Thank you @fiveminutelit for posting my story today. www.fiveminutelit.com/five-minutes...

Windmill by Diane Payne — Five Minutes

After walking through tulip-filled Windmill Island, this tired-looking family is about to leave when the older woman in the group stops ...

Thrilled to have my essay originally published in Cutleaf Journal in Sugar Sugar Salt. sugarsugarsalt.org/2024/08/08/e...

Encounters by Diane Payne

I run into an old lover I haven’t seen in thirty years, and after a bit of mundane chit chat, he asks if I can still predict the future. He doesn’t laugh. I don’t laugh. If I could have predicted that...

RFK Jr Brain Worm: I Would Like To Be Excluded From This Bear Narrative wapo.st/3YuNqxL

Opinion | RFK Jr.’s brain worm: I had nothing to do with the bear!

And my legal team will be in touch if my former host keeps insisting I did!

we did it folks!! www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

Google Pulls “Dear Sydney” Gemini AI Ad From Olympics Coverage After Controversy

The ad featured a father using the Gemini AI chatbot to help his daughter write a letter to Olympian Sydney McLaughlin-Levrone.

Thanks for including this reprint from Cutlead. sugarsugarsalt.org/2024/08/02/e...

Encounters by Diane Payne

I run into an old lover I haven’t seen in thirty years, and after a bit of mundane chit chat, he asks if I can still predict the future. He doesn’t laugh. I don’t laugh. If I could have predicted that...

Thanks for including me, SugarSugarSalt!

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Wow! JD Vance says women who haven’t given birth like Kamala Harris are “childless cat ladies who are miserable at their own lives,” and have “no direct stake” in America. Vote Democat!

There’s a through line between the regular appearance of Neo Nazis in Nashville and three unsolved civil-rights era bombings in the city. You don’t have to read Dynamite Nashville by Betsy T. Phillips to see it, but when you do, the parallels become astonishing. www.nytimes.com/2024/07/22/o...

Opinion | Why Are There Neo-Nazis on the Streets of Nashville?

The shameless presence of white supremacists here tells us something about the similarity between the politics of the past and our political moment.

Today's a good day to pick up a copy of Things That Happen in the Rain at Bottlecap press. bottlecap.press/products/hap...