My wild controversial opinion is that we do, actually, owe it to strangers to take basic precautions and engage in actions that ensure the safety and well-being of others, to make the world accessible and non-hostile and easy to navigate.

During Thanksgiving and holidays, people want to do food drives where they collect canned goods etc... and I really would love to offer that food banks need MONEY so if you can collect and donate MONEY please do that. They can then use those funds to purchase what's needed AT DISCOUNTS.

They picked trans folks because there are so few of us they think they can get away with it, and they are perfecting a playbook they will use to go after more groups of people until they've concentrated enough power to be unstoppable. It's entirely up to cis people to stop this. Please help us y'all

they are, in fact, allowed to do that

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry." #ReadPoetry #SealeyChallenge buff.ly/1dT0kCg

🚨BREAKING: The last journalists working for AFP in Gaza have said they can no longer work for the news agency. They are out of energy and they are starving to death. I have never seen a statement from a news organisation like it. 🧵

That Guardian article about AI tanking the graduate job market has an interesting comment from a recruitment consultant saying that the ability to read, write, and form an analysis without using the internet are now "elite skills." Wouldn't it be great if we had degree subjects that teach just that?

substack.com/@memoirland/... Excited to have this excerpt from Frontier up at Memoir Land! Big thank you to @saribotton.bsky.social and @cassmannes.bsky.social

LOOK AT THIS SHIT: Nothing says “Jesus saves” like a room full of Republicans locking arms and praying over legislation designed to cut healthcare for dying kids so rich donors can buy their fifth yacht.

Dismantling our collective social obligation to care for one another to fund the gestapo and tax cuts for the rich isn't just a moral failure: It will ultimately hurt everyone, incuding those self-same rich people who are about to find out how much the safety net affects their daily lives.

may every congressperson who voted for this bill never know peace may they be disrupted every time they are in public may they suffer the most extreme consequences that they have inflicted on their constituents

It's a fascist regime, folks. You have to start treating it like such. You need all hands on deck and a remarkable change in attitude, language and tactics to confront Trump and MAGA. The old guard ain't gonna cut it.

I get credited by name when I offer a solicited pre-pub blurb, but not when I choose to write about the book on my own. That's weird. "Salon" didn't say that about your author's book. I did.

I forgot to post Book Launch pics! So cool to pack our local cafe with people I love! My art is (still) hanging on the walls! We sold out of books, almost sold out of art prints, and raised $200 for the local domestic violence resource center! Amazing. @cassmannes.bsky.social @wlupress.bsky.social

I know it's easier said than done but this feels like a really good time for people in positions of power at institutions and those who work for them to refuse to follow executive orders

Lawlessness and grievance, that’s all he’s got. Fighting back has to be the answer.

The thing about watching a JD Vance speech is that everyone knows he’s a little pig man. Everyone knows he exists to squeal for Trump‘s amusement. No one respects him and he clearly doesn’t respect himself.

thinking of one of abraham lincoln's great quotes this morning: "As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy."

One small step news orgs could take is to start using "harm" instead of "impact" if all the impacts expected are bad.

Decades Ago, Columbia Refused to Pay Trump $400 Million. Note That Number. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/n...

Nicole Graev Lipson is bored by the tired notion that “girls and women are wired for rivalry.” buff.ly/5TWC54j

"A book as deeply critical of interpersonal codependency as it is on labor-exploitative late-stage capitalism, this collection asks us to question our relationships and how they serve us." A pleasure to chat with Gabrielle Grace Hogan for @therumpus.net! therumpus.net/2025/03/19/s...

From Kyla Jamieson's book, Body Count: bookshop.org/a/862/978088... #poem #books #writing #spring

The very best thing about Parker Posey is that she's been exactly the same for the last 30 years. She was like this back then, in that young person body, she was still this old weirdo.

This, right here..

Politics hasn't been this simple in a long time: do you think it's good for one man to exercise unchecked, arbitrary power or not. Those are the two available ideologies right now

This, by the by, is an effing disaster if it holds up. The number of public libraries that will go under if IMLS is shuttered is mind-boggling. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I'm really tired of hearing how Congress is afraid of Trump, Big Law is afraid of Trump. Corporations are afraid of Trump. Meanwhile, thousands of people with a lot more to lose are out on the protest lines every single day. Suck it up, already.

a sobering graph showing that over the last five decades we've lost 43% of the grassland birds population via this article on the State of the Birds report: www.audubon.org/magazine/swe...

TBR: Nicole Graev Lipson on her collection that <explores the world’s strange & relentless desire to reduce women to stock characters & how easy it is to find ourselves complicit in this process.> @cassmannes.bsky.social www.workinprogressinprogress.com/2025/03/tbr-...

It’s over a 100 years after the great Jewish crusader for free speech, Emma Goldman, was deported from USA for her speaking out. Yet history repeats itself. People shouldn’t be deported for speaking out. People shouldn’t be deported for speaking out. We mustn’t stay silent.

If, for example, Trump says nobody is allowed to dance, on penalty of death, he has no legal power to make that declaration and no power to enforce it, but if everyone stops dancing it's as good as if he did. Reporting as though Trump has these powers helps give him those powers.

Don't be afraid to be a lone protestor. (Odds are that others will join in when they see you stand up--but as Rep. Green says, better to stand alone than not stand at all.)

BREAKING: The National Education Association, backed by the ACLU, sues the Trump administration over its anti-diversity "Dear Colleague" letter issued Feb. 14. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Dear Colleague letter: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The entire point of doing reviews is for us, the scholars, to THINK and read, and write and learn at the same time. Why are we devaluing all of that in academia? Shameful piece.

BREAKING: Supreme Court DENIES President Trump‘s emergency bid to cancel nearly $2 billion in USAID spending. The vote is 5-4.

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Every day should be like this for all of them. ALL OF THEM. ALL THE TIME. EVERYWHERE THEY GO. They shouldn't be able to go out to eat, to relax, to vacation, to shop, without someone making a noise.

Our billionaires are not afraid of us.

One of Norway's largest fuel companies just announced that they will no longer refuel US Navy vessels after Trump’s treatment of Zelenskyy. “It made us sick... We encourage all Norwegians and Europeans to follow our example.”

"Release yourself from shame for sending a cold email when promoting your book." @cassmannes.bsky.social at the Gotham Writers Workshop Genre Writing Workshop. Great advice (that I needed to hear)!

I hope the protesters are okay.

This has been going on in these cases for WEEKS and I feel like it’s time to rule, as a matter of law, that an unnamed administrator violates the appointments clause.

I've seen three different articles on this, because the guy who owns the company that makes this stuff reached out to the press. He's got 400,000 boxes of life-saving goo sitting in a warehouse, and if USAID won't accept it, he's going to have to throw it out.

Musk has tweeted more than 220 times in last 24 hrs. That's not counting the replies.

They want us to be afraid. They want us to hesitate. They want us to fear their next move. Fuck that shit. We are just getting started fighting.

Group 2 has 2 spots left! The other groups have 9 spots left!