THIS IS AMAZING. ALSO WHAT, IF ANYTHING, DID WE FORGET TO RUIN?

I hope each and every one of the fascists who rule this country read this and choke.

RIP to my first true style icon.

Now feels like a good time to tell you about my favorite recent book purchase: Posters for Change, from Princeton Architectural Press. It’s got a huge collection of posters perfect for protest, and proceeds go to non-profits.

These scam marketing emails can look credible (esp. the 1st time seen) but there’s often a tell, like a weird version of the email address in the signature block. Or lack of website, LinkedIn, or socials. But, sigh, not always even that… Be wary.

PSA: If you're an author & you get a chatty email from a marketer, or book club that praises your book & bashes Amazon's algo before offering to 'help', usually with 500 to 10,000 reviewers, it's just a ChatGPT automated marketing scam. It's the new Nigerian prince email, brought to you by 'AI' 🙄.

No Democrat should vote to keep the government open unless ACA funding is restored for the millions of Americans at risk of losing health coverage next year. Remember that this funding is on the chopping block because Trump and Republicans want to give the richest Americans a giant tax cut.

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

It's one thing for a random NY politician to make a quip like this but Jeffries is national leadership. He's the leader my own Rep in the House is supposed to follow. I don't think it's funny, I think Jeffries is undermining the whole party with this insult and by failing to endorse Mamdani.

Update: we just received a statement from Macmillan/Tor taking full responsibility for failing to register copyright, promising to make us whole and pay us any settlement money we lost out on due to that error, and promising to find & correct the lapses that caused this. Every pub should do this.

Wahooooooooo

Would 100% watch a sitcom in which Cuomo and Dershowitz end up roommates, Dershowitz is denied a pierogi every episode in exactly the same way, and Cuomo runs for successively lower-stakes office each week, only to lose again.

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Strunk & White stole all their ideas from that spider

One element of producing videos like Mamdani is being Mamdani, and Andrew Cuomo is no Zohran Mamdani.

He is the poster child for "high on their own supply." And we. are. ready. (Again.)

Need some good news? The NYC subway baby--abandoned in a subway station as a newborn and adopted by the gay couple who found him there--is now a healthy 25 year old computer science nerd. nypost.com/2025/07/04/u...

I’m so excited to vote in November!

The Manhattan Democratic Party has formally voted to endorse Zohran Mamdani, the Democratic nominee for mayor: manhattandemocrats.org/2025/07/manh...

What the hell am I looking at? No, Copilot, I don't want to blog about Yellowstone or write a funny poem to wish my sister Happy Birthday. I turned you off. Stay off. (Side note to Adobe: I do not, in fact, need a summary of the manuscript that I just wrote. Stay outta my words.)

Happy Pride Day here in New York - and a reminder that the freedom to read, which depends on free access to books, is fundamental to the understanding and protection of so many other freedoms.

Now feels like a good time to remind people that we are an Audible alternative—every time you buy an audiobook with us, you support your indie. Oh, & we're an employee-owned, Social Purpose Corporation—meaning we make decisions that benefit our mission, even if they go against our financial goals 🩷

Congratulations to the 13 brave women who risked their careers and reputations to stand up to Cuomo’s sexual predation

Shout out to @lindseyboylan.bsky.social who put it all on the line four and a half years ago and then was hitting the pavement hard since Cuomo got in the race and through today. A portrait in bravery.

This is Mamdani's night and I'm so happy but also my god this man is a hero

Voted early. Got sweaty. Ranked 5. NOT Cuomo.

Rank 5, no fewer. Lander and Mamdani at the top (whatever order you want). NO Cuomo.

Eastern most town in the US, Lubec, Maine. Population (2023) 320 persons. TODAY we had 200 show up for No Kings!! Hurray Lubec!! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Some of our Canadian neighbors crossed over in support. ❤️🇨🇦 +🇺🇲 RESIST!!!

No King shouldn’t even be a controversial statement for Americans

I’m all outta puns for this one

See you there?

At last, my literary and political selves on Blue Sky have found a conversation where they can coexist.

NEW: STATEMENT from political strategist Bill Shakespeare on Musk vs Trump:

I forgot this one. Don't rank Cuomo. "Kept a COVID vaccination site from opening at Citi Field over a grudge he held against former Mayor Bill de Blasio."

Friends don’t let friends rank Andrew Cuomo

Kind of amazing to see someone be wrong so many times in just 10 questions.

He resigned because a report *he requested* found extremely credible evidence that he harassed about a dozen women. He stepped down in disgrace because he would have been impeached. He's corrupt and shouldn't be allowed anywhere near City Hall. Don't rank Cuomo.

Can anyone tell me what poem Frederick Wiseman (playing a poet) reads in “Jane Austen Wrecked My Life”? I’d like to read it again.

People always ask me, “how do I know my manuscript is done?” There’s only one way, my friends. If your file name looks something like this: Manuscript - Final Draft 3.7 FINAL FINAL - FINAL (5).docx Then, and only then, is it time.

ok but what if the newspaper is actually FROM THE FUTURE i am just doing my own research on this

Equal parts infuriating and heartbreaking on behalf of books, authors, journalists, newspapers (as they were once upon a time)

My cartoon for this week’s @theguardian.com Books

Putting out a book right now is so so hard. For all the great press WHEN WE’RE IN CHARGE has gotten, I’ve been bumped from TV & had stories delay publishing a half dozen times in the last week - even as my book about generational change is, uh, newsy!!

Amazing, important story for right now

Apparently there is a heaven, and I'm not all that surprised that it's in Hershey, PA: undergroundyarnandbooks.com 💙📚#booksky 🧶 #knitting

New York Dems: It’s important to vote in June’s mayoral primary. It’s important to rank 5 candidates for your vote to count in every round. It’s *essential* not to rank bullying, predatory, self-dealing Andrew Cuomo. We deserve better.

NEW: ALA salutes Dr Carla Hayden for her exceptional service to the nation as the Librarian of Congress. We are deeply disappointed in Dr Hayden's abrupt & unjust dismissal last night, an insult to the scope & breadth of her work. Read ALA Pres. Cindy Hohl's statement: www.ala.org/news/2025/05...

Things in the US are pretty much shit right now, but at my kid's school concert tonight a trans kid sang and played ukulele in front of the entire school & their families and absolutely fucking nailed it, to thunderous applause. Trans people and trans joy has always existed, and always will. ❤️

Dr. Hayden has been such a transformative and inspiring Librarian for the past decade. If you haven't had the privilege to spend time with LC staff, you may not realize what a sea change she brought to our national library. One of the all-time greats. A huge loss for millions and millions.