1. This short thread is about what I see as a serious breach of journalistic ethics, in the making of Sofia Pineda Ochoa’s online documentary Greenwashed. She interviewed me for the film, but neither before, during or after was I given any idea I would be its target. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjWU...

If Trump Derangement Syndrome exists, then Trump is patient zero.

At Substack, a new poem-ish thing about dumb stuff parents say. dogb.us/la

Another favorite photo from when we lived in Inwood. Even Mister Softee needs to stay cool. August 2021.

Any time anyone anywhere gets arrested for a bomb threat, I can count on someone I know sending me the news story. This morning it was my little brother. #accidentalterrorist

Amateur hour. My bad example continues to echo down the decades. #accidentalterrorist www.businessinsider.com/man-made-bom...

Going through my photo roll, I found this shot from my old neighborhood of Inwood in 2020. Eerie the mix of emotions it brings up. Those were hopeful days. I hope we’ll have them again.

Liquid Glass? More like Liquid Shit.

Some thoughts on trying to find a better health insurance plan. shunn.substack.com/p/feeling-si...

Goodbye, streak. Wordle 1,628 X/6* 🟨⬜🟨🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩

Next time one of my Republican relatives wants to argue politics or morality with me on Facebook, my only response will be: “Quiet, quiet, piggy!”

HERO!

Heading to the Cutting Room tonight to see a @michaelianblack.bsky.social comedy special taping. The last time I attended one was almost exactly ten years ago. I will try not to raise my hand this time, because stealing the show twice would just be bratty.

Trump Has the Look of the Weak Horse; People Are Acting Accordingly talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump...

I wrote a little poem inspired by some recent headlines: dogb.us/gash

Back in 2019, I published this prose poem by Roger W. Hecht in The Piltdown Review, sadly still relevant today. dogb.us/toetag

My memoir The Accidental Terrorist: Confessions of a Reluctant Missionary came out ten years ago today. To observe this milestone, I’ve reposted something I wrote back in 2001, when I thought I was nearly done with the book but was only getting started. Plus, the ebook is on sale! dogb.us/milestones

For Halloween, a short story of mine from 1993. shunn.substack.com/p/colin-and-...

Amen.

My Sunday morning services.

An acquaintance from my deep past thought it would be a fine idea to share with me a “conversation“ he had about me today with Microsoft Copilot. One of many gems:

Interesting that we don’t hear the right talking about how the shooting must have been a mental health incident.

Rank journalistic malpractice.

Sure, let’s never forget 9/11. But can we also never forget that women are dying in this country for lack of abortion care, and that a murderous mob tried to attack Congress, and that climate disasters are worsening and causing ever more destruction and death…

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

I make a decent income *and* I live in a rent-stabilized apartment in Manhattan. It’s one reason I can afford this city. I suppose Cuomo and Adams would tell me to move out too.

I lived in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood for four months in 1995. I'd like to check out the old building when I visit Seattle next month, but I'm finding it extremely difficult to find any record of what the exact address was. (I apparently had a post office box while I was there. Huh.)

If I worked for the government I'd be going into full on Satanic beast mode so fast they'd feel my heat across the Potomac. www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

RIP, Chuck Mangione. You made my teenage years in a house where I couldn’t listen to rock music much more endurable.

Today's @tylogr.am puzzle may be of particular interest to @bcdreyer.social... tylogr.am/current

This is the third come-on I’ve received in the past week from folks using generative AI to try to sell me PR services. What is most offensive is that the technology used to generate this praise was built on the theft of the very text under discussion. Writers, are you getting emails like this too?

I’ve received two different emails in the past week or so from folks with unlikely names, each praising a different one of my books to the skies. I’m convinced that the emails were AI-generated, and the praise doesn’t really land anyway because the senders are trying to sell PR and SEO services.

Republicans celebrate another successful circle jerk, with Vance as the final helping hand. The rest of us get to mop.

Domino’s Pizza: “Hey, let’s build product awareness by talking about how we gaslit a bunch of our customers.”

I wouldn't want to be the gas pedal on the car Andrew Cuomo drives back to his home not in New York City tonight.

Andrew Cuomo says that only he can protect New York City from Trump. That strongman posture is straight out of Trump’s playbook. Andrew Cuomo won’t pronounce Mamdani’s name correctly. That racist practice is straight out of Trump’s playlist.

Certain conversations at my house require the following caveat: “I’m talking about my agent Barry, not our bunny Berry.”

We’re somehow at war with Iran and yet the cactus on the balcony is blooming extravagantly.

Sometimes I think, “Hey, I should write about how I grew my business!” Then I remind myself not to be a prat. I still might do it, but it would mostly be a post about blind luck. However, I will share this series of posts about how to lose $20,000 on a book. That’s quite replicable. dogb.us/annals1

Our new floor lamp comes with a rather remarkable remote control.

Diaper Don speaks like a six-year-old who just yesterday learned from his speech therapist how to pronounce L sounds. (No disrespect to six-year-olds intended.)

I composed this new poem specifically for Tuesday night’s “100 Days of Protest” reading. Video and text at the link below. The devil is in the details. shunn.substack.com/p/the-details

Just a reminder that I will be participating this evening in an online protest reading with some terrific (and angry) (and hopeful) poets. It’s on Zoom tonight at 6 pm Pacific, 9 pm Eastern US time. Hope you’ll tune in! www.tinyurl.com/100-days-of-...

“Let that sink in” is nearly always superfluous. Let that sink in.

If he can’t be James Bond, make Idris Elba the new pope.

So, I create a twice-weekly word puzzle called @tylogr.am, which just celebrated its fourth anniversary. Today's edition has a bonus question that might be of particular interest to fans of @thenextpictureshow.bsky.social and @thereveal.bsky.social... tylogr.am/current

This is so fucked up. ICE agents in Massachusetts smashed the window of a car to grab a Guatemalan guy who was with his wife. They were waiting for their lawyer to arrive because he has a pending asylum case. Story via @wcvb5.bsky.social: www.wcvb.com/article/ice-...

The New Bedford Light has more detailed reporting on this. This story should be everywhere. Fucking gestapo shit.

There’s just so much shady shit in this story, but this really sticks out. Folks in NLRB’s IT unit were so freaked out by what they saw DOGE doing that they wanted to notify the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Then this happened:

A federal judge in Maryland on Tuesday ordered a defiant Trump administration to provide evidence about how it has tried to secure the release of an immigrant mistakenly deported to a brutal mega-prison in El Salvador, saying that to date, the record shows “nothing has been done.” buff.ly/SIwJ8zz