I only wish Graham had lived long enough to see the Republican Party fully destroyed, as he once correctly predicted.

Fucking of course. This is the biggest reason I didn't want Platner (obviously, all the other shit was bad enough, but I just knew that with enough time, some truly odious and likely criminal shit would emerge).

The entire city is on edge right now. It’s 96 degrees, we’re interrupted every 5 min by the sound of low-flying fighter jets, and the president has managed to ruin July 4th. Quietly muttering to myself: “just wait until IT happens. Everyone will be so happy when IT happens. It’ll be incredible…”

Me to the waiter at a fancy restaurant, after sipping my Pinot Grigio: “And how is the cinnamon toast crunching this evening?”

A 5-4 decision on a right like birthright citizenship enshrined in the Constitution is not the major win for this Supreme Court that I’m sure John Roberts is trying to make it out to be.

Me to the waiter at a fancy restaurant, after sipping my Pinot Grigio: “And how is the cinnamon toast crunching this evening?”

The more I had to say: I've said it now ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

And now this is one of my favorite things I've read recently. Just delightfully insane.

Man, nothing makes me hate creating art more than awards.

The world keeps giving me reasons to return to reading the work of people who are definitely smarter than me and avoid talking to people who definitely are not.

It's all so fucking infuriating. This is intense bullshit. Fucking Fascism without qualification.

One thing I noticed after a day of being considered for jury duty, without revealing details of the specific case I was considered for, is that a sizeable number of people are unwilling to "take a police officer's word for it."

It's lunacy that our criminal justice system requires jurors to agree to go along with exactly the definitions of particular concepts and terms the judge of a given case sets forth. Each term should be framed in the context of the actual Constitutional understanding of these rights and guidelines.

A five-alarm fire. We've had many of those in the last two years but this one is particularly loud and alarming.

See, now this is pro-life.

I love it

Being civically responsible is all fine and good until you are told to report for jury duty.

Doing the math and realizing Seinfeld is to my daughters what I Love Lucy was to me.

I can't believe I submitted a story to a publication called Black Scat Books. But to be fair to me, their flier for their anthology looked pretty solid. Still, advise you to stay away. They arbitrarily decided that my inadvertently sending a simultaneous submission was an unpardonable sin.

It is and isn't crazy how stupid it all is.

Because the people in this government are gleefully malevolent you naturally assume they are more evil than stupid but they're stupid first. They think everyone who came before, everyone who built the world they've benefited from, was dumb. People like Musk and Trump both have this idiot's disease

So much of the hoarding of resources by American oligarchs is simply to keep those resources from the rest of us and encourage our compliance via our desperation.

Say what you will about the logic of starting a war with Iran, but at least the Iranian government now knows they can bring the global economy to heel with one relatively small assertion of their regional control.

Bring back bullying exclusively for people who use AI without a shred of intellectual engagement.

If you haven't lost a ton of respect for Curry Barker and the rest of the team behind obsession over how they've handled the bad Sally Choi PR, just admit that you don't care about working people. This system is such a scam.

Criminalization is the fuel of fascism. And the people who have been saying this for decades are the PIC abolitionists so many deride.

How can we even pretend Black lives matter in a country where stuff as heinous as representatives of the state murdering a toddler happen regularly?

Now I'm the one laughing (while marveling at the sheer waste and pointlessness of it all).

Fascinating.

And just like that, it completely VANISHED from the media. But a sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record The Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Don't trust me... listen to him 👇

Backrooms was like someone lifted my nightmares and dreams out of my skull and projected them on a screen. Just kind of perfect for me.

Does anyone know who I am? Am I somebody? I'm not really sure anymore.

Things can always get worse. Jfc

That sounds like a lot.

Word on the street is that we'll reopen for submissions in about a month! 🚨 July 6 through 10, open for five days. Fiction, nonfiction, hybrid, and everything in between. Save the date. Spread the word.

Horrifying, as always, but important that we don't look away from these obvious crimes against humanity.

I'm reading Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution right now. Truly a sad day.

Nikki from Obsession doing the "no, no, no" scene, but she's Australian.

My youngest (4yo) daughter was just explaining how we made her. "You put some blood in here," pointing to her arm, "and some blood in here," pointing to her other arm, then, pointing to her head, "and some brains in here."

Graham Platner gives so many John Fetterman vibes it's out of control.

He looks like Bernie... from Weekend at Bernie's.

I think the best part of the end of Succession was Lukas Matsson making Tom the CEO of Waystar because he knew he'd be the most manipulatable puppet that's ever been puppeted. That's a lot of what the Oligarchs have constructed in actual America with folks like Bari Weiss, etc. Soulless voids.

The Daniel Keyes of Gen Z has their novel’s title right there.

New story up at @bulbregion.bsky.social today. It's been quite a week, publishing-wise. This one is deeply inspired by and indebted to the work of writers like @benloory.bsky.social and @kellylink.bsky.social. Thanks go out to @sarperotto.bsky.social for publishing it! bulbregion.com/Cabbage-by-M...

This was so good. Really fantastic ending.

Zachary Schomburg and I resonate on the same frequency. God, I love this.

Op, I’ve been feeling too confident lately and therefore over sharing!

enjoyed this & now thinking of making cabbage soup 🥬

Giants OLB Abdul Carter on why he responded critically to Jaxson Dart’s decision to introduce Donald Trump: www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

One of the more subtextual aspects of Obsession I liked is how it reflects all sorts of power dynamics. It's a seriously exaggerated version of the retail worker who is expected to smile through your displeasure with them and/or their company. Work so many do is often tied to giving up agency.