As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history. Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX

So excited to have a piece in the new issue of STORY!!!! Also I'm obsessed with this cover. She lit that ship on fire and then passed through the picture frame with her stolen fish feast. Run free, fish thief!

The blazing cowardice of the centre-right: “Men go through life telling themselves a moment must come when they will show what they're made of. And the moment comes, and they do show. And they spend the rest of their days explaining that was neither the moment nor the true self.” Shirley Hazzard

This is a good time to join the WFP @workingfamilies.org I'm a broken record and if they ain't going to learn they need to learn by us not cooperating with their party anymore and building a political force that is so big that can hold different tenants but still have values.

1. @schumer.senate.gov needs to step down for failing to keep his party members in line. 2. A new @democrats.senate.gov minority leader needs to punish the eight. Strip them of every position and perk. 3. @dscc.bsky.social needs to identify people to primary every one of them.

Happy Claude Rains's birthday!

There are only a few days left until An Academic Affair comes out in Canada and the US! It's about two rival academics who get married to take advantage of a partner hire clause in the broken jobs market. If you like books, wine and/or unions, this is for you. bookshop.org/p/books/an-a...

Excellent books for $1! THE MARQUESS MAKES HIS MOVE and DUKE MOST WICKED are previous best-of picks. THE PROPOSITION and WHAT I DID FOR A DUKE are both deep dive selections. Snatch 'em up!

Women should have jobs, but Ross Douthat shouldn’t.

I hope the centrists learned a hard lesson last night. No more reaching across the aisle to people who have been spitting in our faces for decades. Run young people, run socialists, run on actionable ideas that seek to make our lives better.

We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.

SNAP benefits expire Nov. 1. If you are in a place financially to donate to a local food pantry, now is a great time. I started a monthly donation to my local. Benefit: feeds people. Bonus benefit: collective action and community support are the opposite of these weasels want us to do. Win win.

Nothing is inevitable. Effort is everything. Ignore the polls and run through the tape. Vote: zohranfornyc.com/vote Canvass + phonebank: zohranfornyc.com/gotv

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

“More than 41 million depend on the monthly payments, according to the USDA. In some states, like New Mexico, dependence on the program is as high as 21% of residents, it said.”

are you okay babe you’ve barely touched the novel your author bio says you’ve been working on for years

Happy International Wombat Day from the Rossettis, those wombat-loving weirdos

ICE is now the 13th largest military in the world on its own. Never ever accept the lie we cannot pay for Universal Healthcare.

Hey, so another piece of advice for people who are S-Corps: there is a company called Opolis that acts as your employer of record and will provide health insurance and other benefits.

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually. The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

In a grim world, some good things continue, such as the annual @princetonupress.bsky.social 70% off sale. press.princeton.edu/sale/70-off

The largest mass protests by number of participants in US history happened yesterday and the only mention on the front page of the NYT is Jamelle Bouie's opinion column: no diner-diving for sentiments of the unheard masses, no coverage of the Trump video, no sense for what it says about the moment.

This is what democracy looks like. #NoKings

Boston. Wow.

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

Understand what they are doing: using the massive power of the state - including military power and the power to imprison - to carry out a campaign to eliminate their political opposition. It's growing in seriousness by the hour.

Love this, Gwen 👇

Pull up a chair cuz it's chili night at The Los Angeles Review! Thanks so much for publishing my flash fiction! #flashfiction

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...

There it is. Abolish ICE. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

“The first thing Putin did after taking power was silence shows that criticized him. Artists are censored first because they fear us most.”https://deadline.com/2025/09/andor-dan-gilroy-jimmy-kimmel-commentary-1236549627/?utm_campaign=feed

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They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Oh for fuck’s sake — “beef” is something you have with a peer or colleague. When someone in elected office demands your comedy show be pulled because they don’t like your political opinions, the term for that is “censorship.”

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

“AI isn’t magic; it’s a pyramid scheme of human labor,” said Adio Dinika, a researcher at the Distributed AI Research Institute…These raters are the middle rung: invisible, essential and expendable.”

If liberals like Ezra are saying that someone who called for Gay people to be stoned, trans people to be lynched, Black people to accept police violence and women to obey did politics "the right way", that is in some respects more alarming that the bloviation of the far right. Bend that knee, Ezra.

May I remind everyone that there is currently NO cure for rabies. May I also remind everyone there is absolutely NO scientific proof connecting ANY vaccine that we produce today with autism. This is true regarding vaccination in both humans AND in dogs. Vaccinate your pets please.

BREAKING: ICE is sending Russian dissidents back to Russia. When the dissidents arrived in Russia, the Russian authorities were given documents relating to their asylum applications in the US which under US law are confidential. This seems to be part of a secret agreement between Trump and Putin.

Kind words from @gwenekirby.bsky.social about my new book! Pre-order your copy today from @boa-editions.bsky.social: www.boaeditions.org/products/the... #reading #books #smallpress #shortstories #fiction

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

Banning trans people from owning guns is a really REALLY significant escalation and I think the scariest part about it that's not being discussed at all is that the plan is to declare that trans people are mentally ill Moreover, ICE must be destroyed edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...

RFK lied to my face. He said he hadn’t fired any scientists. RFK has fired over 3,000 scientists from HHS. It’s shameful. He must resign.

Oh, we're so grateful for new books 💕 Contributor @taylorbyas.bsky.social’s poetry collection RESTING BITCH FACE was published Aug 26th from Soft Skull Press! Get your copy here: buff.ly/Ym7Ew6W

Black women have every right to be furious. The irresponsible choices of white voters has for many of us, taken our livelihood with consequences for our homes, the education of our children, our ability to care for parents. It’s unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/u...