"The IIML is home to one of New Zealand's most unusual literary treasures: the Landfall/Janet Frame Desk. The desk sits just inside our front door, beneath photographs of its two previous owners, Charles Brasch and Janet Frame." wgtn.ac.nz/modernletters/…

Here's a treat: 2023 Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction winning book The Axeman's Carnival by Catherine Chidgey has been adapted for audio by RNZ, commencing 15 September. Te Herenga Waka University Press rnz.co.nz/national/progr…

It's a big deal that veteran journalist Mike Barnicle has now called out his media colleagues for failing to adequately cover Trump's visibly worsening mental state. It should spur a real discussion about how to do this, before it's too late. 1/ New piece newrepublic.com/article/185622…

I'm perfectly comfortable voting enthusiastically for Harris over Trump, but if I ran the campaign I would be trying harder to find targeted ways to appeal to people who have specific beefs with the Biden administration. slowboring.com/p/voters-care-…

I'm sometimes asked if Trump in a second term would cancel elections and close down papers. No, I think it would be more subtle, more like what happened in Hungary -- and the The New York Times publisher, A.G. Sulzberger, makes that point very effectively in this essay in the The Washington Post:

Honestly Harris should do more of this stuff too but her campaign is being run by people with PTSD over Biden's inability to speak extemporaneously.

Someone write an entire essay about this one please

This is all you need to know if you are unsure about your vote in November.

FWIW Trafalgar/ActiVote wouldn't even change our aggregates — they're excluded on principle. Not everything is "left leaning" or "right leaning". It's data. What I can say about our work is that we include every poll and are very clear about what we do. I can't say that for RCP.

Adams so many investigations guy might as well be a republican FBI raids homes of top aides to New York City Mayor Eric Adams politi.co/4dNDjc7 via POLITICO

National polls look decent-to-good for Harris, but the probability of an Electoral College/popular vote split is up to almost 20%.

This is one reason why I think Harris is right to be emphasizing cash assistance to parents over elaborate schemes to subsidize "child care" per se. edsource.org/updates/kamala…

This is the type of shit that would have singlehandedly cost a GOP senate candidate their race in like Tennessee in 2012

For reference, Brian Kemp, this is how you pray and attempt to influence policies that protect and impact the communities you are elected to serve. All at the same time, ironically! We thought this might help. #DoSomething

Sad to see Rachel Blount leaving the Star Tribune just when women’s sports is finally having its day in the sun. Rachel is one of the very best. Let’s hope she finds a new platform to share her excellence soon.

The ignorance is appalling

This is good

I miss New York

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