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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 23/06/2026
Breaking News: The Supreme Court said a Rastafarian whose dreadlocks were forcibly shaved by prison guards could not sue them for money. nyti.ms/3SsmWMe
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Jason Diamond @jasondiamond.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
Wrote about my daughter’s beautiful face that I hide behind a bagel emoji. www.thecut.com/article/bage...
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My Daughter, Bagelface
I’ll never quit posting my emoji-obscured kid on Instagram, no matter what you think. Until, of course, she’s old enough to tell me to stop.
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assemblyman of the people's republic of anhedonia @jaybeekeeper.blacksky.app · 22/06/2026
Immediate banger.
was standing at the corner of Ninety
third and Broadway, scanning an empty storefront for signs of literary activity, when Colson Whitehead texted:
"Behind you." It was a clear May afternoon. Whitehead had invited me to his office but specified only the intersection; spinning around, I spotted a dreadlocked figure in shades and a suède jacket, slouched on a bench in the median. Once I'd crossed, he rose to greet me, revealing, on the seat, a plaque that read "Colson Whitehead's Office." He cracked a smile. "Got it for my birthday last November," he said. "No urine or dead animals yet."
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
when does the cat become prime minister
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Colson Whitehead @colsonwhitehead.com · 22/06/2026
I talked — at length! — with Julian Lucas of the New Yorker and this is what happened: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
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Colson Whitehead’s Big Score
As he closes out his Harlem crime trilogy with “Cool Machine,” the two-time Pulitzer winner turns again to the city that made him, and to the private ghosts behind his restless reinventions.
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Publishers Weekly @publisherswkly.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
The imprint was formed in 2016 by then FSG publisher and president Jonathan Galassi to publish experimental works. Under the direction of Sean McDonald (pictured), MCD published a range of bestselling and award-winning fiction and nonfiction titles. McDonald will leave FSG April 15.
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FSG Closes its MCD Imprint, McDonald to Depart
The imprint was formed in 2016 by then FSG publisher and president Jonathan Galassi to publish experimental works. Under the direction of Sean McDonald, MCD published a range of bestselling and…
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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Many of you have heard that my editor Sean McDonald will no longer be working at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. I wrote a little bit about my feelings at the end of an era.
I'm sure many people have seen the Publisher's Weekly article about my editor, Sean McDonald, leaving Farrar, Straus and Giroux, and his imprint, MCD Books, being shuttered. I have a lot of feelings about this, including gratitude for ten years of stability with one editor. Before Sean, I had a trilogy where each novel was taken by a different publishing company. It sold well enough that I was still in the game, but I never had anything approaching a settled situation. I never had any assurance from book to book that I could relax or get comfortable or feel settled.
Sean's offer for Annihilation and the rest of the Southern Reach trilogy was extraordinary. It fused a deep love of the literary with a savvy understanding of the world beyond the words in the novel. He had the vision to put the three Southern Reach novels out in the same year, creating a PR sensation to go along with a startlement of mostly rave reviews--a positive feedback loop that landed Authority and Acceptance on the bestseller lists in trade paperback. {Ultimately, the series has gone on to sell well over a million copies in the US alone, and been translated into over 37 languages.)
He further had the vision to slap an X on an omnibus hardcover just before the holidays, as a perfect gift book. It was as immaculate a synergy of the storytelling and the marketing and PR expression of that storytelling as I have ever seen or had ever experienced as the author in question. He also slipped the manuscript of Annihilation to a producer at a lunch, which led to the Annihilation movie and eventually led to Annihilation making the NYT bestseller list for the first time.When he got his own imprint at FSG, MCD Books, my novel Borne was the first published as an MCD book. It didn't make the bestseller list in hardcover, but got rare trifecta of rave reviews in the NY Times, LA Times, and Washington Post in the same weekend. The trade paperback edition is in a fourteenth printing.
