“A lot of times people ask, Why don't we have free healthcare? Why is this like this?' And I'm like, somebody just didn't want Black people to have access to those services. And in trying to make things harder for Black folks, you also were collateral damage.” — @itsafronomics.blacksky.app

I’m so glad Michael B Jordan won! So well deserved. And his mother is absolutely stunning.

Even if you are 100% convinced that Democracy is already dead and our votes won't count... PLEASE VOTE ANYWAY! I'm begging everyone. There is a critical mass of voter turnout that will be too big to fix. Please vote, no matter how bleak it seems.

This is state violence.

Niceness is like a candle. It provides a bit of light, but if you’re freezing, it’s not much help. Kindness is the warmth of a fireplace on a freezing cold night. Both are, well, nice… but one of them is necessary.

What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

It is really infuriating to see how misogyny really does unite men across the sociopolitical spectrum. And, in so far as the Epstein files go, they sort women into two categories: fuckable or irrelevant. When they near a hint of accountability they complain about not being able to make women prey.

Most people are pinning their last hopes on midterms. This has us in a holding pattern. But if Republicans really do pull this off, subvert the midterms... we will be left with a very angry majority who has nothing left to lose. We need to do everything we can now to make sure that doesn't happen.

Y’all want division to be THE problem because you don’t want to deal with the racists. Specifically the ones you know, love, and admire. Especially the one in your own heart. Unfortunately, that commitment to an only sometimes soothing delusion is powerful enough to break a nation.

…it should break your heart to kill.

There is a book club organization out there emailing authors telling them the club will feature their work for a "modest fee" for "branded materials" etc. Do not fall for this nonsense. You should never, as a writer, have to pay for such things.

So many vulnerable people were hurt, harassed and raped by these ghouls and now—I’m worried—it’s gonna become hehe haha lurid internet circus instead of a long overdue moral reckoning. I’m scared of who we all are becoming. That man has brought us ALL low.

Is cultural bankruptcy a term yet? www.thedailybeast.com/the-no-1-cou...

Facts

Their fair share would be WHAT THE REST OF US PAY. Most people pay up to 37%. Billionaires pay around 1%. You’re just saying words that make it clear you love billionaires and the suffering of the working class.

He might be an effective media irritant to Trump but Newsom is a loser and will never be president.

The depth of the shame of a country this wealthy and abundant allowing its people to go hungry is impossible to measure. The fact that a handful of people could fix this by paying their fair share of taxes while still remaining obscenely wealthy makes it even worse.

I just donated to my local food bank. If you can, you should too. People are already suffering but next month, in particular, is going to be so difficult.

Absolute queen

That’s the other thing that baffles me about AI and creative writing, actually. The work IS the joy for me. I don’t want to be able to snap my fingers and have a completed “product.” I want to be transformed by the process. I’m an author but I do this because I enjoy the rigor of being a writer.

alt hed: President confirms he is full of shit.

Why does the government need private jets is maybe a question we should be asking.

“And then it came, the realization that—at least in my mind—79 years old was so young for a famous rich white woman in America like Diane Keaton and that 78 years old was practically a miracle for a black trans woman like Miss Major.”

Every time I watch a debate I am struck by how old most political candidates are.

This is it.

Oh nothing just being destroyed by the Lilith Fair doc on a Sunday afternoon

This week at an event for THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, a reader asked in a gracious and cheeky way what I would hope white readers in particular would get out of the book. Or more directly, what I would TELL white readers. And this was basically my answer: African-Americans are experts on America.

My amazing wife @debbiemillman.bsky.social has an essay in the NYT today about how Trump is imposing his brand on American democracy www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/o...

Government officials are speaking the language of abusers. “Look what you made us do.” “If you would’ve let us do what we wanted, it wouldn’t be so bad.” “You deserved it.” They’re tapping into layers of trauma and deep systemic power imbalances. We have to lift each other up. Stand together.💙

The idea that the presence of strong emotion(s) disputes the validity of a person’s argument is at the core of what’s harming us all.

If you hate the Pope because he is too “liberal”, I have some very bad news for you about Jesus.

A good time to re-read this Lucille Clifton poem, always a good time.

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

It’s always interesting when politicians say hate and violence have no place in this country. It was founded on those principles.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future. ~Kierkegaard

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No one has ever been more correct. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

The only take you need on the subject. Lethal winners. Goddam.

It means accepting the reality that nobody has more information about me than me, nobody cares about what’s happening inside me more than me, and I am my own. I love myself because I’m the best possible person to have on my side.

A character assassin funded by Scooter Braun ruins the reputations and careers of women and the media goes along with it… every time.

I think a certain demographic in our country feels the peril they themselves voted for beginning to set in. The rest of us feel it too and tried to spare them. It’s unbearable and they don’t want to confront their responsibility so they’ve invented a false peril to displace their feelings.

“As the verdicts were read out, Gisèle Pelicot leaned forward to see the faces of the men.”

New from me: “The way I see it “woke” combines the experience of having an awakening (“something or someone woke me up”) with the alertness that follows (“I can’t or won’t go back to sleep; I’m awake now.”) In that way, “woke” is an incredible concept, right?”

I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944: “America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.