Autumn is here, and so are the cyclamen! Happy autumnal equinox, the beginning of my favourite season. 🌱

“history doesn’t repeat itself, but it rhymes” - mark twain

@momebie.bsky.social and I were JUST talking about how nice it would be to go out dancing among people our age and then get home at a reasonable hour.

NYC, if this makes you angry, come to the New Yorkers Against ICE rally on 9/25 at Foley Square!

This is really fascinating because the automatic stay is a long-standing part of the immigration detention system. It's been in use for decades.

Jfc is not adequate 😮‍💨

Such an important thread.

Add me to those saying it’s crucial to acknowledge anti-authoritarian successes. Harvard and NYT are fighting in court instead of folding. Pritzker and other IL leaders kept Nat. Guard troops out of Chicago. Grand juries reject frivolous charges; many lower court judges uphold the law. And more

Current Mood:

It is a Monday in the WORST way today. 😭😭😭

“Federal regulators can fine hospitals hundreds of thousands or even millions of dollars if too many of their patients get hospital-acquired infections. Some hospital leaders, realizing that if they don’t look for infections, they won’t find them, are discouraging testing, clinicians told STAT”

Wow. After being fired from @washingtonpost.com, my Substack, The Golden Hour, has been #1 rising bestseller in Culture for three days. Thank you all for the support!! Please subscribe! substack.com/@karenattiah...

And fandoms, especially those studied by fan studies for decades, have been seen as queer spaces partially for being empowered to speak back against established power structures. So of course those besieged power structures are pushing back. And even hosting could be endangered if they go after

And this is why I will scream from the rooftops that if you write romance (any heat level/pairing) or queer fiction and especially anything steamy/erotic you must have a website you can backup and move - NOT Wix/Weebly/Squarespace that lock you into their platforms. I lived through LJ/strikethrough.

Easy fix, we just train more doctors. How long does it take to make a doctor, maybe 3 months tops?

Today’s “One First” looks at the status of the birthright citizenship cases—and their broader lessons for what we miss when we ignore the cases in which the Trump administration is both (1) losing; and (2) *not* seeking emergency/expedited appellate relief. It turns out that those are the majority:

To be clear: this entire “we’ve got to run more pro-lifers” insanity is because literally a week ago polling showed that Democrats would prefer politicians like AOC and Mamdani over Jefferies and Schumer by, let me emphasize this, a 20 point fucking margin. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

"history is also going to remember the cowards who definitely knew better but still let things happen—whether it was for money, convenience, or just comfort. Use ... the only phrase that can genuinely make a weak bully go away: F**k you. Make me.”" www.pajiba.com/news/john-ol...

happy Monday, all. (690 days sober.)

"When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross." Sinclair Lewis

Remember that MLK said America suffers not just from "the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people but for the appalling silence of the good people."

BEWARE: Surveys that allow anyone to "opt in" are vulnerable to those who create many accounts (using VPN to bypass IP limits) & use automated tools to generate bogus responses (such as saying "yes" to question about being licensed to operate nuclear submarines). www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

Spectacular octopus from the floor of the women’s changing room at the Central Baths in ancient Herculaneum. This magnificent #Roman monochrome mosaic makes quite an impact! 📷 by me #MosaicMonday #Archaeology

You want to read this story. I promise. www.democracydocket.com/analysis/how...

youtu.be/vJti9VmzRIs?... Fans use their fandoms as coping mechanisms all the time. Believing in The Rapture makes it easy to not have to care about others who refuse to convert. Only True Fans, after all, will be saved. And every time a prediction is false, rationalization about wrong calculations

THE GUNSLINGER ON THE BEACH (1982) Acrylic on Board - 28" x 18" The winter months of 1980-81 were tough. My wife and I became parents with the arrival of our daughter in November, and I needn't tell anyone who has children what that means in terms of lifestyle changes...like lack of sleep. 1/4

🧵I posted before about Kirk & the Seven Mountain Mandate This cannot be taken lightly Kirk was deeply associated with the Christian nationalist “dominionist” movement, which asserts that Christians have been called to exert God’s will on society The last part of this thread sums it up with Trump

Quick reminder that it's 100% fine to be autistic.

