this looks like an informative event for folks who have been/are interested in exploring agenting as a career path 👇

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

This is maybe the most interesting part?

We can win (but not with the courts)

TRUTH! Weaving generally requires eyes, so video isn’t a great fit. But audiobooks are perfect!

Nearly 50 college instructors across #Illinois landed on #CharlieKirk's “Professor Watchlist.” @wbez.org reached out to all of them and found the list triggered hateful messages, threats of rape or death, and intensification since Kirk's killing. #twill www.wbez.org/politics/202...

Karl Rove, huh

if kimmel is edgy we are so fucked

Fake Melania and Robert Redford posts only, pls

Gift link for the @inquirer.com’s story on the NPS’s (apparent?) plans to downplay/remove mentions of slavery from the President’s House exhibit in Philly share.inquirer.com/NAhgWb

Am nodding along vigorously to a book and am once again reminded that your most likely buyers in public-facing serious nonfiction already agree with you, write accordingly

just a casual reminder to those outside public health that RFK Jr. didn’t repair CDC’s offices before forcing staff to return monday because he wants the damage to intimidate and traumatize federal workers

This is good! But I’m gonna get my flu shot today, JIC. ACIP meets tomorrow and Friday.

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

Is the “we will arrest the Office Depot copy guy” thing real? How?

Those of you still skeeting about the limits of “what they can do legally” are deeply missing the point

When they said it would “be our Reichstag fire” I thought they misunderstood history, not that they, personally, planned to make shit up and justify a crackdown. Which seems to be the plan.

Just saw someone post "Democracy Dies in Whiteness." Amazing truth. Encapsulates America. Should be @washingtonpost.com new motto.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

(Curious how long this very sketchy looking POD binding holds, but I guess that’s what happens when an 800 pp book published by a university press gets a Pulitzer?)

Settling in some light reading (if I don’t break my wrist holding it up for the photo)

Speaking some time this morning inside Vannevar Bush’s head and am once again gobsmacked by his combination of settler colonial jingoism and clear insights on the importance of knowledge to a healthy society

I wrote about the groypers and the Fuentes-Kirk fight years ago, in Hate in the Homeland. Cautioning here that there is still a lot to know about the shooter’s motivation, I’m sharing these two paragraphs here to set the history of this fight in context:

in retrospect, there’s probably never been a name as threatening as “America Online”

Taps the sign

I am beginning to think the internet was not a good idea

TIL that for some people with irreparably damaged corneas, you can pull one of their teeth, drill a hole in it, install an artificial lens, sew it into their cheek (so tissue attaches), then pull it out and stick it in their damaged eye, and ... it works fine!?! www.nbcboston.com/news/health/...

Taking my own advice and logging off for a bit, later loves

Grateful for the supposed echo chamber this morning, since it’s the only thing tethered to reality

Reading all your theories on Dem politicians and media writers’ fawning statements with great interest bc I, for one, do not get it

one of the most depressing things of the last decade or so is realizing how many friends/ colleagues/ leaders are (a) actually sympathetic to bad faith fascistic attacks (on public goods, education, vulnerable peoples, etc.), or (b) just simply not up to the moment we find ourselves in

I am finding this very confusing. Or perhaps confusing is not the right word.

I hope that Jezebel writer bought the full protection package

And not just feds

Today is a good day to remember that posts are public and available to state agencies

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

Actually there are no circumstances whatsoever where you kind of have to hand it to the Klan

When Campus Reform and Turning point came after professors and created the professor watchlist, administrators didn't pay attention..Now they are being fired and attacked. Maybe institutions should have done more to protect academic freedom....

The MAHA movement has destroyed our ability to make jokes about post vaccine malaise, one more tiny but meaningful reason it must be destroyed

Part of my editor's note on our suspension between states of democracy and authoritarianism www.dissentmagazine.org/article/fall...

There’s finally some good news in the fight against rising authoritarianism, and it’s been my honor to have been one of the attorneys on this. apnews.com/article/atla...

I am pro-vaccines but ngl this spikevax has knocked me out like vaccine original flavor. Get your shot but give yourself some downtime (she says while sneezing)

Meanwhile AHA continues to wonder why so many people let their membership lapse

My arm hurts, but it’s worth it. And yes, I am posting whatever to scrub that cursed screenshot off the timeline

No problem whatsoever, Philadelphia, come get your shots

Having now signed two emails “beset,” gonna roll with it

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

Is this regardless of print run? Bc the folks saying “that’s a pittance in royalties” may not be particularly familiar with how most non-trade publishers work.

This is not a dunk on anyone in particular, but allow me to illustrate with an example from my own writing: "The natural and sharp signs rarely appear in Agricola's examples, but their occurrences are revealing of Agricola's thinking." 🧵

FWIW I have booked an appointment for Monday at a CVS in Philadelphia just by clicking on a box saying that I would be at risk from complications