As the owner of an independent bookstore, I must ask all of y'all to do the opposite of this forever and ever, amen.

“I saw someone coming toward me through the twilight on the road ahead, a skinny man in a glowing white shirt, and dread rushed into me.” New short fiction by Lauren Groff: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/10/mother-of-men-fiction-lauren-groff

Women should have jobs, but Ross Douthat shouldn’t.

Did Knee-Jerk Contrarianism Ruin the New York Times?

I hope the centrists learned a hard lesson last night. No more reaching across the aisle to people who have been spitting in our faces for decades. Run young people, run socialists, run on actionable ideas that seek to make our lives better.

I think a thing we'll learn tonight is that people fucking hate what is going on and they will straight ticket vote against anyone involved in starving people while pillaging the country and kidnapping their neighbors. I don't think it matters at all who that person is.

The Pentagon has failed seven audits in a row and the DoD has confirmed nearly $11 billion in fraud in just 7 years. But the concern is the poorest Americans abusing the average $342 monthly alotment. foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-...

GOP: I can't believe Dems are trying to stop us from taking away your healthcare. Just for that, no food for you.

If you’re still a Republican or a billionaire after all this, I’m sorry to say that you’re absolutely going to hell. Don’t yell at me. Take it up with Jesus Christ. They’re his rules.

16 million children rely on SNAP benefits. Republicans are literally stealing the food out of babies’ mouths.

The firings and SNAP failures are just a reminder that Republicans are willing to let people starve so they can continue to deny people healthcare.

Straight up plagiarism can ALSO help you beat writer’s block!

Food insecurity is ALWAYS a political choice. Famine is ALWAYS manmade. People go hungry because of other people’s decisions. We have more than enough food for everyone, and enormous amounts of it are wasted—literally thrown in the garbage—on purpose.

the flaw in the touch-the-stove plan was, always, the lack of endgame. It gets exhausting to repeat it, but you cannot strong-arm a party that likes it when the government is shut down.

Well this sure feels on the nose www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Been wrong before but demolishing part of the White House while prices rise, the government is shut down, and health premiums are about to go through the roof? Might break through

If a bunch of Republicans like the ones on the NYT Editorial board want Dems to move center-wise, that’s exactly what we should NOT be doing.

For God’s sake let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings

Stop using AI. Stop using it NOW.

To become dependent on ChapGPT is to evacuate yourself from your own life. YIKES, no thanks. I’m gonna be alive inside every damn thing I do, even and especially the ish I don’t wanna do.

Made a pilgrimage to @thelynxbooks.bsky.social to be in conversation with @legroff.bsky.social about Fonseca and it was all amazing! She’s a #penelopefitzgerald fan!

Did you know that if you buy my book on Amazon, Jeff Bezos makes 5 times as much as I do on each copy sold? Sharing some behind-the-scenes book math on why buying directly from presses is best for EVERYONE (except Bezos) in my newsletter today! aubreyhirsch.substack.com/p/book-math

The “Oops, protein powder is full of lead” thing would explain so much.

That evening, Monday, October 13, I will be reading and talking with @legroff.bsky.social about #penelopefotzgerald at @thelynxbooks.bsky.social!

These are also terrible numbers for America, since about 37% simply do not live in or acknowledge reality.

Whenever anyone says how much of the U.S. economy is tied to AI right now, I'm like...damn, what if a single rich person had any idea other than "try to zero out labor costs through theft."

I wrote about how the road to fascism is paved with false equivalencies. lithub.com/the-real-thr...

#Florida has some excellent indies, inclu. Tombolo in St. Pete, Oxford Exchange in Tampa, Midtown Reader in Tallahassee, Books & Books in Miami & Key West (where Judy Blume runs the store), Story & Song in Fernandina Beach, Happy Medium in Jax & the Lynx in Gainesville, run by @legroff.bsky.social.

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Just a reminder! If you're buying books in support of #BannedBooksWeek buying from Amazon undercuts the broader project of social justice supporting the right to read is a part of. Get your banned books absolutely anywhere else!

I love this brave young person so deeply.

"The Free State of Florida" once again banned more books than any other state — for the third year running. More than 2,000 books were pulled off of shelves last year.

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

Counterpoint: don’t give the fascists even a single inch.

Cuomo could never.

1. The Boss is right. 2. The Boss is hot. (How is he still hot?)

I live nowhere near NYC but I’m always astounded that Mamdani’s critics are trying to paint him as some kind of radical leftist. Everything he says just seems to be smart and logical? Like what “centrist” actually should be? Not “centrist” as it stands now (craven kowtowing to authoritarians).

I don't even cringe when I see that man standing on the world stage making completely incoherent statements. I do feel tremendously sorry for the rest of the world that has to be subjected to U.S. violence and complete buffoonery.

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

I’m getting so excited for Edwidge’s Danticat’s visit to Bo Diddley Plaza for Gainesville Reads on September 27th. Signing at @thelynxbooks.bsky.social at 5pm (with cake) before our discussion. I’ve been a Danticat-head for decades, love her so much.

Someone asked me earlier why I don’t do more than AI, and the answer is that every time I look deeper into AI I see more evidence that this is a massive, unbelievable failure, propped up by webs of debt and ignorance, private capital fully believes there’s massive AI demand that does not exist.

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

Don’t comply in advance. Exercise your freedom of speech or else they’ll strip this from us, too.

Don’t comply in advance. Exercise your freedom of speech or else they’ll strip this from us, too.

Don’t comply in advance.

Be gentle with your people today. Make art. Go for a walk. Find a way to support the vulnerable among us.

Political violence in the US is hungry children, mass incarceration, forced apathy. Political violence in the US is redlining and redistricting and forever debt. It's stochastic terrorism; it's the fear that you'll get murked at school or church.