AMAZING NEWS!!! So excited to announce that my hybrid essay collection THE LUNATICS’ BALL is the runner-up for the Gournay Prize and will be published in the 21st Century Essay series by Mad Creek Books (the literary imprint of Ohio University Press) in 2027. My dream publisher!

「ロミオとジュリエット」のラストシーンに突如現れ、完全に看板を奪ったネコちゃん。 reddit.com/r/cats/s/oCTlK4LR…

"When writing about sensitive family dynamics, I turn to advice Andre Dubus III shared at Longleaf Writers Conference about his brother. To paraphrase: …What happened behind that bedroom door is his story to tell. But what I experienced in the hallway is mine…"

Some fresh notes and doodles about getting laid off and being fine with it 😘✌️ misternagel.substack.com/p/t…

Today we're featuring William Woolfitt and his wonderful prose piece "Abalone and Urchin"! Be sure to read the rest of his piece and our Spring 2026 Issue on our website, linked in bio!

Love this memoir prologue, one of two editors' choices in the Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest at @CraftLiterary

Stunning experimental lyric essay, one of two editors' choices in the Memoir Excerpt & Essay Contest.

Great new issue!

Cedar Waxwings x Mulberry trees = Feeding Frenzy! I can't believe I went most of my life without seeing a Cedar Waxwing! One of my absolute favorites. ❤️💛❤️ #Waxwings #CentralPark #birdcpp

Incredibly honored and thrilled to learn that my novel The Imagined Life (@AAKnopf) has been longlisted for the 2026 Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award!!✨ marktwainhouse.org/2026/05/2…

This week alone: DOJ opens an investigation into the woman Trump raped. The White House is caught steering a $620 million contract to Don Jr.’s firm. The Pentagon hands out a $10 billion contract after Trump buys stock in the company. Foreign governments are caught funneling hundreds of millions into a random JPMorgan account tied to Trump’s “Board of Peace” with no oversight. It’s just Thursday. The corruption isn’t hidden anymore. It’s happening out in the open.

Too on point not to share. This is great, but too bad the Orange Felon’s enablers won’t let him see it. This Australian's reply to #Trump's rant about “NATO not being there for America” is perfect. "Mate. You run a country with 600,000 homeless people sleeping on the street tonight. A country where 40% of adults can't cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment and people are rationing it to survive. A country where medical debt is the number 1 cause of bankruptcy. A country where women are dying in hospital car parks because doctors are too scared of abortion laws to treat a miscarriage. You lock up more of your own citizens than any nation on earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. The land of the free has 2 million people in cages, and a quarter of them haven't even been convicted of anything. They're just too poor to make bail. Your life expectancy is going backwards. You're the only developed nation where that's happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba's. Your kids do active shooter drills between maths and English while you sell the gunmaker's stock to your mates. Your minimum wage hasn't moved in 15 years. You've got teachers working 2 jobs and veterans sleeping under bridges and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that didn't attack you. And you’ve got a convicted felon, adjudicating raping, paedophile protecting, porn star shagging insurrectionist running the biggest dumpster fire war campaign since the Taliban thanked you very much for losing again. And you're calling Greenland poorly run? Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody goes bankrupt there because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because their insurance said no. 'NATO wasn't there when we needed them." When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn't even in NATO and we still showed up. For 20 years. And you pulled out at 2am without telling anyone and left them to deal with the mess. So maybe before you start calling other countries poorly run, have a look at your own backyard, you spray-tanned aluminium siding salesman. The only thing poorly run in this picture is your f----- mouth." - Tony Locke

I’m gonna post this video every day so we NEVER FORGET what Donald Trump did to the USA on Jan 6th

Dear @DAGToddBlanche: Why are you deleting information about the January 6 Capitol Attack? What are you hiding from the American people?

And just like that, it’s completely VANISHED from the media. A sitting congressman, Ted Lieu, said on the record the Epstein files are being blocked because they show Trump raped and threatened to kill children. Lets make this viral again 👇

Mississippi called a special session today to erase the only Black congressman in this state. So Mississippians showed up.

New #flashcreativenonfiction: "At five minutes, the lid rattled. Left too long, they would rupture, leak their hearts, and collapse into ruin. The pot hissed; I flinched." —@rachanapathak99 craftliterary.com/2026/05/06…

Great new issue to @TinyMolecules!

Trump, Miller, and Markwayne have decided to close the office responsible for investigating misconduct and abuse in immigration detention centers. Yeah, you read that right. Despite 49 deaths of detained immigrants, detention centers will operate and profit without oversight. It is clearer than ever: Reforms are not enough! Congress must STOP funding DHS, pass my Melt ICE Act, and dismantle DHS.

AMAZING NEWS!! Minnesota has JUST charged white supremacist Jake Lang with 2 FELONY HATE CRIMES (5 years in prison) for knocking over this ice sculpture. Trump can’t pardon him from these crimes.

Obama: “The president shouldn’t have a bunch of side hustles that companies and foreign entities can invest in.” Trump has raked in at least $4 billion since taking office, which is why he’s widely recognized as the most corrupt president in American history.