Have mostly handled what was a terrifyingly backed up query pile and am back open to new work. Would love to read something unexpected and walloping!

Today and in the coming days, remember

Please buy books and read them. It will matter moving forward.

a dapper individual of the flightless avian variety turns to the camera dressed in formal black tux with white feathers and black flappers to both sides seemingly out of place in downtown tallahassee.

a friend sent me a photo from tallahassee, fl, today, which is having a very rare winter storm.

You can't shame MAGA. It's impossible to shame shameless people. I go on and debate them, trust me. They will make excuses for and glorify Musk's Nazi salute and Trump pardoning violent insurrectionists. But remember there's a world out there - and the majority opposes it. Be loud. Don't be silent.

Just saw Rick Scott of Florida saying he hasn't looked into the pardons (!)
GOP Senators may be the most pathetic people on earth. They will spend 2025 to 2029, just like 2021 to 2025, pretending they haven't seen or heard what Trump just did and what they know they can't defend. Shameless stuff.

Only real way forward.

my favorite reviews of Rejection so far are like, this made me want to puke up my ribcage. don't show it to anyone or read it in public. wear head to toe PPE while you read it and perform a Shinto cleansing rite as soon as you finish. 5 stars 👍🏼

All these women who turned in January 6 terrorists are in danger tonight

Ecstatic to participate in this project with these brilliant minds ⭐️

Saying goodbye to Dr. King. I climbed a pole for a better view. Remember that truth and light can't die. It lives inside y'all, and they can't take it away.

Millions of Americans voluntarily bent their knee to one of the worst men on Earth. This will be studied by future generations with both shock and horror. Sadly, we have to live it...or try to survive it.

Chuck, you have a book called Antisemitism in America coming out in March. Care to say anything about the Nazi salutes we all witnessed today?

anytime i see people going "what would the point be of democrats talking and pushing things they want to do if they don't have the votes to pass it" i try to imagine the republicans of the last 30 years going "we don't have enough votes to ban abortion so we won't try and you should stop asking"

‘Parable of the Sower’ Sparks a Mission Octavia’s Bookshelf converts into a mutual aid center for neighbors displaced by the Eaton Fire.

Just been in awe of the work the team at Octavia's Bookshelf has been doing in response to the fires. It's a powerful reminder of both the existing power of local third spaces AND the potential for a better world if our economy centered such places. Read about their work here...1/2

This.

Can someone explain why TikTok is a bigger national security concern than a social media platform run by a South African technofeudal oligarch actively interfering in our elections and sabotaging our national interests here and abroad?

This was basically the first thing I learned as I transitioned from poverty to lower middle class via my work in literature and media. The very rich are very very miserable. Doesn’t excuse bad behavior, but they’re not like…enjoying themselves the way I’d imagined.

"And yet prominent right wing influencers and political figures, including President-elect Donald Trump, are falsely blaming the fires' destructiveness on the city not having enough water to fight the blazes." Sad to see all the replies from people who don't get it.

Mr. Zuckerberg was amenable. He signaled to Mr. Miller and his colleagues, including other senior Trump advisers, that he would do nothing to obstruct the Trump agenda, according to three people with knowledge of the meeting, who asked for anonymity to discuss a private conversation. Mr. Zuckerberg said he would instead focus solely on building tech products. Mr. Zuckerberg blamed his former chief operating officer, Sheryl Sandberg, for Facebook’s culture, according to one of the people with knowledge of the meeting. He said new guidelines and a series of layoffs amounted to a reset and that more changes were coming.

It really is such masculine energy to blame things on a woman who no longer works at the company www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/u...

The ERA has ironically become a marker of how far we've backslid on women's rights. It passed Congress nearly 50 years ago, but there's basically no chance it would pass today.

Los Angeles, I see you. I see your tears, your generosity, your creativity, your beautiful mutual aid. You were never an old or stable city; you were a city of invention and imagination and change. You are maybe right now you are your best as well as most devastated self. 1906 account.

one thing i’m stuck on is this idea that “masculine” energy means license to act like a chud in public, as opposed to more traditional notions of public masculinity, such as those that put a premium on the performance of integrity, honesty, honor and generosity.

no bigger ideological bubble right now than the silicon valley/media nexus

AOC remains one of a handful of elected democrats who understand how politics operates

“Clearly he’s not fit for the Defense Department if he can’t even manage a simple cover-up.” Gina Palermo, Jingle Approver

Pete Hegseth Faces Difficult Confirmation Hearing
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