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She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???

This is an ethnic cleansing campaign

How about we worry less, as a society, about whether individuals might be cheating to get a disability accommodation or some help buying food, and more about whether extremely wealthy people and corporations are paying their fair share of taxes?

I can't stress enough that you should take every opportunity that comes your way to support your local public libraries. Many of them are currently struggling and are being DEFUNDED. Local action matters on this front. Don't sit back until those libraries are gone before taking ACTION.

it is hard to think of another political figure in my lifetime I have turned on harder than Hillary Clinton. I am exactly the right flavor of Middle Aged White Lady to have been DEEPLY emotionally invested in her way back when, but every time she opens her mouth now I’m like “holy shit lady 🤯”

The dad of the kids I used to nanny got remarried and I was a groomsman. We got the photos back. Me and the boys look like we’re auditioning for a buddy cop film or the runway.

“I think we have to be careful with the Nazi comparisons” people are always waiting until we are five minutes until the Holocaust and then they’re like well it’s only ethnic cleansing not a Holocaust

Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.

I appreciate the reporting AND I want everyone to stop using criminal records as a stand in for whether people should or should not be harassed and deported.

as a grantwriter, the lack of unrestricted funding is a MASSIVE burden on nonprofits. everyone wants to fund a new shiny pilot program that makes them look like innovators. they don’t want to help make your tried and tested programs that have served the community for 50 years more sustainable

What's happening with the Chicago Public Libraries right now is terrible. The proposed budget of the city would CUT 89 CPL positions. Importantly, 78 positions were lost LAST year. That would be 167 positions in 2 YEARS while COPS KEEP GETTING MORE MONEY. ENOUGH. SAY NO.

I went to the NYT and this is in fact their lede and like, you know how bad things have to get for NYT of all pubs to call something “unapologetic bigotry”? Infinity alarm fire

I keep seeing random flashes of “NO they’re PETIT BOURGEOISIE” being argued about various arguments, and look, I’m begging you to understand that we have to update our understanding of Marx for a modern economy.

One of the drums I am going to keep beating is that the US needs to submit to the jurisdiction of the ICJ. Right now, we live in a time in which the president is immune and can grant immunity to basically anyone he wants. They are acting accordingly.

#ArtAdventCalendar - Day Twooooo Today: we behold the mighty work of Slartibartfast

There should be a law that therapists are not allowed to be younger than you. I will not be taking advice from a 25 year old because the decisions I made at 25 are the reason I need therapy now.

NYT discovering what everyone with a grandparent on the wrong side of sundown has discovered- if you start trying to cover up for the loss of filter, that soon becomes the only job

bring back shame and consequences - with emphasis this time around on the consequences

as much as I hate the incessant newsletters to Buy Buy Buy, giving Tuesday makes me wish I could just max out the budgets for a lot of people doing amazing work. I don't know how billionaires exist.

I realize I've been posting about my book a lot and want to share why 🧵 1. It's fucking hard to write a book and getting this one to the finish line with everything happening in my life has been a huge accomplishment for me. I'm excited. 2. Now is a hard time to get a book into circulation. Because

oh my god someone made it (and kindly tipped their hat to me) bsky.app/profile/harp...

“The math is brutal and the juxtaposition stark: millions for OpenAI while pink slips go out to longtime lecturers. The CSU isn’t investing in education—it’s outsourcing it, paying premium prices for a chatbot many students were already using for free.“ www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

But if the cause be not good, the King himself hath a heavy reckoning to make, when all those legs, and arms, and heads, chopp’d off in a battle, shall join together at the latter day and cry all, “We died at such a place”

Since there was a 12 point leftward swing tonight in that special election, I’m looking forward to all the articles about how they need to move to the middle, reinstate DEI, start doing land acknowledgments, give up on all those useless cis people

I’ve been thinking a lot about the old saw that we get more conservative as we age and wondering whether what that really means is not so much that you go backward, but that you refuse to evolve as the world moves forward without you. Hillary is who she always was, but we have WILDLY outgrown her

I just got an email that referred to Cyber Week instead of Cyber Monday and I cannot describe the groan I groant.

I don’t need any more information about Tarantino’s opinions as long as I live. Truly. If he wants to make movies, he should go make movies! But sharing what Tarantino said *on Bret Easton Ellis’ podcast* is like a turducken of I Absolutely Do Not Care Even Slightly.

I have to say, when I started recording songs into a boombox in my employee-housing apartment at MSH, I did not anticipate one day talking about those songs with PEOPLE magazine people.com/the-mountain...

Israel is still bombing Gaza The press isn't covering it as much but it's still happening

did you know that today you can go to a store and buy this cool book that people are enjoying well it’s true! happy publication date to the only book I’ll ever write that can fairly be called “fun” without further qualifications

Now's a good time to stick your menorah/menorot in the freezer to get the wax out. (Some of you did this BEFORE putting it away last year? How cute!)

