Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

From COLD CALLER Magazine: "Three Things We Loved This Week: 11/6/25" (including "Great Big Alleyway"!) open.substack.com/pub/coldcall...

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

Gorsuch finally starting to understand what they have unleashed

Everything’s fine! freebeacon.com/politics/i-m...

“I could smell the onions and mustard"

Marvel's Daredevil: The Illustrated History is now available in bookstores! Over 60 years of Daredevil, all in an illustrated book that I wrote. I'm beyond proud of how it turned out. For all Matt Murdock fans out there, I think you're gonna really enjoy it! www.simonandschuster.com/books/Marvel...

Incredible

"I could smell the onions and mustard."

thank you for all the support; the statement from our union is now live here with some more reporting. now that this is public I can confirm that the majority of today’s layoffs were women of color. there are no longer any Black women working at Teen Vogue.

Elaine Welteroth, former editor-in-chief of Teen Vogue and youngest editor of Condé Nast ever, and the 2nd African American to hold this position, changed Teen Vogue to be more politically conscious. Traffic to TeenVogue.com: 2.7M to 9.2M visitors a year, print subscriptions jumped 535%

New crime headline of the day

Two more novels with Random House after CRONE comes out next year. Still can't believe I get to do this.

Will Patton

Exactly. Show him his post first. Put it up on a screen. Then ask him virtually any question about any word, phrase, or sentence in it.

Dave White Panna Cotta

"I could smell the onions and mustard."

Thou Shalt Use the Damn Blurb Twice I have blurbed books, only to find that the book in question does not include said blurb. Now, I don’t give a shit where you put me—front cover, back cover, inside the book. Hell, at least use it on the sales page metadata. robwhart.substack.com/p/the-ten-bl...

WHO IS THAT ALOOF WOMAN ALOOFING NEXT TO HIM ???????????????????

lol DICKED: Dark Fiction Inspired by Dick Cheney $.99!

SUBS CLOSE TODAY: For December, the office holiday party is the setting for stories we're seeking. What happens when you’re forced into a social setting with a bunch of people you would never willingly socialize with except for a paycheck? Subs open from Nov 1-4: bit.ly/4fQLeGx

On February 11, 2006, Harry Milner Whittington was shot in the face, neck, and torso by then-United States vice president Dick Cheney, the first time anyone had been shot by a sitting United States vice-president since Alexander Hamilton was shot in a duel by Aaron Burr in 1804.

Mamdani's wife is ALOOF? Fuck that. Now I'm voting for the guy in the beret!

the DICKED: Dark Fiction Inspired by Dick Cheney ebook is on sale today to 99 cents Edited by Greg Bardsley/Kieran Shea/ @maybejed.bsky.social & Stories from Eric Beetner, Hilary Davidson, Marcus Sakey, Ken Bruen, Jason Duke, @harryhunsicker.bsky.social and more www.amazon.com/CKED-Dark-Fi...

BLOCKED AND REPORTED

this town has the worst graffiti

BREAKING: Zohran Mamdani caught in lie saying he loves the third Fast and Furious movie, TOKYO DRIFT. But that is actually the sixth movie in the true chronological timeline of the cinematic franchise.

Anyway, I'm 46 years old today, my first book was published 19 years ago. Buy em. openroadmedia.com/contributor/...

Newsom: The New Testament and Old Testament have one dominant thing in common—Matthew, Isaiah, Luke, Proverbs, go down the list—it’s about food, about serving those who are hungry. It’s not a suggestion; it’s core and essential to what it means to align with God’s will.

oh god. it's a real disaster now

Tonight, in D&D: On the steps of the cathedral, the Orphan-Makers face a crowd of townspeople and vampire familiars. The battle, at first short of killing blows, turns bloody, the strange priest is downed, and they fight their way through to face the vampire lord himself. Next time.

“We’re committing more capital to our bookstores because the bookstores have performed extremely well” www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

"I'm gonna get myself in fighting trim Scope out every angle of unfair advantage I'm gonna bribe the officials, I'm gonna kill all the judges It's gonna take you people years to recover from all of the damage"

I know it’s too much to expect them to know their history, but if the American Revolution had a motto, it definitely would not have been “immigrants go home.” It would have been “get your fucking soldiers out of our cities.”

Almost feels like we're doing dirty work for opposing drug dealers...I mean, if any of these people were doing anything even close to illegal.

Everything is Terrible, might as well watch movies. www.criterion.com/sale

People Have A Lot To Say About Republican Senators' Trump "Swag Bags" ca.news.yahoo.com/people-lot-r...

Jesus fuck there are so many things wrong about this.

the lovely and talented @nkolakowski.bsky.social is over at the Cold Caller site saying stuff today: open.substack.com/pub/coldcall...

US chess grandmaster and popular YouTube chess commentator Daniel Naroditsky has died aged 29. The chess player's family announced his "unexpected" death in a statement released by his club, the Charlotte Chess Center, on Monday. No cause of death was given. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Gotta love raising prices with no warning. variety.com/2025/tv/news...

The latest Best American Mystery and Suspense edited by @stephcha.bsky.social & @donwinslow.bsky.social is officially out today. Cold Caller Magazine has done interviews with several writers from the issue and here's mine. open.substack.com/pub/coldcall...

The US agency that oversees the country's nuclear stockpile will furlough about 1,400 of its employees as the government shutdown enters its 20th day. www.bbc.com/news/article...

I'll be Noiring at the Bar this Sunday with the talented likes of Lee Matthew Goldberg Nick Kolakowski Will Medearis, SJ Rozan Dennis Tafoya Radha Vatsal, and hosted by Scott Adlerberg and Jen Conley Sunday, October 26, 6–9 p.m. Shade Bar NYC 241 Sullivan St., NYC