Sure enough, tonight's chapter was tough. So much more work than any of the first half, and it was a short chapter, too. 14 of 24 chapters down. #AmEditing

I’m telling you, there’s just not enough outrage about the craven actions of Speaker Mike Johnson.

If a full accounting of Epstein’s crimes - and his accomplices - is ever made public, people on the left and the right are going to feel really dumb that we’ve been arguing with each other while the elites of both parties pal around and do abhorrent shit.

Some big implications for journalism, too, where reporters often mistake trending posts as a reasonable reflection of public opinion.

Ken and Bill Clinton hanging out on the island:

you probably need to be of a certain vintage to understand the absolute hilarity of ken starr being in the epstein files

I can't remember a time when I heard any conservative name a liberal they admired. They barely showed any respect at all when Carter passed. Anyone? Am I forgetting someone? Did Lindsey Graham once say something nice about someone (liberal)?

/2 HEGSETH: NOBODY tells a warrior "hey ease up" or "haven't you had enough" or "must you vomit into my handbag" GENERALS: [eerie silence, cough, creak of chair] HEGSETH: and NOBODY tells a warrior how to keep his women in order or how to chase tail GENERALS: .... HEGSETH: NOT. EVEN. MOTHER.

listen I am NOT a military security expert but I HAVE seen “Star Trek: Into Darkness” fourteen times aren’t there generally, like. pretty good reasons. why you avoid bringing in all your biggest military leaders from all over the world and then announcing exactly what building they’ll be in when

Every day in America, we get closer to President Nuggan and Executive Orders against left-handed people, inciting emotions, and mustard. Closer, if we're not there already.

You've all read Pratchett's MONSTROUS REGIMENT, I expect? Do you recall the Abominations issued by the god Nuggan? Nuggan issued Abominations against chocolate, cats, dwarfs, the color blue, garlic, crop rotation, the smell of beets, and much more, and the reader sees that Nuggan is clearly mad.

This is the way.

Novel Orwellian technique aside, what an asshole.

Anyway, learning another language is good for you because you die a thousand deaths of embarrassment and then you come out more humble and even more aware of your various human failings

Tonight's writing (not writing) update: 13 of 24 chapters down. By chapter and page count, half way done. #AmEditing This is where I run out of stuff that I've slightly edited before. Nothing left but pure first draft hot mess. #FML

Is this bullshit? Yes. But often when law enforcement uses obstruction of justice and making false statements it's in an effort to coerce the person they're going after because they don't have solid charges to use. Watching a former FBI director get bitten by this particular snake seems fitting.

I'm sure this will end well. Assuming it's even real. Who would want to check, though?

Welp, now we know what we're worth: $3K a title (less administrative costss and fees), and they can plagiarize you for eternity.

Look for online critique groups like Critters. Look locally for a writers group focusing on criticism. Join both. Regret how it is becoming so hard to find a published novel you fully enjoy. Recognize how far your craft still has to go, it may be impossible. #writingcommunity #booksky #critique

Querying friends! I had a revelation yesterday! If you look at your QT Dashboard, it will tell you right there that your queries and submissions are “outstanding!” See? You’re doing fantastic! #AmQuerying #AmWriting #QueryTracker #YouAreOutstanding (Double meanings are fun!)

I'm not buying the idea that the ICE tracker app had anything to do with finding the location of a BUILDING. Nice try, though.

Serindipitously finding a French bakery just as I'm remembering I never ate lunch. The best. So excited to find this place. Hadn't found a place to get my croissant fix since leaving NC.

Hi #BookSky in Alabama! Call to action. Read Freely Alabama is asking folks to add a public comment to REJECT a proposal. All the info here: www.readfreelyalabama.org/apls_oct2025...

The reason we're releasing this in theatres is because it's incredibly fun to watch in a room full of people. People lose their minds at it. We want people to watch it together. So! Do you run or know somebody who runs an indie theatre? If so, contact us, and we'll let you screen it for free.

