Bluesky's new age verification system will make you choose to either hum/mumble a few words from a Dave Matthews song (song must be from Crash or Under the Table and Dreaming) or play the opening riff to Black Sabbath's Iron Man on guitar (it's ok if you're a little off as long as it's sincere)

An opinion that makes you a fringe radical in this country is that the life of a person who is not an American citizen is not an abstraction, and is worth just as much as that of an American citizen

Crowd-sourcing the Epstein Files -- brilliant.

I think this is about the temperature but honestly it works for decades as well

Is anyone else experiencing debilitating amounts of dread?

Matt is simply the best. I owe so much of who I am as a writer and as a person to him. He’s an endlessly supportive force and his and Judith’s bookstore is a necessary and rich resource.

New Human Rights Watch report finds that the US Israel massacre of an elementary school in southern Iran has to be investigated as a war crime. The US and Israel had sufficient information and intel to know whether it was a school or not. www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...

Please take a moment to peruse the @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social’s and @mzspress.bsky.social’s bookstore. They have been incredible supporters of writers, including little old me and “Laura’s Ghost.” Consider supporting them and buying something from their very cool collection.

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

I’m so tired of bad people getting away with doing bad things.

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her. Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

A lot of people say AI isn't very good for the world and its outputs are routinely unreliable, but these haters fail to see how it's revolutionizing how we incinerate schoolchildren.

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

March 2, 2024. #twinpeaks #palmerhouse

NEW: ProPublica has sued the Department of Education in federal court, accusing it of withholding public records about how it’s enforcing civil rights protections for millions of U.S. students.

THREAD. A collection of excellent dogs I have met on my adventures in the British countryside. You will find the all-important captions to the photos in the alt text.

I just learned that Ayatollah Khamenei and Ayatollah Khomenei are not the same person. Here's my plan for regime change in Iran....(1/23)

“some folks inherit star-spangled eyes they send you down to war, Lord And when you ask 'em, ‘How much should we give?’ they only answer, ‘More, more, more, more’ It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no military son, son, Lord It ain't me, it ain't me I ain't no fortunate one, one”

This is not a joke: I need someone to check for a lost stuffed animal on campus at UT-Knoxville outside Thompson-Boling. DM me for details.

@courtenaycal.bsky.social interviews the editors of a new book: Theology, Religion, and Twin Peaks. Check it out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT9_...

A crazy time to NOT HAVE FOREIGN CORRESPONDENTS!!!

One large study found that when a major daily newspaper covering a federal judicial district disappears, corruption cases there—bribery, embezzlement, fraud—rise by more than 7%. The researchers suggest officials feel emboldened when no one's looking. www.cjr.org/analysis/loc...

This is Bryan. Once a week, he takes a shelter pup on a New York City adventure in his 'Adopt Me' backpack, hoping someone will fall in love. He films their big day out, and almost every dog he's featured has found a forever home. 🫶 🐕 🫶 🐶 🫶

Tony Gilroy, creator of Andor, wasn’t allowed to use the word “fascism” during press junkets in 2025. Interesting interview in The Hollywood Reporter. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.

Always.

Olympic athletes, some of whom are teenagers, are held to a higher level of expected maturity than the most powerful man in the world.

Let me put on some reading glasses right quick because…

I finished @scottmeslow.bsky.social’s new book A PLACE BOTH WONDERFUL AND STRANGE: THE EXTRAORDINARY UNTOLD HISTORY OF TWIN PEAKS, which just came out this week. Good stuff. Lots of new behind-the-scenes tidbits throughout (including what was planned for ABC season 3)…. (1/2) #TwinPeaks

10. True to its name, @scottmeslow.bsky.social's book delivers the goods. By splitting the difference between oral history, critical analysis, and literature review, he has constructed an authoritative companion for hardcore and casual fans alike.

It’s kinda wild that the Illuminati turned out to be a guy named Jeff

Joanne Bland, one of the youngest people to march on “Bloody Sunday,” has died. She was 72. "By the time I was 11-years-old, I had been arrested at least 13 documented times”

When I’m two weeks behind on my grading.

first they came for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, and I said nothing, but i did laugh quite a lot

Woke up to the news that a seemingly untouchable member of the ruling class was arrested for committing terrible crimes. It’s not justice, but it’s a start. Let’s keep this party going.

Wesleyan University President Michael Roth, a leader in organizing college presidents, has proposed Democracy Summer 2026, evoking the heroic Freedom Summer of 1964 that aimed to advance voting rights in Mississippi, now employed to safeguard the midterm elections. From Bob Kuttner:

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

welcome to the bathroom

I suppose it’s good that the NY Times wrote this, but they need to get beyond style issues and warn the public loudly that Trump is building a dictatorship. I’m not alarmed about golden statues — I’m alarmed about concentration camps and masked government thugs executing people in the street.

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.

Can confirm.

I think “floaty boats murder monster” is how I’m going to refer to all bears from now on

I am proud of the quirky little magazine section that we are putting together at MZS.press arts bookstore. Nearly all the selections are entertainment-related magazines, some recent, some dating back 50 or 60 years, plus special issues on a single topic. LINK: mzs.press/Magazines-c1...

Happy Valentine’s Day!

I'm in. @courtenaycal.bsky.social youtu.be/HgMbkitzhEM?...

"Where is this information from? What's the source?" is a question a lot of you need to start asking before sharing anything that matters.

It was in the paper today!

It is NOT a move – but we’re trying something different! We are also now on Substack and I'm beginning to consider some new ideas. First articles coming later this week, a HUGE interview very soon. #music 🎧 open.substack.com/pub/mavoymus...