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"There was still one more way in which neoliberalism was like a fundamentalist religion: There were pat answers to anything that seemed contrary to its tenets."

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"School segregation between Black and white students has returned to 1968 levels."

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"I imagine you could spend a lifetime with Campo’s work and never get to the bottom of her devotion to fairy tales, though it seems undeniable she was attracted to the fact that they make room for both fixity and flux, stillness and motion, and revel in reconciling these…"

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"…T.L. Bond, of the Atlanta park commission, has today seriously advised his colleagues to drain the lake, plow up that stretch of land and sow it with salt to drive away the evil spirits…"

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"Until now, the mystery of Shakespeare’s “gibberish” has gone unsolved in part because it doesn’t look like Euskara."

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"This is modern necropolitics in the United States. Weaponized abortion bans and militarized police responses to peaceful protest serve the same goal: to make the public fearful."

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Albert Gleizes - Woman with Phlox (1910)

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"But the preview list is particularly unhelpful because, for the most part, the underpaid freelance writers (me, included!) who contribute to these lists don’t actually have to have read the books they write about."

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Lithadora and Good News

I love lithadora, both for its name and its little blue flowers. They’re so cheerful and vibrant, especially in sunshine. This picture has JJ Abrams-level lensflare, but it pleases me to no end, so I’m sharing it with you. I’m ten chapters into the Chained Knight revise, and there’s good news I can’t share quite yet–nothing is final until the ink is dry on the contract–but I feel a lot better…

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"In some respects, SHEIN resembles Amazon more than a fast-fashion retailer: its catalog of merchandise is so expansive that it functions more like a search engine than a clothing store."

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"Webb is contending with white evangelicals who, for the most part, lack any coherent hermeneutic. Their defining approach to interpreting the Bible is to pretend it doesn’t require any interpretation."

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odin is like “when thor was born the sun shone bright upon his beautiful face. i found loki on the sidewalk outside a taco bell”

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"…here in the twenty first century, we are way more prudish than medieval people were. Medieval people a) can absolutely handle a picture of Eve being naked, and b) also understand it in a religious context which, in theory, should nullify the who sexy thing."

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No, I’m not “obsessed with footwear” in this story. YOU try horse-riding or hiking for long distances daily with substandard shoes, then you can talk to me about good boots.

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Max Frey - Harfenklänge (1943)

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Thousand Cuts, Downright Vexed

I woke up only mildly tetchy, since the week’s round of needing-to-be-social meetings has meant little time for actual writing. I get itchy-irritable when life attempts to keep me from the page; a few days of mounting discomfort and I’m ready to stab if it means I’ll be left alone with the words. Still, it wasn’t bad when I rolled out of bed, even if the dog decided today was a day to be…

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you have to stay alive. you're going to be such a beautiful middle aged freak. young freaks will see you in the street and know that things can be okay.