Write Away Europe's upcoming #WritingRetreats in Italy and France. This Sept. in Tuscany is full but still spaces in 2025.

The richest man in the world is sitting at the Resolute desk, about to defund your public school. Trump should stop him.

A little note to let you know I've moved to a nice new place: @scottstavrou.bsky.social

I have jumped on the Bluesky bandwagon.... https://t.co/vnFNNUvJLh Hope to see you there. Casual dress. No gifts.

“There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes.” - Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls

Pretty wild that we just went through an election where a top foreign adversary aggressively tried to stop Democrats from voting — including calling in bomb threats to swing state polling locations — and there’s zero media interest in learning what Trump plans to do about that.

Thinking about putting a tariff on my tweets so they're cheaper.

Chin up, team. Take some time. Take care of yourself. Take care of your loved ones. Take care of your community. There are a million ways to make a difference—get back in the fight when you’re ready. And know that, whenever you are ready, I’ll be ready to get back in with you.

When people used to fail open-book tests in high school, I used to be genuinely confused. I get it now.

Eight years ago this night, my son asked me: "What do we do now?" I answered, "We walk to the bar, strike up the band, and sing The Marseillaise." These past few months, my plan for 2025 was to retire from political journalism. Seems I'll have to make new plans.

I am out of the country but I would like him to still consider me the enemy within.

Russia won the cold war. It just took them a while.

"This is PRECISELY the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write... That is how civilizations heal." In these wordless hours, a lifeline from Toni Morrison worded 20 years ago:

In the coming days there's gonna be a lot of opining about what the Harris campaign did wrong, but this election was not an indictment of Kamala Harris. It was an indictment of America.

Democrats: First black president. First female vice president. Repulicans: First convicted felon president.

As an American who's lived in Europe for some time, America has never seemed further away.

Sorry, world.

Word of the day is ‘recrudescence’ (17th century): the return of something terrible after a time of reprieve.

This didn't age well.

Going to sleep. Here's hoping America wakes up before I do.

BREAKING: In the first suburb of Georgia to cross 90% reporting, Kamala Harris is running 7 points ahead of President Biden. This is huge.