Shoutout to libraries for keeping fiction and non-fiction separate, that is not easy to do these days

It's a Christmas miracle, I finally had time to finish the 4th and final installment of my essay series on gentrification of cinema, concluding with temperance films, the Karen-ification of the nickelodeons, & the invention of narrative cinema 📽️#filmsky

The 60 Minutes piece on the Trump Administration’s torture prison that Bari Weiss doesn’t want you to see has leaked.

NEW: While the Supreme Court is slated to hear a high-stakes case that could eliminate mail-in ballot grace periods, Ohio is already five steps ahead. Last week, the state enacted a new law eliminating its four-day grace period, citing the upcoming SCOTUS case.

CBS News postponed a "60 Minutes" segment Sunday because it lacked a Trump admin interview, per an email we obtained from correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, who said the decision by EIC Bari Weiss gave the White House a "kill switch." with @liamjscott.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Going into my Nicki Minaj room and smashing the shrine

For @yoohootom.bsky.social specifically

Gift link - Rob Reiner: A Life in Pictures www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/m...

If ever you wonder how the formerly abolitionist stronghold of #Ohio has become a deep red, restrictive hell-hole in just 40 years, this is why Religious groups should not have non-profit status if their primary work is controlling politics rather than providing solace for the marginalized & poor

INCREDIBLE STORY: Rural Ohio trans candidate nearly drops out of race after being targeted online, wins seat in Republican stronghold. thebuckeyeflame.com/2025/12/15/a...

Indiana state house Republicans just approved a new 9-0 gerrymandered map ousting two US House Democrats, giving Republicans 100% of seats in state where Trump got 58% of vote

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

Here is the official announcement of the new writing book that my current husband and I have written, that will publish in March. You can get 3 chapters now if you preorder: substack.com/@annelamott/...

I've known this man for how many years and never seen him write in caps before. IMPORTANT:

Marriage A-la-Mode, Plate V: The Death of the Earl, by Simon François Ravenet, after William Hogarth, 1745, 📸 by @evanvucci

I once saw a tweet that said something like "living alone is so weird, you can be silent for 8 hours and not even realize it." That's how I learned there are people out there who don't constantly talk to themselves.

In case you missed it live, you can still catch my conversation with Dr. Amy Acton, who is running for Governor of Ohio, here: snyder.substack.com/p/conversati...

This is poor Millard Fillmore's clue on this quiz.

The struggle is real.

Me, writing an email: I better craft three full paragraphs, with proper grammar and a few concluding bullet points, to make sure that my meaning is entirely clear. Rich people writing emails: "good to be.. well connect on that. ,, none can tell.try to say what and we know."

I know, everybody should leave X, but I think an exception should be made solely for Joyce Carol Oates so she can keep wounding Musk's withered soul on his own site and he can't do a thing about it.

Love this Pelosi anecdote via @semafor.com www.semafor.com/newsletter/1...

Some presidents just look like agents of chaos

Poor President Millard Fillmore, the only president whose name my phone doesn't predict

BREAKING: Democrat Aftab Pureval wins Cincinnati mayoral election over Cory Bowman, half-brother of Vice President JD Vance. Follow AP for live updates.

Caption is German - “Art project on the US-Mexican border” The image shows the "Teeter-Totter Wall," an art installation that took place at the U.S.-Mexico border in July 2019. The "Teeter-Totter Wall" won the 2020 Beazley Design of the Year given by London's Design Museum.

This is next level authoritarianism.👇 "Following the suspension of two career prosecutors, the U.S. Department of Justice quietly revised a sentencing memo in a high-profile case — removing all references to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and President Donald Trump’s social media post."

Washington Post capitulated. LA Times capitulated. ABC capitulated. CBS capitulated. CNN capitulated. Support independent, pro democracy media like @status.news, @thebulwark.com, @crooked.com, @boltsmag.org, @the-downballot.com, @contrariannews.org and, of course, @democracydocket.com.

Proof that the U.S. government social media accounts are in fact white nationalist propaganda accounts, funded by our tax dollars. You’ve got to see this…

Chaotic pantser

Things to do - start following a favorite foreign news outlet or two - support domestic news outlets not owned by billionaires - be cognizant of the fact the richest few men on Earth own our largest social media platforms (tiktok, X, FB, insta, YouTube) & watch for propaganda

The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Sheena Liam, contemporary embroidery artist of Malaysian Chinese descent

I win! Almost the most boring graph ever. #novelmber #nanowrimo #amwriting (I decided to write to par every day starting on day 3)

I hate that Jeff Bezos somehow made it into my novel this year #nanowrimo

How can you not love this face? I don't understand the Kirk hate 💔 #StarTrek

People who wrap up their dogs' poop and leave it on the side of the path

Lesson 1: Do not obey in advance. Thread of lessons from my book #OnTyranny. Written in 2016.

A 🧵 of every recording of The Planets I listen to in Gustav Holst's 150th anniversary year. #Holst150 #GustavHolst150 #ThePlanets Xplanted from you-know-where and now with added-but-unexplained stars out of 5! #1. Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Järvi. Telarc, 2009 ⭐⭐⭐½

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Romance reader: What if there’s only one cup and they’re snowed in and have to share and after one drinks the other sips and their tongue lingers like they can taste the other person and they lock eyes and fall in love FOR REAL???

Nancy Mace made it into my novel in the form of a character trying to segregate bathrooms on an airship. I wasn't even sure who she was but now her legacy is written in blood (I write in blood) The character's name is Nancy Mace but let me know if you have something punny I can change it to

I'm writing exactly to par for #NaNoWriMo this year. Wanted to write over 100k but I think we are all agreed that this year is ducked thanks to the org itself. So I decided to make a pretty graph instead.

There's two kinds of people in a relationship. One who thinks that duvet/covers are a gift from God and the one who thinks it's dumb but still stands naked and shivering holding one end while we fix the wadded up tissue inside the bag.

She sleeps like this

once again thinking about the fact that this is all just OUT THERE and we can only see it through the eyes of telescopes

Remember the eclipse back in April? Since eclipses are rare I practiced camera settings and timing... then changed travel plans, watched the weather like a hawk, and ended up driving quite a bit. It all worked out. I'm proudest of this image and would love to do projects like this more often.

Oops, so much for reading