Horrific reporting from the AP on the Myanmar families watching their kids starve to death from Trump and Musk’s aid cuts apnews.com/article/myan...

"Opens space for feminist thought unbound by the assumptions of the Western canon" LA LUCHA is out now – read our ★★★★★ review of this incredible collection of essays and transformative radical ideas www.theskinny.co.uk/books/book-r... @charcopress.com

I once got in trouble for making it very clear to a board member that in fact you cannot just set up your own distributor.

you would think that the president was not trying to have texas invade illinois

just deeply deeply unserious people

Minneapolis is a dangerous hellhole, a killing field, and is incapable of running free and fair elections. Sincerely, the committee to reelect the guy who's been mayor for 8 years. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

history teacher in 50 years: So in September, that’s when the president signed an executive order criminalizing anti-fascism and saying all resistance would be crushed student: oh so that’s when the whole country realized they were living under fascism teacher: haha what? oh no lol not at all. no.

in lieu of screaming I am going to plant 100 daffodils

"some see"

Please join me in congratulating Woman on her appointment

we are going to have to nuremberg so hard

again, it is infuriating to have such a weenie for an enemy

this beauty just showed up from @invisibooks.bsky.social

"Our power isn’t in making one of the choices that are presented to us. Our power is in shaping the choices available to us."

Terrifying but stupid but appalling but embarrassing but alarming but absurd

Now might be a good time for Democrats to remind people that when they return to power they will not hesitate to prosecute people who murder civilians.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

I am in love with their allegiance to bridget jones era cultural signifiers

love love to see friend / client @invisibooks.bsky.social here making the case for the role small presses play in making writing careers (if not piles of money)

the celebrity book club I care about is Martin Scorsese's

media is like "invest in real journalism: here is a list of things to buy from amazon prime"

On this day in 1940, Walter Benjamin took his own life in the town of Portbou, after being denied entry by Spanish officials. “If the killing of Lorca was Fascism’s first crime against literature, Benjamin’s death was undoubtedly the second.” - The Listener

can I pay google extra to turn gemini off on everything

at least 20 years ago I ran a turkey trot with my dad who saw michael chertoff and was like "warden of the police state" immediately

Well, well, what’s signed, is signed; and what’s to be, will be; and then again, perhaps it won’t be, after all.

act blue has really achieved escape velocity on diminishing returns

Airports should all have rooms showing Christian Marclay’s The Clock.

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

imagine what would be possible if we had the class solidarity of the very rich

Days of Our Lives is getting a bookstore plotline so all my interests have converged.

pub day little free library find

when I went to this general store in this town of like, 40 people, everyone denied all knowledge of the person I was supposed to meet until he showed up and they were reassured I was not a fed.

I’ve definitely felt the observation here that it shifts the work from creator to receiver, but haven’t articulated it. that’s helpful for describing why it feels so - on top of everything - rude to receive ai-generated work.

Everyone, I wanted to let you know about the sad news that despite everyone's best efforts Bluestockings will close at the end of the year: www.bluestockings.com - I want to thank every single person who sent books to them through my book drive [will share more later]. A tremendous loss to NYC.

I love richard siken and calling things essays even if the publishers says they are not (claudia rankine)

this is like "what if yoga with adriene, but no stretching" (highest compliment)

MN did this and ended up with an intro to graphic design winner

so unnecessarily embarrassing (looking at you, Betty McCollum)

when you have entirely lost the thread

rogues gala-ry?

did I just get a visor cd case for my car? yes

Sally Rooney can “no longer safely enter the UK.”

once again thinking of the rich democrats who told me that saying "unhoused" (which no democratic politician does!) was elitist and why trump won

Remember when the hot debate was about what a slippery slope we’d create if Simon & Schuster cancelled one Nazi’s book deal?

we lost another legend (olive garden edition)

this is delightful and people are reading good books!

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

is bret mad that everyone is yelling at ezra not him

Rushed some @charcopress.com books (transatlantically) for Ballast Book Co's fiction club and got the nicest response back about how it went and that has made my day (week?).

TNC and it's excellent