Sam Eifling

More than 100 writers, journalists, and scholars call for the immediate release of Mario Guevara, the only journalist detained in the U.S. today for doing his job—and now facing imminent deportation. Share the letter and join the call to #FreeMario: pen.org/press-releas...

you are about to see the nation’s beer distributors—aka “the toughest lobby you’ve never heard of”—lose their fucking minds

yo @mistresssnowphd.bsky.social (!!)

An important message from the president of Antifa 😂 🤭

Trump turned an outpouring of respect for Kirk into a coliseum of hate The throngs who braved heat, darkness and expense to mourn Charlie Kirk were rewarded with grotesque MAGA saber-rattling.

Wrote about the real people who spent money and time and hope coming to Arizona for the Charlie Kirk memorial. Decent people simply inhabit a different reality from what Trump and Steven Miller pedaled
www.phoenixnewtimes.com/news/kirk-fu...

practicing email the right way, imho

so many characters in that book stick with me long after reading it. the Mount Hood climbers, the woman who survived the shark-invested waters ...

counterpoint: my knee-high nephews asked if I can go roller-skating after work

I would watch this miniseries

Chicago keeping art alive:

the federal success rate in securing grand jury indictments is north of 98% and they're now 0-2 in getting DC grand jurors to take these cases seriously

The US capital is being flooded with military troops at the direct order of the president and media is barely talking about, because the president didn't say "I am doing authoritarianism" but "the military is here to fight crime"

This, but for 40% of the 2026 US economy

I have that very helmet and it has absolutely come off the bench in clutch moments

this one

I am not an economist but at a guess, I think this comes from the interplay between “massive tax on imported produce” and “randomly grab the people who pick crops in the US and put them in concentration camps” 🤔

This is a crucial alarm bell and don’t forget all the alt weeklies that still do irreplaceable work

good one Jeff I think maybe U1

take it from a former Patriot Act producer: these guys put a fuck-ton of work into this 90-second vid

Israel kills Al Jazeera journalists in targeted Gaza City airstrike - Committee to Protect Journalists New York, August 10, 2025—The Committee to Protect Journalists is appalled to learn of the killing today of Al Jazeera journalist Anas Al-Sharif, Mohammed Qreiqeh, camera operators Ibrahim Zaher and M...

An entire news crew working for Al Jazeera was killed by Israel as they sought to bring the world firsthand reporting from #Gaza.

Among them was prominent journalist Anas Al-Sharif, who had been previously smeared and threatened by the IDF.

#NotATarget

Full statement: cpj.org/2025/08/isra...

anyways, love to live in a city of 3 million people from around the world where I take transit and walk and explore, and be told by a guy whose main interaction with the world is driving from his gated suburban community to his gated golf course that I am the one "living in a bubble"

we need a word that means "a constituent component of burnout."

it should be separate from work at large. some work is fulfilling, invigorating.

other days are full of [thing that accumulates to burn you out]. best I got is "sludgework." suggestions welcome.

a web headline reads: "women shouldn't hold office, says GOP woman now running for office"

love to share a venomously droll @zhbuchanan.bsky.social hed. shout-out @phoenixnewtimes.com as always

guster is for lovers (of the handbasket)

for anyone who looks at the predicted electoral college realignment in 2030 and starts running around with their hair on fire, here's the blue state problem in a nutshell: people want to live there but can't

build

more

houses

With Tom Lehrer's passing, I suppose this is a moment to share the story of the prank he played on the National Security Agency, and how it went undiscovered for nearly 60 years.

With all due respect to the AM social media team, I don’t think they understand what they’re dealing with here.

they're driving the country into abysmal debt to build exorbitant detention centers where they will imprison you once you are too broke to afford a home

bsky.app/profile/nico...

God bless the Scots

this may explain why my drop-shipping novelty headstone side-hustle is suddenly sold out of "he soiled himself at the end"