Nothing prepared me for how much of parenting a toddler would involve me having to force him to keep his clothes on

One of the really compelling things about this article to me is that it’s a real case study that a man can be a responsible, fun, considerate partner in some relationships and a total shitbag in others. That’s not unusual. I don’t think any of these women are lying.

I'm breaking my own rule today

This is so so so so important

This is well dramatized in the excellent film “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” literally nothing has changed in 60 years, in fact it seems to have gotten worse

If he was black he never would have gotten the financial and influence support to launch a campaign at all, especially not in Maine

Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/04/u...

I saw Marjane Satrapi speak about her work at Smith College 19 years ago, and she said something I have thought about and taught ever since when I teach comics. “I draw what I can’t write and I write what I can’t draw.“

Generally not an advocate of drinking while working, but in this instance, barring other considerations…

You should listen to this episode of What Next with @maryharris.bsky.social on the Platner scandal. Her guests are @titonka.bsky.social & Klippenstein. Ken’s answers were pretty uninteresting, but Danielle is fantastic. She’s right that a woman wouldn’t survive this open.spotify.com/episode/05ly...

The fact that a Republican senator called Dan Sullivan is running for reelection against another Republican candidate called Dan Sullivan, and the first Dan Sullivan is threatening to sue the other Dan Sullivan is both hilarious and peak 2026.

He would have been finished the second the tattoo was revealed, and a lot of the exact same people insisting we MUST vote for him now would be the exact same ones shouting "Good riddance, now get us a better candidate."

Last thing I'll add about him is that if he was Black his campaign would've been cooked months ago

Raisins are grapes that gave up on life. I don’t eat quitters.

Alcee Hastings? (But the rareness proves your point) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcee_H...

WELCOME COMRADES, HOW DO YOU DO FELLOW KIDS

the subtitle of The Originalism Trap is "How Extremists Stole the Constitution AND How We the People Can Take It Back" [emphasis added 😉] the 'and' is there for a reason! bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Spine chilling at this point

Researching for an essay I'm writing about the birth (and transformation) of the Black Republican—briefly chronicling how the GOP went from being the party of the likes of Frederick Douglas to... what it is now—and I'm not mentally prepared for the amount of Candace Owens clips I'm about to watch.

Black politicians only ever accumulate that kind of baggage after they have the benefits of incumbency

But no really can anyone think of an example of a Black candidate that had so much baggage that was ever elected to public office?

One of the most horrific sentences I've read in a while

ok, this place has the juice

you, performatively posting for clout: raw milk is bad, you're eating cow poop me, keeping it so real: all milk is gross, you're drinking cow titty juice

NEW STORY DAY! “Ghost in the Tank” is out now at @lightspeedmagazine.com! It’s about giant mechs and censorship by tech companies and getting punched in the face and desperate queer shame and all the ugliest intersections of technology and culture. I think it’s my best work. I hope you love it.

Not a single *genre* publication, organization, or other entity made the Literary Arts Fund grantee list and I am become Joker.

This article makes me ask the essential question, "Why do people do things?"

Haven’t plugged my book in a while so here’s a reminder I have a book and it’s pretty good.

The diarrhea they gonna have will be of biblical proportions

I'm telling you: if you like someone's book or article, straight up email them that. It'll make their day. There are not enough compliments in academia.

I’m back in @bulbregion.bsky.social with “Unsent Love Letters (& Other Regrets)” ♡ grateful to @sarpsozdinler.bsky.social + all of you who read this story 💌 📬 bulbregion.com/Unsent-Love-...

Of false gods, you mean!

I love raisins. In fact, I bought a two pound bag yesterday. I'm also diabetic and raisins (also grapes) are little sugar bombs, so my actual intake is restricted. /born in California and our intake of grapes/raisins was restricted as a child due to the UFW boycott. I'm making up for it as an Old.

Raisin oatmeal cookies are an abomination of a concept

Here are this week’s Independent Press Top 40 Bestsellers for fiction.

"would you live in a jail cell for 37 days to win $835,000" is like your average Mr Beast challenge

There's a lot of barriers in place that lead to not many Black vets in public office. On the whole, running for office takes a lot of money and there's a racial wealth gap that's pervasive in the US. That's just one example. Another is that the GOP (heavily white) actively seeks out vets to... (1/x)

Which is why some are even pressured to take pictures with The Right Kind of Dog (Memory lapse here, but a candidate who won posed with a beagle that was supposed to be his but wasn't)

I don’t think a southern white man could either. Not as a Democrat. There’s a certain time of cool kid that seems to be allowed to get away with this type of behavior and we ain’t them.

Real working class folks aren’t allowed a pass on the stuff Platner gets away with.

Last thing I'll add about him is that if he was Black his campaign would've been cooked months ago

And this is why I’ve kept my state comm job w/benefits. If I’m going to have to write stuff other than my books, then I’d rather not have to chase the work that supports The Work. Keeps me from getting more credits, but gives me freedom to create work I care about. It’s been a hedged bet.

I wanna like this twice because no damn lie

Being an artist in a capitalistic hellscape is a bitch

My bi-monthly "I can't wait until the day I can just focus on writing and creating and leave my day job" post

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I’ve never heard of this —WILL be reading

here is the link for today's stream. will start once i inhale some lunch. youtube.com/live/9eEdyvo...

When I think of Luigi Mangione, I think of how in '70s NOLA, a Black man went on shooting spree against the NOPD... & people cheered him on. The shooter was Mark Essex. Two years later, and I still think this story is one of the best things I've written. antigravitymagazine.com/feature/mark...

We all need signs and symbols to cheer us up. Mine today is that this video, walking people through the Powell Memo that designed the modern right-wing brand warfare- what I call it- appears to be massive on TikTok.