A lot of people don't realise this but in the UK we have to replace our Prime Minister every two or three years or else the rights revert back to Marvel

Even before the current miasma of DOJ lawsuits, DOJ employees wrote some of the earliest high-profile resignation letters to land in our in-box. “The rule of law is not just a concept, it is a process; it is something we do, not merely something we have.” #ResignationBook

16 quick hours in D.C. and I always appreciate the reminder of what a vibrant city our nation’s capital is despite the political regime. Here are a few signs I saw running here and there. Happy Juneteenth weekend D.C.

It's especially obvious in music that people misunderstand messages or narratives in art that are laid out very plainly. Folks get married to songs about breakups. Critiques of US foreign policy are played at patriotic rallies. How much clearer could Lennon's Imagine have been? Do people get it? No.

Shocked. Shocked! (not shocked) Trump's $11 Billion Resignation Program: How the Trump Administration’s Downsizing of the Federal Workforce Cost American Taxpayers Billions www.citizen.org/article/11-b...

The best/saddest thing I've found in my PowerPoint image search is this book of Fuku-Chan strips that a Japanese organization put out in 1946 to convince American servicemen to not run Japanese children over with their Jeeps. comicbookhistorians.com/japanese-wor...

“…anhedonic beneficiaries of a good investment or two who have, through sheer restless indolence and various dull biases, backed into some truly berserk and totally bespoke authoritarian worldviews.” 👩‍🍳💋

Happy #Bloomsday to all who celebrate! Buy some smut for someone you love, take a bath, be kind to a young person who has lost their way, & read a book that helps you say "yes" to life!

If there's one thing people love, it's having "new social norms" imposed on them.

Coming soon from @chroniclekidsbooks.bsky.social! My next book of Poetry Comics, Flights of Imagination 🌕🌟

this sounds like a joke, but sometimes you have to actually accept you've written enough and make the pile of words into an actual thing shaped like a book

With the disclaimer that using one social network to discuss success on a different social network has a strong "Canadian girlfriend from summer camp" energy: It is WILD how our Reddit posts about #ResignationBook can enter nearly any US government subreddit and quickly become the daily #1

#Poetry #Painting #Summer Bats can hear shapes. Plants can eat light. Bees can dance maps. We can hold all these ideas at once and feel Both heavy and weightless with the absurd beauty of it all. Jared K Anderson 🎨 Ralph Emerson

"I cannot fathom how anyone would do this to the public servants he is supposed to be leading. And the damage done was not limited to two offices—it appalled prosecutors throughout the department and our alumni." -former employee, Department of Justice #ResignationBook

Hey Michigan friends, please join us tonight at Schuler’s Bookstore in West Bloomfield at 6:30 pm, when I will discuss The Fix with Marissa Polllick. events.humanitix.com/barbara-mcqu...

Genuinely frightening that there seems to be some subset of people—readers and writers—who profess not to care that this is true, or even see it as part of the value proposition of AI.

Key Findings of a study of current and past CDC employees: 1. CDC workers are concerned about CDC’s ability to function effectively. 2. CDC is losing talented staff. 3. CDC workers are experiencing an increasingly challenging work environment. epibio.msu.edu/research/cdc...

Pitches, man. It's a jungle out there. The call was "Pitch me on an essay about the historical role of federal jobs as entry points to the American middle class." The pitch was "The Hustlers of Love — Inside the Global Business of Romance Scams"

"The chaos of 2025 has been replaced with coordinated, systematic, institutionalized destruction in 2026." Well, that doesn't sound awesome…

Was honored to contribute to this report documenting concerns shared by many at NIH. Policies harmful to science, including discriminatory censorship, budget-limiting tactics like multiyear funding, and insertion of politicals, have become embedded at NIH.

Federal jobs have historically been pathways to the middle class, particularly for immigrants, Black workers, and veterans. Did this change in 2025? We're commissioning a (paid) essay on this topic for our upcoming book. Interested? Details: www.bicycle-comics.com/pages/resign...

People like Kane and many many others that do care about human art and the creative process have been a beacon of hope while trying to navigate making art in this current climate.

Hoo boy. We’ve spent the past five months interviewing former federal workers who took the DRP or who resigned in protest. You want to guess who many of them feel they are living out their career fantasy? Lower. No, lower. www.bicycle-comics.com/pages/resign...

