Matt Knutson 🏜️

Writer @BatCityReview @ColaLitReview @IHLR & others

[Matt Knutson 🏜️ @mattknuts]

Getting absolutely roasted by the sheep at the writing residency 😅 @SundressPub

[Cole Sandick🌹🇵🇸🇺🇦🇸🇩 @ColeSandick]

One could argue the current state of the internet is the single greatest indictment on capitalism today, which is saying something. What should on paper easily be a boundless source of information and creativity is now just a vehicle for profit extraction, spying, ads and slop.

[Brandon Beylo @marketplunger1]

We must protect the art of writing at all costs.

[Sam Haselby @samhaselby]

Obama will be remembered as the American Gorbachev, the charismatic, well-intentioned leader feted by the world but who, by failing to address crisis levels of inequality, elite impunity and corruption, hastened US national decline.

[Adam O'Fallon Price @AdamOPrice]

I think the last known instance of this was written maybe 15 years ago? The updated version of this very stale joke would be that CW profs love to be like "have you read my new novel? It's about intergenerational trauma and there is also climate change"

[Peter Lucier @PeterLucier]

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

[harrison gordon is a band @harrisongordo13]

Have no opinion on the whole “wearing a bands merch to their show” debate but it 100% rocks when a guy buys a shirt at the table and then puts it on over his other shirt

[Mike Coté @ratlpolicy]

This may come across as harsh, but if you can't read 100 pages in a week, you shouldn't be in college.

[ck @forevercomedown]

I am totally fine with a MJ Lenderman foreword. Literature is for all.

[兔兒神 @chenchenwrites]

i think having any POV preference for a book is kinda silly. it’s the mindset of a consumer expecting to be catered to, rather than that of a reader who’s open to anything good.

[Christopher Leonard @ChrisLeonardATL]

Professor John Mearsheimer : "if there were Nuremberg trials right where the Israelis and the Americans were brought before the court, President Trump along with President Netanyahu and many of their advisors would be hanged"

[garrett @gsatkowiak]

some photos from north bend, wa

[Secular Talk ([email protected]) @KyleKulinski]

@donie @jaketapper @PeterHamby @JonahPlatt @TheLeadCNN Absolutely disgusting hit job, CNN should be ashamed of itself. Israel just green lit the mass murder of 10,000 Palestinian hostages and this is what you talk about.

[jake rhodes @jakebrodes]

American and Texan here: Americans mostly use guns to kill their whole families or random people in road rage related incidents. Lots of times we use them to kill children too. Our 2nd amendment is 50% a cyanide pill we chew on all day and 50% a vanity project for suburban morons

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

"What if a drug addict used your tax dollars to get SNAP benefits?"

The government uses my tax dollars to bomb villages, arm warlords, fund coups, and trafficks children through proxy states. If a "junkie" eats because of me, that's the most moral thing my taxes have done.

[Justin🦩Boldaji @justinboldaji]

No shirt just walks up and snuffs him, beastmode

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

The names of Palestinian babies (0-1) K*LLED by Israel in a year.

[HatsOff @HatsOffff]

Israeli soldiers tortured this 18-month-old baby in Gaza to force a confession out of his father during an interrogation

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

🔺NEW: Spokesman for Khatam al-Anbiya Central Headquarters addresses the U.S.:

🔹“Have your internal conflicts reached the point where you’re negotiating with yourselves?”

🔹“Don’t call your defeat an ‘agreement’. You will see neither your investments in the region nor previous energy and oil prices return.”

🔹“Until it is our will, nothing will return to how it was. That will only happen when the idea of acting against the Iranian people is completely erased from your minds.”

🔸“Our position from day one has been clear and remains unchanged: someone like us will never come to terms with someone like you — not now, and not ever.”

[Nida Kirmani @NidaKirmani]

There are many reasons to resist AI (e.g. environmental harm, the power it gives to states/corporations, intellectual theft), but perhaps the biggest one for me is that, despite it all, I still believe that the human intellect is miraculous, irreplicable, & worth fighting for.