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Here's a newly released history book I'm going to buy. I have a low key obsession with stories of women nurses in WW1 and WW2. www.militarytimes.com/veterans/202...

Speaking as a Minneapolitan: The goal is always friction - make it impossible for them to do their jobs. Frustrate them. If each attempted abduction takes a couple dozen agents, they logistically cannot do as many. They depend on your silence.

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

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we're only idiots if we think we should be able to be victorious in every race the first time we try. we're only idiots if we think it's only worth it to try when we're sure we're going to win. they're spending millions of dollars to try to stave us off in TEXAS AND KANSAS. that's winning already.

this is something I do worry about, not because I think the GOP are even doing this necessarily--but because I think that on the left we are uniquely vulnerable to giving up in disillusionment if our wildest dreams don't come 100% true.

A longish post which goes beyond the description of the heroic pause. This message is my takeaway

HELLO! Our "let Bree & Donna write a book AND pay the lawyers to maybe get their money back from The Fiasco" auction/pop-up shop is live! It will run through 9/2 at 8PM CDT! www.32auctions.com/KitRocha2026

Tim Curry and Dolly Parton have taught us not only that you should be bigger, weirder, gayer, and freakier, but also that those qualities are what people will love about you. The things that make you strange and amazing are the things that will resonate with other strange and amazing people

The best way to honor the two who have left us recently, imo, is to keep being as gay as possible

“Obsessing over whether a person of color deserves a spot prevents everyone from noticing that white people get and keep positions without needing to be impressive at all.”

Crops grown underneath solar panels produce more, require less water and are more resistant to extreme weather, even during a hot, dry summer. We need agrivoltaics to be rolled out asap, for both the electricity and the better growing conditions. microgridmedia.com/solar-panels...

I think "AI" plumpers should be happy I'm focusing mostly on the nonsense it's doing to my field, rather than how it's very clearly designed as a tool for the capture of wealth and capital by a bunch of accelerationist weirdos enthusiastically huffing their own farts from the depth of their K-holes

I like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them

Okay one more odyssey post. Really loved the movie. But I for one am willing to stop rescuing Matt Damon. At some point we’re just going to have to collectively agree that if Matt Damon gets lost again we just have to let him go.

Went camping and had a fabulous time, but my fatigue is letting me know I miiiiiight have overdone it. Still. Worth it.

Watching this World Cup is an exercise in frustration. Fucking biased reffing the whole way through.

reminding everyone that Elon Musk has basically no expertise in business or finance or science or engineering — the thing he's actually an expert on are these Trump-style aggressive legal shenanigans that have let him break the law and violate contracts

Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prize after wake up call: newspapers mistakenly published his obituary when his brother died & what he read as his legacy horrified him speaking ill (factually) of the dead is literally the most effective way to curb living racist & Nazi public figures/politicians

I had a tussle with the decorative grasses in the front garden this morning and lost. I’m welted, having a histamine reaction, and generally uncomfortable. Note to self: sleeves and pants next time!

Time to repost Sara Ahmed’s essay about how the language of carcerality is misapplied to any attempt to hold a perpetrator accountable—or deny him more power.

Seems like a good time to remind people the USWNT has won 4 World Cups! ⚽️

Ooh okay so Mitch McConnell is unequivocally evil but we do not blame that on polio, friends. Tons of polio survivors did badass stuff: antiracism work, disability justice, medical breakthroughs, diplomacy. Please remember not to equate illness with monstrousness.

when someone shows you their nazi tattoo, believe them

Brazil has now played against Norway 5 times at the World Cup. This might sound crazy, they have never won.

I love that humanity invented fireworks before bombs. I love knowing we start with art, not war.

this administration wants to sand all the beauty off our nation, but all they have done is make it clear that our diversity was the load bearing wall and their mediocrity has always been the termites chewing at the foundation. they're small. and we have something they never will: wonder & joy.

we hold our auction over the 4th of July because patriotism is complicated in this country (as it always has been) but I truly, in my heart, do love the best parts of it. I love how vast and chaotic we are, how we have every biome, every culture, every climate, every dream. we are a daily discovery

People only ever use the first half of the quote: it's actually "my country, right or wrong: if right, to be kept right, and if wrong, to be set right".

Very thankful for this letter to Becky Pepper-Jackson (the 16 year-old trans girl SCOTUS ruled against yesterday) from James Dale, a gay man whose expulsion from the Boy Scouts was upheld by the Supreme Court in 2000.

Hey, Margaret Bates is a graduate student who's doing a study on romance book buying behaviors and would like your input, if you have a chance. forms.office.com/r/b6E8qJV8Tm