woke up to the appalling news that the Asian American Writers' Workshop has laid off all their remaining staff; please join me in donating to the laid off workers' safety fund chuffed.org/project/1583...

Laid Off Workers' Safety Fund

On Aug. 4, 2026 the remaining staff at AAWW received layoff emails from the newly-announced Interim Executive Director Ed Lin.

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For @prospect.org today, I wrote about the big report Sen. Wyden dropped about how bankers gave Epstein a pass bc he was generating a ton of money for them. The report names a lot of names of specific bank execs and also calls out CBS, Sen. Blackburn and Scott Bessent.

Sen. Wyden Report: Banks Systematically Ignored Jeffrey Epstein’s Crimes - The American Prospect

The report shows how employees at Bank of America, Deutsche Bank, and JPMorgan helped to hide Epstein’s activities because he was a load-bearing part of their ‘wall of cash.’

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That moment when you realize that someone was only a friend for a season of your life is so bittersweet. I always wish them well, and I’m so sad to see them go. I try not to take it personally - this happens! - but there’s always still some grief in there over what was and what will never be again

No country that arrested librarians and booksellers was on the right side of history. But that's what's happening in Arkansas. And this is where your whole country is headed with H.R 7661 and S 4925. Via @everylibrary.bsky.social action.everylibrary.org/arkansasact372

Arresting Librarians AND Booksellers in the United States

History has shown that arresting librarians and booksellers has never led to greater freedom or liberty.

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"You being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone" is such an annoying take. I'm not trying to be interesting when I say a movie is frustratingly shallow, I'm saying it sucks that everything's for dullards and it's insulting that anyone who wants more than obtuse slop is called a snob.

There is truth to this, but the word “preference” should be replaced with “need.” Ppl in this country are drowning in debt. There’s no middle class. A lot of ppl would be in serious trouble if they missed two paychecks. So they choose cheap things out of necessity. It is very expensive to be poor

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

there are more disabled people because COVID disabled them! and we still don't even know the extent of the damage.

Dr. Nicole Lee Schroeder@nicole-lee-sch.bsky.social · 3d ago

I truly dont know how we can look around and pretend the same groups of people identified as likely to die or become disabled by Sars-Cov-2 no longer need protection. Sorry are you telling me there are no more pregnant people, disabled people, or elderly people in the world?

It turns out establishment Democrats believed in purity tests all along.

Donie O’Sullivan@donie.bsky.social · 3d ago

"I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker ... if he becomes a force in the Democratic Party, I am out of here," James Carville says on Fox this morning. Reminder: The Left Insurgency airs tonight on CNN at 8p ET.

Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

5 people I knew and loved died during the height of COVID. My trust in community and the social contract is gone. I will never forget how loudly ppl screamed about keeping vunerable ppl safe and how casually ppl went back to regular life and left disabled and immunocompromised ppl by the wayside

Lupita Nihongo@otsumamiboy.blacksky.app · 4d ago

What I hate about COVID downplayers is… you won okay. In the aftermath of humanity coming together to develop the most crucial vaccines of our lifetime & collectively sacrificing to save lives, we are now less safe, less vaccinated & less empathetic than ever. You won ok. Lay down your swords.

These assholes are purporting to terminate her DACA status because they are claiming that her illegal deportation by the US government counts as her traveling outside the US and thus violated the conditions of her DACA status.

Valerie Gonzalez@valontheborder.bsky.social · 6d ago

New: An RGV mother deported to Mexico despite having DACA filed a lawsuit against the federal government after it notified her it would be terminating her DACA status because of “unauthorized travel” stemming from her deportation. apnews.com/article/daca...

It's not just influencers. Because I'm not one. It is everyone who works as a freelancer. Under contract. Who juggles two part-time jobs. Anyone in America, anyway.

Soumya Rangarajan, MD, MPP@soumya-goblue.bsky.social · 3d ago

I really wonder if wannabe #influencers have thought through this 🤦🏻‍♀️ seriously where do they get #healthinsurance? I had to maintain my crazy #fellowship schedule cramming shifts this year solely for the #healthinsurance (I had to stay at least 50% #clinical to maintain coverage)

RFK Jr.'s claim that only sick kids die of measles ignores immune amnesia. Measles can wipe out existing immunity to other infections, making previously healthy children more vulnerable. In other words, measles creates more "sick kids." Also, sick kids don't deserve to die.

