With arms linked and snow falling, Minneapolis ICE protesters dance as ICE agents retreat back. "Nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye!" WATCH ⬇️

There are violent extremists on the left but they are not in charge of the party. You can find them on social media, not in the halls of power.

The violent extremists on the right are in congress, on courts, and sitting in the Oval Office.

How often do we assign an entire imagined role—sometimes a villainous one—to a stranger? In @maggiedowns.bsky.social's essay, a group hike on the Inca Trail comes w both thinning air and thinning patience before things take a surprising turn.

Read here: buff.ly/jC7Fjma

The air was thin and the effort arduous on the Inca Trail. To make matters worse, another hiker ahead of @maggiedowns.bsky.social seemed to taunt her by carrying two backpacks. Why two? The answer, when revealed, left the author floored, just as it leaves readers breathless: buff.ly/C1ns1TM

@maggiedowns.bsky.social and @zackbornstein.bsky.social

I think we need to give this one more shot. Third time’s the charm, right?! We ride at dawn…I’ll bring farro and the kale.
Although, maybe we need breakfast tacos and coffee instead this time?

Phew, for a Minute There, I Thought the Arts Were Going to Get Too Much Funding “Dozens of US arts organizations have been notified that offers of government grants have been terminated, hours after Donald Trump proposed elimin...

"Finally—finally!—we can reroute those dangerous funds from writing workshops and elementary school jazz ensembles into more important things. Like tax breaks for billionaires. And tanks."

If there’s anything the past 24 hours have taught me, it’s that my group chats are boring

Last Friday afternoon, I got my first message from Ryan Daniels, public affairs manager of strategic response at Meta. When I declined his invitation to talk by phone, he wrote back again: “I was wondering if the Washington Post was going to write a review about a book that’s coming out this upcoming week on Meta. Do you have a couple minutes to chat?” So, I called. Daniels said, “We don’t have the book,” but the company had prepared “preliminary statements” about it. Although he didn’t share those with me, he wrote to me again on Saturday and again on Monday trying to get information about our review plans. (In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me.)

Yesterday, when I reached out to Daniels for a response from Meta, he wrote back: “Do you plan to write something about it, or are you just curious how we’re responding?” It’s always about controlling the narrative. But apparently, that’s not going so well. This morning, “Careless People” is No. 3 on Amazon. I know this is a long item, the longest I’ve ever written for the Book Club newsletter. But when one of the world’s most powerful media companies tries to snuff out a book — amid other alarming attacks on free speech in America like this — it’s time to pull out all the stops.

WaPo's Ron Charles, in his Book Club newsletter, on Meta's repeated questions about his plans to review Sarah Wynn-Williams's "Careless People":

"In my 27 years of reviewing and editing newspaper books sections, no company has ever done this with me."

It feels like if you shut down four airports by blowing up your science project, you should go to jail?

War heroes and military firsts are among 26,000 images flagged for removal in Pentagon's DEI purge References to a World War II Medal of Honor recipient, the Enola Gay aircraft that dropped an atomic bomb on Japan and women and minorites are among the tens of thousands of photos and online posts ma...

The US military has removed photos of the B-29 bomber “Enola Gay” — which dropped the first atomic bomb on Japan — apparently because it contains the word “gay,” which violates their new anti-DEI rules.

These ten Democrats should just quit. To censure Green when there have never been consequences for MTG for egregious behavior whereas Green was protesting fascism. We are drowning in shit.

Thank you! 1,000 words down. Time to go for a walk.

About to get through yet another day by creating fictional people in my head and writing a rom-com about it

JD Vance strikes me as the guy who leaves his shopping cart in a parking space because “it’ll give the workers something to do”

Sadly, I did that very thing — and ended up in a debate on FB. It’s the worst to realize this is what they wanted

A reminder for these times.

Started to type “it’s so fucked up that” and then I realized I didn’t even know how to finish that sentence right now

Would it be possible for all of us to get a restraining order against this administration? I’m not joking.

a sign at a vet front desk indicating that it has been 0 days since a dog pooped in the lobby

2025 vibes at the vet

I know this is the least of his crimes, but that dude has no taste

This is actually good news, frustrating as it is. People are so bad at thinking abstractly about risk, but as soon as a threat becomes real, they’ll act in the best interests of their children. It would be great if the rest of the country could see this and do the same!

Quit buying shit, write poems, live más

Don’t Tread on Me—Unless You’re a Billionaire with a Ketamine Addiction, in Which Case I Enthusiastically Support It Listen, I don’t know how to say this, but I think I’m finally okay with being trodden on. Just a little. Just enough to feel the reassuring weight ...

"I trust this guy. He’s not like the others. When the government tracks you, that’s tyranny. When a billionaire does it? That’s innovation."

Don’t Tread on Me—Unless You’re a Billionaire with a Ketamine Addiction, in Which Case I Enthusiastically Support It Listen, I don’t know how to say this, but I think I’m finally okay with being trodden on. Just a little. Just enough to feel the reassuring weight ...

What if, instead of fearing the iron fist of Big Brother, I actually feared the absence of a billionaire’s firm, guiding hand?

My latest for McSweeney’s

www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/don...

DOT says it will tie funding to birth, marriage rates The agency issued a memo after Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy authorized a series of actions to advance Trump’s agenda.

With all the other news, it’s easy to have overlooked this story about the Department of Transportation prioritizing communities with higher marriage and birth rates 🙃
finance.yahoo.com/news/dot-say...

Murphy: "This is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. Let's call it what it is."

What do you suppose our well-regulated militia is doing these days

Being a rapist wasn’t a dealbreaker. Being a convicted felon wasn’t a dealbreaker. Attempting to overturn an election by inciting an insurrection wasn’t a dealbreaker. The racism, the sexism, the inexhaustible idiocy … none of it mattered.

But now that money is on the line? Let’s see who flips

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

www.404media.co/declassified...