A good profile on my cousin Rashi and how he's been doing since the fire. www.latimes.com/environment/...

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for Fiction

Thank you! Still so grateful to @davidnaimon.bsky.social for this convo, its swerves, its surprises…

Excited to share today's episode, a live recording with Caren Beilin at @powells.bsky.social , where we discuss SEA, POISON (@ndbooks.bsky.social), a seriously bonkers journey of medical Oulipo, stolen plots, stolen uteri, botched eye surgeries, dirty dancing & more tinhouse.com/podcast/tin-...

Don't miss today's conversation with Jazmina Barrera. Full of cats & revolution, Tarot & the CIA, conspiracy & embroidery, her anti-biographical love letter to another writer, Elena Garro, also becomes a portrait of Jazmina as well Audio: tinhouse.com/podcast/jazm... @twolinespress.com

Very much looking forward to this conversation w/ Lisa Robertson and curator Gemma Blackshaw (Wednesday eve London time) in conjunction with artist Cathie Pilkington's HOUSEKEEPER at the Freud Museum. www.freud.org.uk/event/works-...

ICE is confirmed in Asheville. Please share this widely to anyone who may see this who lives here. stay safe!

I wanted to offer some thoughts on the Gates climate memo that has been circulating this week. While I can't directly speak for others, I can say that my own response is one of dismay & deep frustration (and that this view is shared by many climate/Earth scientists). [1/n]

It's been 33 days since Adelita Grijalva was elected by the people of Arizona's seventh congressional district to represent them in Congress. Mike Johnson still refuses to swear her in.

Not a basketball court or a bowling alley. Republicans sound ridiculous making that comparison. This isn’t an “upgrade” to the White House, it’s a monument to himself. Trump has no intention of ever leaving — he’s building his own palace and tearing down the entire East Wing to make it happen.

Im dead 😂😂😂

“Military occupation doesn’t make our city safer. Resources and investment makes our city safer.” thank you Bri and all the other protestors who took the time to speak with me last night in Chicago.

I'm really excited to be in conversation with Caren Beilin about her latest fiercely wild-ride of a book SEA, POISON at the downtown Powell's on November 2nd. I hope you'll mark your calendars and join us! @ndbooks.bsky.social @powells.bsky.social

just talked to Gov. Pritzker who dared President Trump to “come and get me” after POTUS threatened him with arrest. But Pritzker said he thinks Trump will chicken out.

Hey Speaker Johnson, swear in Adelita Grijalva. Or are you too scared that Trump and your other GOP buddies are in the Epstein files?

“.. Beginning at 4:15 p.m. Monday, Hollywood Burbank Airport will have no air traffic controllers in their tower, ABC News has learned.” #Shutdown abc7.com/post/hollywo...

IT’S OFFICIAL: We now have more protests planned for October 18 than there were back in June. It’s not even October yet but you’ve already put 2,100 events on the No Kings map. We hope to see you at the largest day of peaceful protest in American history: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings

Right on pub day, here's a terrific little review of THE ENDLESS WEEK from the Center for Fiction newsletter! Virtuosa, indeed!

It's pub day! We couldn't be happier about helping to put these two beauties into the world. Please help us spread the word! THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, trans. by Alex Niemi

To have a new novel coming out by @patrickcottrell.bsky.social is thrilling. I love the cover; I am also very jealous of the title! people.com/patrick-cott...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

I love my trans friends and community. I will stand beside you now and always.

This tapped into a lot of what I’ve been feeling lately

literally a cartoon image of a “criminal”

how much more can the heart break? how can this not have ended?

Angelenos, this miniseries on wildfire risk is really good--informative, helpful, interesting. It was created by Zeke Lunder, who hosts the wildfire podcast The Lookout, which I listened to everyday during the fires in January, so much better than the news. www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCeV...

Next Thursday and Friday, I'm doing a 48-hr fast to raise money for Translating Falasteen, in collaboration with The Sameer Project, funding aid from existing products, rather than aid that will need to be brought through the borders: chuffed.org/project/help...

Things are unimaginably bad. The Sameer Project's South Gaza campaign operation is under intense crisis. They're trying to find any food they can to help people in serious need. If you can, please donate! The situation is getting worse every day. chuffed.org/project/1132...

he’s biting the heads off angels now

Shooting starving people as they line up for aid has to be one among the worst atrocities a military can commit.

Bravo to the @miamiherald.com for publishing this list in full www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

“…he presented his Texas ID, Social Security card and a wallet-sized birth certificate. The agents refused to believe he was a citizen and took him into custody. “I told them we had rights and asked to make a phone call. But they told us, 'You don't have rights to anything'," Galicia told the paper”

I need everyone in the airline industry to understand that these ghouls do not have enough airplane contracts to deport everyone they want to deport. NOW is the time for you and your union to tell your airline: If you contract with ICE, I will refuse to fly.

Not enough people know or acknowledge that the AI industry is led by people who are so stupid and afraid of their own mortality so much that they actually believe they will be able to beat death and live forever through AI

NEW: Federal agents rolling into MacArthur Park in LA like they are trying to take Kabul. Absolute madness. As the reporter says here, it’s an unmarked, heavily armored vehicle with armed ‘soldiers’. No-one knows if it’s ICE or National Guard.

This is Macarthur Park in Los Angeles. Republicans have turned the United States in a military police state. I could not even imagine what Fox and Republicans would be saying if Biden or Obama sent the US military to terrorize communities in Texas.

Farm workers are being terrorized, imprisoned, and deported without due process. Trump's immigration sweeps unjustly target farm workers, Latinos and other vulnerable communities. This goes against American values. This July 4th weekend, take action and message your Congress Members. Link below. ⬇️

Who's the Real Villain? (Hint: It Isn't Bob Vylan or People Protesting Israel's Genocide) Controversial chants by rap groups opposing Israel's genocide are more worthy of condemnation and coverage than the IDF committing daily war crimes against Palestinians. open.substack.com/pub/thelefth...

I obtained this from a community member minutes after arriving on scene following a raid at the Cypress Park Home Depot this morning. they detained day laborers.

"There are just a few bodies falling from the sky today / I think I recognize some of them / They are my children and one of them whispers to me / This is not the right way to live" blog.bestamericanpoetry.com/the_best_ame...

Pasadena police are assisting ICE in their abductions

Every day Israel starves 2 million people in Gaza. Every day it massacres dozens after luring them to its "aid hubs" with the promise of food. Every day the media treats this as an entirely routine story, barely worth reporting.

“Oh no! Reading beautiful books can’t be traumatizing. Seeing awful things can be—but reading? I don’t believe in that at all.” From our Art of Fiction interview with Marie NDiaye in our new Summer issue buff.ly/s3OJVi3

The military is still deployed in LA to quell dissent.