Sane people in the US are terrified and gutted. It will take generations to dig out of the hole a few genuinely evil people have dig for us. But please don’t retreat. Now is the time to find a way to act, to make the lives of our elected representatives harder, to work, to build communities.
January 21, 2026 at 10:24 AM
Sane people in the US are terrified and gutted. It will take generations to dig out of the hole a few genuinely evil people have dig for us. But please don’t retreat. Now is the time to find a way to act, to make the lives of our elected representatives harder, to work, to build communities.
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every time I read this, I get apocalyptically apoplectic about how clear it is. it is instant. it does not require explicit congressional action to invoke, it instead only requires that to remove.
donald trump is not the current president right now, according to the constitution.
donald trump is not the current president right now, according to the constitution.
January 20, 2026 at 6:44 PM
every time I read this, I get apocalyptically apoplectic about how clear it is. it is instant. it does not require explicit congressional action to invoke, it instead only requires that to remove.
donald trump is not the current president right now, according to the constitution.
donald trump is not the current president right now, according to the constitution.
At the end of this, I want to see a federal government made up of socialist nurses, elementary school teachers, mothers, and librarians. Get rid of every single Republican, every Democrat who sat on their thumbs and let this happen. The US better be to the left of Sweden when this is all over.
January 19, 2026 at 1:39 PM
At the end of this, I want to see a federal government made up of socialist nurses, elementary school teachers, mothers, and librarians. Get rid of every single Republican, every Democrat who sat on their thumbs and let this happen. The US better be to the left of Sweden when this is all over.
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But the president of the United States is a criminally insane madman who is openly extorting the entire world and threatening war with NATO. The test is whether you’ll actually react APPROPRIATELY and PROPORTIONATELY, and our institutions have not and in fact refuse to do so.
January 19, 2026 at 10:22 AM
But the president of the United States is a criminally insane madman who is openly extorting the entire world and threatening war with NATO. The test is whether you’ll actually react APPROPRIATELY and PROPORTIONATELY, and our institutions have not and in fact refuse to do so.
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Stay strong, Minnesota. These fascist motherfuckers are stupid and cruel. We will prevail.
January 15, 2026 at 11:42 AM
Stay strong, Minnesota. These fascist motherfuckers are stupid and cruel. We will prevail.
Every day a new extreme embarrassment about being American.
Exactly two of us want to take over Greenland, and they’re the worst humans alive. We don’t want this. We don’t want WWIII. We don’t want to be at war with our allies.
Trump needs to be in prison, where he belongs.
Exactly two of us want to take over Greenland, and they’re the worst humans alive. We don’t want this. We don’t want WWIII. We don’t want to be at war with our allies.
Trump needs to be in prison, where he belongs.
January 11, 2026 at 3:21 PM
Every day a new extreme embarrassment about being American.
Exactly two of us want to take over Greenland, and they’re the worst humans alive. We don’t want this. We don’t want WWIII. We don’t want to be at war with our allies.
Trump needs to be in prison, where he belongs.
Exactly two of us want to take over Greenland, and they’re the worst humans alive. We don’t want this. We don’t want WWIII. We don’t want to be at war with our allies.
Trump needs to be in prison, where he belongs.
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American conservatives will look you right in the eye with a straight face and tell you that complete and utter subservience to masked federal police is patriotism, anything else deserves being executed in the street, and tax dollars for healthcare is tyranny.
January 9, 2026 at 12:12 AM
American conservatives will look you right in the eye with a straight face and tell you that complete and utter subservience to masked federal police is patriotism, anything else deserves being executed in the street, and tax dollars for healthcare is tyranny.
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There are people who don't know, who didn't know. Moments like these are when they learn, and a window opens for people who want to turn their hunger for justice into action, for our numbers to increase. Stay mad and don't get jaded, in my opinion, get the newly passionate on board. 2/2
January 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
There are people who don't know, who didn't know. Moments like these are when they learn, and a window opens for people who want to turn their hunger for justice into action, for our numbers to increase. Stay mad and don't get jaded, in my opinion, get the newly passionate on board. 2/2
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in these moments, in my view, it is a political and spiritual DUTY for my outrage and anger to be as fresh as if I'd never heard how they shot Fred Hampton in his bed. As fresh as if I didn't know Bobby Hutton was surrendering when they shot him. 1/2
January 7, 2026 at 7:40 PM
in these moments, in my view, it is a political and spiritual DUTY for my outrage and anger to be as fresh as if I'd never heard how they shot Fred Hampton in his bed. As fresh as if I didn't know Bobby Hutton was surrendering when they shot him. 1/2
So angry I can barely breathe.
