Reminder! Wed & Thurs Jan 7 & 8, "The Shining Mountains" at the SF Public Library. Wed: with Alison Hart, LOOKING BACK TO MOVE FORWARD, 6 pm Main Branch, 100 Larkin; Thurs: Talk on my Scots-Nez Perce family, caught in the crossfire of Manifest Destiny, 4 pm Bernal Branch, 500 Cortland Ave.

Very honored, Marc! @abookanditsauthor.bsky.social And a great reading list now for the new year!

Excited to speak at the Bernal branch of the San Francisco library on THURSDAY, JAN 8th at 4 pm on the true history of the Rocky Mountain West--through the story of my mixed race Scots-Nez Perce McDonald relatives in the 19th c fur trade. Do come & bring friends! RSVP here: sfpl.org/events/2026/...

A day late and a dollar short, as my mother would have said! But if you want a gripping, hugely important family novel for the holidays, might I suggest you pop over to this link and order #TheShiningMountains ?? bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Susan Straight is one of our most vital literary voices. I wrote about her astonishing body of work in the Los Angeles Review of Books. @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-fi...

Nawat Fes, the amazing artist residency in the Fes medina, is now open for applications! Check it out: nawatfes.org

*Woman works to support herself and her family.* “Fucking girlboss.”

it's utterly wild how the Heritage Foundation president talks about other people if you found a guy talking like this outside, you'd probably call the cops

Truth!

#A_NewHope ✊

“Millions of Americans are coming out today not because they hate America. We’re here because we love America.” #NoKings

only a*holes don't think domestic violence isn't "serious"

Join us for the Fort Colvile Summit this Saturday, Oct 18. IN PERSON for all Stevens County or Spokane WA --or JUMP ONLINE at 10 a.m. Pacific to hear about the impact of the Hudson's Bay Company trading post on neighboring tribes. I'll speak about Angus! Link: crossroadsarchive.net/.../09/04/fo...

So true - but the humanities provides so much more than preparation for the economy: it is a training for the whole of life, not just the job. Every well-functioning civil society needs a critically attuned citizenry.

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Ways to keep the arts, sciences & humanities alive--good primer here on ways to support human knowledge in an age of massive attack: How to Protect Your Right to Culture hyperallergic.com/1049388/how-...

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

NEW: ICE is planning to hire a team of nearly 30 people to surveil social media 24/7, build dossiers on people, and flag them for arrest and deportation. @dell.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/ice-so...

not a single news org signed. that's what it takes. stand together. everywhere, every time.

Exactly

The government has effectively been shut down for months as Trump has destroyed checks and balances, usurped the power of the purse from Congress, and unleashed an authoritarian nightmare throughout the country. Why would any Democrat vote for any continuing resolution that allows this to continue?

CBS News will now be a megaphone for the country's most vicious crusader against free speech, and the most relentless propagandist of far-right disinformation. Cancel Paramount Plus, call every CBS advertiser until their only remaining ads are for MyPillow and Daily Stormer.

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Just naked and brazen corruption. All states represented by Democrats in the Senate. Time to stiffen our spines and demand that we only fund a government that obeys the law.

I always pay attention to what stories People Magazine and other consumer media outlets cover. That's how you can tell that something has broken through the usual political and news bubbles. This horrific Chicago story has broken through. people.com/ice-agents-o...

If you say Dems should negotiate with Trump, please confirm you've read the pre-shutdown Trump EO that authorizes you and yours to be probed as terrorists if you commit any thought-crime listed on the right-hand side of this Ken Klippenstein report excerpt. *That* is who you want to negotiate with.

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

BREAKING: The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

Mario was covering the No Kings protest when he was detained. This is an open effort to suppress and intimidate the press and a horrifying miscarriage of justice.

It says a lot that Trump can find $20 billion to bail out Argentina, but won't help the millions of Americans who are in real need at home. Thank you to former CFPB Director Rohit Chopra for explaining.

Also one part trying to arrest a perceived (white) sexual reproduction crisis by disciplining bodies. Most especially the bodies of women, trans, and disabled folks.

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

Washington Post dismantled the platform Jamal wrote on. Discarded the fellowship they created in his memory. They fired me unjustly for speaking the truth. But I’ll never stop talking about my friend, writer, and amazing human, Jamal Khashoggi. RIP, Jamal. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

ICE is running around Chicago harassing people for not being white. Just a year ago, that was illegal in the United States and now it’s commonplace. That’s not making America great again.

#OtD 3 Oct 1937 almost a year after their defeat at Cable St, Mosley's Blackshirts attempted to march through Bermondsey, South London. Met with strong local opposition and barricades in the streets, the march never arrived at its intended destination workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...

Appeasing Trump doesn’t work

Democrats are fighting to save millions of Americans' healthcare while Donald Trump is posting insane racist disinfo slop

He stands out not because he's any kind of radical but because he seems to understand the escalation ladder we're on here, and how many steps up it we already are. He's not just being hardline on principle, he's escalating because he's actually thought about the strategy of how this plays out.

This www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/u...

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

Und wo ist der Flyer, der Männer auffordert sich nicht wie übergriffige Arschlöcher zu verhalten?

More people work at Arby’s than at the entire American coal industry

Trump’s increasingly bizarre behavior can no longer be attributed to a calculated “strategy.” Why isn’t the media reporting on Trump’s growing dementia? https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-isnt-the-media-reporting-on-trumps-d1e

PEOPLE HATE THIS MAD KING SHIT

This shouldn't need to be said, but coal is failing in the year 2025 because it is more expensive than alternative solutions. You can't polish this lump.

TICK TOCK TIME TO SUBMIT -- TWO MORE DAYS! Oct 1 is the deadline for the Missouri Review's Jeffrey E Smith Editor's Prize -- a fabulous contest and wonderful publication. You might win-- I did!

TRUMP ADMIN TRYING TO CLAMP DOWN ON FOREIGN JOURNALISTS. RESIST! COMMENT NOW (by end of day 9/29!) on Federal Register: it's a blatant attempt to control what is reported about the US around the world. Further info here from PEN: pen.org/oppose-homel... www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Justice Anthony Kennedy tells @npr.org's @ninatotenberg.bsky.social "very worried" about our country, and that "Democracy is not guaranteed to survive." Kennedy wrote Citizens United and was the fifth vote in the rest of the Roberts Court's anti-democratic decisions. www.npr.org/2025/09/27/n...