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This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

We live in a white supremacist country under the rule of a white supremacist Supreme Court and President.

Illegitimate court. I want commitments from our candidates to do whatever it takes to expand and reform SCOTUS. Term limits, impeachment, all of it.

Today a strange new creature enters the world. Friends, I present to you, a new blog of horror commentary, criticism, and culture: Darker Times www.darkertimes.com/introducing-...

I feel like @natcassidy.bsky.social would appreciate this (Check out his new collection I KNOW A PLACE to see why) H/t to @johnhornor.bsky.social who posted it originally :)

Note to media: police arresting peaceful protesters singing “give peace a chance” is not protesters “clashing” with police. It’s the state violating the First Amendment rights of people upset that human beings who did nothing illegal are being held without due process and being fed maggots.

Being part of the fiction jury for the Pulitzer Prize means you read A LOT of books. Inevitably, there’s more excellent work than you can count. Since the prize has been announced, I’m recommending five other books that I read and loved during the process. Read ‘em all!

Hey, it's my birthday, and a great present would be supporting my work by subscribing to my Patreon! I review movies and TV, post original fiction, and curate and screen a collection of films every month! www.patreon.com/c/scumbeliev...

please god let *it* happen before this performance so we can joke about how he actually didn’t want to be there either

Here’s an endearing bit of historical detail from the book I’m currently reading (ACCIDENTAL PRESIDENTS by Jared Cohen): President Calvin Coolidge was a silly goose who enjoyed playing ding-dong-ditch on the White House.

Every preorder made through Twisted Spine will now get one of these maps illustrated by Abby Armistead (one map per book ordered)! Thank you so much for the incredible response to these yesterday, we’re overwhelmed, so grateful, and beyond thrilled! www.twistedspinebooks.com/pre-orders

Just a weeeee bit poignant how Gen Z filmmakers are making horror movies about being trapped in loops of uncanny hell, where prospects of love and career and reward of any kind are revealed to be glitching simulacra of inescapable menace, like modern life is a dead mall full of hollow doppelgängers.

I implore you to witness this. Look at what the Trump administration is doing to everyone at Delaney Hall. Take a moment to look at every single one. No matter how the press frames this, this is fascism. www.reuters.com/pictures/pro...

Been thinking a lot about this.

The first CD I could ever call *mine* and mine alone, along with Metallica’s black album. I think I got them both for my 11th or 12th birthday.

Know whose birthday it is? Inestimable genius @alandistro.bsky.social. You should celebrate by buying some of @shortwavebooks.bsky.social's incredible catalogue. You won't regret it. In the meantime, here's my gift to Alan: the only band to beat Pink Floyd at its own game. youtu.be/ZBpqOnLvM1k?...

Google has finally outlived its usefulness.

First of two flights completed. I’m comin’ for ya, Missourah!

Again: Our tax dollars are being used to make Camp Auschwitz Guy a millionaire.

Look, a lot of people are making themselves helpless or attempting the usual cope--beating up Dems. But this SHOULD BE an INSANELY EASY way to hang Trump's corruption on every single GOPer. Feeling frustrated? Think of some way to do that, whether calling your OWN reps, going to town hall.

Even Trump appointees know how disgustingly corrupt this is, and it still has not received 10% of the coverage and attention it deserves as media moves on to other things.

You know that thing where someone’s walking their dog, and the dog is bopping along a couple feet ahead, but it keeps checking back over its shoulder with a big doggygrin to make sure its person is still there? I love that thing.

the president of the united states sued his own government for ten billion dollars and “settled” it by directing that government to use taxpayer money for a nearly two billion dollar slush fund to distribute to his political allies at will typing it out barely feels real

Any actual conservatives would be storm-the-capitol furious over what is happening right now.

They're stealing billions of your money to pay off violent right-wing psychos while doing everything in their power to spike gas up to $5 a gallon, make groceries into a luxury and hand the country over to the oligarchs who want to permanently replace you.

This is insane. The terms of DOJ's slush fund appear to transfer control of $1.8 billion beyond US government entirely. Unless I'm misreading this, that would circumvent Congress *entirely* and put the money outside of *any* constitutional and/or legal constraints ofany kind. Straight up theft.

