@gelliottmorris.com: "many people fundamentally underestimate how unpopular Trump is."

Trump is currently underwater on all key issues, something our corporate elites should consider before capitulating to him.

Letting children be shot and killed because we want to have access to arsenals of weapons without restrictions is also political violence.

That man's last words were trying to deflect a conversation about gun violence onto "gang violence". He left this world on the wings of racism.

I'm highly aware of my own sins of moral convenience (we can talk about that some other time*), but I'd think that saying no thank you to JKR-profiting work would be a relatively easy thing for anyone, especially anyone already rich and successful.

*or never

When I worked long grueling days in retail at Macy’s, putting makeup on rude people and trying to earn something above minimum, I looked forward most to lunch, when I would go to the break room, eat my mall food court food, and read the book and theater review sections of the NYT and the Star Trib

I loved this book and reviewed it!

The better question is whether working people can exist in the city they built.

"No bookstore that PW has reached out to has been as adversely impacted as @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, which specializes in diverse and intersectional literature ... Sales are down 65% since August 11."

you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty

Hey, the Unbound for Gaza fundraiser is here, starting September 25th.

www.32auctions.com/unboundforga...

The auction raises money for charities operating in Gaza. There are a LOT of super-cool items, many of which would be AMAZING holiday gifts for book nerds.

😭

I just threw up in my mouth while reading the email to NEA fellowship applicants informing us of its cancellation and wish I could deposit my vomit directly onto the White House lawn

The church thing is what sent me over the edge too

Feels like a really bad joke, the email is so incredibly awful

I just threw up in my mouth while reading the email to NEA fellowship applicants informing us of its cancellation and wish I could deposit my vomit directly onto the White House lawn

"One of the many things a genocide does is reshape what a culture is — by destroying it and by forcing what has not been destroyed to deal with the destruction. The destruction itself becomes a key component of our lives and histories. So literature, I think, remains very important."

literally the vibe at DC Union Station right now

literally the vibe at DC Union Station right now

BWDR is one of the last real places on the internet, developing and publishing the kind of expansive, rigorous criticism and essays that have sadly become all too rare. their work & existence is incalculably valuable, support them with a subscription (or perhaps in an even bigger way if you can?)

Most critics I know haven't watched past the pilot, but the ones who have did seem to enjoy it after that? I'm confused about whether to proceed because the weird shifts in register made me think it was a totally different kind of series like eight times

In light of Vanity Fair's recent idiotic decision, WaPo's offering its veteran critic a buyout, the NYT's "reassigning" three arts writers critics, etc., a lot of us are talking about the public's (and thus publications') lack of interest in criticism. It's part of a larger pattern of a war...

lol who gives a shit

☀️ New review today

Read @coryoldweiler.bsky.social on THE DANCE AND THE FIRE by Daniel Saldaña París (tr. Christina MacSweeney), out now via @catapultbooks.bsky.social 🔥 southwestreview.com/volume-110-n...