John Waters at the No Kings protest in Provincetown.

I visited the set of @jesuslandmovie.bsky.social with Julia Scheeres. We discussed the horrors of the troubled teen industry and religious extremism. Thanks @literaryhub.bsky.social #tti #maga

I wrote about #nokings in Athens and Athens #porchfest.

@djsugi.bsky.social goes on set with Julia Scheeres for the adaptation of her groundbreaking memoir, Jesus Land, and looks at the horrors of the troubled teen industry.

“Sure, he knew it could get him into a lot of trouble, but life was tough enough just getting by that it was hard to care about the risks.”

Feeling overwhelmed? Wondering Ouate de Phoque? You should take a 10 minute qigong break—it helps! Videos linked in my post.

Huge thank you to Judge Susan Illston, who ordered a two-week pause on the DOGE’s mass layoff plans blocking two dozen agencies from carrying out the largest wave of job cuts yet. She ruled the move was illegal without congressional approval.

@britt-kathryn.bsky.social offers some support for former NEA grant recipients.

Books about the small-town Southern Gothic, and the creature comforts and ghosts that inhabit it

JUST IN: ProPublica’s “Life of the Mother” series, which exposes the fatal consequences of abortion bans, has won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service. This is the second consecutive year we’ve been awarded this distinction and our eighth Pulitzer: www.propublica.org/series/life-...

65% increase for Homeland Security. Sounds like more kidnappings and illegal prisons and concentration camps…

List of NEA grant recipients no longer receiving funding. You don't have to care. You just have to know. @electricliterature.com @onestorymag.bsky.social @zyzzyvamag.bsky.social @redhenpress.bsky.social @mcsweeneys.net etc docs.google.com/spreadsheets... #writingcommunity

In case anyone still believed that the anti-DEI purge had anything whatsoever to do with limiting organizations to their core competencies, I give you “the NEA now does disaster recovery.”

Really hard to say what the worst part of this NEA grant termination letter is (sent at 10pm on a Friday!) but I think it's finding out the federal government's priority for arts funds is now "fostering AI competency" rather than funding literature.

*please repost or forward* Here’s a sheet where arts orgs can record information about their NEA grant termination. Annie Dorsen is collecting this info as a first step towards coordinating a response docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

“There are moments when a place you live stops being livable. Sometimes that arrives slowly, like a leak. Sometimes all at once.” A dispatch from @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social, poet in exile.

Today, we're officially leaving Twitter, along with our friends @literaryhub.bsky.social. We're happy to be here on Bluesky, but we hope you'll also connect with us the “old-fashioned” way: by getting our emails and going to our site! Read the full statement from Halimah Marcus: buff.ly/4aNcHae

"Some Contemporary Characters" by Rick Moody was originally written in 180-character segments and serialized on EL's Twitter account from November 30th to December 2nd, 2009. In honor of our Twitter exodus, we're reposting it here on Bluesky over the next few days. Pt. 1 of the story begins below👇

Doomscroll respite: bluebells on Bluesky

Last day! All current Rumpus merch sales end at midnight EST TODAY/April 30! Only . . . 1 Be Brave mug left 7 Rumpus x Pilsen Community Books tote bags left 24 Write Like a Mofo black tumblers left SOLD out of Write Like a Mofo ceramic mugs therumpus.net/store/

FBI ARRESTING JUDGES IS A TEN ALARM CONSTITUTIONAL FIRE. WHAT THE FUCK

Fellow authors, I love you, and I know it feels like we don’t have a choice, but B&N and Am*zon both scheduled sales this week to preempt Independent Bookstore Day, a hugely vital source of income for indie bookstores. Please don’t promote their sales; please promote your local indie this week.

This administration has fired crisis counselors for our veterans and now for kids. This bullshit doesn’t make us great. Any one of these calls could be life or death for a child. This senseless act of cruelty will kill people and they know it.

1 week ONLY! Get your deeply discounted Rumpus merch while supplies last! therumpus.net/store/

One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF

Walz: If you say you love freedom but you don't believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love is not freedom, it is privilege.

“It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite." -Pope Francis

I also wrote about a recent pub in @midwestreview.bsky.social & meeting up with Julia Scheeres on the set of JESUS LAND djsugi.substack.com/p/new-unrefo...

Thrilled to speak to @kiese.bsky.social about his new picture book CITY SUMMER, COUNTRY SUMMER over @slj.com www.slj.com/story/SLJ-Ta...

Hands off our future! #handsoff

They have our business!

It's time to talk about how if people really want this American experiment aka "democracy" to survive, they will need to put bodies on the line to protect the vulnerable. Otherwise, the United States will just become yet another nation ruled by kings, thugs, and cowards.

Unidentified men grabbing someone off the street and putting her in a car because she wrote an op-Ed. This as flatly authoritarian as anything we’ve seen in this country in a very long time.

Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know

Imagine calling yourself the master race and have to resort to erasing the achievements of minorities to make yourself feel better.

A few weeks ago, I argued in the Post that the Trump administration was ushering in a new era of re-segregation. Now, here we are. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

⚡️FIGHT THE OLIGARCHY RALLY ⚡️ STARTING TOMORROW. Nevada. Arizona. Colorado. You, me, and Bernie. Dem and GOP districts. ❤️💙 See you there 💪🏽🌞

Celebrated my birthday by signing my contract with @vineleavespress.bsky.social 🥳🥳 UNREFORMED: A CAPTIVITY NARRATIVE will be published in February of 2027. Sign up for updates at djsugi.substack.com

In this interview Schumer is so delulu and out of touch and wrong. I vote in CA but if you’re a NY voter, I hope you alll can find someone to primary him. He is unfit for the moment as are many of his colleagues.

Just read your chapter in Empty the Pews and, wow. Excited to learn UNREFORMED will be a book. Count me in for a preorder.

What Trump & Musk both believe and their actions betray is that black people are inferior to white people and none of them are qualified to hold any job they consider prestigious or important. That’s it. There’s no need to decode DEI any further.

I wrote about how I’m managing anxiety through breathing. I included resources over at my Substack—would love for you to subscribe.

Starlings in Athens, Georgia at sunset

You have to take breaks from the news. It’s too much. Then, once you recover, you’ll be strong enough to fight the good fight. Be good to yourself. You’re the only one who can.