I’m enjoying Widow’s Bay as much as everyone said I would. Darkly comedic. Genius lines.

The reason the right accuses the left of indoctrinating students is that they believe students can be indoctrinated and they want to be the ones to do it.

my favorite data centers are libraries

I’m kinda feeling heartsick about losing Colbert although I know he has so much still in front of him.

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

on my birthday I took to the newsletter to write about the AI commencement address backlash, and how growing anger at AI is now irreversibly tethered to justified rage at the extraction class -- whether AI boosters like it or not

Orange you glad we have three-day weekend coming? This morning in Chicago Harbor.

I love when the dog pretends my foot is a pillow. Can’t be that comfortable but I appreciate the gesture nonetheless.

Keep Chicago out of your mouth.

“It’s S’mores! “It’s Stella!” I still do it even though telling my dogs the names of the neighbor’s pets walking by our house doesn’t make them stop barking.

Chicago, baby. 🌹

I use your love as a man burns a candle, burns it away, to light his steps.

Go ahead, ask Mike Johnson what he thinks of the Trump administration’s proposal to let guns be sent through the US mail. Ask him about it going around state laws, like ours here in MA. Push him on whether the mailing of guns is a very dangerous thing. I beg of you.

Made the viral Dirty Spaghetti for dinner and it’s a very solid recipe. It’s not company food but if you’re coming over so we can shove good food in our face, drink too-strong drinks, and talk shit about people, it’s A+. Get over here.

Elie Wiesel’s NIGHT absolutely transformed me in college. Was raised in an Evangelical community that did not teach WWII in any meaningful way. I realized that the hell they threatened every Sunday was actually man-made.

performative reading, lack of reading skills, nobody's reading anymore -- NO! tell me about a book that changed you for me? the *extremely* ahistorical novel, THE AGONY AND THE ECSTASY which I read at 13 and was like, "Oh, art can be *everything* to a maker, for good and bad"

Finally watching Good Boy and holy hell this is amazing storytelling.

How do Americans feel about the war? We asked ten big city homosexuals to share their thoughts.

Do you ever wish you could send a post back in time to your former self just to make your former self’s head explode in confusion?

Googling bike saddles for women and find a thread on Reddit. OP asks for specific advice from women cyclists on how to find the best fit. First response is “I’m a man but…” and that is the internet in a nutshell.

give DC statehood combine the dakotas save money on not having to change the flag

It’s gardening season! Do your friends and neighbors know about the positive ecological impact we can have by planting native plants?? Help get the conversation started with our Native Plants t shirt! (Modeled by our buddy @wowthanks.bsky.social) Get one at squidfacts.net

Like how dare you

Nothing but blue skies

Pokopia Sparkling Skylands has an absolutely ass aesthetic and I will spend as little time there as possible.

It pains me to say this but I don’t care about UFOs right now.

Listen, this is tit for tat until a national gerrymandering ban, and R legislatures in FL and OH already did this exact tit to get around their courts so the optimal next step appears to be tat

Only the GOP can choose their voters.

An image that truly captures the moment we are in.

Still brings me pure joy.

We are in a time of increasing assaults on children's books, children's imagination, children's curiosity, and children's ability to interface with the world on their own terms and by their own power. This is at the hands of people who want to control a child's world, rather than open it up.

Current* conditions near Waukegan, IL:

Let me just say as a school librarian… Right now the only task at hand is getting kids to read ANYTHING versus mindlessly scrolling. That battle is won or lost in grade school and no one book, genre, or style wins. What works for one kid, won’t work for another. We need every kind of book.

There are some downsides to aging but I’ve gotten very good at growing crazy eyebrow hairs.

Biden's presidency and the aftermath we're living through should be enough to destroy the "let's the turn page, let's look forward, let's move on" mantra that has animated centrist Democrats for decades now. Accountability matters. There has to be a reckoning.

How was this even a functioning security checkpoint when one of the metal detectors was on the floor being worked on?

"Bluesky will never be Twitter." Then how come I look at it every morning and it makes me sad, hmm? Explain that.

I will spend Rare Pokemetal in order to kill Pokopia Pokemon.

Instagram has dedicated itself to ads telling me that a bra will make me stand up straight and this is how I know that the tech bros are losing the plot.

Die of appendicitis at 27.

Diesel jumped to $6.19 overnight at the gas station I pass on my way to work. Regular is $4.79. America is about to be hit so hard.

get in loser we're getting Reconstruction right this time

I wrote extensively about John Roberts 40 year war to kill Voting Rights Act in my book Give Us the Ballot for those who want to take a deeper dive in light of Callais us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

I say it again and again: Because we don’t learn the real history of this country, we do not understand what this country is capable of. After 1870, 22 Black men served in Congress. By 1901, because of racist SCOTUS rulings, electoral coups and election cheating and violence, there were none.

Call me when the NYT is ready for a "12 Bitches Who Were Right about Everything" piece.

Happy Ed Balls Day! Remember to keep the true spirit of Ed Balls Day alive in your heart, and avoid the overcommercialisation of Ed Balls Day.

We were on vacation and there was a father and his young daughter walking hand in hand in front of us. The dad told her to watch her step or she would trip. She immediately tripped and loudly declared, “I didn’t trip!” Anyway, “I didn’t trip!” is a phrase our family uses regularly.

The Ballroom is the new Wall

Today, I talked to a Daisy Troop about ways to create a better world. We shared the importance of making sure that everyone has books at home to read. We all promised to read a book tonight. My heart is full. 💚

I want to see a poll that asks if voters believe the ballroom will make their lives better.