I was on vacation last week so didn't get a chance to share this piece when it came out, but I had a lovely time speaking to people in the Juniata River Valley about Goose Day, a quirky & unique local holiday that's celebrated every Sept. 29: www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/09...

nice www.bostonreview.net/articles/wha...

I looked into the group and the guy pushing the FBI to create a new designation of “transgender ideology–inspired violence and extremism”—itself a political project, meant to conflate the fact of trans people’s existence with extremism.

perfect youtu.be/tdJ5kUfO8qk?...

today I learned the ratio of flour to butter in brioche is 2:1! or higher! (no wonder it tastes so good)

the lost cause comparison is a bullseye www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

"In Dirty Harry 2, you can hear what it's really like to live with crime, to be taken by both the drama and reality of it, to move on from it, and to not let it sully your love for home." www.npr.org/2025/09/12/n...

sweet chin music and I won't pass the aux sounds like it was rapped millions of years ago, by an ancestor huddled over a fire, but nope, that's just the time-bending power of true hate

I have realized in the past week that a lot of people don't really know what brainrot is

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hmmm kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

the free speech "absolutists" are really showing their asses today

I reviewed the gorgeous new Blood Orange album pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

the regulatory capture in texas is really something insideclimatenews.org/news/0309202...

man, sade really makes "look at the sky/it's the color of love" feel like a bar

gavin newsom is so mf embarrassing. bozo is trapped in a perpetual state of who mans is this

frying cod will fuck up the smell of your house for days. don't do it fam

jfc, even proquest has an AI assistant now

sent out like 10 work emails in a row and yelled "I AM THE EMAIL WEEZY"

I reviewed R.F Kuang's Katabasis www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

this is such bunk. I read negative reviews every day. I write so many negative reviews I feel self-conscious about it lol a labor or economic lens would be so much richer: 'how do music critics pay their bills?' ; 'where did all the music mags go?' www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

I reviewed R.F Kuang's Katabasis www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

new earl is so good

jfc. I'd forgotten how hard q slid on this youtu.be/kn3GZHjHPjM?...

"Black spirituality is a part of the history of Black activism, but Chance is insistent that faith alone won't save you...There is a sense across the album that freedom-fighting requires both fortitude and engagement, and that each is found in communion with the other." www.npr.org/2025/08/22/n...

I 100% thought bone thugs just made this word up

"Divisive" is getting thrown out even more as the Trump admin seeks to remove "improper ideology" at the Smithsonian. Here's how the eager embrace of the term, especially when it comes to race, relegates history to comfortable fables.

I write at night sometimes, but i'm starting to accept that for me the real magic happens in the morning. like the difference in quality is truly day and night

“Are we such weak, fragile people that we can’t view the full length and breadth of our history?” National Park visitors are not keen on Donald Trump's effort to sanitize history.

Extremely depressing to see how mainstream the Sinophobic “we might lose the ai race to China” narrative has become.

Nobody saying it can tell you what it means. It’s just a racist story cooked up to assert tech bros should have free reign.

Wrote about what @artsorority.bsky.social evocatively described as "incomplete vinyl," for @npr.org. Your favorite artists may have a chart incentive to rush out record pressings with only partial tracklists, but it could also be a sign of the times. www.npr.org/2025/08/12/n...

great map of the amaarae extended universe www.npr.org/2025/08/14/g...

I love that the theme of this song is "I made a beat, I feel great about it" youtu.be/R1nFAjUM8W8?...

full frontal fascism www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-st...

I hate terminator films but reports like this make me appreciate the elegant bluntness of skynet initiating nuclear armageddon www.reuters.com/investigates...

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what's really rich is that dc already has one of the nation's largest police forces per capita, not even counting wmata cops, secret service, marshals, the national park service, etc. nor the frequent cooperation between VA and MD agencies. this is truffle dust on top of the farce

celebrating another book-bday this month—Liquid Snakes turns two! softskull.com/books/liquid...

In the Heat of the Light, my first novel, turns 6 today doesn't sound that long ago, but one of the characters in it has a *print* subscription to The Fader 🤣 RIYL: michael crichton, louise simonson's new mutants run, D4L, summer, waffle house www.noreasontopretend.com/in-the-heat-...

The Trump administration is using an unexpected legal tactic in its deportation efforts. Rather than pursue a deportation case, it is convincing judges to dismiss immigrants’ cases — thus depriving the immigrants of protection — then taking them into custody. stateline.org/2025/08/06/i...

Shocked there hasn’t been an announcement the justice department is investigating the incident

nas was bugging when he said em washed jay on renegade

This issue's Keyword is from @kearse.bsky.social on "divisive" and the quest to forget American history in the name of unity www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

This piece makes a point worth emphasizing even more: "divisive" as an accusation implies the existence of a "we" that honest analysis of history supposedly threatens. That "we" is a white America whose sense of superiority is linked to a denial that that superiority is being propped up.

Wrote 4,290 words on an all-time fave pitchfork.com/reviews/albu...

When mentions of race are deemed too “divisive” for American discourse, history becomes relegated to comfortable fables. This vibes-based tactic makes putty of truth while claiming to protect it. @kearse.bsky.social on how our history became "divisive."

I wrote about the recent use of "divisive" as a tool for sanitizing history and laundering patriotism www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

traffic circles seem to be the new parallel parking. people are STRUGGLING out here