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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Today, @wired.com is publishing Choke Points, an 18-month investigation into how Israel’s network of checkpoints, gates, and roadblocks is reshaping daily life for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. A thread on the reporting, and what we found:

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

They quoted me in this New Yorker piece about AI today. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

“Let’s say there’s a world or time line I exist in where A.I. has been subject to regulation. It is ethical. It has no footprint environmentally,” the novelist Jeff VanderMeer, a prominent critic of A.I., told me over the phone. “With those guardrails in place, would I read an A.I. book? All I can say is no. And the reason is, in part, because I want to read something coming from a particular mind.” Using A.I., he said, “feels like a betrayal of the whole point of why you’re a writer.”

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The Onion @theonion.com · 29/09/2026

Cornell Vows That Rapists Will Be Forced To Write Much Longer Essays In The Future theonion.com/cornell-vows...

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 29/09/2026

NEW: A new White House rule would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives, including ones that help disabled Americans vote. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader effort to restrict voting access.

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This White House Plan Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote

A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restr...

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Maxine Kaplan @maxinegkaplan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Greed quite literally the mind-killer here.

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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I love it when I hear advice to sleep well, get a solid 8 hours every night. Oh great. Thanks. Should I go ahead and dunk a basketball too? Be a virtuoso violinist while I’m at it? Are there any other results you’d like me to spontaneously achieve?

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Dr. Emily Hamilton-Honey @hermioneclone.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This entire situation is beyond disgusting, but thank the Goddess for the stellar fucking work of student journalists. Truly. CW: rape, sexual assault www.cornellsun.com/article/2026...

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EDITORIAL | Cornell Won’t, We Will

The Editorial Board demands that Cornell stops protecting the alleged Chi Phi rapists through the University's opaque sexual assault policies.

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The major platforms—Facebook, YouTube, and X—are all refusing to show the trailer for the upcoming documentary that eviscerates the ridiculous pest Elon Musk. So I guess we have to do our part to make sure it is seen. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eY_8...

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Musk | Official Trailer | Bleecker Street

YouTube video by Musk

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Resident Evil Victoria @vqnerdballs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Start by offering little miniature vans to warhammer enthusiasts and then slowly give them bigger ones over time

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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

as a bookstore owner, we cannot do the work or offer the benefits which public libraries do—fund libraries and everyone, including bookstores, will thrive

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Adam Rogers @jetjocko.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A lot of things make me feel kind of dumb, including how to take at face value the logic of “we are a multibillion dollar transnational industry building a vengeful elder god, and we definitely won’t stop unless you regulate us the way we want, which is a secret.”

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Simon and Gargamel @kellylink.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

this is my favorite fantasy novel to press on readers since Jedediah Berry's The Naming Song, Melinda Taub's The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennett, Witch, & Christopher Buehlman's Between Two Fires—it ought to win all the awards, but more importantly, all of y'all should pick up a copy

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Maxine Kaplan @maxinegkaplan.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Reader, they were pretty sure this would fool everyone.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Everything the pro-Trump billionaire Ellison family will now own: Paramount+ CBS CNN Showtime HBO Warner Bros TNT TBS MTV DC Studios Nickelodeon Comedy Central And more... With this comes the power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told. Shameful.

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Maxine Kaplan @maxinegkaplan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The Ryan Murphy Lizzie Borden joint seems bad, but since it apparently takes a jaunt to a Countess Elizabeth Báthory flashback, it *does* give me the opportunity to shout to anyone who will listen that Elizabeth Báthory WAS TOTALLY INNOCENT. www.bloomsbury.com/us/blood-cou...

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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 18/09/2026

Clarification here: bsky.app/profile/anja...

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Maxine Kaplan @maxinegkaplan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Ah yes! That longtime American dream — and perennial midterms edge issue — curbing international investment in Greenland. So important that he address this. I’m also sure this will really help with military morale!

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Joshua Erlich @joshuaerlich.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

i support the first amendment but bari deserves this

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 18/09/2026

Presidents with nothing to hide don’t ban reporters. But this President is historically corrupt—so he has a LOT to hide. Stand up for the Free Press. Every leader should condemn this.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 18/09/2026

it's funny but also a reminder that the fundamental premise here is that a Black man can't be objective when talking about race while a white man can because Black people do identity politics and white people do facts and this my friends is what I have named "white empiricism"

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Maxine Kaplan @maxinegkaplan.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This book goes extremely hard and does not mitigate with the ending

House of Stairs by William Sleator cover

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 17/09/2026

I mean, yes, obviously, no shit

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I know it's early, but these things sell out fast and also this is one of the coolest things to ever happen to me. A comedy bit I wrote is part of McSweeney's 2026 Advent Calendar in which it'll be published as its own minibook. You can pre-order:

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The 2026 McSweeney's Advent Calendar

This is a preorder, the 2026 McSweeney's Advent Calendar will begin shipping this October, in time for full holiday enjoyment. Enjoy 15% off your order when you purchase an Advent Calendar alongside a...

