I take longer to finish no doubt because I’m always juggling books for work, books for life (I have 6 weeks left to read baby books!!), and books for pleasure to put my brain to sleep at night. It can vary by nightly mood too, sometimes I need fiction in a foreign language to lull me to sleep, or nonfiction that has…

I love the idea that they picked him to be photogenic, believing he would be malleable, only to find that the Young Pope is Old School and refuses to allow his image to be used, much less sold. It’s comforting now to know they were tricked into a lifetime of Pope Lenny, not just 4-8 years.

It’s the most beautifully shot Cherry Coke Zero commercial in all of history. And yes, I’m going to need sad trombone sound effects whenever Lenny pushes the hidden “eject” button in his office, and some hilarious musical cue to accompany the continued kangaroo hijinks.

Yassss Pope! Love the smoking at the end, and the fact that no one else is allowed to smoke in the Vatican.

There’s an important difference, Trump can read but chooses not to, and sings the praises of having uneducated supporters. He wants to keep people illiterate. All while appointing folks like Betsy DeVos who will insure that illiteracy rates skyrocket. Education is under attack in this country, we should all be…

I love the multigenerational depiction. If you love this image I encourage you to track done some of the many many books Nelson has illustrated (seriously, Kadir Nelson is PROLIFIC. One of his cutest ones about babies is Please, Baby, Please. I also highly recommend Thunder Rose for its strong female protagonist.).

More like “Bitch Pope.” It’s like a Cherry Coke Zero commerical shot by Fellini, and I am HERE FOR IT, especially if there’s a kangaroo callback joke each week. I’m also thoroughly enjoying watching YP try to train his assistant to not be terrible. “Time for your snack, Young Pope.” Bwahaha.

For sure he bangs the marketing director. Though the room of guys I watched it with on Sunday almost simultaneously spit wine across the room as it became clear that the YP is straight, or at least is also attracted to women.

And his supporters will care not at all, book learning is for elitist nerds. Not to mention that a 2016 study shows he’s no anomaly, 27% of Americans didn’t read a book in the previous year. I’m doing my best to skew those stats by never reading fewer than 5 books at once.

And what I am saying is that it is a privilege to be ignorant to the historical oppression of others. She’s clearly picked up a lot about race if she knows to curate that collection of racist food stereotypes for MLK day. She wants to appropriate black history à la carte, divorced from its hurtful history.

Ugh, I meant “security culture,” not “safety culture.”

This is such a common impulse, to take at face value the word of people who engage in racist microaggressions. This woman deserves to be told that her actions were insensitive so that she can learn from her mistakes, and so other folks learn to at least crowd-source an MLK Day menu before running with it. It’s…

I agree. And either way, it’s a reminder about the importance of security culture and a healthy dose of skepticism within organizing circles, especially as so many people who are new to social justice work are drawn to protest by the Great Pumpkin. If someone joins a group and is proposing illegal direction actions…

“I wasn’t thinking about the historical [context],” Pyle added. “I was thinking, we have margaritas and tacos on Cinco de Mayo, so, let’s have some fun with Martin Luther King Day.”

Fair, there is likely a lot of overlap, but I genuinely think there are folks out there trying to foment division among the left that are not getting a paycheck for it, they really are just trolls who drop the term “SJW” like it’s an insult.

Doing it on cloth is GENIUS, thanks for this! And I still have all the stencils and puffy paint I used to make signs and shirts for protests back in my punk days!

Between this and some posts I’ve seen from reddit about how to sow discord amongst the left it’s clear to me that in the 21st century activists won’t be battled by COINTELPRO, but by internet trolls. As an organizer in the late 90s and early 2000s we talked a lot about “safety culture” to combat government…

Sure, Republicans are the Party of Lincoln if you forget the political realignment of the 20th century, mostly driven by white Southern aversion to giving civil rights to black people. Lincoln’s spinning in his grave, all:

That’s incredible that there were so many survivors. And yes, that protocol makes sense, how truly awful!

THAT 13 MINUTES IS BLOWING MY MIND. How do you start a tweet and NOT know what the second part will be?? Did he not know how the sentence / sentiment was going to end for 13 minutes?!?!?!