Emily Bender’s thread trashing The AI Doc is a must-read before you take other critics’ raves for this film at face value.

Sending money to people who are hungry is resistance. Sending socks to people who have none is resistance. Helping people with no home feel beautiful is resistance. If you can, send someone something they need today.

I haven’t started on rent because I’m still needing help for food!!! Rent is due in FOUR DAYS!!!! WE HAVE NO FRESH FOOD AND IM STRETCHING THINGS FOR MY KIDS WHILE IM NOT EATING MUCH

I wrote this yesterday about the hero city of Minneapolis www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKOW...

“It’s not the painting, it’s the energy BEHIND the painting.” Ethan Hawke — on the limitations of AI art — is very good. 🔥 @vulture.com

Have a listen. VIKINGS!!!!!!!!!

There's quite a lot going on, so it feels weird to be like HEY HEY LOOK AT ME, but maybe you like books, and like books by me, and want to see the cover to my next one, coming in August:

This is it. This is how we must conduct ourselves. Every DA and every senator, congressperson, and governor should say exactly this.

"Streets of Minneapolis" - Anthem for 2026 Written & Recorded in Jan. 2026 by Bruce Springsteen @brucespringsteen.net. 🎶🎧 #coffeebreak

Please read the entire post. Good advice for the likelihood of seeing LRADs deployed against protests. These are dangerous weapons and you need to take proper precautions.

RIP, Goddess.

Street art by Topsy, in honor of Alex Pretti. Seattle, Washington.

About my Michael L. Printz Award Call for LEGENDAY FRYBREAD DRIVE-IN (Heartdrum): www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/... @epicreads.bsky.social @curtisbrownltd.bsky.social @weneeddiversebooks.bsky.social #BookSky

Just donated $25 to North Minneapolis Pet Resource Center (via My Pit Bull is Family) (link here for anyone passing by and wants to make a pet-related donation to MN families www.mypitbullisfamily.org/nmprc)

‼️The Sameer Project has had to reduce water distributions by 50%, pause grocery vouchers for 110 families, and has had to stop music classes due to a large decline in donations. They may have to stop food distributions too. We cannot let this happen. Donate today! chuffed.org/project/1132...

The president is setting up his own slush fund with oil money stolen from a foreign country.

I loved this book. Hard hitting and emotional powerful but also darkly funny.

I'm auctioning off a query letter critique and a year's subscription to Agents & Books as part of the Publishing for Minnesota fundraiser. Bid here! www.32auctions.com/organization...

On today's walk around the WB lot, I spotted two wild rabbits in the rose garden and was followed briefly by first a squirrel and then a raven. Lots of these (double hibiscus?) starting to bloom.

Rent is due February 1. Centro de Trabajadores Unidos En La Lucha is fundraising to help families avoid eviction while we're under occupation. Donate if you can: chuffed.org/project/1671... (And while you're at it, contact your electeds and demand an eviction moratorium!)

Oh look. It's me.

They tear gassed a PRE-SCHOOL. Every one of these fucking ghouls needs to be locked up never let loose.

There is no reason you can’t honor Holocaust Remembrance Day while also celebrating large boulder the size of a small boulder day…life is full of simultaneous joy and mourning.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Happy book birthday to my agency sister, Danielle!

Just a little scrabbledy sketch to keep spirits up. I also learned today that a group of chickadees is called a ‘banditry’ and how cute is that?

Surfer has his Pegasus moments...

The Feds never left Los Angeles. Don’t forget us. Solidarity with Minneapolis and all communities under siege by federal pigs. Keep fighting. Hold the line.

It is a huge, horribly costly W for the people of Minnesota. I’m in awe of what they’ve done. Miniature fascist Bovino and various other fed thugs will just go somewhere else to do the same things. Give them hell and also, abolish ICE 👊🏻

It's a machine, Amanda. It has no brain, no nervous system. No consciousness. It doesn't feel jack shit. Not the brightest folks working on this stuff.

Good thing the Chinese don't have Tik Tok, anymore, right?

Happy Paul Newman’s birthday to all

Also, people weren’t just wrong about trump. People were saying post 911 that strengthening the surveillance apparatus in the name of terrorism would be turned against citizens. People were saying violent enforcement immigration would lead us to authoritarianism-

Not just the joy, but the sharing of the joy as the dog repeatedly swoops by to look at their owner, like, "Isn't this amazing??"

Being a journalist is sick: I just contacted a pre-eminent jaguar conservationist in Argentine with a question that has been weighing on me for ages and he wrote back right away with an informed answer.

This woman speaks for the majority of Americans. 🙌🙏🫶👇

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

Timeline cleanse with Sadie "Betty Grable" Berry.

All of DHS must be dismantled, every inch of it taken apart and reconsidered. The Patriot Act and the consolidation of these resources into a single department has given the government way too much power. We cannot rely on any elected individual to keep it in check.

Leading up to that.. Eric Lee Atty Kids screaming "Let us out! Let us out!"

Nonviolence is, in fact, working. This administration is weaker than it was a year ago. More and more of the public is becoming galvanized against it; its agents are being impeded.

An adorable porcupine to brighten up your timeline.

In case you missed it - The awesome @ziibiing.com created a website from the google doc of places in MN that could use help. One stop shopping! ⬇️ bsky.app/profile/ziib...

This is the website for the Minn based rap artist who was pinned down in the street today, as he screamed “you’re going to have to kill me.” Brave man.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

This is pure violent escalation from ICE from step 1: They attack three observers who're directing traffic--in effect, making ICE's job *easier.* Each step victim tries to de-escalate, each step they immediately escalate. They murder him for *not* fighting. They murder him because they can.

Reminder: All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dems to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump — 3 in House & 20 in Senate). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.

Doesn’t it make you crazy? Doesn’t it turn your blood to fucking gasoline?