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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

New: Macklemore says Robert Kraft — who owns Gillette Stadium, where Macklemore & Ed Sheeran were to perform later this month — called Sheeran. Kraft rallied other owners together behind an ultimatum for Sheeran: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you won't be allowed in our venues.

I'm not sure how to start this. So I'm going to speak from the heart and share the truth. Ed Sheeran and his team have made the decision to remove me from The Loop tour.
But before I get into it, I want to say something that should be obvious. In this moment I think it matters. I am not a victim. Ed Sheeran is not a victim. Pink is not a victim. We have careers, money, opportunities, safety and audiences around the world. Whatever consequences any of us face for what we say, we get to go home to our families.

The victims are the Palestinian people. The men, women and children who have been killed, starved, displaced and forced to live through unimaginable violence. More than 20,000 children have been killed in Gaza alone. People are being killed today, and people will be killed tomorrow. I want to make sure that as I tell this story, we don't lose sight of that.

Ed is my friend. I've known him for 13 years. We've shared late nights, studio sessions and stages. He has this infectious magic about him that I've grown to love. I consider him a brother. And because of that, we've had some difficult conversations this past week. The type of talks rooted in love and respect for one another that still end in a place of fundamental disagreement. Nothing I'm writing here is out of spite or because I want to tear down his character. But as I told Ed multiple times on the phone, our friendship can't change my responsibility to tell the truth about what happened.

Last Monday, in the middle of all the media attention surrounding Pink and what I said at MetLife, Ed told me that Robert Kraft called him. We were scheduled to play Gillette Stadium later this month, which is owned by the Kraft Group. Ed told me that Kraft said I would not be allowed to perform in his stadium. Ed also told me that Kraft had rallied some of the other
stadium owners and collectively they gave him an ultimatum: if Macklemore stays on the tour, you will not be allowed to play in our venues.

Ed was in …

What I said at MetLife I have been saying on stages around the world for almost three years. So why is it an issue now? Because now I'm sharing a stage with one of the biggest artists in the world, in some of the biggest stadiums in America. At a certain level of exposure, "Free Palestine" becomes too much of a risk. If I kept doing the shows, saying Free Palestine, with Ed implicitly supporting it, the crowd getting loud and showing undeniable support for Palestinian liberation, what artist might speak out next? The stage becomes resistance. Maybe that's why this time it became so important to silence me.

And one of the most effective ways to enforce that silence has been to weaponize the accusation of antisemitism. Antisemitism is real. And that is exactly why the word matters too much to be used as a shield against criticism of the Israeli state. When criticizing Israel, opposing Zionism or saying "Free Palestine" gets conflated with hatred of Jewish people, it doesn't protect Jewish people. It protects Israel from accountability.

I hope this isn't the end of my relationship with Ed.
Thirteen years of friendship doesn't disappear because of one painful disagreement. I hope we both continue listening, studying what is happening in Palestine and wrestling with what neutrality means in a moment like this. My door will always be open to continuing that conversation.

When my brother Omar was doing the subtitles for the video I posted from MetLife, I thanked him. He told me there's a phrase in Arabic:
لا شكر على واجب
"La shukra ala wajeb." There is no thanks for a duty.
That stayed with me. Because that's what this has become for me and millions of others around the world. A duty. Not something deserving of praise or gratitude. Not brave. Human.

Who is winning the internet, who is getting canceled, who gets to play the stadium and who doesn't, all of it becomes so small when held against what we are actually witnessing in Gaza and the West Bank. An entire people be…

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Maxine Kaplan @maxinegkaplan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Hey remember how Obama was a once-in-a-generation political talent whose trajectory is one every single democratic operative has fruitlessly tried to replicate for 20 years? Maybe they should listen to the guy.

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Dahlia Adler 📚 @missdahlelama.dahliaadler.com · 10/09/2026

It's here! I'm so excited to share the cover of SUMMER CAMP ROMANCE, a book that is so close to my heart (13-year sleepaway camp veteran here) and perfect for fans of Wet Hot American Summer: people.com/dahila-adler... (and yes, it's a companion to Soon By You!)

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‘Beach Read’ Meets ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ in Dahlia Adler’s ‘Summer Camp Romance’ — See the Cover! (Exclusive)

PEOPLE can exclusively reveal the cover of Dahlia Adler’s next novel ‘Summer Camp Romance,’ out next year. The adult romance from the ‘Soon By You’ author follows the relationship between two camp sta...

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Chris Kluwe @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

There’s such an easy answer to this “gotcha” question and it’s “Sports are inherently unsafe and unfair and it’s ridiculous to single out trans athletes when we allow 150 pound linebackers to go up against 260 pound linemen in freshman football on a daily basis. Let kids play with their friends.”

