publishing soon, in October 🧡

furious orca fall begins now

The disability community needs support & solidarity to fight these pharmaceutical tariffs. Most of us can barely afford our medications as is. We can’t suddenly stop taking them, we will die. We can’t stockpile them. A 100% tariff will cost lives.

Hundreds of Moldovan Orthodox priests received an offer that seemed too good to be true: a paid pilgrimage to visit the most significant religious sites in Moscow. The catch: they were told to set up social media channels to influence Moldova's elections reut.rs/4gLOAfk

A writing workshop! Whether you're looking for inspiration or a fun time with other writers or both, we invite you to join us as we celebrate the first anniversary of TAKE ME WITH YOU NEXT TIME by fellow Betty author Janis Hubschman. Free to attend, registration required. Link to register below.

THIS is political violence. Why haven’t all of the national political leaders decried it? @governor.ny.gov has said nothing.

“I spent days reading centuries-old oral histories...” #NewNonfiction author Julian Brave NoiseCat describes the research and legend behind his debut, We Survived the Night. “I found myself drawn to the ones about Coyote, the trickster forefather of our people.” at.pw.org/JulianNoiseCat

I think it would be helpful if DA Bragg charged a few of these assaults. If the agents think that federal law immunizes them for actions that would result in ordinary New Yorkers being charged, let them litigate it.

Saw a lot of beautiful art today. This piece also touched me

Someone from Radio Free Asia came to our book talk in DC this past spring and gave me this mug. I would love to thank whoever gifted me this — you didn't leave a card or name! It's been awful to see RFA's newsroom gutted, and I hope it gets reconstituted soon.

Hey so when you mock Trump’s use of “low IQ” and try to turn it back on him and his followers, that’s actually textbook ableism and a very bad look. IQ is a racist, sexist, deeply bullshit metric weaponized by eugenicists, and there are plenty of “high IQ” ppl who have been monsters.

Forgot one: “Demand that your local leaders build complete networks of sidewalks and protected bike lanes.”

This is how Tim Pool’s White House correspondent described the video before they posted it.

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you cannot "smolbeanify" the moral agency of millions of people who decided to enshitty the rest of the world, whether it be USAID, climate change, or whatever

📌Just looking at and listening to the grotesque, 79-year-old Trump, it's a wonder his obvious failing mental and physical health isn't a top story. He is completely unfit in every way.

Honestly if you support this shit on any level I think you’re an evil person, like wtf is wrong with you.

Kimmel’s defiant return highlights one of the most disturbing dynamics of Trump II, that so many people in positions of leadership are chickenshit frauds who would rather fold in advance than put up anything resembling a fight www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is, without any exaggeration, exactly how Putin and Orbán proceeded — using antisemitism to discredit the idea of civil society and political opposition, and as an excuse to undo the rule of law. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

“A hospital alone shows what war is.” Erich Maria Remarque

🧵(3) A brief note in Romanian appears at the top of folios 1v–5r of manuscript ASNM 00419. This one-line inscription records that in 1672 CE, a woman named Mălina, along with her husband and other family members, purchased the manuscript, probably for the local new church.

no one stops to consider that we (adoptees and donor-conceived people) might reject being subjected to a radically different set of expectations and norms about kinship, identity, and family belonging that don’t bind those who enter families in which kinship relations track genealogical ones.

they, and we, pretend that donor conception is a way of forming a zygote that takes parenthood out of the picture—that releases the “donor” from all ties and obligations to their offspring. and when we point out that this is not so, we are accused of “bioessentialism.”

where the adoption industry commodifies children, the fertility industry (or that part of it that concerns gamete donation) commodifies parenthood. “donors” tell themselves they are helping humankind in the manner of the plasma or marrow donor. +

i talk a great deal about the injustice of anonymizing adoptees’ ancestry: of treating adoption as a transformation of kinship that deprives us of any right to connection with our actual ancestral families and communities. BUT. +

Want to learn about translation with International Booker Prize winning writer-translator, Deepa Bhasthi? Now is your chance!

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Breaking News: Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s former president, was found guilty of conspiring with Libya to illegally finance his 2007 campaign.

