It’s not just handing out cash to insurrectionists. It’s part of a project that started with the mass funding of ICE to use stolen public funds to create spoils for loyal foot soldiers that exist beyond any accountability. It’s how these things work and it will grow as the economy craters.

If you’re still on X for any reason you’re a fuckin bozo.

I’m sure most of y’all from #NOLA and Louisiana already have this information, but in case you don’t, here’s where to sign the recall Landry petitions: louisianadeservesbetter.com

If you can send out e-copies of your book to reviewers then do so because most won’t read them anyway and physical copies cost money to print and ship. Also, send them out to many as possible!! Reviews before release date help a lot!

People don’t “collaborate” with AI products any more than they collaborate with any other product — this is language that tech companies use, but we shouldn’t. (2/x)

Good thread

every "where are the protest songs" sentiment ever uttered has always been at bottom "why does the inchoate, unstable present not resemble the smoothly narrativized fairy tales i've been sold about the past"

A SUMMERTIME TREAT from RHP Press: WAVES OF BURDEN. The new novel from Anthony Award-winning author @curtisippolito.bsky.social. You don't want to miss this one. #crimefiction

Mayor Mamdani restores library funding after public outcry gothamist.com/news/mayor-m...

By weakening Voting Rights Act protections against racial discrimination in redistricting, the Supreme Court has paved the way for the largest-ever drop in representation by Black members of Congress. n.pr/4edJ5XA

This is the second single from my new record, which will be out June 5.

For the rush hour crowd, a new story from @tomandes.bsky.social at the Garage... A slow-burn descent into debt, power, and the moment everything gets taken from you—right in front of your eyes. literarygarage.com/sayonara

Man thank you so much to the folks at @literarygarage.bsky.social fo taking this little slice of noir, a cautionary tale about owning a restaurant, and giving it a home!

You’ll get a whole lecture on historic and contemporary literary regionalism, and what that looks like for Arizona, and not one, not two, not three, but five creative exercises to walk away with! There are only a few spots left, so sign up today!

🎉What an awesome experience to have a book release! I highly recommend it. The wheels stayed on the bus for the THINGS ARE AS THEY SHOULD BE AND OTHER WORDS TO DIE FOR intro to the world along w/ @armbernier.bsky.social THE BUSH TEA MURDER sharing the spotlight! 🙏🏼SUPPORT INDIE AUTHORS! Links below👇🏽

Is social media dying? How much did Twitter change as it became X? Which party now dominates the conversation? Using nationally representative ANES data from 2020 & 2024, I map how the U.S. social media landscape has changed Here are the key take-aways 🧵 Full paper out now in in JQD:DM!

SUBS OPEN MAY 1: We’re looking for stories set in the desert. For modern neo-westerns. No Louis L'Amour, though, savvy? This month, we’re looking for modern neo-westerns. Send us your <2k flash story: bit.ly/4fQLeGx

ANTHONY NOMINATIONS OPEN UNTIL APRIL 30TH: If you're a Bouchercon voter, please consider nominating one of RHP's two eligible anthologies. Thanks again for your support. #bouchercon2026

Read this from @colsonwhitehead.com because it's funny & true & because, alas, it's not enough to oppose AI, you have to fortify that opposition frequently, because it's like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, friends and comrades are going down all around us. Gift: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Please help us spread the word.

Let the countdown begin...links in the comments.

It sucks Sheldon passed. I know he had health issues but he was a young guy. A year younger than me. I moved to KY last Jan, had him on my radar for a meet up. We didn't talk much last couple of yrs bc of the downfall of X, & that was his preferred social. An exceptional writer & a solid human RIP

New single

ANTHONY AWARD NOMINATIONS ARE OPEN: If you're a Bouchercon voter, please consider nominating one of RHP's two eligible collections. Thanks again for your support.

@tomandes.bsky.social talks woth @cwblackwell.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/tandes/p...

Thank you to the terrific @cwblackwell.bsky.social C.W. Blackwell for talking to me about his fantastic story collection, Whatever Kills the Pain, from @rhppress.bsky.social Rock and a Hard Place Press.

Two of my favorite writers talk about Whatever Kills the Pain: @tomandes.bsky.social interviews @cwblackwell.bsky.social tandes.substack.com/p/an-intervi...

Had a chance to talk to the great @tomandes.bsky.social about writing characters, violence, politics, and story endings. Go check it out on his Substack 👇👇👇 open.substack.com/pub/tandes/p...

this is the second "how I use AI as a journalist" piece in the last 24 hours and both are entirely disqualifying for those involved, embarrassing stuff

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

We don’t talk enough about how morally depraved the tech industry turned out to be. Every single ounce of their self-regarding statements of values was an outright lie.

If you’re fortunate enough to have retirement or college savings, you can look at your losses since Feb 28 and have a rough estimate of how much fascism just stole from you to pay for bombs to kill actual human beings who might also have liked to retire or go to college.

We need to call this what it is: a crime against humanity

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google. My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence! go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

I’m so psyched to be back in town for this and reading with these amazing folks!

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

“It’s difficult to understand the scale of the problem, but OpenAI itself estimates that more than a million people every week show suicidal intent when chatting with ChatGPT.”

Great catching @tomandes.bsky.social’s show in Santa Cruz tonight 🤘

They’re washing their asses on his and hers bidets while building a gulag and filming authoritarian porno videos using prisoners as props. This is Salò levels of Fascist perversion

Evil.

The contempt I have for Newhouse after what they did to the Times Picayune and other papers is profound. They are bad people who are historically bad for journalism in this country

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

As long as we’re talking about sugar and its history:

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

The great Chester Himes and Griot, his beloved blue point Siamese, named "after the magicians in the courts of West African kings." Himes also said that if he stayed away too long, Griot would wreck his studio and chew up his books. #Caturday

"By the end of the two-year period, 94% of participants reported they were housed." A million pilot programs show the same thing: when people are given enough money to afford housing, homelessness ends. Other supports matter, but housing comes first. Not policing. Not moralizing. Homes.

Floored by this story. A man wrote a pollite email to a federal prosecutor objecting to the deportation of an Afghan seeking asylum. DHS responded with an administrative warrant to get the man's info from Google, then visited his home to intimidate him.

The guy who owns Amazon shutting down the books section of the Washington Post is beyond parody

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.