🚨ICE agents are racially profiling and arresting Hispanic drivers in the DC area today, targeting work vehicles like trucks and vans. A friend who was targeted sent me video today. Here’s a picture that shows one of two agents before he pulled on his mask. Unmarked black Ford truck, plate: NTV9211.

I think about this literally all the time, by the way. May your pillows always be cool, editors who confirm receipt.

I'm so sorry but this is deeply hilarious.

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Despite my best intentions, I’m liking pitches again. DM me for a query link if I liked yours!

On Wanting It—Being called to traditional publishing when we don't really need it. First newsletter essay. 🙂💀 open.substack.com/pub/maraholl...

I promised myself I wouldn't start a newsletter unless I had something new to say. Unfortunately, I found some things. So, newsletter launches today! open.substack.com/pub/maraholl...

I’m assuming you’ve seen this site that lets you scroll into the depths, with the creatures at each depth… but in case you haven’t, I highly recommend it neal.fun/deep-sea/

I know this is an ad but my god 😭🩵

Publishing is mostly a long-ass draught, but when it rains, it pours. 👀

For the love of god. Stop doing this. PLEASE. For one thing, my husband and I are working demonstrations of why you’re going to miscount. For another, oh my god, why do I even have to say the other thing?

Sexual harassment should be disqualifying and its a good thing that the sexual harasser lost. We have to get back to a point where we care about that shit again.

I saw so many people talking about how Mamdani and Lander were clearly running because they love their city and want to make life better there, while Cuomo seems to hate and fear it, and that feels like the key piece of this campaign that could be replicable by progressives everywhere

There really is something special about what Zohran and Brad are showing the rest of the world what it still means to be a New Yorker and an American. A Jew and a Muslim modeling a politics of mutual respect, rejecting cynicism. Human decency has been taking a beating but she's not out just yet!

I love this song!!!!!!!

THIS IS THE SHIT I'M HERE FOR <3

Fwiw, I ranked Mamdani first, Lander second, and Adams third. And every time Fix the City texted me, I sent back the same response.

Brad Lander and Mamdani cross-endorsing is one of the best things that's happened to New York City politics in years. Coalition building is so freakin cool. Not letting sexual harassers be the face of the Democratic party in NYC is also very cool. Good fucking riddance indeed.

Turns out a candidate's opinion on a conflict that goes back millenia doesn't fill the potholes in your neighborhood or get your kid's school to provide free lunches

Lander says he's fine, lost a button in the scuffle earlier. "I will be fine but Edgardo will not be fine," he says of man taken by ICE when he was detained. Lander says he has not been charged at this point.

Just days ago, Brad Lander called me to interpret for an Arabic-speaking asylee whose case was approved, yet ICE was still harassing him inside the building. Brad personally escorted him out to safety. He does this kind of work quietly, every day.

Brad has been released and the crowd breaks into a chant of “Free them all.”

every video of ICE arresting someone is just some guy minding his business and then people who look like poorly-costumed villains from a movie about WW2 body slams him

sox are a mess huh

fuck. </3

fuck, this is the worst. </3

Any academia folks still around? I'm trying to help out a friend—does anyone know anything about the Disabled Adult Child Benefit? Thank you in advance!

Authors, agents should give you a *minimum* of two weeks to get back to them about accepting or declining an offer of rep. If you need more time, ask for it! No agent should be pressuring you to sign immediately. Take the time you need and DESERVE.

Via @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social in NYT Opinion. "Digging deeper into the bill, the pattern of using burdens to quietly kick off eligible beneficiaries becomes undeniable." www.nytimes.com/2025/05/22/o...

The pronatalist movement is a eugenics movement exhibit # 1 million. We need more children, but we will let some children starve.

My students used to ask AI to write their homework for them and include references. The writing was bland and uninteresting and wrong, and the references didn’t exist.

Today is a red letter day in media history where a major newspaper managed to passive voice the actual publishing of itself

is my team good at baseball? unclear! but is the marketing team good? hell yeah! <3

Rangers: We have no Pride night Nationals broadcast: WE HAVE THE LONGEST RUNNING PRIDE NIGHT IN THE MLB AND WE'RE GONNA TELL YOU ABOUT IT 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Sometimes, the world gives us beautiful examples of why copy editors are necessary.

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I verified and this is real. Surprise! Antisemitism is being weaponized against POC but White people can hate Jews all they want. Trump doesn't care about Jews! Trump actually hates Jews! We don't have to fall for this.

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Trying to convince myself to clear up bookshelf space. pangobooks.com/bookstore/ma...

My phone still autocorrects to SHIBS in all caps even all these years later. What an extremely bizarre day.

THE NIGHTSHADE GOD getting a starred review from PW is extremely important to me. www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-316-43...

Today is Yom HaShoah—Holocaust Remembrance Day. Never again for ANYONE. Don't get distracted by what the political state of Israel claims to represent. It isn't a Jewish virtue to participate in the murder of tens of thousands of people. As Jews, we have a moral obligation to stand against genocide.

From the article: Nara Milanich, a Barnard history professor, said it reminded her of her research into 1930s Italy, when lists of Jews were put together by the local government. “We’ve seen this movie before, and it ends with yellow stars,” she said.

Unless we wanted data or resources to do that work. Then we were subject to the same rules. Even at hard money institutions, very little works happens in academia until it gets approved by a large team of people who believe in its value.

I promise that most agents aren't going to publicly share your query on a weird anonymous account. 99.9% of us really respect authors. I'm so sorry about the other .1%.

Not to put too fine of a point on this, but if I spent the last few months putting innocent people in concentration camps and the pope died basically three seconds after I met him, I would not continue life apace, I would not immediately clock back in at the fascism factory.