It’s maybe easy to overlook because of its smallness (like its heroine), but THE GIRL WHO LOVED TOM GORDON really sits among @stephenking.bsky.social’s masterpieces. The depiction of disorienting panic in chapters (innings) 3 & 4 are among the scariest, most affecting set pieces in the King Canon.

Please share or give. When Aunt Priscilla and my mother were jailed in 1960 during their historic Jail-In after their arrest at a Woolworth lunch counter, baseball great Jackie Robinson sent them DIARIES. Here are some excerpts from her diary!

TONIGHT! Join me and the brilliant Nick Cutter at @twistedspinebooks.bsky.social, talking about his latest ghoulish masterpiece, THE DORIANS! I believe there might be a handful of tickets left, so grab em fast!

What a treat, chatting with these lovely gents about a truly excellent movie.

This was such a fun assignment from @faroutmagazine.co.uk! Also, if you’ve read I KNOW A PLACE, you’ll notice that the placement of my article on their home page is currently pretty perfect . . . faroutmagazine.co.uk/nat-cassidy-...

A short story collection, featuring an already-published novella, with only a few months of promo time, and you all still managed to get it onto the bestseller lists. I'm simply overwhelmed with gratitude. Thank you, thank you, to everyone who's picked up a copy of IKAP. What an absolute honor. 😭🙏🗝️📖

I KNOW A PLACE is an instant USA TODAY Bestseller! Huge congrats to @natcassidy.bsky.social! This is his second USA Today Bestselling title after last year's WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME. And this is our first USA Today Bestselling title as a publisher! It's been a huge week for this huge book. 🎉

BIG SELF-PROMO POST INCOMING: I've been slacking on posting here so here's a megathread of recent podcast episodes and links!

@natcassidy.bsky.social on I Know a Place! Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/2B7p... Apple Podcast: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/n... Youtube: youtu.be/bw4KPQERx0c?... Substack: open.substack.com/pub/annarose... Patreon: www.patreon.com/posts/nat-ca...

REST STOP the presses! I KNOW A PLACE where you can come for magic, to laugh, to cry, to care . . .

Moms love stories. Buy her an extra copy for Mother’s Day. (Only a few days remain to contribute to first week sales figures; it’s hard-sell time, baybee.) I KNOW A PLACE By Nat Cassidy With a 6-page introduction by @stephenking.bsky.social Wherever books are sold.

and again, all of this is happening in the name of “equal protection”

Man, it's literally only *right now* that I realized just how weird some of the stories in I KNOW A PLACE are. Oops. 😬🙃

Today’s the day! My first short story collection, I KNOW A PLACE, featuring an introduction by none other than @stephenking.bsky.social, is available now! Hope you love it! 🗝️💀👁️📖 @shortwavebooks.bsky.social

Enormous congratulations to this year’s Winner & Finalists for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction. Daniel Kraus - ANGEL DOWN (W) Katie Kitamaura - AUDITION (F) Torrey Peters - STAG DANCE (F) It was enormous honor to serve on this year’s jury & highlight such ambitious, amazing books. Read all three!

dammit i knew my book had too many sentences in it!!

Tremendous congratulations to @danielkraus.com for winning the Pulitzer for fiction with ANGEL DOWN! A tremendous book and a writer who always swings for the fences

Absolutely HUGE congratulations to @danielkraus.com. This would be a big deal for the genre no matter who won, but the fact that it’s one of the nicest and most genuine people in this business is just perfect. 💜

Guys, ANGEL DOWN won the Pulitzer Prize. Let’s get nuts.

Pulitzer 👏Prize 👏Winner 👏 @danielkraus.com 👏 Just phenomenal news for a most deserving author!

It’s called “May the Fourth” because hundreds of years ago an emperor had a lisp and this particular accent developed as homage

Out in the perfect weather with @natcassidy.bsky.social.

Kobo wants you to pick up WHEN THE WOLF COMES HOME while it’s on sale, along with some other lit’ra’chure of note.