News: After an amiable email exchange between me, my agent, and the publisher, we all agreed on this. Since there is no way I can cram the entire story into one short book, HAZE has just become a trilogy. Those of you who followed me when I was working on the Deverry series will not be surprised.

The kids, as they often are, are all right

GOOD NEWS! For the first time ever, Huntington's disease has been successfully treated. A groundbreaking new miRNA treatment, AMT-130, slowed the progression of the disease by 75%. These results are likely to support the first approval of a genetic treatment for the rare neurodegenerative condition.

I can’t help it. The grackles are still here, and need to be photographed 🤣 The male Common Grackles usually take every opportunity to display, especially in the spring! But it’s Fall, and this male was displaying a lot! Apparently, he knows what he looks like🤣 #Birds #photography #wildlife 🪶

Thank you for coming to my Teddy talk.

All headlines just from today 🇺🇸

Random book-promo post! If you've enjoyed my Inverted Frontier series but never encountered the companion novel MEMORY, I hope you'll check it out. It's the story of Jubilee and Jolly in the before-times. mythicisland.com/memorypage.php #escapeReality

I’m worried it can still get stupider

Youth climate activists w/ @youthvgov.bsky.social faced off with DOJ lawyers in a federal court in Montana, where they are challenging Trump's executive orders on energy. My story from the courtroom: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/c...

The Kimmel suspension is a much bigger deal than you know. It's really about a growing alliance between Trump and the companies that own America's local TV stations - like Nexstar - to turn local TV into Trump propaganda. 1/ Let me tell you the short story. It's chilling.

Let’s review. X: owned by Trump’s largest donor Facebook: owner gave Trump $1M TikTok: soon operated by billionaire Trump donors ABC: fired Kimmel, gave Trump $15M CBS: fired Colbert, gave Trump $16M This isn't normal. Free speech doesn't belong to billionaires.

*siiiiiiigggghhhh*

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

I think it’s high time we take back the national narrative. For centuries Americans of all races, genders, religions, and abilities have worked to create a more perfect union, and we should shout from the rooftops that WE are America. Not these idiot white supremacist authoritarians.

It's difficult to disagree politely with someone who wants you to not exist.

RFK Jr is “preparing an assault on vaccine access that puts the country in danger” I wonder how many dead kids the GOP will be happy with? Is there ANY number that will make them get rid of him? And his henchmen—Drs Bhattacharya, Makary, Prasad, Oz, Kulldorff—they’re silent in the face of all this

Monarez: "Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were were inconsistent w/ my oath of office. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the scientific evidence. He also directed me to dismiss career officials responsible for vaccine policy without cause"

Behold: www.usatoday.com/story/entert...

I've been working on #climate issues for years, but every now and then I step back & think how unbelievable (and sad) it is that scientists have shown for decades we're literally changing — in a bad way — the climate of the entire planet and yet society refuses to deal with that existential threat.

Will RFK Jr. screw this up?

Understanding the complaint Maurene Comey has filed against DOJ, why it’s important for the Justice Department and beyond. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Just muted a particular name for the next 24-hours. 🙄

www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/h... #fireRFKjr

Here's a periodic reminder: I write a newsletter called Transfer Orbit, which is all about genre, fandom, reading, science fiction, writing, and quite a bit more. This newsletter is my way of keeping up with, commentating, and reporting on the genre world in a couple of ways.

How about a more unusual octopus this morning? This is the Hawaii-endemic O. ornatus, the Ornate or Night octopus. Long, slinky, move more like eels than cephalopods sometimes, just a beautiful animal, only to be seen on night dives. 🦑📷🌿🐙

For the people in the back, bigotry is not an opinion…

You know who was also a young husband and father—not to mention ex-Marine—who died, not attacking others to make himself rich and powerful, but to save the lives of others? David Rose, the officer killed by the anti-vax domestic terrorist who attacked the CDC. apnews.com/article/deka...

