R.I.P Anthony Head 💔

Read an excerpt! "A compelling story of finding one’s voice, and some romance to boot, well past middle age." —Michelle Richmond, NY Times Best-Selling Author dl.bookfunnel.com/1elryudyet #writing #BooksWorthReading #BrendaBarker #writingcommunity

I love Thoreau but never thought of him as possibly neurodivergent. This is a fascinating essay!

Submissions OPEN! Until July 15. Send us what you love, as long as it's flash, micro or poetry. No theme, no AI, no hate. We like lots of different things so don't prejudge yourself out of consideration. Submit! Writing is happy and also changes the world. Win-win. templeinacity.com/submit-writi...

Senate Republicans want to pass the MAGA spending bill tonight but this isn’t a done deal. If you’ve got a GOP Member of Congress, make one last call or email to demand they reject $70 billion more for ICE and CBP. Email: act.indivisible.org/sign/tell-yo... Call: indivisible.org/actions/gop-...

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

ALRIGHT EVERYONE HERE IS THE OFFICIAL SUFS GUIDE TO LEAVING PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE OMB-2026-0034 PROPOSED RULE: www.standupforscience.foundation/policy-and-advocacy/the-sufs-guide-to-writing-public-comments (share with all your friends!)

Very sad news

Yellow, white, gray, green

Hilarious and deeply insightful writing by @brianphillips.lol.

Today is Election Day in California. Vote in person or return your completed ballot at an official drop box before polls close tonight at 8pm to make your voice heard. Find your polling place: www.sos.ca.gov/elections/po...

Wring the Scottish rain clouds dry; Take sleet, the driving snow, the hail; Winter twilight; the summer’s sun slowed down to pearl-sheen dusk on hillsides, city-roofs, on lochs at midnight… —Ron Butlin, “A Recipe for Whisky” from WITHOUT A BACKWARD GLANCE (2005) #poem #poetry 🥃

My god, Octavia Butler, just miss ONCE

PSA: No Kings is supporting watch parties for the Committee for the First Amendment Concert on June 14th- not mobilizations. There are several non-affiliated scam PACs trying to raise money by promising a mass protest that's not actually happening on June 14th. Block them and tell your friends.

OKD is open for free subs until we reach our cap! Learn more about us and submit your best poetry or flash fiction: buff.ly/chQ4jpz Okay Donkey is always open for tip jar ($2.50) or expedited ($4.00) subs! Your contribution helps us pay our contributors and cover other mag-related expenses.

california is gonna have so many mail in ballots that don’t get counted because people don’t know the new USPS rules that are impacting mail in voting. tl;dr don’t put your ballot in the mail today, find a ballot drop box. www.kqed.org/news/1208537...

Hey weirdos we're open for submissions for print issue 27.

“We know there will be a time of reckoning…” This powerful gem by @kristintenor.bsky.social in @fracturedlit.bsky.social.💙

Submissions deadline is June 2 at midnight! That's about 57 hours left.

Last day to submit! Send in that story and tell a friend. brownhoundpress.com

Seconded.

Gorgeous day at Point Reyes!

I support this group. A lot. Everyone can attend this virtual meeting and get fired up and have a call to action.

Today’s walk in Half Moon Bay

Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’ @JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist.

yeah you gotta willie horton ken paxton. have the party committees and super pacs run ads explicitly accusing paxton of covering up for a child abuser. “you love your children and would do anything to protect them. so why would you vote for a man who lets child abusers run free”

Donald Trump's approval rating is the lowest of any president since our poll with YouGov started in 2009 www.economist.com/interactive/...

I just learned it’s World Dracula Day. On my podcast, I did a series of short craft talks based on this great novel. Here’s the first one. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t...

Thanks for this, I just shared with my group and posted my own comment via email.

Again, please share. In every aspect of American history you will run smack dab into the critical contributions of Black people. It’s not Black history. It’s American history. Trying to erase it is a fool’s errand. We live it every day. time.com/5836444/blac...

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

Memorial Day 2026 They didn't give their lives for an autocracy anntelnaes.substack.com/p/memorial-d...

Jesus Christ

Also brilliant, imo: Widow’s Bay. Funny, smart, great characters, great acting, creepy but not gory so far (love creepy, can’t do gore).

Ben Lerner’s Transcription is freaking brilliant.

The formerly feral kitty is asleep on my feet, so I will be here for the next five hours.

I’m reading a highly acclaimed book from a few years ago, and it is nearly all summary, with some dialogue and almost no scenes as such. I keep waiting for scenes to kick in, and instead we just get a new character. I don’t hate it, but I have questions.

I did usual experiment and asked ChatGPT to write a literary short story that could be published in Granta. Here are the first two sentences. If you skim, this has the "vibes" of a certain type of flowery literary fiction. If you squint, it both doesn't make sense and the nonsense clashes.

Congrats to my son Don (?) and his wife probably on their wedding or similar event, such as birthday party. I cannot attend, since there's a quarterback who still thinks I'm fine to be around in public. Best of luck to Eric or whatever kid I said a minute ago and his new Wife 2 or maybe 3.

I listened to the press conference - if you are in the evac zone you need to get out now. They did not sound confident at all that the tank won't explode at any second. www.wral.com/news/ap/e0da...

I love this idea, so I took this to @liccardo.house.gov ‘s local office this morning. The staffer loved it!

Trump has really gone out of his way to make this $1 billion ballroom a slam dunk attack line in every contest midterm race. Everyone gets it and sees it. There is no downside to opposing it and no way for any GOP to defend it on the trail.

Michigan just permanently protected 73,000 acres of land in the Upper Peninsula and opened it to the public. The deal, which was 5 years in the making, protects the land from habitat fragmentation and oil and gas exploration www.mlive.com/environment/...

NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:

BREAKING: Sen. Ed Markey calls for Trump's impeachment.

hard to exaggerate how heroic these men were. they likely saved dozens of children's lives. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Peter Dosa has written the best account I know of the similarities and differences of living under Orban and Trump, with beautifully crafted phrase that will stick in your mind long after you've read it . . . Bravo! substack.com/home/post/p-...