I was sick of seeing JD Vance's memoir get all of the book coverage. So I asked a bunch of writers I know and love what recent books they think should get more attention. These are books for people who actually like to read. Please check them out! lithub.com/40-great-new...

helpful coverage from @elpais.com english.elpais.com/usa/2025-08-...

Interesting to revisit this 2024 dissent, in which Alito is actually willing to explicitly call something racist — in this case, comments by black administrators at an elite public school. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

The founders, in the Treaty of Tripoli -- begun under Washington, signed by Adams, ratified by a Senate filled with other crafters of the Constitution -- said "the Government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion." Tom Emmer is a dumb-as-dirt bigot.

Sam Alito: It is the worst kind of discrimination to create majority-minority congressional districts and so we are going to kill the Voting Rights Act. Also Sam Alito: There is nothing we can do if the president cancels legal status because he thinks the United States is a white country.

Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.

May have been a tactical error to go "Now you done it, New York, you're gonna see what REAL SOCIALISM looks like!!!" right before the snow got cleared and the Knicks won

As for who is the right candidate? Watch a bit of this debate and judge for yourself. youtu.be/uXuskMmVUS8?...

Friends, my husband @colinmcroberts.bsky.social is running for Congress and is the only candidate in the race who advocates abolishing ICE. He could use your support in this straw poll if you’re willing and on Facebook! www.facebook.com/share/1BDVhz...

He’s also in favor of restoring funding to NSF, NIH, and NEH, btw. He’s a good dude.

We can win in Kansas—KANSAS!— if we run the right candidate. Colinforkansas.com

Honest to god, from a screenwriter, it’s because there’s one single unmistakable visual element that goes with it.

There's a great deal that's alarming about the Prairieland sentencing, regardless of how one views the shooter, but the biggest deal is 30 years for a man who wasn't there, convicted of moving a box of zines while knowing protesters. Consider the implications. theintercept.com/2026/06/23/p...

Not now, tiny particle that could erase the universe at any moment

This amount would fund the US National Science Foundation for a decade. 🧪

Just a reminder that the Trump abuse and degradation of the Justice Department relies not just on Trump and Blanche and the senior people, but on compliant local lower-level people, who should be identified and never sleep soundly again.

They've put much more effort into cleaning the algae out of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool than investigating the Epstein files.

Every president needs advisors who can give them candid advice. When you start to think you have all the answers, that’s how you end up paying $300 billion dollars and siding with Hezbollah to end a war you started.

There isn't enough focus on the people who could stop this shit.

And there is a Catskill eagle in some souls that can alike dive down into the blackest gorges, and soar out of them again

Remember when we had a President who loved his dog

the US president, with the explicit support of the US legislature and the US supreme court, is stealing billions of dollars in thousands of ways. meanwhile the NYT is on the case of whether, when mamdani paid a thousand dollars for a knicks ticket out of his own pocket, he got a ticket for VIPs

I have been pulled out of sportswriting retirement for One Last Job, which at least allowed me to get out some of the agitation I felt when realizing the secretary of state seemed to be crediting Dana White with inventing MMA:

Loving @inaeoh.bsky.social's turn towards the @motherjones.com combat sports journalist! Also, @juliekedzie.bsky.social and @jennmcclearen.bsky.social say a bunch of smart stuff about the about the absence of women fighters at the UFC White House event!

You know what we don't talk enough about? Queen & Annie Lennox/David Bowie rehearsing 'Under Pressure' in 1992. So much going on! Everyone's clothes, Bowie with a lit cig throughout, where Annie PROPER GOES FOR IT, George Michael singing along in the background. The amazing vocals. Yes, please!

Fascists want to make politics about “manhood.” It is not about that dumb fiction. Not about Talarico’s, not about Paxton’s. The answer to “Talarico isn’t a real man” isn’t “Paxton’s not a real man!” The problem w/ Paxton isn’t a lack of “manliness.” It’s the fascism.

Does not this whole head seem to speak of an enormous practical resolution in facing death?

Incredible to call this a "confiscation scheme" www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Solidarity with E. Jean Carroll and all survivors who face legal retaliation and criminal prosecution for speaking the truth. This is both remarkable and utterly unsurprising. Survivors have been jailed, retraumatized, harassed, and sued into silence for far too long.

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They were hunting a vice-president and were intent on killing him. The sitting president made such an attack a pardonable offense. And now the sitting duck praises the archers and supplying them with arrows.

Maybe I'm just not thinking hard enough, but I literally can't think of a single thing that's ever been done by any American politician that's more corrupt than this.

No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.

Dear Decent Americans, please listen up. IF YOUR VOTES WERE NOT IMPORTANT , YOUR PRESENT GOVERNMENT WOULD NOT TRY TO STOP YOU FROM VOTING. Please tell your non voting friends and family that it is their civic duty to vote, people have died so that you could all vote.

“This attack comes at a time when Muslim communities are facing a dangerous climate of Islamophobia, dehumanization, political scapegoating, and threats against our institutions. Our communities need answers, protection, and solidarity—not just in San Diego, but across California.”

DO IT,DEMOCRATS......

The “we don’t have the votes” excuse for refusing to force a vote on impeachment is conceding the point and saying even the opposition party doesn’t think this high crime merits removal from office. It’s not being politically astute and pragmatic, it’s self-defeating in its cowardice.

1/ Today is Brown v. Board of Education Day — a day to recognize the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down segregation in schools.

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

genuinely forgot this freak existed, it absolutely escaped my notice that he’s in charge of counterterrorism now

Man. I just can’t be a cog,

I…don’t remember why I was talking about butts.

southern state governments are banning black congressional representation and installing statues of men who waged a war to continue the enslavement of black people in public parks

I'm absolutely furious at my alma mater. Such cowardice.

Nobody wants a godamned ballroom. Shut up.

(ANTON CHEKHOV AWAKENS WITH A START)

Remember how less than three weeks ago the president threatened to kill an entire civilization