Writers inspire us to be better. Right now, that is the very thing our government needs. This letter of more than 100 writers is a tremendous showing for freedom, reporting, and justice in the U.S. Honored to have been involved. @penamerica.bsky.social @pressfreedom.bsky.social

Getting feedback on this story, and it's interesting. Some of it is praise. Some of it is butthurt, usually followed by "if you had military experience, you wouldn't have written it." I have military experience, which is why I wrote it.

I'm writing a piece gathering reactions from military veterans about Hegseth's address to the assembled flag officers of America. If you're up for it, ping me.

It is important to understand that this demand is impossible to meet. Not "difficult." It cannot be done. The processes and supply chains in a Taiwanese fab have taken decades to create, and would take a decade to replicate elsewhere. By then, the technology would have leapfrogged.

Donald Trump's plan calls for a redevelopment board to be created with himself as its chairman, and surely we the gathered press should consider this a serious peace proposal where the idea of a sitting president taking personal control of a foreign real estate deal need not be contemplated deeply.

Retaliation.

I think congressional Democrats would do well to choose a leader who isn't going to lose his own primary.

Some people are hoping the United Nations will avert global catastrophe, rein in Israel and help Americans reassert democracy. That's not its one job. Everything else it does either serves that job, or is (to the U.N.) fairly ancillary and irrelevant. The job of the U.N. is to prevent nuclear war.

This is illegal. It is immoral. It is insane. The president, sending soldiers to use "full force" against a civilian population based on made-up charges of terrorism by political opponents should be the kind of presidential crisis that provokes an impeachment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Food, for later reference. www.reddit.com/r/Gwinnett/c...

The Memphis City Council just debated a resolution calling on Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee to oppose the activation of National Guard troops in the "Memphis Safe Task Force." The vote failed on a 4-4 tie, with two abstentions and three members not present. I'm gobsmacked. They're asking for it.

I'm going to enjoy this.

Everyone has been asking for a plan of resistance. The Democratic Party hasn't really offered people a guide that preserves democracy and effectively fights autocracy. So I wrote one. Like much today, it's a work in progress. theatlantaobjective.substack.com/p/courage

Sue. This is both unconstitutional and insane. The military is marching troops into American cities. Treating the American press corps as an enemy agent says everything that needs to be said about how this government views the public it is obligated to serve. Defy this order.

The Immigration Court of Appeals just ordered Mario Guevara to be deported.

I'm glad it wasn't just me wondering what the hell this thing was.

Tennessee: the government that doesn't have to care. Donald Trump is marching troops through Memphis. The agencies like the Tennessee State Patrol refer press inquiries to the governor's office. The comms person, Casey Sellers, *does not have public contact information.* Email, phone number? Nope.

This story is interesting because of how the feds doubled back to get her on wire fraud charges because she falsified a PPP loan. The dirty secret of the PPP program is that a truly absurd number of the filings - especially in poor, Black neighborhoods in Atlanta - are straight fraud.

Trump is listing antifa as a terrorist organization. By all means, then: arrest the head of antifa. I'll watch.

They're making me read the Trump defamation lawsuit against the NYT. I want hazard pay.

If you're in New York today, come see me.

If we were paying attention to the reports from immigration attorneys about their clients, this would not be shocking. But the diplomatic hit is pretty fucking hard.

Quick, sprinkle some trans on him.

Watch the shift from "The radical left ideology got Kirk killed" to page turning. Looking at you, Erick Erickson. Sep. 10, 5:35 p.m. "Now Charlie Kirk is dead, killed by a progressive activist. We don’t have to guess at the motive; the reality speaks for itself—political violence from the left."

The FBI right now could probably use all those experienced senior career professionals with decades of investigative experience that they fired for absolutely no reason.

Political violence is not partisan. That's not some airy philosophical aspiration. That is the observed phenomenon. Researchers who look at this stuff have long noted that violence begets violence. Social and moral barriers across ideology crumble with each act of violence. We need to love.

Utah Speaker Mike Schultz is confirming that Charlie Kirk is dead.

