Austen Howard

👁️👁️ happy you can see everything day to all who have no reason to deceive you 👁️👁️

sneezed so hard my tummy hurt

an excerpt from the unpublished journal entries of Annie Ernaux (yale review) that reminded me of @johngreensbluesky.bsky.social

I miss sleeping in my own bed sooooo much

why do my best creative ideas hit at 1:30am? I’m so annoyed.

learning Drum Show as my first twenty one pilots song on bass and … whew

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if Mike Rice and Vittorio Angelone can roast their way into best friendship than I can too

October, please be gentle.

I had a dream I had about 30 more tattoos and I hated all of them

“The ultimate goal was to create chaos and doubt in the vote-by-mail process,” said the American Postal Workers Union president. “You’re creating a rule to solve a problem that doesn’t exist.”

“It means higher costs to the tune of a billion dollars,” Jessie Lazarus, chief of the MTA’s rolling stock program, said at the authority’s board meeting.

the real art about to raise the birth rate

I was living in Brooklyn when the 2020 election was called and the streets erupted with joy.Then, we learned nothing. I look around today and wonder if we’ll ever learn it’s not about one election or man. It’s about the million tiny things we do with our neighbors to build a better future every day.

It’s so lame how much energy doing some basic file management gives me. My entire night is gonna be so productive.

Mike Faist needs to be in a Sam Shepard production ASAP

Steinbeck, East of Eden

This photoshoot of Florence Pugh is 🔥

You can’t just adapt one of my all time favorite books into a series with THIS stellar of a cast and expect me to be normal

Florida neighbors! Leave a comment with the office of Senator Schumer demanding that he join us in the fight to send @angieforfl.bsky.social to congress. Our campaign needs funding & a microphone leading up to the election. www.schumer.senate.gov/contact/mess... Here’s what I wrote

thank you to my best friend for putting up with me @dropout.tv @samreich.bsky.social

What are you going to do when ICE comes to the polls? Don't expect the police to help. My latest, at Mother Jones. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I’m so upset

“The roots of Black working people start in our history of being in bondage in this country, our relationships to those institutions, and the ways in which we built community, resistance, and life in spite of enslavement.”

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No better time than Labor Day to start organizing a union! Want better pay? Better benefits? Retirement security, dignity and respect, and a stronger voice on the job? Take back your power and form a union with your coworkers.

Is it strategic to publish my 2,000+ word manifesto about a UN climate report on Sunday night of a holiday weekend? Nope! Here ya go. Does the UN call for a “renewable energy revolution” and “transformational change” of our society? Yep! Here for it. ayanaelizabeth.substack.com/p/i-read-the...

Looking for Labor Day weekend plans? Find a union event near you and celebrate with working people across the country. https://www.mobilize.us/aflcio/?tag_ids=26595&utm_source=aflcio-LD

sometimes you just gotta lay in a dark room under the most powerful ceiling fan known to man with ten pillows surrounding you in the middle of the day

Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20 years old?

Pierre Damas Bel should be alive. He deserved the chance to build a life and pursue his American Dream. The deliberate cruelty and dehumanization of our Haitian brothers, sisters, and siblings is a policy choice. It does not have to be this way. The Senate must act NOW to restore Haiti TPS.

There's apparently a bunch of AI chatbot outages I don't think I've ever been less affected by something

this was designed to target me specifically

I was really moved by Lil Nas X's statement that being "Black, gay, and bipolar" feels as if you're living life on "extreme hard mode." I spoke with mental health advocates about the distinct pressures that can keep Black queer men from seeking help. capitalbnews.org/black-queer-...

i want a Nothing phone soooo bad

ICE arrest data is not yet available for August, but Mullin’s figures on Operation Rotten Apple would indicate a 62% uptick in arrests from July, which was already the highest arrest tally under Trump’s second term.

The 50 biggest individual political donors have already spent more than $1.6 BILLION trying to shape this election. Working people will never outspend billionaires. We don’t have to. Our power is millions of workers standing together and fighting for a future that works for us.

DHS finalized its $16.7 million purchase of 6,650 pairs of electric shock gloves from Compliant Technologies. That comes out to about $2,400 per pair, plus some accessories like glove fresheners in case the ICE agents wearing these direct-contact electroshock weapons get sweaty.

Last night, Seth Moulton became the latest anti-trans Democrat to fall. There is good evidence that his anti-trans positions directly impacted the election - 67% of voters said those positions made them less likely to vote for him. Markey wins in a landslide. Subscribe to support our journalism.

hey so like I need #adultsfx season 3 immediately that’s how time works, right?

Starbucks is discontinuing a blending powder containing a form of silica that was used for a number of drinks after baristas reported coughing and falling ill, and @sbworkersunited.org organized a campaign around the issue.

NEW: Christopher McCurdy, the leading scientist urging policymakers not to criminalize kratom, has accepted travel reimbursements, donations to his university’s foundation and funding for symposiums from the American Kratom Association. None of this is mentioned in the papers he publishes.

Turns out that Ulta (yes, the beauty store) is one of Flock’s biggest customers. Why should a trip to get moisturizer mean risking getting spied on? We will not let spying be normalized like this. share.weareultraviolet.org/s/IjdgGP0d

A Black Hawk helicopter. Elite SWAT teams. Last September, federal agents descended on a Chicago apartment complex in a massive show of force. The government claimed “terrorists” had taken over the building. That’s not what we found: propub.li/3T6mq7j