BREAKING: WE WON!!! 💥 💥 💥 Federal Judge William G. Young ruled today in our lawsuit against the Trump administration that the policy of arresting, detaining, & deporting noncitizen students & faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the 1st Amendment. Full ruling here:

what if we suppose that AI doesn’t actually make college easier—if you’re not doing the work, and you’re not learning, it’s just cheating. you’re not ready for a harder curriculum if you cheated your way through the basics

It's pub day! We couldn't be happier about helping to put these two beauties into the world. Please help us spread the word! THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez, trans. by Alex Niemi

so i have been reading about the red scare & it's origins in post-war america, which has been so interesting for this time in particular. the playbook on the right is *exactly* the same...messages aren't even that different. it's wild.

spiritually, this is what actually happened

i always think i'll be able to work after getting a booster, and i am *always* wrong

@jessicavalenti.bsky.social is very right that Ezra Klein is very wrong, both morally and strategically, with this argument that throwing half the population under the bus (the half that already leans more Democratic).

i don't always like n+1 (their particular snark? irony? often reads to me as condescension), but this essay, especially the second part, is really strong www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

what the hell is this

Don't miss today's conversation with @olgaravn.bsky.social. Witches, folk magic, alchemy, the fear of women gathering, animating the archive through ritual & the imagination, & much more Audio📻: tinhouse.com/podcast/olga... @ndbooks.bsky.social @bookhugpress.bsky.social @vikingbooksuk.bsky.social

this week's Old Person complaint is that i cannot tell what 'one battle after another' is about based on the trailer & i Dislike That

reading this very good book for Reasons bookshop.org/p/books/red-...

i like the new olivia dean record, i feel like she would have been on the soundtrack to the first bridget jones movie (complimentary)

man, that klein & coates interview was hard to stay with. klein is having trouble with his ego & identity, & what he’s doing throughout that interview is shockingly manipulative. he is asking coates to tell him that he’s okay instead of really engaging with ideas.

PSSST. In advance of Tuesday's pub day, @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social is having a quick sale on our two fall titles: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF H. LAN THAO LAM by Lana Lin and THE ENDLESS WEEK by Laura Vazquez trans. by Alex Niemi! Hurry! Two more days! www.nyrb.com/collections/...

centrists who keep arguing that it’s okay to cede ground / let everyone else lose their rights really need to be shamed publicly. this is embarrassing.

The assholes are outnumbered. Every day is a testament to this truth. I see it all of the time. Most people are decent.

reading the headlines of the nytimes makes me feel insane. i will never forget their role in creating two different realities in this country.

This has been pushed to the background, but pay attention: Right now, a stack of bills aimed at reining in AI companies and big tech sits on Gavin Newsom's desk in California. These are the bills Silicon Valley and the GOP tried to ban outright. Now they await Newsom's signature—or veto.

I spent the summer reporting this essay on why it seems harder than ever to sell a book right now—especially if it isn't a debut and comes with the dreaded "sales track." I'm grateful to the writers, agents, editors, publishers & experts who spoke to me for this piece: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

well, i think that's enough horrifying news for one day 🫡

extremely niche complaint: yale seems to have only made their biography symposium virtual during the height of the pandemic. it's such a good event but, like, i can't drop all my work & go to yale! i wish more orgs would invest in virtual / hybrid programming!

the best thing i've done for my brain in the last week is clean my office. i feel like a new person.

My way of coping with all of the madness is focusing on what I can do to make my community a little bit stronger. So excuse me for all of the earnestness, but I wrote about ways we can all pitch in to support a thriving literary culture. lithub.com/how-to-be-a-...

NEW WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened. This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it www.wired.com/story/oral-h...

I find this compelling: “They say, you can’t put that in your platform, they’re gonna come after you. Well, guess what? They’re already coming after us.”

They've lost the 9yos

Chloe Aridjis and Marina Warner both knew Leonora Carrington. In a new episode on @lrb.co.uk's podcast they discuss how "her humour, her visionary imagination and her attention to the boundaries between inner and outer realties" play out in The Hearing Trumpet.

U.S. court orders NIH to restore killed grants to California researchers. https://scim.ag/46xy9hY

this is the solution to the male loneliness epidemic I am 100% serious

omg one weekend of travel & i forgot about having to make dinner every night

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slept in from my travels & watched k-pop demon hunters over coffee...i am ready for anything

This is the biggest attack on free speech since the McCarthy era but it also has significantly less popular consensus behind it than the second Red Scare. It's being done on behalf of a minority faction led by the most unpopular president in modern history. Organizing against this can win.

absolutely wild stuff

It is the job of the Democratic party to sell and defend the policies that most Democratic voters want, not to present a candidate slate that is palatable to moderate Republicans who might switch if they hate their own candidate enough.

you want to defund cultural criticism, i want to write an essay about the way kate bush pronounces 'honey' in big sky...we are not the same

In his new piece--which is largely about the reaction to his last piece--Ezra Klein says that he is deeply shaken by Charlie Kirk's murder essentially because they were in the same business: They both did public politics. This is honest on his part. It's also the problem. >

i have so much to do…how am i going to find time to watch k-pop demon hunters (serious question)

huh, seems bad

Mamdani will go down in history, but not only for the reason that he's likely to win in November. It's his refusal to engage with the fascist mirrorworld's warped reality as his colleagues & other media do. His insistence on *staying here*, in the lived reality of his people, is the real triumph.

amen

going to re-watch 'all the president's men' & fantasize about having a functioning media ecosystem that brings powerful people to account

i just—

well, i regret opening this app

WE HAVE ARRIVED www.coyotemedia.org

omg i love him so much. what a gorgeous speech

Invitation to friends in the arts. I'm part of a group organizing a project called Fall of Freedom. We want artists and orgs of all kinds (whether you're an Indie bookstore, a cinema, gallery, whatever) to come together to resist authoritarianism. Starting November 21st... www.falloffreedom.com

this should be studied in a lab