Here's the thing. The people who had these massive plantations were not dumb. Thomas Jefferson was not dumb. They modeled themselves after British gentry, complete with elite education for the sons, down to the Southern genteel accent that is a cousin of the English one.

Alexander Clarkson@aphclarkson.bsky.social · 4d ago

Well...

So the thing that ppl still don’t seem to get about this is it’s institutionalized ritual cruelty and humiliation for pretty much anyone who is not a white man. You can mock it, but it is an absolutely brutal experience for ppl who have invested decades in their fields of study

Anjali Dayal@anjalikdayal.bsky.social · 4d ago

I don’t really want to get into this with people who feel this way, but i don’t think this is a good thing! We don’t need to behave this way! It’s not healthy to approach academic discourse as an exercise in harshness!

Just saw someone on Threads that “losing weight is anti-capitalist” and I’m telling you, people are losing their fucking minds out here

Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

I am honestly so frustrated by the “it’s the end of reading!” discourse. Do we really think this is new? This has been a fear every time a new technology appears. Your only job is to read and show just one young person what there is to love about reading. That’s it. We can do this

Suggesting that a woman university professor who is the author of a best-selling translation should have been “kinder” or “more professional” to a male director who has had multiple successful films is both misogyny and willfully ignorant of power dynamics

My unvaccinated brother died of COVID in 2021. I was about a year and a half into my epidemiology career. Healthcare staff did absolutely everything they could but they cannot cure ignorance. They cannot cure an anti-science belief and culture. Thats YOUR responsibility. Not Dr. Fauci’s.

Please help and boost if you can

regular meghan 나영지 🇵🇸@ruemcclammyhand.bsky.social · 6d ago

hi, some of you know my friend Maha's son suffers from a lung condition that requires surgery but because he's so small, she gives him home treatments. i just heard from Maha that she needs a new battery ($1200) to power the solar panels that operate his ventilator. please help! gofund.me/ae41774db

Amen. #WritingCommunity

Extraordinary story from the @atavist.com: "Fowler and Deuschle have never shared their story in full—the details of what it was like to live, breathe, and possibly die from their commitment to the truth."

The Whistleblowers Who Exposed Decades of Nuclear Lies

In Paducah, Kentucky, workers at a revered uranium-enrichment plant were exposed to dangerous levels of radiation. Management assured them nothing was wrong. Then four friends risked everything to rev...

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8 years ago.

I don’t know who needs to hear this but never in human history have those who burned books been the good guys.

Let’s be clear here, when scientists say mistakes were made at the start of the pandemic, we DO NOT mean that we did too much. We mean not socially distancing quickly enough, not making tests widely available, and not acknowledging COVID is airborne and distributing N95 masks to everyone.

Amen. #BookSky

Yes

The Covid Amnesia Project and the Plot to Erase 2020

It’s up to those of us who experienced the pandemic in the real-world to make sure that what actually happened in 2020 isn’t deliberately erased by sheltered disinformation agents who experienced

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Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 7d ago

Running out of body bags, using forklifts to transfer corpses into makeshift morgues, a mortician conducting 200 funerals in a month when he usually does 30, crematories running at double capacity… And these senators just want to memory-hole it all www.nytimes.com/2020/04/30/n...

During the walk, participants carried signs with messages of support and led chants as they made their way down East Beach Boulevard. Organizers pivoted to a shorter two-mile walk for participants’ safety due to extreme high temperatures.

Gulfport Residents March for Nolan Wells in Blistering Heat to Demand Answers, Transparency

Dozens of Gulfport, Mississippi, residents marched in dangerously hot temperatures on July 26 in the Walk for Nolan Wells.

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if there’s any clear indication of elite impunity it’s the fact that the mainstream press has moved Ross Douthat toward increasingly visual formats

Oliver Darcy@oliverdarcy.bsky.social · last wk.

Scoop: I’m told that Ross Douthat is exiting The NYT and is expected to take a role at “60 Minutes.” News expected to be announced soon.