This. Leaving a job you love on principle is an act of devotion to something larger than one's own career. Thank you Josh (and thank you Scott Pelley!) for seeing the bigger picture.

American scientific research has led the world since WW2. But 2025 brought profound changes to the longstanding partnerships between the federal government and American scientists. #ResignationBook

Pundits wanted! We're looking for experts to write 700–900 word essays on one of these topics: • Federal jobs as gateways to the American middle class • The role of federal funding in supporting American scientific research These will be paid commissions. www.bicycle-comics.com/pages/resign...

There should be statues erected to these people. They are the best of us.

Federal employees, speaking in their personal capacity on matters of public concern, have been a bulwark of transparency in this lawless administration. OPM’s proposed NDAs impose secrecy and the threat of retaliation to silence civil servants and further obscure agency actions from public scrutiny.

Glad to see Dr. Lane fighting this politically motivated and retaliatory firing. democracyforward.org/news/press-r...

The National Science Foundation is terminating and suspending grants again, and at Grant Witness we need you to help to track them! 🧪 We can only identify research being suppressed by under-the-radar suspensions directly from researchers. Please report! grant-witness.us/posts/2026-0... #NSF

A friend shared this photo from outside an NIH building this morning. The signs refer to four former NIAID staff members who were recently forced out. 2 are retiring and 2 have been reassigned to the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities. A travesty and 🙏 for their service.

I got curious about this quote, so I looked it up. It's a paraphrase. Here's the original: "When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on." —George Orwell, Homage to Catalonia.

As Jabba the Hutt's son I'm often gatekept from progressive spaces due to preconceived notions about my family. At the same time, I acknowledge the reasonable concerns my presence would raise, and I'm working every day to unlearn the harmful attitudes instilled in me on my father's pleasure barge.

People don't long for "inconvenience." They long for permanence. And though streaming services may be convenient, people are waking up to the fact that we are paying rent-seeking middle men month after month for things we will never actually own.

Lawyer Bluesky: "Oh Man, did you SEE that guy who did the bad thing?" "Can you beLIEVE there are some in our profession who do BAD THINGS?" "Here is my new Substack on that guy." "Great Substack essay!" "Oh GEEZ the bad guy REPLIED!" Poet Bluesky: "Hey. This guy's a dick. Don't engage." "Cool."

We're hiring! We're looking to commission three short, original essays for our upcoming anthology. If you write about public policy, political science, or the demographics of the federal workforce, this might be a fun summer project. Pay is $300–$500. www.bicycle-comics.com/pages/resign...

it was a mistake to give the Popes a good rate because of course they're blowing past the agreed-upon word count

D.C. peeps: This Friday night at 7 at @politicsprose.bsky.social (the one at the Wharf), I'll be in conversation with my friend and Amherst College Professor Lawrence Douglas about his really important new book, "The Criminal State: War, Atrocity, and the Dream of International Justice." Details:

"I opted for deferred resignation. I am okay with my choice, but I don't think I will ever be okay with how/why it happened. It feels a little like closing a good book mid-chapter." #AltGov #ResignationBook

Nicaragua’s crackdown on free expression continues. Books by #GiocondaBelli & #SergioRamírez have been banned, while both writers have been stripped of nationality & forced into exile. Our statement. @giocondabelli.bsky.social @penamericas.bsky.social www.pen-international.org/news/nicarag...

Chronicle Opens Slush Pile to Celebrate Children’s Book Week buff.ly/r9TIOP9

"Cookie monster will weigh in on cookie policy"

List of 9 websites where you can download unlimited books for free: 1. gutenberg .org 2. standardebooks .org 3. manybooks .net 4. openlibrary .org 5. bookboon .com 6. freecomputerbooks .com 7. internetarchive .org 8. digilibraries .com 9. librivox .org

My quote of the day In our obscurity - in all this vastness - there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. Carl Sagan

Tomorrow is Independent Bookstore day, one of our favorite holidays of the year! Wondering which stores are participating in this year’s festivities? Here’s a list of the shops in the DMV-area getting in on the Independent Bookstore Day spirit.

"People are finding that, because of the way the machines are changing the world, more and more of their old values don't apply any more. People have no choice but to become second-rate machines themselves, or wards of the machines." - Kurt Vonnegut, Player Piano, 1952