There is something deeply rotten at the heart of modern tech that goes well beyond the corruptions produced by capitalism.

BREAKING: The USDA tells states funds will be made available later today to pay November SNAP benefits in full.

THIS IS SO GOOD

Maybe nobody in the great big world cares about this. But the public libraries in tiny Jefferson County in Northern Appalachia were in danger of losing their tax funding thanks to right-wing book banners. And we won. The library's funding is safe!!!!!

There are more of us than there are of them.

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

Mamdani: "We can respond to oligarchy and authoritarianism with the strength it fears, not the appeasement it craves. After all, if anyone can show a nation betrayed by Donald Trump how to defeat him, it is the city that gave rise to him."

It’s on my list to call Ossoff this morning and this is basically what I’m going to say lol

Girl, bye.

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

BIG BREAKING: Democrat Zohran Mamdani is elected Mayor of New York City, in the largest turnout vote since 1969. He becomes the first Muslim and immigrant mayor of New York City, and the first Muslim to be elected of a major U.S. city.

Baseball is the best.

not trying to write a thinkpiece or anything, but this is basically all I did all four years of college—read a book per week in each history or lit class (so, for me, that often meant 4-5 books/week), participate in a 2- or 3-hour seminar once a week, and write longass research papers on my own time

Americans want to watch charismatic people solve moderately difficult problems on a weekly basis. That’s it. And a group of fomo execs and techbros who don’t watch TV drove one of the most profitable industries in the US off a cliff rather than accept that.

One hundred percent, I am a Ben Solo hater, fuck that little space Nazi school shooter, I am suspicious and distrustful of the cultural desire to redeem terrible white men in fiction

I cannot possibly express what this result makes me feel. A true story of perseverance and persistence. One of the true good guys in this sport. I'm so thrilled for him and now I need him to get on that LA28 team!

This is the ad Donald Trump woke up furious about. Would be a shame if it went viral.

Not the government shutdown. Not the prospect of millions going hungry or without healthcare. Not his dropping popularity, or that he destroyed property that isn't his to destroy.

VACCINES ROCK www.washingtonpost.com/science/2025...

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Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Amy destroying Jo's book was the act of a child and you are all unhinged for hating her forever for it.

A miracle they’re still alive. Elated for their families. Can’t help but think of all the hostages who would have also come home two years ago had Netanyahu chosen his own people over his thirst for war.

You'll never meet a more exhausting person than the type that blames a fucking TV show for why real life politics suck.

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Fixed It For You: The Republican controlled House and Senate hold America hostage with their unhinged bill that would cut the healthcare of 7.8 million Americans.

AT MIDNIGHT is out in paperback today from @flatironbooks.bsky.social! This is such a beautiful anthology, and while I am absolutely biased, the publications quoted here are not, so trust them even if you don't trust me! www.dahliaadler.com/at-midnight

"But federal workers will willingly forego paychecks in the hopes of preserving the programs we have devoted our lives to administering. In order to save our services today, we need to send a message to this Administration that enough is enough.”

Way before #AlienEarth even premiered, I landed a dream assignment: talking with Timothy Olyphant about everything from lessons learned on #Deadwood with David Milch to the TV storytelling pitfall he hates the most to breaking down tonight's finale (spoilers are toward the end):

This is a massive, history making abuse of your power. It will define your legacy and one day you will come to regret punishing free speech and trying to destroy democracy.

Turns out the fuck-your-feelings crowd has A LOT of feelings.

Robert Redford on Richard Nixon's death. Not much changes, I guess.

A family curse A ticking clock One summer to make magic THE THIRD PERIOD COMEBACK, summer 2026

I am so, so ready for this book!! It's gonna be amazing!!

I just don’t want “film a video and hope it goes viral” to be a “reasonable” expectation of authors!! I hate being on video! I am too awkward for video!

“The reason Kuang is judged like this is because she writes commercial fiction posing as literary fiction.” What I wouldn’t give to get back the days when we actually started talking about what is judged “literary” and by whose standard, instead of just swallowing it down.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

#BlackSails or anything by Bear McCreary, really. youtu.be/XFTcA4QLHw0?...

Yup. It helps that they’re all in singularity cults, so yes, the delusion is in fact collective.

Happy Labor Day 🙂

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Breaking News: Prosecutors failed to secure an indictment against a man who threw a sandwich at a federal agent in Washington, D.C., people familiar with the matter said.

This is also generally the case with readers, by the way

Pritzker: To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country, I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story.

I never thought I would see this in my life, and that they’re making it immediately generic so it’s affordable is making me want to cry

Holy shit. This legit gave me chills. Texas State Rep. Ann Johnson clapped back at GOP members amid Wednesday's redistricting vote. WHITE WOMEN, this is the model. We have more power than others. We are the last to be silenced. We have a responsibility to SPEAK so others are HEARD.