GOOD NEWS: Despite RFK Jr saying he would cancel $500 million in mRNA research, the House Committee on Appropriations has passed a spending package, that includes $1.1 billion for “advanced research and development” at BARDA, which includes research on mRNA vaccines.

Acts of political violence aren’t acceptable. Non-political school shootings aren’t acceptable. Sacking the legislature isn’t acceptable. Military occupation of peaceful American cities isn’t acceptable. Abductions conducted in courthouse hallways by masked agents of the state aren’t acceptable.

My thoughts are with yet another group of children and their families, traumatised by yet another school shooting this afternoon, in Evergreen, CO. abcnews.go.com/US/shooting-...

The Trump group of five climate contrarians that authored the deeply flawed, heavily criticized DoE report questioning the severity of climate change has been dissolved. The legality of the group had been challenged as a violation of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/c...

HPPA's Dylan was walking in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park after work when this bright crimson ʻōhiʻa lehua stopped him in his tracks. Fortunately he's a pretty good photographer, too. That moss! So windswept! #ThisIsWhereWeWork #HPPA #HVNP #OhiaLehua #ThanksDylan

A half hour lecture during my jury duty about how I was allowed to use inference to send someone to prison for the bulk of their natural life, but I am not allowed to look at obvious shit about this Administration and say "Hey, that seems like obvious shit."

Leg braces - $20-$30k, I’ve had at LEAST 6 leg braces. Wheelchairs - $5k for manual with no bells and whistles, I’ve had 2 Medications - anywhere between $100-$2000 /month pending health issues Surgeries - 19 surgeries $40k to - $1m inc. hospital stays I had polio. This is the cost.

At this point, a district or circuit court judge citing SCOTUS opinions as binding precedent should be seen as a soldier saying “I was just following orders.” Orders are not inherently lawful just bc someone higher up the chain of command issues them. And following unlawful orders is … unlawful.

I spent most of the pandemic writing about how to do that, and why it is constitutional. Here's a short piece from The New Republic. newrepublic.com/article/1589...

I would also be introducing legislation to overturn every ruling of the current politicized GOP Supreme Court majority. And to strip the jurisdiction of *any* court, including the Supreme Court, to review the legislation.

If I were a Democrat in Congress I'd be introducing legislation to suspend the Supreme Court's upcoming term (it's happened before, in 1802). The suspension would be to give us time to figure out what to do with this dangerous, anti-democratic institution.

Pirates attacking shipping routes could never have cut small oceangoing traffic by 80 percent. It took a mad king.

Just spoke with my CDC sources. They said RFK Jr. has ordered officials to hide tuberculosis cases, even as three active TB cases were just reported in Maine. He’s also suppressing bird flu reports. Pandemics don’t start with viruses they start with secrecy. RFK Jr. must resign now!

“Florida is the first state to take the courageous step toward decluttering itself of excess children,” @petridishes.bsky.social writes on the state’s elimination of vaccine mandates. “No price is too high to pay in this pointless war.”

The CDC doesn't understand disease control. The EPA doesn't understand environmental protection. Now it's clear the Dept of Energy doesn't understand energy. This administration is populated by imbeciles.

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

This is an actual exchange from a VP who took an oath to defend the constitution and, as a citizen, is expected to abide by the law. May we one day have accountability for the grotesque lawlessness of this regime.

It's not just that we have to save our country from Trumpism. We have to save the entire world from a ravenous, reckless, criminal U.S. government. It's a moral imperative.

Important to remember that everyone involved in renaming the DoD to the Department of War is afraid to take the subway.

Remember this. The Nazis were defeated by geologists and car mechanics and school teachers and milkmen. Ordinary people from all over the world who risked their own lives to put the fascists in the ground where they belong.

Name is statute law. Trump can't change it. He can paste a new sign on the pentagon. the name is dept of defense

Hegseth is now the Secretary of War, which is fitting I guess as RFK jr is basically the Secretary of Pestilence. We just need Famine and Death to round it out.

If you're a newer writer considering signing a predatory contract because you feel like it will help your career long term to publish in a "prestige" market and "It's only a short story," I beg you to reconsider.