🚨NEW: This is what all networks should do! MSNBC fact checks Trump live during his press conference. The REAL crime stats are put on screen as he reads out his made up figures.

It's profoundly saddening to read that AP will no longer be assigning or running book reviews because readers don't engage with them enough and they take too much effort to plan and assign. People complain about critics as gatekeepers; wait until all that's left is marketing.

BBC International Editor Jeremy Bowen has confirmed that the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza City has been killed.

We will be publishing cultural criticism every day at The Rumpus. We hope to fill some of this egregious void being created by the mainstream media. Relaunch is in October but we are also publishing between now and then.

A small group of us is planning a craft fair fundraiser for Gaza on September 7. Some of you have already generously reached out to offer a craft to us to sell at the fundraiser. We now have a form with details for anyone who wants to contribute a craft: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... - thank you.

Four Al Jazeera staff, including reporter Anas Al Sharif, were killed in an Israeli attack on a tent for journalists outside the main gate of Gaza's al-Shifa hospital aje.io/onll19

The other journalists killed: reporter Mohammed Qreiqeh, videographers Moamen Aliwa and Ibrahim Zaher and operator Mohammed Noufal. The Israeli murder of Palestinian journalists is always intentional, always met with silence. And that's why it keeps happening. don't look away

Meta helped itself to my two books too…😡

i am going to keep coming back to this piece i think. trump is fighting a retribution campaign against the entire american people. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/05/o...

post office jobs have been a route to the middle class for so many black communities. unionrayo.com/en/usps-job-...

Western Bluebird in the rain #westernbluebird #birds #birding

Just the most morally brokeass pathetic cowards. Don't hesitate to stand up to them. They're afraid of the ghost of Jackie Robinson.

A teacher in Idaho has been told to remove posters reading "Everyone is welcome here" - specifically because it features different skin tones. As I wrote last week, this is a global political movement that has explicitly set the goal of eradicating the very concept of equality.

Not sure when the penny is going to drop that this dude means what he tweets, does and sig heils www.nytimes.com/2025/03/14/t...

KEEP CALLING. PEEL OFF ALL DEM SENATORS YOU CAN. ☎️: (202) 224-3121 Tell them to vote NO on Cloture and NO on CR. Vote is pushed to after 1:15ish for now. Situation is fluid. The only public YES votes are Schumer and Fetterman. They need 7-8 total. KEEP CALLING. Call retiring Senators too!

I love the New York Public Library, and am so grateful to history and genealogy librarian Serena Dresslar for recommending my book, ANCESTOR TROUBLE, in such outstanding company. www.nypl.org/blog/2025/03...

An NPR review of new data added to DOGE's "wall of receipts" finds the group quietly changed previous errors, added new ones and still has little verified savings to show for its work.

Your dignity honors the bravery of the Ukrainian people. Be strong, be brave, be fearless. You are never alone, dear President Zelenskyy. We will continue working with you for a just and lasting peace.

Jasmine Crockett: "The problem is that Americans thought it was okay to take a full fledged criminal and make him the President of the US and then they want to act aghast when he does criminal things. Let me tell you, we have a thug in charge of the US and if we don't wake up we may not have a US"

The DEI caused the plane crash narrative is a distraction. The tariffs are a distraction. Whatever insane nonsense Trump spews that the media will chase like cats chasing a laser light is a distraction. The only story that counts right now is the wholesale hijacking of control of the US government.

I recently did a Q&A with @paigebowers.bsky.social She asked me about storytellers, storytelling in different media, and thread of family history found throughout my work. Read it here: www.paigebowers.com/that-sinking...

Project 2025 was the absolute baseline the Democratic leadership should have been preparing for. Instead they're somehow surprised? And the lack of objection to Musk's role ahead of time leaves our coffers wide open and the public only hazily aware.

The administration didn’t backtrack because of a single thing our representatives did. They backtracked because the public revolted. Get loud. Stay loud. The disobedience is the point.

People are seeking books to teach their kids about diversity & belonging. What I hear: They're looking for books from a plethora of perspectives! Here are a few books, you & your kids may already be reading them ☺️ (🧵 1/4)

Let’s go.💙 Fall 2025.

✨Happy birthday, David Bowie!✨

The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers. —James Baldwin

This Friday, thriller author @megancollinswriter.bsky.social visits my newsletter to talk about her forthcoming book, CROSS MY HEART. Get that interview in your inbox by signing up (it’s free) at paigebowers.com

I had a total blast working with the amazing, creative team for Jupiter Magazine and Stuart Magazine! I think I need to set up a pop-up art studio in the woods. 🎨 Photos: Steven Martine, Writer: @paigebowers.bsky.social, EOC: Michelle Lee 👉 Read the interview: www.stuartmagazine.com/stuart-life/...

Florida schools and colleges have become a testing ground for conservative policies meant to limit or expunge what Republicans describe as “woke” indoctrination. Rather than trying to regulate what a professor can say, the new strategy aims to remove entire courses.

At least four of Trump's top appointments are men accused of sexual assault. These picks send a message: Trump is planning to make rape seem "normal" and destroy our (already weak) system for holding predators accountable. 19thnews.org/2024/11/sexu...

🎧 this podcast thanks to @theferocity.bsky.social. We were talking about the historical weight we feel when writing and researching poems and novels, and this came up. The links between slave-catching, the police, and testing/developing police and military methods in colonies like the Philippines…

I'm thrilled to announce that EDEN UNDONE is a Goodreads finalist for history! If you enjoyed this strange tale of sex, murder, and utopia, please take a moment to vote. I'll pick a random voter to win a free copy of the book and some steel denture swag. Thanks in advance!: shorturl.at/0EIlt

Having received hundreds to thousands of fan mail each week, it's only fitting to honor White with a postage stamp.

Nice round up of November books by @karlajstrand.com msmagazine.com/2024/11/05/b...

Interested in doing a History PhD in Travel Writing? The history department at the University of Warwick has received a donation from Tony Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet, for four fully-funded studentships! 2 with Autumn 2024 entry: warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/his...

I wrote about Mike Johnson, and the centrality of gender conservatism to the Republican party’s emerging new identity. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yusef Salaam, who was one of five Black and Latino teenagers convicted in the 1989 rape of a jogger in Central Park and exonerated decades later, was elected to represent Harlem in the New York City Council on Tuesday night. www.nytimes.com/2023/11/08/n...

for Esquire, I wrote about the realities of making a living as a novelist in today’s publishing landscape. https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a45751827/make-a-living-as-a-writer/

The National Zoo’s giant pandas are leaving D.C. and heading to China today, ending an era that spanned half a century, brought joy to generations of fans and left an enduring black-and-white imprint on the Washington region.

Plant swap this morning in Summerhill. One swapper gave her plants all kinds of backstories, like this one, which is giving big animal rescue energy.

Morning, all - please be aware. There's a new variant of COVID (again). Per the article, something to look out for today: "New projections are due to be published Friday by the CDC."

If you’re on Netgalley, this sucker is locked and loaded

After going relatively quiet on social media for a bit, I'm here, ready to post. Wondering what you think of the place, and whether you have any good suggestions on who to follow, etc.