Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

Name them shame them

New in the Object Lessons series: 'Ballot' 'Ballot' examines the psychological, cultural, and political significance of voting in an increasingly anti-voting climate Get your copy: www.bloomsbury.com/ballot-97987...

Amazon just announced another round of 16,000 layoffs, months after it laid off 14,000 workers. Reminder that Amazon CEO Andy Jassy raked in over $40M in 2024. And Amazon is spending at least $75 million producing and promoting the Melania documentary. The system is rigged.

Delighted to have a final jacket for @bloomsburylit.bsky.social 'Vonnegut's War'! A fetching £20/$27 jacketed hardback, it fuses biography with popular history & textual analysis, telling the story of the making of a modern classic and the writer that created it. www.bloomsbury.com/vonneguts-wa...

'Drone Cultures' is out now! This book challenges the view of drones as mere tools of war and surveillance, showing they also enable creativity, entertainment, education, and public safety. 🕵️ Get your copy: https://bit.ly/4qaTlT6

In San Francisco for a few days. Climbing steep hills (grateful for that gym membership), assembling wooden crates (for Freudian slippers among other goofy raffle items), and enjoying some sunshine (indoors). Happy APsA 2026! @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social @bloomsburylit.bsky.social

What a great review of Ed Simon’s Writing During the Apocalypse from Stuart Wakefield: “It’s part cultural criticism, part autotheory, part syllabus-for-the-end-times…” @bloomsburylit.bsky.social

"The hardest times to live through are the hardest times to write about." Read an excerpt of 'Writing the Hard Stuff' by @nikwalk.bsky.social ⤵️ writerschronicle.awpwriter.org/TWC/2025-oct...

There was a lively showing & a lovely day for #NoKings 2 here in our small town of Florence, OR!

📖 Also of interest during #BannedBooksWeek: The Rhetoric of Manipulation by Robert Harvey Explore how language is used to manipulate the truth, how our gullibility leaves us susceptible to manipulation, and what we can do to reverse these trends. 🔗 www.bloomsbury.com/rhetoric-of-...

Woop! My next book, HOT TYPE, a cultural history of the Linotype and the arc of mass media, is available for preorder & 25% off at Waterstones, for my UK friends. (I'm still editing it!) It's a fascinating & epic tale. Preorders are much-appreciated: www.waterstones.com/book/hot-typ...

The book that just keeps winning! Congrats to @genni.bsky.social for yet another well deserved accolade. 🎉🥳👏🏼

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott. Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

Hey look, a dead canary.

Next up: multistate organizations to mirror the functions of the former NIH, CDC, and FDA that can review newly developed vaccines and treatments.

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

This study is one of the most important developments in extreme weather attribution science over the last two decades: deaths from Swiss heat waves traced back to specific firms like Exxon and Saudi Aramco. Don't miss Table S7 - it's going to change the way we fight fossil fuel companies.

Frost: We need housing not handcuffs. We have a housing crisis in this country. Every time the rent goes up $100, homelessness goes up 9%… We shouldn’t be criminalizing homeless people for the failures of government

Start of the week reminder that the biggest public health story in America is that we’re building concentration camps

Japan Post just announced they will no longer deliver mail to the United States, joining Germany, Austria, Denmark, Italy, France, and Sweden.

So cool to have Suzanne Jill Levine featured on the 3% pod during #WomenInTranslation month! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

In this essay from 2015, Suzanne Jill Levine recalls a series of meetings with Pablo Neruda. Read it for #WITMonth, and don’t forget to pick up your copy of Levine’s book UNFAITHFUL: A TRANSLATOR’S MEMOIR: wordswithoutborders.org/read/article... @bloomsburyacad.bsky.social

It is not “deal-making.” It is extortion built on Christopher Rufo’s idea of “taking down” one or more elite university. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/u...

if you want to have a nice and relaxing sunday, do not watch the new Hulu documentary on Hurricane Katrina. if you want to shake with rage and anger over the total failure of this nation's government and media establishment, watch the Hulu documentary on Katrina (this is a recommendation)

NEW: Mayor Eric Adams’ re-election campaign submitted faked and fraudulently obtained petition signatures in his effort to secure a spot on the November ballot as an independent candidate, a Gothamist investigation has found. gothamist.com/news/forged-...

ICE GOONS draw guns on humanitarian aid workers

I recently moved to Oregon coast from NYC & was expecting huge culture shock. It hasn’t set in yet, but I have been enjoying the quiet, cool weather and/on sunny days, & somehow less rain than NYC (where they’re having flood warnings?!). But let me check back in once the rainy season is here.

New post in the Research Spotlight series on our blog! B L Jayadev provides an overview of his research on addiction memoirs and the impact this literary form can have on scholars and practitioners. 💻 bloomsburyliterarystudiesblog.com/2025/07/beyo... #AcademicSky #AcademiaSky #phdlife

'Song Lyrics and Literary History' is out now! Paving new paths for the study of the history of literature, this study explores the intricate networks of one single poem across two centuries – the 'Vårvindar friska', a poem meant to be sung. 📗 bit.ly/40O9eEH

An endorsement from the largest local union of professional musicians in the world sounds a little different than the others but the meaning is the same: solidarity forever. Thank you Local 802 AFM!

Little Haiti is vibrant. And it’s facing the same cost of living crisis as neighborhoods across the city. That's why Brooklyn Chair Rodneyse Bichotte Hermelyn and I are bringing the Democratic Party together around a shared vision for an affordable New York. I am grateful for her endorsement!

This might help explain it: bsky.app/profile/jjin...

“The dismantling of Harvard’s diversity offices arrived at Harvard College on Wednesday as websites for centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students, and women disappeared suddenly and without fanfare.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

More than 7.7 million people whose student loans had been paused under the SAVE program will start accruing interest on their debt again in August, the Department of Education has announced.

One thing we have learned is that homelessness in America was 100% a choice. If we can stand up housing for detainees all over America in a matter of months, we could have done so for the homeless. We demanded far far too little from our Democratic leaders. We should have demanded they do more.

It should be just as easy to cancel a subscription as it is to sign up for one, right? Well, three GOP judges blocked the FTC's "click to cancel" rule established by Lina Khan. Trump's FTC chair voted against finalizing the rule last year. Another win for Corporate America.

If you don’t know how cooked we are. This is where we are at. This pot is boiling, frogs, and we’d better put out the fire and fast. Because that man is not alone in thinking this way. We are all about to be served on platters for oligarchs.

Suzanne Jill Levine on Knowing and Translating One of Latin America’s Finest 20th-Century Writers An excerpt from her new book, Unfaithful: A Translator’s Memoir lithub.com/remembering-... @bloomsburylit.bsky.social #AcademicPublishing #TranslationStudies #TranslatorStudies

notice how strategically he says "we" and build that into your politics yesterday

Took a holiday & missed some stellar news: congrats to @genni.bsky.social and all the contributors for winning this year’s Locus Award for Non-fiction! www.youtube.com/live/OHC4BKH... (timestamp 29:08) #AcademicWriting #AcademicPublishing #BookAwards #LocusAwards

Sandy Hook parent says tragedies are inherently political: “You may not believe in climate change, but insurance companies absolutely do.”

Just to dispel the notion that Substack is the cheapest option for smaller paid newsletters than I described in my first example: ($ amounts represent monthly cost)

Freedom OF religion, Freedom FROM religion. #politics #activism #religion

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They are sending roving bands of masked thugs with the stated goal of kidnapping 20 million brown people to transport them to any country they can pay to take them. All this has been cleared by The Stolen Court. This is not deportation. This is ethnic cleansing.