There are approximately 3 million undocumented persons in Texas and Florida, and there are about 100,000 in Minnesota. Ask yourself why ICE has been deployed to MN, but not even close to the same way in FL and TX. This isn't about immigration, it is all about politics and retribution.

It's a Jack Smith fight. And the GOP shitheels showed up with a Jim Jordan.

"On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." HL Mencken

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/b... I'm an absolute sucker for field guides and am especially fond of regional and niche guides

I respectfully ask the Tigers' Tarik Skubal to give the Cy Young Award to my grandmother's parakeet. Nobody deserves it more than "Prettty Boy." He didn't give up a single run last season and didn't walk a single batter. He did this despite having no arms and having been dead for sixty years.

Worth every second

bsky.app/profile/back... A simple concept: three or four people discussing old books. I started with Paul Theroux' Kingdom by the Sea. I read it when it was released in 1983 and am somewhat alarmed that it is considered "old." The shoe, I suppose, fits. Highly recommended.

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/b... Putting their voice to their words.

All the lists of the best books of 2025 are coming out and I realize I'm still working on the best books of 1925. I'm never going to get caught up at this rate!

A scene I love from Ron Chernow's new biography of Mark Twain describes him playing with his daughters, They are blowing soap bubbles. His are filled with cigar smoke.

True tale: A Baltimore police colonel called a rival at 3 a.m. from a crime scene: "Leon, I got you now. You fucked up. You wrote "POLICE" backwards on the front of the EVU truck." "Eddie, that's so it reads correctly in a rear view mirror." Long pause. "Aw Leon, you got an answer for everything."

youtu.be/dxaZsKo7KWw?... RFK Jr. would like us to ignore the problem of bacterial contamination of unpasteurized milk.

One is reminded of the crowds growing thinner during that legendary, if ill-fated North American tour of Spinal Tap: "Their appeal has become more selective." www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/w... Two centuries later and the poppy, a plant native to neither China nor the West, still looms.

Your Prime Day reminder that Amazon... -Provides cloud services that help fuel ICE's deportation machine -Donated $1 million to Trump's inauguration fund -Scrapped plans to display tariff costs after pressure from Trump -Shelled out $40M for a documentary about Melania Trump

In forty years of bookselling I've managed to sell William Dean Howells, forgotten critic of 19th century American literature, once. I just bought back that very copy. There should be a telethon for whatever I've got.

Mattress delivery/haul away guys don't want to hear your bedbug stories. They just don't.

Was always fond of: "I'm proud to say: I don't smoke, I don't drink, and I don't swear. Oh shit, I do smoke and drink."

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/06/o...

RFK Jr. has long been a proven liar. That’s how he got this job.

This video is waaay too long, given what it’s documenting—books to be removed from all Edmonton Public Schools. Alberta, please don’t go the way of the U.S. and start banning books. 🎬@non_toxic_masculinity

Thank you, Trump voters.

Just saw a friend over on Goodreads hand out 5 stars to a book that he finished yesterday. Curious as the man died a few months ago. The afterlife may be more interesting than I've been led to believe.

I enjoy writing books. And I love being able to connect with readers. But I have to be honest: I loathe book tours. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/why-i-loathe-book-tours

Direct File was an easy way for Americans to file their taxes for FREE each year. It's a no-brainer — and it's popular. So why in the world did the Trump administration kill it? To give a huge handout to giant tax prep companies like TurboTax that rip Americans off.

"When government is an expression of the people's will, a menace to any section of the community rouses the authorities to protective action. Under a tyranny, the only active forces of government are those of coercion." Liam O'Flaherty (Famine)

Warning! Accept no substitute!

NEW: Trump rose to power by pushing the politics of paranoia and training MAGA-land to believe conspiracy theories over reality. Now he's paying the price for stiffing his cult on the Epstein files. Read all about it in my OUR LAND newsletter. link.motherjones.com/public/40655...

The party of self-proclaimed deficit hawks adding 3 trillion to the national debt.

To anyone who wondered, what could go wrong if we elected as president a highly volatile, deeply dishonest, simple-minded cretin with a revenge fetish, the answer is THIS. All of THIS.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/s...

Which one’s Joan and which one’s Bette?

I photographed the month of May in Cleveland, Ohio and this is what I got

"What are you going to do?" I don't know, maybe FIX IT IN 24 HOURS like you repeatedly FALSELY promised in order to get your current job?

The US has surpassed 1,000 measles cases this year. It’s only the second time the US has hit this dangerous milestone in the past 30 years and it’s only May. This is the Make America Sick Again agenda.

No notes

🤡

Trump was asked whether Hegseth is incompetent and should be replaced and he replied—confirming he has no idea who he's bombing in Yemen because he doesn't read briefing books and also doesn't care—"Ask the Hooties" Keep in mind this moron hears the correct pronunciation of "Houthis" 20 times daily

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/16/n...

😂😂

"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." 100 years ago, today: The Great Gatsby published.