The Dog Of The South was the 21st book I've read this year. Eventually I'll get around to chronicling my 2026 reads on this app. Perhaps when term is finally over....

I finished rereading The Dog Of The South this morning during my train commute. If you haven't had the pleasure of reading this book, I highly encourage you to do so. I can not understate how much I love this book. It's so fucking funny and Charles Portis was a motherfucking genius.

I wrote this in 2020, about living with conspiracists in the early 10s. The only way I’ve ever known for folks to get out of conspiracies is work, and connecting with the broader world.

The Onion produced this as Satire less than 3 years ago. It is now reality.

Throwback to when a TV station in Iceland accidentally aired an episode of Teletubbies with subtitles from the Sopranos 👌🏼

NJ state police tonight at Delaney Hall enforcing Gov. Sherrill’s “free speech zone” by seemingly kettling protesters and booting press

Iranian FM:

"There’s the famous saying that when you’re a carpenter, every problem looks like a nail. I guess when a rising politician centers her brand on her time as a Navy helicopter pilot, every crisis starts to look like Iraq."

democratic governors doing stuff like this is worse for voter turnout than anything the american left has said or done

If Delaney Hall is just a business run by Geo Group in the State of NJ why doesn’t the Governor just shut it down? And ban Geo from ever doing business in NJ again? Because the torture and abuse happening in there then is really the Governor’s responsibility.

Delaney Hall action call in NYC subway

Lebanon invasion*

Corporate media is outraged that Mayor Mamdani isn’t attending the Israel Day parade—but the real question is: Why should any US elected attend a parade led by far right extremists who call for starvation, war crimes, genocide, and nuclear weapon use on civilians? www.qasimrashid.com/p/corporate-...

Cops busting through a barricade that they set up is pretty tough to misinterpret.

The most strategic fumble I’ve witnessed among dem leaders is letting their cops beat up their constituents. And it’s been going on for years and weakening us all. It leaves people with few options but to lose faith in the entire system. And faith is all you got because there isn’t very much proof

In this last month, Spanberger in VA & Sherril in NJ have shown that centrists will not save us. Centrists are folding in the moments we need them most. Meanwhile Mamdani in NYC has shown how progressives focused on working families & human rights get the job done. None of this is surprising. 1/2

there are a lot of criticisms to be made of Walz's response to Metro Surge but he managed to avoid the staties *being more dangerous than ICE*. This is astoundingly bad politics.

has this story broken through at all? i can’t tell.

An indelible image from outside Delaney Hall last night. (📸 by Dean Moses) www.amny.com/news/delaney...

NEW for @prismreports.org: Loved ones & supporters of Delaney Hall’s striking immigrants rally around the clock outside detention center Reportback on the situation at Delaney Hall that’s free of flashy junk distracting from the full story: prismreports.org/2026/05/28/d...

Fucking lawless psychopaths

ICE broke the finger of a Reuters photojournalist today. After two days of drenching people in pepper spray, people have been adding more and more layers of protection, rendering the spray useless and leading to ICE using their short metal batons that they swing with full force.

ICE is targeting press outside Delaney Hall

THREAD. Everything I wrote in Copaganda is becoming more relevant as they manufacture bipartisan consent for authoritarian control. And it's important to me that all my work is accessible for free. I want to remind teachers: we have free copies of the book for your students.

All available hands should converge on Delaney Hall in Newark. Including members of Congress. The hunger strikers there need to know that we support them in action, not just in spirit. ICE agents need to know that too. We may be 250 years old, but we still fight for our rights and principles.

Thankfully I am now down with that class and in my office where the aircons work. Unfortunately, it's not much cooler than my classroom was atm as it was 39°C when I got in. here. Aircons have it down to 27°C so far.

we live in hell

August 11, 2017 - white nationalists march the lawn with tiki torches, no police intervention May 4, 2024 - students protest israel's ongoing genocide of palestine, riot police beat and arrest protesters it's not about the protesting, it's what we're protesting

It is 28°C in my classroom because the aircon is not working right today for some reason. This heat is making me nauseous as fuck and the vending machine is sold out of electrolyte water.

