

@petermansbridge.bsky.social If you're interested in having a deeper discussion about Trump's motivations, you couldn't do better than hosting either Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu or Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social on 'The Bridge' www.youtube.com/@themansbrid...

Trump’s policies kill Ukrainians who are trying to get gas and raise prices for Americans who are trying to get gas. And he wants the Americans to blame the Ukrainians. This is wrong and despicable. snyder.substack.com/p/a-meditati...

"The amount of fuel Russia could export is too small, the impact on pricing too slight, the narrative too late to shape electoral outcomes: This looks, instead, like something very different: an abrupt, Hail Mary attempt to force Ukraine to surrender" www.theatlantic.com/idea/2026/10...

My books have arrived and my executive assistant has found a typo. Shocking! She accepts full responsibility since she walked on the keyboard while I wrote it. True Patriot Love is now in the stores. Dora thinks you should read it but ignore the mistakes.

One year ago, the world lost one of its strongest advocates. Dr. Jane Goodall spent years advocating for animal welfare, for community-led conservation, and for youth environmental leadership. She knew that each one of us had an important role to play, and she made sure that we knew that, too.

your periodic reminder

OMG, listening to Gabrielle Rubio just now. Just sublime. www.prestomusic.com/classical/pr...

Scientist here: It is widely known inside science that this—top-down imposition of a research agenda—leads to mostly rote, boring, non-innovative work. Building an institute to do discovery science is hard: you hire young people, put them together, hope synergies arise and ideas fall out.

The pope prayed "for the conversion of many people, inside and outside of the church, who still do not recognize the urgency of caring for our common home." www.ncronline.org/news/pope-as...

Four billion years ago, Earth was a sterile rock. Today it is teeming with life, from simple microbes to extraordinarily complex societies that span the globe. How does that happen? I'm writing a book about the answer: Life Unbounded, from Quanta Books. www.quantabooks.org/books/life-u...

This is a picture of two women from the Vernon Cadet Training Centre, which holds summer programming for 12-18 year olds to develop skills on the way to adulthood. Unlike Secretary Hegseth, they do not deserve contempt or ridicule.

Since Angine de Poitrine don't seem to qualify due to a lack of (human) lyrics, maybe it's time to get Grant Lawrence and the rest of the boys to make one last chance power drive. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pc-p...

Looking forward to Trump renaming Pluto to Planet America and making it a planet again. /s Forbidden planet: was Pluto’s 2006 demotion a big mistake? www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Just when you think you couldn’t love David Byrne more he goes to the Hollywood Bowl playing "Life During Wartime" projecting ICE raids 🔥

"Judge a human by his compassion and his sincerity.” ~ Rod Serling

Girls encouraged to be brave and gutsy become brave and gutsy women.

Sophie Standing, British born textile artist who creates her work by combining applique and free motion embroidery #WomensArt

Bette Davis was the only white performer who agreed to be part of Hattie McDaniel's performing troupe to entertain Black servicemen during WWII. www.tumblr.com/themidcentur...

Helen Ahpornsiri, an artist who creates intricate collage artworks created with real pressed flora and foliage #WomensAr

First I was banned from X/Twitter. Then Facebook banned my newsletter. Then X/Twitter banned me permanently. Now YouTube disables my channel the week of my book launch. Was it something I said? 👉 www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Ne...

Kitamura Junko, Japanese ceramics artist #womensart

'Common Poppies',c.1852 by Anna Atkins, UK pioneer in botany and photography whose photographs created by cyanotype process were among the first ever to be published #womensart

Alma Thomas, The #Eclipse, 1970 #WomensArt #Eclipse

If we haven't been reminding you enough, vote because your life depends upon it.

"It has forever been thus: So long as men write what they think, then all of the other freedoms- all of them- may remain intact. And it is then that writing becomes a weapon of truth, an article of faith, an act of courage." ~Rod Serling

Amy Katherine Browning, Lime Tree Shade, 1913, British Impressionist painter #Womensart #summer

Indigenous Australian artist Alma Nungarrayi Granites, Seven Sisters Dreaming, 2016 from tbe Shared Skies Exhibition #WomensArt

if your argument is “the police can’t give any breakdown in any form to how much money they’re spending on staffing five blocks of downtown because somebody might try and kill somebody with that information” then I encourage you to think harder

"When we so cheapen the concept of human life that we can be permissive to the occasional bomb or bullet, I think we've taken a giant step back into the Dark Ages. And I don't think there's a light at the end of that tunnel. " ~ Rod Serling

It is really wild how much Black causes have been completely abandoned or lowered in priority by many Dems and many people, from moderates to progressives to the left. As we enter fascism, we can’t keep our eyes off the core of how we got here. Not to mention simply not abandoning Black people.

funny how the cutting edge of the far right is just regurgitated slaveholder agitprop from 1850.

‘Polarization’ has become the master concept for diagnosing our current democratic crisis. But this is not polarization. It is the radicalization of the political right. By misdiagnosing it, we risk becoming complicit in the crisis. 🧵 Just out in Perspectives on Politics doi.org/10.1017/S153...

I'm really lucky with how my life has turned out, but we now live in a world where if I was born in 2017, young Justin would find it way harder to watch sports, or get a lot of fairly high quality news outside the CBC. And that really saddens me.