If it were a choice between signing my name to this pledge or losing my credentials, I’d hand over my badge and still break news you wanted kept secret. This is going to backfire so hard. Do. Not. Sign.

Kicked out of Columbia University, now Washington Post. All for writing and speaking about race and injustice. The best way to support my work is to join @resistanceschool.bsky.social and take my class on Race, Media and International Affairs 101! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

A picture worth a thousand words. “None of us have ever done this before. All of this is new, and I just wanted to stand up as American and be seen and make my presence felt.” - 65-year-old Evanston resident Curtis Evans, holding an American flag.

Dark world. It’s no longer possible for Jerry to make delicious ice cream under these social conditions.

This poster was on my wall all through high school.

MEANWHILE Have you heard about the latest two young Black men found dead, hanging in trees in Mississippi? They’re treating it as suicide.

Brian Kilmeade stated homeless individuals who are resisting mental health treatment should be given "involuntary lethal injection, or something. Just kill ’em." This weekend, there was a mass shooting of a homeless encampment. It barely made a blip on the news. www.startribune.com/shooting-sou...

Wow!

I have to go

This family has been displaced over 15 times.

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...

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

If you’re there, stand up, boo, disrupt.

Changing the name of the Department of Defense will cost billions.We could build units for all unhoused veterans. Or give service members a pay raise so 35K active duty members wouldn’t have to rely on food stamps. Or… or… or…

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AUTHORS: AG has prepared a detailed explainer on the Anthropic settlement and how it affects us. Full details:

The first details on the Anthropic copyright settlement just came out: $1.5 billion dollars. Covers 500,000 books that were pirated and used to train AI models. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

REMINDER: I’m teaching a workshop on Building Your Author Platform on Sunday, Sept. 28 through @thewritersgrotto.bsky.social. If you have a book launch in your future or just want to begin building your audience now, join me for this Zoom session! Register: www.writersgrotto.org/classes-and-...

Israel’s forced relocations in Gaza have begun again, @nurseehamma.bsky.social needs our help.

I wonder how many kids this is going to kill.

A man on the streets of the UK is asked about the “problem of immigration” and dismantles talking points with ease.

Breaking News: Saying the CDC has become “a political tool,” California, Oregon and Washington announced plans to form an alliance that would coordinate vaccine recommendations for the three states.

Brevity is now open for submissions! 📣 We are currently reading personal essays of 750 words or fewer in any style or subgenre. Writers whose perspectives have been traditionally underrepresented in publishing are especially encouraged to submit! Guidelines: brevity.submittable.com/submit

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Nerve to Write is a new online magazine for disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent writers to showcase creative innovation and build crip community. We are officially open for free submissions of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, hybrid writing, and artwork!

🥚Hey boomers born in the 1950s-60s, are you a Hicks baby? You sure? DNA testing continues to expose the deceptions, fraud, and secrets of US adoption practices, including a Georgia OB who delivered 200 babies, sold them to adopters, and told their mothers they died. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8BnKYN5/

RIP, the great Malcolm Margolin. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/in-...

You must read this fantastic story by Audrey Ferber! www.certainagemag.com/post/i-am-my...

Can’t join a protest? There are many alternatives for resistance:

The billionaires underestimate us. Let’s show them just how united we are. Join a Workers Over Billionaires protest this Labor Day by finding one near you: MayDayStrong.org.

For adoptees, by adoptees. 🥚 #adopteesky filmfreeway.com/adopteefilmf...

So, to be clear The people who grow the food are underpaid or UNPAID The people who transport the food are underpaid The people who display and ring up the food are underpaid EVERYONE is paying more for food Nothing will ever be enough for the line go up forever cancerous billionaire class

"Oscar" works on CAs Central Coast as an irrigator in the lettuce. He shares: Carrying and connecting irrigation pipes is hard work. It's easy to slip, fall or twist an ankle while carrying these long pipes on loose dirt. It takes a lot of skill. #WeFeedYou

Reason 4857 why health care should never be for profit: AI DEATH PANELS. This is the same kind of program used to deny claims at United Health, and they want to use this for VA claims, too.

The new CDC director is trying to kill you. Not just “the most vulnerable”; you, me, everyone. This is a comic book-level evil scenario.

The new head of the CDC, Jim O’Neill, has no degree in science or medicine, and has pushed unproven treatments for COVID like ivermectin. This is so incredibly dangerous.

"political meddling" seems like the understatement of the century here also this piece does not an attempted mass casualty event at the CDC headquarters in Atlanta JUST THIS MONTH that this administration did not care about at all

I told my reps about ChatGPT encouraging a kid to commit suicide. This is the same OpenAI tech that @rweingarten.bsky.social is pushing on schools. I told them they have a moral responsibility to keep this OUT of schools. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

imagine being so maniacally racist that you side with the fire over the firefighter

I hate that this heartbreaking brilliant piece by @kathyfish.bsky.social is once again relevant. “A group of schoolchildren is a target.” jellyfishreview.wordpress.com/2017/10/13/c...

File your claim, fellow authors! File it now! Take all their money! Grind their egos to dust!

I’ve filed.

Hi authors! Please remember to file a claim!

I Was Inside CDC During the Shooting. I Can Still Hear the Bullets. www.medpagetoday.com/opinion/seco...

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Adam Raine, 16, died from suicide in April after months on ChatGPT discussing plans to end his life. His parents have filed the first known case against OpenAI for wrongful death. Overwhelming at times to work on this story, but here it is. My latest on AI chatbots: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/t...

The fact that this administration is hell bent on punishing Kilmar Abrego Garcia while rewarding Ghislane Maxwell tells you all you need to know about their violent racism and misogyny.