Electricity prices are rising across the country — but even as they become an increasingly heavy burden for households and businesses, the reasons behind those prices have remained stubbornly opaque. Until now. INTRODUCING: The Electricity Price Hub electricity.heatmap.news

Sorry, uhh, *legal* analysis is "I have no idea what Alito is talkign about but it's probably evil in some way I haven't thought of yet."

"Every uniform suggests the prospect of removal." A little piece from me about cops (real and make believe) in @thebaffler.com's new issue alongside Molly Matalon's excellent photography thebaffler.com/odds-and-end...

Baby check: still babies ✅

thought you all should know this is the type of thing going on that the news won't cover

"These women might be afraid that a man will one day ask them to be polyamorous ... but I think there’s a crueler mental jockey wielding the whip. Women fear being publicly humiliated by their male partners, whatever form that humiliation takes." <3 @charoshane.bsky.social

Some thoughts about non-monogamy, the sad state of culture, our ignored, ever-growing hunger for conversations about respect, love, and decency charlotteshane.com/blog/2026/3/...

So it has begun

I think it is really important for us to understand just how big of a defeat the We Are All Charlie Kirk thing was, because I don't feel like there has been much writing about the larger meaning of it

So happy to have read this essay by @charoshane.bsky.social about Daniel Berrigan. This is how you write about a complex person. www.bookforum.com/print/3203/f...

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

The tech industry realized in the 1990s that if you make digitization about “access” everyone will think you mean for “the public” and not for them and well here we are.

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in: 2008: 0.3% 2024: 19% @nytimes.com #GildedAge www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Today is Reading Writers' season finale, and I’m honored to have on @williamcson.bsky.social, who brought us the conversation of my dreams. Buddhists, anarchists, anyone yearning for liberation—this one’s for you. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Both showers and public transit rides have 3x multipliers to Thinking Time. You'd think stationary bikes would be too because they're both moving and mindless but actually they're 0.5x at best. Long flights have 10x to Thinking Time but only if you're in the sweet spot of tired but not TOO tired

The gravitational pull of Trump's immigration focus is sucking in basically every major federal agency, all of whom are being told to change policies and practices to enable ICE and related enforcement efforts. From the @wired.com Inner Loop newsletter this week:

Rayne Fisher-Quann joined me and @jolivingstone.bsky.social for a discussion on women's writing and we covered a lot of ground: Vivian Gornick, Margery Kempe, novels of sexual degradation and obsession, female humor, etc. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Over the past year, every single time one of the apps or services I use suddenly became less reliable and more buggy, I never have to look far for the "Claude is amazing and now writes most of my code" post for the devs involved.

Overnight this aircraft completed its deportation trip to India. The migrant passengers were likely shackled for at least 59 hours.

This week's Reading Writers features novelist Nicholas Russell on a neglected Gothic master, and me losing my mind over Kenzaburo Oe's A Personal Matter podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

An important conversation on today's Reading Writers, which also features an interview with novelist Maya Binyam: have you ever fallen out of a tree? podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Scoop: Ring's CEO told staff Search Party is not going to be just for dogs, according to a leaked email I obtained. Said it is "first for finding dogs" before suggesting it would be expanded to be used for crime: www.404media.co/leaked-email...

I really appreciate this question. Thank you. You can help us by spreading the word through your networks. There are bound to be NYC residents in those networks. We need them to take action.

Reading about the Harriet Tubman's and John Brown's of the world is as close as I've come to a spiritual experience. Just a complete depth of devotion to a justice they would never live to experience. Impossible to truly embrace without being overcome by emotion.

“In an age of AI propaganda, we are reminded daily that ‘there is a perversion worse than evil deeds. ... It is to misname evil as goodness, to exalt it, parade it, honor it.’ It helps to read someone say so, like a gas mask for the soul.”

felt inspired to blog for the first time in a while because of good work from @charoshane.bsky.social @thelincoln.bsky.social et al newsletter.bijanstephen.blog/what-does-it...

