Amy Patricia Meade

Yesterday, I did a thing... I spoke with the lovely Michigan Ave. Media Podcast & Book Promo with Marsha Casper Cook. it was a fabulous off-the-cuff conversation.
Thank you Marsha!

The campaign against “antifa” is about establishing a beachhead for further attacks on speech and assembly rights. We see that today in the effort to preemptively label No Kings protesters as “terrorists.”

a friend of mine in antifa told me that antifa's headquarters is SHEIN and if the company fell the whole network would fall

Zohran sits on a bus talking to a rider sitting behind him.

I'm on the slowest bus line in the city with the slowest buses in the nation to talk to New Yorkers about what it would mean for their lives if we made them fast and free.

"no more superficial individual expression"

Hi Paddy. Is there an email address I can share for those authors who wish to participate but who aren't on Bluesky? Thanks! x

To ‘ultra-crepidate’ (19th century) is to lecture others on subjects you know very little about.

What I’m wearing to the Rapture.

I'm the VP of our Sisters in Crime Chapter. Let me put it out to them and see what I can do.

*stepping out of a time machine in 2007*

I come from the future - the most consequential men in society are the hosts of the Man Show, Fear Factor, and the Apprentice

An illustration of Agatha Christie in front of a birthday cake with a one, three, and a five candle in it to celebrate her 135th birthday.

Happy 135th birthday to the Queen of Crime. 🎨 Illustration by Helen Green, @helengreeen

Whoa.

Charlie Kirk was not a “free speech activist” and any outlet that tells you he was is lying to you. He wanted unlimited freedom for himself and as little as possible for the people he hated, ie anyone who wasn’t a white male conservative. His values were trash

The Speaker of the House of Representative telling elected civil politicians to "yield" to military force.

A significant moment.

we gave people a magic device in their pockets with access to all the knowledge in the world and they used it to cook their brains with racist memes.

Produce the bodies, be they alive or dead.

Oof. The Dems need to stop pretending, based on some imaginary focus group, that there’s some common ground with Trump. The key is to fight everywhere.

You should go study Neville Chamberlain’s attempt at “common ground.” It didn’t end well for his historical reputation. Or the world.

Remember when Hillary coughed and the media were practically writing her obituary?

Dear Americans, welcome to the thrilling game of ‘Did this dictator die or just disappear for a day?’ We’ve been playing it with Putin and Lukashenko for decades. Enjoy the suspense.

Karl Marx, Malcolm X, Hannah Arendt, Frederick Douglass, and Emilio Zapata all got married, and obviously I'm not comparing the Double-T brand to them, but I am saying anyone who thinks marriage turns all people into conservatives should also ask what tank rolled over their cranium recently.

As some of you know, I am an absolute, unapologetic Janeite. She is the master.

The worst Austen would do to any adversary would put them in an excruciating 10-page conversation, with a spirited but clumsy younger sister playing on a musical instrument, before a final cutting, devastating silence.

“…everything is going to be alright” – conflict, balance and resolution in law and policy 22nd August 2025 * In his 1992 memoir Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby describes his experience of a crush in a stadium at a 1980 match (before the tragedies later on that decade): “…there was a forty-thou…

"...everything is going to be alright"

Conflict, balance and resolution in law and policy

New, by me:

Substack:
emptycity.substack.com/p/everything...

Personal blog:
davidallengreen.com/2025/08/ever...

Part of the problem is that the NYT tries to put a second-day headline on a breaking news story. It happened just a few hours ago!

There's nothing wrong with a hed like "FBI Raids Home of John Bolton, a Fierce Critic of the President"

Hoagie assault guy, if convicted, will be punished more strongly than J6 folks who beat police officers with poles and other objects and are now walking free (and probably joining CBP)

A photo of Alma Reville Hitchcock in a white fur stole and smiling like the absolute boss she was!

Celebrating the birthday of Alma Reville Hitchcock, born on this day in 1899.

Reville was an editor, an assistant director, and a writer all on her own, but it is her unsung work on Hitchcock’s movies that cement her place in cinematic history.

#ReleaseTheCuomoList

The road to authoritarianism is littered with people telling you you’re overreacting.

Winter people on their way to the beach with their summer people friends

I used to live in a 1960s council flat where the previous resident had meticulously stuck leaded lights strips to all the aluminium sliding windows. Despite their great effort, the flat was still unlikely to be mistaken for an Elizabethan cottage. But it didn’t look quite as tragic as this

Sign: "TO STAIRS" featuring a direction arrow with flight feathers and an illustrated silhouette of someone with a rapier advancing up some stairs.

Leeds Royal Armouries understood the assignment.