i swear this gov is a TV show. the head of intelligence got hacked and used his real name for a porn account. the head of dept of war accidentally texted war plans to a journalist. and now former head of homeland security grappling with husband's secret cross-dressing double life in anti-LGBTQ admin

Pete Hegseth’s Department of War seems to be especially interested in murdering girls. Just an observation.

How I feel reading 99% of art and media critique these days

The first excerpt from my Little Girls series, set in Welland & Pelham in the early 2000s, appears in the May issue of The Walrus. I have spent 20 years working on this series. It is the most important thing I’ve ever done in my life. Please enjoy “Tiffany” thewalrus.ca/tiffany/

Personally, I think it's important that children be taught about all the early Saddle Creek bands. Not just Cursive, but Bright Eyes, The Faint, Rilo Kiley, and even The Good Life. Hear hear!

Still figuring out what’s next. But I will say: To any candidate who wants help setting up a new style of campaign, who needs advice on integrating mutual aid in their operations, who has questions about any weird, fun, unconventional part of our race, I would love to talk. Let me know.

Civil Rights icon, @doloreshuerta, made a brave move today, revealing a secret she had been holding for 60 years for the sake of the Farm Workers movement. You can read her letter here: medium.com/@dolores_hue...

in england they spell it lmaou

“Emerald Fennell” is the rich lady version of my name.

Love the glimpse into the beautiful mind that notated this used copy of Moby Dick I got

[handcuffed] officer, the Dow is at the highest it’s ever been!!!

microdosing the horrors by being awake

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

I wish with poetry readings we considered the poem more and minutes less.

My poem “I Wanted to Touch Your Shadow” is in the latest issue of @fiddlehd.bsky.social

ME: so what do you think of this cluster of big lakes TONY THE TIGER: *deep breath*

Great piece by Zadie Smith. When the right talks about classics or "Western" culture, these works are only important to the extent that it demonstrates their superiority, they have no interest in art in and of itself beyond that www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

sure sex is great but have you ever had a growing and persistent sense of dread that turned out to be horribly, sickeningly justified

Get Chuck Schumer out

"Mamdani’s victory, above all, is a rebuke to the conventional strategies of the Democratic party. Democratic congressional leadership seems to have replaced the work of politics with a sort of learned helplessness," writes @moiradonegan.bsky.social. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Mamdani is not a warning shot; he is a sign of things to come. Dem voters everywhere want transformative change. They’re furious at party’s leaders and suspicious of candidates backed by an establishment that gets everything wrong," writes @alexshephard.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2027...

Different Dem candidates winning in different places should be evidence of the big tent - huzzah! Also, Mamdani winning in NYC despite the tepid support of Jeffries, lack of support from Schumer, and outright opposition from Cuomo should absolutely be seen as a marker of what's to come.

Are people still here or is this a void?

They are called writers

Timeline cleanse. Newspaper clipping, 1906.

how it feels to contribute to an edited volume

I’m pmsing on an eclipse in Pisces god help us all

For me, the main message from Brokeback Mountain is that you should only see people a few times a year.

RIP Marcel Proust, you would’ve loved Lana Del Rey.

With the updated RCV totals just released by the Board of Elections, our campaign has officially earned the most total votes in a primary in New York City history.

By the time you’re 32 you should have lived in at least one haunted apartment

Oh youre jacking off to the sabrina carpenter sexy dog pic? Boring. Ill instead be jacking off to the album covers of Schubert , and Strauss

Facebook decided to suspend my account because of a piece (below) I wrote Monday about violence which in no way advocates for it (but does point out who is violent in the current ruckus).

Every flashbang could instead be a meal for a poor kid. Every hotel room for a National Guardsman deployed to fire at our neighbors could house a homeless vet. Every "less-than-lethal" bullet pulled from a journalist's eye could be already needed healthcare for anyone else. All of this is a choice.

Today a politician congratulated me on my resume.

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

Today is my birthday

My Grand Derangement: An Epistemological Transfiguration Following a Period of Divine Isolation & a Great Fuck in April A story about grieving the past, bizarre impulses that emerge from solitude, the resilience of passion & desire, & trusting what life has to teach you substack.com/@juliemannel...

My Grand Derangement: An Epistemological Transfiguration Following a Period of Divine Isolation & a Great Fuck in April A story about grieving the past, bizarre impulses that emerge from solitude, the resilience of passion & desire, & trusting what life has to teach you substack.com/@juliemannel...

I'M GONNA KEEP ON DANCIN AT THE

Yesterday I wrote an amazing poem.

This election has taught me that I was correct to flee southern Ontario.

if a guy says theyre CIA and they want you to DM every girl you ever jacked off to and apologize, Its a scam. Just ruined my life. Thank you

If you love something, set if free. If it comes back that means no one else wanted it. Set it free again.

I’m sick of millennials complaining about losing JK Rowling when anyone can see that the real tragedy was losing M.I.A.