Dara Lind
@daralind.bsky.social
Former journalist, now at @immcouncil.org (all posts here VERY MUCH my own), guest columnist at @documentedny.bsky.social, forever immigration explainer. You have a right and a duty to know what the government is doing in your name.
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In this thread we discuss the last novel we absolutely loved.
I do NOT understand why The Love Songs of W. E. B. du Bois hasn’t become Instant Canon in the way that Homegoing or Sing, Unburied, Sing have. It’s a much better inheritor of the traditions of Morrison AND Walker than those two are.
I do NOT understand why The Love Songs of W. E. B. du Bois hasn’t become Instant Canon in the way that Homegoing or Sing, Unburied, Sing have. It’s a much better inheritor of the traditions of Morrison AND Walker than those two are.
i think this site really needs to figure out how to grow the non-politics verticals (the baseball moment was a good thing!) because i suspect a lot of the bad clusters come out of the political clusters driving 95% of ENG-lang posts
I'd be happy with big non politics accounts.
January 6, 2026 at 12:51 AM
In this thread we discuss the last novel we absolutely loved.
I do NOT understand why The Love Songs of W. E. B. du Bois hasn’t become Instant Canon in the way that Homegoing or Sing, Unburied, Sing have. It’s a much better inheritor of the traditions of Morrison AND Walker than those two are.
I do NOT understand why The Love Songs of W. E. B. du Bois hasn’t become Instant Canon in the way that Homegoing or Sing, Unburied, Sing have. It’s a much better inheritor of the traditions of Morrison AND Walker than those two are.
Hey internet: we have hit the Chicken Bone Deficit part of the year (in which we need more chicken stock for recipes than we generate chicken bones to make it with).
What are everyone’s favorite whole chicken recipes?
Presumably roast but we’re not dying on that hill.
What are everyone’s favorite whole chicken recipes?
Presumably roast but we’re not dying on that hill.
January 5, 2026 at 2:24 AM
Hey internet: we have hit the Chicken Bone Deficit part of the year (in which we need more chicken stock for recipes than we generate chicken bones to make it with).
What are everyone’s favorite whole chicken recipes?
Presumably roast but we’re not dying on that hill.
What are everyone’s favorite whole chicken recipes?
Presumably roast but we’re not dying on that hill.
This post is the reason I have had such a high hit rate with novels lately.
I have a 100% hit rate with books from this list
meadowparty.com/blog/2022/06...
meadowparty.com/blog/2022/06...
Top 50 novels of the century (so far).
meadowparty.com
January 5, 2026 at 1:37 AM
This post is the reason I have had such a high hit rate with novels lately.
I love reading two very different books I especially enjoy in a row.
This post is about 1) The Love Songs Of W. E. B. du Bois and 2) Among Others.
This post is about 1) The Love Songs Of W. E. B. du Bois and 2) Among Others.
January 5, 2026 at 12:11 AM
I love reading two very different books I especially enjoy in a row.
This post is about 1) The Love Songs Of W. E. B. du Bois and 2) Among Others.
This post is about 1) The Love Songs Of W. E. B. du Bois and 2) Among Others.
Gonna be that jerk for a second: DC is a city where real people live. And I don’t even mean me, maybe I don’t count as real people! But surely my husband and his colleagues at the public library, and their patrons, do!
January 4, 2026 at 4:45 AM
Gonna be that jerk for a second: DC is a city where real people live. And I don’t even mean me, maybe I don’t count as real people! But surely my husband and his colleagues at the public library, and their patrons, do!
I genuinely DK about this; if @raders.bsky.social’s theory is correct this is actually quite quite bad because of not caring about democracy
[it was actually worse when they pretended (or truly believed!) it was about democracy and scolded as cynical anyone who argued otherwise]
January 4, 2026 at 3:10 AM
I genuinely DK about this; if @raders.bsky.social’s theory is correct this is actually quite quite bad because of not caring about democracy
Imagine being one of the men who escaped Maduro’s Venezuela, sought asylum in the U.S., got instead sent to months of hell in El Salvador, got sent back to the country you’d fled in the first place as if that was some kind of win for you, and now finds out the U.S. says it’s running your country too
January 3, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Imagine being one of the men who escaped Maduro’s Venezuela, sought asylum in the U.S., got instead sent to months of hell in El Salvador, got sent back to the country you’d fled in the first place as if that was some kind of win for you, and now finds out the U.S. says it’s running your country too
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Jerce Reyes fled the Maduro regime and sought asylum through legal channels in the United States.
