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The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a new craft book on the writing life and writing fiction by Elizabeth McCracken, and #PWWritingPrompts on AI poetry, journaling, and loneliness. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
December 19, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a new craft book on the writing life and writing fiction by Elizabeth McCracken, and #PWWritingPrompts on AI poetry, journaling, and loneliness. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
December 19, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The #1 movie when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 is going to go.
Everyone around me:
“You’re overreacting.”
“You’re so dramatic.”
“That will never happen.”
🙄
“You’re overreacting.”
“You’re so dramatic.”
“That will never happen.”
🙄
those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
my latest for @newrepublic.com
newrepublic.com/article/2042...
The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned
Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?
newrepublic.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Everyone around me:
“You’re overreacting.”
“You’re so dramatic.”
“That will never happen.”
🙄
“You’re overreacting.”
“You’re so dramatic.”
“That will never happen.”
🙄
The most terrifying thing I’ve ever read.
The Longest Suicide Note in American History
The Trump administration’s new National Security Strategy targets liberal democracy itself.
www.theatlantic.com
December 16, 2025 at 1:45 PM
The most terrifying thing I’ve ever read.
Oh, Wil, this took my breath away. I’m so sorry for your grief. Grieving with you. 💔
It hasn't even been twelve hours, but all three of us have been overwhelmed with requests from media for comment and I'm mostly writing this now so they'll leave me alone.
this is such a painful loss. my heart is broken.
“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that,...
wilwheaton.net
December 15, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Oh, Wil, this took my breath away. I’m so sorry for your grief. Grieving with you. 💔
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"This searing book conveys the survivors' sufferings and remarkable resilience, bringing to life their personal stories"
The #WolfsonHistoryPrize judges on why they awarded the 2025 prize to Hannah Durkin's 'Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade'.
The #WolfsonHistoryPrize judges on why they awarded the 2025 prize to Hannah Durkin's 'Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade'.
December 15, 2025 at 9:11 AM
"This searing book conveys the survivors' sufferings and remarkable resilience, bringing to life their personal stories"
The #WolfsonHistoryPrize judges on why they awarded the 2025 prize to Hannah Durkin's 'Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade'.
The #WolfsonHistoryPrize judges on why they awarded the 2025 prize to Hannah Durkin's 'Survivors: The Lost Stories of the Last Captives of the Atlantic Slave Trade'.
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My quote of the day
If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.
Rob Reiner
If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.
Rob Reiner
December 15, 2025 at 10:55 AM
My quote of the day
If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.
Rob Reiner
If you have tapped into something that is real for you, chances are you are going to tap into something that is real for someone else.
Rob Reiner
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I suspected this.
WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.
Immigration Agents Are Using Air Passenger Data for Deportation Effort
www.nytimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:03 AM
I suspected this.
Highly recommend this book for understanding the staggering barriers for working people to obtain housing.
If cost has kept you from picking up There Is No Place for Us (which is totally understandable), good news: the ebook is *$1.99* today—93% off!—on Kindle, B&N, Bookshop, and elsewhere.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
So grateful to everyone who's been reading and sharing the book this year. It means a lot.
There Is No Place for Us by Brian Goldstone: 9780593237144 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • Through the “revelatory and gut-wrenching” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark...
www.penguinrandomhouse.com
December 12, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Highly recommend this book for understanding the staggering barriers for working people to obtain housing.
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Democracy Docket is closing out the year with a special members-only live event, I will reflects on the biggest legal battles and democratic inflection points of the year and breaks down cases and political dynamics shaping the road ahead. Most importantly, I will answer your questions!
Live Q&A with Marc Elias on The State of Our Democracy
Become a member to join Democracy Docket founder Marc Elias for a live Q&A about the lessons learned in 2025 and what to expect in court ahead of the midterm elections.
newsletters.democracydocket.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Democracy Docket is closing out the year with a special members-only live event, I will reflects on the biggest legal battles and democratic inflection points of the year and breaks down cases and political dynamics shaping the road ahead. Most importantly, I will answer your questions!
So refreshing and the children’s response to him is adorable.
I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.
December 10, 2025 at 12:51 PM
So refreshing and the children’s response to him is adorable.
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🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
Amazon explores cutting ties with USPS, building its own delivery network
Amazon looks into expanding its nationwide delivery network and giving up its longstanding partnership with the U.S. Postal Service.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:16 PM
🚨SCOOP: Amazon is preparing to sever ties with USPS and expand its shipping network as a true coast-to-coast rival.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
It could cost USPS more than *$6 billion* a year in lost revenue, and lead Amazon to dominate yet another facet of the economy.
USPS posted a *$9 billion* loss in 2025.
Four Christmas movies to know me by:
December 4, 2025 at 3:14 AM
Four Christmas movies to know me by:
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MUST READ
MUST READ
This is the most consequential story for the 2026 midterms. Yet, I cannot find it anywhere on legacy media. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
DOJ Sues Six More States in Sweeping Push to Obtain Unredacted Voter Rolls
Read more here.
www.democracydocket.com
December 3, 2025 at 6:11 PM
🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨
MUST READ
MUST READ
Great list! Buy from your local independent bookstore or from bookstore.org
I hope if you're shopping today, you stop by a local indie bookstore. Here's my list of my favorite 25 books from this past year, some old, some new, fiction, history, and current events — something for almost anyone on your list (and, of course, yourself!): www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/my-favorit...
My favorite books of 2025
25 books that changed the way I look at the world this year
www.doomsdayscenario.co
December 1, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Great list! Buy from your local independent bookstore or from bookstore.org
The way I gasped at the library
November 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
The way I gasped at the library
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TENNESSEE
IF THEY PRIVATIZE TVA, YOUR BILLS GO UP
Billionaires and political insiders are trying to privatize TVA — the public power system that keeps our region’s energy affordable. My opponent’s backers support it. I’m fighting to stop it. Email your Senators today and tell them: NO to TVA privatization.
Billionaires and political insiders are trying to privatize TVA — the public power system that keeps our region’s energy affordable. My opponent’s backers support it. I’m fighting to stop it. Email your Senators today and tell them: NO to TVA privatization.
November 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
TENNESSEE
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Needed this laugh today! 😂
November 27, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Needed this laugh today! 😂
If you’re feeling down or alone, you really should call this number.
this is not our customer service number. it’s just my voicemail inbox.
you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.
216-361-6772.
you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.
216-361-6772.
November 26, 2025 at 3:09 AM
If you’re feeling down or alone, you really should call this number.
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
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Only a few weeks left! Nominate a librarian you love for the 2026 I Love My Librarian Award - they could win $5,000 and the recognition of a lifetime.
Nominations close December 15! Submit yours here: https://bit.ly/3yiyT9C
Nominations close December 15! Submit yours here: https://bit.ly/3yiyT9C
November 24, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Only a few weeks left! Nominate a librarian you love for the 2026 I Love My Librarian Award - they could win $5,000 and the recognition of a lifetime.
Nominations close December 15! Submit yours here: https://bit.ly/3yiyT9C
Nominations close December 15! Submit yours here: https://bit.ly/3yiyT9C
Wanna be Mayor Wu when I grow up. This is lovely.
An honor and dream come true to perform alongside Yo-Yo Ma, presented by Celebrity Series at Boston Symphony Hall. 💜
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
🎼Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)
November 23, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Wanna be Mayor Wu when I grow up. This is lovely.