A fourth boat bombed in international waters. Total death toll now 19 What I dont get is, if these boats are "carrying fentanyl" as Trump says (they absolutely arent. Even the DEA says VZ doesnt produce fentanyl), then why not seize one and show us? www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

Only place I ever had a book of mine put on a state reading list that some schools literally cut off the state reading list poster because the book had a gay character.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

can't really begin to explain the extent to which I do Not want to be filmed without my knowledge by someone wearing smart glasses while out and about

Beyond cancelling Kimmel's show are about 200 writers and crew members in LA who just lost their full time gig.

What a relief that we've spent the past decade wringing our hands about censorious leftist college students

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

Nobody knows what they're doing, nobody makes money, and nobody reads it either!! ARE YOU IN OR WHAT?????

In a little under two weeks’ time, the Canarviers will arrive to steal your hearts! Make sure you get your thieves! RSVP to an event near you (it MATTERS!) Preorder, do those magical library holds. The thieves are counting on you! www.penguinrandomhou...

Sometimes it's nice to remember that even Marcus Aurelius was like "you don't have to comment on everything bro"

If y’all haven’t read COME AS YOU ARE by @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com yet, you need to get on that ASAP. So freaking good. 📚

TIL: In 1882, Kodak went nearly bankrupt because of poor quality film stock, until they discovered that cows eating mustard seed produced better gelatin, necessary for film stock. “If cows didn’t like mustard seed, there wouldn’t be any movies at all.” -Head of research C E Kenneth Mees

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

“Barking Bad”

This thread is just what I needed today

Just to be blunt, if you want Wired and 404 and The Verge to employ reporters who understand the memes on bullet casings and can connect them to gaming culture while having the legal and support resources to deal with waves of harassment when we do it… you have to subscribe and pay for the work

Honestly it seems to me that one of the most important tasks for modern parents is raising their kids to be mostly offline normies

Good Friday morning! Your assignment this weekend! Put some care in the world! Give someone you love a book you love. Tell an author why they're important to you. Send a thank you note to a librarian. Add a banned book to a little free library w a note about why it matters. Add care.

I'm hoping the algo gets this to the people who need it. If you were at UVU or you saw the video, you should play Tetris. Preferably today. You don't have to be good at it. Research tells us that playing Tetris after traumatic events helps to disrupt your brain's long term storage of the memory.

“A picture is worth a thousand nightmares.” Happy pub day to THE MACABRE! This is my love letter to art, to those who came before us, those who come after us, and those who are ground to a pulp by machines who care nothing for you. www.harpercollins.com/products/the...

What if we stopped banning books from schools & started banning tech companies? What if publishing for teens was actually for teens and not cis white women in their 30s? What if adults modeled reading for pleasure & insight instead of worshipping the hustle? Or...nah? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/u...

The High Holidays are coming, which makes it the perfect time to check out this excerpt from my story in FOR THE REST OF US, hosted along with my author letter on The Nerd Daily! thenerddaily.com/for-the-rest... #BookSky #JewSky

This RT (reskeet?) is an endorsement

"Less than a month into the district’s first school year with a new cellphone ban, JCPS has found that students are checking out library books at a record rate." www.wave3.com/2025/09/02/s...

I feel like in the 1980’s/90’s this would be a major plot point in a Tom Clancy novel, and the operation would be carried out as an off-book, illegal black op, with various characters trying to cover it up lest they face congressional hearings. Now the President just announces it.

Thank god podcasters aren’t influenced by dark money the way doctors are

I just…I mean…what the…🤦‍♂️

This is sickeningly, murderously bad law passed by murderously bad politicians. Heartbreaking and enraging.

we should bring back corruption as a liability for politicians

Your assignment this week (once you're done enjoying the long weekend of course): Make your plans for Banned Books Week. It's October 5-11. Here are some events & actions we're recommending docs.google.com/document/u/1...

They’re doing all this to prevent people from MEMORIALIZING A MASS SHOOTING

I just picked up Le Guin's essay "The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction" on a whim, as it was at the counter of @lighthousebks.bsky.social. What a spectacular essay. What an astonishing ability Le Guin had to turn a phrase, to explain an idea, to spark more ideas. I *strongly* encourage you to read it.

Saying they’re unconstitutional but leaving them in place anyway pretty much sums up everything from the last 8 months

I’m really sick of the courts finding this administration broke the law in some unprecedented way, but they get to keep doing illegal things for a few months as a little treat. They’re defaulting to rewarding lawbreaking.

The fight that I would pick if I was the democrats on guns is allowing the ATF to have digital records. It’s doesn’t impact normie gun owners, it’s an insane bit of GOP legally mandated dysfunction that the median voter doesn’t even know exists, and it likely helps murder clearance rates.

Inhuman. “I don’t have any choice” is a lie.

People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.

"Pediatric Brain Cancer Trial Group to Be Phased Out" "A network of hospitals and cancer centers dedicated to early phase trials of novel treatments will no longer receive federal funding." 🎁🔗 Nina Agrawal for @nytimes.com

The single most important thing to understand about digital futurism is this: When the digital future that Sam Altman ( or Elon, or Andreessen, etc) predicts fails to materialize, he doesn’t have to give the money back.

BREAKING: Big moment as CDC staff stage a mass walkout. They have lined the street outside its HQ to greet and salute the four top officials who have resigned in protest at RFK Jr’s attack on the agency’s science base. (🎥 AP)

It is not just that these employees are risking being put on leave or even fired for standing up for science (see EPA/FEMA officials), they are standing in front of a workplace that was the subject of a terrorist attack a couple of weeks ago, by a man who believes what their boss believes.

I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.

I lack the vocabulary to express how deranged this is

"Gabbard didn’t know the CIA officer had been working undercover, according to a person familiar with the fallout from the list’s release. Three other people with knowledge of the situation said that Gabbard’s office didn’t meaningfully consult with the CIA before releasing the list."

This thread is incredible