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The poet joins Kevin Young to read and discuss “Questions of Travel,” by Elizabeth Bishop, and his own poem “My Father in English.” www.newyorker.com/podcast/poet...

This person really needs some reading comprehension if that is their take away from Kendi's post. I get so tired watching people hate on prominent Black authors by deliberating fabricating what they write. It is grossly anti-Black to profoundly misrepresent a Black writer like this.

🔆💖 happy new day 💙🤍💜💚 happy everything 🤎💛🩷🧡🌿

A camel bathing in the lush, misty hills of Salalah, Oman, where the khareef monsoon turns the Arabian desert green every summer.

HOLY SHIT. FIFA President Gianni Infantino is at the USA game, sitting with Howard Lutnick, Secretary of Commerce AND CLOSE PERSONAL FRIEND OF JEFFREY EPSTEIN. Disgusting.

Chain of Ideas, the worst book you read this year? Either your reading comprehension is the worst. Or you don't want people reading this excellent book because it exposes you. You don't want anyone learning that you've written elements of great replacement theory that is said to be "far right."

I thought I was doing a small story on confusion over the sudden disappearance of water fountains on a popular South Mississippi biking and running trail. What I found was a bigger story about homelessness, the meaning people find in the things they love, public infrastructure and civic engagement.

The US Men's Soccer Team is crushing right now thanks to birth right citizenship.

Palestinian goalkeeper Salim Al-Ashqar has been killed by Israeli forces in Gaza. He leaves behind his wife of 5 months who is expecting their first child.

Saying good night to my BlueSky friends with this incredible sight. On June 31, a rare 22-degree solar halo appeared above Devils Tower in Wyoming. The ring formed as sunlight passed through millions of tiny hexagonal ice crystals, creating one of nature's most beautiful optical displays.

Kendi calls racism a power structure. There are Black individuals who reinforce this structure. You ignore this truth and seem to believe all Black individuals are powerless slaves to all-powerful whites, as if whites are gods. This shows your internalized racism. I see why you deny its existence.

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When the state is disenfranchising its Black voters, there's zero question why ROOTS was just banned in Knox County, Tennessee, schools. "Age-Appropriate" my ass. www.wbir.com/article/news...

Pope:”Reading nourishes the mind, helps cultivate a conscious and well-formed critical sense, guards against fundamentalisms and ideological shortcuts.” Reading is “an antidote to closed-mindedness which manifests in rigid attitudes and reductive views of reality.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries on the VA redistricting decision

"You're wasting your time marketing on Bluesky because it's all authors" my dude nobody reads more than authors. I've read nine books this year and it's only May. One of the authors in my discord has read a whopping 39. Good authors are also good readers, and good readers buy books.

Breaking: Tennessee Republicans pass new 9-0 gerrymander after SCOTUS destruction of Voting Rights Act eliminating state’s only majority-Black district & last Democratic seat. Splits Memphis, which is 63% Black, into 3 districts to disenfranchise Black voters. Quite literally a return to Jim Crow

"The pretense of knowledge is our most dangerous vice, because it prevents us from getting any better." — Ryan Holiday, Ego Is the Enemy (2016) A commonplace book is just a place to keep the words that will not leave you alone. Built one if you want to start. Visit locuscommunis.com #booksky

One of the best bookshops I've ever visited at the gradel I listed former Wool Exchange, Bradford - Built in the spirit of the great Flemish cloth halls — architecture not merely as utility, but as something capable of raising the human spirit.