Over-the-moon for this starred Publishers Weekly review of COYOTELAND! And flashback to @booksmith.bsky.social book launch in 2022 with the amazing Oscar Villalon. Join us on Tuesday, May 12 to welcome #COYOTELAND in the world. Reserve a seat and pre-order here: : app.gopassage.com/events/coyot...

Being a congressperson means answering hard questions and showing up for your constituents. You can ask me your questions at any of the upcoming debates, our town halls, or on one of my daily voter calls. Hit the link in bio to sign up for one.

Today, Michelle and I are proud to announce that we will be hosting the dedication ceremony for the Obama Presidential Center on June 18th in Chicago, and welcoming the public on June 19th. We can’t wait for you to visit. Go to obama.org to learn more.

wow -- Tillis goes ballistic on Noem, telling her "what we've seen is a disaster under your leadership"

If you have the courage to confront all of our past — the good and the bad, the hopeful and the messy — history has the power to inform a better future.

A year ago, I stood before you and asked a provocative question: After we have discriminated against, disparaged, and deported all our immigrant neighbors — and the problems we started with remained. What comes next?

My message remains the same a year later. We don’t have kings in America, and I won’t bend the knee to one.

Honoring President Lincoln’s birthday in Illinois today.

We're moving on up in Illinois. Proud to be home to a thriving film industry that keeps on growing, Chicago is now ranked #3 in the nation as the best place to live and work as a movie maker.

Tonight on @siriusxmprog.bsky.social #127 Our 1st live show of 2026 & our 1st live guest is Allison Gill of @dailybeanspod.com @frankconniff.bsky.social & I take your calls at 866.997.GRIT. ALSO, John Lee Hooker Jr & Mike Campbell, lead guitarist for Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers!

This isn't about democratizing the news. It's about elevating "vibes" and "feelings" to be on par with lived experience and subject-matter expertise.

The hypocrisy is just so blatant.

Our students are California’s future—our nurses, engineers, scientists, teachers, and more. UC-Merced students recently shared their thoughts with me on our state’s direction and how Donald Trump’s decisions are hurting their classmates and campus.

Prop 50 is about deciding that Donald Trump is going to be accountable to the democracy—to each one of us. Polls close in just over 5 hours! Find your polling place: www.sos.ca.gov/elections/po...

@audiosand.bsky.social and another colleague realized they are dressing as Diane Keaton to mourn her, aka “Keatoning.”

#OnThisDay in 1998, American college student Matthew Shepherd died five days after he was beaten and tortured by two men, then tied to a post and left to die near Laramie, Wyoming. He was murdered because he was gay. He was 21 years old. Photo credit: Gina Van Hoof. #OTD #MatthewShepherd

Still waiting for a solution that protects family owned, small businesses in the Castro.

Litquake Festival 2025 schedule + ticketing are now LIVE! 🥳 www.litquake.org/2025-schedule

I thought this was a joke, but I just watched a video of Mike Johnson saying this, omg. This country is wearing me out.

First Bernie Sanders. Then the CDC directors. Now, more than 1,000 current and former HHS staffers are demanding he step down.

I know Ted Cruz isn’t trying to talk shit about someone else’s weight.

Netflix co-founder and Democratic megadonor Reed Hastings has given $2 million to help California redraw its House maps in the latest indication of the campaign’s outsize stakes.

Writing two books at once is so fun. Highly recommend.

Went whale watching off of PTown today instead of watching the Orioles game. A+, no notes, would watch whales instead of the Orioles lose again.

Sometimes when you see a professional troll talking nonsense, it can be… elucidating to look up their book sales.

"Childish? Yes. But the point isn’t that this is the answer. The point is that Newsom is systematically pushing every button on the console and trying to see if any of them work." How about more folks than Newsom doing this?

Man fleeing Home Depot immigration raid is hit and killed by a car on the 210 Freeway

I’ve had my complaints with Newsom over the years, but he’s handling this moment exactly right. And Ted Cruz is throwing an absolute fit about California redistricting. 🤣🤣🤣

Loving ‘Gloves-Off Gavin’… 👊🏻

Cuomo seems hellbent on running the worst campaign possible. It’s textbook “what not to do,” and yet! Fascinating.

I did this tonight for my work in progress, choosing texts for students who were doing this exercise, and my husband kept asking "Why are you laughing so much," which I was because the choices were dramatically perfect.

"And if the word integration means anything, this is what it means: that we, with love, shall force our brothers to see themselves as they are, to cease fleeing from reality and begin to change it." Happy birthday James.

We are losing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which has helped educate, inform, and entertain millions of Americans. Instead, we’re getting a vulgar new gold ballroom, which none of us will ever see.

Our state faces serious challenges, and Californians know that everything from healthcare to housing is way too expensive. Donald Trump is doing everything in his power to make things even harder.

You cannot govern California without understanding it, and that means years of listening and learning here in our state. I loved touring the new Valley Natural Beverages milk processing plant in Bakersfield.

I really resent having to show ID to buy DayQuil.

NEW EPISODE: We got Tom Ammiano! The SF political legend came on to talk about Matt Dorsey threatening his landmark domestic partner benefits and other rightwing attacks on the progress he helped make. @dscotmiller.bsky.social youtu.be/uKVTZwK-ssA?...

Moby Dick was most likely inspired by a real life whale named… Mocha Dick. open.substack.com/pub/laphamsq...

MAGA 101: Stab your voters, give them a bandaid. They’ll say thank you every time.

‘That is not a body suit.’ And I hate to even use these terms, but I said, ‘Those are her nipples.’ And then I was looking closer, and I got a full-body view, and I was like, ‘That is pubic hair.’ Even right now, I couldn’t even tell you what I was watching.”

Those South Park guys just showed us how politics is downstream of culture

Everyone needs to understand that the defunding of public broadcasting this week is part of a broader effort to dismantle the free press and control the means of reality production itself. www.thedissident.news/the-oligarch...

She’s confused. And so am I. This is nuts! My wife just said this is straight out of The Handmaid’s Tale. Anyone know more about this?

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I’m going to go way out on a limb and predict 3 things after this takes place: 1. DOJ will announce Maxwell completely exonerated Trump. 2. They will lie and announce they made no deals or promises to her. 3. The deal they made with her will happen at the end of Trump’s term.

Sad your BS lines at the end of the hagiography, admitting to your felonies, don’t also include the NLRB judgment against you in San Francisco. Not fulsome or sincere You’re self-serving and slick to the end. How many folks will regret the purchase when they read your laughable rationale for crime?

“ nor had I understood til then how the shameless vanity of utter fools can so strongly determine the fate of others” Philip Roth, The Plot Against America