Carrie Laben

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Debut novel A HAWK IN THE WOODS
English: http://tinyurl.com/y7epmxhf
Spanish: http://tinyurl.com/4k5647nu

ARB: http://anarchistreviewofbooks.org

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Hey, Zin A. Rocklyn was slogging through shit and broken glass this year to get to the middle of July when she could have the refuge of being with her people at ReaderCon and Camp NeoCon this month. That rug got pulled yesterday. But we can help:

Fund Teri Clarke's Mental Health Boosting Trip, organized by Teri Clarkewww.gofundme.com hello I am coming to you with my heart in my hands as I *need* this to … Teri Clarke needs your support for Fund Teri Clarke's Mental Health Boosting Trip

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Freebird Books July Books Through Bars drive - $20 sends three free books to incarcerated readers: www.freebirdbooks.com

Homewww.freebirdbooks.com For Freebird's 20th anniversary--and with the help of Scribner/Simon & Schuster-- $20 gets three books sent to incarcerated readers (61% off retail) With special thanks to Scribner (the...

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Pride BEGAN during a time of anti-sodomy laws. The first Pride was a riot against those laws. Pride is celebrated around the world in places where it is much more dangerous to be queer than here. Pride is not dependent on being ALLOWED to be who we are, it’s a promise that we WILL be no matter what

I hope we all enjoyed our last Pride month in the US. Project 2025 will put an end to it

Mutual aid in New York, working quietly and well: evgrieve.com/2024/07/with...

With larger new kitchen, EVLovesNYC expands to feed more New Yorkersevgrieve.com EV Grieve is the leading news, entertainment and lifestyle blog about the East Village of New York City.

The quintessential Lovecraft story involves a man driven mad by knowledge too terrible to endure. In "The Dreams in the Witch House" that knowledge is "a girl is better than me at math."

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A homeless shelter wrote an amicus brief in the Grant’s Pass case. They argued SCOTUS should let the city arrest the homeless because, and I am not shitting you, the ban on doing so meant less people were willing to abide by their “two church services a day and no sex” requirement to sleep inside.

Gorsuch literally wrote, in almost those exact same words, "In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."

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BREAKING: The Israeli army has ordered a mass evacuation of Palestinians from the eastern half of the city of Khan Younis in Gaza, a sign that Israeli troops could soon return to the city.

Israel orders Palestinians to flee Khan Younis, signaling return of troops to southern Gaza cityapnews.com The order is a sign that Israeli troops could soon return.

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I love people who do what they can, where they are, within their capacity. www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Chicago woman running the Free Store helping migrants risks deportationwww.cbsnews.com Kraal said they see around 300 people a week, stamping each card before families start to "shop" for free.

They can label it whatever they want, this is a picture of a softball team I know from Brooklyn.

they keep inventing new guys

Our dinette set is vintage!

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i am working on an AI that makes books that my fellow Philadelphians can understand: Call me Ishmael. Way back—around when the Phils lost the Series in ‘83–I was broke as a SEPTA bus and didn’t have any friends down the shore, so I thought I’d find a boat and sail that jawn out on the wudder.

Yo it's Ishmael, this one's all about going to sea, click like and subscribe

It's not A Simulation (generic, imprecise); we're specifically living in a Paul Verhoeven film.

I can’t think of a clever caption for this. It just breaks my fucking heart.

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57 percent of unhoused women report domestic violence as their immediate cause of homelessness. The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold an Oregon law could further limit their options. 19thnews.org/2024/06/ruli...

Ruling on homelessness raises the risks for domestic violence survivors, experts say19thnews.org 57 percent of unhoused women report domestic violence as their immediate cause of homelessness. The Supreme Court’s decision to uphold an Oregon law could further limit their options.

A cybertruck drove by my parents' place last night. Please take a moment in solidarity with my 70 year old hippie father, who never goes on the internet, looking up as he gets baked on the front porch and seeing this inexplicable monstrosity cruising up Route 20.

#FridayReads Touching the Art by @mbsycamore.bsky.social 💚💜

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Never ever have to hand it to CNN, but "Biden disappoints, Trump lies and deflects" is a pretty good summation of four years of national news.

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“Nothing we can do to stop this forthcoming war,” says world’s last superpower as they refuse to condition aid or stop weapons flow, and give 500lb bombs plus assurances of support to Israel.

Israel apparently says they need 500lb bombs to fight Hezbollah in Lebanon. Allah yesterna. www.axios.com/2024/06/27/u...

U.S. to release part of suspended bomb shipment to Israelwww.axios.com President Biden has faced intense criticism from Israel's supporters over his decision to withhold the shipment.

Mayor bullied successfully!

After month of public outcry, NYC libraries to get budget funding back — and reopen on Sundays

NYC libraries to get budget funding back — and reopen on Sundaysgothamist.com In November, the mayor's budget cuts forced libraries to close on Sundays. The issue has been a thorn in his side ever since.

I do like a good lightning storm.

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flashback to that year I seeded Facebook with a bunch of shitpost patriotic memes I made featuring fish eagles. and Brahminy kites. and a chicken.

So if these are genuine, they're work created by a public employee in the course of their duties, right? Which makes it public domain, right? Which means I can use bottom right as an album cover for free, right?

Been thinking a lot about LBJ’s doodles.

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Hey parents, if your child has debilitating anxiety, please do not pay a bunch of strangers huge amounts of money to kidnap them out of their beds at night & blackbag transport them to an undisclosed location where they will experience up to years of severe torture and quite possibly being murdered

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Thanks, Joe Biden www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Autopsy report rules 12-year-old's death at camp for troubled adolescents a homicidewww.nbcnews.com The boy, who died after less than 24 hours at Trails Carolina, couldn’t breathe in the tent where he was placed to sleep, according to an autopsy report.

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An estimated 21,000 children are missing in Gaza. This is separate from the 14,000 children who have been documented as killed (murdered). The depravity speaks for itself. www.savethechildren.org.uk/news/media-c...

One thing I learned working with memoirists is that you need time to reflect on trauma before you can effectively make art of it. So art isn't a great emergency response, separately from whether it's good as political action at all.

If we want to help people, the system is broken. If we want to hurt and kill people with no visible culpability, the system works perfectly.

Deloitte strikes again. We badly need an open source, nationwide software solution for benefits eligibility. Code for America? NavaPBC? Propel? Someone please get this done. https://tinyurl.com/Effindeloitte

A Tennessee mom lost Medicaid after the state launched a Deloitte-run system that managed eligibility. Then her life turned upside downtinyurl.com Millions of Medicaid patients rely on Deloitte-run systems —but the technology has generated notices with errors, sent paperwork to the wrong addresses, and been frozen for hours at a time, according ...

Bro kittens update: He and his partner named the tabby-and-white one Giuseppe and the little orange one... Little Orange.

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Birders! If you’re in Maryland/DC, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Newfoundland, or Ontario this upcoming weekend, help atlas some birds! ebird.org/atlaspa/news... #birds #birding #conservation