Arthur Sze Will Be the Next U.S. Poet Laureate www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...

Anthony Rizzo: “The jersey I’ll be retiring in. Signed by all the patients we’ve visited over the years who are battling cancer.”

This is really good.

I would just like everyone to know I did NOT write the title (or choose the pic, though it's a nice dad joke). But here's the op-ed I wrote for the NYTimes. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/o...

chatgpt is much like an improv comedy group 1) you are the audience, giving it prompts 2) it produces things roughly shaped like your prompt 3) it is trained to respond with Yes, And 4) it has the factual accuracy of improv 5) it does not understand comedy

Throw open new storytelling doorways and let in some air. brevity.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/f...

🚨Job alert 🚨 The University of Miami’s Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science (Rosenstiel) and Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (CIMAS) are looking for an omics lab manager 🧬 careers.miami.edu/us/en/job/R1...

The Edward Gorey House is pleased to announce the theme of this year’s Annual All-Ages Envelope Art Contest: The Evil Garden - edwardgoreyhouse.org/events/envel...

Standard back-to-school update. Everyone be sure to say hello to the campus croc!

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“what are we doing here, and why are our hearts invisible?” - Anne Carson

“He he he he and he and he and and he and he and he and and as and as he and as he and he.” — Gertrude Stein, “If I Told Him, A Completed Portrait of Picasso”

after 25 years in this work, I’m genuinely amazed that it took everyone this long to finally realize what’s been going on the entire time

And I’m still pissed they fired The Ghostbusters

Ex-Cleveland manager Terry Francona to Trump wanting Indians name to return: “[Trump says], ‘Why can’t it be like it used to be?’ And I my retort would be, ‘There’s probably a lot of people in this country who don’t want it like it used to be.’ And if you’re white, (you’re) probably just fine.”

gift link to the WSJ story Trump didn’t want anyone ever to see www.wsj.com/politics/tru...

Brent Rooker: your favorite baseball player’s favorite baseball grammar police

Scientists: some of us PLEADED with you two years ago to support colleagues in the humanities who were being attacked by Rufo et al. Many ignored us. NOW that this has all been used as a pretext to attack you too, recognize: THIS IS A SCIENTIST'S FIGHT TOO We must resist these narratives. 🧪🔭⚛️

I'm reading for the Seneca Review tomorrow, Wednesday July 9, alongside a ton of awesome writers! Come join us! @senecareview.bsky.social

Well, that’s just an absolutely smashing poem.

Charles Wright, with an important reminder.

Either criminally ignorant or criminally earnest. Either way, my Medievalist colleagues, your moment is now…

Extremely strong "Head coach fires coordinators after disappointing season" energy.

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This is not in the bill. Just a total lie.

I’ll be honest. I have a sick feeling in my stomach about this. About ICE’s new budget. About the citizenship database. I just have a really sick feeling. The only way we survive this is together. We need to work together. In ways we never have before. Collective action is the way.

Maybe tonight is not the time to eat our own. The blame lies squarely on every single GOP elected for their cruelty, hypocrisy & crippling cowardice. so stop being crummy to each other on here

This in the country that coined the phrase “finger lickin’ good”

Poetry revision is about straddling the line between "this needs to be better" and "no one will read this who gives a shit"

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Trump’s ex-wife Ivana wasn’t an American citizen until 1988. She gave birth to Don Junior in 1977, Ivanka in 1981, and Eric in 1984. — Let’s cancel their birthright citizenship first.

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

There is a legal argument for district court judges can do universal injunctions, and a legal argument for district court judges can't do universal injunctions. There is no legal argument for district court judges can when the Supreme Court majority likes the policy outcome but can't if they don't.

I want to hear more things like this. Who are the lawyers who can offer tangible ways that people can fight back?

Zohran Mamdani’s plan to tax the rich is a 2% tax on income over $1 million. If you make $1.1 million, you’d pay an extra $2,000. Watching working class conservatives and politicians completely meltdown about this is wild.

I feel like I'm losing my mind. Here is the transcript of what Zohran Mamdani actually said about the phrase "globalize the intifada." This is his "refusal to disavow it." This is what has people terrified. Just fucking read it. Source: podscripts.co/podcasts/the...

There are tens of millions of us. These threats are deeply personal. The people making them are as un-American as the Confederate flag.

Read, share, repeat.

I've read this. It's a delight. Read, share, repeat!

I just had a new piece published on the surprising number of Roman portraits that are uncritically treated as ancient objects but were likely manipulated in modernity. Please check it out! brill.com/view/journal...

Why has nobody used the phrase "Quid Pro Cuomo" here

Here's a cool idea. Hire a robot to train for sports for you. And then describe that training for you. Then you go play the sport. You'll lose, immediately, like a fucking clown, because you didn't actually train. This is that, with learning.

Brad Lander told NY1 at Mamdani’s party that what Democrats need to decide right now is whether to be “fighters or folders” and yes he should immediately mount a primary challenge to Chuck Schumer

Just tuned in to hear @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social use his victory speech to recite my favorite FDR quote of all. Truly epic. rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Whenever I see Dems claim they are out of power, there’s nothing they can do, I think of Brad Lander and how he escorted people to court while being comptroller and running for mayor. Do something or get the f out of the way so there can be more Brad Landers.