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Je serai présent le samedi 7 mars au Salon du livre francophone à Washington, DC; voir les informations au lien suivant: www.eventbrite.com/.../deuxieme.... J'aurai plusieurs de mes livres avec moi; venez les découvrir, ou simplement pour bavarder.

"Sure, ICE is bad, but we need to deport illegal immigrants" No you don't. If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.

I’m thrilled I’ll be reading some of my latest poetry at Malaprop’s in Asheville, NC on April 12, 2026. Love that shop!

If/when this ends, Democrats must make sure concentration camp prison guards don't see a dime of their pensions

Fuck you, Atlantic.

McGregor was found liable for sexual assault in 2024 and the jury ordered him to pay the victim $257,000. He lost all his appeals.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

The billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power.

YES: "Translation is the only remedy to our near-sightedness, and the mission of translation is the same as that of speculative fiction: to take the human imagination as far as it can go."- Alexander Dickow in @strangehorizons.bsky.social strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no... #SFinTranslation

February 5, 2026 6:30pm-8pm EST LIQUIDBOOKS II zoom-based poetry reading with Ariel Clark-Semyck, Catherine Anne Daly, Alexander Dickow, Jesse Glass and Sandra Simonds. virginiatech.zoom.us/j/88651526809 (In a sinister voice:) JOIN US

the Epstein files make it very clear why the MeToo backlash was so extreme and why so much of elite society preferred Donald Trump ruling us like a king to the barest hint of accountability

There's a whole lot here that looks fascinating

does anyone else feel like SFF criticism is in a really good place right now? perhaps I just wasn't paying enough attention before. reading through the latest Strange Horizons and thinking about all the cool conversations I've seen and all the books I've picked up because of them. thank you critics.

So that’s the 2026 @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special. Themes were legion: the interface with politics, the shadows of history, the lines between traditions. Hope you found thoughts to chew on.Thanks to our writers for sharing them. Shout out to the SH proofreaders: heroes every year.

A must-read: open.substack.com/pub/bullhorn...

"French science fiction, even at its least realist, tends to bear a simultaneous concern for formal and stylistic invention—sometimes with downright hallucinatory results—and for the ideological Message, tending even toward a clunky didacticism." A really eye-opening view of a literature in this.

The theme of this essay is politics and aesthetics, and how the balance between them can play out differently in varied contexts. Very rich seam. “‘Preachiness’,” Alexander argues, “is not a function of political messaging, but one of aesthetic integrity.” Really hope this sparks further chat.

Wednesday! Today’s Criticism Special essay is from @dickowalexander.bsky.social on francophone SF. Note this is not a piece on SF in translation - a lot of the works in this essay are available only in French. If like me you don’t have the language … well, a whole tradition is opened up here.

This is an extremely good piece. strangehorizons.com/wordpress/no...

Read my essay in the new Strange Horizons, if you like! Thanks to Dan Hartland! @danhartland.bsky.social and in excellent company too!

it is my first amendment protected opinion that the statement "nazis deserve to die" should be neither controversial nor legally actionable, if anyone were to make such a statement

Stop the death squads

defund ICE, defund Schumer, impeach Trump

I think at this point it's reasonable to call them death squads and Democrats should have to explain why they're voting to fund the death squads.

No factor contributes to T’s rise and persistence more than Americans’ grotesque and naked worship of wealth and the wealthy. We are a failed people of greed and infamy.

🚨 As we enter the weekend, let it be known that the coming Monday is not just any Monday … it’s the annual @strangehorizons.bsky.social Criticism Special Monday. Five essays! Five reviews! Poems! A roundtable, a podcast, a veritable trove of critical insight. Also, ducks. Be there!

I am thrilled to announce the publication in October 2026 of my translation of Alain Damasio's Horde du Contrevent, under the title The Horde of the Counterwind. It's been a long wait, but it's finally going to appear; it's official!

Je me réjouis d'annoncer la publication en octobre 2026 de ma traduction de La Horde du contrevent d'Alain Damasio, sous le titre The Horde of the Counterwind. J'ai dû attendre longtemps, mais cela va enfin paraître, c'est officiel!

Over the last year the entire "free speech on campus" beat has been revealed as an utter fraud. Years of punditry puked out in ignorance and bad faith. Yet even as the fraud becomes undeniable we still get stories about wide-eyed idealists who just wanted 'ideological diversity' and 'open debate'.

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Join in, folks.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

The single audience member at my poetry reading last night was very nice to stay and humor us poets. But boy, it sure is a long howl into the void sometimes, ain’t it?

GOP: We will come to your home and kidnap you. We will kill you if you object. We will cleanse the streets of you. You are like rodents. We laugh as we squish you beneath our feet. You are not even human. Ours is the Fourth Reich. Democrats: Ignore that, we are only talking about the economy.

Don't forget Renée Good, and don't forget all of the other victims of these murderous goons.

I wish them the trauma they cause to others. I hope they wake to a head of fear every morning, I hope their hands shake as they grip their guns. I hope the stress, drinking, drugs takes decades off their lives. I hope their wives/families leave them. And I hope trump never pays them.

Dans Europe, Alexander Dickow, qui s’y entend, chronique notre édition d’Orogénie et autres poèmes français d’Alfredo Gangotena, établie et préfacée par Émilien Sermier. Au fait: «Gangotena est un grand poète» et «cette nouvelle édition assure qu’il restera bien présent, — et c’est heureux».

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

No one is legally required to vote for these losers and collaborators.

i’m not sure if people know this already or are sharing it here, but it is wise to be cautious in posting vid of state abductions & other violent attacks, because doing so can actually hinder the efforts of those taken, & their loved ones, in court. don’t use live mode in documenting these attacks.

Amy Klobuchar voted for one of Trump's nominees the day after a woman in her state was murdered by ICE.

Renee Nicole Good

I have: An embryonic but promising idea for a short story, A new angle on the novel in progress that I have not yet explored but am excited about, And some cool stuff to read. So while most things are complete and utter tripe, at least there's that.

I have a respiratory virus (apparently not Covid) that is absolutely wracking me with coughing fits. I’ve got all the gear: benzonatate, NyQuil, albuterol, you name it. Two other family members have this bug. It’s awful. Don’t get it. Wear masks!

the reason people sometimes act madder at democrats than republicans when republicans do impossibly evil shit is the same reason why, if you hired an exterminator to handle a roach infestation and he showed up to feed and play with them instead, your first instinct wouldn’t be to yell at the roaches

It didn't take Trump long to jump on that old neocon, oil-baron ship, eh? Looks like another war for "western civilization" to accompany the billion-dollar genocide of Palestinians. The rich get filthier and richer and filthy-richer. Class warfare NOW. It's us or them.

Happy howlidays, foax.