Here’s something important to know about all of the Republicans who are clapping as Trump attacks Social Security: All of them will be returning to their states and districts next week for congressional recess. Start planning to hold them accountable now: indivisible.org/muskorus

It’s not much to ask.

1000 kitchens in Sudan closed by the USAID closures. Staggering to think of.

City Paper Shouts out me and my books: "His characters live and breathe with profound honesty even when his narrative borders on the surreal. He’s a masterful storyteller, and you’ll regularly find his short fiction in my syllabi, and in the syllabi of countless other professors across the country."

I'm gonna keep reposting examples of people not taking shit because it's important for us to see that you can, simply, reject the shit. Say "Uh... no no no, we will not be tolerating that."

A very good website by former federal employees of the digital service www.ethebuilders.org

More than any other quality, what defines broad swaths of my fellow Americans is not apathy, but dishonesty: intellectual dishonesty; emotional dishonesty; spiritual dishonesty. Dishonesty about what we’ve done, about what we’re doing, about what we’re going to do as a people.

Criminalizing... librarians? Really? It's like they fear knowledge.

Don’t buy stuff on February 28. Money’s the only thing these dicks understand. #resist

This is a good letter, well annotated. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

This, in Massachusetts.

Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

This family in Gaza is fundraising for a new tent. gofund.me/4376239b

Gov Hochul can fire the mayor. She should have done so when the scope and scale of his cascading congenital corruption career was laid out in federal indictments. She waited for him to go to trial. Now that injustice has taken its course she is the only reason he remains in office. Step up Hochul.

Quisling indeed.

I wrote about how Doge is involved in cutting cancer research www.vanityfair.com/news/story/d...

"Cats that became infected with bird flu might have spread the virus to humans in the same household and vice versa, according to data that briefly appeared online in a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention but then abruptly vanished." www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

Department of Education plays a crucial role in making sure disabled kids receive the same access to education across states, and distributes funding for the needed accommodations.

I meant to link this article as part of my last post. But, sadly, the post also works on its own. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/06/h...

Heartless. Cruel and heartless, the whole thing.

Democratic senators will hold the Senate floor all night long in opposition to the nomination of Russ Vought, an organizer of Project 2025, to head the OMB.

"If state governments can find the political will to seize his assets and destroy the basis of his wealth, they should. If foreign governments can, they should do the same." www.liberalcurrents.com/elon-musk-is...

I think we can safely say that folks are paying attention. If you're looking for ways to take action to fight back against the Trump-Musk Coup, we've got you covered with call scripts, email tools, explainers, and toolkits over at @indivisible.org: indivisible.org/coup Lots more coming this week.

What a journey it’s been from Hillary using a private email server to an unelected billionaire hijacking the Treasury and stealing all of our data

We worked for months with USAID to build an $85,000,000 project to end TB in two regions of the Philippines. The project is funded by private money, the Philippine government, and matching USAID funds. It could provide a blueprint for eliminating TB worldwide--except it's...not happening.

This is not "efficiency". www.propublica.org/article/trum...

It is Friday afternoon of a wild, wild week. And yet for me a reassuring one. My greatest fear was not of what they would do. It's that we would let them. And I'm seeing a lot of beautiful intransigence. From federal workers. From people all over the country obstructing ICE....

I needed to be reminded today that it's only been a week. A single abhorrent week.

🚨 🚨 🚨 HOMEWORK 🚨 🚨 🚨 The email address for federal workers to inform on their colleagues is [email protected]. Would be a real shame if folks flooded that inbox, rendering it useless.

My friend and editor put it perfectly today. "The news makes me flinch away and look all at once."

let's remember that it was an NIH scientist who designed the core of the Moderna Covid vaccine *over a single weekend*

This map shows how much NIH funding goes to your state. I used the info on my state when I called officials to ask them to push back against the freeze. And if I can do it when my senators are Katie Britt and Tommy Tuberville...well, I mean... www.unitedformedicalresearch.org/nih-in-your-...

Need to cleanse my own feed with this.

Trump's promised executive order against "gender ideology" is ugly and dangerous, and also, like everything with Trump, contains few specifics and is meant to terrify people into self-repression. Here's my attempt to refocus on the fight ahead:

It was a joy to work with Walker Rutter-Bowman on these beauties!

This whole explainer is excellent and clarifying.

Seems like some people watch The Sound of Music and think "those sneaky Von Trapps, just you wait."

When Trump first took office in 2017, the EPA was preparing to publish a report on the toxicity of formaldehyde. But one of his EPA appointees had worked to fend off regulation of the chemical as a Koch Industries employee. The report was not released until Aug. 2024, long after the appointee left.

Chuck, you have a book called Antisemitism in America coming out in March. Care to say anything about the Nazi salutes we all witnessed today?

I want a "joy & spite" t shirt to wear for the next number of years.

How to spend today

I'm prioritizing my mental health today and mostly burying my head in the sand. I'm also trying to support where I can. Like this family. gofund.me/55670397

I absolutely love teaching this craft intensive @tinhouse.bsky.social on writing artist statements and not letting them stop you from applying to things! There are few spots left for this Saturday's session. Join me! tinhouse.com/product/wint...

In case you missed it over the holidays, Authors Against Book Bans @authorsabb.bsky.social has posted a list of demands for publishers asking for a recommitment to the freedom to read as we prepare for 2025. If you're an author please send it to your editor! lithub.com/authors-agai...

The Flooding Will Come “No Matter What” The complex, contradictory and heartbreaking process of American climate migration is underway. By @abrahm.bsky.social