January 8, 2026 at 1:55 AM
So angry I can barely breathe.
Remove him from power immediately. If this isn’t evidenced of insanity, I don’t know what would be.
January 3, 2026 at 5:39 PM
Remove him from power immediately. If this isn’t evidenced of insanity, I don’t know what would be.
Pro tip: if you want to collaborate with an independent bookstore, don’t use AI in your communications. You instantly lose all credibility.
January 1, 2026 at 11:23 PM
Pro tip: if you want to collaborate with an independent bookstore, don’t use AI in your communications. You instantly lose all credibility.
Art lives in the process, in the struggle to grow and figure out the specific needs of the work, and in the arrival at a better understanding of the artist’s limitations. The product is just the end result of the art.
December 26, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Art lives in the process, in the struggle to grow and figure out the specific needs of the work, and in the arrival at a better understanding of the artist’s limitations. The product is just the end result of the art.
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Let's not forget the obvious: that the Felon in the White House is also a Russian asset. Working to the benefit of russia, not the United states. Donald Trump is destroying the country from within for the benefit of Vladimir putin.
December 24, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Let's not forget the obvious: that the Felon in the White House is also a Russian asset. Working to the benefit of russia, not the United states. Donald Trump is destroying the country from within for the benefit of Vladimir putin.
Generative AI is for losers. It’s so embarrassing to watch people debase real artists, the environment, and themselves for a sloppy, rip-off of a party trick.
December 21, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Generative AI is for losers. It’s so embarrassing to watch people debase real artists, the environment, and themselves for a sloppy, rip-off of a party trick.
Grammar pet peeve (I know, language is constantly evolving, etc.) but I’ve seen this three times today:
You graduate FROM college (intransitive usage of the verb).
The college is what graduates you (transitive).
The college remains where it is; you take your degree and flee.
You graduate FROM college (intransitive usage of the verb).
The college is what graduates you (transitive).
The college remains where it is; you take your degree and flee.
December 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Grammar pet peeve (I know, language is constantly evolving, etc.) but I’ve seen this three times today:
You graduate FROM college (intransitive usage of the verb).
The college is what graduates you (transitive).
The college remains where it is; you take your degree and flee.
You graduate FROM college (intransitive usage of the verb).
The college is what graduates you (transitive).
The college remains where it is; you take your degree and flee.
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If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
December 11, 2025 at 4:44 AM
If you make a billion dollars — or $500 million or even $100 million dollars — and you keep trying to make more, then there is something seriously wrong with you. It's a mental illness akin to hoarding or drug addiction.
Don’t comply in advance. Fuck fascism.
December 11, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Don’t comply in advance. Fuck fascism.
I get so furious when people who could easily write something dumb and quick clearly use Chat GPT to toss it off. They’re just branding their foreheads with the word LAZY.
December 9, 2025 at 11:07 PM
I get so furious when people who could easily write something dumb and quick clearly use Chat GPT to toss it off. They’re just branding their foreheads with the word LAZY.
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Pretty impressive that through this entire scandal and press blitz, RFK Jr. hasn't lost focus on his life's work of shortening the life expectancy of the average American and endangering the lives of children.
December 1, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Pretty impressive that through this entire scandal and press blitz, RFK Jr. hasn't lost focus on his life's work of shortening the life expectancy of the average American and endangering the lives of children.
I have an actual allergy to Bad Things sentences. They simply don’t appear in the work of people who are attentive to language, unless the writer is using them for a clear purpose (and with extreme rarity).
A century or so ago, it seems that no writers had this grammatical tic. Now it is everywhere. http://nyer.cm/vNdI5RX
The Objectively Objectionable Grammatical Pet Peeve
A semi-attentive investigation into a confounding sentence type.
nyer.cm
November 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
I have an actual allergy to Bad Things sentences. They simply don’t appear in the work of people who are attentive to language, unless the writer is using them for a clear purpose (and with extreme rarity).
There’s no satisfaction as a bookseller greater than leading a lovely young person who asked for Ayn Rand toward Carmen Maria Machado instead.
November 20, 2025 at 4:52 PM
There’s no satisfaction as a bookseller greater than leading a lovely young person who asked for Ayn Rand toward Carmen Maria Machado instead.