A good thing you can do about this instead of dooming is Google “how to become a poll observer in [your town]”

Washington Post is shuttering its book section, part of the ongoing war against literacy & knowledge. We at Current Affairs want to pick up the slack by expanding book reviews. Writers: pitch us anytime! And if you subscribe/donate we'll use the funding to commission book coverage.

I would like to make a little thread/sloppy directory, here: If you write about books for any outlet (by which I mean not a newsletter, somewhere that you have an editor), please reply and tell me what you cover and where?

wow, have zero memory of posting this, good job past me

“Best we can do is make the murderers record their murders” …yeah no, that’s not gonna cut it

FINALLY a way to turn off Gemini without turning off gmail sorting

Excited for Bovino and his new office.

lol yeah these are the same guys who tweet about how scary the subway is & say they’re being genocided because somebody working the checkout lane said happy holidays and now they are all LARPing as Frank Castle just to get ran outta town by grandmas & people playing fiddles

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

aMeRiCaNs ArEn'T dOiNg AnYtHiNg

My take on the Jan 23 action in Minneapolis is that I don’t really care whether it’s a “true” general strike (we could argue about that all day). What DOES matter is that it’s a bold and necessary escalation, and local labor leaders are publicly encouraging workers to join in anti-ICE resistance

[Oreo cookie CEO]: People not liking Oreos is destroying society.

I'm not a fan of snow but I'm a big fan of watching my cats watch snow fall with utter transfixed fascination

Pay attention to which high-ranking Dems try to torpedo this—not only morally right but also politically smart and popular—proposal so we can tar and feather them

these "centrist" motherfuckers would've sent the SS for sensitivity training, huh?

every few weeks I google "when is schumer up reelection" and the date is always way too far away. maybe if I google it again I'll find out we can get rid of him now...

So does “wine mom” just mean “white woman between the ages of 30 and 50” now?

Watching the first ep of All Her Fault and so far the incompetence of the dads is way more stressful than the kidnapping

his name is Jonathan Ross and he shouldn't get a good night's sleep for the rest of his life www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...

This is the best news I’ve heard in ages

Feels so over the top that her name was “Good”

Primary everyone! Primary every incumbent. Primary your mom, primary your dad. Primary your boss. Get them all outta here

no I will not be hopping on a quick call to circle back

Pluribus is what happens when you have a concept rather than a story

What does it say about me that I don’t feel particularly nostalgic about the MetroCard because I still think of it as the newfangled replacement for the token?

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

2026 is already better than 2025

Headed into 2026 like

slipping on my selkie pelt, just to seal something

Juiceless Bitch Update

Resisting him almost always works, trying to bargain with him never ever works

"Academics literally cannot make genAI go away" we also can't make underage drinking go away and we're not advocating for installing bar carts in every classroom.

But the “pro lifers” are fine with this, yes?

"prompt theft" is funny as hell like oh no somebody did the same google search as me. grow up

Congratulations to everyone who wrote an op-ed about how he just wants americans to eat better

I remain quite angry at the people, many of them fellow Jews, who spent so much energy worrying about leftwing campus antisemitism when it was so clearly used as a distraction from the growing acceptance of mask-off Nazism within the Republican party. So many people allowed themselves to get played.

John Oliver really was not kidding about the overwhelming rebellious power of just saying “Fuck you, make me.”

I didn’t see this until just now, but just finished watching The Princess Bride

i'm only half joking when i say posting stuff like this *could* work

If you use GenAI, you’re not welcome here #NoAI

maybe it will happen today

The best argument really

As the saying from that era goes, “never forget”

It needs to be treated as importantly as "no animals were harmed during the making of this film" Because yeah, for a time? Animals got harmed and people accepted it as a part of the process. And it was wrong. So is this, and it needs to stop.

i am sad my fellowship years are ending but happy that means a new CNF writer here in this cold place. know a nonfiction writer who has at least one book and likes snow? hr.myu.umn.edu/psc/hrprd/EM...

I finally watched One Battle After Another and loved a lot of things about it, but especially the way it articulates the creepy grossness of all things Christmas

Looking for one or two big publications open to horror/speculative book review pitches. Hope to work with some cool folks in 2026.