Yippee!

🚨🚨BREAKING: In a huge victory for Democrats that will greatly increase their odds of winning back the House in November, Virginia voters have APPROVED the redistricting referendum.

The Maris Review, vol 101 This week's theme is college in the late 1990s was wild. I can attest. What I read this week Transcription by Ben Lerner I'm a Ben Lerner completist. I am always intrigued by his work, as long as ...

This week's newsletter is about how AI is a labor issue, how well @joshgondelman.bsky.social did as host of the Authors Guild Gala last night, and how much I enjoyed reading two very different novels that are, in part, about college in the 1990s. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

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If you arrived before 7 PM, you are legally allowed to remain there until you cast your ballot.

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Books We Like the Looks Of: New Releases in April 2026 See what April books we're excited about. This month's selection includes an International Booker Prize nominee, a novel that features Monica Lewinsky as a patron saint, and more.

Afternoon Hours of a Hermit by @patrickcottrell.bsky.social publishes today! I hope you took our advice and preordered your copy, along with the others on our list for April. Put your email in the box to subscribe so you don’t miss our picks for May! 📚💙 www.whoevenreads.com/books-we-lik...

Omg. What a dream.

And happy birthday to Her Majesty Elaine May!

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Love shack, babbbyyy.

Small Boat I didn’t ask you to leave, I said. It was your idea, and if you didn’t want to get your feet wet, love, you shouldn’t have embarked. I didn’t push you into the water, I didn’t fetch you from your v…

“It was your idea, and if you didn’t want to get your feet wet, love, you shouldn’t have embarked.” Read from Vincent Delecroix’s novel Small Boat, translated by Helen Stevenson.

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Me listening to Reese Witherspoon

Can we talk about how much generative AI will kill the environment?

Where I diverge from the star of The Morning Show (I'm sorry...a star of The Morning Show, a television program with more stars than the Big Dipper) is the assertion that because women's jobs are reportedly three times as likely to be automated, women have the obligation to increase their AI use. This doesn't track to me. If someone told me I was at a three times higher risk than the general population to be eaten by a shark, I would not take that as an imperative to start volunteering to clean the gums of great whites with gingivitis.

In this week's That's Marvelous newsletter I wrote about springtime and aligning actions with values and disagreeing with Reese Witherspoon about AI. Read the whole thing: www.thatsmarvelousnewsletter.com/180-reese-wi...

Trump says that the he will not open the Strait of Hormuz until deal is signed.

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Vote YES to restore fairness for our congressional districts and protect our power in the midterms.

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Thinking of Christina Applegate today.

Starting this book as well.

The Elements by John Boyne

#booksky

If you can get past the lack of punctuation, this story is quite moving.

The main character is illiterate so this writing structure was used to reflect that. It takes some getting used to.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

I want to read this one. Saving.

Van Halen’s “Right Now” in a pharmacy commercial is my newest sign of how old I am.

Next read 📚

Horse by Geraldine Brooks

#booksky

I found the men selfish and the women overly accommodating to their husbands while leading lonely lives. Hallmark setup of many marriages in the early 1960s,I imagine. The women connected but everything in the book seemed sort of devoid of emotion. Enjoyed for the most part. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Happy birthday to wonderful Hayley Mills!

I need to read a book about her but I think I remember reading that she lived very humbly in later years. I hope someone recognized her and made her feel like a million bucks.

Release them with the Epstein Files. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Full body workout. 20 min. Hurrah.

Unbelievable. I am so sorry.

West Virginia dad dies after insurer denied his $50,000 cancer treatment 4 times — 93% of patients face the same delays The vast majority of patients who require prior authorization from their insurer face delays, which can result in permanent disability or even death.

Out of 38 OECD countries, the US provides the worst healthcare for its people.

This time it killed Eric Tenant, 58, who needed cancer treatment, but instead of the US providing it, his healthcare insurer denied it as "unnecessary" four times — and then he died.

moneywise.com/insurance/he...

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I’m picking their work truck. Let’s tear down the patriarchy!