Reposted by Anne K Yoder Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026milkweed.org/book/pink-th... Order now, get surprised in Januarymilkweed.org 189
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 17hIf you have $100 million to spend on ads saying you shouldn’t be taxed you’re not being taxed enough Google cofounder Sergey Brin has spent $102 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses fortune.com/article/how-...fortune.comGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million to fight California’s proposed billionaire tax—he could owe $13 billion if he loses | FortuneThe state’s ultrawealthy, including Larry Page and Peter Thiel, have similarly donated to efforts opposing the wealth tax. 863310950
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 03/10/2026Please spread the word far & wide: applications to the Litowitz MFA+MA are now open: it's a two-year fully-funded program (ie, you don't pay for it) w/ health benefits & a $47k/year stipend. I'm reading fiction applications. Deadline is 12/1/26 english.northwestern.edu/graduate/adm...english.northwestern.eduTHE LITOWITZ CREATIVE WRITING GRADUATE PROGRAM: Department of English - Northwestern University 21514
Reposted by Anne K Yoder B-Side Editions @bside-editions.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Chicago: This Saturday at the Whistler. Launch party for ERRAND WEATHER, the new B-Side Editions book. Doors at 6pm, free admission, 21+ Readings from Deborah Shapiro, @parkeryoung.bsky.social , and Nathan Dragon 012
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Juan Martinez @fulmerford.com · 01/10/2026Ahead of tonight's book launch, I wrote a long post about how this particular (and particularly) weird story took shape, what and where it borrowed from, and what it taught me about narrative: substack.com/home/post/p-...substack.comShort-Story Source Tags & Codes: Mechanical Servants LLCOn how a weird story took shape, what and where it borrowed from, and what it taught me about narrative 122
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Le Monde in English @english.lemonde.fr · 25/09/2026Amnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedlemonde.frAmnesty International calls for ICE to be abolishedIn a report titled 'We Had Whistles, They Had Guns,' the NGO documents widespread human rights violations committed by ICE in the United States. 388198416365
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 25/09/2026"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline. Comic book villainy.wsj.comExclusive | RFK Jr.’s Enhanced Security Was Funded With Money From Minority Health OfficeThe cost of the health secretary’s security grew from roughly $10 million in fiscal year 2025 to $17 million in fiscal year 2026. 27674973154
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Jennifer N. Victor @jenvictor.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Pop quiz! What do we call it when the government and ruling party are indistinguishable from one another--the government is the party and the party is the government? 2418
Reposted by Anne K Yoder dan sinker @dansinker.com · 24/09/2026Social sucks now. What if we just stopped? dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...dansinker.com What If We Just Stopped? | dansinker.com 921544
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 22/09/2026This is not great 62072691984
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 20/09/2026This is about one thing and one thing alone. Steering our research dollars for cancer, heart disease, and new infectious diseases to Trump’s political allies and friends. 24948391999
Anne K Yoder @annekyoder.bsky.social · 20/09/2026‘I’m at the Triumphal Arch / I’m at the Military Complex / I’m at the combination Triumphal Arch and Military Complex.’ 010
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Marc Fischer @marc-fischer.bsky.social · 20/09/2026ICE agents, still being violent and doing illegal shit, as usual. Vile. 02112
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 19/09/2026By moving to the “center,” Democrats have failed to fight the forces that led us to Donald Trump: widening inequality, economic insecurity, and the unchecked political power of corporations and the rich. Political centrism is nonsense. There is no middle ground between democracy and oligarchy. 17842811279
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Jorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 17/09/2026It's interesting that the @nytimes.com will write this piece but will not review the bestseller "The Nerd Reich" by Gil Duran – unquestionably the most urgent &important book written abt Silicon Valley – The Awesome and Alarming A.I. Visions of Anthropic’s C.E.O. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/17/t...nytimes.comHow Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei’s Writings Help Explain A.I. FearsThe collected essays of Dario Amodei help explain why some people are so worried about artificial intelligence. 072
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 17/09/2026It is the second year this administration has barred the Palestinian delegation from US travel ahead of the forumtheguardian.comTrump administration denies entry visas to Palestinian officials ahead of UN general assembly 35248
