I am *never* going to get over the Court holding that targeted student loan forgiveness was a "major question" that Congress needed to weigh in on, but refusing to intervene to stop the dismantling of the entire cabinet agency overseeing the student loan program.

Holly and Lucy. Or Hollicus Jollicus and Lucille Guisielle.

TA.

www.criterionchannel.com/leaving-june... If you have the Criterion Channel and are interested in Vodou, I highly recommend you give this a watch before it leaves.

The good news: my four year old can read some words unprompted, even without pictures. The bad news: he announced this by reading a billboard that says "car crash" multiple times as I was taking a notoriously sharp entrance ramp onto the Poplar Street Bridge.

I don’t see anything “essentially Pagan” about it. Trump’s form of Christianity can be recognized as hypocritical and vile while still recognizing that it is a form of Christianity and ties into decades of prior developments within American Christianity.

The rectangular die-stamp, used to create decorations for elite armor like the famous Sutton Hoo helmet, has connections to numerous similar horned figure motifs across England and Scandinavia. wildhunt.org/2026/06/die-... #pagan #archaeology #hornedgod #odin #antiquities #woden

A visitor fell into the Reflecting Pool today.

Actually, this is a somewhat useful text, in that all of the historical nonsense here is built to underscore a specific mysogynist argument: that it is better to have a bad, difficult and precarious life where you can brutalize women than a relatively prosperous and secure one where you can't

I didn't work at the Dakota Watch Factory in Crestwood Plaza, friend - I *served* there.

A visitor fell into the Reflecting Pool today.

I just realized what I would do if I had an arbitrary amount of money: I would build a P. Funk theme park. Imagine it: a Mothership Connection rollercoaster. Aqua-Boogie waterpark. Meet and greets with Starchild and Sir Nose d'Voidoffunk. Bop Gun shooting ride. Bootzillas in every gift shop.

You haven't LIVED until you've heard robots talk like pirates.

Foundling Fathers lands this Tuesday from @tachyonpub.bsky.social, and my tour begins! East and West Coast dates are below, with alt text. Catch me if you can, because I'm reading from America's birthday present: the blistering satire that she deserves.

I’m actually devastated to hear this; it’s like an old god has died

And now we are forty. Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit.

That's enough Death of the Author. It's time for Death of the Audience. Start running fools

“The prose is brilliant throughout, the description is lyrical but not overdone, the pace keeps going but doesn’t rush. An incredible story. Just perfect.” Well hey aw

“In order to make use of the powers within those objects and practices,” writes Storm Faerywolf (@faerywolf.bsky.social) , “we need to make use of the only tool that is truly necessary for the magician or witch: the strengthened and focused will.” wildhunt.org/2026/06/on-f... #pagan #witch #magic

The period between Juneteenth and the Fourth of July should be treated like the period between Xmas Eve and New Year’s Day. Independence Season. I’ll circle back to you on the 6th.

Also if someone knows a Dublin tailor that will sell a fat man a green tweed suit, I’m listening

We are taking a trip to Ireland in August. I am already planning to bore my family by making them go see the Book of Kells, at least one Neolithic tomb, and Skellig Michael, but what other things should we do? We’re staying in Dublin, Dingle, and Galway. Group includes an old man and a preschooler.

New story day! Do you like robots? Pirates? French transgender Marxist robot pirates? If so, do I have a heck of a story for you! Check out “Freebooter,” now live on Escape Pod!

join the future of the Democratic party, I guess? act.dsausa.org/donate/membe...

In this week’s Pagan Community Notes, we celebrate Juneteenth and the June Solstice; the Correllian Nativist Tradition responds to the DoD’s code revisions; we honor the memory of Krystel Neuman Highcorrell. Plus, Star's Tarot of the Week and Damh the Bard's concert. wildhunt.org/2026/06/paga...

"But they've never done anything wrong, you say. Hah! What about the clock, huh? If they hadn't invented the clock, I'd still be in bed - dreaming."

ME: Alright, it's a three day weekend, nobody call me until Monday ALSO ME: I better check in on how that school board meeting went

Sopranos. I’m sorry, I love all of the other canonical Peak Television Series, At Least According to White Men, but I could never get past the first couple of episodes.

A genuinely useful thread.

“I could always find professors teaching classes or hosting office hours about what most interested me.” …at least until my party’s policies made teaching those philosophers illegal because of their latent Wokeness.

faith is like knowing that raising the minimum wage would actually be bad for workers!

Book tours are mostly for big-time bestsellers, but I'm lucky enough to have friends and know booksellers in a lot of places, so I'm doing it! Here are all the places you can see me this summer, talking about Foundling Fathers:

Take the bosses’ snacks, then form a union anyway.

BEHOLD THE LAW ORANGUTAN:

Anybody who claims they can’t make a book cover without AI is afraid to try, or lying. This is the original cover for The Book of the Unnamed Midwife, published by Sybaritic Press. The chair is a piece of doll furniture I found at a yard sale. The floor is Jenga pieces. Baseboards are chopsticks.

The National Park Service is closing Dupont Circle for DC Pride weekend because Republicans hate joy #FreeDC www.nps.gov/nama/learn/m...

The geniuses at Audible, using their algorithmic insights, have determined the exact perfect recommendation for someone whose most recent audiobooks were The Odyssey, a book about Indo-Europeans, a memoir about footpaths, and an account of the 2010 Haitian earthquake: shockingly it’s Harry Potter

Awarded both the title of Ollamh & OBOD’s inaugural Fellowship, Ronald Hutton was honored for decades of scholarship, teaching, & service that transformed the study of Paganism while enriching contemporary Druid communities. wildhunt.org/2026/06/obod... #pagan #druid #ronaldhutton #philipcarrgomm

If you haven’t checked out “Radio Free Luna,” you can read it right now in Solarpunk #27 or listen to Justine’s fantastic narration on the Demand Utopia podcast!

i know people have ethical qualms about The Spindling, but I love the two pairs of socks i was able to knit, my feet have never been warmer and I hardly miss that finger

secret societies are unions for these people

A new Pew Research Center report finds religious hostilities increased for the third consecutive year worldwide, while government restrictions remained near record highs and questions remain about how smaller faith communities are represented in the data. wildhunt.org/2026/06/pew-... #Pagan #wicca

A Mississippi police officer shot and killed Kohen Wiley, a 1-year-old child, while responding to a shoplifting call at the Senatobia Walmart. Family members told WREG that he was sitting in his mother's lap in the passenger seat of a car when the officer shot him. buff.ly/oMSukfJ

@jortsthecat.bsky.social when did you take up the ballet?

TWO giveaways for Foundling Fathers start today: Goodreads June 16-June 23 US only www.goodreads.com/giveaway/sho... Storygraph June 16-June 30 US only (print) Worldwide (digital) app.thestorygraph.com/giveaways/11...

The simple fact of it is that — if you aren't Christian — you have to vote toward the left regardless of your personal politics, for the same reason that many socially conservative black folks do: because the alternative is people who theoretically share your beliefs but want to wipe you out

An interfaith coalition of military chaplaincy endorsers, including Rev. Selena Fox of Circle Sanctuary, is urging the Pentagon to restore eliminated religious affiliation codes & adopt a more transparent review process, arguing that accurate religious identification... wildhunt.org/2026/06/fait...

Read @juliagaffield.bsky.social on FIFA's decision to ban Haiti's original World Cup jersey, the deep pattern this is a part of, and the irony that they are probably helping to educate more people about the Battle of Vertières. Great piece! theconversation.com/fifas-haiti-...