It's a shame more white men over 35 aren't yelling at them then. Get to work.

For people elsewhere who have asked how to support Minnesota while we’re overrun with nazi thugs, here’s an excellent list of places that could use financial help. Lots of choices. Thank you so much! docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Hey folks Calvary Food Shelf has been helping out people in Minneapolis for 30 years, and now they’re ramping up to meet the crisis, including doing home deliveries so people don’t have to risk going out. They’re just over halfway to their current goal—let’s get them all the way, shall we?

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

Awful and evil. Her poor boy.

My first out of the gate for 2026, at @literaryhub.bsky.social, on why it’s a GOOD thing that Mayor Mamdani can never be president lithub.com/why-its-a-go...

“Zohran Mamdani will never feel the need to use the NYPD to beat up protesters in the hopes it will impress a precinct captain in Des Moines.” lithub.com/why-its-a-go...

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

The difference between emigrated and immigrated has been lost. It’s over. (I see them used incorrectly now, in numerous books.) 😞

Immense gratitude to my editor @jonnydiamond.bsky.social ...

And if your name is MacKenzie Scott please consider getting in touch directly.

AI slop is killing the internet. If you enjoy editorial by humans, for humans, please consider becoming a Lit Hub member (and/or donating!) lithub.com/its-harder-a...

One my fav places to write serious and rugged essays about the writing life and literature is the great @lithub.com.web.brid.gy and it's always a pleasure writing for @jonnydiamond.bsky.social and crew. Consider becoming a member! I know my mom did. lithub.memberful.com/join

Good morning, I have a new piece up at LitHub on Woolf's To the Lighthouse, her unacknowledged plague novel--a book about what happens after the end of the End of the World. This one took me a long time to put together. I hope you enjoy.

This is a lovely essay about one of my favorite novels.

@jonnydiamond.bsky.social reading from Homage to Catalonia for #falloffreedom on WGXC

Pulling a late night with the 14 year old (who’s way behind on a school project) and he just referenced the Kardashev Scale AND correctly named the singer of “Rhiannon.” I feel like this should count towards college admissions.

Not the rhetoric of moral clarity! No!

It was over once everyone started calling it the “homeland.” That’s some fascist shit my dudes.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Ok, yes, this is a public health–adjacent account -- but some of us are also literary nerds. And seeing Joyce Carol Oates roast Elon Musk on his own platform? Just what we needed on an otherwise sh**ty day.

How did New Yorkers elect a democratic socialist as their mayor? We have a reading list for that.

I love this by Peter Coviello (former chair of Africana Studies at yes, Bowdoin). Very smart AND very funny. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

God I hate these f*ckers so much

I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...

In Myth America, edited by @kevinmkruse.bsky.social and Julian E. Zelizer, Michael Kazin examines the far-reaching influence of socialism on American political thought.

This is what she's posting rn fyi. Just pure racism!

This really sucks; they were doing brave, important work. It seems like everyone with money and power right now has it at the expense of principled conviction.

Proud to be on this list with an incredible group of writers and thinkers doing the right thing. lithub.com/300-pledge-t...

What the fascist tech bros get wrong about Prometheus. (And yes, they do want to build a 450-foot statue on Alcatraz Island, in San Francisco Bay).

Catskill, NY.

Catskill, NY.

A day to stand up, and stand together. fallows.substack.com/p/stand-up-s...

I just ordered a stack of Mark’s book to give away at the store. ebbooksellers.com/item/9JsuMsJ... Would be a shame if others did the same and landed it at least on regional bestseller lists.

Here’s Mark Bray beating the brakes of Dinesh D’Souza in 2017. lithub.com/why-we-shoul...

I wrote about what we can all learn from the courage of Czech dissidents. lithub.com/how-a-1977-c...

Incredible (and funny) story here from Philip Roth about visiting Ivan Klima in Prague. lithub.com/he-comes-for...

Strongly recommend MY MERRY MORNINGS along with the titles @jonnydiamond.bsky.social includes here. I met Ivan Klima as a baby bookseller when he finally was allowed to travel. Life-changing for me: smoking cigarettes with him in the bookstore backroom.

I wrote about how the road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. lithub.com/the-real-thr...

Did @andrewervin.bsky.social introduce Krasznahorkai to the American masses? (aka Philly alt weekly readers c. 2001) lithub.com/is-this-the-...

Between Pynchon and Krasznahorkai absolutely HUGE week for brodernism. I see you, and I salute you my dudes.

Had a ball reporting on the midnight Shadow Ticket release party, over @literaryhub.bsky.social ! 💃

"where's the left media?" "where's fact-checked reporting?" lately @teenvogue.com has run profiles: of Assata Shakur's revolutionary history; a 23-year-old Palestinian journalist; what's happening in Chicago's ICE protests; and organizing supporting LGBTQ+ youth 📍 www.teenvogue.com/news-politics

it's Shadow Ticket pub day — up now on @literaryhub.bsky.social I wrote about Pynchon in the culture. thanks for check'n it out lithub.com/thomas-pynch... @penguinbooksusa.bsky.social

“Personally, I believe that anxiety and dread are perfectly natural responses to the times.” My latest for LitHub: lithub.com/tending-to-t...

The Idiocracy presidency continues apace. lithub.com/librarian-le...

The corruption is just so obvious (as it usually is in an incipient dictatorship) lithub.com/ron-desantis...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

we aren’t going to be able to make up for what they’re stealing from people who need it. but setting up a recurring donation—whatever you can afford—to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. find one near you: