Stefan Fatsis

Bloodied Faces, Sobbing Children: Immigration Officers Smash Car Windows to Speed Up Arrests We’ve documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “mini...

"He can either give us a license... or we’ll smash the fucking window out and drag him out.”

That's not just any ICE officer saying that. His name is Matthew Elliston and he now oversees ICE field operations on the East Coast.

Who Does The NFLPA Represent? | Defector Gene Upshaw would come to town once a year, usually in the middle of the week. There we were, the Denver Broncos, an NFL football team going through the routine of our football preparation, speaking…

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The #1 way to explain America working properly is by saying “comedians can make fun of he President on TV.” A good way to explain fascism is “the President forces companies to fire those comedians as a condition of allowing them to conduct business.”

This is correct. Any candidate cynically “triangulating” on trans kids is a non-starter, and now is the time to say so. There’s still so much time to advance candidates that DON’T suck.

UNABRIDGED | Kirkus Reviews A romp in the land of lexicography.

A romp, says Kirkus! www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Have you looked at the OED? LOL

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Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: Appearing/signing at Bethesda's Wonderland Books this Monday wonderlandbooks.com/events on a live podcast with the great Torie Clarke chatteronbooks.com, NBA titan David Aldridge and CNN legend
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Sunday: "The U.S. had nothing to do with the attack on Iran."
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Today: "We now have complete and total control of the skies over Iran ... Nobody does it better than the good ol’ USA." truthsocial.com/@realDonaldT...

He's not a hawk. He's not a dove. He's just a moron.

Hey my video made @maddow.msnbc.com

Clayton Kershaw sucks It was Pride Night at Dodger Stadium on Friday evening. As is usually the case on Pride Night, the home team wore a rainbow version of their logo on their cap. Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw donned the rainbow cap but he made an addition to it: [insert photo of Clayton Kershaw with a Pride cap with a bible verse citation next to it]. That writing is a citation to Genesis 9:12-16, which is a passage in the Bible which is commonly used by homophobic Christians who are part of what they call the "Take Back the Rainbow" movement. They claim that the LGBTQ+ community stole the rainbow symbol from God and they view it as their mission to "rescue" gay people from what they consider to be a sinister movement.

Clayton Kershaw has been around long enough and he's a big enough deal to where (a) vanishingly few reporters would ask him about this; and (b) even if they did, he'd have some canned response on which no one would follow up, but he knows goddamn well what he's doing here. Whether or not Kershaw actively adheres to the Take Back the Rainbow movement, he's endorsing it with that bit of Sharpie on his cap. It's in keeping with his past sentiments surrounding Pride Day in which he decided to police those who could or could not take part in it and used the controversy he himself created in order to get the Dodgers to commit to moving up a Christian identity promotion in response. It was shitty behavior then and this is shitty behavior now. As was the case with those Tampa Bay Rays players who, a few years ago, tore the rainbow logos off their caps and jerseys in protest to the team's Pride Night, I expect nothing to happen to Clayton Kershaw for blatantly undermining the team's public-facing messaging and violating selectively-enforced rules about defacing one's uniform with personal messaging. Indeed, it would not shock me if people in and around the game defend Kershaw on a "hey, everyone has a right to freedom of speech" basis. Not that he even needs the defense. He pitched on Saturday night after I and others had pointed out the thing he did with his cap. As far as I can tell, not a single person asked him about it after the game. It was all "Kershaw tosses seven scoreless innings against the Giants!" But ask yourself: what would happen if a player wrote a message of protest next to the American flag-logos or the camouflage logos teams wear on their Fourth of July or Memorial Day and Military Appreciation caps? If you think the response to such a thing would be benign – if you think people would ignore it and merely focus on what the player did on the field – then Colin Kaepernick has a bridge to sell you.

Today's newsletter is one of the few places where you'll read about Clayton Kershaw defacing his Pride Day cap with a bible verse widely used by homophobes to discredit the LGBTQ+ community.

Imagine if it was someone doing that to an American flag cap logo. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

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82-year-old former middle-school teacher at the mic: “Pay attention to what’s going on”

Rally now in Crescent Harbor Shelter. King George singing

Probably about 500 people total. Couple dozen counterprotestors

Sitka AK (plus a couple hundred more) #nokings

Sitka AK #NoKings

Some thoughts about the military parade in my hometown of Washington DC today -- specifically, the route. Military parades in DC are quite rare. But when they happen, they have always begun, symbolically and geographically, at the Capitol and moved outward. 1/

Cover of UNABRIDGED: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary by Stefan Fatsis

My new book now comes with blurbs—for which I’m very grateful—from @bcdreyer.social, @jessesword.com and @byagoda.bsky.social, with more TK. Read them here, where you can also preorder if you’re so inclined: groveatlantic.com/book/unabrid...

Happy book release day to the legend @alansiegella.bsky.social -- and come see us at @solidstatebooksdc.bsky.social on June 17! www.solidstatebooksdc.com/events/2025/...

Cover of UNABRIDGED: The Thrill of (and Threat to) the Modern Dictionary by Stefan Fatsis

My new book now comes with blurbs—for which I’m very grateful—from @bcdreyer.social, @jessesword.com and @byagoda.bsky.social, with more TK. Read them here, where you can also preorder if you’re so inclined: groveatlantic.com/book/unabrid...

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Coco Gauff Inherits the Earth After winning her second major at Roland Garros, Coco Gauff stays grounded.

On Coco Gauff and her parents, a feel-good story in a sport full of cautionary tales, who were the big winners today at #RolandGarros.

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Let's have some fun. In this NYT story, we see a picture of an OpenAI billboard on a college campus, suggesting the following prompt: "Give me a guide for mastering this Calc 101 syllabus. In two weeks. Small steps please."

What happens when we actually use ChatGPT to do this? THREAD!

Confessions Of A Spelling Bee Pronouncer | Defector Every March, I get an email from Joan Lanigan at City Hall: The Binder has arrived. The Spelling Bee words are in The Binder. I need The Binder because I’m the Pronouncer.  And so, my annual participa...

After the #spellingbee finals, check out this pronouncer’s-eye view in @defector.com?

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Transcript: Elon Musk's DOGE Farewell Press Conference with President Trump | TechPolicy.Press Trump and Musk hailed what they regard as the successes of the initiative to eliminate purported waste and utilize technology to modernize the government.

So many embarrassingly bad questions at this press conference, starting with the first, which asked Musk about the "slings and arrows" he faced. Really?/1
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🙋‍♂️ It’s in Word Freak!

I’m reading it - it’s a goddamn joy - and you should think about pre-ordering it. In LA? Maybe preorder from @vromansbookstore.bsky.social.

(Whispers) @stefanfatsis.bsky.social, you’ve definitely already caught it but I found something you might want to change. DM me.

Thanks! Lots of edits since the galleys! But lemme know sfatsis at gmail