Watching my nieces grow up has convinced me that our creative language skills peak around 3.5yo

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

Boy did I need this

Oh hell, no. These are great works of American art that Trump is condemning to destruction. Fully equivalent with ISIS destructive of precious artifacts.

Excellent response.

Happy Buster Keaton's birthday!

The Texas redistricting hearing started on Wednesday in El Paso. Democracy Docket is covering it every day like it is the most important case for free and for elections in the country -- because it is. Legacy media is no where to be found. Support the DD team to make it possible. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0

Michael Hauser Tov's new Reuters Institute report offers practical techniques that could transform Trump coverage. But media organizations seem more interested in maintaining broken norms than fixing them. www.readtpa.com/p/we-already...

DOJ leadership "is more concerned with punishing the President's perceived enemies than they are with protecting our national security." -- 20-year prosecutor Michael Ben’Ary, in a note taped to his door. He was fired after a pro-Trump activist posted a nasty tweet www.politico.com/f/?id=000001...

The massive agency of secret police wants to vacuum information and build files on Americans to figure out who they should sweep up and remove from the country. I recommend reading the fantastic book IBM and the Holocaust to think about how tech companies facilitate fascism.

Yes indeed! What do you do when you're covering a lying, bloviating politician who revels in attention, good or bad? Ignoring him or covering him neutrally or even covering him critically doesn't work. You've got to try something different! Clip and save this chart:

Over the past few weeks, Fox News and Republicans have been raging over liberals' "dangerous" rhetoric, saying they are the only ones calling their political opponents "evil." Meanwhile, here's the president posting a message that says Democrats "are the party of hate, evil, and Satan."

If you work at CBS News and have anything you'd like to share, please text me on Signal premthakker.35 Your anonymity will be protected

This is such an absolutely disgusting response to the proposed 'compact'. A board of regents/governors that acts this way is operating against the spirit of higher education.

Being Ready to Lose Well, Perseverance and How Not to Be Lost talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/being...

This feels like a turning point. There should be an emergency injunction against such a blatant violation of the 4th amendment. I have stronger words, but we must have more information and immediate information. @marisakabas.bsky.social ?

Pete Hegseth Rails Against Fat Generals https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-rails-against-fat-generals/

If you read the Walrus piece on how #publishing is oppressed by “author track,” now read this excellent post by @thelincoln.bsky.social (and the others cited herein). Some key facts about the book market here. #editing #writing open.substack.com/pub/counterc...

Smart conversation here looking at Trump-style fascism in context of earlier versions, from the always sharp @unpopularfront.bsky.social www.dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

The amount of irrational love I have for this …

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Let It Happen talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/let-i...

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn to live together in peace by killing each other's children.” Jimmy Carter, born on this day in 1924

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Today was my last day as a federal employee, but tomorrow I and my new partner, Ginger Quintero-McCall, open a new law practice, the Free Information Group. We are both FOIA lawyers, and we are very good at suing the government. 1/

when I worked in an independent bookstore, the owner told me the most stolen book was one about getting your first period and if I saw anyone walking out with it, I should just let them go.

In light of today’s absolutely fucking deranged “I’m in a war movie” speeches by Trump and Hegseth, I give you the plaque at West Point.

I'm so looking forward to @lollardfish.bsky.social's THE PUBLIC SCHOLAR - A Practical Handbook. In January I attended a @historians.org session at which he talked about op-eds - and I managed to publish one in June (linked below) and got a few more essay commissions. #academicsky 🗃 1/2

And possibly more to the point, they realize that abandoning that code of ethics only invites equal and worse mistreatment of OUR OWN SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS. It was not a coincidence that John McCain, tortured by the North Vietnamese, was so opposed to this stuff

Wow. Everyone should read this: a Reagan-appointed judge eviscerating Trump, Noem, Rubio, and ICE for “squalid” abuse of the Constitution

The US military has to plan for the actual world they will be fighting in, so they have real resources devoted to forecasting the effects of climate change, from storms and sea level rise to cc-driven human migration. I suppose these geniuses will do away with that too

I know the same point has been made re a hundred other things, but do pause to imagine what would’ve happened if Biden told the entire US top brass that Republicans were bad people. If *Obama* said it the entire media would have melted down

Last night, we watched an episode of Zillow Gone Wild wherein a young girl in the 1970s convinced her parents in Lake Tahoe to paint her bedroom like the palace at Knossos and I have never felt closer to a small child.

RIP Bob Barnett, lawyer and literary agent for most of the high-powered people in Washington, and many others. One of the agents I most respected and enjoyed dealing with, and I think every one of my peers would say the same. #editing #publishing www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2...

Yep. Trump is already there. Only question is whether we'll turn it back.

I have lived and worked in and around Chicago for 27 years and I have been assaulted less often than Sen Paul has been in his own back yard.

Invaluable perspective here for academic authors on how to think about how your book fits with a given UP list, & how editors think about what they're looking for. #writing #publishing 🗃️ newsletter.manuscriptworks.com/posts/alyssa...

I listened and it was one of the most chilling conversations I’ve ever heard.

This is much, much more significant than the Comey indictment but has gotten like 0.1% of the media coverage

Exactly this

Well reported and sobering account of the tyranny of “track” in commercial #publishing. What it leaves out is that the obsession with past sales figures (also in the form of “comp titles”) comes in no small part from the *retailers* whom pubs are selling to, not just from smallminded ppl in house.

"Bucknell has decided to close its highly respected, decades-old UP in June 2026. The stated reason? The press serves scholars, not Bucknell undergrads. Bucknell undergrads—& some grad students as well—disagree." FANTASTIC piece on BUP's student internship program. networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

This is good

Trump, pounding shoe: "We will bury ourselves!"

Harvard has a long history of denying tenure to some brilliant scholars, but this seems an egregious case at this particular moment. Another strong story from @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social 🗃️

I’m gonna start a cooking show where I make recipes I’ve never tried. I’m gonna call it 30 Minutes My Ass.