Citadel reverberates to a thousand voices, now dumb: what have we become? What have we chosen to be? Now, all history is reduced to the syllables of our name - nothing can ever be the same. Now the Immortals are here.

Before the midterms of 1866, President Andrew Johnson called his congressional opponents traitors and said they should be hanged. Voters were so profoundly moved by his words... that they gave his opponents a supermajority in Congress, and the nation got the Fourteenth Amendment.

A reminder that I’ve archived every public-facing web page from the CDC website prior to the Trump Regime purging data back in late January: acasignups.net/cdc-website

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

1 best movie genres -two women who have never met do lowkey magic and get sucked into a Henry James novel

Wondering if there’s anyone interested in doing a group reading / discussion of Lyn Hejinian’s _Fall Creek_? #LynHejinian #poetrysky #languagepoetry

Open AI loses copyright case in Germany. Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."

Northern Lights in Iowa

In terms of big disappointments, he gets honorable Manchin.

You’re at Blowfish. I need you at Postal.

You look tired.

if you see this, post an album cover with a motor vehicle on it.

I wish Del Toro’s Frankenstein was a more comprehensive look at the monster’s life. They never cover when he met Abbott and Costello, for example.

Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL

So the Epstein vote isn't the only reason Mike Johnson should fear Rep. Yassamin Ansari. More of this, please.

Actually this is my tenth rodeo I just refuse to learn new things

A brilliant red bruschetta from a better, vanished time...

Quote with your favourite film and album from the year you were born.

Zohran Mamdani caught lying that he understood Plato’s allegory of the cave, yet when asked to explain it, he seemed to instead explain Baudrillard’s theory of Simulacra and Simulation where reality has been replaced by symbols and signs, which seems similar to Plato’s theory but is not the same

Guided by Voices released 5 albums since the first inning. #WorldSeries

Gonna wear a suit, tie and glasses for Halloween and tell everyone I’m dressed as a soybean farmer / treasury secretary.

It’s not that things get boring as you get older it’s just that porches get exciting

Ursula Le Guin's 1999 letter to Michael Powell, the owner of Powell's Books in Portland. Powell's workers unionized in 2000 and have faced some union-busting measures since, but were the first contract in ILWU Local 5.

If you want a good laugh, you will find Reuters' AI assistant pop up the minute you click on this link from Reuters about how AI assistants make widespread errors about the news

Not demanding "purity," just demanding that the stakes holding down the big tent not be driven through the hearts of the most vulnerable among us. We cannot sacrifice our trans and immigrant siblings.

Wordle, Connections, Spelling Bee etc are all back online but sans history - the app thinks this is day 1 for me.

Exactly this, yes. And the joy of reading is in feeling the traces of that work. You can’t read a book that hasn’t been written.

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

Define your music taste in eight artists, here's mine Van der Graaf Generator / Peter Hammill Steve Lacy (saxophonist) Mountain Goats Jane Siberry King Crimson Guided By Voices Pere Ubu Weyes Blood

#CarToons #peterblegvad “Not All Fathers” from Smell of a Friend (1988). “Not all fathers are Muddy Waters…”

I don’t understand why we need a “Columbus Day” when this country celebrates incompetent white men failing up and taking what isn’t theirs all year round.

I'm like the bugs bunny of dread

if you see this, QRP with a game released the year you were born

You lied to us through song!

Today’s Connections creator is apparently a big Alex Chilton fan.

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

Gavin Newsom isn’t trolling Trump, he is not actually the one posting, the person you love is the anonymous underpaid staffer who runs his social media

For the 75th anniversary of "Peanuts," here's what I consider to be the quintessential strip of the entire run. No one else but Charles Schulz could've gotten away with this on the newspaper funny pages.

This is absolutely horrifying. Every Republican should condemn this immediately. newrepublic.com/post/201016/...

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district. The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps." www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

We don’t call everyone who disagrees with us a Nazi, JD, just the ones doing Nazi shit like: -masked secret police kidnapping people off the street -creating concentration camps -attempting to eradicate trans people -banning/burning LGBTQ/opposing viewpoint books -murdering fishermen in open waters

They've lost the 9yos

Describe yourself using three fictional characters.

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

As David Grubbs says, it "feels necessary in this moment". New book by poet Susan Howe is out today! www.ndbooks.com/book/peniten... #BookSky #susanhowe