Good morning lovely people. I thought I would start this day, the 26th of October, the day of my son's 32nd birthday with a video. A video of truth to the people, a video that teaches us that we have to stand together to beat the evils that are trying to destroy us. 🙏

What if instead of playing Game 7, the Blue Jays and Mariners settled on a truce and agreed to send their best 26 guys to go beat the shit out of the Dodgers, for humanity’s sake?

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my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...

I gotta say and it’s a soft spot for me but seeing Mamdani support Tish James when a lot of dem , left, liberal and everybody has been so damn complacent About watching Black women be attacked ? and not making it some generic thing or pretending it’s disconnected from what’s coming ..

The Dem establishment is going to back Mills over the absolute phenom outsider Platner in Maine, which tells you everything you need to know about how well they understand the current moment & how prepared they are to meet it.

apparently I also write 🏳️‍🌈 romance books: if you're team has been eliminated or your team is about to be eliminated or you just want something for the off-season that involves baseball (complimentary) and Baseball (derogatory), but also there is kissing, check it out

“Government can make your life easier” is VERY SIMPLE AND VERY POPULAR and yet it’s shocking to hear a politician say that.

Supreme Court: of course states can regulate, and restrict access to, medical procedures if there’s a compelling public interest Colorado: (bans conversion therapy for minors) Supreme Court: no not like that, we only meant abortion

Smh. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Stop whatever you are doing right now and read this. www.bbc.com/news/article...

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

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The president said, in a televised speech, that he's sending his new, less restrained, more violent military into US cities to practice their brutality on immigrants and minorities, to better train them to apply that brutality to other countries. He said this out loud.

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Apparently, While You Were Seething is currently Read Now on Netgalley! Only for the next couple of days, so reviewers, grab it while you can! www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

Trump just ordered the military into Portland, and he’s giving them the green light to use lethal force on American citizens. Authoritarianism is an abstract concept but Trump is making its impacts real and tangible. Let’s be real about it: This is the beginning of dictatorship in America.

What the fuck?

hello I am very near a Very Round Number for book sales so if you like ballplayers kissing and also do not like Baseball as an institution, please give it a read

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Been trying to explain why economy increasingly feels like it's running wholly on rich people passing each other same bag of money - innovation is stalled, unemployment is rising, but stock tickers are still somehow going up. This example captures the current state of our economy perfectly.

Because I mostly use Bluesky to catch up on sane political takes and get book recommendations, I often forget to … post book news of my own here! Oops. So let’s do a September catch up on my WIP, a new freebie, and some alter-ego releases.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I find I can’t muster a proper response to either the Tylenol madness or the U.N. appearance. At some point it is just too ridiculous. It would feel insane to offer sane commentary.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

This was just Thursday. We still have all of Fresh Hell Friday to go.

I know we keep focusing on Colbert and Kimmel as we should, but we also need to remember there are hundreds of people who work for these shows who also just lost their jobs because of this bullshit, and most of them are probably not millionaires.

The fact that left-of-center folks see it as hypocrisy is itself a sign that they do not understand the contemporary right. From the basic Wilhoit-ian perspective of conservatism, there's no contradiction, no hypocrisy. Power *is* the principle.

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

I’m still thinking about this documentary; it’s so fascinating to me that Eminem a) made a documentary about his hardcore fans and b) made sure to feature women, POC, and an openly trans dude. It’s almost as if he wants people to know he’s not a right wing monster!

what's that? you need some good news? can we interest you in some Murderbot news? "Family road trip from hell"?

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

I wish Antifa existed.

Washington Post fires their last remaining Black opinion writer @karenattiah.bsky.social over the most benign comments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder... Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed. Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

all of this makes me want to scream, but the part I'm going to be up all night rage-spiraling about is accusing her of "potentially endangering the physical safety of our staff" just flippin' those narratives right around so the Black woman, a TARGET of violent hate speech, becomes the aggressor

Question for the white liberals who have written columns praising Charlie Kirk in the name of "free speech." Where are you columns actually DEFENDING THE FREE SPEECH of people who are being fired for [checks notes] quoting Charlie Kirk? (Which most of you white praisers didn't have the guts to do)

suddenly wondering to myself if the internet-wide festivities when we let ourselves pretend for a few hours that The Thing Had Happened might even indirectly be a factor in the right's violent, unhinged attacks on anyone not draped in black veils for Charlie Kirk like a Victorian widow

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Ah yes it is definitely the left that needs to lower the temperature in this country again.

US President back-pedalling furiously after his administration treated some innocent hard-working Koreans like they were innocent hard-working Latinos.

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

If we flew the American flag at half-mast for every murder of an American who deserved better, who deserved to be heard and respected and live in peace, we’d never raise the flag to its full height again.

Kathy Hochul, of all fucking people, coming out stronger than Schumer and Jeffries.

it does seem weird to declare war on people and then demand they mourn your dead