If you're having events over the next couple of months in NYC and you'd be open to having some members of @nycplan.org table at the event, please reach out. We want more people in NYC to know about our demand to increase public library funding. Email [email protected] if you are interested.

this is something that individual members of Congress could do tomorrow. The government is shut down so they could use their district offices. I suggested in January that they turn those offices into full on community centers where people could find each other re: mutual aid etc...

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

Hot off the presses and available now in English. A major contribution from @ankahajkova.bsky.social. I was honoured to write the forward. utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Twenty participants of the July 2025 Central European History Convention in Vienna wrote blogs about what they thought about the event: what it gave, what it promises, what it didn’t. Read what they think! (There’s a little intro to the forum by Peter Becker + myself). cehc.hypotheses.org

Why doesn't the US have a general strike? Well you can point to culture or whatever but I think structure is of not immediate use here: does the US have organizations and institutions it can use to network, organize and mobilize a general strike? No.

The strongest allies are not always in your face. Often they are quietly working behind the scenes with little to no recognition. The test of a true ally is not only what people say and do when everybody is looking but also what they say and do with few people looking.

Bad news for the EU and Ukraine: Czechia has become the third potential veto player against pro-EU and pro-Ukraine initiatives. More so than ever before. It’s also another reason to be less optimistic about corruption control and the rule of law in Czechia, the wider region and Europe as a whole.

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

I will not call up our National Guard to further Trump’s acts of aggression against our people.

In Illinois, we will do everything within our power to look out for our neighbors, uphold the Constitution, and defend the rule of law.

Wanna know whose shutdown this is? Pay attention to who’s enjoying it.

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

I have a book cover! After years of work, "Survival at Treblinka: Geography, Gender, and Social Networks in Jewish Resistance" is available for pre-order. It will ship in March and the official release date is set for April 2026. I can't wait to share this important history and hear from readers!

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️ press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

This Saturday (Sep 27) I'll be talking with Sayer Holliday of the New York Society Library and unless you are planning to be there in person there is no need to sign up. Just click the link at 3pm EDT! www.nysoclib.org/events/bad-i...

A friend working in—and enthusiastic about—AI asked me how kids were using it in K–12 schools now, so I asked my kids. Kids: "Cheating." Me: "Yeah, I figured, but have you ever had a teacher try to use it for something el—" Kids: "No, it's for cheating. For writing papers for you."

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

it was literally in a bag www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/u...

The Jaipur Literature Festival is one of the most famous in the world. This isn’t it, but rather the International version that appears in different US cities. I’m glad to be back in one of my favorite cities, Seattle, in conversation with legend Shawn Wong.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Can’t express in words how big this rally in Chicago is. The president’s fascist goon squad is not welcome here.

The USA isolates itself www.dw.com/en/postal-tr...

Never forget that the most lethal single action Hegseth’s DoD has taken is accidentally crashing a helicopter into an airliner (except possibly bombing a migrant detention prison)

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

Americans be like wah we’re too special to live in a failed state!

it is so rare for Natives to have an Elder in Hollywood, especially an Elder as iconic, groundbreaking, and talented as Greene may he be guided back in his transition to skyworld peacefully and with ease 🍓😔🪶 deadline.com/2025/09/grah...

What historians actually do. You don’t know, you weren’t even there!

you know, just the first lady taking a casual tour of walter reed hospital last thursday— NOTHING TO SEE HERE PEOPLE

A podcast not to be missed by anyone who wants to understand #Ukraine. I've just devoured all 5 episodes. Thank you @okhromeychuk.bsky.social & @uilleamblacker.bsky.social for this crucial contribution. I particularly liked the fascinating episode on Crimea! www.olesyakhromeychuk.com/projects/the...

you misspelled "I will be holding public hearings immediately on RFK Jr.'s mismanagement of HHS, and even though we do not have the power of the majority, these hearings will be televised live and Republicans are welcome to join if they care about Americans' health even a tiny bit"

Something marvelous: Bettye Saar's site spectific commission at the Huntington: hyperallergic.com/1037873/bety...

Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.

I can

Here’s the thing: I too hope the rumors are true, but even if they are, we are still in deep 💩—and for a very long time to come.

If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the planned ICE HQ in North Chicago, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

CHICAGO…

it works for old trucks, too:

A landlord turned off Tenant Client's family's heat upon learning Client was an immigrant. Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed. This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.

I was lucky enough to interview Lea Ypi when Free was published & it was one of my fave author interviews I’ve ever done. So I loved reading this wonderful conversation with her in today’s Sunday Times Lea Ypi: what I found in my grandmother’s secret police file www.thetimes.com/article/60f3...

In Arlington, a church and artist mark sidewalks where ICE tore families apart. These ‘stumbling stickers’ force memory onto public ground—reminders of grief, resistance, and the refusal to let erasure win.

Sharing this for my climate community; Gifford was a prominent climate psychology researcher.

Assassination of the entire Al Jazeera crew in Gaza City, including its correspondents and cameramen: **Correspondent:** Anas Al-Sharif **Correspondent:** Mohammed Qareqea **Cameraman:** Ibrahim Zaher **Cameraman:** Moamen Aliwa **Crew Driver:** Mohammed Nofal

Nawrocki to idiota , który szkodzi zwykłym obywatelom

it is genuinely funny that black protestant aunties are basically the strongest warriors of the democratic party but you never hear any discussion about "how do we keep the black protestant aunties happy?"

Oh by the way, don’t forget you can ask your library to order nearly any book you want to read but don’t want to buy. And as authors we love libraries buying our books & readers being able to access them through libraries.