Tomorrow we’re watching this race for Georgia senate. Georgia, go vote!

WSJ: "Cardboard-box demand is slumping .. to the lowest levels since 2016. On a per-capita basis, the drop is even sharper, with box shipments per American down more than 20% from their 1999 peak." @wsj.com www.wsj.com/business/car...

THIS THIS THIS. And the list still exists and is still targeting people.

"10 years after the Paris Agreement, governments plan to produce more than double the volume of fossil fuels in 2030 than would be consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5°C" Stark "production gap" report from @unep.org today www.sei.org/publications...

Alex O’Keefe was taken off a train in handcuffs for Sitting On A Train While Black after some racist old KKKunt had the police called on him. www.lbc.co.uk/article/bear...

happy first day of fall, crush some foliage and snort it, grab every pumpkin flavored item you see, roll around in the dressing room of a Spirit Halloween, yell at the sun, scare someone

"The high-water mark of America’s influence over the world has come and gone. All empires are transitory, right? If you rise, you’re inevitably going to stagnate and fall," says American political history author and podcaster @mikeduncan.bsky.social. Interview: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

Vertical rows are the agrivoltaic winner! “The vertical panels produce slightly less electricity—but with higher value, as generation peaks coincide with morning and late afternoon demand…The crops don't seem to mind the presence of solar panels and they like the wind protection they provide.”

it's really jarring to see how little media attention the assassination of Minnesota House Speaker Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark and their dog Gilbert received in comparison to the notable death of a non-elected leader of a right-wing organization.

Absolutely terrible, terrible news. Trinity University has announced that Trinity University Press will close at the end of the fiscal year--described by one author as a "South Texas outlet for stories and culture" for which there is no replacement frankly. Awful. www.tpr.org/arts-culture...

A useful distraction from the news, take a short trip with me into the world of movie soundtracks. How the 1980s solidified soundtrack culture while also playing a role in launching the PMRC investigation into dangerous music, landing us the iconic "parental advisory" logo.

Thrilled to see growing consensus that Dems must step up in the Continuing Resolution fight. Key to doing so? Refuse to frame this as "shutting down government." Instead, call it what it is - refusing to be an accomplice to turning the government into a weapon against the American people.

L'shanah tovah, friends. Here's to letting our light shine in 5786, and doing what we can to build a better world. (Link to this poem, and to my other new years' poems, in thread.)

Before we drop clues on where we've placed our cover, you must read @stevenlevy.bsky.social's piece on just WTF happened to Silicon Valley. Tech got what it wanted by electing Trump. A year later, it looks more like a suicide pact.

Big Tech's embrace of President Trump has left many of us wondering: What the hell happened to Silicon Valley? In our new politics issue, we're getting into it. Also, we're taking this cover across the US in billboards, posters and a mural. Clues to find us in the 🧵: www.wired.com/politics-iss...

“Paused” majors at Syracuse include Classics, Modern Jewish Studies, and Religion, as well as French, German, Italian, Russian

“Syracuse University paused admission to 20 majors in the College of Arts and Sciences without faculty input” dailyorange.com/2025/09/coll...

IT IS THE AUTUMNAL EQUINOX

SUCH a great batch of panelists—I'm always so thrilled that we can get so many smart, thoughtful people to come on our SDCC panels. I wish we'd had time to get to more questions!

"They try to force books to fit wedges and tags that they do not fit. And it does a disservice to those authors." On our recent SDCC panel, @brentclambert.bsky.social discussed publishers using "AO3-style tags" in marketing. Watch or read a full transcript: www.fansplaining.com/articles/sdc...

And be sure to check out @lincodega.com's fantastic article on how the ongoing Harry Potter fandom fuels JKR's transphobic hate campaign: