Welcome, Arwa Madawi, to the Semicolon Appreciation Society! Check your email for further info on secret handshakes and the key code to the clubhouse. www.theguardian.com/education/co... #WritingCommunity

Coolcoolcool. Yay, #FreeSpeech! Now do @karenattiah.bsky.social.

Grateful to @nycschools.bsky.social Chancellor Melissa Aviles-Ramos for standing up for transgender students against the Trump Administration's bigoted threats of funding cuts. Our trans kids are not political pawns.

On my 1,222nd #wordle, I won in 4, for the 444th time. Do I buy a lotto ticket or... ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨🟨🟨⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

Merry Publication Day to Merry, by my @gothamwriters.bsky.social colleague Susan Breen! This book is for anyone who likes a little holiday family drama set inside a snow-globe of a travel story, sprinkled with a little Charles Dickens. And I mean, who doesn't? bookshop.org/p/books/merr...

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Aww, #WritingCommunity! @literaryhub.bsky.social made us a flow chart! With books! And it's not even our birthday. lithub.com/which-big-fa...

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Once again, we can trace the origin of many of our most thorny social ills to the policies of Ronald Reagan & his administration.

Three things all writers should think about when it comes to their SEO, from @hippocampusmag.bsky.social EIC, content strategist genius, and CNF writer @donnatalarico.bsky.social: blogs.gothamwriters.com/2025/09/16/m... #WritingCommunity

THE DEEP STATE MADE ME TAKE THOSE BRIBES

Procrastinators—your time is now! 💫 #WritingCommunity

Thanks to everyone who canceled their Disney Plus subscriptions we’ve had over 50,000 people confirm they’ve canceled!

“In an undercover operation last year, the FBI recorded Tom Homan, now the White House border czar, accepting $50,000 in cash after indicating he could help the agents — who were posing as business executives — win government contracts in a second Trump administration” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

The idea of running anti-abortion Democrats is sickening to me. That means killing women! That is what that means!

The fact that he laid so much of the foundation with his “war on terror,” Patriot Act excesses, Guantanamo Bay etc. means he has even more responsibility for speaking up and saying, enough! And if he is good with what’s happening then we need to hear that too. 2/

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I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

"we're going to keep showing up until they stop abducting our neighbors" brad lander is truly the best of us

Wirecutter very helpfully lists good non-smart fridges you can buy in whatever style you're shopping for, FYI.

I warned last October that if Donald Trump returned to the White House, the fate of the free press would depend on the willingness of corporate media executives to fight for it. It's not going well. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

I know it's frustrating when lawyers point out when something the administration is doing is not legal. But responding with "the law doesn't matter anymore" is really unhelpful and defeatist. Clarifying the law is important because it reminds us not to comply in advance and to resist and take action

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

That's illegal, btw. Violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and probably California state labor laws. @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov could open an investigation into that, I'm just saying.

What just happened, in short, shows how far down the authoritarian road the United States has traveled in just eight months. Read the full story: voxdotcom.visitlink.me/fryLLE

This is a favored weapon of modern autocrats; its deployment against Kimmel is a qualitative escalation even above the administration’s previous acts of censorship (like targeting the author of a pro-Palestine op-ed for deportation). voxdotcom.visitlink.me/fryLLE

The Trump administration, it appears, has learned to effectively weaponize the regulatory powers of the federal government to punish speech it doesn’t like from people it doesn’t like. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/fryLLE

Let’s be clear about what just happened: Jimmy Kimmel, a prominent late-night comedian, was just taken off the airwaves because the Trump administration didn’t like what he had to say — and threatened his employer until they shut him up. voxdotcom.visitlink.me/fryLLE

ABC affiliate owner Nexstar also owns the feckless gossip rag the The Hill, and has been lobbying the FCC for approval of of a $6.2 billion merger with Nexstar, if that helps connect some of the dots for the Jimmy Kimmel cancellation for you

Nobody knows what they're doing, nobody makes money, and nobody reads it either!! ARE YOU IN OR WHAT?????

🔥“@GovBillLee’s lack of political spine apparent in treatment of Memphis” Holly Mccall calls out Lee for saying he talked to Trump about sending the Guard for months after telling press otherwise 🤔 — and the hypocrisy in how TN Republicans treat the city: tennesseelookout.com/2025/09/17/t...

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IDK, there's actually quite a few good memoirs by sons abt mothers: Heavy by Kiese Laymon All Over But the Shouting by Rick Bragg The Book of Knowledge and Wonder by Steven Harvey Bettyville by George Hodgman This Boy's Life by Tobias Wolff Such a Life by Lee Martin Gone the Hard Road by Lee Martin

You want to help Chicago[land]? REPOST REPOST REPOST REPOST REPOST They're doing quick hits, in the burbs, bc they figured out that the big raids in LA drew a lot of attention. BE A MEGAPHONE start with: @unraveledpress.com @djbyrnes1.bsky.social @mulchy.bsky.social @mskellymhayes.bsky.social

“Democracy dies in darkness” turns out to have been more aspirational than cautionary. Spoiler: “To Serve Man” is a cookbook!!!

I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source. You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"? My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.

So let me get this straight: @washingtonpost.com fired an opinions writer and editor, for expressing the opinion that violence is bad? This is the latest in a string of bad decisions rapidly destroying the credibility of the 148-year-old paper. Why should anyone put any trust in it at all?

I long ago cancelled my subscription to WaPo, but to go from Democracy Dies in Darkness to silencing a journalist for doing her job is a good reminder that there are plenty of other journalism outlets that merit your support.

Use of the word "evil" in official congressional e-newsletters, over time, by party

Individuals are being targeted on hit lists for their opinions. Private companies are being coerced into monitoring employee social media. They are weaponizing Charlie Kirk to curtail your free speech rights.

Sports Night!

And now for a timeline cleanse: This couple identified the person who crashed their #wedding four years ago, and the answer is adorable. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

Charlie Kirk’s alleged killer scratched bullets with a Helldivers combo and a furry sex meme

Everyone needs to go re-read Hunter Thompson's Nixon obit, imho.

From me, a list of Trump supporters who killed, or tried to kill, Democrats and opponents of Trump in recent years (since the right are now claiming all the political violence is from the left!) Receipts: zeteo.com/p/charlie-ki...

Just because someone is dead doesn’t mean you have to pretend they were a good person. And not pretending they were a good person is not the same thing as celebrating their death.