A fast way of damaging the rule of law is to make a law with a hard deadline.......and zero consequences for missing that deadline. Especially when its for the department that would normally prosecute a violation of said law.

Bondi didn't release the Epstein files. There will no consequences.

I don't know if its arrogance (likely) or just understanding - but I see clearly regarding some issues.

To the point where I'm surprised when I get any push back, not because I'm offended, but because it just seems...obvious to me and I assume everyone else sees it too.

Baby Otter Sounds!

I really never planned to waste my precious days on this blue marble learning about all the stages of a fascist coup. Just think, we all could have been reading Jane Austen novels or watching birds or painting our garage doors, like literally anything else.

Hey, it's here! My new book comes out today. Hope you like it. ❤

I love "Cathedral" too -- I gave one of my dogs the nickname "Bub" because of that story.

Skate Queen (from her collection Entry Level -- available from @autumnhousepress.bsky.social -- which is an absolute all-timer) was originally published at @anmlymag.bsky.social, and everyone should check it out: anmly.org/ap25/wendy-w...

Also, even though I'm not pausing or slowing down to jot down notes or anything like that, just the act of reading a story aloud to someone else that I didn't write is 1) a lovely act, and 2) making me think about these stories differently. Same was true of @wendywimmer.bsky.social's Skate Queen.

Read "Cathedral" to someone to fall asleep earlier this week, and it's the first time I've read it since undergrad. It was between that or "Feathers" (which is one of my favorite Carver stories), but I'd forgotten how much of a banger the former is too.

So my wife is a pediatrician and works in some hospitals with high vaccine and intervention hesitation (suburban ones). She has found *tremendous* success by just letting the families know she will have to document the higher risk of specific, and often fatal illness, in the chart of their child.