The person initially taken into custody for shooting Charlie Kirk is NOT THE SHOOTER. The police grabbed a local political gadfly, but they're now saying they got it wrong. Which means the shooter has not been arrested and has not yet been identified.

Charlie Kirk is reportedly in critical condition in the hospital. Not dead, so we are told. I would be very surprised if he survives this, though. Neck shot, lots of blood. bsky.app/profile/anti...

I'm working out of Brookhaven's new city hall next to the MARTA station today. Still has new car smell. The place is an architectural marvel, and I wouldn't be surprised if it turns into social space once the coffee shop opens.

Looking forward to being on this panel with @brigidbergin.bsky.social, @neonflag.bsky.social, and Elizabeth Estrada about democracy and journalism in 2025. If you're in NYC on Sept. 15, come join us! give.wnyc.org/event/front-...

Ive been reporting through the Hyundai / LG thing. I am confident that the claims of Tori Branum, a Republican congressional candidate saying she reported the worksite to ICE and that's what caused them to raid the place, are untrue, or at least irrelevant to the actual reason this site was raided.

I need a BS check from Koreans. The name "Taesik Kang" on corporate ownership documents in Georgia. Is it plausible that this is the person's real name? Am I running into the name shortage problem in Korea? Or did he make that up?

I would very much like to see the results of an iterated political tabletop roleplay simulation of how Chicago plays out right now with Trump rolling in federalized National Guard and the city ready to turn this into 1968 on meth. Pritzker has to know what Trump wants to do. How does this go down?

I'll be a panelist in a discussion about the state of democracy in a couple of weeks.

Ratio of KPop Demon Hunter cosplays to kids so far is something like 15:1 I think #DragonCon

The reaction of someone who is genuinely aggrieved about being accused of an act of racism on anything less than perfect evidence is indistinguishable from the reaction of a racist being confronted. The burden of figuring out whether its worth inflicting unwarranted emotional damage is on us.

This is why they wear masks. Not because they fear harassment, but because they know accountability is coming and they want as little as possible. The government will shred employment and operations records before it turns over political control, and every effort should be made to get them now.

Dude dressed as MF DOOM gave me stickers at DragonCon and I've been redistributing them all over town. This is the way.

If you are the sort of person who judges the musical value of a rap artist by their criminal record and whether or not they cooperate with law enforcement, you are part of the fucking problem and should shut the fuck up about it. You are getting people killed. You are keeping people in jail.

My giant bald head is everywhere.

The discussion is about the government issuing "letters of marque" to private firms to hack back at identified cybercriminals, primarily like those who held Fulton County for ransom last year. Cyberpirates. We are in an age of cyberpirates.

Where the hell has this been my whole life? KAYTRANDA and Rochelle Jordan are what I needed. Turns out he's playing in Atlanta at State Farm in November. I love living here.

If you want to understand me as a writer, read this.

NAACP sues Texas over congressional redistricting, saying it strips Black voters of political power l The Guardian www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

I decry violence. But when I describe my desire to beat the Washington Post with a bowling pin like its the end of There Will Be Blood ... well journalist-on-journalist violence doesn't count. It's like the UFC. We signed a waiver. Minhee Cho has it on file somewhere, I'm sure.

I don't want to hear ONE MORE GODDAMNED WORD about Pinky Cole's "business acumen." The cult of the Black entrepreneur celebrates toxicity. This business was standing on its own two feet on the basis of its quality. But Cole's judgment should be questioned, loudly. www.ajc.com/business/202...

The knock on Hollywood is that it seems incapable of generating audience-winning art from original intellectual property anymore. i just watched K-Pop Demon Hunters with the family. I think that question has been answered readily. Number one with a bullet, and deservedly so.

Agents in D.C. are arresting hundreds of people every night. But the basic public accountability for those arrests is not happening. The agencies are not generating initial incident reports for their arrests, and are concealing their identities. MPD is not releasing arrest data.

How do people end up with Wikipedia pages, anyway? Am I notable enough at this point?