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Saranac Review is Duotrope's listing of the day!

Please consider signing this petition calling for Professor Dixon’s reinstatement. www.change.org/p/reinstate-... @aaup.org #academicfreedom

The US has blown up another boat near Venezuela.

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

📚🚨VerseCurious is back from summer hiatus with Episode 37: Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE (@fordhampress.bsky.social). "Marcella Durand's A WINTER TRIANGLE holds us, briefly, back from the fray, provides the curative caesura." Listen/enjoy/rate/share/subscribe!

No elected official Democratic party will be as cruel about Kirk's death as Mike Lee was about the death of Melissa Hortman. wisconsinexaminer.com/2025/06/17/s...

😹 look at this fuckin guy lol

More reasons to be anti-AI

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

an active genocide funded by the united states

U.S. military strike on Venezuelan boat is properly alleged to be murder. How important is this as a matter of international law? On left: Rubio State Department's top accusation against Venezuela On right: US Congress in codifying law on extrajudicial killings

NEW YORK (AP) — Anthropic agrees to pay authors $3,000 per book in landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material.

WTAF.

Concepts of a fascistic plan

Someone please kill me right now.

JB Pritzker's speech about Trump's threats to Chicago was great. -Called out the lie, didn't treat the BS pretext with respect -Cast it as a threat to his state's people -Threatened prosecution of personnel who break the law @brianbeutler.bsky.social and @gregsargent.bsky.social break it down here:

Oh yeah things are falling apart. You've got paranoid guys on Blind freaking out now

me, April 2024 www.wheresyoured.at/bubble-troub...

Elise Stefanik won’t meet with her constituents but thought she could use the dedication of the Plattsburgh government building as a photo op without pushback. Fail.

One of the best ways to cripple Russia’s ambitions longterm would be to moonshot renewables development then spread the tech everywhere super-cheap. Russia produces nothing of significance beyond oil and gas. The economy would tank. Plus a huge win in the fight against the climate crisis.

Republicans in DISARRAY! In #EliseStefanik district #NY21 open.substack.com/pub/mikeparw...

Meanwhile in Oxfordshire, UK.... Endlessly vacationing Vance is getting booted out of British pubs. Even the pints are telling him to fuck off.

“None Of These Books Are Obscene”: Judge Strikes Down Much of Florida’s Book Ban Bill This is a big win for intellectual freedom and will have big implications in other ongoing lawsuits and future laws aiming to ban books. bookriot.com/penguin-rand...

When we published a story about how FDA allows factories that is has formally "banned" from shipping drugs to the US to continue to do so, you -- our fine readers -- asked for the list. Here it is... @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/fda-...

Yesterday journalist Anas al-Sharif was murdered by the Israeli military in a targeted attack in Gaza. Decades ago, another writer and truth-teller, Ghassan Kanafani, was assassinated by Israel in a car bombing in Beirut. Post includes links to organizations supporting Gaza.

This is becoming a “pierogi effect” corollary to the “Streisand effect”: the more Dersh complains about not getting a pierogi, the more people refuse to give him one

Daguerreotype image of the hand of fishing boat captain and slavery abolitionist Jonathan Walker showing the “SS” (for “Slave Stealer”) that the US Govt branded on his palm after he tried in 1844 to help runaway slaves in Florida find freedom in the West Indies (Massachusetts Historical Society) 🗃

Stain removal technology has done more good in my life than generative AI

Who’s going to tell her that “work requirements” are not jobs

Jared Wise was caught on video yelling "Kill 'em, kill 'em" as Jan. 6 rioters skirmished with the police. He called officers Nazis and the "Gestapo." He's now "a valued member of the Justice Department," a spokesman said. www.npr.org/2025/08/07/n...

Really kind write-up here of Short Story, Long and, specifically, stories from @abigailoswald.bsky.social & @jsavrankelly.bsky.social! As an editor, few things better than thoughtful, engaged, enthusiastic reading of and responding to stories you got to publish.

Last Thursday, two 18-year-old Israelis, Ayana Gerstmann and Yuval Peleg declared their refusal to enlist in the army, protesting the annihilation of Gaza. They were both sentenced to military prison. By Oren Ziv @mekomit.bsky.social

The Cuomo brothers are in a race to the bottom this week.

No, I do not want to take a workshop on how to use the new AI tools for faculty on Brightspace, thanks. I'm trying to figure out how to talk with my students about how AI is destroying the planet and our minds--and to convince them that slow learning and intentional artistry are valuable. WTF

The entire republican party is currently involved in a cover up involving the worlds most notorious underage sex trafficking ring. Here's why that's bad news for Democrats.

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

Sorry for the string of videos, but this is amazing and makes me wonder if this is what life could be like if we all just logged off the internet. IG risolve

Props to PEOPLE MAGAZINE for this headline

"but they're planning to install JD Vance as President!" Honey, let them. Trump is the Pied Piper. If the CPAC convention center caught fire, Vance couldn't inspire an overflow crowd to follow him to safety.

Wow. @404media.co uncovered the names of additional dozens of people who were disappeared by the Trump administration on the March flights to El Salvador. www.404media.co/flight-manif...

Idea: a podcast called One Con to Rule Them All, a deep dive into the greatest scam the world has ever known: Convincing us that rich people are special & that if we don't do what they want, we'll be ruined as a society -- because they'll "move away," decrease "innovation," & stop "creating jobs."

one.npr.org?sharedMediaI... Marketplace at NPR is one of the few media spots where substantive discussion continues, in this case about my new book. Very grateful to all who produced this!

Concerned family members are desperate for answers after they say a disabled U.S. veteran and citizen was taken during a federal immigration raid at a cannabis farm in Camarillo.

NEW: Metadata from the FBI’s 11-hour Epstein prison video suggests the footage was modified, likely using Adobe Premiere Pro. The file appears to include at least two clips, and was saved multiple times. From @dmehro.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/metada...

Democrats should pay attn to UK's Labor & learn what NOT to do. Brexit & years of austerity under Toryies have made Labor move right, continuing w austerity, cutting NHS further, while encouraging xenophobia & transphobia. The UK economy is stalled, healthcare is suffering & Keir Starmer looks weak.

Thank you, @billmckibben.bsky.social, for a big, glowing burst of the best kind of good news.

The fact that Mark Cuban and Andrew Yang want to join a political party formed by the guy who Nazi-saluted AND designed the Hitler-chatbot is pretty telling.

When the AI bubble pops people will try and do the “how could we have known?” And the answer is “if you thought about the economics of generative AI or actually talked to people using it.” Everything I report is public. I am a dumbass. I have listened to the same metal song 8 times in a row tonight.

Writing a novel is an act of hope. It might not sell (my last one didn't), and people might not read it even if the book is picked up. But the practice of writing my current manuscript gives structure and fulfillment to my days. Which I really need right now.