Them: "WHERE IS KAMALA HARRIS? WHY ISN'T SHE SAYING ANYTHING?!?" Also them: "WHO IS THIS FOR? WHAT'S THE POINT OF THIS BOOK WHEN NO ONE CARES WHAT SHE HAS TO SAY?!?" Us:

“what of the writers, the thinkers, and the pundits who cannot separate the great crime of Kirk’s death from the malignancy of his public life? Can they truly be so ignorant to the words of a man they have so rushed to memorialize?” - Ta-Nehisi Coates archive.ph/2025.09.16-2...

WaPo brilliantly executing its plan to drive away its last four left-leaning subscribers and devote itself exclusively to being a wellness newsletter for aging white folks. Heckuva job, Bezos.

I love this guy. Thoughtful, timely reflections from the great @junsworth.bsky.social. Happy retirement, friend. Looking forward to what you’ll do next. ✊☮️🥂❤️

We failed in letting people who hate us take over words we use in good faith and agreeing they are an insult. Being a warrior for social justice is good. Being liberal in our awareness of others and their needs is good. Being woke to the threats bearing down is good. Don't agree? I don't care.

If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

They gaslit you all throughout the election.

Virginia Giuffre's family: "The content of these transcripts is in direct contradiction with felon Ghislaine Maxwell's conviction for child sex trafficking. During DAG Todd Blanche's bizarre interview, she is never challenged about her court-proven lies, providing her a platform to rewrite history."

Took an exploratory paddle around the Smithsonian Educational Research Center in Edgewater, MD on this lovely Saturday afternoon. No federal troops or ICE agents were there and the Oleaginous Pedophile hasn’t closed the place yet, so, yeah, it was a perfect day. Peace, y’all.

Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout. So good.

“When we feel assaulted on every front as we increasingly do, we must rebuild our inner resolve to survive this time, so that we can build a better country for our future and that of our children.” I needed to read @sifill.bsky.social this am. You should read her too. Good for your soul.

Black women call this a regular day.

“Buffing Up to Smash the Patriarchy”: Where’s my tee-shirt? I need a tee-shirt! LFG indeed.

Waste, fraud, and abuse. Where's DOGE when you need it?

LEFT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has a tattoo in honor of a family member. RIGHT: Where our government incarcerates a person who has facilitated and/or engaged in the sexual assault of over a thousand children.

It’s about fairness in women’s sports.

Sound up! Righteous feminist schadenfreude that makes you want to tap your toes and sing along. No, it ain’t gonna go away!

This is Virginia Guiffre's statement to Ghislane Maxwell, read by Guiffre's attorney in court the day Maxwell was sentenced. I had to divide it into 2 parts. Please read each & share. These are the words of a child rape victim, a victim of the monster Trump now protecting & arranging her freedom.

I heart People’s Book and am so glad it’s right here in my beloved community of Takoma Park.

Rampell's work during these first 6 months of Trump II has been top notch. Essential reading. Her departure from the Post is one more reason to finally break up with my hometown paper. I look forward to hearing from Rampell again soon, from wherever she lands.

Alexandra Petri's writing has such punch to it, not only in terms of content but form. In her best stuff, you can *hear* her voice, and this is one of her best.

A year ago today, @kamalaharris.com took on the impossible task of trying to win a presidential election in just 107 days, just 77 days until early voting began, while building the campaign while she was running it & introducing herself to voters. She nearly made the impossible possible. 1/

NEW PIECE IS UP. I don’t enjoy facing the truth about this court, but it must be done. Yesterday’s decision in McMahon has me convinced. Hope you’ll sign up for the September webinars. We need the people - not just lawyers - to understand what’s at stake. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

A Borges story about a guy who gets AI to summarize all the world’s information for him, and then summarize the summary, until the AI has the whole world summarized into a single word. He sits alone at his desk, staring at the word, repeating it endlessly, certain he is experiencing everything

My god, read this. Now. It is astonishing — both that the author survived what happened and that he was able to produce such a powerful, beautiful, heartbreaking, life-affirming account of it so quickly.

Two blocks from my house. None of us is safe unless all of us are safe. Two blocks.

The Gen Z worker awakes in the morning from her Microdeath (a new workforce trend where workers deliberately close their screens, repose horizontally, and are unavailable to respond to emails for up to eight hours)

Wonderful reflection on the poetry and personality of my late colleague and friend Elizabeth Arnold. I make a cameo appearance in Martha’s essay, saying, because it needed saying, “Fuck cancer."

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I'm going to try and communicate with my Republican colleagues in a new way.

“Trump is the Republican Party. That is settled. His violent talk is, then, the official political communication strategy of the ruling party and its followers. And that ruling party is stripping this country for parts.” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/o...

Opinion | To stop Republicans from killing them, Democrats must look inward.

There is only one side in American politics that consistently supports and endorses political violence. People need to stop being afraid to say so.

👇Yes, Noem admitted the federal government is invading California to push aside its duly elected leaders. Do not let that get lost in the fog/flood of coverage.

Co-sign, with gratitude and a heaping side of rage.

This might be worth sharing with friends/family who are struggling to wrap their minds around the subtle yet profound damage being done to our infrastructures of data & knowledge right now. Catherine Rampell & Amanda Shendruk show where the erasures are happening & why they matter. wapo.st/3Tc1uIm

Just one example: Megyn Kelly—now demanding Terry Moran be fired for saying Stephen Miller is driven by hate—said Kamala Harris “slept her way to the top,” and called her “weak and stupid,” among many other insults. Please spare us the lecture about civility & objectivity.

We interrupt your doom-scrolling to let you gaze upon Twix, an emotional support toy fox terrier who offers love and smiles to travelers at Detroit’s Metro Airport. You’re welcome.

I... oh my god. amandaguinzburg.substack.com/p/diabolus-e...

This is the kind of sweeping, truth-telling journalism we need more of. Good job, AP.

TERFism is actually anti-woman example number 10 million

"So where, I ask, is the fury? Where are the hours upon hours of Fox News coverage? Where is the extensive New York Times coverage?" Funny, I ask that, too.

Susan Brownmiller has died. AGAINST OUR WILL, published 50 years ago this fall, was a landmark book about rape and misogyny that shaped so much subsequent scholarship.

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