Wake up, babe. New checks-and-balances-don't-exist just dropped

This has been such a wild year, most of us barely remember half of what's happened. Like it was just a few months ago the script for an unmade fourth Nolan Batman movie leaked called The Dark Knight Fucks. And nobody even talks about it now.

I'll be in #Gainesville and #Atlanta next week reading from my late wife and favorite human ever @saaramyrene.bsky.social's Juniper Prize-winning #poetry book "Chamber After Chamber" from @umasspress.bsky.social. Come say hi at @thelynxbooks.bsky.social or Tall Tales Book Shop

A little "Challengers" action from the Mets broadcast on SNY.

If you're looking for somewhere to put the money you used to give Hulu/Disney+/etc., may I recommend The Handbasket?

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

I'm doing my part

The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’

Earlier today, FCC Chair Brendan Carr said “we can do this the easy way or the hard way” about Disney/ABC “taking action on Kimmel.” Hours later, ABC pulled Kimmel off the air. It’s a blatant crackdown on free speech by an authoritarian administration. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

I don't know what anyone who didn't like this movie expected. It is exactly what it promised to be

The semester has started, so I just have 4 right now: Scene on Radio (come back soon, plzkthx), The Slowdown, 99% Invisible, and Working It Out.

BREAKING: Democrat Xp Lee wins the Minnesota House special election to fill the seat of Melissa Hortman, who was assassinated in June.

I laughed so hard at this article that I scared my cat out of a deep sleep

When the killer is a straight white man

A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.” In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.

About this Florida vaccine story: When they were little - 1 yr and 3 1/2 - my two older boys, who’d had all their shots, got whooping cough. We asked their pediatrician what would’ve happened if they hadn’t been vaccinated. “Oh, they’d have died.”

So damn excited to be seeing @jael.bsky.social and @ekkoastral.bsky.social tonight!

"The solution to encampments is actually quite simple: provide housing to folks in them."

Has everyone else known all along that Louis Malle was married to Candace Bergen?

Mamdani is a citizen just like Vance. He no more owes "gratitude" to the US than does anyone else. The suggestion is that he is some kind of second-class citizen who owes deference to the country and those born here - exactly the kind of blood-and-soil nationalism that Vance so often promotes.

I'm a tenured professor, and even I am jealous of college sports officials' job security. I'm curious just how bad they'd have to be to lose their jobs

Please please help me spread the word! I've been to Atlanta a few times, but I don't know as many folks there as I do in Seattle or LA. So I would really *massively* appreciate any and all help letting ATL folks know about this event. 🍑💖📚

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

if you are a fan of Teen Vogue's coverage and particularly that we're willing to cover topics that are ignored or undermined—or even risky, because of censorship and scrutiny—in broader US media, sharing our coverage (and clicking the links) is a really key way to support us and our work

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

My favorite part about the Adobe Acrobat accessibility checker is how thoroughly unclear it is and completely useless at helping you fix any of the issues

Damn it, for those of us who don't live in the market of our favorite teams, MLB.tv is a highlight of streaming services. ESPN will almost certainly fuck this up, but I hope I'm wrong

"A poem is not merely a record of human activity; it is intended to preserve the complexity, richness, and granular details of our inner lives. Poems provide an occasion for us to talk with one another [. . .]. This art form keeps what we love from disappearing."

while smiling! Gavin Newsom literally dressed up in his best Bad Boy™️ attire, invited the press, and smiled as he destroyed everything these constituents had in the world. Gavin Newsom is not a bad candidate; Gavin Newsom is truly, at his core, a bad and despicable human being.

Happy birthday, Dottie Danger aka Belinda Carlisle, briefly rehearsal drummer with Germs, later singer with Go Go's, born on this day in 1958 in Los Angeles Photo by Melanie Nissen #punk #punkrock #womenofpunk #belindacarlisle #thegerms #history #punkrockhistory #otd

While masked agents were violently attacking a delivery worker this morning, bystanders repeatedly asked to see their badge numbers but they refused. Bystander: You guys are ruining this country, you know that, right? Agent: Liberals already ruined it.

@triohousepress.org is thrilled to announce the acquisition of @davigray.bsky.social ’s collection, This Body, This Fruit - releasing in 2027!

the thing everyone is going to have to accept is that the post-trump period, whenever it comes, will not and cannot be a project of national unity, it must be a project of partisan project of renewal, in the same way that reconstruction and the new deal were partisan projects of renewal.

Danielle Spencer, the star of What's Happening!!, has died at 60.

It’s my birthday and I shamelessly would love you to buy my novel bookshop.org/p/books/okps...

“Uh, no, when you were on the roof they were shouting ‘Trump! Trump!”

Motherfucking wind farms…

A reminder that you still have a few days to donate. Reposts are also welcome

Some houses flooded last weekend in my area, so I'm making jambalaya for some folks. I've been trying to be more intentional about mutual aid and keep telling myself, "What can you do? Just do that"

Economic Warriors: let’s get busy. End your Paramount + subscriptions now and give that money to your local Public Media! Do it. And spread the word.

I'm on a hiring committee this summer. Walked by the student who's on it while on campus yesterday and didn't say hi because I was too busy figuring out my lunch plans to be aware of my surroundings, and I'd be lucky to last 24 hours in the wild

I join the brave Senator in condemning the weekend for bringing these 60 deaths

A reminder today, what would have been @saaramyrene.bsky.social's 50th birthday, that I'm raising money in her name for the Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop this month

Watched a classic tonight

I don't have much to add to the 'you voted for this haha' conversation that people haven't already said, but something I think a lot about is the real lack of solidarity I see with communities in the South after disasters and the profound lack of understanding about who actually lives there.

Ah, so this is why they suspended him. WTAF.

Okay, but what’s the source wearing