Look, I don't think it's good that we can't make fun of the world's biggest dead pedophile because he was friends with the president. So we kept going. We called every independent theatre we knew in major metro areas to see if they wanted to air Jeffrey Epstein: Bad Pedophile. Most said yes.

If you want the Forest Service to be anything other than just a logging company get in those public comments, people

They're about to shut down the government to protect the Epstein Files from disclosure. Whatever is in the files must be so unhinged as to be beyond imagination.

We also need to normalize the idea of seizing assets from the rich people who did this in order to fund repair, given that this is and has always been a smash and grab of resources, funding, and data from the most sociopathic of the elites.

The performative mourning driven by social media, was from blueprints sitting there in large conservative think-tanks like the Heritage Foundation, waiting to be deployed The alleged outrage was at its core, manufactured recreational grief-bait My latest in The Shot theshot.net.au/uncategorize...

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

I would believe it said "Smirnoff ICE" before I believe it says "Anti ICE."

The moment institutions start saying "no" is the moment it crumbles. These people are not serious, they are not hardworking, they are not smart. They are coasting on luck, and institutional cowardice. The moment institutions stop enabling them, they will fold like cheap camp chairs.

Thought just came to me: if I actually finish this editing pass before the end of October, I can celebrate by starting something new for (non-official) NaNo! Do I have a new idea? NO! Am I asking for trouble by even considering this? YES! Tune in later to see what bad choices I make.

One chapter at a time. This is the way. Eleven out of 24 done. #AmEditing

Oh, the old "we were only joking" defense. Are we in middle school again, too?

Can’t sleep and this comment on a post about low birth rates is hitting way harder than it has any right to

She probably got confused by all those red flags flying around him.

Welcome to a world where companies use your IP without compensation or permission to train their AIs and landlords want to own any IP you create in their apartments. Funny how writers and artists are told what we create had no value but everyone aims to steal it.

Wild how all the people doing crime these days just coincidentally leave bullets with the narrative they want very neatly written on top

One of the perennial refrains of woo-mongers is medical science suppressing "cures" for cancer because the "cancer industry" is so profitable. It is deliciously ironic that the intervention that prevents a common and intractable form of cancer, is the one thing they hate most: a vaccine.

They literally have not had enough time to evaluate the evidence and research the shooter. This is a great example of how immigration enforcement agencies ALWAYS run to the media w/their version. This is to control the narrative. Press takes the bait every single time. 1/2

From like 2018: Reporters: Why did President Trump shit on the Resolute Desk? White House: President Trump would never shit on the Resolute Desk. Trump, via Twitter: IT IS MY ABSOLUTE RIGHT TO SHIT ON THE RESOLUTE DESK!

He posts like Cobra Commander complaining in his volcano lair

also even if this turns out to be some left wing shooter who was targeting ice -- the problem is still the fucking guns and still the fucking racism.

That, and also, it cannot be overstated how much conservatives LOOOOOOVE playing the victim. And Charlie Kirk was their first honest-to-God no-qualifiers victim of something in quite some time.

If you are on the ground at a protest and not sure if a journalist is safe to talk to, check out our hostile journalist lookbook! Sometimes it takes a minute to load, apologies for any pokeyness.

Whoops, one more: 5) They’re not “free speech” rankings at all. It’s an ideological monitoring project—meant to make administrations feels surveilled and question their self-governance and policy-making. A normalized, latent McCarthyism. /okay, done

My semi-annual reminders about the FIRE annual “free speech” rankings on college campuses: 1) FIRE has promoted highly punitive and restrictive positions on free speech in higher ed. They lack credibility as a source of information. 1/

MAGA is fawning over Erika Kirk right now, but there's no way she can keep Charlie's audience. His bread and butter was sexualized humiliation of college girls — more "Girls Gone Wild" than doing politics the "right way." His followers won't hear it from a woman. www.salon.com/2025/09/24/d...

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/