“It is very difficult to get a man to say he doesn’t know something when someone will pay him $150,000 to say that he totally does know it” — Upton Sinclair, probably

I spoke extensively with the Crimson reporter. She understood the strength of the evidence, and it shows. Odds ratios can be eye-glazing, but let's just say that when 2.5 million kids are studied, and it's still not possible to detect added risk from taking acetaminophen...there's no added risk.

The people who raised me could not tell me what they did not know. My identity was erased by Eastern Social Welfare Society and the Korean government in violation of my human rights. And now, the world finally knows it. apnews.com/article/sout...

Instead of assuming I'm "ungrateful" for my adoptive family, you can start assuming that I would walk through hell itself to find my biological family. Loving someone even in their absence takes courage. I will not be broken ✊️❤️🥚 #adoption www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/a...

and it is not “misguided” love. it is selfishness that wears the pretense of love. late-discovery adoptees are the victims of a horrendous moral crime. it should be a crime in law.

My pre-adoptive identity IS my identity. To conceal it is to violate the right to know who I am. People who dismiss our demands for the truth with “love is stronger than DNA” are engaged in deliberate and desperate obfuscation. And concealing the truth is the opposite of love. 🥚

1) Translation from Google: “I remember sneaking into my parents' room and first looking at my adoption record. I was around ten years old, and I was so curious to see what it said. Nothing significant was written there. There was no mention of my biological parents' names, no information… 🥚

I grew up believing I was an orphan. The truth told a different story 💔. See my story in One Orphan Every Hour this Sat, Aug 30 at 9pm SGT @channelnewsasia.bsky.social  🥚. #Korea #AdopteeVoices #adoptionjourney #adoptionstory #adoption

After filming this documentary, I became 1 of 56 resolved cases in Korea's TRC #adoption investigation, confirming human rights violations. 311 remain unresolved. Thanks @channelnewsasia.bsky.social#adoptionfor telling our stories 🥚.

LISTEN TO ADOPTEE VOICES

I had no idea how much anger I could feel until I found my little brother. Now, I understand what was stolen from us. Society shames adoptees for feeling angry. If you aren't angry about systemic child abuse, corruption, and violations of human rights, maybe it's time to ask why. #adoption 🥚

youtube served me an ad for “embark dog dna.” in the ad, a chihuahua-esque dog talks about undergoing an “identity crisis,” not knowing where he came from, until his “mom” got him his dna results identifying his mix of breeds. and thus the #adoptee / house pet analogy is complete.

I think this was inevitable. Anecdotally, a lot of Syrians who were persecuted by the regime moved to Ukraine, including close friends of mine, and there are more economic ties than one would think.

Since so many people are adopting Schattenfroh as a new standard unit of measure, I decided to whip out my Penguin.

I demand that Apple scrap its App Store tax and search engine default. They worsen user experience, deceive consumers about privacy commitments, defund journalism and the web, are illegal collusion with Google, and undermine the fundamental right to engage in commercial activity.

Good morning dear friends, I wish everyone happy, healthy, productive, safe and peaceful day. Lviv, Ukraine 🇺🇦

Yesterday I presented my draft report on the Hungarian rule of law. My message: the Hungarian RoL has worsened significantly. Therefore, the EU must freeze more funds and take away Orbán's veto. I look forward to working with my pro-democratic colleagues on this resolution.

For all Tim Cook's discomfort at joining Trump's tech bro entourage - literally, check out the pics of the state dinner at Windsor Castle - He's no better than the rest of those loathesome, anti-democratic billionaires, sucking up to Daddy to flout and destroy European law in actual bloody Europe.

It's alarming how many people need to hear this: racism is not the natural and inevitable response to the presence of (the wrong number of) racialised Others. It is a learned response, and as such it is contestable and replaceable. This is anti-racism 101. Entry level stuff.

Urgent action is needed to end this violence. Policies like the National Autism Strategy & the National Anti-Bullying Standards are moving in the right direction, but autistic students need our help right now. That’s why we’re creating a community of practice to start taking concrete steps today.

You can read a summary of the submission at this link, where you can also find a link through to the full 42-page report. www.otarc.com.au/2025/bullyin...

I recently led a submission to the national anti-bullying rapid review, which found that autistic students in Australia face some of the highest levels of bullying in the world, leading to physical, psychological, and emotional suffering, and even self-harm and suicide.