Authors Alix E. Harrow, Olivie Blake, and more raise concerns about BookCon 2026

Ahaha this is my favorite Midnight Society meeting ever. :)

Kindergarten teacher called a prank ICE hotline thinking it was real. She called to report her 6 year old student to ICE to try to get them and their family deported. 6 years old. She does not enjoy hearing her own words and actions played back to her.

Crockett: "The US is falling apart, partially bc he's allowing for killings in the street, but also bc we have a 34 count convicted felon being shielded from any type of accountability as it relates to a child sex trafficking ring. I don't understand why we're pretending any of this is normal."

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

There's a ChatGPT ad about a family farm where the owner says her family has been doing this for a hundred years and she doesn't want to be the one to screw it up and that's why she's getting advice from ChatGPT and, my God, can you people hear yourselves?

The headline's great, but the article is beyond impressive for how much ground they cover with such fidelity in just a few words.

5/ “I have already spent more than 60 days waking up eating the same repetitive meals…going to the doctor and that the only thing they tell you is to drink more water and the worst thing is that it seems like the water is what makes people sick here…” From 12-year-old Ender, detained 60+ days

Good pushback on the bullshit.

1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken. Hundreds of kids are still detained. We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵

Pack the Council chambers tonight, Monday, Feb. 9 (5:00 pm) to support CASA and new provisions that would limit city agencies' involvement in ICE operations and safeguard public spaces and services. Preceded by 4:00 press conference at City Hall.

For a story I'm working on, I'd love to talk to VOTERS who: -Live in MISSISSIPPI & have been sent to the wrong polling place on Election Day, either due to the polling place locator or a precinct change -Live in NEVADA or COLORADO & vote at a vote center of your choice -Live in OREGON or WASHINGTON

As it should be.

We’re onto you, Ring

"The task of the artist is determined always by the status and process and agenda of the community that it already serves... As a cultural worker who belongs to an oppressed people my job is to make revolution irresistible." Toni Cade Bambara

very excited to have my response included in the latest Boston Review forum against Democratic moderation! here it is, my best argument for why Dems shouldn't "moderate" on transgender rights & LGBTQ issues more generally (as they are inextricably linked): www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

“For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick.” Conditions in a San Diego concentration camp, via message hurled out in a bottle.

The current regime took a week to abolish USAID, which is three times as old and was not in the news every day for brutalizing children

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

To counter AI slop writers, we need louder celebrations of the oddball writers of two weird books that each took 20 years to write, the hermits refusing to publish except via mimeographed zines, the typewriter poets, playwrights for dollhouses, short story writers who sew words into vegan vellum...

Schiff on the SAVE Act: "Jonathan, what you've just asked is essentially, Republicans have created distrust in the elections by making claims of nonexistent fraud, and shouldn't we use the distrust they've created in order to enact a voter suppression law?"

Bezos: "Each and every day our readers give us a roadmap to success. The data tells us what is valuable and where to focus." The most-read story on the WaPo website was written by a team Bezos' leadership just sent to the unemployment line.

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

Our opinion page published a guest piece on Lindsey Vonn that was misogynistic trash. I had thoughts.

This is good. I got a business travel friend to donate some of his miles. But we should be hounding delta non stop until they do it for free.

they’re not “customers”, will, they’re READERS

“Renee was not the first person killed, and she was not the last,” Becca Good said. “You know my wife’s name and you know Alex’s name, but there are many others in this city being harmed that you don’t know — their families are hurting just like mine, even if they don’t look like mine.”

Support a Black family during Black History Month! Keith Porter, Jr. Keith Porter, Jr. Keith Porter, Jr. Keith Porter, Jr. Keith Porter, Jr.

Ten years ago this afternoon in a restaurant which no longer exists, @sarahpinsker.bsky.social graciously allowed herself to be recorded as the first guest of my Eating the Fantastic podcast. A big thank you to her — and to you, for joining my meals with so many amazing creators! pod.link/1083737796

humans do not host the Muppet Show, Kermit the Frog hosts the Muppet Show! there i said it, i got it off my chest

what are you doing!

Most cartoonists aren't Rembrandt, but they become the voices of generations bc they are able to pinpoint, with painful accuracy, something no one else had the words to say. That's where the quality of their art comes from. A great artist is a great observer. The skillset is secondary.

The quality of art is not the quality of the art; if it were, art would begin and end w/photorealism. The quality of art is in the quality of the artist's observations. Some of the greatest novels have workmanlike prose; they are carried by jaw-dropping truths about human life. Or take cartooning--

There seems to be a not insignificant number of people in the Epstein Files who hold prominent positions at colleges. Yet, there’s no uproar over what these elites are teaching students. Or how many of them overlook sexual assault on their own campuses.

Today, February 7, 2026, is officially the 100th anniversary of Negro History Week and the 50th anniversary of Black History Month. Carter G Woodson purposely started Negro History Week on February 7th so that it would end on February 14th, which is Frederick Douglass's birthday

The Biden administration had promised to spend $1 billion over a decade to help restore salmon on the Snake and Columbia rivers while also boosting tribal clean energy projects.

Breaking MS NOW: The Department of Homeland Security *unsuccessfully* sought to expedite deportation proceedings against the family of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos, according to a local school official. At an asylum hearing Friday, the family was granted a continuance. www.ms.now/news/dhs-rep...

Seems only reasonable to find out who has access and posting privileges to the social media account of the President of the USA in case they ever drunkly cause an international incident…

Diana Crespo-Gonzalez was swept up Jan. 16 outside a Portland hospital where her parents had taken her for emergency care.

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

The gall. He shot a woman who posed no threat to him and then boasted about it as he and his colleagues falsely maligned *her* reputation to cover it up. The only question should whether his texts are admitted as evidence at his criminal trial.

Federal judge: "The presumption of regularity that has previously extended to [the United States Government] that it could be taken at its word—with little doubt about its intentions and stated purposes—no longer holds." This is in a case where the Trump admin sued Oregon.

The common-sense definition of "warrant" -- and the definition courts have used, and the definition the executive branch used until apparently nine months ago -- is a document signed by a judge. "Administrative warrants" aren't. Not even an immigration judge. They are simply forms.

🚨BREAKING: Republicans are moving quickly to pass a bill requiring voters to show proof of citizenship both to register and at the polls ahead of the 2026 midterm elections — a move that experts warn could disenfranchise millions of Americans. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

If only we had entire libraries full of science fiction short stories, novellas, novels, comics, movies, episodes, stage plays, interactive games, webisodes, and also our own fucking imaginations and logical reasoning and emotional intelligence warning us against exactly this sort of thing.

I'll add that making the lights wink out one by one when your slogan is "democracy dies in darkness" is very on the nose.

We used to fund USAID, which saved millions, but Elon Musk said it was a government propaganda front and so he shut it. Millions will die and the US govt is now funding actual MAGA propaganda.

This is the correct headline.