It has “Christmas In Hollis” and “Let It Snow.” It has Christmas packing tape and a Christmas tree at a Christmas party. It has a Santa suit and “HO-HO-HO.” It happens at Christmas and involves a visit for Christmas. This is not a hard question.

The way Parker laid this timeline out—it’s so clear what has been ramping up, even if some of these appeared to be isolated events at the time.

I hope going from +21 GOP to +9 GOP is scaring the shit out of the right people.

did anyone ever get anywhere on this

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Iman. Iman has two children Zakaria, 5 and Elias, 3 and is pregnant. She has a high risk pregnancy and may develop blood clots so she has to have injections of Clexane daily to prevent this. She’s living in a tent with no bathroom.

the other side of "to keep functioning, society has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities" is "to keep functioning, society has to circulate accurate information, especially information that constrains authorities"

truly feels like every day we are waiting for someone in the press room to point out that the emperor has no clothes someone will, someday, and the tide will turn, and these people’s children and grandchildren will be deeply ashamed of them; but they aren’t there yet, and it’s maddening

in this specific respect AfD is to the left of the GOP, which probably says something about multiparty parliamentary politics and political discipline

First Van Jones, then Sarah Hurwitz, now Hillary Clinton with these talking points about social media and carnage in Palestine … It’s clear the talking points are being distributed. By whom????

I support the LGBTQ community but I am very slightly annoyed that "giving tuesday" is now ambiguous

I will never understand why an actual movie director chooses to spend his time and energy behaving like a fifth-tier shitposter. (Also, this is a Hall of Fame bad take.)

not to keep ragescreaming about Hillary Clinton but can you imagine if she and Biden had just gracefully retired after the Obama administration? they were popular then! they would have gone out on top! and then they just lit it all on fire. honestly the desire to be president feels like a red flag

When reached for comment, the raccoon said back off, it’s the holiday season

my takeaway from this is I dunno what will happen tonight but with margins like these Ogles is cooked

imagine if the media covered book releases the way they do AI "Ramdas ' new book is the greatest book ever, say industry experts*" * the industry expert we asked was Ramdas

I’m putting together a team, and by “a team,” I mean a playlist of the greatest one-hit wonder songs of the 1990s

Newsmax turning on Trump feels like a bellwether moment I think there’s a lot more internal pressure behind the scenes on the administration from even their usual allies to give Hegseth the boot before he brings the whole house of cards down but they won’t because they’re all stubborn assholes so

a million American dollars to the first person to secretly plant a baby monitor in that room

it’s really depressing how little the entitled ghouls who rule over us actually know about American history

I believe a better world is possible

AGAIN!!! Support your public libraries. LIKE ACTUAL POLITICAL SUPPORT. I do not want to hear "I looooovveee my public library" from people who don't actually pay attention to whether they are being adequately funded and sustained, lol...

I know it's all DARVO but my god this makes me so mad. This useless old scrotum-looking rapist has never done a moment's work in his miserable life and he's never wanted for anything. He's just a terrible, useless person and we'll all be better off as soon as he's dead.

Looks like the next President can just declare his pardons invalid too. Why not if this is the way things roll now?

And he shall pardon thee these outrages.

I was so happy to contribute a teen gift to this toy drive that my friend @prisonculture.bsky.social is co-organizing. Everything is SO EXPENSIVE right now. Let's brighten the holiday for some young folks during this tough time. Toy link: bit.ly/48pJUrK Teen gift purchase link: amzn.to/4rDn7BG

I'm using Qobuz (and sometimes Apple Music) and it's very easy to port over and Qobuz pays artists more per track help.qobuz.com/en/articles/...

too many people are complacent when in fact what we need is to be active in preserving and EXPANDING public goods. folks need to wake up.

🎉 🎉 🎉 UK & EUROPE COVER REVEAL 🎉 🎉 🎉 The Edge of Space-Time is coming to European readers via UK publisher @canongate.co.uk on 7 May 2026! With a slightly different subtitle 😂 Preorders now open! Please support your local indie. It helps authors so much! buythebook.online/edge-of-spac... #BookSky

The sin here isn’t just this particular thing; it’s that this particular thing suggests such a slapdash and disrespectful approach to the whole project.

this has been said before a million times of course, but the fact that immigrants are all somehow BOTH destitute criminals draining government benefits AND snapping up all the best houses is a contradiction I wish these people were forced to explain every time they try to get away with it

Say more about why they are afraid to say “bombing”

Hey, it’s Giving Tuesday! Want to help kids all over the world? Clubfoot is one the most common birth differences, affecting 1 in 1000 babies. Including mine! This is Margot in her brace. Clubfoot can be fixed with simple casts and braces, but the costs add up. Enter Miracle Feet www.miraclefeet.org

Have you heard the good news? Black Zine Fair is coming back to NYC on May 9, 2026—and we need your help to have a successful event. gogetfunding.com/black-zine-f... We’re raising $20,000 to keep the fair free and accessible. If you can, please give $5, $15, $50, or more.

btw the other pic in the article features my hair of two years ago, whose curls, on several occasions, raised the dead from their graves

Let me lovingly say to the left that this bit about “who cares about the details, we understand the big picture” is stupid and dangerous and the right is winning partly because they pay very close attention to our details and exploit weaknesses accordingly

“It is reductive to say that the central fantasy of contemporary conservatism is Punching The Teacher, but it is not really wrong.” defector.com/the-conserva...

