What we know - Mayor Jason Watson was arrested July 1 after standing on the Capitol steps in uniform with a sign: “Impeach. Convict. Remove.” Now he’s restricted to base and barred from speaking to press. Here’s where his case stands + how to support him.

It's pledge night. Are you ready to join? #booksky

Ashes to Dust - by SJ Stone A dark erotic Cinderella revenge story on Substack | The Fictional. Writing Season Two now! #booksky 🌶️📚 YouTube www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFLO...

Well it's my birthday 🎂 month, so both my novels are free on Smashwords! Crabquake is a silly, romantic disaster novel. Just Right is a dark, erotic noir. Both are weekend reads. Just a good time. #booksky

A moment of quiet in a world of fear. A connection. A choice. Trenchtown — a sultry short story: sjstone.substack.com/p/trenchtown #booksky Check out the accompanying song: youtu.be/z0IHFDjOJ4c

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Well it's my birthday 🎂 month, so both my novels are free on Smashwords! Crabquake is a silly, romantic disaster novel. Just Right is a dark, erotic noir. Both are weekend reads. Just a good time. #booksky

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What happens when people willingly surrender their humanity because the algorithm rewards them for it? Welcome to America in 2026 -- I mean, welcome to Gulliver's Travels: The Broligarchy, the dystopian serial novel for right fucking now. #booksky

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Reminder for everyone to go read The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson. It's about taking radical action against climate change and corporate greed.

So worth the read...

Gulliver's Travels: The Broligarchy - by SJStone Destroying the patriarchy from the inside like a virus. Gulliver’s Travels: The Broligarchy -- a dystopian serial novel for right fucking now. Available every Saturday on Reading.Writing.Revolution. #booksky

Not her home. Not her past. Not her daughter. There were obligations now, new promises to be kept, new rules obeyed in her new world. Downshifting into noir with Act II. Welcome to The River, an erotic noir serial novel on Substack. #booksky

Becoming Dangerous: How to Go from Activist to Operative I want to be completely clear. I don’t advocate for violence. Not because I have a moral problem with violence. I don’t advocate for violence because the evidence unequivocally shows it is ineffective against authoritarian movements. I

REMOVAL COALITION removalcoalition.org The Removal Coalition is the grassroots force behind the Remove the Regime movement, whose laser-focused mass protests and nationwide lobbying efforts are delivering the unwavering mandate to Congress: “Impeach. Convict. Remove.”

Ok, this is an elected representative. How can he be this stupid? It's been precedent for 150 years! 🤣🤣🤣😎

By generating #renewableelectricity and fresh water from the same installation,these projects address #clean-energy and water scarcity Although still emerging, integrated solar-desalination systems could become especially valuable for islands, coastal communities, drought-prone regions #ActOnClimate

Well it's my birthday 🎂 month, so both my novels are free on Smashwords! Crabquake is a silly, romantic disaster novel. Just Right is a dark, erotic noir. Both are weekend reads. Just a good time. #booksky

“Our luscious, lusty little doll for the next month.” #booksky

I wrote that conservatism does not rise because it is correct…it rises only because it is afraid. Every time the world changes shape, the old order reanimates, drapes itself in duty, sanctity, nostalgia, family, nation, law, and God, then pretends the costume is a skeleton.

Gulliver's Travels: The Broligarchy - by SJStone Destroying the patriarchy from the inside like a virus. Gulliver’s Travels: The Broligarchy -- a dystopian serial novel for right fucking now. #booksky Available every Saturday on Reading.Writing.Revolution.

In Gulliver’s Travels: The Broligarchy, Samantha Sharp is a glitch in the system—an investigative journalist who crash-lands in the hyper-optimized technonightmare known as Gigaland. #booksky

Two pages. The same story. SNAP cuts: American children are losing food assistance and going hungry. USAID gutted: Children overseas are dying after humanitarian aid was cut. History won’t remember the excuses. It’ll remember who let children suffer. #RepublicansStarveChildren

I honestly still don't get why anyone cares. Indie authors lamenting the millions of sales they were going to have, but for AI. Com3 on, people. Get over the latest boogeyman and fucking write your stories. That's what I do. Guess I'll have to keep my day job.

The American Reformation: My New Book, Available Now cmarmitage.substack.com/p/the-americ... The entire legal framework for how states and citizens can break authoritarian capture is in one place now, and the PDF is free.

Local Weirdness - by SJStone - Reading.Writing.Revolution TooNormalVille is a funny, musical poem about creativity defeating conformity one ridiculous rhyme at a time. Perfect for readers who grew up on Shel Silverstein, Dr. Seuss, and Edward Lear — but aren't quite ready to grow up. #booksky

Butler’s Parable of the Sower introduced us to a collapsing world shaped by climate crisis, corporate greed, and social decay. In Broligarchy, those issues have evolved into a darkly satirical future where power is no longer in the hands of governments, but of corporations controlling everything.

Reviewed Nicolina Gatsby today -- 4 stars! #booksky The Gatsby for those who want more or never read the original. Lyrical, alluring and worthy of your time. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Definitely worth it. Funny. Sexy. Great trilogy with escalating stakes. And kinky romance to boot. The superheroines you deserve.

The Fictional Newsletter 6/8/2026 - by SJStone Finding time to write isn’t hard; it’s the volume. There are just too many stories out there — or rather, in my head — and I need time to write them all. I’m really going to have to just quit my job and write full time, don’t you think? #booksky

Letters from the Republic | 6 June 2026 These letters are meant to be a hybrid form of historical allegory and speculative political resistance literature, written in the voice of a Civil War–era Union soldier but set against the backdrop of a modern or near-future authoritarian American regime.

She stares at me, the yellow badge above her head blinking as the numbers slowly tick higher. “The first thing you learn to accept as a doctor is that you cannot save everyone. Sometimes not even yourself, Samantha.” #booksky The political satire for right fucking now!

S.J. Stone’s review of The Tainted Cup | Goodreads www.goodreads.com/review/show/... Absolutely loved Tainted Cup by Robert Jackson Bennett! The sequel is just as good. Looking forward to book 3 this August 2026.

The Peripheral - by Henry Farrell - Programmable Mutter www.programmablemutter.com/p/the-periph... I enjoyed both the book and the show on Prime Video -- shame they cancelled it after one season.

The Dragons are Coming Tonight, a lullaby about the end of AI and data centers readingwritingrevolution.substack.com/p/the-dragon...

The River | Chapter 18 - by SJStone - The Fictional sjstone.substack.com/p/the-river-... He stopped. His fingertips brushed her shoulder, then turned her by the chin toward the tall mirror on the far wall. “Do you see what I bought? What I own?” he said. #booksky 🌶️📚

A whimsical bedtime poem about dragons, dreams, and a quieter world without AI. As the humming towers fall silent, stories return, neighbors gather, and imagination takes flight once more.