Liz De Coster

And I'm proud to say my octogenarian parents have been out there protesting, and they have "no blood for oil" signs in storage from the Iraq war, and all the million little things that make a movement.

I know my community is more queer and more radical and more diverse than a lot of communities. But that's exactly the kind of community that builds and sustains this country, not the members or supporters of the current administration.

None of us were worried about the immigration status of the folks we saw. We walked all over the place and enjoyed music from the bucket drummers and spent three hours in a Korean karaoke room.

I was just back home in Chicago, in this area, two weeks ago with my parenting crew. Imagine a dozen middle-aged parents from across the country wandering around this neighborhood, eating street food, taking selfies, complaining about our feet aching.

honestly this is why i subscribe to places like defector and flytrap and the handbasket

they put in the work and it’s always good

You can’t just gender-swap the oppressive structures in place. You have to burn the whole thing down.

Reminder from your resident high school lubrarian: if you plan to do a Banned Books Week display and programming, prioritize living marginalized authors. Use this time to help those who need it the most.

Sending Dunkin' Donuts gift cards to all my kids' teachers tomorrow because WOW did I need mine this morning.

If you asked me to leave a review for Parenting today it would be dire.

ANNIHILATION (2018)

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

This garbage was at O'Hare last weekend, too. Ghoulish.

Explaining to my wife that I cannot simply “read the books I’ve already bought and haven’t read” like some kind of peasant.

Don't think I've ever seen a shortstop dominate a series defensively the way Dansby is right now.

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

I'm at 453439696494

Isaac Chotiner has invited me to sample some delicious Amontillado wine and I don’t know guys but I think I’m going to come out of this interview seeming like *quite* the wine expert

We Can't Forget People Experiencing Incarceration in Our Fight for Readers' Rights: Book Censorship News, September 19, 2025 The state of book bans and censorship in American prisons. Where and how advocates can change this rampant First Amendment violation.

In our fight for intellectual freedom and the First Amendment rights of all, we cannot forget people experiencing incarceration. A phenomenal guest post from @bookstoprisoners.bsky.social on what's happening in prison censorship right now (& what you can do!): bookriot.com/books-to-pri...

My toddler won't nap at home anymore, nor will she give up pull-ups or pacifiers. It makes the weekends feel very very very very long and high-friction.

I needed a good cathartic cry today. Murderbot 1x10 The Perimeter it is.

Back in my day we used headphones to listen to our IPod shuffles on the F train.

Now, people sit on trains and in hospital waiting rooms scrolling through TikTok at full blast with no headphones, subjecting everyone to their shitty algorithmic addiction. It’s so rude! We used to be a society!

Yes, one of the best pitchers of this generation, and a first-ballot hall of famer. But I'll remember Clayton Kershaw first and foremost as the dude whose response to Pride Night was to demand the team have a Christian night and to write homophobic Bible verse cites on his hat.

Follow the whole gang: go.bsky.app/MVBgfcS

@repjohnnyo.bsky.social what are you even doing?

If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support:

• 404 Media
• Defector
• The Flytrap
• Flaming Hydra
• The Appeal
• Aftermath
• Racket
• Hell Gate
• The 51st
• The Colorado Sun
• Range Media
• Discourse Blog
• Pop Heist

I can't go this year because I'm teaching but the vibe is pretty casual (as you may already know). I think a range of things fit in nicely.

Unless I'm presenting, then typically a dress with some kind of heel because I appreciate an extra inch. Wait is this Bmore Historic!?

Dark-wash jeans with a belt, some kind of shell top and cardigan combo, comfortable flats, and usually big earrings.

“All opposing forces seem as though vanished from the face of the earth. It is this utter collapse of powers only recently present, no, their complete disappearance … that I find so staggering.”
Victor Klemperer, 1933

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, HOPE, AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT GENESIS HENRY A. KISSINGER CRAIG MUNDIE ERIC SCHMIDT FOREWORD BY NIALL FERGUSON

Oh hey, it’s Hard Pass by WTF and Nope with a foreword by That Fucking Guy