I remember when trying to forgive student loans was massive overreach of Presidential power.

Nice! Loved that one back then.

“Show me what comic you loved when you were 13, and that's all I need to know about you.”

Political violence is evil, killing people is evil, a country with more guns in it than people is broken, and what the government is saying about political violence right now being a primarily leftwing phenomenon is factually, statistically untrue. They are using this moment to rewrite history.

“Or maybe she was still asleep asleep. Maybe everything she saw now was only a reflection of a reflection of reality, like that moonlight in the water.”

New fiction from @gregoryspatz.bsky.social in our latest issue! Keep reading + subscribe at zyzzyva.org

How The New York Times is (still) getting gamed by the right And blowing its credibility in the process.

the new york times got rid of its public editor some time ago, so I took the position out for a spin www.theverge.com/culture/7000...

• The cult of tradition. • The rejection of modernism.” • The cult of action for action’s sake. • Disagreement is treason. • Fear of difference. • Appeal to social frustration. “ • The obsession with a plot. • The enemy is both strong and weak • Pacifism is trafficking with the enemy. • Contempt for the weak • Everybody is educated to become a hero. • Machismo and weaponry. • Selective populism. • Ur-Fascism speaks Newspeak. “

Thinking of Umberto Eco's 14 signs of fascism essay from 1995 a lot lately.

No reason.

Probably will want to change this a thousand times.

New Bomb Capable Of Creating 1,500 New Terrorists In Single Blast

theonion.com/new-bomb-cap...

Marines Raise American Flag Outside Cell Phone Store After Defeating Skateboarding Teenagers

Marines Raise American Flag Outside Cell Phone Store After Defeating Skateboarding Teenagers
theonion.com/marines...

there's so many layers of fraud and abuse in this story that "someone might have been trying to log into the NLRB's systems with a valid Doge username and password from russia" doesn't even make it into the first 5,000 words

A movie from the year you turned 18

Only takes 23 Senate Democrats to remove Chuck Schumer from leadership and replace him with someone willing to fight

thinking about when siskel and ebert were dicking off and riffing in-between takes and decided to roast the shit out of the protestants

My short story, "Maladies," has been published by failbetter! Come for the literal toilet humor, stay for the hypochondriacal high jinks: www.failbetter.com/content/mala... #ToiletHumor #FeelBadStory #ShortStory

Local Clown | Short Story by Kevin Yeoman in the February 8, 2025 issue of The Write Launch The one-way bus ticket eats up a big chunk of his earnings and leaves him with just enough cash for a quick fix when he gets home—something to take the edge off while he figures out what to do about h...

My short story "Local Clown" has been published @thewritelaunch.bsky.social! Clowns aren’t just for nightmares anymore. Read it here: thewritelaunch.com/2025/02/loca... #ShortStory

'Stop playing nice!' AOC mad at Dem colleagues refusing to 'block everything' in Congress Hours after Democratic lawmakers warned that billionaire Elon Musk's takeover of federal agencies is "what the beginning of dictatorship looks like," expressed outrage at being barred from entering th...

www.rawstory.com/stop-playing...
THIS THIS THIS THIS THIS!

Celebrating my brilliant friend Shraya, whose short story just landed in
@pacificalit.bsky.social! Don’t miss this gem. www.pacificareview.com/past-in-prin...

Post a VHS cover that scared you as a kid.

Graphic of a woman on the telephone, and old timey corded telephone. Text reads EIGHTY ONE IS DONE.

Ahoy ahoy! Been a hot minute, and it's high time for fresh words.

Our eighty first issue is live. Tell your third most well-intentioned stranger.

www.roifaineantpress.com/blog

#writingcommunity

shouts to all the media outlets who uncritically parroted him when he said he didn’t know anything about the same Project 2025 he’s now implementing

NO Streaming Curuation Beats Your Own Blu-Ray Curation. Diabolikdvd.com

#diabolikdvd #physicalmediaadvocates

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Head to our website to read about Richard Robbins and hear him read his poem published in issue 94 of Willow Springs!

Huge congrats to Kurtis Ebeling for having a poem published in @wildroofjournal.bsky.social. A beard as magnificent as his was bound to produce some literary brilliance. Check out his work in Issue 28! wildroofjournal.com/issue-28-gal... #Poetry #WildRoofJournal #BeardGoals

Why I'm quitting the Washington Post Democracy can't function without a free press

This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires

anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.

"“My mom used to be, like, such a huge fan of yours when she was younger. She just turned the big four-five and is super depressed her life is, like, over.” I’m not gonna lie, I didn’t expect such a brutal flurry of emotional bodyblows from this one. I guess it’s true: words can hurt. "

Meet Vernon Jones, aging actor who is constantly being reminded that he's an aging actor. Follow him and his cohort, Redford, through a night of revelry and whatnot. Check out "Act as if You Belong" by @vernonadjacent.bsky.social and enjoy the ride!

www.roifaineantpress.com/post/act-as-...

…and lo, it was very good.