JP Libby

My screenwriter brand in two images:

You’d think the mediocre whites and their AAPI allies would be happy. They “won” on affirmative action and black student enrollment has plummeted. But they’re not happy. As long as there’s *one* Black person in school they’ll still run to SCOTUS Their next target is 5th graders Me in @thenation.com

Musk should be in prison.

Democrats need to run hard against Elon Musk. They need to warn the public that the world's richest man is spending $276 million to attempt a hostile takeover of our government.

I’m sure there’s no connection

Right now, I feel a responsibility to watch three hours of Holmes, four hours of Musk, two hours of Murdoch, two hours of Zuckerberg, and that's if I skip the two hours of Altman. I gotta find some movies about people who have never possessed a billion dollars

The sci-fi fantasy that AI hucksters use to fool people into thinking there can be manmade intelligence is that it goes all the way back to 1818, with the publication of "Frankenstein." In the very first version of "AI," Mary Shelley got something fundamental about the desire to believe.

Jon Husted took more than $115,000 from Jeffrey Epstein's longtime financial backer Les Wexner, including a maximum donation last year. Then he voted against releasing the Epstein files. @timmiller.bsky.social digs into the Ohio senator's troubling ties to Wexner.

Just in! New Nobel Prize laureate in literature Anne Carson stands surprised in her kitchen in Reykjavík, Iceland. Stay tuned for our exclusive interview with her coming soon. Join us in congratulating our 2026 literature laureate - send your greetings in the comments.

This is heartbreaking, everybody.

Stephen "Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted." www.npr.org/2026/10/08/n...

TEXAS — @jamestalarico.bsky.social : “Why do we have a trillionaire when veterans are sleeping on the streets? The reason poverty exists is not because we can’t feed the poor, it’s because we can’t satisfy the rich.” (From @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social )

reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news

“You can feel an underlying anxiety about the future now on the streets.” France’s protests are about far more than schools, Sophie Pedder tells “The Intelligence”. Discover more on our daily podcast

It is 2006, and Karl Rove is mocking people for calling Republicans "Nazis" It is 2026, and Karl Rove is encouraging people to call Republicans "Nazis"

A lot of very unhappy parents of trans and nonbinary kids, too, not enjoying seeing a mob whipped up toward children

It was hard, especially as a survivor, but I dug through the court documents and the right-wing reaction to the Cornell case. What I've learned is the backlash to #MeToo did its job, reinscribing hatred of survivors. We need more #MeToo, not less. www.salon.com/2026/10/02/c...

Good. Also, yay Mainers and the resisting "Summah people".

Sort of a darker different meaning to “burying the lead” here

Could be 60. Trump wants "data to rein" because that means the oligarch Nerd Reich side rule. Democrats could get right on this; they know they'll have to, just for the environment, but they're either afraid of the tech fascist donors. Or are deluded enough to think the PayPal Mafia is persuadable.

Jesus fucking Christ

turns out this is also a major way that shadow docket abuse pisses off Ketanji Brown Jackson ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/ketan...

Ken Paxton keeps dodging debates. So I called his cell to invite him to a debate on Fox News. He didn’t pick up.

A CNN investigation reveals Russia likely provided crucial satellite information about U.S. bases, giving Tehran a major advantage in the war. And not a word from Senile Satan.

Big news: The family of Tierra Walker, who died after she couldn't get an abortion, is suing a slate of Texas actors in state court, including AG Ken Paxton. They say the state ban is unconstitutional. This is the first suit of its kind. 19thnews.org/2026/09/texa...

If you needed other reasons to vote against her, from one soulless pol to another: “Former Sen. Joe Manchin (I-WV), a prominent centrist who left the Democratic Party at the end of his Senate career, has endorsed Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME), praising her as the ‘soul of the Senate,'” The Hill reports.

Hey, studio execs: More of this, please! www.patreon.com/GoIntoTheSto... #Hollywood #movies

"The Righteous Road Trip" is a short documentary by Vanessa Roth about visiting the last surviving Righteous Among the Nations—non-Jews recognized by Yad Vashem for risking their lives to save Jews during the Holocaust. Here's an interview about the film. youtu.be/SPuVN9iAWCg?...

#5AMwritersclub This is the perfect time to write, isn't it. Morning. ☕

Wendell Berry, a writer and farmer, died this week at age 92. Joe Fassler writes about the simple, clarifying idea that informed his life:

so proud to be an EP on this movie! www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

I was on the receiving end of Gloria Steinem's incredible generosity to feminist writers and activists. She will be missed by many. www.thenation.com/article/acti...

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knowing what the Supreme Court is doing and how the Court really works is a pre-req for holding the Court accountable John Roberts literally wants justices to take that knowledge to their graves so that he can bury the prospect of accountability along with them ballsandstrikes.org/ethics-accou...

If you don’t own any of these you should own all of these.

Howard Lutnick's neighbors keep wondering whether he was behind a deal to sell out their building to a Saudi firm. I got secret texts and a corporate intel report slipped into my mailbox. Turns out, the neighbors were right to wonder. NEW in @vanityfair.com: www.vanityfair.com/story/pierre...

God already built a wall through Big Bend — it's called the Chisos Mountains. We don't need to give billions of our tax dollars to out of state vendors. We don't need to desecrate this sacred land. We don't need this useless, disgraceful, corrupt Big Bend border wall.

This never gets old.

I understand 60 Minutes is a huge platform. But NYT sets the agenda for American politics and elite discourse. That gave Ross huge power. And he used it poorly and often disingenuously. Good riddance.

This is Kimchi. She can sleep through anything. Including a brief demonic possession. 13/10 (TT: tamrikhurtsilava)

Rabbit, rabbit. #onward :)

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com

“DRIVE is a story about falling in love.” 🩷 Some dreamy film photos from our sold out 15th anniversary screening with filmmaker Nicolas Winding Refn Friday night at LF3. Stay tuned for the full event recap!

Cause and effect: Republicans in Congress voted last summer to cut food stamp budgets by nearly $200 billion. Now more children and families are going hungry in America.

The irony of Trump saying he was going to show evidence the 2020 election was stolen from him, only to release a document showing Russia helped him, is priceless! He’s such a moron. 😎✨