I find it both poignant and hopeful that No. 40 is "The Constitution of the United States."

When DOGE employees break the law, their names should not be secret. In the Privacy Act lawsuit against DOGE and the Office of Personnel Management, EFF helped unseal the names of employees at the center of the violations. Read yesterday's Court opinion. www.eff.org/files/2026/...

Ditto! Release date is June 16th. Set your calendar reminders, #writers.

may this be the beginning of something

You can actually reserve a Bloomberg terminal at the NYPL - I think it's only at the Stavros Niarchos Center across the street from the main branch (this is also just a very nice library in general) - libguides.nypl.org/BloombergTer... - if anyone else wants to try

Shout-out to every other Gen Xer that was holding their breath the entire time for the first five mintues of the launch For r e a s o n s

I keep seeing "all authors use AI, the real issue is they're being forced to be sneaky about it" headlines. Full stop No. This is a lie peddled for normalization. It's schoolyard-level pressure tactics "C'mon, all the cool kids are already doing it. We won't tell. It's fine. We're on your side."

Hey folks, I got an urgent request for you. ICE is using our DMV data to track protestors. This isn't getting enough attention given... well... everything else going on. And we need state governors to put a stop to it. They need to hear from you. Very easy action item -- takes 30 seconds. 1/2

✨Travel back this Tuesday and read, “Souvenirs from Ganymede” an essay by Juan Martinez from River Teeth issue 8.2 ✨Read this essay digitally through Project Muse ✨Submissions to River Teeth and Beautiful Things are open until April 1. #RiverTeeth #Submit #GetPublished #Reading #Essay

FWIW I applied for an endorsement from them and never got to speak with anyone so I can only imagine that I wasn’t considered. Because…c’mon.

Ganji and Noorizadeh are brilliant. Their previous piece (Iran's Three-Body Problem) was equally imaginative and insightful.

Best thing I've read in a long time about Iran and how its society fuctions (or doesn't).

Look at the things that have been super huge in the last years. How many of them have been things like Heated Rivalry or Sinners or Kpop Demon Hunters? And how many of them have been the white supremacists' stripped down erase-overse? None.

"But periods and commas do what a semicolon does in the same way that music can be sung without regard for volume or tempo." An eloquent celebration of the oft-maligned, misunderstood semicolon. As a member of the Semicolon Appreciation Society, I insist you read this! #writingcommunity

Today they banned my book. Here’s what I want you to know: thebloggess.com/2026/03/25/t...

115 years ago today, more than 140 workers lost their lives in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, still the deadliest workplace tragedy in New York City. The devastating loss sparked sweeping labor reforms and stronger workplace protections.

Isn't there a Four Seasons Total Landscaping Peace Prize?

On the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire, you should read the City's story, and also Amy Kolen's classic essay "Fire," about her grandmother who survived...because she was related to the factory's owners. www.jstor.org/stable/25091...

97K votes for Nader in Florida in 2000. If half of them had thought it through this lens...

These two stories are the same story. #Iran www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne... thehill.com/newsletters/...

We all know how we got here. If we want things to change, we have to step up and do something about it. Join me as we make history and work to move this country forward. andreaformaine.com

Freitag graph. Save the cat. Rashomon. Hero's Journey. Inverted pyramid. There are so many methods for structuring a good story. Here's another one, introduced to me by Theresa Okokon, (author of "Who I Always Was,"): Sankofa structure. blogs.gothamwriters.com/2026/03/17/s... #writing

When my little sister was a teenager, she bought tickets to see Bruce Springsteen in Soldier Field — the Born in the USA tour, THE hottest ticket of the year — with money she earned scooping ice cream for minimum wage. It's heartbreaking how out of reach that is now.

The US government collected over $1 billion in immigration fees then refused to process the applications. No denials. No refunds. Just silence. This is the largest fee fraud in the history of the American immigration system. Here's what's happening. 🧵

yeah so I don’t think the choice we’re being offered is “pay the police to play Candy Crush or pay them to lock up your neighbors” it’s that this even *being a job* is a choice and we can unmake it at any time

Behold the artist at work!

