Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Stars (Wars nor Trek), LOTR, Marvel, Disney Animated or Pixar.

To be fair, he wasn't a very good attorney general.

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These cuts are such a hit job on the University of #Nebraska that I wonder Mizzou commissioned it, as revenge for the Flea Kicker. nebraskaexaminer.com/2025/12/05/n...

If you’ve been waiting for the right moment to give to EFF, now’s your chance to all donations through Dec 9 get an automatic dollar-for-dollar match! eff.org/powerup

"Sean Duffy literally looked at the hellscape of American infrastructure and said, 'OK, but what were you wearing?'" Truly deserving Dingus of the Week! www.patreon.com/posts/dingus...

Today's Must Read: www.short-reads.org/in-the-waiti... #ICE

HIV diagnoses increased across New York City in 2024, part of a multi-year surge after years of decline. The spike comes as the Trump administration has moved to cut federal funding to test, treat and prevent the disease. @thecity.nyc and @katiehonan.bsky.social

BREAKING: All House Democrats have signed our discharge petition to extend the ACA tax credits. That makes 214. We can protect health care and lower costs — if only 4 Republicans will join us.

"We deserve a culture that refuses to treat weight loss as a moral victory." AMEN

"We don't need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation." I interviewed César Chávez a month before he died in 1993, and I've never met anyone more sanguine. He made sure none of the injustices he endured were in vain. Something to remember now. calendar.eji.org/racial-injus...

this book banning shit is *infuriating* to me, not only as a writer and a human being, but as a parent. I do not give a tiny rat’s ass what you allow or don’t allow your own kids to read. but how fucking dare you decide what MY kid gets to have access to. parent your own kids, you loser weirdos!!!

A little something for anyone who needs a laugh, from @katjolewis.bsky.social: open.substack.com/pub/katjolew... #humor #amwriting

Congratulations to all of our 2026 grant winners! Recognizing oral history, young adult literature, migration narratives, and translation, these works-in-progress illuminate important stories and are sure to carry a lasting literary impact. Learn more here: pen.org/announcing-t...

The one Hallmark holiday movie I'd watch...

if you've ever wanted to give a little to my newsroom, today is a really good day for it today, your donation goes twice as far thanks to NewsMatch — every dollar up to $8,000 will be doubled and if 100 new donors step up, @thecity.nyc unlocks an additional $2,000 bonus! 🤑

Alt text for those who need it. This is amazing.

No. Nope. Not happening. They cannot make Franklin the Turtle into one of them. I, and Kids Can Press, won't allow it.

Why can't the right win without gerrymandering? Why can't the right uphold free speech when it isn't about them? Why can't the right mind their own business? Why is the right the party of Fuck Your Feelings until it's time to joke about that mediocre podcaster who caught one in the neck?

ICYMI: A good recap, even if the writer does force us to suffer through the whole execrable poem. Not cool, Brian. Not. Cool. www.theringer.com/2025/11/25/n... #journalism #Nuzzi #Lizza

If you love a small press, check out these 100 notable small press books from 2025!

This is absolutely incredible reporting. "Witkoff, who hasn’t traveled to Ukraine this year, is set to visit Russia for the sixth time next week and will again meet Putin."

WHY DON'T YOU WRITE SOMETHING PEOPLE READ!? God help us all today. Happy Thanksgiving, Literary Writers!

The latest essay greatness at HOW I LEARNED, "Smarter Than Blood" by Heather Hawk.

See also Ryan Lizza for sitting on this because it could make his personal life more complicated.

everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas

This is true. It is the best email I got this year.

This review by @lyz.bsky.social of Cheryl Hines' new memoir is not only an excellent essay about culpability and power, but it underscores the problem of much celebrity #memoir — the writers' lives remain, 200+ pages later, unexamined. www.patreon.com/login?ru=%2F...

Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷

We have a winner, folks

My story "The Gospel of Malachi Slim" is out now in Stygian Lepus Magazine Edition 29, page 89. A supernatural noir tale from River City Gospel. www.stygianlepus.com/edition-29/ #SupernaturalNoir #PublishedAuthor #DarkFiction

“I wrote [MY NAME MEANS FIRE] for the ones who had to change something about themselves in order to stay whole. The ones who needed to leave their mother tongue in order to find their true voice.”—Atash Yaghmaian @literaryhub.bsky.social

Did I vote for Guy In Your MFA, just so I can watch JCO crush him in the final? You bet I did. lithub.com/what-was-lit...

Way more entertaining, and without all the ethical ick.

She’s been on a reputation rehab tour for months. Is she walking away from that? Doubtful. GA gov filing deadline is March 6th.

Deadline to file to run for governor in Georgia is March 6th.

Okay but why not serve out the rest of her term? Why leave a year early? Not that I’m complaining…

FINAL HOURS! If you’re a woman journalist or writer in the greater NYC area, and you’re proud of something you produced in the last year, you still have time to enter the Front Page Awards. Celebrate your work! Enter before midnight! www.newswomensclubnewyork.com #journalism #writingcommunity

Joyce Carol Oates did best Bad Art Friend! I kinda thought that scrappy little kidney might bring her down. Shows what I know. Don't forget to make your picks today, #WritingCommunity! lithub.com/what-was-lit...

"Any story can be told over & over & over again. The newness is in the questions you’re asking, even if you don’t have an answer.” — @theoffingmag.bsky.social EIC Vonetta Young on what reading the slush pile taught her about good writing. blogs.gothamwriters.com/2025/11/18/n... #WritingCommunity

Scoop: Rep. Eugene Vindman knows what Trump said on a 2019 call with the Saudi Crown Prince about Jamal Khashoggi's killing, and his effort to make it public is about to rachet up. Tomorrow, Vindman will appear alongside Khossoggi's widow to call on Trump to release the transcript

Tip your local reporters, please! (Every bit helps.) buff.ly/lUv9nlu

Is anyone surprised Joyce Carol Oates made it to the Retweeted Eight, after smacking down American Dirt and Kathleen Hale? Of course not! Look what she just did to Elno, and is now doing to MTG. Today, tho, she's up against Bad Art Friend. Only one can survive. Who will it be, #WritingCommunity?

Jamal Khashoggi's widow: I did feel disappointed by Trump describing my husband in this way and justifying the crime. There is nothing to justify the crime. And he's taking away, as well, the freedom for journalists to ask a question. What is the difference then between the US and any dictatorship?

Meanwhile the President just yesterday said an assassinated journalist deserved it and celebrated his killer

This is a delight! #WritingCommunity