Holy hell. Never seen a Series like this. #WorldSeries

Vlad Jr for MVP!

That’s how you do it! #GoJays

Congrats to our 2025 Best Spiritual Literature nominees!

Regardless of who wins, Toronto fans are the best. Compared to tonight, Dodgers’ Stadium was crickets.

Oh my god, Springer. A madman. #baseball #bluejays

Oh my goodness. Such a relief not to have baseball to watch so I can get a decent sleep! See you in Toronto and GO JAYS! #WorldSeries #baseball

It’s been so long since I watched baseball, I forgot how much I love it. Thank you, Blue Jays! #BlueJays

John Smolz keeps saying “This is just a big kid who loves baseball” when describing Ohtani and I thinks it’s kind of awkward. #WorldSeries

Vichy universities don’t deserve alumni donations

MLB on Fox is STILL showing the Reagan anti-tariff ad during the World Series!!

#BirdOfTheDay #sunlit A great blue heron reminding us he is a dinosaur.

Damn! I’m watching the World Series streaming on Fox (!) and they just showed the Ronald Reagan « tariffs are bad » ad that had the White House having a hissy fit this morning !

Well you don’t see that every day….

FFS UVA you spineless wonder.

#nokings Carlisle. Deep in central Pennsylvania. Tons of anti-Trump vets. My feet hurt but that’s how you know it was a good one.

Let me get this right. A bunch of 20 year old students chanting “Free Palestine!”: terrorists and anti-Semites. A bunch of 30 year -old GOP party operatives texting “I love Hitler” and “bring back the gas-chambers”: boys will be boys.

“Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I’m one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the ‘guilty,’ but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451, 1951.

This is a green heron. He’s very small for a heron, and not really green, but he just finished gobbling down two fresh minnows and I like him.

Killer Rabbits. Royal MS 10 E IV, f. 59v-61v, 1340s. www.bl.uk/stories/blog... #BookologyThursday

Found this tiny visitor on my desk today.

Rest in Peace, Assata Shakur. And thank you,

In the middle of a long-overdue LeGuin reread. Only in silence the word, Only in dark the light, Only in dying life: Bright the hawk’s flight On the empty sky. #bookologyThursday

Who had purge of the military on their Facism Playbook Bingo card today?

I love the National Park Service.

Went for my daily turtle walk. My daughter, pensively: “If I had a turtle I’d call him turtlelini.” Dear readers, she is 32.

5 minutes from home… I met this lovely family. #ForestFriday

Reading by the pond as resistance. Terrance Hayes wrote these poems during the first 200 days of the first Trump presidency. They are ever more relevant and brilliant.

John Donne, man...never fails to take my breath away. Batter my heart, three person'd God, for you As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend; That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new... No one every wrote a hotter poem about Jesus.

Days when I feel like this angry snail-cat. Maastricht Hours, Netherlands, 14th century.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Incredibly proud to be included in this issue!

College students and one professor being indoctrinated… into bird watching.

Meanwhile... www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

US political violence overwhelmingly comes from the right - the side that calls for, glorifies, & literally pardons it

They're gonna turn today into Nazi MLK Day, aren't they?

Unfortunately…

It is tragic when innocent people are shot. www.wcpo.com/us-news/crim...

My god I never thought I'd agree with Rand Paul about anything and yet here we are... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

TRT World’s new documentary 'Under an Olive Tree' tells the story of Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who left Seattle to support the Palestinian people. She was killed by an Israeli sniper under an olive tree in the occupied West Bank. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5xM...

Anecdote: tried to buy fish sauce (nam pla) in the grocery store today. They were out. I figured I’d walk across to the so-called farmer’s market where I knew there were a couple of Asian stalls. I asked at the first. “I’m all out,” the guy said. “It’s gone up 50%. Also nori for making sushi!”

Trust me. I’m a Professor of Arthurian literature.

Half of registered U.S. voters say Israel committing genocide in Gaza, poll finds www.haaretz.com/us-news/2025...

“Too hungry to think, too weak to sit upright. Concentration slips away’: the struggle to stay focused as an academic in Gaza. www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Great headline: "Senior Pentagon official had affair with ‘notorious’ astrologer who stalked him, lawsuit says." Not sure I need to read further.

Rereading The Obelisk Gate, second in Jemisin’s Broken Earth trilogy. So unbelievably brilliant, painful and true. Best SF writer of the 21st century (so far).

Jewish space laser chick now acknowledging genocide in Gaza… yes of course it is a genocide but ugh. I cannot even begin to express my disgust at her opportunism. Liberate Gaza. Now. It’s already too late for 100,000+