Do not let the horror of this vile person be swept under the rug.

Be sure you take a moment today to remember Charlie Kirk for exactly who he was.

This is amazing.

People keep "debunking" the claim that Charlie Kirk wanted to stone gay people to death but I'm pretty sure he meant it.

Today my laptop told me it hasn’t been backed up in 3,653 days—ten years, once you add in leap days.

What’s happening in Gaza is a genocide.

I was just humming a tune from Chicago, the musical, and figured out why I have no sympathy for Charlie Kirk and his admirers. It’s artistic differences. They see me as dead. I see myself as alive.

Being old, I remember the days when Rush Limbaugh celebrated the deaths of gay men, playing Dionne Warwick singing “I Know I’ll Never Love This Way Again.” Trump gave him the presidential medal of honor.

Mehdi Hasan on Hakeem Jeffries: “This is the same Democratic party leader who has insisted in the past that progressives should “vote BLUE (no matter who)”. But centrists? Apparently, they’re under no such obligation.” Nailed it. Same old same old. Unity, but only under their terms.

We live in Crazytown now. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So, the New York Times is now allowing the use of the word “genocide” to describe what Israel is doing, as long as it’s an Israeli using it. Far too little, far too late. The NYT will never be anything other than irredeemably horrifying to me.

#gaza #Palestine

Happy Mother's Day! Yesterday at @rainbow

"Misrepresented citations", "cherry picking", "a misunderstanding of qualitative evidence", "deviations from protocol", "lack of expertise", "profound misunderstanding of transness", "naïve understanding of RCTs", "inappropriate", "pathologising" Share until this monstrously transphobic govt listen

Every Bob Dylan song works better when sung by a lesbian, but this one especially

Mumblers Press's releases Chris Lombardi's JEHANNE DARC on May 6. Publishers Weekly: "Exhilarating novel illuminating the mind of France’s young girl saint." An Editor's Pick! PREORDER: Bookshop.org or Amazon.com Full review: www.pressreader.com/.../20250317... #JehanneDarc #JoanofArc #MagicRealism

By distracting us with fake terrorism, this administration is inviting the real thing. snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-t...

I'm launching my new book at the Fair, along with a bunch of other Mumblers Press titles crisaintmarchin.medium.com/a-bold-lyric... nb @mikekarpa.bsky.social @katebornstein.bsky.social

I'm not sure which video to post--the fifteen paramedics in their last moments as one of them prays amid gunfire, the journalist being burned alive, the man holding a headless toddler, the people blown into the air, or the young man quietly rocking the shrouded body of a child. It's a genocide.

誰の人生にも来る 日本語を読むことが 嫌になるとき

Russia is destroying Ukraine’s present while denying the country its future. Only justice will give every Ukrainian family the peace of mind they need to rebuild their lives. Extract from my speech at #EPlenary ↓

Well this is bonkers

#Booksky, I promised this link for the @publisherswkly.bsky.social @booklife.bsky.social review of JEHANNE DARC, : "Lombardi dramatizes events and complex states of mind with such swift richness.." booklife.com/booklife-rev...

I would have expected that if any Beatles song ran through my head at 64 it would be “When I’m 64.” Instead, I hum “Mean Mr Mustard sleeps in the park, shaves in the dark, trying to save paper. Saving up to by him some clothes…” Maybe it’s the imminent slaughter of Social Security… #AdjunctLife

JG Ballard predicting social media in Vogue magazine, 1977

The Democrats are a pointless party.

Censorship now by the private sector just like in the UK when Russian oligarchs did the same with Catherine Belton. Now US oligarchs have learned how to do it. Meanwhile, Vance talks about lack of freedom of speech in Europe.

BREAKING: Judge Alsup has ordered the reinstatement of ALL probationary employees at Veterans Affairs, DoD, Agriculture, Interior, Labor, and Energy, AND he is demanding under oath testimony from Ezell. www.politico.com/news/2025/03...

If that's your position, resign.

This man was courageous enough to stand up to Trump and Vance. So it's important to post this message and photo to 27 million people. Don't just "like" it -- that only means that YOU'VE seen it. Postb it, blow it up and get it out there! #SlavaUkraini 🇺🇦

I think I am being followed by a growing number of bots. Sigh.

Can we trade Trump for Zelenskyy? It’s not really a fair trade so I’m willing to throw in a Vance.

Just when you think Donald Trump cannot sink lower or be more shameful, today he's blaming Ukraine for the war and calling Zelinsky a dictator, when he knows perfectly well that Putin's constant re-elections are put-up jobs.

Art and culture jammery converge... Original "Tank Man" (AP/Jeff Wisener, June 1989) has always been an iconic image and one of my favorites in terms of sobering and emotionally packed images—good humans doing what good humans must when the world's gone insane

This is what oligarchy looks like.

If you live in the NYC Metro Area, help spread the word about the S_onewall Action. Download, Print and Post the Action Flyer everyone in the NYC Metro Area (and don't forget LI, Jersey, Westchester and.. and...) #Stonewall See you on Saturday.

“The thing that I can’t get over is that the actual richest man in the world directed my fucking firing. I make $50k a year and work to keep drinking water safe. The richest man in the world decided that was an expense too great for the American taxpayer.”

Today is National Self-Love Day, & I'm so happy the Poetry Foundation shared the splendiferous "Summer" by @chenchenwrites.bsky.social "Your powers are great, are growing. One day you will create an online personality quiz that also freshens the breath." www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

Publishers Weekly just called JEHANNE DARC "exhilarating and illuminating."With @nicolaz.bsky.social's HILD as a suggested comp title. #booksky, will share the link when it's up. Right now trying to breathe.

“I’m terrified at the moral apathy, the death of the heart, which is happening in my country. These people have deluded themselves for so long that they really don’t think that I’m human…. And this means that they have become, in themselves, moral monsters.” — James Baldwin

To those who did not believe that I saw a Lawrence of Arabia Good Luck Babe edit on twitter, here it is. It was made by @xenomorph247

Not made up: From Forbes: “Word Mailability And Language Mailability … It is quite easy for AI to essentially make up new words … Words then are mailable by the AI. … In a sense, a language is somewhat mailable by AI in terms of the spelling of words …”