We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Agree. This @tressiemcphd.bsky.social piece is really good and important. Well worth the long-ish read.

So they lied? Got it.

JUST IN: A U.S. citizen from Alabama who has been detained twice by ICE while working at a construction site, has filed a class action suit claiming ICE's broad warrantless arrest powers violate the constitution. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

WATCH — @aoc.bsky.social : “At some point we’ve gotta call these people’s B.S. for what it is. You can’t believe everything a con man is gonna tell you. We cannot live in perpetual fear of these clowns.” #TrumpShutdown

So Trump is defunding the police.

Egregious framing from @apnews.com: "Democrats are making good on their threat to close the government if President Donald Trump and Republicans won’t accede to their health care demands."

And now for today's good news ... a wonderful librarian now has a full time job getting people excited about books. All kinds of books. Even the diverse ones that the government doesn't want you to read.

This is how you use your voice when you have power. Respect to Phee for this.

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social, I loved your post from a few days ago, and I thought you might appreciate the New Orleans version. 🎷 www.instagram.com/p/DPPfmBDgCb...

I have never seen such a blistering rebuke of a President by a federal judge. He is telling us clearly to stand up for our liberty against a dictator. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Just want to remind people that in January 2017 I gave a talk at the American Physical Society meeting warning everyone that Trump would gut science just like Hitler did And I've posted the link on social media before, including again earlier this year: bsky.app/profile/chan...

I'm skimming, but this paragraph stood out:

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Brian Allen “Show us your warrant.” “Ma’am, you’ve been watching too many movies. We’ll show you the warrant after we’re done.” 🚨 That’s illegal. ICE needs a judicial warrant to enter your home, not just a badge and bad attitude. Don’t open the door.

The day before Jan 6, the 10 living Secretaries of Defense wrote about the danger of politicizing the military. Their words are essential rereading today. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Today’s attempted firing of two whistleblowers at HUD is a “stunning act of illegal retaliation” — @fedworkersunited.bsky.social Osadebe and Heenan warned about HUD’s attempts to shutter the office of fair lending, tasked with fighting discrimination in housing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

NEWS A federal judge SUSPENDS the reduction in force announced by Kari Lake of 500+ U.S. Agency for Global Media workers, largely from Voice of America. Ruling storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It is important to see this sort of straight talking, precisely because of the executive order last week that conflated criticism of the government with terrorism.

'Since first making the argument to Ross Douthat, Klein has defended his comments to a series of additional men: Tim Miller, David Remnick, and, most recently, Ta-Nehisi Coates. And while Klein has acknowledged that he understands why “people got very upset"..." The word 'upset' is coded female.

@jessicavalenti.bsky.social is very right that Ezra Klein is very wrong, both morally and strategically, with this argument that throwing half the population under the bus (the half that already leans more Democratic).

For those of you who aren't female, we get told we're 'upset' when we take opposing positions or don't like being abused or are actually angry or fierce or outraged, not upset. It's a "calm down, little lady" expression.

I got through to a Gillibrand staffer and left a message for Schumer. Keep calling!

As a former gamer, I cannot overstate how big of a deal this right-wing takeover of Electronic Arts is. Are they going to create video games where they kidnap and dismember journalists like Jamal Khashoggi?

This would be universally recognized as unhinged behavior if it wasn’t about an issue there’s a permission structure to be unhinged about

Even beyond their deeply partisan gerrymandering gambits, it may be possible for Republicans to hold on to their congressional majority by selectively rejecting election results. This is what to look out for in 2026: www.thebulwark.com/p/dirty-proc...

Guardian: Stephen Miller, who is directly hightly militarized domestic immigration actions, is also directing foreign military attacks: "At times, his role has superseded that of Marco Rubio, the secretary of state and national security adviser."

An incredibly important election in a tiny country just went the right way. Moldova has resisted a huge Russian disinformation campaign and will not become a Russian puppet state.

Utah friends! Join me Tuesday 9/30 at University of Utah's Marriott Library. I'll talk about book banning, being a preacher's kid whose books are banned & "The Power of Story to Unite US." There will be time for schmoozing afterward. I'm happy to sign any books that you bring from home! 📚♥️🇺🇸

That quote is not out of context, the full version is worse.

UN: “Kids dying of starvation… what we give them is a peanut butter paste. We’ve been told we can’t bring that in because it’s a luxury.” AMANPOUR: “Seriously?”

Longer quote from KGW. There simply are not an attacks or fires in Portland. Maybe 2020 footage, maybe a different city, who knows. Raises real questions about what is being presented to Trump and how described, by whom, and what he is understanding about the source / time of such videos.

Me, too.

Disabled people are particularly vulnerable to abuse under fascism. ICE has been neglecting the medical needs of detainees. One disabled immigrant, Rodney Taylor, needs our help. He's a double amputee who's been in the country since he was two years old. He's being held in solitary:

I love how @andreabrownlit.bsky.social supports its #KidLit illustrators! And how they use embedded links (I assume thru @deck.blue?), a Starter Pack to help boost their agents, & how agents use Lists to boost their clients & fellow agents! #LiteraryAgents

This also reminds me of this piece from Rebecca Solnit in ~November 2020~ which I know seems like a lifetime ago but reads as relevant as ever. lithub.com/rebecca-soln...

Coates is so profoundly smarter than Klein (always but especially) in this moment. But you know Klein doesn’t understand that because if he did he never would have had this conversation. Embarrassing to read in that sense.

once again when i posted this 8 years ago IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE

Every time I see her name, I think of Miss Hannigan from “Annie.”

Pour one out for one of the best Bluesky posts of all time

This is, incidentally, also true in physics

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Whew. TNC is so patient. I don’t have that level of patience but I am glad he does. Ezra Klein comes off so…badly in that conversation. Yikes.

Apple reviews are backkkkk on Bluesky! (Also go read Black River Orchard, I re-listen to the audio book every October as I run along the Delaware, to creep myself out).

On Sunday, Mr. Adams called it quits in a nearly nine-minute video message posted to social media. He gave no indication that he had a specific job lined up after he leaves office. Instead, the mayor conceded that despite his best efforts, he could not see a path to a second term.

Ok this book may not need my help and I don’t know the creators whatsoever BUT I’m low-key obsessed with IF YOU MAKE A CALL ON A BANANAPHONE, and there are signed copies @oblongbooks.bsky.social — I’m buying several for gifts, and maybe you should too, just saying oblongbooks.com/book/9780063...

MICHIGAN: “Multiple people shot at a Mormon church 50 miles north of Detroit… church on fire…” apnews.com/article/morm...

This is the secret the Trump regime tried so hard to keep about the Dallas ICE shooting The names of the dead and wounded Jose Andres Bordones-Molina Miguel Ángel García-Hernandez Norlan Guzman-Fuentes Fight Trump's dehumanization. Say their names. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/dall...

“Show us your warrant!” “Ma’am, you’ve been watching too many movies. We’ll show you the warrant after we’re done.” 🤔 *busts in the door with babies crying*