I was in the bathroom while the other boy was doing war crimes

as we approach noon on publication day for my new book of lyrics & commentary I can’t help thinking that you should totally buy my book thisyearbook.com

I think a lot about the difference between being a wimp and being a coward, and this might be it in a nutshell!

sldkfjl if they don't just let that handsome young man go at this rate

the cover story in the latest issue of my college alumni magazine is a glowing profile of a Republican judge who is apparently is a contender for a future Supreme Court seat... four paragraphs in I was like wow I'm grossed out by the writer, the subject, the subject's wife, just everyone involved

Every time I have to pay for something, I feel thankful that the fascists have saved us from the horror of affordable prices.

It is dawning on me that I am leaving New York soon and need to write a bucket list of stuff I want to do before Christmas, like go to live tapings of shows, museum exhibits, ice skating in Central Park, and notable restaurants with friends.

It's been a very busy day so am getting a late start to inviting any and everyone to support the Another World Toy Drive that I am co-organizing this season. Toy purchase link: bit.ly/48pJUrK Teen gift purchase link: amzn.to/4rDn7BG Thanks in advance for any support.

Because I don’t follow college football closely, I keep briefly thinking that “Lane Kiffin” is the name of a new Mormon wife with a secret life.

NEWSMAX CALLED HEGSETH’S ACTIONS A WAR CRIME Whew, literally everyone hates him

just wait a few years till you get to lie to them and then go home and let your siblings deal with the rest, it's amazing

Still think some weeks about how Shirley Jackson's bone ash was being gifted to select writers at a convention back in the day.

i don't want to grinch, but just for me personally, no disrespect to those who worship... the whole avatar franchise leaves me completely cold...

pro-trump asshole trying to curry favor with the president by giving to-be-determined kids pocket change to invest in the stock market that he and his billionaire friends are getting ready to crash for the third time in 20 years. thanks michael and susan

I think we have to interpret this through the lens of 1. The tanking poll numbers 2. The freak out about war crimes They are hoping some extra racism will cheer up the base and spread opposition to their political program/pogroms thinner. It’s a distraction and also the point. Simultaneous.

gonna be very, very funny if the Dems overperform in 2026 so hard that the GOP loses even some of the districts they just gerrymandered to steal. not all of them have bulletproof margins!

i cannot respect Duke till they hire a coach who is actually a duke

At the point of aging where my body still mostly works, knock wood, but I’ve started pointing and birds and trees and announcing their names.

i'm grateful there's a fervor to launch new projects and publications right now, because the times are as dire as they appear to be, and a generation of young writers is looking out at a landscape that appears to be all ash and dust

Sometimes I think about how much would be possible without this huge effort to tilt the scales in favor of the worst people

It’s Giving Tuesday. (It’s giving … Tuesday.) I really encourage you to donate to an abortion fund, which make the promise of equality real by allowing women to control their bodies and lives, pursue their dreams, and live with dignity. Find your local fund here: abortionfunds.org

I’ve been thinking for a while that the best thing we could do to reverse vaccine hesitancy is a brutal scare campaign of PSAs featuring footage of really sick people. Maybe also a short documentary everyone would have to watch and be scarred by in school

My newsletter was fire in 2025 if I may say so myself, lol. It really was though. Proud of the work and those who helped me make it happen.

omg they've got me reposting George F Will

Loved this little movie theater in my old neighborhood in Chicago and this is such great news: blockclubchicago.org/2025/12/01/r... - I saw soooo many movies here.

AI will say anything. Also, hilarious to think that there is going to be an exploding search for “British Chinese duke” in 2026. Y’all, I think I have that market COVERED

yet another immaculate Shivam thread

“The government has responded by arguing that the president's power to oversee the executive branch under Article II of the U.S. Constitution essentially overrides that core civil rights law, Nemer's attorney said.” They are gonna ask SCOTUS to gut what’s left of the Civil Rights Act

If I ever received a book review like this for a future memoir, I would genuinely move to the woods. wapo.st/49MrLqr

Not a fan of winter. Bring on spring.

Astonishing that certain people think this is an indictment of Rhodes in any way Screenshot via Jeremy Slevin on X

Y’all <curb your enthusiasm music> doesn’t quite cut it

every year I think, "okay so two hours is probably about as much time as it takes to do all these Christmas decorations" and every year I'm wrong