Welcome to Texas. Just saw a woman with enormous lips wearing a shirt that said Ban Assault Vaccines.

NEW YORK IS BACK 🔥

The UC system is potentially defunding this 💔

Voted for Prop 50 in person on Friday, can’t wait to watch Zohran win today 🥰

🧵This week @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social published my review of OpenAI’s “metafictional literary story about AI and grief,” which Sam Altman claimed “got the vibe of metafiction just right.” My piece challenges this claim. 1/ lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...

That they trollingly refer to it as “transition,” the EIC is leaving & claim “Teen Vogue will focus its content on career development, cultural leadership and other issues that matter most to young people” means, sadly, we should be expecting fewer article about anal, Karl Marx and trans justice

I don't have a feeling about baseball but Los Angeles has been through hell this year and something that makes this city feel good is good

Wait it was LA against TORONTO?! This Drake Kendrick beef is cosmic lmao. Carry on, neighbors

finally. baseball is over. we can only hope it has been defeated forever

Why are my neighbors screaming, Halloween is over

I can't think of anything to say

I know everyone really hates the recast of Geralt in Netflix’s The Witcher, but please know that the whisper network has long held suspicions about Cavil’s behavior with young actresses on set, and apparently his main complaint about the series was redpill bro antiwoke criticism. Good riddance.

They didn't fall for anything They intentionally published propaganda to convince their viewers that food stamps are being abused by undeserving Black people. This wasn't a mistake, it was a calculated move

I’m sitting outside with a bucket full of premium candy with a light up speaker playing hits like Thriller and 1999 and I’ve only gotten maybe four groups of kiddos 😭🎃 I even yelled “ARE YOU TRICK OR TREATING” at one duo and they were startled by my enthusiasm

You’ll want to listen.

This is so wild. While we were shamed for lattes and avocado toast, or not buying diamonds, Gen Z can’t even have sweets.

I just tearfully and excitedly posted this in a discord and a friend who worked in tech said, “$50 million? That’s it?” I had to explain to her that in the lit nonprofit world, this might as well be a billion dollars. Good news is good news, but man, maybe she’s right—this should be more.

This TikTok from a Mexican academic is about the total lack of interest in Chicane lit, theory, and knowledge production in Mexico in a time of brutal state violence, surveillance, and dehumanization of Latine migrants and citizens alike. I can’t help but note—this is true in the US as well.

SOUTHERN REACH READERS and weirdlings in general, here's a call for lighthouse photo submissions if you want a chance to be in the forthcoming Area X: The Southern Reach Files book. Starts Nov. 1, ends Jan 21. PLEASE read thoroughly. Questions, weirdos? www.jeffvandermeer.com/lighthouseph...

truthout.org/articles/ice... Look at this photo.

It's not even 11am yet, and federal agents have gassed the northwest side of Chicago twice this morning. Just before 10, NWSRR reports they detained two people in Irving Park, one of them known to be a US citizen: www.instagram.com/p/DQPKhmDEd4W/

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

a video of the young man's arrest shows him backing up, following commands, while having a weapon drawn on him. He's then surrounded, thrown to the ground, jumped on, and detained. shared with permission.

Anything less than this is cowardice. Love and protect this man. 💜

You guys! The Sam to my Frodo, my wonderful agent, Amanda Orozco, is holding a workshop through MARGINS on Saturday, October 25th, 2025! Use code MARGINS10 to receive a 10% discount and a free audiobook credit from Libro.fm when you register here! www.wordunbound.org/workshops/p/...

I’m designing a winter workshop for Poets and Writers, so I decided to pick up some Ursula K. Le Guin craft books from my library. I was so pleased to find this little volume with none other than @davidnaimon.bsky.social talking with the GOAT!

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

HAPPENING NOW: Evacuations underway for two Alaska villages hammered by Bering Sea storm, affecting hundreds of Alaskans ➡ https://tinyl.co/3ni6  📷: Dept. of Transportation

12 or 20 (second series) questions with Roque Raquel Salas Rivera / @roqueraquel.bsky.social @graywolfpress.bsky.social ; robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025/10/12-o...

Genuine question, asked in good faith: isn’t blocking how we got here? Discarding people, sowing resentment, solidifying echo chambers? I mean we can’t tolerate fascists or change them through discourse, but there’s also no real point to blocking. We don’t silence them, alts exist. Is it a solution?

I’m saying “pro-antifa” is an incoherent, redundant word that comes from the deliberate obfuscation of its meaning. There is no reason to say “pro-antifa,” because either you are fascist or anti-fascist.

People are using the term "pro-antifa" to describe everything now. One Battle After Another? Pro-antifa. Zohran? Yep. Pro-Anti, all in one word, one concept. The very fabric of reality is collapsing, beyond what AI is doing to our senses, how we make meaning. Language itself is a civil war.

You cannot be fucking serious

@lataco.bsky.social first began as a blog documenting local Mexican cuisine. Now, it’s an essential reporting powerhouse to the city as Trump’s mass deportation plot unfolds. Check out the latest from our friends at Reveal: tinyurl.com/4cm2bsdr

One of the more incredible stories out of LA this year has been how a taco review blog became the best on-the-ground coverage of ICE raids in the city. They do a dispatch every day, follow-up on the kidnapped people (which almost no media outlet has done), and fact-check government claims.

so can someone explain how it’s good when AI takes our jobs but bad when the immigrants do?

BREAKING: Greta Thunberg gives first public speech since Israeli kidnapping – video...

To not condemn this in the strongest of terms is spineless.

Mayor of Hyattsville responds to the violent ICE confrontations that have happened there over the last few weeks with a confusing statement in which he says it's illegal for local cops to intervene in ICE official duties but also it's their duty to intervene for bystanders, agents, arrestee safety:

Been saying this. It’s the Apocalyptic Imagination.

This new column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social makes me think about when I recently had to talk to the police for yet another safety plan, I tried to “lighten” the mood by saying that we all knew this wasn’t my first rodeo. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/o...

It's the end of The Best American Poetry. I wrote about the forty-year anthology project, poetry’s place in Big Five publishing, and editor David Lehman's culture wars vision of American verse. defector.com/good-riddanc...

ICE is one of the most well funded military force on the planet, entirely used internally on it’s own citizens, and completely loyal to a far right fascist dictator. if democratic politicians are not on board with abolishing ICE, they must be replaced

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” The professor spoke by phone from the inside of a car to avoid being overheard by colleagues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

The oligarchs are going to make sure they control all the media, that includes video games.

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

repeating the phrase "full books" as I slam my head against my desk until I pass out