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Corporations are not people. Their money is not speech. They should not be able to buy politicians. End Citizens United. 495221295807
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026As a person who has had a nervous breakdown, I feel moderately qualified to say that we are having a societal nervous breakdown 271377122
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Blue sky nice ghost @rajandelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026"60 Minutes. More like 60 viewers!" 334592693
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Ilhan Omar @ilhanmn.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It is barbaric that Americans owe $220 BILLION in medical debt. In the richest country on Earth, healthcare should be a right—not a debt sentence. We must *finally* eliminate medical debt and deliver Medicare for All. 28917175
Reposted by Anne K Yoder ProPublica @propublica.org · 14/09/2026Look at this photo we found from Donald Trump Jr.’s lavish Bahamas wedding. Can you spot the Russian oligarch close to Putin who bankrolled the event? 🧵 22834391320
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Dave Itzkoff @ditzkoff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026This is the best thing yet that @bencollins.bsky.social and @timheidecker.bsky.social have done at the new Onion 592126198
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Maybe he used some of that $50,000 in bribery-sting money to buy a bushel of beets. 71825
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 11/09/2026I’m in a London bar and a woman just came in wearing a tshirt that says “Good Bush” [drawing of a woman’s crotch] “Bad Bush” [drawing of George W], so happy 9/11 everyone 518624
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Feels like The Onion anticipated this dodgy-sounding dividend idea over 20 years ago. theonion.com/bush-offers-...theonion.comBush Offers Taxpayers Another $300 If We Go To WarWASHINGTON, DC—Amid growing anti-war protests and polls indicating eroding public support for an invasion of Iraq, President Bush is offering U.S. taxpayers a rebate in the amount of $300 if we go to ... 061
Reposted by Anne K Yoder The Pirate Captain @thepiratecaptain.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Google searches for “Pennsylvania senator recall” up 9700% today 135419
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Philip Montoro @pmontoro.bsky.social · 09/09/2026Sonic Pavilion presents seven new pieces of sound art, every one played twice each day, through the spatialized 24-channel speaker array on the lattice over the Pritzker Pavilion lawn—this creating a listening experience that changes as you move around the space. chicagoreader.com/music/gossip...chicagoreader.comSonic Pavilion brings sound art and serendipity to downtown Chicago - Chicago ReaderExperimental Sound Studio uses all 24 channels of the Pritzker Pavilion audio system. Plus: Further fests this week include the Evanston Folk Festival, PravdaFest, and Plantasia. 085
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 05/09/2026Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff are all smiles as they meet with Putin in the Kremlin (Gavriil Grigorov/AFP via Getty) 4401744632
Reposted by Anne K Yoder New York Review Books @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Big day in NYRB HQ, Diane Williams's new collection, I Liked Rex, is out. If you haven't read her work: it is made up of tiny, coruscating tales which are among the most tender, funny, peculiar, and searching works in all of contemporary literature. 14013
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 30/08/2026More than 20 people are unaccounted for in Grand Canyon National Park, and dozens were evacuated after parts of the canyon were hit by "significant" fossil-fueled flash flooding.cbsnews.comGrand Canyon flash floods leave more than 20 missing as dozens are evacuated, park officials sayThe flash floods hit Bright Angel Canyon and the Phantom Ranch area on Saturday afternoon, the National Park Service said. 26041
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 30/08/2026This report is totalitarian pseudo-science, aka corrupted science in the service of far-right authoritarianism. Who commits most of the political violence in this country has been clear for decades. It's not the left. It's not those of us who support trans rights and realities. 24972295
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Millie Cassese ⚖️ @millienyc.bsky.social · 29/08/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/08/29/o... "The attitude of the president and his advisers is that the 2024 election was an enabling act for a constitutional revolution, in which rule by the people was replaced by the Führerprinzip." - Jamelle Bouienytimes.comOpinion | Trump Is in Open Revolt Against the Constitution (Gift Article)The mail-in voting fiasco is the latest proof that we have another reconstruction ahead of us. 144
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Starshaped Press @starshapedpress.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Who wants to go down a rabbit hole of type foundry specimens from 1890s Inland Printers today? 107615