The Trump administration disappeared him to CECOT:
The Trump administration disappeared him to CECOT:
If you’d like to know what it was really like inside CECOT for an innocent man who was wrongfully deported by this administration, we interviewed a pro soccer player and youth coach named Jerce Reyes two weeks ago: youtu.be/vlz3eGwHZBY?...
January 3, 2026 at 6:04 PM
Jerce Reyes fled the Maduro regime and sought asylum through legal channels in the United States.
The Trump administration disappeared him to CECOT:
The Trump administration disappeared him to CECOT:
(Please check in on your people who actually know anything about military operations and strategy today to make sure they are not stroking out)
January 3, 2026 at 5:46 PM
(Please check in on your people who actually know anything about military operations and strategy today to make sure they are not stroking out)
Re LRT: the “we’ve been doing this forever” takes aren’t hitting for me, personally, because we’ve seen over the last 15 years with racism that “you can do it but you can’t brag about it” IS IN FACT A BETTER EQUILIBRIUM than “you can make bragging about it your whole personality”
January 3, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Re LRT: the “we’ve been doing this forever” takes aren’t hitting for me, personally, because we’ve seen over the last 15 years with racism that “you can do it but you can’t brag about it” IS IN FACT A BETTER EQUILIBRIUM than “you can make bragging about it your whole personality”
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beyond its incoherence and lies, this is the most open expression of unbridled imperialism that any american president has made in probably more than 100 years
January 3, 2026 at 4:59 PM
beyond its incoherence and lies, this is the most open expression of unbridled imperialism that any american president has made in probably more than 100 years
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Left it until late in the day this time, but it's been my tradition for the last 15 or so years now to read and post this poem every New Year's. Happy 2026, everybody. May this be the year.
January 2, 2026 at 3:23 AM
Left it until late in the day this time, but it's been my tradition for the last 15 or so years now to read and post this poem every New Year's. Happy 2026, everybody. May this be the year.
I take it all back, 2026 may genuinely not suck
January 2, 2026 at 12:14 AM
I take it all back, 2026 may genuinely not suck
THERE IS NO I IN TEAM BUT THERE IS IN SEMIFINAL
January 2, 2026 at 12:14 AM
THERE IS NO I IN TEAM BUT THERE IS IN SEMIFINAL
Me: “baby, are you seriously leaving before this game is over to pick up dinner? Wouldn’t you prefer I do that?”
@blanksslate.bsky.social, in a hat reading Bloomington, Indiana and an IU hoodie under his open coat: ::cat-that-ate-the-canary smile::
@blanksslate.bsky.social, in a hat reading Bloomington, Indiana and an IU hoodie under his open coat: ::cat-that-ate-the-canary smile::
January 2, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Me: “baby, are you seriously leaving before this game is over to pick up dinner? Wouldn’t you prefer I do that?”
@blanksslate.bsky.social, in a hat reading Bloomington, Indiana and an IU hoodie under his open coat: ::cat-that-ate-the-canary smile::
@blanksslate.bsky.social, in a hat reading Bloomington, Indiana and an IU hoodie under his open coat: ::cat-that-ate-the-canary smile::
Please send me all the good jokes about this game. I’m cackling at every single one of them.
January 1, 2026 at 11:45 PM
Please send me all the good jokes about this game. I’m cackling at every single one of them.
WHOMST WHOMST WHOMST
January 1, 2026 at 11:10 PM
WHOMST WHOMST WHOMST
Omg this is the surrender cobra-est halftime performance to ever not march
January 1, 2026 at 10:50 PM
Omg this is the surrender cobra-est halftime performance to ever not march
Wonder if I can surreptitiously set up a paid stream of @blanksslate.bsky.social reacting to the second half of this game because it’s unfair that he only has an audience of one
January 1, 2026 at 10:19 PM
Wonder if I can surreptitiously set up a paid stream of @blanksslate.bsky.social reacting to the second half of this game because it’s unfair that he only has an audience of one
That IU ad was simply an entire university deciding to adopt Curt Cignetti’s personality and I LOVE IT
January 1, 2026 at 10:12 PM
That IU ad was simply an entire university deciding to adopt Curt Cignetti’s personality and I LOVE IT
More of this energy in 2026
January 1, 2026 at 9:54 PM
More of this energy in 2026