Boo to you It is the scary season and since I’m writing this after editing pages to send to the awesome writing club at the library AND editing and printing copies of the next installment of a weird little tale for the Friday group AND it’s Wednesday, not a last minute Friday scribbled post, we…

NDA’s… Smells like they don’t want to be held accountable for war crimes. This has to be a first in American military history.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

🚨BIG changes happening -- ICE leadership is being purged tonight. The old guard, which prioritized targeted enforcement operations aimed at people with criminal records, is being replaced with Border Patrol and Gregory Bovino's "Midway Blitz" style. Think things are bad now? It'll get worse.

Rips it to shreads. Tears it apart. Surprised? Isn't THIS how Trump has ALWAYS treated EVERY SINGLE THING?

Just continuously reminding myself, and out loud here in case it's of any help to others, that bravery is not the absence of fear but rather a determination to act despite fear.

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

Does Dolty Parton want one of my kidneys? I don’t even care if she needs it. She can just have it if she wants.

What we’re seeing now is not people “[beginning] to view their own government’s security forces as an occupying army”—the federal agents are becoming an occupying army, and the violence is theirs. The violence is already here.

i contain multitudes and most of them are tired

Marjorie Taylor Greene breaking with Republicans by endorsing the ACA subsidies is the surest sign yet that Democrats are going to win this fight. It’s only a matter of time before Trump and the Republicans fold.

It's going to get very ugly. I'm hoping it blows up in the trump administrations face!

People magazine is on Bluesky. It's hard to believe but their political coverage does not suck. They have a strong news editor. @people.com if you want to follow.

Our apologies for venting so much, things have just gotten absolutely ridiculous.

Absolutely made it through another month and wrote about it here: tlsherwood.com/2025/09/30/t...

With the rise of AI and... well, everything's that is happening, really—I urge you all to read. There's a dismantling of Humanities for a reason, so you should read: fiction, poetry, History, everything. Take with you the lessons of previous generations, make your life richer, learn new things.

You know what’s more dangerous for children than Tylenol? Pedophiles. Release the fucking Epstein files.

If autism is going to be described as a "problem", we should specify who autism is a problem FOR. The problem isn't autism. The problem is a society that treats autism like a problem to solve instead of adapting to the reality that neurodiversity is normal.

I do not think it is a conspiracy theory to say that the people hired to run law enforcement by a President who promised to use law enforcement for explicitly political ends should be viewed with mistrust.

Back in the 70's FCC tried this shit with "All in The Family" and it was a no go! Carol Connor spoke in front of Congress about slippery slope of this exact thing; the outcome was if you don't like the content there's an "on/off button and a channel changer" Just like term limits there's elections

Kowtowing to a belligerent buffoon who waddles around like a lame duck king is a pity, as standing up to tyranny is the only way to have freedom and as a network with a news division, one would think they'd have at least one person on staff who knows anything about history. YOU STAND UP TO BULLIES

So, whenever you talk about Charlie Kirk today, make sure you make it known that he advocated for the Epstein files being released. We definitely wouldn't want this to be a distraction from the files, now would we?

The truth is hardly anybody would've ever heard of Charlie Kirk if not for this and those folks would probably be better off.

‘Maddening’ Proof Plastics Industry Knew Recycling Was False Solution in 1974, New Document Shows www.desmog.com/2025/08/05/m...

The media is just as complicit. I won’t post that sick card. People, READ SEN WYDENS LETTER. IT HAS NAMES!!!

"Plastic...is very difficult to avoid. But we are at a moment with "AI" where things aren't so deeply integrated, though corporate interests are pushing for them to be...every act of refusal is especially powerful & meaningful now..." @emilymbender.bsky.social buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.

The lack of mainstream coverage of regular huge protests reminds me of a talk from a Twitter employees who explained that they had to drop BLM off the Trending Tags section because otherwise it would have been there permanently. The modern media environment has no appetite for sustained movements.

💣…so it begins…keep calling them out 👏

Jim_Writes; Saw this today, is it correct information? JUST IN: The United States now has more unemployed people than job openings for the first time since April 2021.

Check out inaugural issue of Hot Flash Literary founded by @jekwriter.bsky.social & Tina Carlson: "One thing remained clear, though: that women-identifying people needed a place where their voices wouldn’t get lost in an icy gale. Where they could, instead, be hot like lava." hotflashliterary.com

My so-called Rep would rather follow a made-up rule than stand on the right side of history. Shame on that white man for protecting bad people who did unspeakable things to children.

Why didn’t some of the Epstein survivors speak out earlier? “I thought someone was going to kill me,” one explained. As another asked, “Why did the government work so hard to protect Jeffrey Epstein and not victims like me?”

Into their own hands!

Who doesn't like chocolate and flowers? tlsherwood.com/2025/08/31/i...

These people have the jobs they have by and large *because* they are solid moderate-tempered normies who care about putting their heads down and their shoulders to the wheel and getting their work done, if they are freaking out that says something huge

Cost of Trump's D.C. Occupation: $1.1M per day. Cost to operate public housing for D.C.'s entire homeless population: $169,226 per day. It's not about what this country can or can’t afford. It’s about priorities.

I’ve said it before but reading all the medieval history books I’ve been reading lately has been so comforting. Makes you realize that there have always been mad and incompetent kings and they almost always die in ignominy and everyone piles shit on them for centuries after they’re gone.

Data collection, storage and analysis costs are getting cheaper and more efficient. Why is food pathogen detection being cut when it could be even more expansive, precise, predictive?

Dear journalists: The President has not fired Lisa Cook. The President is *trying* to illegally fire her. Your words shape people’s reality. Please be accurate in your reporting.

Not sliding. Slid.

We are creating a Spanish language section on The Rumpus, for original creative work written in Spanish and are looking for a volunteer editor for this section. If this could be you, please send a brief letter of interest to [email protected] by Tuesday, September 2nd!

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

Modern American fascism will manifest as masked federal thugs taking people to concentration camps viewed through footage on your phone that gets closer and closer to where you live until you're the one being brutalized and taken away.

“As for ‘Write what you know, ‘ I was regularly told this as a beginner. I think it’s a very good rule and have always obeyed it. I write about imaginary countries, alien societies on other planets, dragons, wizards, the Napa Valley in 22002. I know these things.“ - Ursula K. Le Guin

Author Excited To Spend Weekend With Soul-Crushing Self-Doubt #writing #writingcommunity #amwriting #fakeheadlines

Here’s what was NOT released today: - the proffer agreement between Maxwell and the DoJ - the agreement transferring Maxwell to club fed - communications showing who waived Maxwell’s sex offender status allowing her transfer and possible work assignments outside prison - the Epstein files