Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

I want you to hear straight from me about what happened at Delaney Hall on Monday and what I saw inside the facility. ICE out of control. GEO Group profiting off of human misery. People living in inhumane conditions. Let me walk you through it.

• No, everyone *isn't* using AI to do their writing for them. • Modernizing kids' books demonstrates massive contempt for kids. And for books. • He *is* an ugly fuck, and he should shut up. Have a nice day.

this is not true, and this guy doesn't speak for me! nymag.com/intelligence...

JUST NOW from @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream — ICE agents outside Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ pushed a protester into an 18-wheeler causing the truck to run over his leg. They then pinned him on the ground and carried him away.

My wife found this painting in a thrift store, and I knew she had become a true Giants fan when she immediately bought it, realizing it epitomized the pain of our fandom.

Daily Memo: Around 500 People Are Now On A Hunger Strike at Five ICE Detention Centers Across the U.S. It started with one man from Cuba at the Torrance County Detention Facility in New Mexico, who has been in ICE detention since last August. Full report: lataco.com/huger-strike...

This article is good because it rejects the cheap slopulism, embraced from centrists to certain progressives, that want to promise tax cuts for working people paid for by billionaires. Instead, they go the AOC route and make a moral argument for wealth taxes. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Hey, you all should follow my pal Sandhya! She's smart, fun, and committed to social justice.

Even if you don't read this, you should follow the link to R.O. Kwon's piece. www.patreon.com/posts/159388...

Book of the day is “Kalivas!” by Nick Mamatas. It’s a retelling of the tempest of some sort? New author for me, yay!

There's a major civil rights protest taking place in Selma, Alabama, right now in response to the SCOTUS decision that weakened the Voting Rights Act and the ongoing attack on Black Americans’ political power (video: defiancedispatch/IG)

The Revolt Against the Girl Bosses Has Finally Come www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

It's cool to read my blog. Everyone says so.

I mean, of course. But it had already been demonstrated so many times that this was going to happen by 2020 that the failure to anticipate it was the fault of Biden, Garland, and Dem leadership. Which is why most of us are so mad at their failure to fight effectively. See: scorpion/frog

A few months ago, some friends in Vallejo took me to see this extremely weird and bad AI generated mural. In a town overflowing with artists, how did this happen? The answer is a lot weirder than I expected: www.coyotemedia.org/how-did-an-a...

The parenthetical in my user name comes from here:

Another week in paradise. Some bright things, some bad things, some things that are just things.

One of the best Bluesky threads ever.

It really is substantially more likely that some guy wanted to shoot some people (or one man in particular) than that the government staged a false flag attack. Running towards conspiracy thinking is naive and you should be embarrassed. Is it possible? Sure. Is it likely? No.

Alright, I wrote about this in greater length: margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/forget-the...

So much good stuff... so much bad stuff.

As a Giants fan this hurts because it's true.

Priceless post from the official White House social media

Laurie would have loved this.

This may be my longest Sunday list yet!

it just lifts my heart to feel heard. thanks, ICE lawyer. 💜

"Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.” You should subscribe to The Handbasket and buy this book!

I know you don't like grief posts. But I have one for you.

It's an odd skill that Schumer and Jeffries have. Any sentence they write reads like passive voice even when it's not.

Hello people. Here is my new Sunday list of things.

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Happy 8th anniversary to the tweet that changed us forever. Look at this absolute unit.

The obvious answer here is that the student protest movement was broadly smeared as anti-semitic and aligned with terrorists, and a variety of institutions from government, media and the universities acted as if that smear was true, threatening, suspending, expelling and even deporting students.

"Why are the people we had expelled, deported, and arrested not protesting on campuses?" - they asked, sincerely and stupidly.

Any cheese/food folks want to volunteer at the American Cheese Society Judging and Competition in Minneapolis in May? Check it out.

I haven't read this yet. I hope I didn't say anything stupid. (The image crop is perfect)

The rot at the heart of this op-ed emanates from the author's feigned ignorance that the 2023 escalation in overdose deaths came *AFTER* the city abandoned the TLC and neighborhood resource centers, and, at Jenkins' and Dorsey's urging, began pursuing "jail first" for people who use drugs.

New Sunday post, Sunday people. You know you wanna read and share it.

In light of the conversation about how hard it is to promote your own book: Post a link to buy your book here and I’ll boost it cause you destroyed yourself to get it done, your publisher won’t help you sell it, and you deserve cheers and admiration for your accomplishment.

Good to see What the Fuck Is Wrong With You University's Department Of No Fucking Shit Studies is still in business

Schnauzers are the perfect dog.

Look, I really want to like this guy but he is making it so hard.

I haven't written a grief post in a while, but hey, we are at a milestone. Come wallow with me.

El Colectivo Sabinas at Doll Fest 2! So good!

Check out my new Sunday list. Lots of great links too!