I *really* don't want to be a downer but to me the precursor to Doing is Saying, and not nearly enough of this Party is saying what needs to be said. About punishing the villains, about abolishing billionaires, about ending elite impunity. Too many want to leave the rot but change the branding

No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

Democrats need to understand we’re already in a revolutionary moment. The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’

The publishing industry views Bluesky as some tiny unimportant island out somewhere in a far-off ocean. It's not worthy of their attention like Amazon Algoland or The Republic Of Instagram Influencer Collaborativepost is. What they don't realise is just how much the island's inhabitants love books.

Republicans: "We just cut down all the redwoods, turned the trees into baseball bats, and now we are using those bats to kill endangered owls and to bludgeon Democrats." Courts, media: *thumbs up* Democrats: "What about solar panels on some things?" Courts, media: *rolls out the guillotines*

One side is like “can we disenfranchise all the Black voters by this weekend” and the other is like gotta follow the rules that govern the rules that control the rulebook

Voting in an overwhelming wave this fall is vital, but it's also important to understand that Republicans are no longer wedded to electoral outcomes or committed to liberal democracy. They have already begun using force to exercise power and alter democratic behavior. It's going to intensify. 🧵

I spend YEARS brainstorming and MONTHS outlining and that IS the work. Zero tolerance for this shit.

I have started re reading all my old books ( not the ones I've written - other peoples books) I thoroughly recommend this. I read many books before I was, say, 20, and probably didn't 'fully' understand what I was reading back then. Now...

why read for pleasure when you can scroll for misery

Remembering Amal Khalil

"This is an important thing to think about."

Illinois made history as the first state to outlaw book bans once and for all. Marginalizing people, ideas, or facts has no place in our state — and they have no place in a democracy. This National Library Week, we continue our commitment to free thought and free speech.

“I don’t do politics” Ok, well you’re a fully grown adult so maybe it’s time to start.

Magyar won with an emphasis on corruption and the rule of law. Good lessons. It wasn't just "we will improve the economy". It was "these people are stealing from you and we will put them in jail."

I'd really like to see leadership calling for impeachment and removal, regardless of whether they have the votes to get it done. Same way we called for marriage equality before we had the votes. A leader's job is to lead. If a genocidal threat isn't impeachable, then nothing is.

Personally I think when a world leader announces “Tune in tonight at 8pm Eastern to watch the world end” like it’s the fucking season premiere of Roseanne we should have a different leader the next day.

"What do you want him to do?" This. This is where you start. You start with this and you go forward from there.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

Artist Emmanuelle Moureaux used over 100,000 paper number cut-outs to create this multihued installation designed to visualise the passing of time #WomensArt

Exactly. The whole thought process is so weird. just cooked brains all the way down. How are they going to “optimize” the feeling of joy that you have when you think of something cool and chase it like a dog chasing a frisbee?? that’s not a thing for which I need … efficiency???? ?

I want more Dems talking about Nuremberg 2.0, but even more I want them drafting model legislation for it that we can use for the midterms and 2028. Show us you mean it. Write it up. Let us demand every single candidate vote for it. (also, we need lustration. transitional justice and lustration.)

This 💯

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

Stop worrying about what YA books to let your kids read and let them sort it out with V C Andrews and cocaine era Stephen King as God intended

Attention every network under the FCC’s jurisdiction: If you actually fight back in court against ridiculous press freedom restrictions, you will win.

mind-boggling to me that i still have yet to see a single democrat utter the phrase “every republican president of your lifetime has destroyed the economy and started a war”

The nationwide book ban bill is now entering the House of Representatives for consideration. Here's everything you need to know about HR 7661, including next steps to take in helping defeat this anti-LGBTQ, anti-intellectual, pro-voucher bill before it goes any farther: bookriot.com/hr7661-advan...

Illinois has same-day voter registration! Make sure you show up at YOUR assigned polling place with 2 forms of ID!

People of Illinois: We have same-day voter registration! If you bring proof of address (a piece of mail with your name and address on it), you can register to vote TODAY and then vote TODAY. More info below! Please do it! (And please vote for Kat!)

Stay weird, Chicago

Chicago wind gauge

10/10 take. no notes

These are the 4 things AI can do well: •Clean up your email inbox (badly) •Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party •Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself •Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday You can see why we need to base our economy around it

Happy Friday. Don’t skip school.

Just thinking about what we could do with a billion dollars a day that doesn’t include bombing people.

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’Tis the time’s plague, when madmen lead the blind.

There should be an Earth for people who don't hate all living things

Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing. These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted. Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

this is a perfect illustration of the three kinds of democrats (kat is the rarest kind)

We're not fighting over policy or political party. We're fighting over whether we are going to be a civilization rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage. What you choose to arm yourself with, love or hate, exposes which side you're fighting on.

"There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia." -- Kurt Vonnegut