I was pushed into moving traffic by a multi-agency riot squad when the encampment at UVA was broken up two years ago. It's a fucking terrifying experience and I can not imagine how much scarier it would have been being pushed into a highway.

NOW: I’m outside the Delaney Hall ICE prison in Newark, NJ where protesters are supporting detainees inside who are on a hunger and labor strike because of inhumane treatment. Follow this thread for updates.

A truck driver just drove by honking and yelled FUCK ICE out his window

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.

This is the most recent letter from hunger/labor striking prisoners at Delaney Hall ICE facility in Newark, NJ. "We appreciate the support of everyone who is protesting outside the facility. We want you to know that you give us the strength and determination to keep going. Please, DON’T GIVE UP!"

Canada is using borders to police Palestine solidarity, with pro-Pal advocates increasingly facing interrogations, visa revocations, and denials of entry. The weaponisation of immigration law, surveillance powers and institutional pressure is becoming normalised.

In the US media, we got a handful of initial stories about it with “allegations of sexual assault” and now crickets. The Israeli army abducted, systematically tortured, and sexually assaulted citizens of multiple countries and we’re just going to let this lie?!?

actually i kinda *do* think using genAI should be such a social faux pas that the user is marked as a pariah and no longer feels welcome in the community. "AI is bad" is no longer an abstract (it never was), my city has been under a boil water advisory for a week because of AI data centers

"This moment presents an extraordinary opportunity, one that takes Palestine out of its state of exception.. As the US empire recedes and existing systems of international governance falter, what alternative can the Global South build?" al-shabaka.org/roundtables/...

It is actually incredibly important for one of the most well regarded senators in the Democratic Party to say clearly and unequivocally that the next president should blacklist officials who aided and abetted crimes against humanity.

Van Hollen is right: Israel is guilty of ethnic cleansing, apartheid, & genocide against the Palestinian people. US officials, under Biden and Trump, who have aided and abetted these crimes by providing taxpayer dollars, bombs and political support to Israel have no place in future administrations.

Devastating memoir of Palestinian prisoner Nasser Abu Srour on surviving torture inside Israel’s prisons from 1993 until 2025. "I have decided to write because things do not find existence outside the borders of language, not even genocide." www.equator.org/articles/why...

Abrego Garcia should apply for compensation from the weaponization fund

BREAKING: Judge Waverly Crenshaw dismisses indictment of Kilmar Abrego Garcia based on selective and vindictive prosecution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Something truly miraculous happened last night: Though we had never met nor even communicated, artist Jamal Barber came to Charis Books in Atlanta and gifted me a print of his magisterial work “The Overseer Class.” I am beyond words and will let the art and our smiles explain how loved I felt.

While I'm talking about Taiwan Travelogue, I also want to take a moment to acknowledge just how phenomenal of a translator Lin King is. Rather than flattening the novel to make it more approachable to an English-speaking audience, she embraces Taiwan's multilingual past and present.

All my friends here in Taiwan who haven't read Taiwan Travelogue are now planning on reading it soon after it won the International Booker Prize yesterday. If you haven't had the chance to read it, I highly recommend you do so. It's important that you don't read the audiobook though! 1/

NEW: The Colorado Democratic Party has formally condemned and censured Governor Jared Polis for granting clemency to Tina Peters. Polis is hereby banned from speaking or being honored at party events. 90% of CDP central committee members voted to reprimand Polis.

Taiwan Travelogue wins the 2026 International Booker Prize! focustaiwan.tw/culture/2026...

In Taiwan, members of the publishing sector are not only celebrating the win, but reminding people that gov't-sponsored translation grants were recently targeted by the opposition as "wasteful", and this very writer criticized (by some in the opposition) for being "too political" and "talentless".

I am sitting here at five in the morning watching the announcement for the 2026 International Booker Prize and am crying while listening to 楊双子 and Lin King accept the prize. This is so fucking huge for Taiwanese literature and for Taiwan. I'm so god dammed happy tonight.