Karen Sandler

"Hard times are coming, when we'll be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now, can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope.“
— Ursula K. LeGuin

Kristi Noem Didn’t Give a Sh*t About ‘the Details’ Such as a woman who was here legally and helped the homeless—but was then deported anyway.

Kristi Noem Didn’t Give a Sh*t About ‘the Details’
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Yes, this is what the Dems should do. For god's sake, grow a pair.

One was a dockworker who died of a stroke because he was overworked, the other was a nice Italian boy who was mobbed up. He never married my grandma.

I recently had to defend the human-made illustrations in my book when the copyright office thought they were AI. I had receipts and my copyright went through.

Frightening and light years beyond inappropriate.

Whose job is it if not the president who attacked another sovereign nation?

A sign on a building in Mexico City that reads Instituto Nacional del Derecho de Autor (National Institute of Copyright).

We just got back from a week in Mexico City. As an author, the sign on this building caught my eye. It's the equivalent of the Library of Congress in the US, i.e., where you submit your work for copyright.

This is actually a pretty good summary of where we’re at, and how we got here.

Jane McCrea - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia Jane McCrea (sometimes spelled McCrae or MacCrae, 1752 July 27, 1777) was a young woman who was killed by a HuronWendat warrior associated with the British army of Lieutenant General John Burgoyne du...

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🧵 Today, we're going to explore the power of propaganda—and how it was used as a recruitment tool against Indigenous people during the Revolutionary War.

Pull up a seat.🪑(cont)
#ProudBlue
#ResistanceRoots
#USDemocracy
#Voices4Victory

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Eddie, I'm going to share this sound with my trumpet and French horn playing grandkid.❤️

In 1912, James Reese Europe did the "impossible." He led the Clef Club Orchestra in the first-ever concert of Black music at Carnegie Hall, proving syncopated rhythms belonged on the world’s most prestigious stage. He achieved this by refusing to "copy" white orchestras. (cont)

Timeline cleanse.

Exactly.

Say his name: Nurul Amin Shah Alam.

Justice for him and his family.

“.. If Trump had any sense he would be ostentatiously pushing [refunds] through quickly, perhaps even labelling them a tariff dividend and hoping no one notices ..” but he “cannot grasp quite how unpopular they have become.”

@alanbeattie.bsky.social
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Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)

I loved this song so much, It inspired me to write a romance novel back in the early 2000s:
www.amazon.com/dp/B087F8X43V
Took a few liberties, of course.

I really hate the way Trump treats people. He is mean, cruel, and vindictive. Why would anyone like him as a person? Why would people even vote for him?

I love seeing those approval ratings in the 20s.

i really do appreciate it. I grew up during the Civil Rights era, but was too young to truly appreciate what was going on. Knowledge is a wonderful thing.

Without the dots, it looks like polygraph test results from a pathological liar.

It is interesting the way she happens to pull the mic away every time he says it

As always, Eddie, thanks for sharing these stories that more than deserve to be known far and wide.

I'll be at your side, @yasharali.bsky.social

Concerned about ICE's $45 billion plan to convert warehouses into immigration detention centers? This is what they'll look like inside. From ICE's plan for the Social Circle, GA facility. Each little dot: a person. www.socialcirclega.gov/home/showpub...

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What an amazing story. Someone should make a movie. Paging Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Shonda Rhimes. Thanks, Eddie.

Rep. Ro Khanna Just Said :UN human rights experts just concluded the Epstein files may have "crimes against humanity." The DOJ continues a cover-up. Here's what needs to happen now:

At one point in that speech he told a story about his grandmother in Greenville. She could not afford a blanket, he said, but she did not complain, and the family did not freeze. Instead, she took pieces of old cloth — patches of wool, silk, gabardine, croker sack — “only patches, barely good enough to wipe off your shoes with,” and she sewed them together into a quilt, “a thing of beauty and power and culture.” He implored Democrats to build such a quilt. “Be as wise as my grandmama,” he said. “Pull the patches and the pieces together, bound by a common thread. When we form a great quilt of unity and common ground, we’ll have the power to bring about health care and housing and jobs and education and hope to our nation. We, the people, can win.”

"Be as wise as my Grandmama."
The New York Times obituary for Jesse Jackson concludes with these stirring words from his 1988 "Keep Hope Alive" speech at the 1988 Democratic National Convention.