I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.

Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

Judges every year in CLE courses: We don't understand why mental health and life expectancy are so poor among attorneys A judge today: No counsel I won't reschedule [hearing date] for you to have surgery, I'm not delaying my docket for you. Figure it out.

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

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From my book THEY KNEW, written in 2021, on Trump's plans. This is what's happening now.

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Federal funding cuts have forced libraries across Florida to curtail vital InterLibrary Loan services. Bebe Kanter in Naples writes: "This service was a lifeline for small libraries... Now, our community libraries are isolated..." More: www.news-press.com/story/opinio... #ForOurLibraries

hey sooooo if I just follow yawls logic about the "average male" having a Nazi phase..... what does that mean about the experience of Black people around the average white male

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The whites are literally arguing it's literally *unconstitutional* if they're not OVERREPRESNTED in Congress.

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

> It is 2025 BC. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis > It is 2025 AD. I am a soldier from one of the outlying provinces called to defend the pyramid in Memphis

Fun reads as we leave the city lights (thanks @victormanibo.com!!)

Weird how the US is such a free country that we only have 4% of the world's population and yet we need three of the ten highest funded militaries on the planet. (Yes, US municipal police and ICE both have budgets that rank in the top ten of the world's militaries.)

Current audiobook. Ghost story set on an Ojibwe reservation in Northerm Minnesota

It cannot be made clearer. If you continue to support the Harry Potter franchise in any way, you are directly funding the removal of trans people's human rights in the UK.

AI is a lack of consent machine whose greatest strength has been convincing people that other people’s boundaries are to be negotiated with And that people who tell you no are defunct

Some light reading.

Andrew Ng: "AI is the new electricity!" Cory Doctorow: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations." ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ (pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...)

today in news that makes me say 'wait I have something for this' specifically p. 203-207 of The Originalism Trap, where I discuss jury nullification www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...

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Le mie amiche- I am now at 15,049 words in my very bi very chaotic very queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing 🏳️‍🌈📚🙌🏻

Scored a gorgeous new bookmark from the library 😍

Y’all - I am now at 14,121 words in my very bi very chaotic very queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing 🏳️‍🌈📚🙌🏻

💗💜💙 - I am now at 14,121 words in my very bi very chaotic very queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing 🏳️‍🌈📚🙌🏻

An Update: I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly. (I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).

Feral friends - I am now at 13,758 words in my very bi very chaotic very queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing 🏳️‍🌈📚🙌🏻

Rapture smapture - I am now at 13,060 words in my very bi very chaotic very queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing 🏳️‍🌈📚🙌🏻

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Okie dokie - I am now at 11,658 words in my very bi very chaotic very queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing 🏳️‍🌈📚🙌🏻

Very tired today, but managed to write just a bit - I am now at 11,208 words in my very bi very chaotic very queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing 🏳️‍🌈📚🙌🏻

Just finished today for Sapphic September

Mes amies - I am now at 11,017 words in my very bi very chaotic very queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing 🏳️‍🌈📚🙌🏻

Still chugging along - I am now at 10,528 words in my very bi very chaotic very queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing 🏳️‍🌈📚🙌🏻

We’re on a roll - I am now at 10,018 words in my very bi very chaotic very queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing 🏳️‍🌈📚🙌🏻

It’s the 🎵cliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimb 🎶- I am now at 9516 words in my very bi very chaotic very queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing 🏳️‍🌈📚🙌🏻

ICE literally murdered a guy in cold blood and the entire bourgeois press is talking about Charlie Kirk Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

“It is sometimes considered gauche, in the world of American political commentary, to give words the weight of their meaning.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

psssssssssss - I am now at 8844 words in my very bi very chaotic very queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing 🏳️‍🌈📚🙌🏻

I must have missed a bunch of people being fired and losing visas for posting negatively about George Floyd after his death. 🫠

Picked up my copy of LOVE IS A WAR SONG that B&N ordered for me, and the bookseller’s response upon handing it over was “oooh pretty cover!” And yes, it is. Maybe put some copies out on a table and get them sold?

*whispers* - I am now at 8225 words in my very bi very chaotic very queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing 🏳️‍🌈📚🙌🏻

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Alright alright alright... I am now at 7523 words in my very bi very chaotic very queer retelling of Much Ado About Nothing 🏳️‍🌈📚🙌🏻