Two emails of note. The first, from Weird Fiction Quarterly. The second, from my mentor. Spooky season is off to a good start! #writerlife

What Dr. Jane said.

More guns than people… Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

At event in DC, Sen. Chris Van Hollen keeps it going with Hakeem Jeffries over not endorsing @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social: if you can’t back the kind of campaign he ran, “don’t ask those young people to show up for other Democrats across the country — that’s the message that will be sent.”

David Cross folks.

Dear Mother, Can you send the following items in any quantity that you can reasonably obtain: Beard oil (lavender or patchouli scent preferred) Beer (IPA preferred but any will do) Coffee (free trade whole bean) Kombucha (our Mother died; please send another) Yours, Capt. Thomas W. PDX ANTIFA

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

not true

UNTIL IT'S DONE, Ep. 2 When the Brownsville Clinic opened in 1916, it was the first birth control center in America. Its very existence felt impossible. For young women, it was a lifeline. 109 years later, the Clinic is long closed—but Brownsville mothers are still struggling.

reposting with alt text because I think the choice to include homophobia and transphobia in particular here is actually very much worth drawing attention to. nuns emphatically stating that those “do not reflect the qualities of a saint” is a very clear callout of Cardinal Dolan

As Netanyahu addresses the United Nations in New York City this morning, the world recoils in horror at the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Never forget how powerful art can be, and why people in power are always trying to get rid of it.

it's so nice to see what a functioning judiciary looks like "A transgender woman in the East African nation of Kenya has won a landmark court victory in which the judge not only found in her favour, but ordered the government to pass a Transgender Protection Rights Act." fuck yeah

Well, that didn't take long...

So: Fascism is bad The First Amendment is good Genocide is an actual fucking crime And also: It's appalling to be in 2025 where each of these is not, in fact, taken as part of the baseline shared reality anymore

Tom Homan took a bag of cash from an undercover FBI agent the right way. by Ezra Klein

Charlie Kirk was a vicious, racist trust fund baby who made the world a worse place. I am the CEO of Antifa Inc. and I approve of this message.

When Fox can't ignore it, you know it's bad.

The Third Reich didn't last 1,000 years. Pinochet was ousted with a referendum. And the US isn't exactly dealing with the smartest, most competent fascists. Those of you insisting that 2025 is forever need to read a book, touch grass, go to therapy, anything other than trying to make others quit.

Don’t you dare call us fascists, they say, as they force people off the airwaves for criticizing them while vowing to crush and criminalize their opposition.

All of the unions in Hollywood should immediately boycott Disney/ABC. They only care about money, so go after that.

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

Do. Not. RSVP. To. A. Protest. It. Is. Not. Brunch.

I don't support what happened to Charlie Kirk, but Charlie Kirk supporters support what happened to Charlie Kirk.

They don’t have the power to do what they’re threatening on a grand scale. But they want us to think they do.

Washington Post fires their last remaining Black opinion writer @karenattiah.bsky.social over the most benign comments in the aftermath of Charlie Kirk's murder... Meanwhile Fox still has Brian Kilmeade who casually said all homeless people should be killed. Its all unfair & unbalanced. Wake up.

Both sides are NOT the same.

I was invited to talk about blogging and the writing process and it was recorded! So, if you want to hear some of my thoughts about such things, click the link below! www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VZx... #writing

Some of the followers of my Fb account were upset by a post I made regarding the murder of right-wing commentator, Charlie Kirk, earlier this week. For the record, my sympathies are given freely to his wife and children. However, some folks seem to have already moved on from his death.

Pro tip to Laura Loomer who deleted this: The Internet is written in indelible ink.

Time for some common sense gun laws. Democrats should introduce a bill named the Charlie Kirk common sense gun reform bill and make every Republican vote for it.

That's a plot twist that most editors would reject as being "too on the nose".

Charlie Kirk called me a ‘lunatic’ and a ‘prostitute’ and demanded I be deported. Nothing, *nothing*, justifies killing him, or robbing his kids of their dad. We don’t know the identity or motive of the shooter but murder can *never* be the response to political disagreements.

I honestly don't know how to feel about the murder of Charlie Kirk. I mean, my sympathies to his wife and children, of course. But he said recently that deaths by guns were the price we had to pay for the Second Amendment. Guess he paid his dues. Rest in peace.

Would a Bill Clinton indictment resulting from his inclusion in the Epstein list be a sacrifice that Democrats are willing to make?

This is what happens when justice serves power instead of people. Banksy’s latest piece shows a judge beating a protester. They rushed to throw up barriers to hide it. We need this here because it looks a lot like our own Supreme Court vs. the people.

A new mural by elusive street artist Banksy showing a judge beating an unarmed protester with a gavel will be removed from a wall outside one of London’s most iconic courts /AP

I'm so proud of my hometown.

They say familiar surroundings are important for dementia patients, so it makes since that they're doing everything they can to recreate the tackiness of Mar-a-Lago to calm down President Sundown O'Bruisehands. I bet they start forcing the Cabinet to get shitty plastic surgery next.

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

RFK Jr. rolled out that old chestnut again about how healthy Americans were in the 60’s, so here’s a fact check. In 1965: -42% of American adults smoked; it’s 11% now. -The infant morality rate was 24.7/1000; it’s 5.6/1000 now. -Overall life expectancy was 70 years; it's about 77 years now.

If men bits cancer was screened in the same way breast cancer is, the mammogram would've been replaced immediately after the first appointment.

Pay very close attention. On the campaign trail, Trump promised to release the Epstein files. Now that survivors are naming him as Epstein’s close friend, he’s calling it a “hoax.” Miss me with that bullshit.

Image caring more about stopping a memorial for people killed in a mass shooting than stopping mass shootings. #Priorities

Now THAT’S how you start a weekend!

I stand with the CDC.

Hi, immunologist here: (a scientist who studies immune & inflammatory processes) RFK Jr is talking absolute bullshit when he says he can “see in kids faces that they have inflammation” That’s NOT how immunology works. He is an anti-science profiteer. Start calling him such.

a dust storm that approaches from the east or the west is called a side haboob no *you* shut up