OpenAI employees are very excited about how well their new AI tool can create fake videos of people doing crimes and have definitely thought through all the implications of this

Spent the last decade reading conservative blogs use the word "Orwellian" more than they used the word "the" and now they're literally just saying "War is Peace" out loud in front of everybody.

I've been thinking about that Klein and Ta-Nehisi Coates convo. Specifically, how Klein kept saying that Coate's pragmatism in positioning his work in line with those who came before him fighting for rights they knew were unlikely to come to fruition in their lifetimes was depressing /1

I just called Chuck Schumer’s office and, for the first time EVER, a person answered, who then politely entered my complaints into their call log. This tells me two things: 1) They’re not getting enough calls over there, and 2) If you want to yell at Schumer, today’s the day. (212) 486-4430

“Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?” is the defining quote of the Trump era

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

If your Klein be Naomi, then listen, homie; But if your Klein be Ezra, disregard what he sezra

Just grabbing random brown people off the street and ruining their lives

it is once again shut the fuck up shabbos

I got to read through (to copyedit) the first issue of Chrysalis, the trans youth writing journal I'm helping to edit, and it's so fantastic and I'm very proud to be a part of it and also in awe of how great our kids our. Mir veln zey iberlebn, we will outlive them.

“Don’t argue with fools because people from a distance can’t tell who is who”

Come support trans youth writing!!

Absolutely gutting to learn of the closure of Bluestockings, a hub for so much of my activist life in NYC, where I had readings and book launches and just met up with my friends. A huge loss for the community and the city www.bluestockings.com

Tag yrself I'm Other Lukoff

I've frequently not been on boats (but not today!!!)

I would love for a single democrat to reckon with the fact that conservatives are not in fact motivated by reasonable concerns. They are — just as they were with ‘concerns’ over blacks and gays and numerous other minorities over the last five decades — motivated by bigotry.

The moral panic is about me!!!

My mom called me last night about the Kimmel firing, saying "This is how Hitler got started!" I quickly responded, "By firing the late night tv hosts?" Turns out, mom was right.

Saying the f word is such a brave display of power, wow

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

Tonight was a great night to finally watch Hacks s4 e9.

I’m sure all the standup comedians who have been ranting about censorship the last few years are going to take to the streets any minute now.

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

This essay, by an Egyptian-American former New Yorker staff fact-checker, is an incredible read And incredibly damning Huge recommendation

Think tankie, is this anything

ezra klein telling Jews in the 30s in germany "we are going to have to live here with each other". 1

So great that Kyle Lukoff's A WORLD WORTH SAVING has made the National Book Award long list for literature for young people. Such an amazing book! @kylelukoff.bsky.social

WSJ when an American conservative gets killed versus when Arab children get killed:

no no no you misunderstood. I said “fuck YOUR feelings”. MY feelings are very important and must be handled gently, like a tiny baby hummingbird

I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

i like that this guy only comes here to post the occasional positive review of his book, as if to say, "look, not everyone thinks its terrible"

For friends in or around Madison, I'll be in conversation with @katrinadalythompson.com about my novel, A World Worth Saving (long listed for the National Book Award) as part of the #WiBookFest! Come see me! www.wisconsinbookfestival.org/events/world...

"Charlie Kirk gave me the courage to be more transphobic" is a wild thing to put in a both-sides hagiography www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/u...

It’s an absolute farce for Scholastic to have Lauren Bezos be a “literary champion” along with providing her book in English & Spanish when she attended the inauguration of the man whose administration is leading country-wide book bans, unlawful ICE raids & deportations, & the defunding of libraries

i think it’s wild how many people are fine with leaving their children a totally uninhabitable world that’s inevitably pitched in constant bloody conflict over who gets the last resources so they can have copilot email tone rewriting and slop memes of trump as a taco with a drooping fold.

It’s an absolute shame that DC fired Gretchen Felker- Martin for exercising free speech and then @bsky.app suspended her account. Every writer here should be decrying this because we have to stand up for each other! This is ridiculous.

On 8 October, I'll be having a public conversation w/ @kylelukoff.bsky.social at the #WIBookFest about his YA novel A World Worth Saving, which was just longlisted for the National Book Award. Join us?

If I were editing a column about Charlie Kirk’s political genius, I would tell the writer he needed to quote Kirk’s actual political beliefs. If the writer responded that doing so would weaken or distract from his argument, it’d be a pretty good sign that the column was not ready for prime time.

i wrote a book called ONE OF THE BOYS. it’s about a trans teen and it exists for trans teens, but adults have told me they like it too. i think it’s pretty good. thank you victoria.monster#straightcash...

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

"In this instance these could have been my words." -- babes, it probably IS your words as ChatGPT is a plagiarism machine trained to mirror you and you're a writer so AI probably scrapped your content and repeated it back to you.

I keep saying this. The Right fundamentally are *not* hypocrites. They believe in double standards. For them, double standards are correct, inevitable, and desirable, because the idea that certain groups are better than others and should therefore have more rights is the basis of right-wing ideology

I was longlisted for the National Book Award (again). www.nationalbook.org/2025-nationa...

I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!

Thread of my upcoming book events in NYC Boston and Washington State— starting with my launch at Hive Mind Books in Brooklyn on September 15 at 7pm! I will be infodumping about vampires, reading from my book and distributing bags of (substitute) blood to attendees who can answer my vampire trivia

Was at a titleholder contest last night and heard a speech saying that our community is like a jigsaw puzzle "made up of all shapes and sizes" which is how I know that guy doesn't do a lot of jigsaw puzzles. Those usually have like 5 shapes and they're of a pretty consistent size.