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Anna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 29/08/2026what is bettable thereof, right answers only 7344
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Éireann @eireannmor.bsky.social · 29/08/2026I am grateful for voter registration drives and freedom schools and sit-down strikes and labor organizing and all the ways--though carried out imperfectly perhaps by imperfect humans--people have insisted and do insist on our being more than materiel to use and burn 052
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Pitchaya Sudbanthad @pitchaya.bsky.social · 29/08/2026"US corporate profits have hit a record high while workers’ slice of the pie has sunk to historic lows, fuelling discontent among many Americans and a growing political backlash...Employees’ share from wages and benefits fell to 60 per cent, the lowest level since the 1950s..."ft.comUS corporate profits surge to record as worker payouts wiltPre-tax earnings hit highest share of national income since aftermath of second world war 001
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Tobias Carroll @tobiascarroll.bsky.social · 28/08/2026At @wwborders.bsky.social, I wrote about some August books in translation... wordswithoutborders.org/read/article...wordswithoutborders.orgThe Watchlist: August 2026 - Words Without BordersThis #WITMonth, Tobias Carroll recommends new translated fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by women from around the world. 0197
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Dan Sinykin @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social · 29/08/2026Here's a damning fucking chart 1296
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 27/08/2026Quite a community note here. Reminder that your taxpayer dollars are paying for these Nazi social media accounts. 13471352020
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Matthew Kirschenbaum @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social · 26/08/2026A 30% cut to international enrollment is lights out at many public R1’s. And: once again, this is not bungling on the part of the administration, or unintended consequences. It is *precisely* the intention. 4501201
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Dorothy, a publishing project @dorothyproject.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Friends, book reviews are drying up. We all know this. But it's worth repeating. Advance reviews we used to (gratefully!) count on are no longer a given; we're not getting them. Newspapers where intrepid reviewers used to talk about our books . . . well, you know. PLEASE, if you read our books . . . 319378
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Where to begin foreignpolicy.com/2026/08/20/s... 22403105
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Jeff (Hot Type) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · 23/08/2026WTF. Did you not get the memo, Jeffries? We want fighters, not conciliators. There is no working with fascists. Fascists are to be fought. Jeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks Fly www.nytimes.com/2026/08/23/u...nytimes.comJeffries and Kushner Meet Privately as Midterm Attacks FlyPresident Trump’s son-in-law and the man in line to be speaker of a Democratic-led House discussed how Democrats and the administration could work together. 82866234
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Teresa Heffernan @tjheffernan.bsky.social · 16/08/2026For the bro-oligarchs, 'free speech' was always about shutting it down: “The basic idea was that we could never win an election based on certain things because we were in such a small minority but maybe you could actually unilaterally change the world...through technological means” (Thiel, 2010) 212548
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Don’t have anything insightful to say about the Arday case beyond this: we assign some cases to have profound symbolic meaning. But which cases we assign meaning is a choice. Firing of faculty in the US for wrongthink now is routine but does not shape the discourse. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/29/u...nytimes.comFlorida Professor Fired for Assigning a Profane Story, Lawsuit SaysSouth Florida State College fired an English professor after she assigned a story about a teacher who talks about sex with her students. Now the professor is suing. 20576137
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Jeff Berardelli @weatherprof.bsky.social · 12/08/2026‼️ Another 1000-YR Rain Event In fact, in some cases it exceeded the criteria by almost 2X. Catastrophic #Flood underway, Flood Emergency for #Indiana in Cambridge City, near New Castle, South of Muncie, east of #Indianapolis. Stay safe folks, turn around don’t drown! 1/ 722596
Reposted by Anne K Yoder Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Bluesky should go back to invites, continue aggressive bot bans, create a Craigslist-style marketplace (since you’re more likely to buy/get services from a educated or good person on here than any other social network), and market this place like a walled garden protected from enshittification. 609191062373