How dare you imply that our friendship was based on leering at teenage girls, it was based on sorting races into C, B, A and S tiers

It was cathartic AF

I know the skies used to be filled with birds that are now extinct. I know that change can happen and that it is usually permanent. That is the real status quo. What we do matters. It’s counter intuitive but often inaction leads to change and it takes effort and energy to maintain stasis.

Still thinking about the way the moon looked last night.

We’re firmly entering “passing on stuff at the end of the year that’s been in inboxes for months” season and friends, don’t let it get you down. It’s almost never a reflection of you, but of the exhaustive workload folks are juggling. Keep going.

Trump tries to build a fake wall of inevitability around everything he does. Today, voters - literally from sea to shining sea - broke through all that, and this is just the beginning.

this is genuinely wild

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

Shout out to everyone else watching poll results tonight with Gen Alphas, praying the numbers 6 and 7 at no time appear in succession on any kind of screen

The @us.theguardian.com has a number of open positions, including two reporter roles focusing on organizing and movement building. Jobs are 12 month contract, full-time, union, flexible location workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e... workwithus.theguardian.com/job-search/e...

billionaires have invested in media not because they support journalism but because they want to control it. there is only downside to a free press for people with that level of wealth. journalism is a great equalizer and they don’t want us to be equal.

Well, this fucking blows

I like this suggestion from @annasplat.bsky.social a lot! neonliterary.substack.com/p/publishing...

I cannot effing wait to read this, @lbmcgrath.bsky.social

This week’s newsletter, free to everyone, on what is wrong with you people: open.substack.com/pub/neonlite...

“I’m not capable of homicide,” I say, but then I watch people zoom up the shoulder and shove in to cut in a traffic jam

::dramatic sigh:: no, it's more complicated than that. (And honestly--more hopeful for authors) substack.com/home/post/p-...

So is anyone organizing a “line the highways to Quantico with signs that say REMEMBER YOUR OATH” get together next week or

This is one of those "incoming frenzy" moments of transition in the literary agent profession. www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.

It’s so depressing watching the dumbest people in America drive this country into a ditch …. Again

Tell me why my brain registers no fear at the prospect of climbing 1000+ feet, but the flatness of the surrounding landscape scares the shit out of me. I am not kidding!! IT’S TOO FLAT AAAAH

elite decadence (disney) vs popular anti-authoritarian vitality (disney adults)

every corporate decision comes down to money and clearly the economics for abc/disney outweighed the threats from the fascist government

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

At this point, my view of Washington Post leadership could not be lower. What a bunch of utterly corrupt, racist assholes.

On trying to work in this miserable time when you have a heart and a brain open.substack.com/pub/neonlite...

I opened this fucking app waiting to pick up my 6th grader from school and that cucking video autoplayed on my car speaker with my two younger children in the back seat. Fuck this, fuck this, we live in hell

it’s a beautiful day to shut the fuck up

Latest newsletter: yeah, sorry, the already-famous are almost always gonna get most of the pie. neonliterary.substack.com/p/yes-the-au...

do you know of anyone who is or was in a long term relationship because of iNaturalist DMs?

I just want to read things I've never read before that make me recognize and give shape to things I've felt all along

Poor Jon Karp having to share his spotlight with Tayvis 😪

This is great: a National Guardsman standing up to say every member of the National Guard and military "is legally obliged to disobey an illegal order."

Democrats have so failed this moment in US politics.

Just saw someone call the military occupation of DC a distraction, and that’s it, the it’s a distraction people have lost it. We should wait until the bulldozer is running over your house and all chime in with “isn’t there something else we should be talking about”

1. I love Bluesky for having moved 1000s of copies of my client Megan Greenwell's BAD COMPANY. 2. Candidly, the key to effective BlueSky book promotion is not to come in with the attitude of "if you people don't give me the one-way utility I want, I'm bouncing."

Is It Pinkeye Or Melting Sunscreen: The Ocular Struggles of a Summer Mom in Midlife

Have you ever seen a more perverted ellipsis in your life?

On Biden's book deal and other things at the intersection of publishing and mortality: neonliterary.substack.com/p/am-i-too-o...

A wealthy, private institution should be the first to stand up because other institutions are more vulnerable because they lack the resources. Columbia chose a different course. I would never send a child here to be educated.

Different Gary, same murmuration: airmail.news/issues/2025-... neonliterary.substack.com/p/on-murmura...

Oh my God, SMUT backwards is TUMS

For more about this phenomenon, chef recommends: ALL WE WANT IS EVERYTHING: How We Dismantle Male Supremacy, @sorayachemaly.bsky.social, November 11, 2025 neonliterary.substack.com/p/on-murmura...

NEW for @hellgatenyc.com: Having failed spectacularly at stopping Mamdani, the Times is now unveiling its tried-and-true strategy to drum up controversy—and question the legitimacy of a person's humanity—by doing the dirtiest of work for the worst-faith actors. hellgatenyc.com/nyt-race-sci...