Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

I’ve lost the ability to enjoy a number of authors whose works meant a lot to me because they turned out to be sex pests and I have much less attachment to politicians

Fortunately, I already figured out the plots of the next several Toy Story films

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

FYI, I have updated the section of my site where I give basic information about #kidlit agents--what they do, how to find one, how to assess their website, resources to use. You can start here: www.underdown.org/agents.htm

To recap: Jeffrey Epstein offered a NY Times reporter photos taken in Epstein's kitchen of Donald Trump and girls in bikinis *and* implored the NYT reporter to put this information in the public discourse in 2015 What did the NY Times editors know about this offer?

Rejoice with me: The doors of the F train closed in my face at Rockefeller Center, so I got on a B across the platform instead. It beat the F into West 4th and a minute later I had my F train and a seat on it! #Winning

i really truly wish any of the epstein furore was caused by a genuine concern for cruelty for teenage girls, for exploited kids. it would be a different country if it was, of course, but the discourse is sometimes jarring

So I try not to give too many gory details about life with long covid, but I also think it’s important to give a clear picture of what can happen to anyone. Over the last yearish, I’ve become allergic to more than 70 foods. Today I lost soy. I’m not how long I can keep eating at all.

I consistently share this anecdote any time I hear anyone opine on how the poor spend their money then move on to the fact that UBI experiments pretty solidly indicate that poor people overwhelmingly do not do this when you give them money

New York, 2004. 📸 by Richard Avedon.

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More National Book Award-winning writers need to spend the later portion of their careers picking one billionaire and just absolutely going to town.

This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.

Unfortunately still true bsky.app/profile/adam...

ICYMI for writers from over the weekend

Maybe Zohran Mamdani should have come out for ending the shutdown so Democratic Senators could have opposed it.

Fine, I’ll do it. I’m a resident of New York State and I’ll primary Chuck Schumer. #IVolunteerAsTribute

Every educated adult in the U.S. knows this but the senate shouldn't exist. There is no justification for North Dakota and South Dakota to have four senators between them when the combined population of both states is smaller than that of Chicago.

You know how we say TACO for Trump Always Chickens Out? Feels like we should call our senators DOLLs — Dems (who) Only Like Losing.

This is predatory capitalism. They gave tax breaks to billionaires so that folks could get bills like this for healthcare.

Find your senators at reps.fyi or call 202-224-3121

I have D senators (effing Schumer himself!) and I just called & left a message saying this—no donations to D senators as long as he’s leader & keeps giving in. This whole thing is shameful, spineless, stupid.

At the absolutely stunning Brooklyn Museum for today’s Brooklyn Children’s Book Fair. Open today until 3:30, lots of great authors, artists, & activities on a rainy day. Come on through!

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Yeah :D

For querying writers: I did a critiques today for an SCBWI conf & got questions about what kind of books you can cite as comps, & I think it’s worth distinguishing between *pitching* comps and *selling* comps. A brief 🧵:

I get this a lot too. I don't use ChatGPT or any LLMs in my work because I want my writing to sound like me, not like the averaged-out voice of the internet. But also, writing is thinking, and thinking is a habit. I don't want to get out of that habit.

I feel like we have the opportunity to turn David Lynch's quote into this moment's "Keep Calm and Carry On" and it's a far better rallying cry too.

My councilwoman! Principled AND good at constituent service.

But god forbid a kid should pick out a library book without parental consent!

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making Jacob the stereotypical Bluesky user is the rudest and truest attack anyone has ever made on us

People are On Here begging for food. People are on the street begging for food. People are starving to death in the United States, in Sudan, in Palestine. And we're letting Elon Musk have A TRILLION FUCKING DOLLARS.

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Mr Measured just ran in here to tell me he saw a video that said all the little girls dressed as Rumi, Mira, and Zoey on Halloween last week sealed the honmoon so things can get better now so if you need me I’ll be sobbing in a corner 😭

Also a good time to check ALL of your Bluesky moderation settings A couple of them were put into "Hide" without my action

America in a single tweet

Agree. Mamdani is a powerful example of this. He did not make his support for Palestine central to his campaign, but his insistence on sticking to his core beliefs when asked to repudiate them, but also reassuring those who were fearful, actually helped demonstrate his sincerity and values.

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

Democrats just ran the table, winning the marquee races -- NJ and VA sweeps, NYC mayor, CA prop, PA Supreme Court -- and lower-profile races in red and purple states across the nation. If the media you're reading or watching paints this as anything but a massive win, stop reading or watching them.

The 6yo heard WNYC talking about “Governor Sherrill” and asked if I was famous now. 🤣

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.

Re-upping the dedication of Mahmood Mamdani's 2020 book, 'Neither Settler nor Native'.

I did not expect to come out of this election feeling a strange respect, even grudging affection, for Curtis Silwa, but he is clearly a true New York Character and world-class hater and I admire that

“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN

ive had this in my head all day but now it’s LOUD M A M D A N I