The 24 new books out today include titles by Patricia Lockwood, Ian McEwan, Mona Awad, and more!

so… did the rapture happen? 🫣

one of the features of institutional racism is the framing of its relentless violence as a concern with, and disciplining of, personal shortcomings/grievances in order to shame its target and obscure the bloodlust of the perpetrators.

I want you to read one of my 2022 investigations again + understand that the response you’re seeing from your children’s school boards-the harassment + firing of teachers, administrators & staff-is tied to a network of folks who have been in this game for years: www.propublica.org/article/geor...

Sharing for this strong opening graf. “President Trump, a slumlord at heart, is quietly halting enforcement of the Fair Housing Act...” newrepublic.com/post/200749/...

“Once Upon a Time in Harlem,” an oral history of the Harlem Renaissance which the director William Greaves shot in 1972, is “one of the greatest cinematic works of creative nonfiction that I’ve ever seen,” @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social writes.

what time is the rapture tomorrow?

rattlebone, maxine clair. first edition (1994).

The new reality that is emerging in Texas is that certain topics or ideas are simply off the table in the classroom. The censorship of academic speech and entire fields of knowledge in service to an ideology poses an unprecedented danger to the future of higher education. #AcademicFreedom

BREAKING: We're suing to stop Texas school districts from displaying the Ten Commandments in their classrooms. A judge in our separate case already ruled that schools putting up these posters are violating the First Amendment.

such important points. and if you need a reminder that *this* is not a done deal, press play.

Bologna is the site of an annual festival that resurrects “refound cinema”: films that have been forgotten, overlooked, truncated by studios, or damaged by time.

so many people have access to podcast microphones and huge audiences because too many people think nastiness is cute. and too many people cannot tell, and do not care about, the difference between direct and honest observations and smug and self-righteous meanness. 🤬 🫠 🤬

“slaveholders pride themselves upon being honorable men; but if you were to hear the enormous lies they tell their slaves, you would have small respect for their veracity.” -harriet jacobs, 1861

Erykah Badu released ‘Worldwide Underground’ 22 years ago on September 16, 2003 | Listen to the album + revisit our tribute here: album.ink/EBaduWU

recently someone claimed that i did things i did not do/said things that i did not say. person even claimed to have an email that supported the claim. i invited the person to read the email in a (relatively) public forum. reader, the email proved the exact opposite of the claim. THEY DO NOT CARE.

what the entire fuck??? 🤬🤬🤬

the machine is working overtime to get us to accept that white supremacist activism is an acceptable form of political engagement. do not fall for it. 😐🤬😩

it is just so wild that we ended up here—and “here” isn’t even the final destination. 😩🤬😩

In our last editorial we imagined how bad academic publishing might get, and hopefully how it might come out better www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

what the f-u-c-k?????????? 🤬🤬🤬

and here we have another example of how depravity facilitates anti-sociality. this woman—a venture capitalist—insists that she was OWED a baby because she PAID for a host womb. she is actively, unabashedly, and near-successfully trying to DESTROY the surrogate because the baby was stillborn.

Haymarket Books for Fighting Fascism

the incorporation of LLMS through education infrastructures is one of the most blatant examples that i have seen of the plan for social destruction through the cultivation of anti-sociality.

a base rent increase of $3k since 2020 should be illegal. depraved economics have no end. 🤬🤬🤬

316k black women out of jobs is not “bad luck.” it is violence and a warning. 🤬🤬🤬

they are out here killing children for ringing the fucking doorbell. my god. 🤬🤬🤬

r.f. kuang really sent somebody’s academic advisor to hell. i know i am not the only one who thinks this is HILARIOUS. 🤣🤣🤣

i wonder if people who announce that they have started “speaking up/out” because they have achieved the material, and affective, comfort they have always desired know that they cannot be trusted. also: we knew then that you were not willing to risk anything. go enjoy your cowardice and new money.

what can i say about the depraved imagination that we do not already know? 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬

George Mason's president is likely safe in his job for now because Virginia Democrats blocked the Republican governor's board appointments, leaving the board without quorum. That's an interesting development.

GYPSY closes today. this production has been a master class in black (african american, in this case) cultural interpretation, and audra mcdonald as rose showed us again what it looks (and feels) like to surrender to genius. i give thanks for the opportunity to bear witness.🌹✨

REPLAY IS UP! www.freehorrortalk.com

“Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.” —Hannah Arendt h/t Paul Krugman

i need to figure out why i am getting into the studio this late in the day. this is unpleasant, and it is not my usual rhythm. 🫠

why am i sitting here about to lose my entire cool because of the sound of my neighbor’s house being powerwashed when i have every noise-canceling headphones ever made? 🥴 🤣 🥴

a death cult.

i was looking for something in my documents the other day, and i came across some comments (on a seminar paper) from a professor from graduate school. chile, my pre-pandemic/pre-covid brain had people giving HIGH PRAISE. you hear me? HIGH PRAISE. i guess those were the days. lol.

Ending a strenuous Monday pondering a phrase I’ve heard repeated all day long: “it could have been worse.” Perhaps meant to be reassuring, this phrasing has always held a disappointing ring for me, underscoring just how readily we settle for what we’re handed instead of fighting for what we want.

do you know how much you have to hate the planet—and everything on it—for these folks to do what they are doing? 🥴

the swiftness of this undoing tells us so much about [the design of] its doing.

starting strong with 1506 words today…

also: happy august, y’all! ☀️ i have increased my writing goal to 1200 words per day (for now). sending good wishes to all the writers who are trying to work through all the violence, destruction, and sadness. ✊🏿💜

all of it. every single thing. 😩

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!" Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

Virginia Education Board Could Oust George Mason’s President www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/u...

i am writing books in (and for) a world in which very powerful people are actively trying to destroy literacy. what a sad fucking time. 😩😰😩

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i really hope we collectively refuse to upload our government-issued identification documents.

i know she ain’t on here selling a book. i do not know whether to laugh or cry. 😂😩