After the Annihilation movie came out, I strove to write the least commercial idea I had, first, to kind of wash away the Hollywood experience. That novel was Dead Astronauts, accompanied by The Strange Bird. I sent Dead Astronauts to Sean with an email note that I knew the novel was unexpected and very strange and I appreciated him reading it, but I did not expect him to publish it. I absolved him any obligation. But within a couple of months, He replied that he liked it very much and he did want to publish it, and he saw a clear path to publishing it. The trade paperback is still in print and Dead Astronauts earned out the advance, despite being formally experimental.
When Hummingbird Salamander tanked at the beginning of the pandemic (only to rise again in trade paperback), Sean didn't bat an eye about it, just moved on and endeavored to reprint my entire backlist at FSG. As of this writing, City of Saints & Madmen is in an eighth printing, and the others, Shriek, Finch, and Veniss Underground, are all in print and selling steadily. 
FSG itself--from the art department to the PR and marketing teams, the other editorial staff, and the foreign language rights division--has always felt like a place where everyone passionately loved books and while no company is perfect, I certainly have felt it was and is an oasis in an increasingly inconsistent publishing world.
I'm very sad that Sean is leaving FSG. I know he will land on his feet, as they say, and do more great things elsewhere. I really owe him a lot and FSG a lot. I'm very fortunate, very blessed, and I also know from 45 years of a book life that everything has its place and has it season. 
It's good to celebrate what you had and how wonderful it was to have it, rather than to dwell on the fact that it has ended. Eleven books in eleven years, with a twelfth on the way is a thing to treasure.
Sean changed the trajectory of my career, and we fought many a long, arduous campaign during book launches often quixotic and against the grain of the popular in the moment. I have a lot of joy and love in my heart for all of those times and all of those opportunities. It's been a great run. I've learned a lot and had such adventures.
My career isn't over and my association with FSG isn't over, either--among other things, I have a novel under contract with them--but it does feel like the end of an era, for me. 
Honor the past but don't live there, the saying goes. But, you'll forgive me, I hope, if I live there for just a bit longer.
Thanks for reading.
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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
A good egg just hit the market!
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EMILYs List @emilyslist.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
It’s primary Election Day, Illinois! Let’s get out the vote and elect Juliana Stratton 💙 🗳️ #Strattmentum
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Juliana Stratton @julianastratton.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
2 days. I’ll see you at the polls, Illinois! 🗳️
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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Dirty work
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/03/2026
HASSETT: The latest number I was briefed on is $12 billion BRENNAN: $12 billion for six weeks of war? HASSETT: No, I'm sorry. The $12 billion was what I was briefed has been spent so far.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
critics say
F.C.C. Chair Warns Media
1h ago
Brendan Carr threatened to revoke broadcasters' licenses over their Iran war coverage, a move critics say positions him as a national censor.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/03/2026
taco bell bean burrito with rice, grilled, is a top tier fast food item
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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Can someone please explain the CBCs strategy here? Is it to ensure NO Black woman gets the senate seat? I am so confused.
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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Kelly doesn’t have a road to win. A vote for her is a vote for Raja. This is like voting Sliwa for mayor.
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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
And also not to vote for Kelly, because that’s a vote for Raja.
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Scott Roberts @mrscottroberts.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
Here’s a longer segment of our next senator Juliana Stratton @julianastratton.bsky.social speaking today at Free Flow Kitchen in Evanston, which will give you a better idea of how good she is. She starts out talking about how healthcare motivated her to run for office.
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Juliana Stratton @julianastratton.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Proud fighter, proud Chicagoan, proud house head. Get to the polls March 17th!
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Frank Calabrese @frankcalabrese.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
A new FM3 poll paid for by American Future, a DraftKings backed PAC, shows Juliana Stratton leading the Illinois Democratic Senate primary: 🔵 Juliana Stratton 38% 🔵 Raja Krishnamoorthi at 33% 🔵 Robin Kelly 18%
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
Trump hits US with war taxes:
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
the one check on Trump that I thought might keep us from this day is that he has never defied Putin’s strategic patron-client interests in any way close to this before.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
It would be cool to have a legislature that acted to defend its own constitutional prerogatives and, maybe as a treat, the interests of the people it represents too.
