If I ever said this to a source or member of the public while reporting, I would be fired.

Russia has issued a warning to the United States and other countries with diplomats in Kyiv, urging them to flee or face what it called “systematic strikes” on the Ukrainian capital.

(stares directly at camera) bsky.app/profile/nytd...

The UFC is a great example of everything that's gone wrong in American pop culture, sports, and the economy generally over the past few decades: an organization run entirely for the benefit of its owners that leaves broken minds and bodies in its wake while catering intentionally to awful people.

This is an absolutely hilarious coming from an Uber exec. No ROI on AI tools, you say?? Hrm!

these cretins will, without fail, reveal that they haven’t read a book since ninth grade (Orwell, etc.), didn’t even understand *that* book, hated their teacher for making them read at all, hate anyone who studied or attempted their own literature, and still demand a whiter cast for big poem movie

As always, the thing that’s so hard for me about this is I WOULD LOVE TO DO THIS JOB! I used to do it, at a lower title and salary, and I was really good at it! We unionized BECAUSE we loved our jobs!

oh they're hiring editors again??? what an interesting reversal! life comes at you fast!!!

50% of American workers say they want to join unions, but 10% of workers are IN unions. Where’s the disconnect, you might wonder? The game is rigged. www.epi.org/publication/...

Tell them this is a chance for MA to lead in education and to push back on Trump's agenda--not only symbolically but practically!

The last thing you see before opening ChatGPT

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

seeing so many "sportsball" posts today and it's so gauche. it's fine to not follow/care about sports, but let's not pretend your refusal to participate in communal excitement makes you special/interesting. your scorn doesn't make you superior, and "sportsball" is le-epic-random-bacon tacky.

One of the many sources cited in the new papal encyclical is... Gandalf

sports are great. ppl who would have stood in silence are smiling and chatting on the train platform today. ppl on the sidewalk are nodding at each other instead of just passing. strangers are high fiving. isn't that what you want your community to feel like? it's nice to celebrate together.

i love her make her president

The Strangers discourse is pretty unsurprising tbh. Wealth begets more wealth. Money for fancy school, summer houses, nannies and the meeting of spouses with more money facilitate writing time and skill to get book on bestseller list to make more money, to get written about in the New Yorker...

We used to live in an era when messy personal writing by women was all over the place, and I think we’ve missed it.

I wrote about the books that are inspiring so many heated takes right now, and how they allow us to question where we are and what our feminist ideals have become. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

"Let us add gladiatorial obscenity to the wreckage here."

I would truly enjoy if someone wrote a book about reforestation and called it Little Firs Everywhere

Thinking about how my grandfather (b. 1910), a blue collar dude who didn't go to college and worked as a tool and die man in the auto industry his entire career, just casually had a bunch of classic poems memorized that he was delighted to recite for you on request, and was not abnormal in this

It speaks so badly of our attention economy that John Fetterman is the topic of endless conversation for being an unhinged jerk, while Andy Kim from right next door gets such little hype for being a decent human being

In addition to building 200,000, the Zohran administration also plans to preserve and stabilize an additional 200,000 homes, bring the total of new rent stabilized units to 400,000 within 10 years.

🚨Bad news. A THIRD National book banning bill has passed committee in the house.🚨 Meet the CHARLIE act that will prohibit the teaching of what they call: equity ideology (not white supremacist jingoistic history) More from @authorsabb.bsky.social when we have it. www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...

This is a really important piece from @joyurcaba.bsky.social. Most people think that the government's restrictions on health care for trans people was limited to minors (which has been the government's messaging). It's not, and people need to know about it.

BREAKING: The Trump administration is planning to implement NDAs for all federal workers. The draft of this proposed rule is already out, according to the Washington Post, and will be published tomorrow.

Many thanks to @literaryhub.bsky.social for letting me go off on one of my favourite topics (and a question I am asked very often): why do we like the bad guys so much? Here's to all the fiction villains who did irrevocable damage to my brain during my formative years. lithub.com/villains-are...

It's a huge mistake to "adjust to" or "adapt" to generative AI. There's rarely been a more clearcut situation to reject vehemently for so many reasons. One reason beyond those that apply now is the future capacity for proactive manipulation and distortion. We need less outside interference not more.

Aside from voting, jury duty is the one other form of direct participation in democracy we have. Show up and do your part. It’s never been more important.

I dunno, kids right now log onto social media and post about how people born before 2000 were basically superhuman. "You could write a 10-page paper without ChatGPT!? 😭 HOW?!" "Before smart phones people used their mind to think thoughts when there was time to kill?🤯" etc.

i love that Rogan Josh is the name of a delicious lamb curry. in english Rogan Josh sounds like a middle aged white guy who got banned from his favorite sports bar for loudly promoting the theory that HGH is a reasonable substitute for metamucil

ICE flights. Monday, May 25, 2026. (Thank you, @imethannm.bsky.social, for flagging that GlobalX recently bought two more planes. There are a handful of ICE flights over the past month that I missed. Amended now.)

We just learned last week that Kat was never truly indicted. The grand jury in Chicago returned a no true bill. Prosecutors then had to tell anyone who didn't want an indictment to leave and cajole someone in the hallway until they returned an indictment. Please, go to jury duty and raise hell.

“buh buh he won a multiracial working class coalition in 2024.” he performed a little worse than george w. bush in 2004. and that performance doesn’t somehow obliterate the ideological content of what he and his movement are selling.

of course to answer that question you have to answer a more fundamental one: who counts as american? and then you start getting into the actual fractures that define this country and the actual reason donald trump became a political force.

i think you have to understand an argument like the one in this book as fundamentally about stitching together an electoral coalition because as an analysis it falls painfully short, i.e. at what point in our history were americans ever united in “common purpose?” bsky.app/profile/chri...

I talked to to Hannah Lillith Assadi about writing PARADISO 17, a novel inspired by the life of her Palestinian father who was expelled during the Nakba and traveled the world searching for home. countercraft.substack.com/p/processing...

so many lines in this made me laugh

"You know what true Hell is? Watching the same country that forced you to resign in disgrace collectively shrug its shoulders every time the current president takes to Truth Social to brag about committing another felony."

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

Can’t believe that Andy Kim is in two of the most haunting pictures of the last few years.

They want it to discipline labor btw

Once again, inevitable question: if this is what they’re doing to Senator Kim in front of cameras, what are they doing to the detained people inside that facility bsky.app/profile/davi...

Anyone have any recommended essays on the structure of romance novels? I have a student writing about their effect on him and I'd like him to consider the way they structure his expectations.

I’d argue governors being denied access to federal law enforcement facilities in their state is part of what I call slow civil war.

Big day to be Catholic and an LOTR nerd

that student? herman melville