Ring the bell because for the first time ever: Jim Cramer is stunned silent. Just like the rest of us, he’s seeing the President commit insider trading right in front of our very eyes.

It is worth saying that it appears that the brave and principled actions of people of Minneapolis and the killings of Alex Pretti and Renee Good seem to have been a legitimate inflection point in American politics. We should carry that forward with us.

Gratitude never goes awry. My dad passed away in 1998 and I still hear from his students. It's a blessing.

Students, if you’re thinking about dropping a note to that teacher or professor about what their class/project/mentorship has meant to you, but you worry it will be cringe or cheesy, let me just tell you they will coast on the fuzzy feelings prompted by that note for months, if not years

He was late. For a very important date.

Crime headline of the day. Florida man in bunny helmet allegedly led police on 120 mph chase before surrendering to troopers

"Anthropic blames dystopian sci-fi for training AI models to act evil." Oh really? So the stuff you stole because you are a dystopian fucked up company has fucked up your dystopian fucked up company?

Story prompt, via a PA announcement at the Austin airport: “If you left your wedding ring at Security, please return to Checkpoint 1. Repeat: if you took off your wedding ring at Security, please come back to claim it.”

just noticed that TCM is showing MILDRED PIERCE and GYPSY on Mother's Day

Fantastic.

Hey! New. York. City!

Headline of the day. A Group of Dedicated Nuns Is Keeping a Giant Rabbit Breed from Dwindling to Extinction

Y’all, AI just can’t do what I can do, it can only repackage/regurgitate ideas I’ve already had. I don’t need an LLM to read (pirate) books to help me solve plotting/pacing problems because . . . I’ve spent most of my life reading books! WHAT A CONCEPT.

NYC! I hope to see you at Thrillerfest!

funniest thing i’ve ever seen

Recently I was baffled + dismayed when someone told me they "don't believe in lotion." Especially "not sunscreen for babies and kids." When I said, "But dermatologists..." I got, "No! Babies need to build up their tolerance for the sun by tanning!" (THEY DON'T.) I guess this idiocy is a thing?

It’s a visceral, incredible story. Read, and by god prepare yourself

A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!

Fantastic keynote by Walter Mosley at the Santa Barbara Literary Festival. Bonus: superstar @aceatkins.bsky.social is here—and will be on a panel with me this afternoon!

Excellent!

Packed house for the “Bad Girls” panel at the Santa Barbara Literary Festival

dudes rock

My man needs a “the institution will never love you back” sticker

Crime headline of the day. Florida Taco Bell worker accused of shooting at customers who put soda in water cup

The Swan Nebula - Optical/Infrared Comparison - From Rolf Wahl Olsen - https://flic.kr/p/fsFLfD

Headline of the day.

Sunday, May 3, at the Santa Barbara Literary Festival I'll be on the "Crime Time" panel with this stellar lineup of fellow authors. I'd love to see you!

Southern Cal! This weekend I'll be taking part in the Santa Barbara Literary Festival. Panels. Workshops. My hometown! Sunday May 3 I'm giving a writing workshop, "Beginnings, Middles, and Endings." If you're in SB, SoCal, the Central Coast, check it out:

Speaking of good dogs

I just want to post about books and writing and tacos and good dogs and then I see this and can't keep from shouting that this is FUCKIN' NUTS

And yet…missed something else.

Here's a goddamn win and thank you to many people for bringing it to my attention: 988 works. We have more people still with us because of it. I'm glad they're here and I'm glad you're here. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/s...

the party of "a whole civilization will die tonight" fake-rending their garments over violent rhetoric is funnier than the entire history of saturday night live

Dear @meggardiner.bsky.social Re: BRIGHT LIGHT CITY. Nice. I dug that. Fun was had!

OR JUST WRITE THE THING YOURSELF FOR FUCK'S SAKE IT WILL TAKE LESS TIME THAN WHATEVER THE FUCK THIS IS mashable.com/article/sinc...

My last 2 stories were summarized and repackaged with ZERO attribution by a liberal Facebook account with millions of followers. I wrote to them and they apologized and retroactively credited me. Please clap. And please don't amplify accounts that steal work by journalists for clicks.

The main thing in art and entertainment to keep your finger on the pulse of the fans and what they want, their feedback is so important.

is it love? i bet it’s love

*Sean Connery voice

Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

The next administration must make clear that any immigrant, refugee, or asylum seeker wrongly deported, exiled, or otherwise mistreated by this administration will be readmitted with an expedited path to citizenship. Send a plane to get them. We can't undo the damage. But we can do something.

Headline of the day. Here’s what happens when you give salmon cocaine

Thread on the bizarre, dangerously wack-job Palantir manifesto:

Drop your crime fighting Anglicans (I had to do it before you know who says the Archbishop of Canterbury is weak on crime)

Oof