Pops. Then me and Pops.

My father died last night.

Now watching BBC. Haven't night owled like this in a while.

Stunning and historic result in the Gordon and Denton parliamentary by-election in the UK. The anti-genocide Green Party led by Zack Polanski has won the seat from Keir Starmer's governing Labour Party. Nigel Farage's Reform UK and its odious candidate Matt Goodwin beaten.

Watching start of Green wave in Britain on @news.sky.com

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The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

Watching Amélie. A fave. Had to use SAP for narration.

Up. Sad.

I was on Twitter for the writers and the book recommendations, the essays, the poetry, the community. I am here now for the same. I’m a nerd. Please reply with a favorite recent essay or poem or story or book recommendation, and thank you.

BAFTA...?🎭

Our team at @thexylom.com unanimously voted to leave Twitter right after the 2024 election (I was harassed by people who wanted to deport me to a country I've never lived in) Our Bluesky now has roughly 10x followers as X. Our newsletter subs grew by 50% and site visits grew by 57%. Also: pay us!

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube. As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

C-Span 2 Justene Hill Edwards lecture on her book Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of The Freedman's Bank.

Read the Everything Jazz feature on Lee Morgan’s 1957 album “City Lights” which was just reissued in the Tone Poet Vinyl Series! www.everythingjazz.com/story/lee-mo...

"Why aren't reporters asking whether the president has the legal right to launch another Middle Eastern war?" From my Zeteo piece/newsletter today: zeteo.com/p/an-illegal...

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some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown on IG explaining how Thatcher broke Britain. God I miss Dateline London 😥😢😭🇬🇧

Read Bambara's Blues Ain't No Mockingbird now starting Barth's Petition. #shortfiction

All about multi mutuals (followers on more than 1 platform) books and tea. Feel free to reach out.

Howard University professor Clarence Lusane shares why Jesse Jackson's 1984 and 1988 presidential campaigns were so historic, and how they permanently reshaped the Democratic Party.

"The dream only makes sense if it's connected to the broken promise that had been unfulfilled for 100 years." Jesse Jackson spoke to Democracy Now! shortly after the unveiling of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial in Washington, D.C.

Run, Jesse, run...✊️👊✊️

Early voting starts today for the March 3 primary elections, which will determine which candidates will appear on the ballot for the November midterm.

The regime is now dictating what political views are acceptable to air on television and paramount/cbs are collaborating in that censorship bsky.app/profile/ditz...

From IG: 2 films to put on our syllabus, Todo Modo and Adjustment and Work. 📽🎬🎥

Bless your week 🔵 🙏 ✨️

“.. The fundamental problem is that corporations are institutionally ill-equipped to take center stage in policy debates. They are inherently self-interested economic actors with goals that often conflict with those of society.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

‘Information moved fast, but not with total freedom. In a Europe divided by religion and scarred by war, surveillance of the posts was inevitable.’ @earlymodernjohn.bsky.social on early modern news. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Ghislaine Maxwell, a convicted child sex trafficker, gets gardening time, sports, therapy dogs, and spa products in prison. Migrant children in custody are sleeping on concrete floors without enough food or clean water. Our priorities are so fucked.

Texas Republicans thought Latino and Independent voters would go along no matter what. Nope. That gerrymander is going to backfire. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

See Albert Camus’ Historic Lecture, “The Human Crisis,” Performed by Actor Viggo Mortensen

normie centrists everywhere: my god ICE is monstrous and must be stopped chuck schumer: maybe *two* body cams

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Drinking game. If my crush mentions her home town team winning the Super Bowl, everyone on the TL has to take a sip of hibiscus tea. 🌺🫖🏈.

Decompressing. Hopefully.

Shades of Tristram Shandy, this and UH alum Donald Barthelme's I Bought a Little City among my favorite short fiction post modern works. You can hear Barthelme read said story on YouTub🙃 Highly recommended.

The Atlantic’s profile of Bondi has some wow. @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Putting favorite Bible scriptures by chapter, verse on Threads. Why not.

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Yes you may have white cake if you eat your mustard greens and turnips...

JUDGE JOHNSTON: “Today, immigrants are being detained without due process. Tomorrow, under the Government’s interpretation of the law, American citizens could be subject to the same .. This Court will not allow such an unraveling of the Constitution.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

Time for some John Barth

‘A friend in London talks about the mystifying phrase she keeps hearing these days: “This is not America, this is not who we are.” But this is America, this is life, and this is how human beings behave. American exceptionalism will not save us.’ Yiyun Li on the blog. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...