She/her.
Writing a #HistoricalNovel about cross-cultural friendship and misunderstanding in 1824 London.
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A white woman on a seashore.
A 1950s photo of a mom reading a book (unseen) to 4, 2, and 6-year-old kids.
Ellen Hokanson
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The particularly frustrating thing is that Nelson has progressive bona fides, and has not minced words about what her values are. If Bernie and this DC group wanted to endorse a progressive candidate with a working class (and union) background, why not just endorse her?
Persepolis was a major work, a revelatory examination of Iranian history and society. It fully deserves its status as one of the great modern memoirs.
https://bit.ly/4v2eTUV
The quoted thread from Courtney Milan is (as always) worth reading, and so is this response.
The question is, how will Hegseth’s demotion of the LDS Church affect Mormon voters?
Hey Jacobin: misogyny IS the most pervasive driver of economic inequality.
Don't take it from me, Mere Female: take it from Nobel winner Amartya Sen whose major thesis in "Development As Freedom" is that oppression of women puts the brakes on prosperity everywhere.
www.wider.unu.edu/video/amarty...
Satisfying to help set the record on work requirements straight with @adrianna.bsky.social
"Given the research evidence and policy details, we conclude that, in the real world, Medicaid work requirements are much more likely to worsen poverty than to reduce it."
Hey, that math is mathing!
NEW: On Friday the Trump admin announced a proposed work permit regulation that could make it dramatically more difficult for many immigrants in the US to work to support themselves and their families, including DACA recipients, asylum seekers, and the spouses of skilled workers.
Fascists in Belfast set fire to buildings with people inside them. People of colour left work early to stay indoors.
This is being actively encouraged by the world’s richest man whose openly pro-white nationalist platform X is still used by the UK government
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
Pride thread
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Here's your reminder this isn't about schools or libraries. It's about any books the right deems against white supremacy in any place, whether or not they're for kids or adults. The children are but props in the genital obsessed party's drive for power.
The radical legacy of the cartoonist and filmmaker who created Persepolis.
“I think gender inequality is not the natural human condition. But the idea that somehow women have to be in an inferior position – or not quite such dominant position – is really wholly artificial fo...
I'm trying to make sense of the Dem primary in OK District 5. Jena Nelson, a longtime school teacher, has been campaigning for several months.
But right before the filing deadline, Trey Martin, a union member & iron worker, entered the race. He quickly got an endorsement from Bernie Sanders.
New at Can We Still Govern: The Trump admin released a report saying that Medicaid work requirements will increase work and reduce poverty. There is a technical term for this: malarkey.
Actual experts @chloeneast.bsky.social & @adrianna.bsky.social break it down.
open.substack.com/pub/donmoyni...
Reuters examined thousands of pages of filings and statements and interviewed crypto consultants, academics and investors to parse the Trumps' crypto earnings. The finding: $2.3 billion for the family with little-to-no downside risk, while other investors lost $2.3 billion reut.rs/4uzWVIs
This certainly wont be what makes Utah go blue, but the idea that Mormons can't abandon the GOP is simply not true. I live in the Mormonist county in Mormon country and its the county that is shifting left faster than any other county in the US.
My day job is at a rural branch of a public library, and we have a Pride display. Yesterday I was at the desk when a man came in. Fifties, maybe, or sixties. Plaid shirt, mesh trucker cap, suspenders. He went up to the display and just stood there for a long moment. Then he came up to the desk. 🧵 1/