"It's really easy for early career writers to feel, I missed the boat, to think, 'Twitter is unusable now, and that could have been my ticket in.' Or, 'Magazines are laying everybody off, and that could have been my ticket in.' "The reality of the situation is," —@raxkingisdead.bsky.social 1/

OK, now Emma Stephenson is playing Tacky or Sloppy with @raxkingisdead.bsky.social and this is so. much. fun!

"I'm not like opening a vein and just bleeding onto the page. I'm not exposing anything that I don't feel comfortable exposing. I think people read my work or other work that feels very confessional, and their takeaway is... 1/ #WritingCommunity

"Every job a person could have and take seriously, you're gonna have those frustrating, unfinished-feeling projects or tasks and there's kind of nothing you can do about it. And I think the key..." — @raxkingisdead.bsky.social at the Gotham CNF conference #WritingCommunity 1/

"Even if you're not ready to promote something, I always tell people to secure a domain name, secure all the social media handles, just get your hands on those that valuable Internet real estate." — @donnatalarico.bsky.social #WritingCommunity 1/2

"Readers do have to see a book many times before someone is encouraged to buy it. I always say that buying a book is not the same as buying, perhaps, clothing or something like makeup, where you can put it on you and see it..." Legacy Lit/Hachette editor Amina Iro. #WritingCommunity 1/

It's not about followers. I don't look at followers. It's about how engaged is your audience. I want to hit as many spots as I can. That's how I'm evaluating if the campaign is working. Is it working across channels? — Book publicist @cassmannes.bsky.social at the Gotham NF conference. #writing

"I see a lot of people say 'Buy my book." That's about the author, but what's in it for the audience? "Instead of, 'Come see me at my reading,' no, 'Come hear about this, come learn about this.' Put something out for the audience and what they can take away from it." —@donnatalarico.bsky.social

"I tell people, goals before tools. You might say, oh my god, I'm an author, I need a TikTok. I need to get a good camera. "Take a step back, think about what your end goals are, what your deadline is, and then develop a timeline, and then the tools you need." —@donnatalarico.bsky.social #writing

"You're ahead of the game if you're thinking about book promotion now." @melissapetro.bsky.social starting the Gotham Writers Conference talk about book promo right now. #Writing #Writingcommunity

This is delicious. Lemon pound cake for everybody!

Eid Mubarak, New York.

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This is amazing news! The people of Minneapolis and St. Paul are being recognized with one of the most prestigious civic honors in America. The JFK Library Foundation announced today that the people of the Twin Cities will receive a 2026 John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for their resistance!

I’m still waiting on payment from a freelance gig. It’s very late at this point. Any help with end of March expenses would be much appreciated. I’m trying to stay out of over draft if I can help it. 💸🍉🙏🏼 ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman/

So true — millions of Americans live in unwalkable communities and neighborhoods, and they don't all have people who can drive them where they need (or want) to go.

UFW co-founder and labor activist Dolores Huerta went public Wednesday with her own account of being raped by Cesar Chavez, following a New York Times investigation that uncovered decades of sexual abuse by the civil rights icon.

We just published a _major_ update to our study (the most comprehensive on this topic). Surge in judges saying DOJ is not in compliance with court orders Surge in judges saying DOJ provided false information Federal judges now saying the presumption of good faith etc. no longer holds.

Unless you have a chronic illness or live with someone who does, you really would not believe the level of despair that the total removal of humans in our healthcare systems can cause a person. As always, thanks, private equity!!

There are so many ways to structure a story — save the cat; Freitag graph; Hero's journey. On and on. The author Theresa Okokon introduced my students and me to a new one: Sankofa structure. And it's brilliant: blogs.gothamwriters.com/2026/03/17/s... #writing

Best writing advice ever.