Jonny Diamond

@jonnydiamond.bsky.social reading from Homage to Catalonia for #falloffreedom on WGXC

We are good! Sending 💙💙 your way!

15 in February! Almost 6 feet tall 😳

Pulling a late night with the 14 year old (who’s way behind on a school project) and he just referenced the Kardashev Scale AND correctly named the singer of “Rhiannon.”

I feel like this should count towards college admissions.

Not the rhetoric of moral clarity! No!

Brad, man, these fuckers…

It was over once everyone started calling it the “homeland.”

That’s some fascist shit my dudes.

A reminder that this anti-trans panic is 100% bullshit and exactly none of our country’s problems are related to someone expressing their gender identity and everyone who isn’t a hate-filled weirdo knows it.

Still, it’s such an unfortunate revenue model, passed down from 20 years ago… I wish we didn’t have to rely on it so heavily (cuz nobody involved particularly likes it!)

Yeah, it sucks. And this is actually a technical problem we’re trying to fix. We’re just trying to remain a free site to people.

Though if you became a member and paid a little bit you wouldn’t see the ads.

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Elon Musk gets roasted on his own platform by Joyce Carol Oates. Like an ancient cyborg culling through the ruins of a post-apocalyptic planet (twitter, derogatory), Joyce Carol Oates recently fired her full-power death ray at aspiring trillionaire Elon Musk, wh…

Ok, yes, this is a public health–adjacent account -- but some of us are also literary nerds. And seeing Joyce Carol Oates roast Elon Musk on his own platform? Just what we needed on an otherwise sh**ty day.

Want to understand the Zohran phenomenon? Here’s a mini reading list. Have you thanked a bodega cat today? Remember, they won’t be getting raises under the new administration. For 51% of New York City bipeds, however, it’s a pretty great week. Zohran Mamd…

How did New Yorkers elect a democratic socialist as their mayor? We have a reading list for that.

Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…

I love this by Peter Coviello (former chair of Africana Studies at yes, Bowdoin). Very smart AND very funny. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

God I hate these f*ckers so much

When We Devalue Art (Books!) We Devalue the Future When you’ve spent your whole adult life working in and around book publishing you get used to hearing that people don’t read anymore and that the industry is on its last legs. There is always a cri…

I wrote about why I can't sleep at night: the devaluation of so many things (critical thinking, creativity) I thought were paramount. lithub.com/when-we-deva...

A Brief History of American Socialism “America will never be a socialist country,” declared Donald Trump in his 2019 State of the Union Address, given to a joint session of Congress. The president clearly believed that fear of such a r…

In Myth America, edited by @kevinmkruse.bsky.social and Julian E. Zelizer, Michael Kazin examines the far-reaching influence of socialism on American political thought.

This is what she's posting rn fyi. Just pure racism!

This really sucks; they were doing brave, important work. It seems like everyone with money and power right now has it at the expense of principled conviction.

300+ pledge to boycott the New York Times’ op-ed page over their anti-Palestinian bias. Over 300 writers, scholars, and public intellectuals have pledged to not contribute to the New York Times’ Opinion section until three demands have been met. The demands address the anti-Palestinia…

Proud to be on this list with an incredible group of writers and thinkers doing the right thing. lithub.com/300-pledge-t...

What the Fascist Tech Bros Get Wrong About Prometheus Those crypto boys are at it again, this time proposing a giant, 450-foot-tall statue on of San Francisco Bay’s Alcatraz Island, according to local outlet KRON4. The statue would be of Prometheus, w…

What the fascist tech bros get wrong about Prometheus. (And yes, they do want to build a 450-foot statue on Alcatraz Island, in San Francisco Bay).

Child in stroller with anti fascist sign

No Kings protesters

No Kings protesters on courthouse steps

Catskill, NY.

Child in stroller with anti fascist sign

No Kings protesters

No Kings protesters on courthouse steps

Catskill, NY.

Stand Up, Stand Together. Two guiding principles of the No Kings movement, and for Americans meeting this moment.

A day to stand up, and stand together.

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I just ordered a stack of Mark’s book to give away at the store.

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Would be a shame if others did the same and landed it at least on regional bestseller lists.

Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook The Anti-Fascist Handbook

Glad to see Mark’s book is on backorder @bookshop.org but you should go buy it somewhere! bookshop.org/p/books/anti...

Why We Should Pay Attention to Dinesh D’Souza’s Terrible Book About Fascism Is Donald Trump a fascist? Did millions of Americans vote for an orange Mussolini? Well, recently the far-right commentator Dinesh D’Souza published a book intended not only to ease the consciences…

Here’s Mark Bray beating the brakes of Dinesh D’Souza in 2017. lithub.com/why-we-shoul...

How a 1977 Czech Writers’ Manifesto Applies to the Stark Realities of America in 2025 The wonderful Czech writer Ivan Klima died this past weekend at the age of 94. Klima lived a remarkable, principled life, having survived both the Nazi occupation of Prague (he spent three years in…

I wrote about what we can all learn from the courage of Czech dissidents. lithub.com/how-a-1977-c...

“He Comes for the Girls.” Philip Roth on Getting Kicked Out of Prague From 1972 through 1977, I traveled to Prague every spring for a week or ten days to see a group of writers, journalists, historians, and professors there who were being persecuted by the Soviet-bac…

Incredible (and funny) story here from Philip Roth about visiting Ivan Klima in Prague. lithub.com/he-comes-for...

Ivan Klima, the best Czech novelist of his generation, has died. One of the great Czech writers of the 20th century, Ivan Klima, died over the weekend at his home in Prague, at the age of 94. Klima lived an incredible, principled life, having survived both the N…

Strongly recommend MY MERRY MORNINGS along with the titles @jonnydiamond.bsky.social includes here. I met Ivan Klima as a baby bookseller when he finally was allowed to travel. Life-changing for me: smoking cigarettes with him in the bookstore backroom.