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ugh do not send me your article poorly covering material that I already addressed in my book three years ago that you clearly didn't bother to read (those people are NOT a good model, but nice try) I.. just. Do your homework. Read people of diverse races and genders. Learn things.

I enjoy microblogging which is why Twitter suited me re: social media. My brain works in this way. I've decided, however, to move mainly to my newsletter next year. It will continue to be offered at no cost to anyone who wants to subscribe. I will be here sporadically to share stuff too.

For no reason at all, I strongly recommend making a donation to the Committee to Protect Journalists (either one-time or monthly): give.cpj.org/campaign/667...

it’s incredible how stephen miller always looks more evil than the last time you saw him, but he’ll always look like this to me

I wrote this thread after a really, really hard period, and sometimes re-read it when I wonder again if little things still matter. I've also started writing down moments and memories of when little things have made a difference. Reminding myself helps reduce my urge to hide in bed or disassociate.

On the Southside of Chicago, Tamar and the good folks at MASK are looking for people who want to join their "Tiny Kitchen" project. Get in on the ground floor: www.ontheblock.org/post/mask-ti...

AWK REDUND DANGLER WE KNOW

It's so so helpful to get involved with local projects in your city and town. I can't recommend it any more highly. You meet new comrades, you get to focus on specific goals and you might even win your demands.

republicans burned the country down because obama’s last name sounds like osama but chuck schumer can’t be roused from semi-stasis by the white house’s explicit attack on democratic free speech

Siri what is a mistrial

Got my COVID booster. I usually get Novavax, but the updated Novavax isn’t available here yet and I didn’t want to wait, just in case they pull some more bullshit.

Andrew Cuomo is Hamas

Folks have all the smoke in the world for Black people not doing “enough” and forget about the white people who were assigned to be their minders.

one neat trick for getting real news out of a mainstream media article on trump’s actions is to search the text for “critics said” and start there

Where is Liz Cheney anyway?

if not hydrant why hydrant shaped

It might be worth learning a bit about RICO! For example, google Stop Cop City. We had some good news on their case very recently, but, I tell you what, being a federal criminal defendant is not a fun time

Also want people to recognize the right was already promising retribution while the “right way” and “leftist mockery” pieces were being written. They’re not being caught flat-footed they were advancing narratives that were already sprung.

Obama brought us to this place in 2011, and then he handed off the keys to our terrifying drone bombing infrastructure to Trump en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anwar_a...

Having applied to a few poli sci jobs myself, I will say that sociology is a bloodbath this year by comparison. If you aren't a criminologist, the soc market is impossible.

The dog ate their manifesto.

I feel bad that my posts have felt a bit like a guy holding a "THE END IS NIGH" sign these days.

Some try to apply "logic" to their actions. Power and domination are the logics. The end. Meanwhile Schumer et al will absolutely let them kill you and they won't even issue a statement after the fact. Hope everyone is clear.

wait this is exactly it for me "it’s always been cringe to be an alum" I also felt it was cringe to be a student lol

Said essentially this a few days ago.

We are all Eyeball Friend

He is the cutest dog. It’s science.

This sitting alongside the open threats towards political enemies ought to ring loud.

The right is working overtime to turn Charlie Kirk's death into their "BLM" movement. Cuz apparently "guy who mainstreamed Nazi ideology shot by groyper who didn't think he was Nazi enough" is exactly the same as "Police routinely murder Black people and have for decades, we'd like them to stop."

If I’m deleting a lot of stuff lately, it’s because I found out the hard way that everything I post gets put up on a Reddit forum that has three million people. I never asked for this and I don’t want it. I just want to live a boring, employed life.

Actually surprised this hasn’t gotten more circulation on the TL Looks like this was the event: www.casino.org/news/atlanti...

My proudest accomplishment as a writer. ❤️

Always nice to be able to play ERUV in Scrabble. ✡️

I kind of need 2,000 jello molds made and tossed in an abandoned indoor swimming pool for the Southern Reach coffee table book, but unsure whether this is a job for Portland or not.

This dual-impact of the new tariffs affects all businesses in the United States that produce any physical goods. They will continue as long as the new tariffs are in place (paid for by importers in the US and then customers) and declines in international trade continue.

We don’t want thunder; we want rum

I know this is basically a given but, man, sometimes im just....scared, sad, and tired. and tired of being scared, sad, and tired

I don’t believe that *anyone* likes that guy, not even his wife

so basically Trump is starting a war with Venezuela and without Congress’s permission (which they’d surely give btw) www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Wonder if the same guy went on to run the Pennsylvania Lottery (iykyk)

Making sure this continues or worsens is the top priority of the federal government.

uhhh what in the Chinese Exclusion Act

Like Biden before him, Trump is pressuring Panama to stop the flow of foot traffic out of the Darién Gap. But he’s also using the country as a place to ditch America’s deportees—even ones from Afghanistan, Iran, Russia, and China.

8yo: London bridge is pooping up, pooping up, pooping up, London bridge is pooping up, me: [quietly] oh my god get in the shower you little monster 8yo: … STOP THE SONG

Our legal system has already created a procedural basis for extrajudicial execution of civilians, and the Obama administration wouldn't even fucking tell us their unredacted reasoning.

*when I’m posting about current events which annoy me*

LEAVE. THE GHOST SHIPS. ALONE. www.popsci.com/science/ghos...

