I just think that if you’re okay with people — adults, children, the elderly — starving, your soul is destined for dark places bc you are an evil person.

It's the first Friday of the month, which means my new Queer Romances post is up on Smart Bitches, Trashy Books! smartbitchestrashybooks.com/2025/11/nove...

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Given the attack on academia right now, hats off to campuses that are not just hardening for climate change, but actively including it in education and degree requirements.

And that’s not even touching the way they invoke the dual loyalties trope

The NY Daily News can get fucked, in other words. - a Jewish New Yorker

I will also add that insisting that opposing both genocide and the curtailing of free speech (a right inherent to BDS movements) is fundamentally antisemitic is one of the most devastatingly anti-Jew sentiments I can imagine, and every editorial that does this makes Jews less safe and more othered.

i try not to be hyperbolic but this NY daily news editorial board piece saying mayor-elect mamdani better support israel OR ELSE is one of the most appalling things i’ve ever read

You can “do everything right” and *still* need safety net programs.

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

I love Brad Lander. I just want him to hang around the city and say hi to folks. Called something like “the city’s buddy.” He asks if you need a coffee or something when he runs to the bodega. You have to venmo him after but he’ll round down and ask for less than it cost

And this is why the corporate class shut down Teen Vogue.

Six U.S. states have fewer than a million people total

A 34-year state democratic socialist assemblyman from Queens, Mamdani became the city’s first ever Muslim mayor—and the first immigrant mayor in half a century.

Teen Vogue has been incredible for years but it was just now starting to get mainstream notice. There’s no VC threatening corporate governance mandating infinite group. This is privately owned. They just slashed their only property with a *growing* audience…because Wintour thinks it’s tacky?

Former Teen Vogue politics editor Allegra Kirkland pays homage to ... what ... OUUUUCH: talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...

The framing of this is hilarious: Democrats deeply worried about the repercussions of a victory www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/m...

Hey, fellow New Yorkers, who care about libraries, Here's something quick & easy you can do to put pressure on the City Council to raise library funding: actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

This is one that I really went back and forth on. On the one hand, yes, it undeniably will drive up turnout, which is good. On the other, what should be a local election immediately turns national, changing the nature of the issues and the campaigns, possibly to the detriment of local engagement. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Another reason it's good to pass the torch is so you can have leaders who can think on their feet.

Ooof this thread. Very true and, regardless of everything else, it’s just terrible for business. The Romantasy / TikTok girlies became addicted to reading because they grew up in the golden age of YA. We’re neglecting the acquisition of the next generation of customers.

Getting very close to a male Gotham City Sirens situation. Just need a Harley (Luigi is Ivy and I’m not taking questions on that one, context clues)

I’m weirdly honored to be part of the Mortal Kombat documentary in the Mortal Kombat Legacy collection. It would’ve blown my childhood mind I got to talk about (and joke about) one of my favorite series of all time. Crazy. My literal face on a Nintendo system. Wild.

next.frame.io/share/424d4c... On CNN Today, I counter the Pentagon’s critique of “A House of Dynamite” and comment a little on Hegseth’s DoD.

I have been charged in a federal indictment sought by the Department of Justice. This political prosecution is an attack on all of our First Amendment rights. I’m not backing down, and we’re going to win.

welcome to @teenvogue.com new series Challengers: talking to candidates either challenging an incumbent candidate who isn't meeting the moment—or challenging the political system's expectations of what a candidate can look like up first @mussabali.bsky.social, 28, who might be Jersey City's Zohran

In case you missed this: In New Braunfels ISD last week, parents, students, teachers, and community members came together to speak up against the book banners who got the district’s high school & middle school libraries closed. And they forced to board to reverse its decision.

I have also called adult relatives who are not technically my parents' sisters aunts, so I guess...well that's it, folks. I'm cancelled. I'll pack it up now. Bye! Goodbye!

There’s a lot of really good, interesting, different writing out there that gets little support from publishers. Seek it out! Don’t settle

When your whole political strategy is arguing for the need for the democrats to “moderate” their views, you’re conceding that their views are wrong and serving up the high ground to the GOP—of all fucking institutions—on a silver platter

The NY Times and WaPo may be lost causes but holy shite look at PEOPLE out here absolutely killing it with 100% unvarnished truths 🌟

The actual finding here is that a huge percentage of the population believes things that are not true. Democrats objectively did not spend significant time on climate change or LGBTQ issues in the last election campaign.

This is an excellent point. Zohran ran a textbook campaign that the centrists are always talking about, just talking about rent control and free buses and cost of living, and the centrist Dems tried to make it all about Israel/Palestine and other identity issues (his Muslim faith) to smear him.

In light of the govt shutdown and SNAP getting cut for a ton of folks, I have had a fun idea for how to help. I call it "Operation Turkey Heist (legal)." Allow me to explain... A lot of grocery stories are doing a "free turkey with X dollar purchase" and food banks very much want those turkeys.

The problem with a strategy document structured around "moderating" views in 2025 is that, to anyone not a political consultant going back at least 20 years (derogatory), you sound fucking insane

yep and points 3 and 4 are explicitly about throwing a whole bunch of my friends, colleagues, neighbors, and loved ones under the bus, so fuck this.

Oh look, a list of messaging recommendations from the people who have brought us several failed elections by using these exact messaging recommendations!

the democratic party’s basic problem is it has almost no control over how its message reaches the ears of voters, especially outside of presidential election years. but rather than devote serious time, attention and cash to that problem its consultants and pundits want to fight factional battles

Some of my favorite weird dark speculative fiction has come out from @apexmag.bsky.social over the years. They are extremely close to finishing their kickstarter. The more dark speculative stories in the world, the better :) kck.st/42QgIYS

Most of the families at my daughter's old Brooklyn middle school (great unsung gem of the public system, all girl STEM, majority Muslim, the most loving community) depend on SNAP. Could you help them get their Food Pantry up and running? There's a direct donation link on their website.

His dementia test is not an IQ test and is also not hard. Here it is for you to judge.

An 80 year old leader of the free world is bragging about being able to identify an elephant, folks. We did it.

Really happy to see folks in the SF/F community here stepping up and donating to food banks and organizations that feed people. This is @adapalmer.bsky.social's doing, and it's making a difference. You can donate too, even if you're not on the Bluesky SF/F community. Need is everywhere.

This guy's take is that a city is in decline if: A) the "eye-watering" home prices have gone down B) Eyesore skyscraper / dome projects are scrapped C) Rich guys used to walling off taxable income in ways they no longer can move out of the city Whatever? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Trump screws his voters again: He just denied disaster aid to Maryland (while giving it to red states). But I took a look and it turns out the suffering Maryland counties are in Appalachia and backed him by 40 and 54 points. On the pod, @stevebenen.com and I discuss: newrepublic.com/article/2022...

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This was a fun talk about my book! Which, need I remind you makes an excellent holiday gift for anyone who likes video games and/or jokes.

To say that the majority of Trek fans are right wing and that women don’t *really* like it is something that only a real trek fan would know that only a fake Trek fan would say

I'm starting to see multiple threads where bluesky folks are trying to raise money for their local food banks because of the shutdown of SNAP starting November 1... can we get a thread going for people to find each other? Drop your link and put your city in front, let's coordinate city by city!