Most Americans - including 80% of Democrats and 41% of Republicans - think the U.S. should recognize Palestinian statehood, a sign that President Donald Trump's opposition to doing so is out of step with public opinion, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found. www.reuters.com/world/middle...

Got some good feedback on my first novel and query today. Took a moment to sit with a little discouragement (the process can at time seem very "one step forward, two steps back") but I know addressing certain things will only make the book better. Ultimately hopeful & grateful.

Every tech product is getting shittier, and it’s making tech barons richer. Bezos and his peers have made themselves into post-risk tollbooth operators, skimming profits off the economic activity of others. Maureen Tkacik reviews “Enshittification.” trib.al/nyvLlbL

“test of ceasefire“ is a hell of a euphemism

The photojournalist Sebastião Salgado documented some of the greatest human horrors of the past century, but he said, “I never. . . photograph the misery.” https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/sebastiao-salgados-view-of-humanity

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“Although there aren’t available statistics on how many N.F.L. players have made nursing their second career, The Times spoke to five current and former athletes about their decision. Some are still playing and plan to pursue nursing when they leave… while others made the shift after retirement.”

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

RIP. I gotta watch First Wives Club tonight US actress Diane Keaton dies at 79, People reports - www.bbc.com/news/article...

Still trying to find an agent for my historical fantasy novel. But started my 2nd book! A literary fiction. Already at 15 pages, and that was just from notes I was taking. Proud of the progress.

Real estate investors, both individual and institutional, bought one-third of all single-family residential properties sold in the second quarter of 2025. www.cnbc.com/2025/10/07/h...

Doing some back of the napkin math on the Free Press acquisition, I've determined The Onion is worth $2 trillion.

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

‘Catch These Hands’: The Black Boxer Trope in Fighting Video Games level.medium.com/catch-these-...

The Anime Girl through the Male Otaku Gaze medium.com/otaku-tribun...

Shinji’s War: The Masculine Self and the Feminine Other medium.com/otaku-tribun...

“I Am Not Your Doll”: Ayanami Rei, Anime Girls, and the Paradox of Emptiness medium.com/otaku-tribun...

Dartmouth response to the Trump Administration Compact president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...

This is a remarkable finding.

*A Republican lawmaker objected to reference to Charlie Kirk holding “often racist and controversial views” in local Alaska news *The corporate owner took down the story and edited it *The journalists resigned This feels like more and more of our media now. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

On Chivalry in Anime medium.com/otaku-tribun...

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

Modernity, Militarism and Monsters in ‘Mars Red’ medium.com/otaku-tribun...

it may feel a little like homework, but i genuinely think people should read the lincoln-douglas debates to see what the practical politics of anti-slavery looked like in an environment where the public was neutral to hostile to the question of emancipation

I love how all the pundits on mainstream news shows will be like “both sides” need to stop demonizing each other, and then the next day, President Trump will tweet “Democrats are demons 😈😡!“

“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler.”—JD Vance

Alot of western anime fans tend to see the secret group of a handful of men that controls the world as analogous to communism, but in the context of Japanese history, feel like they miss the fact that the common villain anime is the corporation.

We are sailing to Gaza. Here’s why. By David Adler www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Journalism should focus on the people most affected, not those in power. Keep the spotlight where it belongs: buff.ly/uQLkSFE

Trump lies like a child. Vance lies like an adult.

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

The Senate confirmed Mike Waltz to be the next U.S. ambassador to the United Nations after months of delays. Waltz was ousted as President Trump’s national security adviser in May after he mistakenly added a journalist to a private Signal chat used to discuss sensitive military plans.

If there's anything funny about this -- debatable -- it's that Trump has an entire team of Project 2025/Federalist Society ghouls who have painstakingly built a foolproof backroom legal system to legitimize fascism and then Trump just goes THEY CAN'T MAKE FUN OF ME I'LL SUE and gives it all away

“For the large majority [of the Harper’s Letter signatories,] Trump’s reign of terror has apparently been less objectionable than the irritating undergraduate and entry-level scolds of the 2010s.”

You certainly shouldn’t follow blindly, but the other side of it is you can be so skeptical that you’re gullible. People assume it’s common sense that false prophets & snake-oil salesmen only target the “sheep.” Their targets are way more often “free thinkers.”

“You used to be able to say anything” comedians never been more quiet in their lives

We have this bad tendency in our political discourse where the average person treats the Left as if it has an ideology and the Right is just reacting to it, but we don’t treat the Right as if it has an ideology and don’t consider what the Left is reacting to.

What's happening to Media Matters is such obvious bullshit. Musk's lawsuits against them are entirely frivolous, but he knows he can use his wealth to drown them in legal fees. It's disgusting.

The decadence is now total, and the GOP exists only to perpetuate a recursive cycle of abusing power to generate propaganda to justify further abuses of power, sending free society into a rapid downward spiral. www.offmessage.net/p/right-wing...

The surprising way doomscrolling rewires your brain Experts say graphic images, nonstop outrage, and the 24/7 negative news cycle don’t just upset us—they alter our stress response and harm mental health. www.nationalgeographic.com/health/artic...

New Mexico is the first state to promise free child care for all families apnews.com/article/univ...

YES WE ARE www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/b...

My Nation column: Trump as classical tyrant www.thenation.com/article/soci...

My book is absolutely great. My book is absolutely great. This is my mantra as I read it for the nth time while doing copyedit corrections. Please you guys preorder this book because I have suffered to deliver it to you lolsob (actually it really is great I’m just tired, please preorder)

Anatomy of a coup plot: why Jair Bolsonaro is on trial The former Brazilian president and seven of his closest allies are awaiting judgment – and Bolsonaro’s conviction is considered highly likely www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...