Need hope in this era of political nihilism? Come (virtually) to celebrate speculative resistance & protest with me, @drkarenlord.bsky.social, @older.bsky.social & guests, for our new anthology WE WILL RISE AGAIN. @citylightsbooks.bsky.social hosts Sat, 1/10, 11am PT. citylights.com/events/panel...

It’s been five years since Donald Trump incited a violent mob to attack the U.S. Capitol and prevent a peaceful transfer of power. Read my statement below.

Awards season kicked off last night with the #CriticsChoiceAwards, how did our Hammer to Nail staff do picking this year's best films? www.hammertonail.com/features/htn...

It's an old and obvious pattern. An unpopular president - failing on the economy and losing his grip on power at home - decides to launch a war for regime change abroad. The American people don’t want to “run” a foreign country while our leaders fail to improve life in this one.

Elon Musk, Who Spent Nearly $300 Million (By Far a Record) to Help Republicans in the 2024 Elections, Will Fund Them Again in 2026 Despite Earlier Statement That He Was Taking a Break from Politics (Corrected) electionlawblog.org?p=153680

But for some reason the USPS is supposed to make money

Long live the Mayor's Office of Data Analytics. www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic...

My old pal @eniiler.bsky.social with a killer story. What we save defines us as a culture—the archive is our memory and our future. And we’re throwing it away? Madness. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/31/c...

SCOOP: Meet Christopher Gardner and Megan Frederick: the newest lawyers helping to lead the DOJ’s ongoing legal campaign for access to states’ unredacted voter rolls. And they just so happened to have played a role in efforts to overturn the 2020 election. https://bit.ly/4pdVfSd

There has long been enough evidence to indict and the slow release is intended to 1) further torment Epstein victims 2) get Americans used to child rape by elites 3) flaunt impunity, since there have been no meaningful consequences for perpetrators 4) arrive right when AI casts everything in doubt.

The GOP says that liberals are killing off American industry, yet Jim Beam is shutting down for a YEAR due to tariffs. www.bbc.com/news/article...

This story takes a lot of turns, and every single one of them is bad. Women denied the ability to visit loved ones because they have tampons. Guards unwilling to be screened to prevent contraband from getting in prison. Bad all the way down. nysfocus.com/2025/12/06/d... @chrisgelardi.bsky.social

🇸🇩🧵We’re kicking off a detailed thread to help you catch up on the catastrophic violence & humanitarian crisis unfolding in Sudan. If you haven’t been following closely, this will give you the essential context. ➤ Up to 400,000 people have been killed since the civil war broke out in April 2023...

Sen. Blumenthal making a very good point.

CNN has suddenly discovered Tennessee's Patriot Front compound that was a subject of an extensive NewsChannel 5 investigation back in March. Here is my report: 1/ www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

The third time in 2 months that the official DHS account has tweeted a Nazi term which means "ethnic cleansing" of all people of color from America and Europe.

Still processing the tragic news of the loss of Rob Reiner. I'm of the age when he was a huge part of my film-viewing in the 80s, and about ten years ago wrote a piece for the BFI celebrating to my mind some of his finest work. www.bfi.org.uk/lists/rob-re...

Rob Reiner was a true patriot, a champion of democracy who understood the risks we face and strove to ensure that future generations of Americans would live in a free country. May his memory be a blessing.

No words tonight.

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

Supreme Court at any time may issue 2 orders on its emergency docket that will greatly affect how Americans live over the next few years: one on legality of national guard troops in American cities and one on whether States like Texas can re-redistrict and get away with it on timing grounds for 2026

If you happen to have read an SF tie-in novel this year that you really enjoyed, maybe consider adding that to the mix, eh? (*watches thousands of votes pour in for MASTER OF EVIL*) Maybe I should’ve worded that more clearly.... reactormag.com/cast-your-vo...

Vangeline, well known teacher, author and leader of NYC’s Butoh community, had a terrible experience on a flight from Montreal to NYC: www.vangeline.com/writings-van...

Absolutely stunned and honored to see THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US on this list. I'm grateful beyond words to the five families who trusted me with their stories and allowed me to witness their struggle to secure a home.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

The emergency powers in the EU's Digital Services Act risk destroying important evidence for future courts and historians. Alena Gribanova offers three targeted reforms to mitigate these risks and ensure the preservation of the digital historical record. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-...

📌"I have typed before, and will until my last breath, that Black voters are America’s TRUE patriots, and the only voting bloc that overwhelmingly and consistently gets it right. How incredibly sad it must be to see white people elect bile who see white supremacy as a virtue, instead of a plague."

Reminder - Mark Kelly is a space hero who believes in the #StarTrek vision of Gene Roddenberry trekmovie.com/2017/01/27/i...

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

I'm gonna just start blocking accounts that post AI art. I don't come here for that.

For what it’s worth, as a commander and officer it was my duty, moral obligation, and legal requirement to first question and then to not obey any illegal order I was given. The same is true for everyone who swear their oath. Hope that clears things up.

GIANT FLASHING RED AUTHORITARIAN ALERT apnews.com/article/immi...

"Every administration had people directly connected to Epstein in top positions. Barr, Blinken, Acosta, etc. You can play 'six degrees of Jeffrey Epstein' but it's like, the guy down the hall. You don't have to look very far." www.youtube.com/watch?v=e84j...

And what happens when DHS does this around election time next November, just to make everyone think twice about going through the hassle of going to vote? The message to everyone in 2026 must be: vote early! (whether, if allowed, in person or, if allowed, by mail)

I want to take a moment to thank the entire Elias Law Group team who worked on the Texas redistricting case as well as our fearless clients. The thirteen Black and Latino voters we represented stood up to challenge Texas's unprecedented mid-decade redistricting. We all ow them a debt of gratitude.

A pretty good write-up about Star Trek: Khan’s ending — warning, HERE BE SPOILERS! www.inverse.com/entertainmen...

Some news: tomorrow at 9am, Ted Koppel + CBS Sunday Morning will air a two-part story on the devastating surge of full-time workers being pushed into homelessness. I'll be interviewed along with two families from There Is No Place for Us. It would mean a lot if you'd watch and help spread the word.

Episode 2 of Stories From The States is live! This week, host @fitzsimon.bsky.social talks to a former Cincinnati Children’s Hospital chaplain who was detained by ICE for 73 days. Now, he shares his experience. www.newsfromthestates.com/episode/73-d... #FairFearlessFree #LocalJournalism

It’s wildly disingenuous for @aaron.bsky.team to reply to queries about Sarah Kendzior’s suspension about how they don’t comment publicly on individual users when he knows that we all know that they haven’t even told her privately what the basis for the suspension is

If Schumer lets this total con job of a “deal” happen, he is either the world’s biggest sucker/idiot, or the country’s most feckless damned traitor. Whichever it is, if he lets his caucus fold he will have proved himself unfit for office and we’ll have to picket his office until he resigns.

I always say how I never had a mentor to help me figure out how to be a journalist, but I do have a hero. This woman, who needs know introduction, Marley Shebala, who is probably the best Native journalist ever! She’s a trailblazer. But she has fallen on hard times like many gofund.me/4dd20c6db

BREAKING: A Trump-appointed judge rules Trump’s Portland military takeover unconstitutional. Judge Immergut permanently blocked Trump’s order to federalize Oregon’s National Guard — calling it a violation of the Tenth Amendment and a power grab beyond lawful authority.