This needs to be better known. People are getting fired over picture book displays.

This is a fantastic piece of rigorous, in-depth reporting. It will make you want to pass out with rage. But definitely read it.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

International students are being hunted on their campuses. For raising their voices for justice. This is pure evil.

Yeah, this is a perennial truth -- landmark struggles over free speech typically involve people who are saying and doing things that are *unpopular*

That's, uh, why they need the protection of the First Amendment. It's sort of the whole point.

From @malindalo.bsky.social’s superb statement at the press conference announcing the new lawsuit in Idaho to block their book ban law.

Full press conference here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE9b...

Meta literally created a LGBTQ exception for calling someone mentally ill as an insult. You can't do it for any other group except LGBTQ people.

I'll never forget the time I went solo on a lark and experienced an epic, multi-part storyline with Hecate. I was sent on missions across floors and miraculously completed them. I was the sole witness to entire scenes in hidden rooms. Even leaving that night, I wasn't sure it had really happened.

Writers: when drafting, what's your threshold for moving beyond words that you immediately suspect you'll want to change in revision?

Do you flag a cliché description and keep going? How about a whole scene that seems flat? How much has to feel "wrong" before you halt forward progress and rethink?

Here's the thing: we are all going to have to fight this. Because it isn't going to stop.

I'm glad she's fighting, and I hope she wins

here's my latest essay on generative AI and how it does a terrible job for writers, particularly at replicating the effects of community.

but i must repeat what has been said by so many online: if nobody cares to write it, why should i care to read it?

misshelved.substack.com/p/why-would-...