People are out here proudly announcing that they intend be authors and that they have no interest in writing, that they deserve a large-audience of readers but they themselves only read to extract from the actual artists they plan to usurp. Baby, the cogs have learned to TALK. Wild times.

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

“Mike Salemi is an outstanding lawyer, an effective manager, and a dedicated public servant who has delivered results for CFPB leadership under both parties.” nteu335.org/2025/12/05/c...

The President of the United States just called for Democratic members of Congress to be executed. "HANG THEM", he posted. If you're a person of influence in this country and you haven't picked a side, maybe now would be the time to pick a fucking side.

“Zohran has been marinated in love…He’s so secure in knowing who he is. There was a feeling of great pride and gratitude the night he won—that we had yielded this person who will bring, and who has already brought, hope to the world. That he has the mettle to do it.” ABSOLUTE FUCKING MOM GOALS 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Mira Jacob@mirajacob.bsky.social · 9mo ago

I interviewed ferociously brilliant filmmaker Mira Nair, a.k.a Zohran Mamdani’s mother, about how her voice and vision have shaped a man who sees a better way forward for all of us. SPOILER ALERT: Love matters. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

I interviewed ferociously brilliant filmmaker Mira Nair, a.k.a Zohran Mamdani’s mother, about how her voice and vision have shaped a man who sees a better way forward for all of us. SPOILER ALERT: Love matters. www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/feat...

How Mira Nair Built the World That Made Zohran Mamdani

The legendary director talks with Harper's Bazaar about becoming an artist and a parent

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My friend @mirajacob.bsky.social takes us all to therapy and I can say I got a lot out of it: mailchi.mp/eed8f2d5e619...

THE MAN IN THE BANANA TREES is a finalist for the @penamerica.bsky.social / Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Short Story Collection. Thank you to the judges and congrats to all the other finalists and their awesome collections!

Eid Mubarak from me to you 🌙

Letting this piece of writing from Kaveh Akbar (via @mirajacob.bsky.social on IG) wash over and through me. What is your answer this weekend? www.thenation.com/article/acti...

What Will You Do?

What’s your “I am Spartacus” move to protect the more vulnerable, the targeted, the invisibled, the next-on-the-list?

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If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.

Circling back on this…

Join us to celebrate 100 years of of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s masterpiece, The Great Gatsby. Authors and admirers @egangoonsquad.bsky.social, @mirajacob.bsky.social, @minjinlee.bsky.social, Wesley Morris, and Ernesto Quiñonez will take the stage. In-person and livestream tix available! bit.ly/4bH094Y

The second story on this Selected Shorts episode is performed by Rita Wolf. In “Death by Printer” by @mirajacob.bsky.social, technology both helps and hinders a widow as she copes with loss. You can listen to the story wherever you get your podcasts. bit.ly/41WMm5Z (Photo by Kevin Yatarola)

A great thread from @caseyparks.bsky.social on the hearing Judge Reyes is giving to a challenge to the trans soldiers ban.

Casey Parks@caseyparks.bsky.social · last yr.

DoD officials have said the military spent $52 million between 2014 and 2025 on gender dysphoria treatments for troops — so an average of $5.2 million a year. According to Judge Reyes, the military spends $42 million a year on Viagra treatments.

one thing i keep thinking about is how there is simply no way to design a constitutional system that can resist authoritarian incursion if participants in that system do not actually care that much

I know it’s just Wordle but today’s taking me 4 tries makes me feel like I’ve failed South Asian.

Too many folks on the wrong end of this curve

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com · last yr.

This is Reagan's legacy--the fruit of the seeds of skepticism toward government programs that he and his cronies helped sow. A poll this week found that 51% of Americans approve of staff cuts at federal agencies. And 51% also believe that "a lot" of government spending is wasteful.

"As soon as Trump was inaugurated, the department’s processing of disability rights complaints ground to a halt ... That has left students—including a 12-year-old boy with autism and epilepsy who’s been unwillingly assigned to remote schooling—without recourse"

America’s kids are already suffering under Trump’s education policies

What Trump and DOGE want to do to the Education Department, explained.

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A BOOK TOUR SO BIG IT’S BASICALLY A CLOWN CAR STUFFED WITH SUPERSTARS

What a disgrace. Bezos and the newspaper he has destroyed should be grateful that anyone thinks it’s still worthwhile to buy ad space from them. *This* is how democracy dies.

Washington Post backs out of ‘Fire Elon Musk’ ad order

The Washington Post this week backed out of a “Fire Elon Musk” advertising order that was to run as a wrap on some of its Tuesday editions, according to the advocacy group Common Cause.  The group …

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The geniuses at the Democratic Party settling on “maybe we were too woke” rather than “a cabal of billionaire pedophile Nazis are stealing your money and taking a sledgehammer to your future” is astonishing. Just one of those things

Letters went out to federal workers this morning stating they were fired due to poor performance. However, all employees had been rated as “exceptional” performers by their supervisors. Please keep these records and pursue wrongful termination claims. Let the lawsuits begin.

🚨🚨🚨STARTING AT NOON 🚨🚨🚨 70+ CFPB workers were fired last night in an email that didn’t even bother to mail merge [AppointmentDate] and [JobTitle]. Join us at 12p TODAY to rally for them! #saveCFPB

Government funding runs out on March 14. Republicans can’t pass a bill alone, so Democrats have real leverage here. We’re calling on Democrats to commit to withholding their votes and insist on an end to the Trump-Musk coup rampaging across the government.

DC folks: Elizabeth Warren, Indivisible, the CFPB union and others rallying outside the CFPB building tomorrow at 4:15

Stop Elon's Billionaire Grift: Hands off the CFPB · Indivisible

Join Indivisible, Progressive Change Institute, MoveOn, Americans for Financial Reform, and CFPB Union NTEU 335 to Rally at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau with Senator Elizabeth Warren and C...

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Joe Katz@joekatz45.bsky.social · last yr.

Under Joe Biden, CFPB returned $6 billion to American taxpayers. They took on Wells Fargo and Walmart and Zelle, junk fees and overdraft fees and medical debt on credit reports The billionaires won and we lost.

This is it. This is the take.

So You Bent the Knee and Were Banished Anyway: A Guide for Mainstream Media

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · last yr.

The Pentagon is doubling the number of media outlets losing their workspaces. OUT: The New York Times, The Washington Post, NBC, CNN, Politico, The Hill, The War Zone, and NPR. IN: New York Post, The Washington Examiner, OANN, Newsmax, The Free Press, The Daily Caller, and Breitbart.