How bad are tariffs going? I paid for $32 of shaving cream from Canada. Unique stuff I’ve used for years, nothing like it in US. Small family business. UPS guy came to my door today with box and said I have to pay additional $120 before he can hand it to me. That makes it 5x more expensive!!! 🤯

If they weren't trying so hard to do such truly terrible things, it would be fun to cringe watch. It isn't fun, but my god, they are cringe.

Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers: 38-54 (Quinnipiac) 39-60 (AP) 40-56 (Gallup) 41-58 (Reuters) 39-56 (Economist) On the pod, @lakshya.splitticket.org explains these numbers brilliantly. Listen: newrepublic.com/article/2010...

Is there an app to keep track of American mass shootings

Man, I love this poem by Lucie Brooks @salvationsouth.com www.salvationsouth.com/how-to-survi...

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Just having some iced chai in my lovely new Writers Assn of Northern Appalachia mug. Yes, please.

We had an amazing time at the Writers Association of Northern Appalachia conference. Lots of people making connections, writing, reading, listening. We had tremendous vendors, a beautiful library and bar. And Wheeling gave us a gorgeous sunset over the Ohio River at the end of the day on Saturday.

I still am stunned, years later, that dozens of cops at Uvalde waited 77 minutes to kill the shooter while kids died. Has ANYONE been held accountable?

Huh, weird, it’s almost like the free speech crisis that we’re in now has nothing to do with voices on the left being too woke.

Feel free to continue arguing over the shooter's motives, but please understand that *it doesn't matter*. There's a organized political movement that plans to suppress, arrest, or kill its political opposition. It it seeking pretexts. Anything will do. If it's not this, it'll be something else.

When I say AI is a fascist technology, this is what I mean: a spectacular assault on the idea that true things can be known

Timeline Cleanse -- a bit of goodness, by me for the amazing Jessica Cory and Appalachian Journal. Meditations on and stories of the incredible Cookie Table Tradition. as-the-crow-flies.pubpub.org/pub/diperna-...

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

Thirty-eight years ago this week, Toni Morrison's incredible novel, 'Beloved' was published. I was already a fangurl of Morrison, but I remember how completely awed and moved I was by 'Beloved.' If you haven't read it, now is a good time to go get you a copy from your local bookseller or library.

This may be the most succinct description of how utterly broken we are as a nation. It doesn't have to be this way. It really doesn't.

Shout out to everyone only now learning that "Albert Einstein was reclusive at the end of his career, shunning public engagements." Really meant, "For the last *20 years* of his career, Einstein opposed US racism by only speaking publicly at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs).

Thousands of miners fought hired company guns in the woods of Blair Mountain, where — to tell themselves apart — they tied red handkerchiefs around their necks. They became known as the "Red Neck Army" — one etymology of the word "redneck." 📷: Library of Congress

There are on average 125 gun deaths per day in the US. It's the guns. I don't remember any pearl clutching at all when Melissa Hortman, her husband her damned DOG were murdered in cold blood. If you want to work toward gun control, we can talk. If not, I don't want to hear from you.

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Buddy, you were total BFFs with this absolute horrid abuser and we are not going to forget it.

Imma leave this right here.

History rhymes, and we can learn from the cadence.

Papaw Bonespurs referencing Vietnam which he dodged like the mutherfucker he is

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

Aaaaand the main business case for consumer LLMs is revealed. It's for gathering data on users, creating profiles, and targeting us with ads and propaganda. Hooray -- it's Web 2.0 with chatbots!

My good people, it is done and off to my editor at the University Press of Kentucky. #AllWeHaveIsEachOther #AppalachianLiterature

Nearly 77% of American workers are worried about the economy.

He literally is wheezing and gasping as he destroys our nation's public health care system.

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The far right loves AI slop because real art reaches deep into our humanity and they don't have any interest in those kinds of feelings.

Bro is not getting into heaven. And I sure hope he finds that out soon.

HELL MEANS THERE ARE APOLOGIES YOU NEVER GET phew there's a sentence what if we made it our damn work to do the accountability and repair here while we're still in these meatsuits, mothertruckers

This is 100% accurate.

Pritzker: "No one in the administration -- the president or anybody under him -- has called anyone in my administration or me. It's clear that in secret they're are planning this invasion with US troops."

I leave notes for myself in whatever I am writing with the sobriquet meathead. As in, "fix this transition, meathead," "lay the track for this quote, meathead." Somehow, calling myself meathead has made the revision process more fun. It's lighter. I'm just a meathead, writing meathead things.

remember folks, we cant have gun restrictions because if we do the federal government will occupy our streets, imprison people without due process, ship dissidents to foreign gulags and things of that nature

💀 how many people will this MONSTER KILL before we can rid ourselves of him…#KennedyKills 🦠

Blessed are the sandwich throwers, for they shall be set free.

Ok, JD, exactly *what* actions are you taking, other than praying. And scolding. You spineless parasite

RFK, crackpot with not 1 second of training says, I can tell who is sick just by looking at them. MAGA horde slurps it & says, 'Dear Leader and his Apostles have special powers, they know things we don't know, they can see things we can't see.' It's a CULT. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Is Labor Day still celebrated in the land of Fuck These Peasants?

Come hang out with me and hear my smart hilarious, charming sister in law, Karen Dukess read from her new novel, Welcome to Murder Week, at Riverstone in Squirrel Hill on September 13th. We'll talk about her new book, Jane Austen, bakewell tarts and be generally entertaining. (sign up below)

“GOING TO BE A BLOODBATH” @BalladHealth CEO Alan Levine (a Republican Lee pal) says a flooded East TN hospital may not get rebuilt thanks to Trump’s monstrous Bill. Will anyone ask @MarshaBlackburn & @RepJohnRose about backing it, as they run for guv? 🤷🏼‍♀️ www.politico.com/news/2025/08...

This lying little not-see chud.

Hey writing peeps, come join the community of writers in Wheeling in a little less than a month. We have a fantastic lineup of workshops, craft-talks and presentations, the Women of Appalachia Project will be there, and so will Jan Beatty. (Link to sign up in comments.)