NEW: Here's Judge McConnell's order telling the USDA to fully pay SNAP benefits immediately. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71820...

Uninstall Grammarly NOW. They've partnered with an AI company and actively scrape your writing to train its models.

I'm not saying I'm afraid to write the end of this novel, but I'm not not saying I'm afraid to write the end of this novel.

Texas conservatives who've championed book bans & anti-LGBT policies suffered big losses tonight in school board races. And They seem to have lost their working majorities to pass their policies in big school boards. I tracked these results in FOUR boards tonight. So a 🧵 on each ICYMI.

Great news for writers: you can take a break from doom procrastinating for some hope procrastinating this morning.

The common thread between neoliberalism and despair is the refrain that nothing better is possible, that we cannot do better, that the status quo is all that can ever be achieved. And I will never, ever accept that.

HUGE THING: 100,000 people volunteered for Mamdani. 1000s volunteering for the FIRST TIME. And they just won BIG. So that's a massive army of progressives HUNGRY to keep on winning. That's worth more than all the billionaires' money. We're going to keep working. And we're going to keep winning.

Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.

We go to sleep in a better country than we woke up in. Thank you to everyone who worked for these coast-to-coast victories, for this utter repudiation of Trumpism, for economic justice and a country for all of us, not for white supremacy.

Why does @nytimes.com have their needle only when terrible people are winning?

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Hey Dems, look who won in NYC and elsewhere (VA, GA). ACT ACCORDINGLY AND START SUPPORTING PROGRESSIVE CANDIDATES!!!

Imagine what the midterms could look like next year if we support the right people.

I gotta give it up to the writers tho. If NYC elects a Muslim mayor on the day Dick Cheney died, that is one hell of a slow played story arc. Every time you want to fire 2025's writers room they give you a little narrative resolution as a treat.

JD Vance's half brother is losing 80-18 in the Cincinnati mayor race, this is why when Tangerine Palpatine is gone, this MAGA movement dies. Everyone hates JD

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

Every single county in Virginia shifted Blue.

My faith in a two-party system is at an all-time low, yet still there's my desperate, grasping hope that the wildly inept party sweep the wildly evil party the fuck out of power.

Went to drop-in adult learn-to-macrame at the Eugene Public Library. How can you be a person and not love the library?

Live your life so people aren't toggling between laughing at your death and laughing at the sandwich guy's trial.

YES YOU SHOULD VOTE IN LOCAL ELECTIONS TOMORROW EVEN IF MAMDANI IS NOT ON THE BALLOT WHERE YOU LIVE

Listening to the day‘s news is fucking harrowing.

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Me: did not watch one single game before the world series and did not know which teams were in it Also me: AMA about the ninth guy in their lineup and the 70 inning record and Springer's pain in his side and Yamamoto's 3 games and Will Smith (no, the other Will Smith) and my deep heartbreak...

I watch sports w my sports obsessed teen only bc that’s our chance to hang out. Except he left to hang out w friends an hour ago and now I’M FREAKING OUT about the World Series.

Adelita Grijalva now holds the record for longest delay between winng a special Congressional election and being sworn into office. Why the delay from Mike Johnson? Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.

Behind the scenes glimpse. Applied for 8 writing residencies for sabbatical. Had to be driving distance from Eugene & not longer than a month. So far: 2 nos 2 yeses 1 waitlist 3 waiting to hear

If you were looking to close out this spooky season with some scary good trans horror, do I have the list for you! Featuring frights by @emotrophywife.bsky.social, @ttmaddenwrites.bsky.social, @zefrrr.bsky.social, @eveharms.com , @scumbelievable.bsky.social @haileypiperfights.bsky.social, and more!

Every month for the past 3 years, my business guy husband awards his highest achieving employee an Amazon gift card. Last month, for the first time ever, an employee asked for a gift card to a local indie bookstore instead. This month, a second employee did the same. #signsofhope

So goddamn grateful for a functioning judiciary.

Cat loves to sleep on hand seems like a valid excuse for not writing.

Don't fund fascism.

One fact to add: SNAP benefits have been maintained in every previous shutdown. This is a choice they have made, not an inevitability.

The apocalypse is nigh when you agree with Josh Hawley one day and Roger Stone the next.

Enormous news for US literature. A new, Mellon-led, $50 million fund for nonprofit literary orgs and publishers. Closest thing we've ever had to it was Mellon and Wallace in 1991, which, in today's dollars, was still less than half this. Open call begins Nov 10. literaryartsfund.org/about/

My neighborhood Buy Nothing group has turned into a mutual aid grocery group. You can sign up help with someone's groceries next month. You can up for groceries if your SNAP benefits are at risk.

The government shutdown has put SNAP benefits at risk for millions of Americans. Travis Peters, an urban farmer in Detroit, is giving out free produce tomorrow 'If it's getting tight, my food is free. Don’t even sweat that'

Every thrift store & used book store is awash in HP books. Even if you're a hardcore fan, you never have to pay another cent to JK.

A portion of every dollar spent on Harry Potter merchandise goes to anti-transgender campaigns.

Not only is it going to be a hunger crisis, it's going to be a farm crisis. All those gallons of milk bought from dairy farmers, all the produce, all the on sale ground beef and packs of chicken that are paid for by SNAP are subsidies to farmers who don't qualify for commodities subsidies.

Deliciousness on the heart. And the Author's Note by @miriamgershow.bsky.social at the end of this goodness.

“Needles hold on the fir trees, but needles aren’t the same as leaves.” So much said in the between moments. Love this piece by @miriamgershow.bsky.social in @lit-namjooning.bsky.social

As we head into the weekend, take a moment to read this masterclass in white space by @miriamgershow.bsky.social. "Delicious Trees" will make you feel things. Read here: literarynamjooning.wixsite.com/litnam/post/... #namjooning #namjooningbutliterary

Holy shit! That motherfucker TORE DOWN THE WHITE HOUSE!

I wish people defended smeared victims of sexual violence the way they defend problematic male candidates for office

We're in a hellscape, but thanks to @gregpak.net, @tombofnull.bsky.social & @greenpeapress.bsky.social, I now have this kickass shirt.

This whole thing is incredible, but look how his hand is shaking when he points at the guys who are being hassled. He's scared, he's angry, he's pounding with adrenaline, but he's maintaining control of himself and not backing down. He's taking a stand, whatever the cost.