The Dead Don't Need Reminding won the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Prize in Life Writing! Whipping back home in the dark and rain, thunder rolled almost gentle in the distance. I like to think it was my great grandfather above me with a chuckle that stretched for miles

It was woof tickets on sale til I silenced it

My favorite part of this scuffle is the proud dad grin on Steve Kerr's face watching Pat Spencer and TJD get testy with Sengun and Brooks 🤣🤣🤣

The West in the NBA is so wild that KD and Wemby are both at home and it doesn't decrease my interest at all... Basketball is great

45 Points later... I think what we've all learned here tonight is that you should never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever betray a Pisces

I'm sorry— they just finna let her play with a broken nose and no mask or anything??

One needs only the most rudimentary understanding of fascism...

I know I love Dawn Staley because I be stressed like that's my friend when SC ain't winning

We have strayed so far from God's light.

Elon an Ol Finnbar Calamitus lookin boi

When you look at the list of institutions they want to defund: libraries, museums, the Smithsonian, public schools, PBS, NPR, archives, you can clearly see that the real threat to an authoritarian regime is an informed and educated public

I'm all caught up on Abbott How could Tatyana Ali do this to me?

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

As Dilla says, everything dope about America is because of Chicago.

What COVID did to the start of allergy season will maybe never be undone... the anxiety is just unrelenting forreal

A thought I just had: Adam Scott is one of the only actors I can think of who could play any of the three main characters in The Social Network

A challenging thing I thought would happen today didn't end up happening— I hope your day also had some small mercies in it

Soo… how about I just found out that BLOOD JUSTICE is a finalist for the Locus Award for Best Young Adult Novel! 🤯🥹 This is a monumental moment for me because I worked soo hard on this story, and I’m very proud of it. It’s the most important thing I’ve written yet.

Whoever said it feels like America is a condemned building and the billionaires are ripping the copper out of the walls might honestly be our Shakespeare

I'd lose them 2 billion more to have S3 E1 of Aeverance in my hand right goddamn now

This is a coup.

My statement on being denied tenure at the Medill School of Journalism drive.google.com/file/d/1BBBI...

I don't know what fellow writer ✍️ needs to hear this but if you need permission for lyrics licensed or owned by BMG, you can skip all the drama of figuring out how the fuck to contact BMG and just go directly to Hal Leonard, who handles print licensing for them: www.halleonard.com

I didn't want to say it, but once that shot from the Point Gawd dropped in at the end of the third— I knew we wasn't finna lose this game #Unrivaled

These shirts are so petty, I love Rose squad! They get me 😂 #Unrivaled

Amendment: I REALLY LOVE THIS LEAGUE #Unrivaled #Rosebuds #Champs

I love this league Basketball! #Unrivaled

OMG OMG OMG Angel vs T-Spoon for the #Unrivaled finals 👀

Jordin Canada is doing Looney Tunes style layups #Unrivaled

I made this account to do career/book updates and look at the news and what I've learned is that I missed doing sports takes, perhaps most of all

Idk how you can look at these players and think, "Yes, these people clearly deserve only 10% of WNBA revenue share." #Unrivaled

POINT GAWD #ROSEBUDS #UNRIVALED

Impostor Syndrome should be tax deductible if we being honest

The funny thing about NBA Centel is that it prolly has taught a number of people an important lesson/reminder about checking your sources

As of this morning, the fundraiser to keep Semicolon Bookstore alive — with the addition of a cafe — is at $20,000. The goal is $25,000. “We can create this coffee shop venture that is going to be employee-owned, so it’s going to give the team ownership.” thetriibe.com/2025/02/semi...

Y'all I can finally announce that we are doing a 5th Anniversary edition of the ASOWAR series!!! 🎉❤️⚔️💚🌌 This edition with custom sprayed edges debuts exclusively at Apollycon. Sign up for my newsletter to receive an early access pre-order link tomorrow! rosiesrambles.beehiiv.com/subscribe

This is my “daughter of a Black Panther breakfast program volunteer” coming out but anyone who tells you that you have to be public about all your resistance activity should immediately be under suspicion for being an op, or being under the influence of an op

NEW — Danielle Moore hopes adding a cafe can save the remaining Semicolon bookstore. She’s hoping to raise $25,000 by March 16 through a Kickstarter campaign. Here’s how you can help: thetriibe.com/2025/02/semi...

My favorite part of Angel Reese in @unrivaledwbb.bsky.social has been seeing how much more decisive her pace has become on offense She's special— and she's growing!

Chris Paul was definitely the kid who used a gun in every game of Rock Paper Scissors (shoot)

What are the odds Adam Silver called the Lakers and told them to save the Luka-Lebron rollout for Monday after the Super Bowl as revenge for the NFL muscling in on NBA Xmas?

The paperback of Blood Justice is dropping in April, and B&N is having a 25% off preorder sale with code PREORDER25, so now is your time to preorder! I’m also doing a little mini tour for the paperback release, so be on the lookout for deets soon! 🫶🏽 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/blood-just...

Magical 🧙🏾‍♀️ Black Boy Books for your 9-13yo! Happy Black Buying Month! bookshop.org/wishlists/3a...

The cat rarely gets invested in what I am watching on TV but let me tell you, I'm watching Batman Beyond and he is locked *in* I think he thinks this is archival footage of a particularly badass cat

I do not seek forgiveness for not supporting a genocide. I do not seek forgiveness for requiring my opposition party oppose the starvation of children. I do not need your forgiveness if that is the lesson you have taken from this.

New Year means updated reading list First 10 books of 2025! Happy New Year!

The best part of school visits is the haunting existential questions from well meaning children. A 4th grader yesterday tapped me on the shoulder and asked, "How popular would you say you are?" And I've been thinking about it hourly since

God's aim is always true and ever improving