This plant threatens capitalism's penchant for wealth held in real estate & is probably the world's largest vascular plant & the world's largest single female organism. EG finding my way to love knotweed for @thebaffler.com

Snow, snowmaking, ski racing! All in the Believer's sports issue. Elvia on snowmaking me on the racing...

I would not be a writer without Lynne Tillman and the wild way she writes consciousness. Plus her humor. Her work is everything to me.

Daniel Gumbiner and me together on fires (DG) floods (JK) and maybe why we pick fiction or non-f, think about research and notes and losses. I can't say how excited I am to read and talk together in SF on Aug 19th! All 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 always always always to @thebeliever.net @booksmith.bsky.social

🙏🙏🙏 @tissetakagi.bsky.social from the side of the mountain I live on!

electricliterature.com/jennifer-kab... #BookSky 💙📚 @electricliterature.com @jenkabat.bsky.social

To which I add one of the rabbits rabbiting about today in the heatwave in our shit-show world. (Also rank Mamdani No. 1 and please don't rank Cuomo)...

Jennifer Kabat (@jenkabat.bsky.social‬) discusses “Nightshining,” the second in her diptych of memoirs, how her idea of community evolved while writing the book, and the relationship between our varied experiences of time and historical progress. (@summerjhart) buff.ly/44mrqGX

"With climate change, we’re going to have to make a lot of sacrifices. But who gets asked to make those sacrifices? How do we pay them back? And how do we understand those sacrifices? " — @jenkabat.bsky.social in @Bombmag.bsky.social's summer issue. @milkweededitions.bsky.social

(Also in this issue of BOMB: Ocean Vuong interviewed by Bjork, new work by Catherine Lacey and Ed Park-- eg the issue is amazing and I feel lucky to be in its pages.... )

Every other week, we shout out writers & their recent lit mag publications: wildroofjournal.substack.com/p/saturday-s... @deroneckert.bsky.social @jenkabat.bsky.social @dilyswt.bsky.social @adroitjournal.bsky.social @toughpoetsreview.bsky.social

"Situating human experience within a greater natural context, Kabat likens narrative to water and memory to place, destabilizing the linearity of individual, collective, and non-human time alike." 💧💦🌊💙 🙏 @westtradereview.bsky.social

State Senator Brad Hoylman-Sigal and Assemblyman Micah Lasher hope to give Musk a taste of his own medicine, scrutinizing his sweetheart deal in Buffalo: identifying “‘waste, fraud and abuse committed by private parties to the contract.’” And seeing whether Tesla is living up to its commitments.

Clint Smith watches the destruction of the Black Lives Mural near the White House. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

“Only in 1799, more than a century and a half after the first enslaved person arrived in New York, did the state pass an act ‘for the gradual abolition of slavery,’ meaning it remained a slave state well into the nineteenth century.” —Nell Irvin Painter

Small reminder: North America's largest rodents are waving the red flag. My epistolary response and support for my beaver-fever heroes🦫🦫✊: Beavers Are Socialist | New York Review of Architecture nyra.nyc/articles/bea...

Kidnapping students for thought crimes is not something democracies do. zeteo.com/p/breaking-d...

A few reported salaries: - Kyle Schutt: $195,200 - Jeremy Lewin: $167,000

We are preparing to release a detailed breakdown of Musk staffers’ incomes by employee. Musk’s justification is that “the software engineers at DOGE could be earning millions of dollars a year” but are instead earning a small fraction of that as federal employees.

The prehistory of AIDS: “Like a number of his Black LGBTQ peers, Hemphill began publishing & performing his work as more spaces…opened up & welcomed these artists’ visions & voices. For a moment, a flowering of Black LGBTQ literary & artistic production was visible to anyone paying attention.”

Just found the telegram my parents sent the White House and Justice Dept after this: “ACTION MUST BE TAKEN TO PROTECT THESE PEACEFUL CITIZENS WHO ASK ONLY WHAT MOST OF US TAKE FOR GRANTED.”

"Elizabeth breathed automatically. Her past and future gasped together. She exhaled a current of air, time. The atmosphere was a weight on everyone.”-- Lynne Tillman's No Lease on Life 1998. Still on my mind.