Particularly black women, evidently.

Black Students, Workers Hit in Trump’s Speech Crackdown capitalbnews.org/trump-crackd...

Just a reminder that a staggering number of Black women have also lost their jobs due to capitulation to this administration. That deserves more outrage.

Today is a good day to celebrate a talented and honorable man, the late Robert Redford. Here he is encouraging filmmaker Euzhan Palcy (via @dancingofpens.bsky.social)

NEW: A former Meta executive who wrote an explosive exposé about the company is said to be “on the verge of bankruptcy” after publishing the book. Meta strongly denies the book’s claims - she was blocked from publicising it. Story: www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

So um. This is what's been up with me for the last year. I hate hate hate asking but very much appreciate your support. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if...

Using LLMs in this context essentially guarantees that existing biases are maintained and reflected consistently. There’s no longer a way to seek out a “good doctor” if they’re all flattened into using the same poisoned data sets. There is no argument in favor of the ethics of any of this.

The new hotness is review spammers using "AI" to synopsize one's new novel to make it look they read your book and can offer you a useful service

Loyalty is the best.

A must-read by Ta-Nehisi Coates: www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

idk about you guys but I think saying a Supreme Court Justice and the First Lady don’t have brain processing power because they’re Black and somehow must have benefited from affirmative action is racist 🙂

I wish I knew what to do about any of it

“The same voices who have spent years railing against ‘cancel culture’ and mocking progressives for policing hate speech online … are, in effect, doing the very thing they claim to despise—fomenting outrage to get people canceled.”

I spoke with Amanda Heffernan, a nurse-midwife based in Seattle, about what's like to currently work with pregnant migrants in ICE custody. What she has witnessed in Washington state mirrors other recent cases of mistreatment in detention centers across the country: www.thecut.com/article/preg...

Timeline cleanse Fat Bear Week pro tip: the horribly-named and under-appreciated Underwater Salmon Cam is also an underwater bear cam. Bears come within mere feet (sometimes inches!) from the camera, which is how I learned that bears walking on their hind legs look ridiculous

I know that cultural criticism is falling away because it doesn’t get enough clicks but I didn’t realize things were so bad that the Opinion section had to call in the babies.

Newsrooms made a lot of promises in the wake of the "racial reckoning" in media. @hanaatameez.bsky.social looked at those promises and found about 60% of the diversity-related journalism roles created still exist today. www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/from...

The absurdity of "you sling words for a living, therefore you must become a video influencer" is becoming more and more salient

I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!

I read the statement thinking it was going to be totally out of pocket. It was not. It's a statement of facts. Bleak facts, but facts nonetheless. And it isn't celebratory either.

And racial disparity tbqh

this is fine. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Extremely worth a visit

www.wsj.com/economy/jobs... Black Americans Are Losing Jobs in a Warning for the Economy

Years, YEARS I've been saying this. The Press is a fundamental part of our democracy, one could argue the most important part, PARTICULARLY now. Journalists should be paid, and paid well, but we need another mechanism than the public consumer model. News is a right.

Just a note that they wouldn’t be doing this if they didn’t believe they will make this much money by using these copyrighted works and cannot make it without using them.

“In this way, media subscriptions are essential to being an informed, active member of the community. One might even say they’re a civic right.” www.cjr.org/opinion/news...

Guys I’m scared about everything

Love Loyalty Books, please support them if you can!

Been a fan of Loyalty Books ever since we did a kick ass event together back in 2023, sounds like they’re in real trouble thanks to DC being occupied by the military. Go buy some books!

I adore Loyalty. They are a great part of the DC literary landscape. If you can support them (like by buying online through Bookshop or whatever) you would be doing a good thing.

“You see places around the world adopting these e-gates, which will just automatically use your biometrics to then scan against your passport” Why is the framing here "gee, you won't get stamps in your passport anymore" instead of "biometrics come with very real privacy and data security concerns"?

"I hope people feel nostalgia for home and for where they grew up, and maybe even a little nostalgia for this place that they’ve never been to" For this month's column at @ebertvoices.bsky.social, I spoke to Sierra Falconer about her film SUNFISH (& OTHER STORIES ON GREEN LAKE)

beyond what's apparently happening among black female federal workers, i'd like us to expand the conversation into how this is happening across other industries as well

In Trump’s Federal Work Force Cuts, Black Women Are Among the Hardest Hit www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...

can’t wait for his next meme!!!

“But not every story is trying to be a juggernaut. Some simply want to reflect the lives of their characters authentically.” www.refinery29.com/en-gb/black-...

“While we regale in stories of overnight success and underdogs, there are many more who have the scripts, the talent, and the vision, but simply don’t have the money. It’s just a fact.” www.vice.com/en/article/m...

Column: Teen movies used to be a genre Hollywood took seriously, young audiences too. But good luck finding them in theaters today I talk with @jackie-johns.bsky.social Gift 🔗

My biggest old man gripe: too many people listen to music or watch videos without headphones (on full volume) in public spaces now.

there are lots of exceptions of course but Substack and the like always seemed to hype up the "who needs bosses?" aspect, omitting the part where authors have to do marketing, social media, customer service, engagement analytics, etc. on top of putting out stuff worthy of expendable income.

I want to be a writer, not an entrepreneur

in 2023, i discovered and wrote a piece of history that had gone missing: the first black woman to host a nationally syndicated talk show and wrote about it. archive.ph/chXvt today her family just let me know she won an honorary degree from her alma mater earlier this year. 🥹

“Trump’s distractions always double as a reiteration of his white supremacist beliefs.” kaitlyngreenidge.substack.com/p/chocolate-...

Do you ever just want to cry about how beautiful old school animation was? Like, the composition!!!!

Hollywood movie studios since the 80s: We need to cater to teenage boys Disney today: We need to cater … teenage boys The gender essentialism has always been dumb But also: Start making teen movies and releasing them in theaters again, it’s not rocket science Via Variety