ME: Lord, I just pray that you send a hedge of protection. GOD: Say less.

The Text Man breaks his silence

Señor Bad Bunny,,,,,, thank you for standing up for heterosexual marriage

Nice heights. Are they wuthering?

You know who’s NOT in the Epstein files?

a special place in hell? all for myself? 🥹

When you lose Shinedown, you've truly lost America

My campaign ad in 2028: You will see these criminals placed in stocks in the town square and you can throw up to three (3) tomatoes in their faces

Ah yes, Coleman Hughes, the Thomas ChatGPT Williams of commentators

Here’s @adamfpetty.bsky.social with a bit about part two of Don Quixote verydistantlands.substack.com/p/the-novel-...

The strictly business-brained NFL exec who months ago foresaw the February 2026 vibes and then hired Bad Bunny

Oh no, plz don't drag Miller down with you Kristi, nooooo

At The Drive In, “In/Bovino/Out” I’m so sorry

my magnum opus on woke 2 has arrived!!! (magnum wokus?) thank you to @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social and @kattenbarge.bsky.social for providing your thoughts on the matter www.vanityfair.com/culture/stor...

'Neither of them had imagined doing what they were doing now. “I’m supposed to be creeping around in the woods looking at insects,” Green Bean said.'

The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired

Keep that boot on their throat bsky.app/profile/msai...

Bovino's ugly mug is Ultros from FF6 obviously

They're gonna call it Stancilgrad

BREAKING: Bovino to fight his demotion, has filed a grievance with his union rep at The Lollipop Guild

Sure, I guess we'll never know how the founders would have felt about LGBTQ rights or double jeopardy or whatever but you know what we do know? How they felt about a tyrannical government's roving militias gunning down people in broad daylight.

(this very tension, b/w fight and aid, is what OBAA is about btw)

I suppose in the future what's happening now may become known as "The Battle of Minneapolis," but I think--hope--it's historic precisely because it's not that. Fascism wants a fight. Instead, Minneapolis's main response is mutual aid. Struggle, in a deeper sense of the term than fascism can imagine.

Yesterday a reporter asked me for comment about Minneapolis’ opposition to ICE. I got kind of worked up and sent way more than I should have. The piece is great—it’s in my prior post. But I wanted post my comments in full here:

In support of today’s ICE Out General Strike in Minnesota, I will not be participating in CBS News’s Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil.

I copped 3 books I've been meaning to read! Uncertain Sons Ghost Sequences Helpmeet Be like me and take advantage!

foolish millennials. you have committed the crucial error of being older than 30. we will not make the same mistake

As I have said countless times before, Ganz knows ball and people hate him because he knows that he knows ball and doesn’t have to be humble about it lol.

One has to think that Trump is seeing all the coverage out of Minnesota, and thinking that Bovino is looking more and more like a loser. Routinely humiliated by grandmothers with cellphones. Wouldn't be surprised if he starts speaking ill of him.

SHADOW TICKET, Thomas Pynchon (2025)

Fun piece about writers and the drudgery of day jobs, feat. Melville, Faulkner, Octavia Butler (potato chip quality control expert!), and the author's own stint with the USPS. lithub.com/the-work-beh...

"It's just . . . horse."

This is such a clear and convincing piece of writing

THE BLACK LODGE ⭐️ 25 years ago Terrible stay, staff very rude and unhelpful, everybody talks weird, rooms all identical other than weird tree or horrible noise in some. Only charged me for one night though

Thrilled to say I've accepted a position as Chief Mixologist for Whiskey Friday with Tony Dokoupil

"Hey Tony, welcome back! What'll ya have?" "Same as always: the frickin' news, straight up....and make it a double."

costco should be allowed to sell weed. i want the Kirkland Select Kush. a 300-count fish oil pill sized bottle of 5mg gummies would fix this country

I saw this video of a Vietnam vet in the fur coat yelling at ICE and thought to myself, "this is missing something," before I realized, "Ah, of course, the Ether instrumental. It's so obvious."

There's a word that Jim Gavin, the creator of Lodge 49, used in an interview to describe his show, and I think about it all the time, and I think it's been The Word For Our Times since he made it up: bummerfarce. We live in a bummerfarce.

Could an empire in decline do THIS? *launches deeply unpopular invasion cementing status as lunatic-led pariah state, its not clear what kind of move i was trying to do*

We used to manufacture consent in this country dammit!

Join the DSA and you too can pull a stone-cold baddie

The wonderful women over at The Pomegranate were gracious enough to let me contribute so I wrote a piece on raising boys in an Andrew Tate world. www.the-pom.com/p/motherhood...

Up now at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social, I wrote about one of my favorite trilogies, Jeffrey Ford’s The Well-Built City, and what it has to say about living in a society in thrall, the fascist mindset, and the daily work of staying alive.

forgot to hit "publish" on this yesterday. wrapping up the year on Short Story, Long with some lists — some more best & fave stories of the century (so far) this week, and some of our fave story collections of 2025 next week. check out some of these faves! add some of your own in the comments!

“I treasure the tears. They are the memories and the knowledge that I carry of Tyler. I will cry those tears into a lake that I can look into and see him looking back at me.” A masterpiece by my friend @adamfpetty.bsky.social: verydistantlands.substack.com/p/the-best-o...

Yesterday would have been my brother's 41st birthday. Still hurts. Always will. verydistantlands.substack.com/p/the-phanto...