I hear online orders are ticking up! Keep it going!!

we aren’t going to be able to make up for what they’re stealing from people who need it. but setting up a recurring donation—whatever you can afford—to your local food bank is one of the easiest & most effective ways to help people in your community. find one near you:

POV: you are me and you have cheese

today is the last day to apply to be a 2026 Periplus Fellow! application closes at 11:59pm EST

Article here. There are still MANY questions about how this new INA 212(f) entry suspension will be implemented, and the government has put out frighteningly little official information. Many people will be watching carefully. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

again, it is an especially great time to support & buy books from the wonderful team at @loyaltybooks.bsky.social: loyaltybookstores.com

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

The conservative activist behind the Harvard admissions and Abigail Fisher cases is now going after schools set up to educate Native Hawaiian students.

1) ofc it wasn't going to be rural hospitals only, which would have been bad enough—people in cities will also have fewer care options 2) nurses/staff at Seattle Children's NICU were literally my only caregivers for my first 3 mos. as a ward of the state w/ no legal parents. this really saddens me:

SIGNED COPY OPPORTUNITY: If you buy my first book The Disordered Cosmos from @loyaltybooks.bsky.social and send me proof, I will send you a signed and personalized bookplate for it: loyaltybookstores.com/book/9781541... #BookSky

DC: Join Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, Issam Zineh, Erin Cecilia Thomas & me at the Lost City Books Fall Salon on Oct. 1 at the LINE DC. Literature! Friends! Free snacks and beverages! You know you want to be there. Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/lost-city-...

A program in Flint, MI, gave $1,500 to any/all pregnant people and $500/month for the first year of their infant’s life. Among the benefits, those babies experienced lower rates of prematurity and low birth weight, which resulted in fewer NICU admissions, saving the city of Flint $6.2 million/year.

There’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for people to build on the rubble of what’s being destroyed before our eyes. Private corporations bending over to forcefeed everyone government-approved speech is evil and amoral, but more than anything this creates boring, inauthentic, unwatchable shit.

again, it is an especially great time to support & buy books from the wonderful team at @loyaltybooks.bsky.social: loyaltybookstores.com

Hannah Oliver Depp: "For the month of Aug., we were down about 60% year over year... People are in pain, they’re suffering, they’re scared... Not-for-profits who might be aligned with us...fear repercussions if they were seen to support a Black, queer, Asian, disability-owned independent bookstore."

Susan Monarez, the CDC director for 29 days, said RFK Jr. Kennedy told her “the childhood vaccine schedule would be changing starting in September, and I needed to be on board with it”. My story, with updates to come as this Senate hearing continues: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

according to an immigration attorney representing several arrested workers, ICE agents chose to arrest the Korean workers to fulfill the quota of 3,000 daily immigrant arrests set by Stephen Miller www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

if Dems are so focused on kitchen table issues I don’t see why there isn’t a nationwide “Trump is joining the war on cancer on the side of cancer” ad campaign

one service provider working w/ deafblind people in WI was told a grant got flagged by the administration because of the words "transition" (in a disability context: when disabled youth transition to adulthood) and "privilege" (because a parent said it was a "privilege" to work w/ their staff)

“Harvard quietly ended its Undergraduate Minority Recruitment Program in May — shuttering a more than 50-year-old initiative to encourage minority high school students to apply … The UMRP was not involved in making admissions decisions.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

this is tomorrow! join us if you’re in DC!

korean reporting is nightmarish on the conditions Korean workers were contained in

"The U.S. Department of Education has pulled funding for programs in eight states aimed at supporting students who have both hearing and vision loss ... 'How low can you go?' said Maurice Belote, co-chair of the National DeafBlind Coalition. 'How can you do this to children?'"

The Trump administration says it will withhold $350 million in grants to hundreds of colleges that serve large populations of minority students, calling the decades-old programs discriminatory.

~20 years ago, my in-laws sent a holiday letter that absolutely mortified me, in which they listed activities/accomplishments of each (adult) child in the family, and my entry was "works from home and takes lots of pictures of her pets." this is still my life, and I actually feel p. great about it

“At least two HBCUs in Virginia shut down their campuses on September 11, 2025, after receiving threats. Virginia State University and Hampton University both issued urgent messages to protect their students, faculty, and staff.”

if i get killed, you can quote stuff i wrote. that's why i wrote it

Utah was the first state to allow open carry on campus. A would-be assailant could walk right onto campus armed as they please and nobody could’ve done a thing about it.

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

"Accidentally"

hello rice. cook faster please

Working in housing finance, I get so fucking angry. We develop financial education programs to teach people how to budget, in the hopes that they will pay back the rescue loans that brought their rent/mortgage current to avert homelessness. But 🗣️📢 YOU CANNOT BUDGET YOUR WAY OUT OF POVERTY.

I'm such a fan of @nicolechung.bsky.social and @tajjaisen.bsky.social, and this conversation for @whichistosay.bsky.social's Awakeners podcast about mentorship, the relationship between writing and editing, and more is a gem. Loved listening & came away with much to think about:

Peggy always makes sure that Peggy has a good day

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

“the women demanded that the U.S. military apologize and pay damages for playing a hand in managing a vast network of prostitution around its bases in South Korea. Korean women who worked in bars and brothels frequented by American troops have reported rampant human rights violations.”

The We Are All DC march to protest against Trump admin’s takeover of DC is currently heading toward the White House: Via @benjalvarez1.bsky.social

The mother of the baby in my family teaches 1st grade in NYC and has put together a list of things she'd like for her classroom if you're so inclined. www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/...

An ICE raid at a 3,000-acre Hyundai site in Georgia led to the arrests of over 450 people, including South Koreans. The site was built by Hyundai to make EVs. The South Korean foreign ministry called the arrests an "unjust infringement" of their rights. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I mean this is all illegal but it does feel funnier and 10x more honest to call them “war contractors”

I do occasionally find this place to be A Lot, but it’s honestly nothing compared to Threads, where 100% of the posts the algo shows me are like the wildest publishing takes ever produced + everyone’s responses to said takes

🚨EXCLUSIVE: Federal judges tell NBC News the Supreme Court has got to do a better job of explaining emergency rulings, with frequent decisions in favor of Trump at least appearing to validate harsh criticism of the judiciary at a time of rising threats: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

A federal judge in Boston said she found it "difficult to conclude anything other than that [the Trump administration] used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country's premier universities, and did so in a way that runs afoul of [federal law]."

Some happy news! I am the 2025 UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award winner! Can the person who nominated me please identify themselves?? I want to thank you! alumni.ucsc.edu/events-progr...

"No bookstore that PW has reached out to has been as adversely impacted as @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, which specializes in diverse and intersectional literature ... Sales are down 65% since August 11." you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty

DC: Join Fargo Nissim Tbakhi, Issam Zineh, Erin Cecilia Thomas & me at the Lost City Books Fall Salon on Oct. 1 at the LINE DC. Literature! Friends! Free snacks and beverages! You know you want to be there. Free tickets here: www.eventbrite.com/e/lost-city-...