Yep.

Love that cover.

DOGE was a failure if the goal was saving money. It was a huge success if the goal was giving a bunch of techbro adjacent people unfettered access to govt data in ways that, thus far, are evading the Privacy Act.

It’s absolutely insane.

“Trump on Tuesday defended Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman over the killing of …Jamal Khashoggi, saying “things happen” and that he did not hold the Saudi leader responsible for the 2018 murder despite a U.S. intelligence report assessing the opposite.”-It’s a crimes against humanity summit.

This all rings true.

This is a welcoming account. 🏳️‍⚧️

Russia’s overnight strikes on Kyiv make clear that Russia intends to press on with war. In Berlin today we discussed how to increase our support to Ukraine while building up Europe’s defence. My press remarks here → www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/europea...

#booksky Scrolled through the Goodreads readers’ choice voting email today. Screens of books I haven’t read. None even on my TBR pile. Some I’d cross the street to avoid. Then in non-fiction I found “Someday Everyone Will Have Been Against This.“ I not only read it, it would be a worthy winner.

Whoa! 1986, huh. Mary should have checked in with the other Marys. We’d already encountered the Briggs initiative, Save Our Children, Anita Bryant and President Ronald Reagan.

#Booksky #JoanofArc Alternate cover! "Lombardi dramatizes events and complex states of mind with such swift richness that readers will feel fully immersed in the life of this saint-to-be. An exhilarating novel"—Publishers Weekly www.amazon.com/dp/1963221079 bookshop.org: bookshop.org/p/books/jeha...

#booksky #WendySchultz Praise for a recent Mumblers Press book: "River of Light is the extraordinary story of Clare, a girl born with a unique gift the ones she loves most have always suppressed.” —Tim Reaume, author of Jade Jaguar www.amazon.com/dp/1963221001 www.barnesandnoble.com/w/river-of-l...

This new force is not subduing unrest. It is the unrest. I live in the center of a major city. There is zero need for this fake force. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If ICE is raiding street vendors for selling counterfeit goods, is the next raid on Facebook or OpenAI for selling the counterfeiting systems also known as “AI”?

#NoKings san francisco, ocean beach

Some bits on the harsh reality of the ceasefire plan in Gaza, including some details that have not been perhaps as widely reported as they should ⬇️

Press should stop giving airtime to Trump officials not just at the Pentagon but across all of federal government. Report on the destructive effects of what they do, not on them. We do not in fact have to let Nazis set the terms of public discourse nor give them celebrity status.

#booksky A ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review! "BECOMING FELICITY is a feel-good novel [and] a call to remember a sweet dream of social justice, a balm that provides a respite from the horrors of today's news for readers of conscience and heart. Peggy M Preorder@ www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... or bookshop dot org

Is it just me, or does this Trump-Netanyahu deal make it look like Trump could have stopped the genocide any time he wanted but chose not to?

GR Dogsitter is a brave, brave swimteam coach!

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.