Reunion fatigue?? I can't imagine being tired of celebrating championships, especially after 108 years. Maybe writers are tired of it? PS We never forgive or forget, especially the Chapman acquisition and Rizzo not getting vaccinated. See you at Wrigley Saturday.

Jim Acosta makes it clear on my SiriusXM show that TV networks that air Trump's speech Thursday night filled with "lies, conspiracy theories and his election bullshit" are "betraying America." He's 100% right! Watch full interview here: youtu.be/kAc-7XtdUJI?...

Not a teacher, not a librarian, not a drag queen. It's a DHS employee! www.yahoo.com/news/us/arti...

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Great point.

I love this feature from @birdmotif.alextey.co (with photos!) on trans girl baseball and how much it rocks: defector.com/trans-girl-b...

ICE murdered multiple people in the last week, and Tom Homan said in June they arrested the most people ever in the history of the agency. Yesterday’s Minneapolis ICE flight had 45 detainees which was the highest single day total since February 4th. ICE never left & your neighbors still need you.

@maggiehendricks.bsky.social hey Maggie? Can you DM me your email address? I have something I want to share with you that we talked about at the UC a few weeks ago.

Good morning, Michiganders. Today it will be unsafe to breathe outside without a mask, eat salad, be outside for too long in the heat, be away from a toilet, and count on the electric grid to hold up under peak demand. Also, our additional escape route to Canada is still closed. Have a pleasant day.

MLB is like the Democratic Party in that they’re deeply concerned about popularity and all their actions seem to be aimed at capturing some mythical person who has never become a baseball fan and will probably never become a baseball fan meanwhile baseball fans are yelling PLEASE JUST PLAY BASEBALL

Maybe they should just practice locking the door and turning off the lights and remaining silent while hiding under their desks…or is that just appropriate for kindergartners? 

It reminds me of what Michelle Obama said. She's been in rooms with all of the male world leaders and most of them are not that bright. That's why they minimize women and people of color. So we don't find out that we could do it so much better.

Excuse me who is under the stress now? "The administration's stepped up pressure to increase arrests has put officers under “too much stress."

Invoking the threat to "public safety" to justify state violence against politically disfavored populations is a well worn trope in the historical racially disparate policing of the mobility of people of color who are simply going about their lives. Two recent books on that topic are:

it was probably a mistake teaching him to read

This does a good job of summing it up. #AiIsTheProblem #TecLiteracy

If maga is 30% of the country, If something is widespread through maga, it's still not very popular. Yes, they have a lot of power right now, but their ideas are not as popular as the media makes them out to be.

Weird to be told by politicians that gender studies has no place in higher education when our politics are ALL GENDER ALL THE FUCKING TIME.

Yup.

I had a very girl power weekend. It's always good to have reminders of how hard women have fought for the right to vote/improve the lives of people. If you don't know who Julia Lathrop is, look her up. You're probably as exhausted as I am, but we cannot give up now. We are not going back. #nokings

JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon has received a letter from Sen. Elizabeth Warren demanding answers on whether he lobbied the U.K. government against a tax on bankers' bonuses on the advice of Jeffrey Epstein. tinyurl.com/3vvsrh5t

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Go after the lawyers and a lot of Trump world falls apart.

BREAKING: A federal judge just nullified Trump’s $1.776 billion IRS “settlement,” ruling it had “no viable basis in law or fact,” finding there was never a real legal dispute, and referring Trump’s attorney to The Florida Bar for possible discipline.

Tonight! Monday, July 13 at 7:00 pm! I'll be at Anderson's Bookshop in Naperville, Illinois in conversation with Caro Macon Fleischer about Man Overboard! and signing copies with my seahorse pen and seahorse stamp! See you there!

www.espn.com/college-spor... University of Michigan budget: $15.6 BILLION University of Michigan athletic budget: $266.3 MILLION Athletics is less than 2% of the budget. College sports are a small business relative to universities do and regents spend too much time thinking about this.

Book mail! @illinoispress.bsky.social

To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.

Holy wow.

This. I was disappointed in her vote for the Iraq War, but I knew she did it just so she would show she wasn't soft. She was in a no win situation.

Many older adults navigate aging on their own — without children or a spouse. An expert says this is "a reality to be supported" rather than a crisis to be solved.

"Our pilot brought us safely through some really horrible conditions, so she must be unqualified for the job."

Republicans in Tennessee have taken control over the Memphis airport, taken its control over its schools, taken its control over its police, sicced the military on Memphians, taken its representative in Congress, and taken its state lawmakers’ committee seats. This is the result.

Haha this is why I have a spreadsheet.

This is what democracy looks like.

I believe this. Congress better be planning to appropriate a big pile of money to fix what he broke, knock down what he built and build what he knocked down.

You will learn more about writing from this method than from using AI.

Maybe books are gathering dust for a reason. Maybe no one's reading them because they're not any good. Maybe they're out of date. I'm not opposed to giving out free books but I'm not sure this is as great as it's cracked up to be. I dunno. FYI it's fine to recycle books nobody wants.

So many posts on here lately saying, "This person is a liar. Here are some quotes from this liar." Why are we sharing liars? Don't we know who the liars are? Share high quality writers on important topics. Don't share liars. Nothing good can come from sharing liars. Thank you for your attention.

So many announcers are just not good. You add junk in like this and sports are very difficult to watch sometimes.

Once again @juliedicaro.bsky.social hits the nail right on the head. If you don't want to create story ideas, write, rewrite, etc, why are you thinking you're a writer. What are you getting out of it besides ridicule? There are plenty of places to find that. Pick a different lane. It's really okay.

When I took office, we set out to change the trajectory of Illinois by restoring fiscal responsibility, investing in our people, and rebuilding confidence in our state. Our work is paying off — and businesses are taking notice.

This.

Did people really understand that he destroyed the WH? The peoples house?

Mitch McConnell hasn’t been seen or heard from in 25 days in the hospital. Yet he still has a job, still getting paid, and getting unlimited world class healthcare. The man who voted against a living wage, against universal healthcare, and against guaranteed paid leave, is now getting all three.

BTW the version of this in Iowa (where they have since mandated students take courses) was hiring an executive director making close to half a million a year. These things are basically welfare for right wing pundits.

We can see this in the ICE flight data. Domestic “round-up” flights are spiking, and some activist flight watchers report the flights are getting fuller. But deportation and removal flights remain steady. This means the concentration camps are getting packed to the brim. It’s awful to comprehend.

The Democrats are so bad at everything.