Diane Josefowicz

This quote from George Saunders just immediately became part of how I view writing and the world: “I started to understand writing as a kind of sacrament, by which we remind ourselves that the person we happen to be, at this moment, through habit, is not the limit of who we might become.”

300,000 Missouri Voters Sign Petition To Put GOP Gerrymander to Statewide Vote Read more here.

Despite Missouri Republicans creating numerous obstacles to block a petition against their new Trump-approved congressional map, Missourians successfully submitted over 300,000 signatures, exceeding the required amount by 106,000.

Pam Bondi is Coming for Domestic Terrorists. You Might Be One of Them. An emergency video/podcast

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Same

The Approach cargo.site

Really digging my 1st issue of The Approach. Kinda of a social justice national alt-weekly. They do subscriptions!

Our editors share some of the books that captured our attention this year. necessaryfiction.com/reviews/reco...

On the Infinite Lives of the Library One might say that a library’s most abundant resource—what it lends most freely—is not books and information but time. Time to think, breathe, be, and become. Last spring, in exchange for my servic…

Happy to have an essay from my forthcoming collection up @literaryhub.bsky.social today! "The time a library lends, I suspect, is a little like love: the more it gives away, the more comes back to it in kind."

PAST What is the past? We needed a word for everything before. See how my saying this is already there, and there for good —no fishing it out of that deep water, the deepest there is. The past is a tide that drags out but won't return to shore: even your question has been carried off. Look, you can see it floating. Anything heavier settles unseen like wreckage for a silver ribbon of fish to slip through. The past is not all distant. We can stand at its edge, watching the waves do the backbreaking work of pulling, pulling away. From the shore, the past seems to go on forever, because it does. We say it was a different time, but all times are different. This one, for instance. And again, this one.

Maggie Smith ♥️

@maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social
@tupelopress.bsky.social

How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions

This week’s must-read

“How a Cryptocurrency Helps Criminals Launder Money and Evade Sanctions” www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/t...

Donate to Support a Voyage to Find Home, organized by Liz Cullinane Hello, my name is Liz Cullinane and for the past four years, I have been inspired to raise… Liz Cullinane needs your support for Support a Voyage to Find Home

Hi! Sharing a GoFundMe for Given & C.C., an older couple who are living on a small boat while searching for a place to settle. They need help with medical expenses & keeping their home afloat. If you’re able, please click the link to donate or share with others who might help. gofund.me/a6b19142a

Holla! You clown!

I mean sure you have to against the famously culturally normal and tolerant Republicans who are obviously doing great

This is a quote from the article summing up both studies in Technology Review: "A multi-university team of researchers has found that chatting with a politically biased AI model was more effective than political advertisements at nudging both Democrats and Republicans to support presidential candidates of the opposing party. The chatbots swayed opinions by citing facts and evidence, but they were not always accurate—in fact, the researchers found, the most persuasive models said the most untrue things."

Two independent studies found that AI chatbots were better at persuading voters than political ads. The most persuasive bots also lied the most. This is something that humans working in psyops have known for decades. AI is psyops at scale. www.technologyreview.com/2025/12/04/1...

Brilliant

There are 4 types of guys online. No exceptions.

The final panel from a 1985 Peanuts comic strip. Marcie says to Peppermint Patty, “We could go into the book store.” Patty replies, “Are you out of your mind?!”

This panel from 1985 never gets old.

Thank you

Frank O’Hara. How I adore him.

Read this thread, especially the science and Hill and White House reporters who follow me, as well as the congressional staffers — and members.

100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…

Need a gift for someone who's read everything?

Check out LitHub's roundup of 100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025!

I'm glad to have contributed a handful of reviews of books I loved this year. Thanks @miriamgershow.bsky.social for putting it together.

lithub.com/100-notable-...

A win!

Blatant corruption on full display.

Bars of clay that have been fired at various temperatures and under different atmospheric conditions. Ranging in colour from red terracotta to very dark chocolate brown. Along with some Munsell soil colour charts used to record the test results.

Testing clay from the Roman pottery production site at Highgate Wood, North London and using Munsell colour charts to record the results. Same clay, different temperatures and kiln atmosphere. 🏺#Archaeology #AncientBluesky

Two images of colourful woven pieces, both with distinct patterning, the first has a symmetrical design with lines and diamond motifs, the other has a more fluid style with waves and arcs

Gunta Stölzl (1897-983) German textile artist fundamental to development of the Bauhaus weaving workshop #WomensArt

Dear House Republicans,

Most of you don’t have a 22-point head start. But definitely keep kissing that orange ass.

Sincerely,
Democrats

JUST IN: Democrats have flipped the mayor's office in Roswell, Georgia, in tonight's runoff.

GOP Mayor Kurt Wilson conceded earlier tonight to Mary Robichaux, the Dem challenging him.

(This is a city in the Atlanta suburbs, the 9th most populous city in Georgia.)

“That's part of writing, having to find the right words. I believe in the right to try.” —Sharon Olds

Gift of UBS

Chuck Close, Self-Portrait, 1991
https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136924

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It’s Election Day here in the US.

100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 The idea of 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024, after The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…

Thanks, @literaryhub.bsky.social 👏👏👏 for your "100 notable small press books": "a thriving ecosystem of books from publishers taking risks, publishing from the margins, operating on few resources, with small distribution and even smaller marketing budgets." lithub.com/100-notable-... #Booksky