Jeff Bezos, bookselling executive and newspaper publisher, on poetry www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/b... www.nytimes.com/2026/05/20/b...

Perennial

May 6, 1935: FDR creates the Works Progress Administration, his major effort at putting the nation back to work. About 30% of the unemployed will be hired to build schools, hospitals, & playgrounds, at an average of $55 per month.

Native Land Digital provides a digital map of Indigenous territories, languages, and treaties around the globe. Here’s their current map of the languages of North America. native-land.ca

Interesting 🧵and doesn't this undercut the market for ads on social media (is the ad spend also declining...why would advertisers pay to reach a shrinking audience)

Who's starting the This Tweet Incarnate account here?

I'm seeing people defending this decision by saying things like "this is eliminating prison LIBRARIANS, not LIBRARIES" so let's take a closer look at that. 1/

Through spring, I get to bring out Calling It Back to Me with friends and writers I admire. Here’s my next friendly April event, this Sunday afternoon with Rob Winger at the beloved, iconic @blueheronbooks—well worth the trip to Uxbridge, hopefully Sunday—will I see you?—but really any day.

Discover your perfect Under Secretary of DEFENSE for Policy name: Spanish article + English noun needed to get places OR bring folks together + fave cheese OR cheese most recently eaten. Mine? Lascooter Gouda (Madame Under Secretary, please)

Welp sometimes the perfect Father's Day gift drops from...heaven

The poor Lebanese have to listen to this pathetic claim

these are the stupidest people to ever live

You should also read Article I, not just Article V, & remember again that everything Trump has done with 🇨🇦, 🇬🇱/🇩🇰, & now 🇮🇷 violates not only US law & the Constitution, but also the NATO Treaty & the UN Charter, & it all should have already ended his presidency.

I feel so old

One essay submitted to a contest with 10 minutes to spare but the second one too late by a minute? Priceless. So me.

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Threatening to murder my neighbor and his entire family unless he charges me $20 every time I drive past his house. It’s called “diplomacy,” look it up.

He's a power-abusing quisling but Mike Johnson is not Dictator of the House. He does not have absolute power over the floor. He can not forbid the House from voting on something the House wants to do, or in many cases if any individual member wants a vote. The minority is not procedurally powerless.

If citizens abroad can't vote, does the USG expect them to continue filing tax returns, one of the few countries that does this instead of sensibly having residence-based taxation.

Just truly some of the stupidest, most vicious people on Earth. Denmark had to send armed forces to Greenland to head off a US threat in *January of this year*. And now they're pissy because NATO isn't eager to wade into an entirely optional quagmire. www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

Still can't get over the fake-ass church representation on the cover hahaha

Looking forward to all the wrestling content coming my way after i failed to resist the search term AEW Dynamite (*is it a person? 🤷‍♀️ damn, now I know)

If you need to start your day with spectacle

Great thread for holy week, I feel better just knowing this *book is on the way (*can we agree that broadest definition of a book is paper between two covers, surely we can. As opposed to a book worth reading)

"...operating funding is necessary to survive the ups and downs of living near the US, a cultural whirlpool and a massive market. . . . Cutting this funding means giving over this entire, diversified, internationally connected industry to the US."

When you see polls that tell you that MAGA Republicans are 100% in support of Trump, remember that you are selecting on this dependent variable.

station eleven never got the appreciation it deserves but it is NOT! TOO! LATE!

Finished the syllabus (our spring trimester starts tomorrow). Saved it as a PDF. An Adobe AI tool pops up (unsummoned and unwanted, as always) and tells me that "this is a long document. Do you want me to summarize it for you?" No, I want people to actually read this - thanks for making that harder.

It's my answer every time for this: National identity is, with some exceptions, more modern than the steam engine.

Sandra Wong, the great granddaughter of Wong Kim Ark, is preparing to march at the #NoKings Rally in San Francisco. Today is the 128th Anniversary of the SCOTUS decision affirming birthright citizenship.

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

Sisyphus but every day he unsubscribes from marketing and promotion emails.

NEW: The 9-year-old who begged Ms. Rachel for help getting out of ICE detention so he could attend his spelling bee has now also been released from Dilley. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

This astonishing piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge appeared in my FB feed (kudos to the algo for once) Worth reading every word for many gems about writing truth, so many angles of approach to this work... www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

Uh ... I got nothing wtaf

This was the original post, credit to them

I’m currently working on the plan we’ll execute tomorrow to introduce our hastily hired and poorly trained fascist shock troops into a job they have no competency for, but don’t worry I found the time to do a couple hours of tv hits about it before I finished it.

i’ve always said the generally hellish experience of going through TSA would be improved by bringing in other federal agents with no understanding of airports who love to shoot people

Super helpful search intel here (& sorry to OP, I've lost the post that shared this.) cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Pleased to share my 1st Afterword column for @alllitupcanada.bsky.social THE FALL-DOWN EFFECT by @lizjohnston.bsky.social publishes next month with @bookhugpress.bsky.social TL:DR it's excellent, an engrossing novel of family and climate change imperatives alllitup.ca/afterword-li...

Books about oil, censorship and women's rights on shortlist for $40K Canadian political writing prize #CanLit www.cbc.ca/books/shaugh...

The “writing is thinking” posting will continue until a single freaking person in Silicon Valley has figured this out

Here's that (great) post: MFA vs. Publishing Round 2,000 open.substack.com/pub/counterc...

3.5 m self-published books! (Of >4m entering US market last year) I'd seen this figure going around but appreciated the smart context (on this other trending topics) in Lincoln Michel's Counter Craft writeup www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

"If solidarity has been so often withheld from the Irish, it has never been withheld by the Irish" Look, we were told there would be consequences to electing Mahmood Mamdani’s son, and

"I don't use Grammarly," the author writes. I imagine most writers don't, bc Grammarly sucks. (And no, forcing writers to opt out is not good enough.)

My dude

Amount Of Water Man Just Used To Wash Dish To Be Prize Of Hand-To-Hand Combat Match In 2065. [theonion.com]