Absolutely horrible. And this yellow threat shit has been horribly bipartisan and none of the Democrats are apologizing for their part in it as Republicans take it even further. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Shame that our society never really internalized that Dostoevsky quote on prisons, because white liberal America is about to develop a very personal understanding of it

Just one step after the other is all I got today

This headline is A LIE, wow

www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/n...

What I would do is... THEN DO IT. Fucking hell JUST DO IT.

Truly had one of the most annoying conversations that I've had in weeks and that's saying something. I have pretty much had it with advice givers WHO DO NOT TAKE ACTION. DONE. DONE. AND DONE. We need proof of concept right now. DASSIT.

Pardon the pedantry but we do in fact have de jure punishment by association—both through social network and even place of residence theintercept.com/2019/04/25/b...

And I want to be clear that while these ideas weren’t enough, they weren’t bloodless reforms; these policies gained currency, the very real human costs were conveyed to people, and for a while, people en masse responded. This is why they rail against empathy. youtu.be/56zlBGdHoZQ?...

Get in where you can get in or please be quiet. It's so annoying.

Some wildlife from the weekend expedition, with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social.

It feels so much later than 2:48 pm.

Every Dem official and centrist who has compared Kirk to MLK or his death to 9/11, or said his work should continue, or otherwise whitewashed his legacy of hate, dehumanization, and harassment has had a hand in enabling this administration's weaponization of Kirk's death against critics & opponents.

Is there any non-governmental infrastructure to sustain this?

suddenly wondering to myself if the internet-wide festivities when we let ourselves pretend for a few hours that The Thing Had Happened might even indirectly be a factor in the right's violent, unhinged attacks on anyone not draped in black veils for Charlie Kirk like a Victorian widow

I want to emphasize this because I can be somewhat of a quixotic idealist at times, and that’s fine, but this was a pretty popular political movement with some concrete theories of change and, most importantly, buy-in on the ground from people directly affected by the problem.

throwback to this story from April apnews.com/article/doge...

Anyway, a lot of the infrastructure they’re at least saying they want to target in the CJ space has already been dismantled or wound down significantly. Maybe they’ll pocket that and say it’s a win.

Stephen has accomplished a feat I did not think possible: he has made me want to read this book

Edward P. Jones is the new guest editor for the O. Henry Prize this year and his salty introduction does not disappoint.

I agree with JD Vance’s last statement—that we can only have a world free of political violence when we work to dismantle the sources of that violence. I personally suggest that JD Vance look in the fucking mirror.

Ahmed lost his home and needs to evacuate with his family chuffed.org/project/1426...

god we're gonna have so much "can't speak ill of the dead" shoved in our faces, aren't we everyone's suddenly going to be like "look I know I begged for your votes based on a promise to try and shield you from his rampant evildoing but now that he's gone he was a patriot who loved america"

Not just a funny meme! A real and substantial professional risk!

On the Hatfield-McCoy feud and how class war becomes folklore:

Anywho, I’m thrilled we shored up all that support for the police and gave them a bunch of money to boot.

Don’t know how to characterize this much better than describing it as a frenzy.

Someone should do a quick count of how many times Chris Rufo has appeared in NYT news copy. They have an archive search API that can be accessed via Python

Help sweet Jamal if you can

Ahmed is stuck in North Gaza and desperate to get his family out www.gofundme.com/f/help-ahmed...

Thank you @postguild.bsky.social ❤️

The FBI director is definitely an unreliable narrator and tbh I’d like some reliability again

It’s very wild to see the work I was just doing around prosecutors in the electoral space become …the focus and chief enemy of the federal government.

It’s very wild to see the work I was just doing around prosecutors in the electoral space become …the focus and chief enemy of the federal government.

Yeah they’ll turn all the expertise of FBI leadership on you

Yeah they’ll turn all the expertise of FBI leadership on you

It’s very wild to see the work I was just doing around prosecutors in the electoral space become …the focus and chief enemy of the federal government.

It’s very wild to see the work I was just doing around prosecutors in the electoral space become …the focus and chief enemy of the federal government.

Yeah they’ll turn all the expertise of FBI leadership on you

Yeah they’ll turn all the expertise of FBI leadership on you

“He said that the note was destroyed but that authorities were able to reconstruct it.” I have questions

So many people are asking how they can support me.. The best way .. is to support @resistanceschool.bsky.social! I’ll be teaching Race, Media and International Affairs 101 and 102 next month. Sign up for lectures by me and guest speakers! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

If you can help Hani who has been at the hospital for weeks trying to save his dad’s foot

“The recommendations treat Jews differently from others, fail to create an open educational environment, and will produce a climate of confusion and suspicion. This can only make the problem of antisemitism worse not better.” commonwealthbeacon.org/opinion/stat...

for ever and for ever, to the crack of doom, the sea will insult and murder him

Nigeria is throwing down a gauntlet right now.

There is so much bad stuff going on, but you are still someone worth taking care of.

🚨 It's the *last week* to snag tickets for #TeenVogueSummit! 🚨 Don't miss Vivian Wilson, Wicked star Marissa Bode, and more in L.A. on September 20th. Get your tix here 🎟️: events.teenvogue.com/make-your-mo...

He's lying. And Democrats in office have a responsibility to say so.

everyone loves snitches

What’s wild about this is I saw the red carpet reporter for the Hollywood Reporter do one of the better interviews of Javier Bardem

Just learned that Great Apes are called Menschenaffen in German and I gotta sit on that for a while

I remember Mia telling me about Nazis being uncomfortable with how horny they were about her impressive boobs but hearing about it is one thing and seeing it is a whole other, good Lord