I know it’s not true or even possible but I always feel like “Jessie’s Girl,” “Is She Really Going Out with Him,” and “Somebody’s Baby” are all written about the same person.

Richest nation in human history

“Running Up That Hill” gets all the love and attention (because it rules and because of its objectively perfect use in STRANGER THINGS), but do people know that “Cloudbusting” is so good that regularly listening to it can *actually change your life?*

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

I will never understand the people who can look at this and shrug.

I’m so psyched for this! Right now I’m frantically trying to finish up a few new additions—and there’s also one proposed feature to this release that means so much to me I actually can’t allow myself to think about it until it’s done—but in the meantime, getcher preordering fingers a-whirling!

*smiles in accountability*

We're all going to write pieces about what you can learn from tonight but it's actually pretty simple: The frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

HUGE congratulations to all the Mamdani campaign volunteers. Y'all did that shit.

Hell yes.

Zohran was polling at six percent in January. Nothing is impossible

Goodness. Closing beautifully with Vito Marcantonio: “If it be radicalism to believe that our natural resources should be used for the benefit of all, and not for the purpose of enriching just a few, then I plead guilty to the charge.”

So many people were detained extrajudicially, were tortured, or died because of Dick Cheney. You can't get to the danger we're in now without everything he did. The weapons he helped forge are ones we need to take away from U.S. presidents forever.

They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue. The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point. They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.

The Hasidic Jewish Community Council of Williamsburg is endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social !!! Tell me again about the antisemitism hysteria, centrist mainstream US rabbis, tell me. Via Rabbi @abbystein.bsky.social

People fucking hate this guy. They fucking hate ICE. They fucking hate how much power he has. He is at 63% overall disapproval to 37% approval. That's lower than their poll after January 6th. And this poll was done before he started intentionally starving people. I wish our media would reflect this.

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Early this morning, our city still plunged into darkness, I set off to walk the Brooklyn Bridge. As the sun came up, we were joined by canvassers, labor leaders, elected officials, and working people — a movement to bring a new day to our city. Tomorrow, we win it together.

Trump Writes Netanyahu Strongly Worded Check

Every kids-on-bikes story needs that climactic bike ride. I'm writing mine right now . . . 😈

The Twisted Spine in NYC has been open less than 2 months and has already become a beloved fixture in the horror book community. On Oct. 30, they were hit by the remnants of Hurricane Melissa, which resulted in flooding. They need our help now! Please share far and wide: gofund.me/96586c695

Zohran Mamdani marching across the Brooklyn Bridge with supporters, including Tish James and Brad Lander, before delivering his closing campaign message in City Hall Park.

woof

Fun fact about this gif: I had to see a therapist for a while when I was a kid in part because I thought it’d be cool to recreate this moment from THE CROW with lighter fluid on a friend’s neighbor’s driveway. (It was cool.)

Since people are tagging me, it looks like it's officially official!

Teen Vogue possesses more integrity and professionalism than NYT and WaPo combined.

What if we invented a machine that reminded Americans they hate Republican governance *before* immensely consequential elections?

RIP Adam Greenberg He was the superb cinematographer who shot Near Dark (watch it!), Terminator 2: Judgment Day and, of course, The Terminator, which means he’s responsible for one of my favourite shots in cinema that also coined a new genre for its film:

older guy on the N train started screaming about the mayoral race and i was like here we go but then it turns out he was just telling everyone about all the bad shit cuomo did. greatest city in the world baby!

Happy 2nd Birthday to my Halloween baby (which I just recently learned is in its 11th printing??)!! I’m so beyond grateful to all you readers and posters and reviewers—and, of course, to my dear Nightfire, who lets me write strange & spooky books about horrifying things. Thank you thank you! 🙏❤️🗽💀🪹

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BIG NEWS ALERT BIG BEWS ALERT Happy Halloween, ya creeps. Some fun-size horror treats will be coming your way soooon …

i’m continually struck by the joy zohran has brought to this election and the absolute venom with which it’s been met.

My wife once learned she was the secret love child of Ina Garten and Danny DeVito and she felt really insecure about it, so I assured her, “Ina Garten/Devito Baby, don’t you know that I love you?”

A common theme of Trump II is an utterly cowardly class of elites while everyday regular people have risen to the occasion

Have you experienced the gory glory that is WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME on *audio* yet? Narrator Helen Laser delivers an emotionally grounded, terror-inducing read for the ages (I sure have been spoiled by impeccable narrators, haven’t I?). Perfect for autumnal strolls past malevolent decorations …

New Quinnipiac University poll out today and hoo boy. If you can vote in New York or know people who can, then you need to activate. Not liking this Q-Poll trend as the racist attacks have mounted. Oct. 23-27: Mamdani +10 Oct. 3-7: Mamdani +13 Sep. 4-8: Mamdani +16

Imagine anyone in a leadership position in ANY other industry who's allowed to pretend to be this uninformed by current *industry-specific* events.

Truly hard to imagine we don't reach Bastille-storming levels of anger in this country sooner rather than later.

For all its prescience about our current era, one aspect of BRAVE NEW WORLD I haven't seen appreciated is how, in Chapter 3, it seems to predict an uncannily accurate method of quick-cut film montage in the way it jumps line-by-line between three different scenes.

New Yorkers: we have to run it through the tape for Mamdani. Assume nothing until it’s all over. Vote, and get everyone you know to vote. We all know how things have gone in the last decade when folks got comfortable thinking we had it in the bag. It’s not over until it’s over.

The MSM in the U.S. is overwhelmingly white. This explains A LOT.

And here it is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=06NB...

Just realized I’m about to speak on a panel with a National Book Award finalist and a Pulitzer finalist and I once wrote a play where someone said, “I wanna wear you like a pair of fuckstockings.”

HAPPY JANZDAY TO ALL

If you listen carefully you can almost hear a rose singing …

Again, it’s hierarchy, not hypocrisy. They believe their people are above the law, and everyone else is subject to whatever they say the law is.

My latest. "Do not allow your values to be captured and contained behind a screen in a cycle of inactive reaction. Jailbreak your cynicism and isolation, and escape your devices. Bring your hope, rage, and potential into the world."