What our military is doing is not "murder," committed by a private individual. The Trump administration is committing extrajudicial executions: state killings without any legal process. The term doesn't roll off the tongue. But it's important for prosecutions that will certainly come #humanrights

Chicken tacos. too?

WOW! AN HONOR! — GCN

What our military is doing is not "murder," committed by a private individual. The Trump administration is committing extrajudicial executions: state killings without any legal process. The term doesn't roll off the tongue. But it's important for prosecutions that will certainly come #humanrights

My re-read of the "enormous engine" of story in The Golden Compass. On to The Subtle Knife! #books #kidlit robinkirk.substack.com/p/the-golden...

My re-read of the "enormous engine" of story in The Golden Compass. On to The Subtle Knife! #books #kidlit robinkirk.substack.com/p/the-golden...

Exploring the #humanrights of the dead this year @dukehumanrights.bsky.social Thanks to Matthew Mazzuchelli and the Black Tie Coalition for teaching us about the issue of unclaimed dead dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

My latest newsletter, a read and reread of @philippullman.bsky.social 's linked trilogies featuring Lyra Belacqua #amreading #bookbans #kidlit open.substack.com/pub/robinkir...

The room smelled sweet and sour at once, as though a thousand suffering people had lain sweating in it, which, I suppose, they had, and then ground roses into the floor with dirty feet #SundaySentence @madelinemiller.bsky.social

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Too mean? 🤷🏼‍♂️

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Art wasn't removed from life, it was life #SundaySentence

"Life is all conjunctions, one damn thing after another, cows and wars and chewing gum and mountains; art—the best, most important art—is all subordination: guilt because of sin because of pain" — John Gardner, "On Moral Fiction" #SundaySentence

n a free society, all are involved in what some are doing. Some are guilty; all are responsible Abraham Joshua Heschel @mashagessen.bsky.social #SundaySentence

Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.

Dick Cheney’s legacy is that he turned 9/11 from a national tragedy into a global disaster. He did so through a mixture of arrogance, stupidity and greed and blighted the last quarter century.

There is both hope and horror in this but I will take the hope. h/t @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

While watching @nytimes.com interview with Anthony Hopkins, I was delivered at least 12 ICE ads. A good interview destroyed by offers to join the modern Gestapo. All while my non-white US citizen sister on the North Side is too afraid of being targeted by ICE goons to leave her home. Disgusted.

If you have it please donate cash to the food banks. $10 in their hands will feed more people than the $10 worth of canned goods you can buy for retail prices. Also check on your elders. Many of them will not admit they rely on these programs so grocery gift cards or a surprise bag of staples

Israel shatters ceasefire in attack in southern Gaza. Accuracy is important @apnews.com and you are welcome.

Male desperation, loneliness and need, the misunderstandings they bred: these hung in the refrigerated air, permeating public spaces like dry ice. Hilary Mantel #SundaySentence

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

What she didn't envy was the look that Michael had spoken of on the hillside, the widow's shock at the sudden absence, and perhaps solitude is more frightening when something is snatched away (so much spectacular prose to choose from) #SundaySentence

Breaking: MIT just became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump admin's higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment. "Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

In all her youthful visions of the future, of the job she might have, the city and home she might live in, the friends and family around her, Marnie had never thought that she'd be lonely #1linewed

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

It's officially #BannedBooksWeek. Support authors, your local indy or @bookshop.org, fight censorship & elevate important voices—especially traditionally marginalized or underrepresented writers. Use BBW25 at Bookshop for a discount on print books www.ala.org/bbooks/frequ...

Back to Graham Greene again for my #sundaysentence this week: "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation."

Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” ― Jane Goodall 💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

ARTICLE 25: ...The President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Can't we just get healthcare

ICE attempted and failed to disappear a food delivery guy. It needed to be scored.

I’m reupping my interview with Mark Kurlansky about Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media, his excellent book for kids about “the art of the big lie.” As we continue to spiral towards censorship and government-approved speech, the message is more timely than ever. robinkirk.substack.com/p/big-lies

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of the warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima: J. Robert Oppenheimer @vermontgmg.bsky.social #SundaySentence

I’m reupping my interview with Mark Kurlansky about Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media, his excellent book for kids about “the art of the big lie.” As we continue to spiral towards censorship and government-approved speech, the message is more timely than ever. robinkirk.substack.com/p/big-lies

This was somehow a flash in the pan headline in all the chaos last week, but throwing out there that at this rate this would be in the vicinity of 50k people vanishing from the face of the earth over the remainder of the term. And this is before they use that newly allocated $75B to fully scale up.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Great review from my friend (and Colombia-oriented inspiration) @robinkirk.bsky.social “With current WH policies, a Democratic Party unsure of its direction, broadening billionaire-backed censorship and the emergence of technologies like AI, this may only worsen.” open.substack.com/pub/robinkir...

J. Albert Mann’s Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States has a sassy, irreverent point of view that kept me laughing, outraged, and profoundly grateful that Mann took on this project for kids #humanrights #labor #kidlit robinkirk.substack.com/p/shift-happ...

Tonight's news makes clear that the legacy media is fully capitulating. I started Democracy Docket in 2020 to be fearlessly independent and pro-democracy. It will never bow down. It will never give in. It will never compromise Sign up now to support its work! hubs.ly/Q03jcjqP0

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing #1linewed

If I've learned one thing from my job, it's that no crime or crazy mob is ever all that original #SundaySentence @hughhowey.com