WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.

no one can agree on what the middle class is because it doesn’t really exist. you either own the means of production or you don’t

These are bad days.

If you have anything that will help us through them, please send it along.

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Book people: the following small presses have just lost funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. Please consider supporting them!

A Thread.

A party that actually wanted to mobilize young and disillusioned voters would be studying Zohran Mamdani’s campaign like the Bible

"Good fucking riddance," Lander says of Andrew Cuomo, who was trailing behind Zohran Mamdani tonight

Former critics who once demanded Cuomo resign are now endorsing him A POLITICO review of Cuomo’s touted endorsers found that few of them stood by him in 2021.

This whole, "sexual assault and harassment is bad when Trump does it, but ok when our side does it," is sending a really clear message that the old guard of Democratic leadership only cares about women when it's politically advantageous.
www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Yes. I am right. I am seeing how Chat GPT is ruining students critical thinking and writing skills in real time. It is not the future. It is a tool designed to render the populace helpless, to make people doubt their innate intelligence, and to foster overreliance on technology.

Of all the ways to vote, the U.S. presidential election is the worst There are many mathematically sound ways to vote, but the way the United States votes is the worst.

If you've read that Atlantic story by Annie Lowrey about why ranked choice voting sucks, I'm telling you she's wrong. And I know this because I did something in 2017 Annie did not for this story - I talked to a mathemtician.

Haitian national in ICE custody passes away Consistent with ICE policy, ERO Miami notified the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the Office of Inspector General, and the ICE Office of Professional Responsibility via the Integrity Coordinati...

It's not just the raids--- people are dying while in ICE custody, and we need to pay attention to this.

A Haitian woman died in ICE custody in Florida in April. At the time ICE said her death was "under investigation".

www.ice.gov/news/release...

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Endorses Zohran Mamdani as Top Choice for Mayor (Gift Article) The New York City congresswoman said she would list Adrienne Adams second on her Democratic primary ballot and urged the left to unite to defeat Andrew Cuomo.

1. BREAKING

Congresswoman @aoc.bsky.social is endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social as her top choice for New York City Mayor.

She tells the New York Times that she will be ranking Mamdani first on her ballot followed by the candidates listed in the post below.

In cool book things, our friends are @littlepuss.net are bringing out the badass looking zine collection Gendertrash from Hell. If ever there was a time for publishers to make the materials of past social/cultural struggles more accessible, it's now www.portersquarebooks.com/book/9781964...

59. Extraction How can they speak for us if they can't even understand our land?

Last week, the New York Times came to Oregon and described the forest as smelling like a pine tree air freshener sold at car washes. Today I talk about why this is a great metaphor for helicopter journalism and the ways national media loses trust.

leahsottile.substack.com/p/59-extract...

The Invention of Close Reading By transforming quotations into evidence, close reading served as way to turn postwar criticism into a specialized knowledge. But what if we treated it more as an art form?

‪Why should we do close reading? @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social in @booksandthearts.bsky.social on the history and future of close reading www.thenation.com/article/soci...

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Yes, we received *that* email. Courage and strength to all our fellow small, independent presses doing the important work of celebrating diverse and original voices, whether its poetry or nonfiction, translated or not. Literature is not going anywhere.

After the Rooster Crows: Dispatch from a Poet in Exile There is no other way to say this: I write you now from exile, having (if you are reading this) fled political persecution in my home country, the United (for now) States of America. I say this pla…

“There are moments when a place you live stops being livable. Sometimes that arrives slowly, like a leak. Sometimes all at once.” A dispatch from @oliverbaezbendorf.bsky.social, poet in exile.

These last weeks, I have come to appreciate the profundity of the wisdom in the hadith (narrated by Anas ibn Malik) usually translated as some version of "If the Final Hour falls upon you while you hold a seedling in your hand, plant the seedling." Doesn't matter if it's "too late." It still counts.

NEA GRANT TERMINATION TRACKER

Crowdsourced list of organizations with terminated NEA grants, c/o @publisherswkly.bsky.social docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

My heart is still beating so fast.

Thank you @pulitzerprizes.bsky.social

Thank you @bloomberg.com and especially the CityLab team @kristoncapps.bsky.social @nicflatow.bsky.social and David Dudley

Stories here! www.bloomberg.com/features/des...

I'm listening to this, slowly, and reading Theory of Water, slowly, and I can't just quote the entirety of both despite that being how essential they are so will just very strongly suggest others do as well. this is the thinking that helps find us a way through what we're in, right here

Congrats to @newyorker.com's Mosab Abu Toha for winning the Pulitzer Prize in commentary. Unbelievably proud of him and his editor Daniel Gross. Read Mosab's work here. www.newyorker.com/contributors...

For the Monday morning crowd: a 🧵on how to appeal your NEH grant termination. Please share with NEH grantees.

I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

This poem. ht Rabbi Sivan Rotholz.

God willing, we will turn the boat around before entire lifetimes.But nonetheless.

don’t you remember/
when someone loved you without knowing what you were?

elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of flames . ALT: elmo from sesame street is standing in front of a wall of flames .

the year this gif became earnest

The Maris Review, vol 50 Alas, AI doesn't have feelings but it really deserves to feel embarrassed. Or the people who've built it should. What I read this week Searches: Self-Hood in the Digital Age by Vauhini Vara I love...

I wrote about @vauhinivara.bsky.social's excellent new book about how we use tech and how tech, in turn, uses us. I also spotlighted some new releases and talked a bit about Bob the Drag Queen, the Author.
www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

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Submissions for The Commuter and Personal Narrative open in one week! Get ready to send us your best. buff.ly/5jrE0YZ