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ghost malone ergo propter bones @proptermalone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

ez mode solidarity opportunity you might not have been aware of. No Starbucks till the union gets a contract.

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kelly jensen @heykellyjensen.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I forgot a pretty important step in the process, so this will be uploaded to Spotify and Apple Podcasts this week. I'll drop those feeds when they're live. Scrappy, y'all. The interviews are *not* but the actual creation of the thing is.

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

This is basically a push poll and Zohran still beat it.

12. Mayor Mamdani has faced intense scrutiny from critics regarding his political circle and
statements. Do you feel his administration represents the core values of the average New Yorker
or is his platform out of step with average New Yorkers?
(N=500) n %
Represents core values of average New Yorkers-------301 60.20
Platform is too out of step with average New
Yorkers -----------------------------------------------------------140 28.00
Undecided --------------------------------------------------------- 56 11.20
Refused--------------------------------------------------------------- 3 0.60

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Amanda Wong @amandawtwong.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

No, babe, I NEED the $200 Le Creuset Star Trek shuttlecraft casserole dish for my banana bread.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 07/09/2026

Reporter Molly Hensley-Clancy has already identified eight youth sports coaches who are still working with kids despite having been banned by SafeSport, a center created by Congress to protect kids from abuse in sports. She's not done. Here’s how you can help.

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Help Us Investigate Abusive Coaches in Youth Sports

We’re continuing to report on abusive youth sports coaches and the gaps in the system that allow them to continue working with kids. If you have something to share on this topic, we want to hear from ...

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𝕯𝖆𝖓🍂🎃🕸️ @arepublic86.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Charlotte Wainwright restoring and saving old/ancient books. www.wainwrightbookbinding.com

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Hey, nerds. Starting a new monthly stand-up show at the very chill QED Queens that's all about the jokes and also we won't make fun of your body being all weird like that. Come check it out tomorrow if you're around.

Poster for "NO CROWD WORK ALLOWED" with a face with a red circle and line through it. The face is saying "Are you two married? Heh. Heh."

Featuring:

Zach Sims (ESPY Awards)
Carolyn Castilgia (Comedy Central)
Dan Wilbur (The Onion)
Jacob Williams (The Late Show)
Katie Compa (new album: Incurable Optimist)
And more!

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Patton Oswalt @pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Apparently people are sharing this far and wide on social media, which I think is horrible. This could cripple ICE operations. PLEASE do not share this.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I think one reason Mamdani is using non-traditional media is because traditional media isn't covering substantive government stories The two reporters on this topic cover the Mamdani administration but mostly from the perspective of conflicts. Too much theater, not enough substance.

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Maxine Kaplan @maxinegkaplan.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The moment in Perfect Fifths when after four whole books we’re actually in Marcus Flutie’s head 🤯 (This is a post for seven people, you’re welcome)

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Maxine Kaplan @maxinegkaplan.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma rules, period. I will accept no discourse.

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Mike Drucker @mikedrucker.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

If there are any Edinburgh folks on here and you haven't been, this is the Shit Arcade to come to! It's our craziest lineup with Guy Branum, @mackeza.bsky.social, and Shane Torres. All ringers. 10:30 pm tonight (August 28th) at the Teviot.

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Maxine Kaplan @maxinegkaplan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

What I really like about getting older is that I keep on collecting diagnoses. The 12-year-old me who was a massive hypochondriac is so proud. It's like time travel inception Munchausen if time travel and inception existed.

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Nate O @nateo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

From Tim Curry's autobiography, Vagabond, wherein he confirmed his 'dalliances' with Miss Piggy www.google.co.uk/books/editio...

I cannot overstate how much I adored working with the Muppets. The extraordinary thing about them is that they are all characters in their own right, and you should treat them as such. It also helped that I was in the upswing of my voice acting endeavor--my respect for my fellow actors was immense.

More than anything, though, I had such a good time. The Muppet universe is truly one of a kind, and it is damn impressive what they can do. If you have the privilege, and you allow yourself to enter their world, it really does not take long to forget that you are working with puppets. They are actors, each filled with distinct characteristics and foibles and all of our very human traits. (As am I-I was informed while writing this book that there is a popular meme in which the internet speculates I was successful in the film because I considered myself a "fellow Muppet." Absolutely not.)

My favorite was always Gonzo, who was always the victim, and never deserved it. I pity him. I also have a fondness for Miss Piggy, who's quite a seductive girl. She's always funny, and never boring. Although I did say at the outset that I wouldn't speak about any of my romantic relationships, I will say that Miss Piggy and I had quite a good time together, both on set and in our trailers. Fortunately, our dalliances never led to any tension with Kermit-I was clever about it.

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Maxine Kaplan @maxinegkaplan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

He felt like a friend. Patron saint of weirdo art kids.

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 26/08/2026

My god, that glorious face.

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