This is exactly what churches should be doing, calling out injustice. 📌 Lake Street Church Nativity: a bold social justice statement with ICE-like Roman soldiers, the Virgin Mary in a gas mask, baby Jesus zip-tied, Joseph on the ground, pushing viewers to think about immigration.

HOUSTON: A church employee pretended to be ICE to extort a masseuse for money who is in the country legally with a temporary visa

'The True, True Story of Raja the Gullible (and His Mother)' by Rabih Alameddine won the National Book Award and I *could not be more thrilled.* It is one of the best novels I've read in a while. Definitely one of my favorite reads of this year. It's funny, weird & unexpected.

Oh man, I loved Jimmy. Rest well.

Still thinking about this — b/c how could anyone not JFC?! But also thinking about a BS focus on improving the quality of the input into LLMs, eg by feeding them UP books. But that’s not how these things work. Anyway: all publishers should also watch this.

He attacked six Democratic members of Congress calling them "traitors" and accusing them of sedition that's "punishable by death" after they urged members of the military and intelligence community to "refuse illegal orders." Shhhhh. Quiet Piggy.

His grotesque misogyny is a feature, not a bug. This is exactly why MAGA loves him.

The Biggest Loser, but for billionaires, wherein they give away money either voluntarily or by force to various and sundry vetted organizations. (Anything from food pantries to community libraries, public defenders offices, environmental organizations and small nonprofit newsrooms.) contd ...

I just want to say there are a lot of journalists and writers who do real, incredible work on topics that matter while maintaining high standards. Many of them do not have stable employment or recognition from major institutions.

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social wins the $75K #HilaryWeston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction for Theory of Water: Nishnaabe Maps to the Times Ahead, published by Alchemy by Knopf Canada. The prize is supported by The Hilary and Galen Weston Foundation. #WTAwards #canlit

I have jury duty. We are in the selection process which basically means hurry up and wait. I am drinking institutional prison coffee. I ate a half of a rice krispy treat from the vending machine. Pray for me

Dear Google, please tell Notebook, the "new" AI powered reseaercher to drop dead, eat shit and die, fuck all the way off and just go the fuck away. Take your AI and shove up your ass.

1/ In my years of covering books for a whole bunch of different outlets, I always ran author interviews and not straight reviews. I also never covered anything that I thought was not good because (a) I didn't want to read books that lacked merit and (b) I didn't want to be in the business of ...

It's like Chuck Schumer wakes up every day by asking "what can I do to make young people despise my party even more?"

Tourists! Come to America! Our air traffic controllers haven't been paid, so there's a non-zero chance your flight will crash! Don't worry, if you do get here you could be kidnapped by a masked stormtrooper and held indefinitely in torture conditions! Bring your money to the US!

The latest installment of *This Week on My Desk* (not pitctured -- 'Orange World' by Karen Russell and 'Brawler' by Lauren Groff.)

For anybody following, I reached out to a few historians who unanimously recommended the book 'The Great Steel Strike & Its Lessons' by William Z. Foster, originally published in 1920. I am also going to check out 'Pittsburgh & the Great Steel Strike of 1919' by @redpgh.com

History dorks, if you are going to recommend one book about the 1919 Steel Strike, what would it be? I've been reading through newspaper archives, but I'm looking to get a more wholistic sense of it.

Ever feel like the world has gone mad?

Gov. Shapiro: “America has a president, a vice president, that don't give a damn about all Americans…When I see hungry people in my state who are hungry because of J.D. Vance's bullshit politics, that makes me angry…America deserves better than J.D. Vance.”

Blessed are the hoagie throwers.

Nothing like October mornings in northern #Appalachia. #Pittsburgh

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

This IS a winnable fight! And it’s your fight. Stand with Starbucks workers!

I want to listen to a podcast about all of the liars and fabulists, cons and grifters platformed by #Oprah. That shit would be like 4,000+ episodes.

it doesn’t get any clearer that america’s betrothal to fossil fuels is about letting energy companies pick our pockets to prop up their obsolete industry

Incredible reporting by @brittanyhailer.bsky.social for @themarshallproject.org on the tragic and dangerous conditions inside youth treatment centers. Hailer is one of the best there is out there. www.themarshallproject.org/2025/11/06/r...

I started this book and it is a wild ride right from the jump. #RabihAlameddine #TheTrueTrueStoryOfRajaTheGullible. #Beirut

A 2020 study found that Amazon—which shares owner Jeff Bezos with The Washington Post—is one of the largest employers of people on SNAP.

@support.bsky.team There is a copycat of me out there and I have reported them and emailed. What's up? Are you doing anything about these fraud accounts or what?

Both of my cats like puff pastry. Cat mom of the century!

My latest piece @thenation.com aims to update a common 2016 talking point by looking at the dire current reality: "THE BUST OUT: Trump’s Tony Soprano Presidency Is Bleeding the Country Dry" www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Dear fellow Pittsburghers, Mandi Sheffel is coming to read from her fantastic new memoir, 'The Nature of Pain.' She will be joined by the great Joy Priest at Riverstone in Sq. Hill on Nov 18th. Please come! www.riverstonebookstore.com/events/an-ev...

God has promised me my enemies will receive the word in the form of a rage stroke in a Florida golf course toilet. I remain steadfast in hope.

The GOP is nothing more than a death cult at this point.

UPDATE: Jon Karl just failed to ask Speaker Johnson about Trump’s AI video. Here let us help: “Mr. Speaker, do you think Trump posting a video of himself dumping literal shit on Americans helps or hurts his @nobelprize case? And do you still plan on leading that charge?”

These people are stone stupid.

Guys, this is bad

"No Kings is happening, and this is how Republicans are talking about it. Accusations like 'terrorist wing,' 'pro-Hamas,' and 'Antifa' aren’t just insults. They’re phrases that unlock, in the view of the administration, a permission structure for state violence." www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-guil...

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

Judge Sara Ellis' opinion in IL v. Trump is an absolute banger: www.courtlistener.com/docket/71559...

WEST VIRGINIAN: “If the subsidies go away I won’t have health insurance. I won’t go to the doctor. This really is a life or death situation.” #TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax (This shutdown is making the case for #MedicareForAll better than we ever could)

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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