Not unrelated to something I posted earlier today. @daviddark.bsky.social

Great. Thanks for the response 🙌 Highly appreciated. I have "We Become.." but haven't gotten to it yet. I'll pick up Everyday Apocalypse and start there first.

Is this thing on? www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KSo...

Where should I start in the David Dark library? If you had a pathway of your writing for the reader, where would it begin?

Sure, I’ll miss having an office now that my employer has decided neither I nor my colleagues deserve one, but I won’t miss how often this place smells like dead mice.

It had not occurred to me that the masked person who commanded the removal of Roots from Knox County school libraries is trying to disgrace Republican leadership. It has now. Thank you, @betsyphillips.bsky.social, for your witness. www.nashvillescene.com/news/pithint...

This tweet, for a Ross Barkan story that copied my lede and reporting, now has more than 10x the views of the original. Ross hasn't apologized or acknowledged it; maybe he's just waiting for me to shut up. Without any explanation, I'm left to wonder how many times he's done this

Ladies and gentlemen, there are clergy in Nashville who aren't bigots. Let me explain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KSo...

Ladies and gentlemen, there are clergy in Nashville who aren't bigots. Let me explain. www.youtube.com/watch?v=7KSo...

I like how the triggered man in the Nike cap gets managed like an anxious toddler.

I can handle students using sources to lie on essays. I have the power to insist they revise. I can handle FB friends lying on my FB wall. I can delete their comments. I am not sure what to do about my SCOTUS lying on my dime & my time while refusing to circle back & course correct. Thoughts?

"It was clear to me that none of it was working; the democratic process had failed to protect Palestinians from genocide and the only option left was to take direct action.” www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/g...

This is a very important post. Please take time to read.

An uplifting (I'm serious) exchange on autocracy & domestic violence between @mashagessen.bsky.social & Rachel Louise Snyder www.nytimes.com/2026/05/14/o...

Don't underestimate Nashville, y'all. www.nashvillescene.com/news/coverst...

Beshear: The president finally said something that was true. He said he does not care about the financial situation of the American people. And you know what? The way he governs shows it. The Trump economy is a failure. The only failure that rivals the Trump economy is Trump’s foreign policy.

Yes. This. Our integrity as a nation depends on widespread understanding of this truth and its implications.

Jim Crow 2.0 is about voting rights (as many have now figured out), and it is also about attempting to eliminate Black people from public life, powerful institutions, and economic prosperity. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/black-p...

"One of the things [Natalie Harp] does late at night when the President is having narcissist meltdowns is mainstream foreign conspiracy theories that lead him to directly pressure those who mete out 'justice' in the US." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/05/14/g...

White supremacist antichrist poltergeist. I speak from experience. The phenomenon has been studied. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VZt...

Feel free to answer this good faith question by calling me a dumbass white person. But why haven't Americans--particularly in the South, where the economy has changed significantly--gotten less racist? Rural/urban divide? Trump's permission structure?

I wonder if Xi called up Putin and said, "Remind me how you made Trump look like a beaten pup in that Helsinki appearance"?

"Kash lied about Abrego Garcia and then dug in, repeatedly denying he had lied...[By proving] he is willing to lie, in his official capacity, about criminal defendants...[he] puts everything he touches at risk." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/05/13/t...

"Kash lied about Abrego Garcia and then dug in, repeatedly denying he had lied...[By proving] he is willing to lie, in his official capacity, about criminal defendants...[he] puts everything he touches at risk." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/05/13/t...

"A few days before the unleashing of Operation Epic Fury, the men on board this ship had been feted on Indian streets." www.nybooks.com/articles/202...

On today’s episode of VIBE CHECK, we interview Rep. Justin Jones to talk about the Supreme Court gutting the Voting Rights Act and what it means for democracy and black people in the South in particular.

There's nothing more political than saying "I'm not political."

"Zelenskyy...responded to Trump’s declaration of a ceasefire by issuing a decree, complete with targeting coordinates, permitting Russia to hold a parade." @emptywheel.bsky.social emptywheel.net/2026/05/11/h...

They could not be clearer. Their goal is the restoration of white supremacy and the disenfranchisement of voters of color, a return to the days before the VRA and the entrenchment of permanent Republican dominance.

"He recently joined forces with the soulless monstrosity that is State Farm to shill their insurance. their ad highlights that you don’t actually need to tell a joke for Jimmy to appear. You just need to say the word 'joking'to summon him like a cheap simulacra of Bloody Mary or Candyman."

"The real, unsettling mechanism of Fallon’s banal horror is its insistence on a radical non-engagement with reality: a position that, in our current political climate, is itself an aggressively political act." @thelitcritguy.bsky.social www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-ban...

"Here, in the sanitized, over-lit heart of the American culture industry, there is an inescapable horror. But it isn't a monster lurking in the shadows; it is the manic, unblinking insistence that actually, there are no shadows at all."--brilliant stuff here

"Serving the neighbourhood IS serving God, and worship IS community arts." @lzsl.bsky.social elizabethslade.substack.com/p/god-vs-the...

"Runs...people."

“The only effective path to energy and economic security is homegrown clean energy. All political parties should now be uniting around that mission. Their failure to do so tells you a lot about whose interests they truly represent.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“The only effective path to energy and economic security is homegrown clean energy. All political parties should now be uniting around that mission. Their failure to do so tells you a lot about whose interests they truly represent.” www.theguardian.com/environment/...

😭😭😭😭😭

Former Confederate states are trying to lock Black and Brown Americans out of political power.

Update on Brian Morales, the 25-year-old American citizen who was deported to Mexico after a Texas traffic stop last month, is still not home.

What’s up?

I can handle students using sources to lie on essays. I have the power to insist they revise. I can handle FB friends lying on my FB wall. I can delete their comments. I am not sure what to do about my SCOTUS lying on my dime & my time while refusing to circle back & course correct. Thoughts?

My skills for the coming revolutionary period: 1). I will never forgive OR forget White Evangelical Men and what they have done to so many children 2). I can bake really good pies 3). Cats like me

MacFarlane: People in Virginia voted by the millions. Their voices were heard and now have been silenced. And you want to talk about what starts a political wave in a year like this: a mass of people who think their voices have been silenced. That doesn't stop a wave that fuels one.

I invite everyone to start at the beginning. youtube.com/@daviddarksi...

Justice Roberts tells us we’re wrong to think of his team as “political actors” while he won’t hold them to the standards of a high school research paper.

Justice Roberts tells us we’re wrong to think of his team as “political actors” while he won’t hold them to the standards of a high school research paper.

Read every word. Russia is a weakening but still intransigent aggressor. Ukraine has military momentum and moral legitimacy.

Please consider signing their petition to keep first-year writing seminars small: forms.gle/XRwHsm3WPkqvZcr36

The power of print ladies and gentlemen