This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram. Community action works. Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

It's that time again: I'm starting a new Fiction for Journalists online class! If you are a current or former journalist with a novel in you, this is your chance to make real progress. juliadahl.com/services/cla...

Have they been raptured yet?

They’re having a vigil for you-know-who in my little town on Sunday.

TIL that Louisa Jacobson (aka Marian Brook on The Gilded Age) is Meryl Streep’s daughter!

My very first novel, INVISIBLE CITY, is a Kindle deal today: $0.99 for a book that I guarantee will entertain you. www.amazon.com/Invisible-Ci...

In my new novel, I’m writing a couple in a strong marriage and it’s really fun. Feels almost subversive.

This women’s tennis semifinal is 🔥🔥🔥

Just days ahead of the 70th anniversary of the lynching of Emmett Till, the federal government made public thousands of pages of records on Friday, Aug. 22, on the investigation into his murder.

Fuck fall. Endless summer!

It’s official: CVS will not give a Covid booster to anyone under 65 without proof of a immunocompromise. My whole family just got denied. Fuck those who voted for this.

I think I encountered a trad wife (and her 5 kids) in Park Slope. Is that a thing?

Here’s what I keep thinking: if the election is at all chaotic (it will be), he has the military.

Say hello to (the first draft of) my sixth novel: FRESNO FAMOUS

“It depends if you look Hispanic.” From Forbes: www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

Remember when Michelle Obama tried to make a dent in this and people were like, you're overstepping. I hate everything. apnews.com/article/chil...

Best city in the world, baby!

"GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE"

I want to say something to my Jewish community on this: The US government is rounding people up based on their skin color, and many of the old guard Jewish organizations that have been most vocal about feelings of abandonment from other ethnic minority groups are nowhere to be found. Total silence.

Looking a perfect nostalgic summer read? Check out THAT OCTOBER!

Weekend plans: set. Can't wait to devour @blacktopkid.bsky.social 's latest, KING OF ASHES

One spot left in my summer Fiction for Journalists class. Do you want to make this the summer you make real progress on - or even finish! - that novel you've been thinking about? Join us! juliadahl.com/services/cla...

I just got off a call with a new writing-coaching client in academia, and it occurred to me: maybe I should start a new online course called "Fiction for Academics!" 1/2

Only bummer is I feel like I'll never get tickets to "Oh, Mary!" now.

this is literally the same thing southern segregationists said about the civil rights movement.

One spot left in my summer Fiction for Journalists class. Do you want to make this the summer you make real progress on - or even finish! - that novel you've been thinking about? Join us! juliadahl.com/services/cla...

Yes, you did vote to deport moms.

On Memorial Day, I think about my uncle Walter Urbach, who attended West Point and flew three tours as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam. He is buried at Arlington and I loved him very much.

KILL IT DEAD

Crime fiction friends: give me your favorite mystery/suspense short story OR piece of criticism about the genre. Any time frame.

This made my day. If you love a book, tell the author!

Knicks win and the MetroNorth car erupts in screams of GO NEW YORK and FUCK BOSTON. I love this town.

"The crime novel is, perhaps counterintuitively, one of our most hopeful entertainments because it hews to this idea that every death matters." It was a privilege to experience these remarks in person.

Planes, trains, and automobiles are taking me 3000 miles away to my beloved hometown of Fresno, California (for the first time in 20 years!) to speak at the San Joaquin Valley Bookfest. Sometimes being a writer is pretty damn cool.

It’s Independent Bookstore Day! Thank you to all the indies who have supported my work and enriched their communities.

My sister just unearthed this relic while cleaning out her office. RIP Redbook.

I will say it again: If we make it through this dark period with democracy intact, it may be because the administration's incompetence was greater than its depravity.

Want to make *real* progress on your novel this summer? Sign up for one of my classes to supercharge your draft with new skills, a community, and accountability. Fiction for Journalists and First Draft Boot Camp are both capped at four writers. We'll talk about: 1/2

This is sick. And, not for nothing, didn't this guy's aunt create the Special Olympics? WHY CAN'T MEN GO TO THERAPY INSTEAD OF PLAYING THEIR FAMILY PSYCHODRAMA OUT ON THE WORLD STAGE?

really would be good to have an opposition party

FYI, *native-born American citizens* with "foreign" sounding last names are being sent emails from border patrol telling them to self-deport or show their papers at a local office within one week or risk deportation. www.politico.com/news/2025/04...

The world is crumbling but I just hit 40,000 words on Book 6 and I think y’all are gonna like it.

Overheard at the coffee shop by two different white men talking to two different white men on two different days: "I had this really great idea..." "I have so many skills!"

My son just April Fools'd me a week late with a prank he learned from Captain Underpants. #momlife

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

Trump's antisemitism agenda isn't about the Jews. I wrote about how the president and his allies are using the pretext of protecting Jews to protect their policies from criticism, while advancing an agenda that most American Jews oppose. Gift link:

Spotted at my local coffee shop (I swear it wasn’t me!)

Still thinking about the reporter who recently asked Karoline Leavitt if anyone in the White House was shorting the stock market and she pointedly did not answer.