For the past few years, I have partnered with @blackbirdletterpress.com around this time of year on a handmade notebook. Proceeds support REBUILD. I am so excited to share this year's notebook inspired by Gwendolyn Brooks's words. www.blackbirdletterpress.com/limited-edit... - limited edition

idk who needs to hear this but costco sells a cat scratcher that looks like costco

i had to turn off the "rude" filter to see 99% of your beautiful sandwich jokes lmao

For people who are interested in and working to develop abolitionist interventions and groups to help keep each other safe, we have a new resource that aims to help demystify a few things about how we create these organizations and formations, and how we sustain them. Read it here:

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Mamdani: "We believe in standing up for those we love. Whether you are an immigrant, a member of the trans community, one of the many Black women that Donald Trump has fired from a federal job ... your struggle is ours too."

This is the second most promising set of results. We need progressives and leftists to run for these school board and LIBRARY BOARD seats. www.librariesforthepeople.org

just wanted to re-post this messaging that helped win an election

the first muslim woman being elected to statewide office (in any state!) the day dick cheney died is beautiful

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

if you have loved zohran’s campaign videos and/or are interested in the intersections of film and politics, this is a great piece featuring my pal @boringstein.bsky.social. donald is responsible for a lot of the funniest, sweetest moments, and their camera truly loves the city

don't forget also greeted six bodega cats in arabic and kissed his insanely hot wife (said respectfully)

Someone give Lex $2 million so they can launch a politics version of Teen Vogue. Do it now. No strings attached.

The USDA is the fail safe for SNAP. They have a contingency fund to ensure it’s covered in the event of a shutdown. They’re refusing. Grocery stores stepped up to try and help by offering discounts to any SNAP recipients and the USDA told them they had to stop. Starvation as a policy choice.

RAHAWA !!!!!!!!

everybody has a right to eat and also food stamps are a taxpayer-funded subsidy for multibillion-dollar corporations who refuse to pay their workers a livable wage

"It’s important to figure out how to weave ourselves into the ecosystems that we are a part of in a way that doesn’t destroy ourselves and in a way that doesn’t destroy the other living things that we are in network with." truthout.org/audio/resist...

People across the country are fighting for their lives and also to protect their neighbors. They are doing so in the 100s of thousands every single day. You can choose to join the fight or you can pretend that "no one is doing anything."

The Walton family (who own Walmart) are worth over $400 billion, yet many of their employees are on SNAP. Bezos is worth over $400 billion, many Amazon employees require SNAP. The people who need help are not the problem. It’s corporate greed. It’s an unwillingness to pay a living wage.

CHOTINER: You're at the bookstore again. Is something different now? ME: That's not my place to say CHOTINER: I'm just trying to understand ME: I'm not the only person who feels this way CHOTINER: Other people buy more books when they haven't read the ones they bought last week? ME: Complicated

i do think it is possible to work toward the liberation of all beings without forcing yrself to engage w people who are committed to hatred of life, joy, and justice

yelling from 3 to 5 am quite exhausting as it turns out

"[T]his book taught me that ordinary people can do extraordinary things." @rebeccakelliher.bsky.social on medication abortion access & her new book at @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social lareviewofbooks.org/article/pill...

been thinking about this a lot and want to (again) plug Astoria Food Pantry which will need extra funding to help our neighbors if/when SNAP benefits are cut off. we've already been running out of food faster than usual this month—any donation amount will help! givebutter.com/afp2025

I'm for this #FoodBankChallenge!!! Who else is?

Do you live in an apartment complex? How about printing out some fliers letting your neighbors know that on a particular day of the week, u will be cooking X extra meals and that anyone who needs one can stop by your place at X hour to pick one up no questions asked? Can even leave them at the door.

There is a chance that SNAP will not be available in a couple weeks. This means our neighbors, friends, or ourselves might face going without food. Here are some ways you can prepare 🧵

The Schomburg Center livestreams many of its events. If you can’t come to Harlem tonight to see Saul Williams in person, you can join virtually by tuning in to the livestream. www.youtube.com/live/w9FoJma... #BlackLives #BlackHistory #NYC

how it started // how it's going // thrilled to welcome our perfect daughter billie idol

do u like stories about young ladies making very bad decisions in a gothic environment while under the nefarious influence of lesbian vampire novels? well boy do i have a treat for u

BOOKS I LOVED IN 2025: A THREAD [ongoing]:

You GUYS I haven't had a new Sarah McCarry book to copyedit in a whole-ass DECADE and I am BESIDE MYSELF

My birthday is Sunday and for as long as I can remember I have used that occasion to raise needed funds for a project, organization or person. This year is no different. I have a goal of raising $5000 by 10/20 for EvLovesNYC @evlovesnyc.bsky.social - If you can & want to, please support this project

so excited about this press ❤️

ive read it and its good and u should be excited for it

in a world where too many books have sanded off the edges of their characters to make them as widely appealing and AI-ish as possible to sell 145,000 copies to brain-off book fandom Sarah McCarry is the hero we need her characters are all spikes like an angry porcupine and gay so so gay

I am EXTREMELY biased where everything Sarah writes is concerned but the fact is this book rules and if you like all the things she said below and/or were an Anne Rice Teen you really don't want to miss it

do u like stories about young ladies making very bad decisions in a gothic environment while under the nefarious influence of lesbian vampire novels? well boy do i have a treat for u

be the ruinous volcanism you wish to see in the world

your email has not found me

i found us a nice little house where we can sit quietly and think about poems and such

CHOTINER: And what's this big pile here ME: Books I haven't read yet CHOTINER: But you're at the bookstore buying more? ME: The other ones weren't the right ones CHOTINER: And these books you're buying now, they're the right ones? ME: That's complicated CHOTINER: In what way?

AHHHHH YESSSSSSS

deepest of deep breaths feeling nervous about this one, friends! I've written about the mainstreaming of pull-to-publish, its impact on fandom, and what it means for an increasingly corporate and IP-driven creative landscape.

"Imagining is not a solitary project or an individual action; it’s a collective practice. We have to struggle for different visions of society together. We need different words, alternate ways of thinking and of being." ❤️‍🔥 @prisonculture.bsky.social prisonculture.substack.com/p/abolition-...

rereading Possession for the first time in many years which was a great decision but i can't stop thinking about how absolutely nobody would be allowed to get away with this book now (lament)

"revolutions are built on failure. We fail, over and over again, until one day we win. It’s our tenacity and endurance that sets us apart from our enemies." ❤️‍🔥 margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/revolution...

October 4 - Join the NYC Public Library Action Network (NYC PLAN) for a People’s Assembly about our city libraries. If you’re in NYC and care about public libraries, sign up here: www.eventbrite.com/e/nyc-public...