Good news: Tom Lin (@tom-lin.bsky.social) has a new novel coming out! Publication is nine months away, ah well. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/tom-l...

Babylon, South Dakota

From the author of the Carnegie Medal in Fiction winner The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu comes a tantalizing, American West saga about a Chinese American fami...

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reading the news

The historians are speaking plainly & directly. Timothy Snyder, specialist in the history of Central & Eastern Europe, the Soviet Union and the Holocaust. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

The Logic of Destruction

And how to resist it

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“I’m here to chew gum and kick ass,” he said, unwrapping another stick of Trident, “and I’ve still got like three packs of gum.”

"We must grapple with the reality that the current models we have for philanthropy are not up to the task of incubating, developing and supporting strategy on the left." on the list of serious election post-mortems, highly worth your time to read www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Left Organizing Is in Crisis. Philanthropy Is a Major Reason Why.

Progressive philanthropy lacks good strategy, so too many of our organizations are hollow—and that left us unable to prevent a second Trump term.

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done with the hard part, now onto the hard part!

I think journalists, policymakers and good govt types are struggling to understand DOGE because their mental model is that it is a government reform commission, operating like previous ones. Maybe. But it might be better to start thinking about it as a hostile takeover of the govt by oligarchs.

There are 12 other answers but, as you'll see by reading the first two responses, @colsonwhitehead.com pretty much sums it up www.nytimes.com/2025/01/02/o...

in 2025 this gesture will be coming back in a big way for me

there are some days where i have more people mad at me online than my ancestors would have had mad at them in their entire lives. there is functionally no difference between this and being cursed by a witch

i've still got no comparisons for this story to anything else in american politics in my lifetime

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2y ago

Luigi Mangione’s fellow prisoners yelled “Luigi’s conditions suck” and “Free Luigi” from their cells in Pennsylvania during an interview: www.newsnationnow.com/banfield/lui...

Put down your phone and walk through a wall. Or write a book. It's the same thing.

it wasn't until I read this (very good) @defector.bsky.social story that I realized her name is spelled Haliey, which is just an exceptionally bizarre and cruel decision for her parents to make

The Hawk Tuah Memecoin Rug Pull Is The Apotheosis Of Bag Culture | Defector

I can’t ease you into this one, so: Haliey Welch, colloquially known as the “Hawk Tuah girl,” launched a bespoke cryptocurrency token called HAWK last Wednesday, the same day she told Fortune it was “...

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I would love to write a piece on the Adjustor’s goodreads profile.

Only ever thinking of Søren Solkær's photographs of starling murmurations.

WISDOM IS BACK!!! (If you're not familiar, this fantastic queen of a bird has been hatching chicks on Midway for at least 74 years and is practically saving her species)

Johan Lind@johanlind.bsky.social · 2y ago

Wisdom's still alive, she's back at her breeding grounds! This season she'll turn at least 74 years old. 🎉🎊💃

I was already excited to click on a news story about Rudy Giuliani having a meltdown in court today and YELLING at the judge. But nothing prepared me for the courtroom sketch

devastating truth

Taco Bell Quarterly@tacobellquarterly.org · 2y ago

In order to write a book, you have to write a book.

Barnard Bulletin, New York, November 22, 1938

Melons could kill you; so could melancholy. In his new book Eating and Being, the historian of science Steven Shapin analyzes the longest-enduring system of medical and gastronomic thought in European history, dietetics. My review is up at LARB: lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-m...

On Melons and Melancholy | Los Angeles Review of Books

Ben Wurgaft demonstrates how Steven Shapin’s “Eating and Being” illuminates the intellectual and cultural dynamics of “dietetics”—the relationship between diet, health, and identity—like no prior work...

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why is this written like this lol www.vanityfair.com/style/story/...

Cormac McCarthy’s Secret Muse Breaks Her Silence After Half a Century: “I Loved Him. He Was My Safety.”

When he was 42, Cormac McCarthy fell in love with a 16-year-old girl he met by a motel pool. Augusta Britt would go on to become one of the most significant—and secret—inspirations in literary history...

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politics reporters are so washed man. i can't find any information on Walz's bench, squat, or power clean at all

I am so honored to be speaking at the National Book Festival this month, an annual celebration of books put on by The Library of Congress. If you’re in the DC area I hope you’ll come see me speak with Alexander Sammartino about writing violence and the west. www.loc.gov/events/2024-...

discovering that design within reach unfortunately exceeds design within grasp

NYC libraries face a $58.3 million cut that could force Saturday closures, meanwhile @NYCMayor announced a $225 million Cop City. Budgets are moral documents: libraries amplify human thriving and cops amplify violence. @NYCCouncil #NoCutsToLibraries investinlibraries.org/dayofaction

Day of Action for Libraries: #NoCutsToLibraries — Invest in Libraries

Your library and your community need your help! Our public libraries are facing a potential $58.3 million cut.

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Average American president has been convicted of .74 felonies

when you design your syllabi, remember that the point of education is to get students to engage with something so weird that they never stop thinking about it for the rest of their lives