Charlotte’s new essay on why to make things and the metrics of (literary) success is so invigorating.

"I find myself thinking 'this isn’t sustainable' of the continual decimation of the media, which has been happening aggressively for at least ten years, but what do I mean by that? For whom isn’t it sustainable? In what way?" charlotteshane.com/blog/2026/2/...

I'm addicted to collaborating and I don't care who knows it! Got a bunch of stuff off my chest about publishing, book marketing, making art for free or at a loss, not waiting to be given what we want. Hopefully it is useful for writers as well as lovers of writing charlotteshane.com/blog/2026/2/...

"Jim Boyling, who infiltrated environmental and animal rights activist groups for five years, said senior managers turned a blind eye to undercover officers having deceitful sexual relationships with women, often lasting years."

oh yeah this is the good shit

I finally wrote my big essay about Daniel Berrigan! For anyone with an interest in non-violence, futility, the political/social/moral role of writing, and so much more, even if you've never heard of the man www.bookforum.com/print/3203/f...

“I would rather you vote for what is morally correct,” Davidson said. “Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” DeLauro shot back. “Don’t tell your constituents what they can and can’t talk to you about,” replied Rev. Nathan Empsall. “What you are voting for is not moral.”

“Lorin Stein, the disgraced former editor of The Paris Review who resigned after accusations of sexual impropriety, forwarded to Wolff an email from the writer Stephen Elliott, who intended to sue the list’s creator… Epstein promises to ‘help anyway i can.’”

A teenager who was detained for 49 days over his friend’s killing at a SEPTA station contends police “buried” footage that showed he was innocent. Now he’s suing the city and transit officers.

Talking on the phone is so intimate.

loveeed listening to Jamie talk about the novel that is personally responsible for every time I have ever used the phrase “swimming-pool light”

“If I am killed doing this, throw my body at the White House, martyr the shit out of me & raise hell. Do not be sad. Do not think I would do anything differently. I would do it over & over again — this is too important to sit down & shut up and not do anything.” www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

One of the best lit podcasts on one of the very best novels – keeping this for my next long walk with the dog

My friend @veryhotmomm.bsky.social joined me and (my friend!) @jolivingstone.bsky.social to talk about Doris Lessing's The Golden Notebook, political disappointments, simply living for dick, etc. Also, I need everyone to read In the Cut, NOW! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...

Marimar Martinez, shot 5 times by Border Patrol in Chicago, speaks out after Renee Good, Alex Pretti deaths 'I am their voice' NEW w/ @adrianacardmag.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

ICE tear gassed a bunch of children on Saturday. This was a massive escalation of force. They were shooting tear gas at the back of the crowd, it took these unmasked people maybe 3-5 minutes in the cloud of tear gas to escape in without trampling. www.theverge.com/policy/87278...

This is one of the most important cases that galvanized Black people in the late 40s through the 1950s. Almost every major Black leader had a comment about it. It is also one of the most successful defense committees that was organized in the 20th century. Almost no one knows about it today.

Horrifying. ICE confirms measles outbreak at Dilley family detention center. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-dil...

“The Guardian once again asked ICE why the request was denied, but did not receive a reply. ICE has repeatedly claimed Maher is a member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO).” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Paper details how police pushed for body cams so that they could protect themselves and control narrative while policing and surveilling more aggressively. Dems allied w cops to create narrative that this was somehow a corrective for state violence, now every time they kill they get more $$/power

Some thoughts on Daniel Berrigan, H**ted R*v*lry, ways in which I'm like a teenage Russian boy, very important music, and so on... charlotteshane.com/blog/2026/1/31

Since it’s Friday… I’m not saying that you should be “afraid” of getting arrested. I’m saying that you should avoid arrest if possible. Things become much more difficult for you when you’re in police custody. This is solid movement advice thats been passed down from generations of rad lawyers. STFU!

The government also sought and was denied a detention hearing as to Jamael Lundy, a state senate candidate. He was to be released as well.