I'm old. If you're not, listen to this. Get a guitar or some drums, or a trumpet. Pick up a brush, a pencil, some clay or a welder. Just make shit. It doesn't have to be good (eventually it will be) just make music, art or write or whatever. It's literally never been more important.

What the actual F is happening

The last survivor of the Tulsa Race Massacre has died. If you’ve never heard the tale, it’s worth a listen. I covered it last year on Crimes of the Centuries. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Or he could engage with people at the party and talk about the books he’s read or … oh, wait. Right. He doesn’t read. Well, maybe he could talk about his children, of whom he’s surely proud … Oh, right. Well, yeah. No wonder he grabs a fucking app.

If you like an author's work, the best thing you can do is buy it. The second best thing you can do is ask your local library to buy it. Or, do both!

This is a piece worth reading. I’ve been saying the screenshot portion for years. I have a feeling we’re all going to have to strip back down to ‘zines and start rebuilding the media landscape from scratch again. www.mediaite.com/opinion/the-...

When news media share Homeland Security's version of incidents during immigration enforcement, they need to remind the public that the feds have been caught lying repeatedly about what happened. "Homeland Security, whose accounts of past incidents have often been proven untrue, said today ..."

Why grant anonymity to someone who is lying to you with the company line? This adds nothing but misinformation to the story and the person quoted isn't going to get in trouble for saying it.

What?! You mean Stephen King didn’t really want to swap tales of inspiration with me? My writing didn’t catch Rowling’s attention? My 12-year-old, mediocre-as-hell, out-of-print true crime book didn’t stop that random book club runner in her tracks?! Seriously, I get a dozen every day.

I’m a journalist and I agree.

It’s been excruciating.

Up is down. Left is right.

It’s almost as if people who broke the law and got away with it end up being more likely to keep breaking the law.

It was Miami Herald local reporter Julie Brown @jkbjournalist.bsky.social who actually covered the Epstein story and blew it wide open. She cared about the victims and Epstein's crimes, not access. National outlets not only didn't, they refused to. They thought it was tawdry and beneath them.

I won't consider Starlink for the same reason I won't buy a Tesla and why I'm no longer on the former Twitter: I won't willingly give money to (or be an advertising base for) a Nazi salute-throwing fascist who actively tried to destroy our democracy

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Jamal Khashoggi. Say his name.

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk? But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession. But that's just me

Wikipedia editors hard at work.

I think what grosses me out the most about the whole thing — aside from the absolute journalistic malpractice, which I take personal offense to — is that the NYT et al are acting like she endured a self-imposed exile. She got a book deal. That’s how she could afford to write a book.

We should reboot journalism completely. Start from scratch. They should get those old timey hats and a pencil and figure it out from there

Yes. He PLEADED guilty to one select charge to avoid a full-on trial that he knew he was going to lose. Those other victims who were spared the ordeal of recounting their trauma on the stand were even younger than this victim — who was, mind you, still a child. These apologists are disgusting.

It rocks that all 20 people who genuinely think the Olivia Nuzzi stuff is interesting have editorial discretion at major media outlets. Just publish your group chats

We’re not even a full year in yet and America is unrecognizable.

This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.

Someday, someone will do a story about why the Pulitzer jurors never nominated, and the Pulitzer board never awarded, a prize to @jkbjournalist.bsky.social, the @miamiherald.com reporter who broke the bulk of the Epstein story. www.miamiherald.com/topics/jeffr...

Not once in my 30 years, either.

Tonight at 6 PM I’ll be giving a talk on (and reading from) WITHOUT CONSENT at my beloved local bookstore Fountain Bookshop & Ice Cream & Gifts and they already have the sign up! Details/RSVP here: fountainbookshop.com/event/2025-1...

How these people still consider themselves journalists is beyond me. The whole job is to hold the powerful accountable. Period. Even if you’re friendly with them. Which, in fairness, happens because we are all but human. That doesn’t change the job.

Sometimes objectivity does not produce the most honest reporting. You think Nellie Bly was “objective” when she exposed the asylum she’d entered under cover?

This is wild to me. The Home Depot stuff is based off something, though, right? Is Home Depot mimicking something higher end?

I’m coming to terms with the fact I lost a beloved pet last week. I did everything I could to save her but it wasn’t enough. Non-bird people might not understand, but Cheezy was the best, the most loving, the sweetest, and, now, the most missed. Our flock is incomplete.

These people need to stop fucking lying.

Just a reminder.

The 8 Dems who surrendered: @SenAngusKing @timkaine @SenCortezMasto @JohnFetterman @SenatorDurbin @SenatorHassan @SenatorShaheen @SenJackyRosen

Yep. Or their hard-working parents’ fault.

Hey, @elongreen.bsky.social! Spotted you in the wild in Asheville, NC! At Malaprop Books.

I just … can’t get myself to give two shits about gender politics. Are you happy? Great. Lemme know what to call you. I might slip sometimes because I’m old but I’m gonna keep trying because I can grow.

Kevin Jackson was wrongfully convicted, and now his innocence certificate is being opposed by a prosecutor whose past includes prosecutorial misconduct: thetriibe.com/2025/11/kevi...

USA Photo of the year

A haunted house for people with cPTSD, but it's just a room full of people saying "Everything happens for a reason."

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

FBI: "We didn't zip tie children." REPORTER: "Here's a photo of a zip tied 14 year old." FBI" "OK, we didn't zip tie YOUNG children."

* obstacles = dismantling America Simple as that.

As a member of the media, I can say with certainty this is not true for most. None of us reporting peons get job security with chaos, and most of us joined the Fourth Estate because we love the country and consider journalism crucial to democracy. Talk of a third term is anti-American.

2nd in line to the presidency, yet consistently has no idea what’s happening in the country

After Charlie Kirk’s death, I kept seeing a name pop up online: Horst Wessel. So this week on Crimes of the Centuries, I dig into the story of the violent Nazi turned propagandist saint. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

We wanted to remind folks of last week’s events so we made a compilation video of subscriber-submitted photos and videos at Grab Bag Collab. www.patreon.com/posts/141999...

So. Goddamn. Racist.