Why why why do writers I otherwise very much respect still think it’s okay to use fatness in their characters as shorthand for laziness and stupidity?

"[The ADL is] an institution coming to grips with its true personality: a pro-Israel lobby with a civil rights hobby." Great new piece in Jewish Currents about the utter bumbling dangerous mess that is the ADL. jewishcurrents.org/the-unbearable…

You guys I just randomly looked up the Grey’s Anatomy writer who lied about having cancer and it turned out she was my good friend from summer camp, we used to make 90210 montages together.

Ready to have a Todd Rundgren moment, where should I start?

I have my first piece of fiction out in quite a minute today Joyland -- "Today's Problems," a story about parenting, digestion, and making art. Worked hard on this one, I hope you like it. joylandmagazine.com/fiction/todays…

The narrator of Sara Jaffe's (Sara Jaffe) "Today's Problems" is pulled in several directions: to expose her toddler to political calamities or not, to write that day or not, to consider herself a "mom"—a label that doesn't feel just right—or not joylandmagazine.com/fiction/todays…

The Israeli army killed 9 Palestinians in Jenin last night, including 2 children. These raids and murders are happening EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, perpetrated by a state the US continues to support unequivocally.

Can someone pls clarify the ethics of we told the kid he has an allowance but we forget to give it to him for months at a time, and he forgets to ask?

You know when there's a band that you know is going to be your new fave as soon as you finally get around to getting their records? Happening rn, thank you Horse Lords.

Had this dream where I found some writing I did as a teen and was like “wow, my writing was so much less self-conscious then, but I was so much more self-conscious as a person—and now, the opposite is true.” Was my dream-self on to something…

Many are blaming the new Israeli government as the cause of the unimaginable violence Palestinians are facing in Huwara and Nablus. But the origin of these atrocities is not the Israeli government. The root cause is Zionism, which always called for removal of Palestinians 🧵

actually love “differences between the generations” discourse, makes me feel so superior and so dumb at the same time

PDX-specific post: the 7-year-old is now randomly telling us to “Slow the flock down.”

Would be buoyed this morning to hear of anyone successfully completing a novel written paragraph by disconnected paragraph. Do the fragments eventually expand, or simply join up?

Love when great writers write about great writers, yeah!!

Spring has sprung! Let’s celebrate with a book! Or two? Oh, who are we kidding, let’s just go in and see which books whisper our name. These whispered ours this month, and we hope you’ll like them too! 📚 ❤️ 🌸 #ElizabethvonArnim #HayleyScrivenor Penguin Books UK Ashley Poston (Updates Only)

.Jake Tapper 🦅, your reporting on Rashida Tlaib’s Nakba 75 event was racist and anti-Palestinian. As Jews who believe in human rights and justice, we demand you do better.