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 27/02/2026
underground art is important (and important to ME personally) but a world where nobody ever gets a big budget to take a big weird swing is still massively depressing
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 28/02/2026
I know this feels pointless but everyone has to call their congressional reps and say they oppose war with Iran and they oppose Trump illegally starting one without congressional approval — both 5 Calls can help you make the call: 5calls.org/issue/iran-i...
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
The state of the union address was like 72 hours before the US and Israel chose to attack Iran’s capital and call for regime change, and Trump did not even mention his policy toward Iran before Congress, much less ask for a declaration of war.
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"
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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Everyone is calling their representatives rn, correct?
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Aaron Bady @zunguzungu.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Fuck this!
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Carolyn Kellogg @paperhaus.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Why are the Democratic leaders in congress not out calling for a stop to this? No joke, the last @schumer.senate.gov posted here was 10 hours ago and he was complaining about RFKJr and grocery prices.
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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
I am very scared about the midterms.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 28/02/2026
NEW: Several high-ranking federal election officials attended a summit last week at which prominent activists who worked to overturn Trump’s loss in the 2020 election pressed for the president to declare a national emergency to take over the midterms.
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Trump Officials Attended a Summit of Election Deniers Who Want the President to Take Over the Midterms
The meeting’s participants included Kurt Olsen, a White House lawyer charged with reinvestigating the 2020 election, and Heather Honey, the Department of Homeland Security official in charge of electi...
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
It emerges that the trigger event for the abrupt closure of the El Paso airport was the US military shooting down the US Border Patrol’s drone. apnews.com/article/mili...
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US military used laser to take down Border Protection drone, lawmakers say
Members of Congress say the U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone.
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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Twitter is still good for breaking news. Threads for jokes and foolishness. Bluesky for politics cultural news, commentary and the people you knew on Twitter back in the day.
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Josh Gondelman @joshgondelman.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Every anti-vaxxer I encounter seems to love weird unregulated supplements. They hate Big Pharma but they love Little Pharma, Big Pharma’s younger sibling who grew up without any adult supervision.
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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 28/02/2026
Operation Epstein Fury
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 28/02/2026
pedo ass warmonger
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David Burbach 🇺🇸 @dburbach.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Secretary Hegseth announced this afternoon that DOD will cease ALL graduate study by military personnel at universities including MIT, all the Ivies, Stanford, etc because such schools teach "the enemy's wicked ideology" to officers. thehill.com/policy/defen...
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Trump launches massive and massively illegal, perilous and costly war of aggression because he feels like it — with hardly even a pretense of legitimate grounds or coherent outcomes, a catastrophically world destabilizing and murderous folly.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 28/02/2026
So anyway I guess this is what it feels like to be one of the tiny humans running through the streets while the giant supervillain monsters are fighting by throwing passengers trains and apartment buildings at each other
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Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Fewer and fewer people having more and more power and wealth will surely end well.
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southpaw @nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Just want to note that 3am in Washington is like 11:30am in Tehran. The American people are the ones he snuck up on in the dead of night to conduct this illegal attack, not the purported enemy.
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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 28/02/2026
Someone please wake Schumer and Jeffries up and also pls give them a backbone and some sense.
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Tammy Duckworth @duckworth.senate.gov · 25/02/2026
For all those who didn't watch tonight, allow me to summarize: The liar lied again.
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Vauhini Vara @vauhinivara.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
I help host a writing club for my 10-year-old and his friends. We've been sharing writing, but this weekend, I want to mix it up. What are writing games or activities for fifth graders (fun, not babyish) that build community, confidence and attention to observation and language? Movement is a plus!
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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
FINALLY FIGURED OUT MY BLUESKY PASSWORD
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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 06/12/2025
I have truly had enough of 2025.
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Lisa Lucas @likaluca.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Okay, what holiday movies are we revisiting this year? Time to get started.
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