We could’ve had this intelligent supremely qualified leader in the White House instead of a dangerous psychopath. I’ll never regret voting for her.

Someone said to me, "I'm sorry but I got your book from a library." Nobody should ever apologise for that. You read my book! That's brilliant! I grew up hanging out in libraries and the idea of a world without them fills me with dread. Without libraries, authors, like readers, will only suffer.

Hard to think through problems when we are in a mode where the current problem gets eaten by a bigger problem within hours.

I will just say, as a southerner born & bred, I have a great deal of sympathy for anyone thinking, "how did I get in this Waffle House?"

The end of Pax Americana.

there are so many things i hate about the fascist project, but administration officials making up increasingly absurd lies about the amazing mind of Donald Trump is way up there

If you’re using AI to write books, understand that’s not going to somehow get you respect or money like real writers who aren’t using AI to write books because we don’t get respect or money either.

Incredible footage from a United Airlines flight of the Artemis II launch.

the president of the United States is a madman seriously damaging the entire world

Thanks for posting. I muted all four of these accounts.

This is funny!

if nothing else, there is something to be said for spending time outside in the sun with thousands of people who share your anger at the state of things

rueing the day I will have to explain to my daughter that, once upon a time before mobile phones, you simply had to agree to meet someone somewhere and then actually be in the place you agreed at the time you said you'd be there, and people actually made this work

It's sad for all Americans that we have to celebrate the 250th anniversary of our great nation with the most corrupt, evil president in our history.

This is a wonderful place. I've been there twice for writing retreats.

The primary cause of the national debt is that the very wealthy don’t pay taxes. Migrants pay their share. The oligarchs Miller fronts for do not.

If we made the green energy transition this war would be unthinkable and these authoritarians wouldn’t be in power — not in the US, not in Iran, not in Saudi Arabia, not in Russia. Hydrocarbons are killing our freedom and just plain killing us.

“I broke it now you fix it.”

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

Donald Trump letting you know how the authoritarian capture of the media is going, in case you missed it. Unlike other authoritarians in places like Hungary and Poland he has no worries about advertising his authoritarian take over of the media.

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

As a country we have made a lot of mistakes in foreign wars over the last 2+ centuries. But I’m not sure we have ever looked as feckless, foolish, incompetent and ridiculous at the leadership level than right now.

we’ve had two truly enormous crises under Trump and the first one was covid which everyone apparently gave him a pass for despite the fact that he made it worse but this one is completely, obviously, unquestionably his fault and would not have happened without him

There aren’t enough Pinocchios for this statement.

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

Spain's leader with a message that should be adopted by every top Democrat

Who among us, and all that, but also: in my appellate career, I think I've filed a total of one (1) brief with an embarrassing TOC error. It shouldn't be a frequent occurrence!

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were. These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War. Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35 Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42 Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39 Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

Uh no...we definitely realize it.

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

Liar liar, pants on fire.

Just saying, but when people are trying to do everything they can to prevent you from voting, that’s when you absolutely need to vote. Ready to make this the biggest midterm turnout in history?

I don’t believe in inherent progress. I think as a species we have backtracked many times. But the speed and scope under Trump still disgusts me

It's felt for months now that the fed govt is doing everything it can, including acts of violence, to make the Twin Cities unlivable. Vance's announcement shows that effort continues even if Trump's thugs aren't killing people in the street rn. I just don't see how this can go on for 3 more years.

This article calculates the cybertruck has been 17x more likely to burn an occupant to death than a Pinto. That may be unfair. I’d phrase it as “at least 10x more likely.” There were five fatalities, but only three crashes resulting in fatalities. We don’t know average passenger load.

Vote Blue No Matter Who is not "any Dem is someone we'd be happy to see in office" It's "any Dem is someone we'd prefer to see in office if the other option is their Republican opponent"

NEW: ChatGPT is encouraging stalkers, telling them they share a special bond with their targets -- and to keep harassing them even after they've been asked to stop futurism.com/artificial-i...

My advice is vote Democrat. You’re not going to like all of the candidates and all of their policies but this coalition gives us the best chance to defeat fascism.

Because legally qualified American voters don't want to be harassed and intimidated by masked gunmen as a condition of going to vote. Is that really hard to understand?

Welcome to the Plutocracy

OK everyone who is making fun of Kristi Noem over the blanket thing has OBVIOUSLY never had a toddler who was elevated to a Cabinet position

None of what’s happening is a surprise. When you put a pathologically dishonest, cruel, idiotic, psychopathic, anti-democratic, corrupt, lawless fascist in the White House who’s humanly capable of acting ONLY in his own interests, then bad, un-American shit is gonna happen.

Who needs drunk tweets when you have dementia truths:

NUDE ELON MUSK: The invisible clothes I'm wearing are a product of xAthleisure, which will roll out self-dressing outfits within two years at the latest THE CREDULOUS PRESS: Fully Clothed Tesla Innovator Does It Again

What women on the left already knew before the files came out is that men can imagine a world of class consciousness (Chomsky), a universe more expansive than ever before known (Hawking), a world where you can live forever (Attia) but not a world where women are fully human.

BREAKING: Judge Leon *rejects* Secretary Hegseth's bid to punish Sen. Kelly for advising troops to ignore illegal orders. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...

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When you dig deeper around mysteriously successful figures you generally find that rather than being incomprehensibly brilliant masters of the universe, they actually just lied a bunch and committed a bunch of crimes that no one wanted to look too hard at

Listening to the Attorney General of our country sitting as a witness in an Oversight hearing screech, scream and call sitting Representatives “that woman,” and refer to a Representative who is questioning her as “she” is truly a testament to how low Trump has brought all our institutions.