This is completely deranged: Iran is required to play games in the US but ISN’T ALLOWED TO STAY IN THE COUNTRY OVERNIGHT. They will instead have to fly back to Mexico. www.bbc.com/sport/footba...

The best football book not enough people have read is This Love Is Not For Cowards

As a member of Cannibal Ox, Vordul Mega was one of the most adventurous rappers of the 2000s—until he all but disappeared. After nearly two decades of struggle, he's back to claim his legacy. Read our profile of the underground icon

Chris Van Hollen says that Biden & other Democrats have enabled Israeli apartheid while pretending to support two states, so he calls for •Recognizing State of Palestine •End all taxpayer funded assistance to Israel •Impose sanctions •Blacklist complicit US officials •Endorse Arab Peace Initiative

40/ Exit West, Mohsin Hamid On the shelf since it came out but I hadn’t read it for no particular reason til now. Excellent, almost fable-like story of love and migration in our cruel modern world.

"Meetings are held, emails are sent, phone calls are made, and something like 520,000 children die of malnutrition, diarrhea, tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV." prospect.org/2026/05/22/w...

So if I’m understanding it the outlines of the prosecutorial misconduct in the Broadview Six case is this. They tried three times to get an indictment. After they failed the second time they simply booted the grand jurors who didn’t think the conduct was a crime. Then they told the remaining …

We ended child poverty and had a huge public health initiative where the US army gave everybody lifesaving medicine and your boss wasn’t allowed to force you to come in for no reason, and then a bunch of child molesters decided that those things were making the great unwashed too uppity

38/ The Nudge, Joseph Fink Fun horror fiction that is less blood and more psychological horror. Giving Poe vibes.

There is a new Democratic Socialist in Congress. DSA congratulates our member Chris Rabb on his election for Pennsylvania’s 3rd Congressional District. This victory would not have been possible without the work of thousands of working class people across Philadelphia organizing for a better world.

PAL PAC is thrilled to congratulate Representative @chrisrabb.com on his win in PA-03! This victory sends the unmistakable message to the Democratic establishment: the Democratic base wants a leader who unapologetically speaks up for Palestinian freedom!

Every GOP primary story is like “syphilis loses to pancreatic cancer”

My taxes are going to murder school children overseas and to let pardoned insurrectionist pedophiles get their hush money payoffs to victims, meanwhile, the papers of record want to let me know the real danger is the guy who taxes second homes in Manhattan to balance budgets and feed hungry kids.

37/ Monique Escapes, Edouard Louis Short but powerful.

he could be out front apologizing instead of barkan back

36/ Few and Far Between, Jan Carson Loved her story collection, Quickly While they Still Have Horses, but this is the first novel I’ve read by Carson. Excellent, alt-historical novel that increasingly got darker as it moved along.

If you’re looking for contrition, you’re Barkan up the wrong tree, I guess.

Nevermind the Guardian list, how many of the 93 books cited at one time or another by Mark E. Smith have you read

35/ All Flesh, Ananda Devi Dark! It’s not giving anything away by saying the end is unlike anything else you’ll read anytime soon.

My friend who used to say the final stage of corporate greed was demanding to be loved is never, ever proved wrong.

34/ The Disappointment, Scott Broker A strong, humorous debut about a couple who love and despise each other. Some really nice writing.

Look at my opposition leader dawg

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New Dig ep is an interview with Fahd Ahmed and Alina Shen, leaders of DRUM and CAAAV—two brilliant organizers leading powerful basebuilding organizations—on how they organize, then electing Zohran mayor, and struggling through the contradictions of governance. www.thedigradio.com/podcast/orga...

It’s not too late act.dsausa.org/s/4536.Xd0xHm

BREAKING: Budget Hawks Want Means Testing

very funny that this guy is literally like “tax the rich? that is the n word to me, personally” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/n...

I missed this a few days ago: "On Friday, May 1, 2026, Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee officially declined an invitation to attend the 14th International Writers Festival in Jerusalem, delivering a forceful critique of the Israeli state and its intellectual community." iol.co.za/entertainmen...

I am hearing that on his deathbed Rudy "America's Mayor" Giuliani received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

richard dawkins has always had AI psychosis, it just took till now for the tech to catch up

Madmen The Office (UK) The Wire Wonder Showzen The Comeback Curb Your Enthusiasm Nathan for You How to with John Wilson The Simpsons Extras The Rehearsal Crashing Eastbound and Down Three’s Company Da Ali G Show

31/ Leaving the Atocha Station, Ben Lerner Had been meaning to reread this since reading Transcription. Didn’t realize how much it would feel like a sibling to Transcription. I’ve read all of his fiction, like it all, still think Topeka is his finest moment yet.

king shit www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

a cool way that this loops around is that in 1962 Michael Harrington wrote The Other America, a book that influenced the LBJ white house in its establishment of the great society. 20 years later, Harrington co-founded DSA, which AOC is of course part of

all that you once thought solid has melted into air, playboy

Here's the definitive answer to the debate over "who started it": Republicans. Before Trump pushed TX to gerrymander last year, the GOP had drawn 42% of all districts, versus just 14% for Dems (the rest were by neutral parties). The maps below from @stephenwolf.bsky.social make this explicit.

Cheever short stories be like “My name is Franklin Arbuckle Wasp and I have always felt that my brother Googoo views me as a great disappointment.”

If you have people in your life who acknowledge the horror of what Israel has done to Palestinians but argue over the term genocide or say "what about," & you want to persuade them, or help them think more humanly, some might be able to actually hear this. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

29/ Creature Feature, Dean Young The first posthumous collection of Young’s poems. He died 4 years ago so what an absolute treat to hear his voice again after a pause. Brilliant manic insight.

28/ Earth 7, Deb Olin Unferth My intro to Unferth. Sci-fi, ostensibly, but doesn’t have any of the usual sci-fi road markings. Fun, strange, and spiraling, a love letter to a planet in an existential crisis.

Incredibly funny to watch the right wing going Oh so just because I love money and hate poor people I'm a bad Christian according to "the pope"???

Democrats being urged by politically toxic consultants not to oppose the politically toxic tech so as to not lose donations that are politically radioactive. Absolutely perfect Democrating.

To be fair if I were Kash Patel I would also drink an enormous amount

27/ City of Bohane, Kevin Barry Brilliant. Wild, weird, funny as hell, original as anything. Nobody like Barry. This is his 1st. I think he only gets better as he ages. I’d read everything else by him, and part of this once upon a time, and was thinking, why the hell didn’t I ever finish Bohane?

Amidst the passionate speech, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced that all of the city-funded grocery stores would open by the end of his first term, with the first opening this year at La Marqueta in East Harlem. www.thecity.nyc/2026/04/12/m...

Smash the like button or you can read detailed reporting on the specifics prospect.org/2026/04/10/z...

In his first 100 days, Zohran Mamdani has: -Delivered millions in restitution for workers cheated by gig companies -Cracked down on predatory landlords -Launched the first stage of a universal childcare program -Fixed thousands of potholes in NYC streets This is what leadership looks like.

We are all suffering from the few people who drive into the Times Square area. So let's make the easy fix, argues our contributor.

My traditional Easter reading, from James Tate.