Robin Kirk

Gentle suggestion: 15 minutes AFTER it's due. Then throwing a hissy when it doesn't work.

Israel shatters ceasefire in attack in southern Gaza. Accuracy is important @apnews.com and you are welcome.

Israel shatters ceasefire in attack in southern Gaza. Accuracy is important and you are welcome.

I Watched Stand-Up in Saudi Arabia What the surreal Riyadh Comedy Festival foretold about the kingdom’s future

Male desperation, loneliness and need, the misunderstandings they bred: these hung in the refrigerated air, permeating public spaces like dry ice. Hilary Mantel #SundaySentence

RIFs strengthen campus-wide synergy

🚨🚨🚨WA Governor Bob Ferguson responds to a letter he received from AG Pam Bondi in which she threatened to place him in jail. 🧯He is on fire! 1/2

What she didn't envy was the look that Michael had spoken of on the hillside, the widow's shock at the sudden absence, and perhaps solitude is more frightening when something is snatched away (so much spectacular prose to choose from) #SundaySentence

Venezuelan woman for the win!

M.I.T. Rejects a White House Offer for Special Funding Treatment

Breaking: MIT just became the first university to reject an agreement that would trade support for the Trump admin's higher education agenda in exchange for favorable treatment.

"Fundamentally, the premise of the document is inconsistent with our core belief." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

In all her youthful visions of the future, of the job she might have, the city and home she might live in, the friends and family around her, Marnie had never thought that she'd be lonely #1linewed

We’re in a moment now where it would be worth people taking three hours to watch Gandhi, particularly the scene of the salt march. There is value to making the brutality of your opponent so plain as day that no one can argue with it. The clarity of that brought down an empire

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE
Truth: No cars rammed ICE

Claim: She boxed ICE in
Truth: ICE boxed her in

Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE
Truth: She did not have a rifle

Claim: ICE returned fire
Truth: Only ICE fired

Claim: She drove herself to the hospital
Truth: Paramedics found her

It's officially #BannedBooksWeek. Support authors, your local indy or @bookshop.org, fight censorship & elevate important voices—especially traditionally marginalized or underrepresented writers. Use BBW25 at Bookshop for a discount on print books www.ala.org/bbooks/frequ...

Back to Graham Greene again for my #sundaysentence this week: "Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, the melancholia, the panic fear which is inherent in the human situation."

#SundaySentence

Today, Oct.2nd, is the anniversary of Jamal Khashoggi’s murder by Saudi agents.

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

25th Amendment

ARTICLE 25:
...The President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. www.law.cornell.edu/constitution...

The flew the entire military leadership in so they could see for themselves that the Secretary of Defense is a mouthbreathing dipshit and the Commander in Chief is a senile, weak old man who might keel over at any moment.

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Can't we just get healthcare

ICE attempted
and failed to disappear a food delivery guy.
It needed to be scored.

I've watched that film 10x times -- as close to perfection as is possible to get.

Big Lies An interview with Mark Kurlansky

I’m reupping my interview with Mark Kurlansky about Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media, his excellent book for kids about “the art of the big lie.” As we continue to spiral towards censorship and government-approved speech, the message is more timely than ever. robinkirk.substack.com/p/big-lies

If atomic bombs are to be added as new weapons to the arsenals of the warring world, or to the arsenals of nations preparing for war, then the time will come when mankind will curse the names of Los Alamos and Hiroshima: J. Robert Oppenheimer @vermontgmg.bsky.social #SundaySentence

Big Lies An interview with Mark Kurlansky

I’m reupping my interview with Mark Kurlansky about Big Lies: From Socrates to Social Media, his excellent book for kids about “the art of the big lie.” As we continue to spiral towards censorship and government-approved speech, the message is more timely than ever. robinkirk.substack.com/p/big-lies

As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald. The Herald had obtained the names from two detainee rosters. Around 800 detainees showed no record on ICE's online database. More than 450 listed no location and only instructed the user to "Call ICE for details" — a vague notation that attorneys said could mean that a detainee is still being processed, in the middle of a transfer between two sites or about to be deported.

This was somehow a flash in the pan headline in all the chaos last week, but throwing out there that at this rate this would be in the vicinity of 50k people vanishing from the face of the earth over the remainder of the term. And this is before they use that newly allocated $75B to fully scale up.

ICE Is Deporting People to Africa on Nearly Un-Trackable Military Flights Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is deporting people to African countries like Ghana on military flights that are nearly un-trackable.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable.

This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed.

From me for @rollingstone.com:

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Shift Happens TL;DR: a fiesty and timely history of labor for kids

Great review from my friend (and Colombia-oriented inspiration) @robinkirk.bsky.social

“With current WH policies, a Democratic Party unsure of its direction, broadening billionaire-backed censorship and the emergence of technologies like AI, this may only worsen.”
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Shift Happens TL;DR: a fiesty and timely history of labor for kids

J. Albert Mann’s Shift Happens: The History of Labor in the United States has a sassy, irreverent point of view that kept me laughing, outraged, and profoundly grateful that Mann took on this project for kids #humanrights #labor #kidlit robinkirk.substack.com/p/shift-happ...