When things are this dire, I reread The Warmth of Other Suns and realize that leaving is a valid and life affirming choice. Spain seems nice.

#OtD 14 Oct 1977 anti-gay crusader Anita Bryant was "pied" by Thom Higgins, a gay rights activist. She then began praying and burst into tears. Following a boycott, she lost her job as brand ambassador for Florida orange juice. More LGBT+ history here: workingclasshistory.com/tag/lgbtq/

D’Angelo, the neo-soul trailblazer and modern visionary whose three albums were all heralded as classic works of art, has died at age 51. Access the free article here: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

"As a writer, I have been rejected thousands of times, and it initially led to shock, denial and anger. Then I accepted it," writes essayist Bob Brody.

Nothing says we're against clean air better than this. Stellantis and Ram are proud of their MAGA-friendly status and this is as cheap and as disappointing a sentiment as the painted plastic badge itself. www.thedrive.com/news/rams-sy...

This is nothing more than a continuation of the president’s desperate weaponization of our justice system. I am not fearful — I am fearless. We will fight these baseless charges aggressively, and my office will continue to fiercely protect New Yorkers and their rights..

My new tagline.

These maps always get southern Maryland wrong. It's Tidewater, and the line sets at Accokeek Road across PG County. (How do you divide Chincoteague and Assateague between north and south?)

listen. when dolly parton’s sister says it’s time for us all to be prayer warriors for dolly. you fucking pray for dolly

I wish I could find the post, but someone on here recently pointed out that the elite pundit addiction to Twitter is distorting their worldview even further. They really think America is far more right-wing than it is, which requires ignoring actual data. paulwaldman.substack.com/p/the-right-...

Great pull quote

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

If you have ≈ 38 minutes of free time, especially today, this video on the Golden Girls and its love by gay men is a great watch. Created and narrated by @mattbaume.bsky.social

Where will Mr. Nibbles and I go now?

The Constitution has not been meaningfully amended since 1971. That same year, a new method of constitutional interpretation was put forward. This would become known as originalism. Jill Lepore on how the radical philosophy has undermined the Constitution: https://theatln.tc/ezc53Llb

BREAKING: Carlos Alcaraz beats Jannik Sinner to win the U.S. Open and reclaim the No. 1 ranking in a final attended by President Donald Trump.

Going to start blow drying my hands to intimidate my opponents #usopen

Why use just one word for "insufferable" when you can go on for 1,500 or more? www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/r...

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Only Jackson could sting like this while using Calvinball in perfect context.

We're so trapped in an endless recycling/farming of old material that new ideas struggle for attention. I like Revolver too, but I've been immersed in the Beatles since birth. (And I wasn't even alive during their recording era!)

Well he has 110 percent of the bear admirer vote

Got a story out today about something I’ve been fascinated by for years: From Atlanta hip hop to Bama RushTok, here’s how and why the South has taken such a firm grip on modern American culture. Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

FAIRYLAND, directed by Andrew Durham, is coming to theaters October 10! Based on the acclaimed 2013 memoir by Alyssa Abbot, the film tells an emotionally powerful family story. Save the date and check out the book that inspired the movie. people.com/fairyland-tr... wwnorton.com/books/fairyl...

Here is the CEO of Mercedes trying to deflect me asking about unionization by name dropping Nick Saban www.theverge.com/24140551/mer...

At an event commemorating the 200th birthday of the United States, a sitting Supreme Court Justice was invited to celebrate "the memory of the Founders and the document they drafted in Philadelphia." Justice Thurgood Marshall declined

I will turn 50 this September. I was born in 1975, and I represent the only generation of American women born with full rights that have been lost in the same lifetime. open.substack.com/pub/jesspipe...

"THE MAN NO ONE BELIEVED inspires powerful, mixed emotions: fury at the failings of the justice system, and gratitude for organizations like the Georgia Innocence Project and indefatigable journalists like Sharpe." Read Julia M. Klein's review of the book: www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/0...

I think 48, but blurry on St. Paul and Honolulu. Those were during the bad old days of Northwest Airlines, IIRC. (Their tagline: “We’re not happy until you’re not happy.”)

“Sesame Street” and its sequel, “The Electric Company,” were, “with lapses, the most intelligent and important programs in television,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

Read an excerpt of THE MAN NO ONE BELIEVED and learn more about the author @joshuasharpe.bsky.social in this piece from the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: www.ajc.com/arts-enterta...

I'm a journalist in a movie, I work in an office with a lot of people. Most of them smoke and drink. We all work on Pulitzer-grade stories and none of us has a clue what SEO or Asana is.

I will not be spoken to indirectly this way.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202... Thanks to @newyorker.com for this mention:

While my latest book percolates in the public sphere, I'm at work on the next two. The next: a look at the impact of television news during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. "The Queer Revolution Was Televised," Rutgers University Press, due late 2026 or early 2027. (Photo: ACT UP protest in Atlanta, 1/90.)

I don’t believe this has been the perception since the Bork hearings. The partisan agenda is just too obvious under the Roberts Court for this fiction to persist.

My GenX claim to fame: I was on the consumer clinic tests for this in Syracuse, in 1987. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PB_Max

A dozen of my relatives are here. Maybe me too one day.

Queer people can and will opt out of heteronormative texts. Teachers will become tutors.

We’re intent on bankrupting people as they fight for basic constitutional rights.

Retirement was a choice

Whenever @emmasarappo.bsky.social writes, you should read it, but especially this one www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

Justice Kentanji Brown Jackson has made it clear that she is deeply alarmed at the direction the Supreme Court and the country are heading—and that she’s willing to go it alone in expressing that distress.