I have read this book once, twice, thrice, and reading it again - yet feel unequal to write about it in a way that would do its sorrow and brilliance justice. So I will simply say 天涼好個秋, things in nature merely grow. Congratulations to Yiyun Li for the Pulitzer.

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Really, really good piece.

Obviously, the goal here is to end Head Start and eventually, all child care. The GOP is utterly radicalized against women working outside of the home, and everything about this issue must be seen through that lens. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/28/u...

Leon Botstein, longtime friend of pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, has resigned as president of @bardcollege.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/u...

get in loser we're getting Reconstruction right this time

In 2004, I obtained mifepristone for a medical abortion at age 16 without parental consent. It required I stand shaking, unrepresented before a judge and argue for my own worth, intelligence, and future. If anyone thinks this is going down without a fight, they are sadly fucking mistaken.

I’m so looking forward to returning to my alma mater Stanford University to be the keynote speaker at the CEAS/EALC commencement ceremony in June: ceas.stanford.edu/news/ceas-al...

The Fifth Circuit has ordered a halt to the mailing of abortion pills, cutting off the primary way that thousands of women have obtained safe abortions in the years since Dobbs and raising grave public health risks. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/w...

There is no NYC without unions. A people united and organized cannot be defeated. Together, we're showing the world what solidarity means.

John Roberts thinks this is what anti-white racism looks like 🙃

I’m so looking forward to returning to my alma mater Stanford University to be the keynote speaker at the CEAS/EALC commencement ceremony in June: ceas.stanford.edu/news/ceas-al...

They’re basically admitting that creating nonconsensual deepfakes of women is not an unintended outcome of this technology but rather its main selling point, which some of us recognized all along

One of the most clarifying passages I've ever read on what "polarization" actually means in the U.S."

I’m pretty proud of my Marilyn Monroe piece, where I tried to convey the fullness of someone’s pain and genius without reducing her to either. Here is the photo of her that I describe in the last paragraph. www.bookforum.com/print/3204/b...

You ever try to code switch at work and fail? 😂

SCOOP: Two weeks ago, the head of the CDC delayed publication of a report showing covid vaccine cut likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations by half. Now that report is no longer allowed to be published in CDC’s flagship scientific journal. My latest. 1/2 www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

"They went door-to-door to tell their neighbors what the city had not told them: The data center would use twice as much electricity as all of Monterey Park." The city’s notification in English reached only 40 people living within 500 feet. Activists worked in English, Chinese, Spanish & more!

I wrote about the Olympics’ ban on trans women competing, and the stakes of the new women’s sex-testing regime for female athletes, trans and cis alike. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“By stripping the right to asylum, nations are creating a growing underclass of placeless, rightless people to police in perpetuity, and an ever-greater policing apparatus with which to crack down on them—and, increasingly, everyone else.” Absolutely essential reading on global borders and asylum.

remember that atlantic article that pretended to be a first person account of a mother's loss of a child from measles? this is the real thing and it's brutal.

Gift link: Epstein Craved Harvard Connections. Many There Were Eager to Help. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/u...

I do find this insistence on contingency and hedging survivors’ accounts really tedious. Andrew Cuomo was found to have sexually harassed Lindsay Boylan—and many others—by the New York Attorney General.

Yo! News orgs!! Stop blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine!!

“Since the attacks on Iran began, it has been frightening to see how quickly both the world and Japan seem to be heading toward war,” said Jun Takahashi, 36, who attended a protest for the first time. “I also strongly dislike the idea that Japan … might be seen as complicit.” wapo.st/4tj0q66

“viewpoint diversity” is a right-wing political project, as lisa siraganian explores in great detail here: www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

THANK YOU TO THE READERS! 💙📚 My Black ass book about our quantum cosmos is a USA Today bestseller #62 overall and #18 in nonfiction (I think I counted that right). #2 in science and technology books 😍 www.usatoday.com/booklist/boo...

Texas' only licensed Hindi, Punjabi, and Urdu legal interpreter is now languishing in a Raymondville detention center. She’s lived in America for 35 years: www.texasobserver.org/immigration-...

Bannon referred to Orban as "Trump before Trump." Well, Orban is gone. MAGA is next.

for sure, congratulations to magyar. but the real heroes imo are those in civil society & journalism & rank-and-file opposition & academia who have fought against the disintegration of rule of law, the weaponization of the courts/media, & so much more for so long. 🇭🇺

went to check out the techno rave outside Parliament and I don't think I have the data allowance to share a video from it but let me tell you: there sure is a techno rave outside Parliament right now, celebrating Orban getting ousted

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War. And after that? War. And now? War. War. History might as well be water, chastising this shore. -Carol Ann Duffy, The Wound in Time, written on the occasion of the centenary of the first World War. #everynightapoem

"Other countries are our property, and we dictate their behavior. You know, like women in marriage."

If you need a pick-me-up, have a scroll through all the elections Democrats are winning/flipping tonight.

The White House Correspondents Association is planning to "honor" Trump at its dinner three weeks from now. No way. It was egregious before. Now it's obscene.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

It's indeed possible to beat bad things backed by big money

yes

The death of a nearly blind refugee from Myanmar who was found on a Buffalo street in February — five days after Border Patrol agents left him at a doughnut shop — has been ruled a homicide, authorities said Wednesday. https://to.pbs.org/3NZGHsz

Wang makes her best point, which was made in one of the briefs: Babies of Japanese citizens born while their parents were INTERRED during world war 2 were [wait for it] US citizens. That history ALONE should be dispositive.

If all goes according to plan, in a few hours, a crew of astronauts will begin a journey that will take them on a loop around the moon. Here's a video that NASA put together to help people visualize the journey through space, first orbiting the earth before looping around the moon and flying home 🔭

Today is the 128th anniversary of the Supreme Court’s decision on birthright citizenship in U.S. v. Wong Kim Ark.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Are you ready for the biggest day of mass protest that America has ever seen? Across all 50 states and dozens of countries, millions of people will gather tomorrow to reject Trump’s brutality at home and abroad. Please join us for a historic No Kings Day: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Y’all can react how you want, but I’m going to take joy in every win against tech oligarchs, no matter how small it seems.

This is incredible news.

Hot take: No Kings is good and if you have the time and capacity, you should go to a protest on Saturday.