The @nytimes.com apparently didn’t have space to cover Czech’s murder, but they did have room for Ross Douthat to host a debate on “Did Women Ruin the Workplace,” and for David French to muse on “How Women Destroyed the West.” fair.org/home/media-r...

Gee, that sounds interesting!

Easy to ask for money, hard to summarize the work we've done to earn your trust over the past year (never mind the seven before that). A thread that highlights some of the essays that took off since Trump was reelected.

If you need more reasons to support us, we have testimonials on the GoFundMe page. Jamelle also made a better pitch than we could have below gofund.me/9a6239587

Gift idea for someone who loves a good heist (even if it’s you): I really enjoyed THE PAYBACK by @kashana.blacksky.app. Loved the main character & the clever, mundanely dystopian premise, and found the writing sharp, funny, and stylish (in more ways than one - I learned about fashion!). Recommend!

This piece by @rtraister.bsky.social is like an antidote to snake venom. Read it and it will save your life. The backlash to “me too” was never about moderation it was about submission. Feminism has not gone too far. The world of men simply moves at the pace of a glacier from its Neanderthal past.

If you're in or nearby Sligo, Ireland there is an amazing art auction benefiting Gaza that my friend @vandalhandle.bsky.social helped organize. Nov, 29th doors open at 5:30pm

PROMOTE YOUR BOOKS! EVERYONE WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR PUBLISHED BOOKS! I wrote about how the health fears around wind turbines were really ripples signifying deep structural injustice in the way we're doing non-fossil energy!! And how we're screwed if we don't fix it! unsw.press/books/windfa...

Prohibition was largely conceived as a nativist regime of laws meant to target & control the huge immigrant population of cities, served at places like Schulz's saloon at Montrose & Lincoln. By partnering with established, connected often Irish partners (like ex-cop Al Winge) they made a fortune.

This article should be going viral, but the mods prefer to stand w genocide. Anyone who gives me shit for complaining about this, know you are complicit with GENOCIDE. bsky.app/profile/jric...

See you tonight! letterformarchive.org/shop/piet-zw... #PietZwart #Typography #Exhibitions #GraphicDesign

🆘️ - Sounding the Alarm!

A good short essay with a more general point than Summers. Would that we’d listened.

It would be weird to play soccer using the tennis rules. So why are we writing fiction with the unnecessary limitations of film? I have some theories. And I wrote about 12 things film teaches us wrong (and 4 it teaches us right) about writing prose. Please join me! open.substack.com/pub/rebeccam...

I must say, @jamellebouie.net is an ideal choice to write the essay for Criterion's 4K/Blu-ray of NETWORK. www.criterion.com/films/34869-...

My short film Externalities was just selected by Los Angeles Animation Festival via FilmFreeway.com.

My film Externalities was just selected by BASH- Bay Area & Sacramento Short Films Festival via FilmFreeway.com

“In this moment of political darkness, New York will be the light.” Congratulations @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

Last day of the dreaded #inktober. Tom Lehrer.

Gaza Palestinians not Gazans. West Bank Palestinians not West Bankers. Palestinians with Israeli citizenship, not Israeli Arabs. Decolonize your language. Say Palestine. Say Palestinians.

Recent paintings!

David Hockney, Kerby (After Hogarth) Useful Knowledge, 1975 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134928

#Inktober2025 Day 6 Pierce In this case, president Franklin Pierce. I barely knew of him. New England Democratic who opposed the abolition movement. Here he is signing the Kansas Nebraska Act.

Day 6: Deer.

#inktober2025 Day 4 Murky.

#inktober2025 Day 3 Crown.

#inktober2025 Day 2, Weave

#inktober2025 Day 1, Mustache.

Your history lesson for today. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/o...

"Condor deploys geographical motifs as signal of the intent to totalize. Redford as informational mechanic+industrial worker is more interesting than as English major +intellectual, + the great banks of telephone switches recall the ghostly proletarian content of the heist genre itself." Jameson

elated! and more than a little embarrassed! to be included on Art Review's @artreview.bsky.social Power 100 list for 2024! thank you to all the art inspirations, and everyone reading and teaching Immediacy. artreview.com/power-100/

Historian Thomas Zimmer has been one of the most clear-eyed observers and analysts of US political culture and the global far right over the past 5+ years. He's left Substack and started over at a new site that is NOT a Nazi bar. I encourage you to check out what he's doing there.

Voir aussi ce très bon documentaire basé sur le livre de Naomi Klein: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4a5g...

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See the award-winning new film Among Neighbors on Aug 12 in Sebastopol, featuring in-person Q&As with director @yoavpotash.bsky.social. This evocative and politically relevant film explores a small Polish town’s dark past, and its residents who refuse to forget. 🎟️: bit.ly/NeighborsSebastopol

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Fucking recissions package passed, and these assholes really did cut Corporation for Public Broadcasting funding. A rulling majority in this nation still absolutely incensed about the image of a white dude hanging out in his pool and asking his Black friend to join him.

The Payback is out today, and you can buy it wherever books are sold. It comes highly recommended by Publishers Weekly, Booklist, The Boston Globe, Vanity Fair, the LA Times, the NYT, and dozens of people who hang out on this very website.

I want to say thanks, y’all, I have signed an incredible number of preorders in the last two days and y’all have run them out of copies at my two closest Barnes and Nobles, like holy shit.

Books that I borrowed at the San Francisco Public Library yesterday: Win Every Argument by Mehdi Hasan, Essays One by Lydia Davis, The Abundance by Annie Dillard, And The Day I stoped Dreaming About Barbara Steele by R.H.W. Dillard

The House is considering Trump's deadly budget bill. Millions could lose health insurance and food assistance. Working Americans will struggle to survive. All so billionaires can get a tax break. It's not too late. Call your representative and tell them to vote NO.

Looking cool as hell with my copy of Dreyer’s English at Dolores Park in San Francisco. @bcdreyer.social

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Lalo Schifrin! He outlived William Friedkin.

🧵4. SNEAK PEEK! I've only publicly shared 1st page of my forthcoming media literacy graphic novel... but we're talking about Bill Clinton's disastrous impact on journalism, media, and democracy (via his Telecom 96 Act and his venal FCC chair), so here's a page from the media economics chapter:

L.A. is at a breaking point — and truly independent, on-the-ground reporting has never been more important. We’re raising $25,000 to power urgent coverage of what’s unfolding in our city right now. Your support helps us keep ourselves going. givebutter.com/LA_TACO_2025...

Hell yeah, this is how much I love you, since forever! Get ICE’s asses!!! youtu.be/0rTF0s8XcDU

Awful: News orgs are credulously amplifying the ugly idea that sending troops into LA is good politics for Trump. This gives his lawless abuses of power the aura of conventional politics, obscuring how extraordinary and dangerous this moment truly is. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/1966...