If you haven't had the chance to see this yet, you should. It will be worth your time, and you'll feel better about America after you watch it.

👀 With the Arizona special election, if the Democratic candidate wins tonight, House Dems will have enough votes for the discharge petition to release the #EpsteinFiles.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Jimmy Kimmel was taken off the air after our government threatened a private company with retaliation, marking a dark moment for free speech in our nation. More than 400 artists across our nation signed on to say: We refuse to be silenced by those in power.

I must confess that when I was younger I expected the future to have more robot butlers and jetpacks, and less fascism and genocide, but here we are.

As I've seen it come up, no, authors don't get paid for writing blurbs for other authors. We do it (mostly) to pay it forward and to bring attention to work we think is good. Also, if an editor/publisher tried to bribe me for a blurb, that email would go up here and on my personal site SO FAST

AP-NORC poll | 9/11-9/15 President Trump approval Disapprove 60% (+7) Approve 39% (-6) (shift since last poll) apnorc.org/projects/pes...

The 218th signature needed for the Epstein discharge will come from a representative expected to win their seat on September 23rd. That's next week. If you were wondering why the temperature is so hot right now. www.politico.com/live-updates...

This is an escalation, but admin has already been using gov’t power to crack down on media for a while. I know first hand. But, you have to defend free speech, not fold. (We are still fighting, but so far this lesson is standing firm better than caving).

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

Fmr. CDC Director Susan Monarez: "Secretary Kennedy demanded two things of me that were inconsistent with my oath of office and the ethics required of a public official. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation, regardless of the scientific evidence.

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Police say self-inflicted, but family notes bruises and a leg fracture. DSU, a mostly white school, has a history of violence against Black students. He’s the fourth Black man found hanging this year, all ruled self-inflicted. economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/interna...

I think it’s time to admit that the Washington Post is not the Washington Post anymore.

NEW — Trump, who has fomented violence his entire political career, now claims that political violence is done mainly by “the left.” It’s not true. In fact, scientific research says the exact opposite. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

This week's @runforsomething.net feel-good update: Meet new leaders who are tired of the status quo. rfsfeelgoodupdates.substack.com/p/rfs-feel-g...

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

When you support Free Speech but only for your self what you're for is your own untrammeled power.

New PEN America statement: “The firing and suspension of multiple journalists after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk should alarm anyone who cares about free speech and a free press. Taken together, these measures risk creating a chilling effect that extends beyond those directly targeted..."

September's Reading & Meeting features Yeva Johnson, Brandy Collins, Audrey Ferber and Nate Olivarez-Giles reading from their works in progress. Emcee Christl Rikka-Perkins will lead a Q&A about their work and writing process.

Someday, maybe even today, we will ask ourselves if this is a parody post

I thought the Bay Area already had its own multi-hundred-pound superpigs?

"Christmas, a single mother of four, decided to enter the political fray in 2024 when she saw an Instagram ad from Run for Something, a progressive organization that backs first-time candidates." A must-read about a deeply inspiring candidate in New Orleans. epaper.bostonglobe.com/infinity/art...

Need a timeline cleanse? Check out my @bostonglobe.com profile of Danyelle Christmas, who's running for New Orleans City Council. Her father was wrongfully convicted for murder, then freed. Following his activist lead, Christmas hopes to secure justice for Ninth Ward residents. bit.ly/3K3Jui8

Do Fox News hosts and commentators agree with their colleague Brian Kilmeade that the United States should "just kill" homeless people? He still has a job. No apology. No retraction. Just let us know, Fox.

Some of the high quality content Zuckerberg’s platform is algorithmically shoveling into the brains of American consumers. This story is 100% made up, in case that wasn’t obvious.

The Wall Street Journal. The Guardian. All the other outlets who failed to confirm their reporting. I want to see fewer cowardly, shrugging "editor's notes" on these stories and more statements of "wow, we really failed in our reporting on a grave matter, and here's how we're going to do better."

The markings that supposedly expressed “transgender ideology” were………..a series of arrows.

One thing that everyone with any sense will have to do over the next few years is to refuse to accept lies and bullshit.

These are calls for mass political violence, against all Democrats. They openly call for the bombing of "Democrat" cities and for the jailing or killing of Democratic politicians. They are from some of the most influential voices in right-wing politics. Will anyone say anything?

This is not the message the country needs. We need unifying leadership to take down the temperature, not exploitative blame-seeking that falsely pins all political violence on one side of the spectrum to fit Trump’s narratives. Enough. Americans are tired of the divisiveness.

If I have any credibility with you from 20 years of reporting on rightwing & fascist movements, please listen when I beg you not to celebrate Charlie Kirk getting shot. Leave aside morality: this isn’t a match in dry grass, it’s a torch. We do not want what this could ignite & we would not win.

Certainly looks like we scared the President away from Chicago. Fighting like hell works.

A recent book I read about the rise of the nazis in Germany included anecdotes about professors being barred from entering their classrooms by students who were angry that they were teaching "Jewish science."

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts /AP

Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "Retribution," translation of Friedrich von Logau

The Wall Street Journal just published the photo of the birthday letter from Trump to Epstein. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

"To meet that need, AI companies ingested digital copies of practically every published work on the planet, without getting the permission of the copyright holders. That was probably the only practical option they had." "i stole it because it was my only option" is not an acceptable argument

"Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children." @petridishes.bsky.social doesn't miss:

Yup, and he's promising things he clearly hesitates to deliver. Has Pritzker provoked the TACO response?

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

Hi US citizens. You are now subject to sudden seizure at your workplace and lengthy detention, at any time, by a blitz of heavily federal armed troops—despite having committed no crime and not even being charged with any crime. Not my opinion. This is what HSI *says* that it did.

Why is @gavinnewsom.bsky.social @governor.ca.gov breaking his word to help save Bay Area transit? It is just appalling and politically idiotic. www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art...

That the museum was pushed into retracting the post because some people thought it meant that Gazans shouldn't be subject to horror is a horror. Never Again means Never Again for anyone. For the Jews. For the Palestinians. For the Sudanese. For anyone. Collective safety keeps us safe.

Kind of interesting that the US media is at the point where the President declaring war on an American city is not newsworthy.

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

it is always worth remembering that vance made a conscious decision to be a person of low character. he has eagerly contorted himself into evil for the sake of what amounts to a whiff of power.