Leigh Grossman

The summer @unleashthebook.bsky.social workshop is full, but I'm meeting on zoom with folks interested in the fall course now. If you're trying to finish (or start) a book, or looking for a "gym membership for the writing part of your life" feel free to reach out.

There are only two explanations for the NYT's habit of presenting GOP operatives and donors as true swing voters: 1. Their reporters and editors are somehow incapable of running a simple Google searches, showing just a staggering level of journalistic incompetence 2. They want to the GOP to win

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

In Brazil, it appears that voters who opted for eliminated first-round candidates roughly broke even in the runoff (even if the candidates leaned right). But the big difference was: Millions of voters who cast 'null' or 'blank' ballots in the first round then voted for Lula.

That this is in THE WASHINGTON POST is almost too much irony to bear.

If you really thought that you'd credit Patrick Freyne, (@patrickfreyne.bsky.social) and you'd also be correct.

Alaska's "I Voted" stickers are sooooooooo cool!

I'm going to start this thread on the presidential count in Brazil—so people who are interesting can follow along. With 3% of vote counted, Lula up 51.3 to 48.7 (that's a lead of 103K). Pattern in 2022 & in R1 was Lula down big at 1st, then closing gap, but that's shaken up by today's 2-hour delay.

And another one bites the dust!

Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was driving his construction crew to work when an ICE officer shot and killed him in Houston. He wasn’t even the person ICE was looking for. Now Texas voters are leaving their “I Voted” stickers at his memorial. #BlueWaveIn10Days

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

my god

I think one of the best aspects of this story is just how *average* the cop is. This is pretty much what most cops are like. They believe they are doing a good job.

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We’re encouraging people to carve #SaveTheAcademy pumpkins and then post them tagging @acadnatsci.bsky.social and Drexel (who isn’t on here), to continue the point that we’re not giving up. Get some templates and take action at save-the-academy.org (scroll down to find templates).

Matt Schlapp, CEO of CPAC, speaking at event w/ Marshall Rawson tonight Again: Rawson was active w/ white supremacist group League of the South; marched at infamous Nazi rally in Charlottesville; advocated killing LGBTQ people; wrote "lynchings worked" Has not denounced/apologized for any of it

This is the way

Seen this story all day today. Every headline says "27 year old Minnesota man..." I have yet to see one with the headline that the man was Somalian. The most maligned and denigrated group in Minnesota www.goodmorningamerica.com/news/story/2...

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ME: Okay what about if you see a picture of the full moon, would that do it? Or what if it was light in the same spectrum as the full moon, like from one of those mood lamps? WEREWOLF: I don’t really know. I mean, you can see why I wouldn’t want to keep pictures of the full moon around. ME: Fair

A tightly scheduled 18-hole golf course can accommodate at most 300 golfers/day. On a weekend with good weather, the NPS estimates that at least 10,000 people visit the East Potomac Park . It looks like Trump's redesigned golf course would consume all of the park (except for the tennis courts).

You are exceedingly kind, Josh, and I can only say the same about Talking Points Memo. You were one of the very first bloggers I ever read, and you've been a huge inspiration.

I see we're having a debate about whether it's okay to go back to "X," the site owned by a trillionaire fascist who is currently bankrolling the GOP's midterm, throttled Ukraine's war effort, and still winkingly allows vast amounts of CSAM on his service Answer: No, what the fuck is wrong with you

This is a wonderful thread

I had two kids in the NICU which produced a $10k bill because two insurers both said "not me!" for 36 hours of it. I fixed it by applying the full scope of my skills as civil litigation attorney. It would've cost >$10k to hire me to do it; as a policy matter, I consider that wholly unacceptable.

There are so, so many verified diaries of white Union soldiers at the beginning of the war saying "I don't know about this, I condemn the deplorable violence" and then they get down there and see slavery with their own eyes and immediately go "John Brown was right we gotta kill these motherfuckers"

See ya soon, Bay Ridge! If you're in NYC, come join! This is gonna be a blast! They're gonna have a BRASS BAND!

She will always be remembered as one of the all-time greats.

“On October 5th, Vivek reportedly took an 11-minute flight from Findlay, Ohio, to Toledo, Ohio. That’s a driving distance of 45 minutes…He could have listened to a chapter of an audiobook and saved some money. He could have taken a quick detour to Port Clinton to visit the Cheese Haven”

This is how you do it.

Failson gonna fail

the GOP candidate in Stefanik’s district, NY-21, asked about the highest city in the district he’s running in. straightfromthehut.substack.com/p/a-rebrand-...

This was very likely the only plausible option available to Democrats: absorb the massive spending, pray you survive, then whale on them with whatever you have left at the end. Seeing as the polls haven't gotten worse for Ds (if anything, they keep getting better), it seems like this is working.

Texas counties have successfully worked their way through the 500,000+ voter registration applications that the state DMV erroneously did not forward along: www.votebeat.org/texas/2026/1...

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I guess it’s illegal to stage peter pan in texas, since the character is male but is traditionally played by a woman actor www.dallasnews.com/news/educati...