At the beach is where I most enjoy my sweet Pip.

Never thought I would agree with Ted Cruz on anything. Cruz "called the threat of FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to retaliate against ABC 'unbelievably dangerous.' ... 'right out of a mafioso coming into a bar going, ‘nice bar you have here. It’d be a shame if something happened to it.’'”

Reader, I bought a $9.45 peach today.

Got the sweetest email yesterday from my picture book agent, Katrina LeMaire (she works with @nylitagent.bsky.social). Katrina is sending out my nonfiction PB, OSPREY'S FIRST SUMMER. Picture books are a whole new thing for me -- but ospreys are my longtime love. Wish us luck!

I just sat very still and watched a hummingbird dip its beak in the feeder 62 consecutive times

My mom, age 87, will publish her first book next month. She is so courageous. It's a case study of her own recovery from the trauma of war, dislocation and childhood abandonment. It's available for pre-order now, from Routledge. www.routledge.com/Fighting-for...

Sharing this 🧵 both because I want other writers to see it and because I want to save it!

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

Prime Day is a scam open.substack.com/pub/populari...

Hungry hummer: Watched this little guy dip into the nectar 41 times in a row last night.

I get so much inspo from the comments on NYT recipes…but sometimes they are like: swap in chopped turbot for the shrimp, exchange a mixture of dill and cilantro for the fresh oregano, quadruple the garlic and saute in a wok instead of under the broiler… and I’m like, why are you even using a recipe?

Here’s my favorite feedercam visitor: red-bellied woodpecker. He comes by often!

Salem, redux. Claiming “parents’ rights,” right-wing activists in Florida are browbeating officials into denying kids access to worthy, life-affirming, award-winning books. open.substack.com/pub/populari...

Kristi Noem takes mad money to a whole new level.

Every time I see this building while driving into Columbus, I experience a spontaneous moment of appreciation for the correctly-placed apostrophe.

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

“It is difficult in some cases to get to the very heart of the matter. But in this case, it is not hard at all. The government is asserting a right to stash away residents of this country in foreign prisons without the semblance of due process that is the foundation of our constitutional order.”

Proud of alma mater.

Yes. And throw in employees of the executive branch and their families, while you’re at it.

When you buy a used book and wonder: was this really helpful?

An artist, using her voice. Bravo.

So chatGPT is both a racist AND a suckup. Best keep your kids away from it.

Gratitude and respect to Sen. Booker. We must all find the way to raise our voices.

Listening to an @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social podcast with @jonathanhaidt.bsky.social and they are talking about the rise in gambling addiction ... when an ad busts in for an online gambling platform. Ezra, did you approve this? Can you stop it? Very off-putting ...

Ugh the jolt you get when you have a book on submission and Linkedin tells you someone from a big publishing house has been looking at your profile! (Don't get hopes up, don't get hopes up, don't ...) #kidlit

another student was disappeared at the University of Minnesota

Glad I don’t post there anymore. I suppose everyone’s words will be sucked into the maw of AI training.

If you see this, post your lockscreen.

I get how scary it is to be targeted by the President. But when the richest universities (looking at you, Columbia) and law firms (Paul, Weiss) in the world cave to outrageous demands, what’s the little guy going to do? We need leadership.

The big law firms who are folding to this blatantly unconstitutional nonsense should be ashamed of themselves. They all took an oath too.

Appalling. Turkish student at Tufts University is latest Palestinian supporter swept up in US crackdown

Disappeared Tufts Human Dev. PhD student Rumesya Ozturk is also a graduate of Teachers College - she’s a dev. psychologist studying children’s media & prosocial development. She also bakes without recipes and binge-watches cartoons. She is our colleague & she was abducted on the street w/ our tax $.

Pete Hegseth and his gang--as well as the US forces involved in the attack in Yemen--are LUCKY it was a responsible journalist they accidentally included in their group chat. There could have been any number of far worse outcomes.

All you need to know about Twitter

John Green Is Obsessed With Tuberculosis. His New Book Explains Why. | New York Times buff.ly/Uo6uQke

“L’etat, c’est moi.”

NEBRASKA CROWD: “TAX THE RICH! TAX THE RICH!” @USRepMikeFlood: “So your proposal to solve (the debt) is tax the rich?” NEBRASKA CROWD: *CHEERS WILDLY* (not sure this went quite as he planned 😬)

Hamline University is threatening to eliminate its respected creative writing program and literary journal. Please sign this petition to save them. chng.it/RdnhrqmTXQ

When we fight, we win.

Someone went to the groomer/dog photographer today!

"They'll never cut Social Security" is the new "they'll never overturn Roe v Wade."

I love this. So helpful.

A thread, to keep your spirits up.

I'm doing a two-year MFA ... with these same faculty members. And I love it. This is a bargain--don't hesitate!

Richest man in the world muses about Jailing reporters, nothing to see here

My dad’s been gone 15 years now, but I still feel his love. How lucky I was.

The Stonewall Inn responds. Erasure is the precursor to eliminationism.

This MAGA Newspeak aims at thought control. And the administration is punishing those who do not adopt their language. Read this thread.