please watch:

It’s hard to put into perspective how truly massive the warehouse is that was recently sold by the Rockefeller Group to the Department of Homeland Security for $70 million to build a concentration camp in Surprise, AZ. Across the street is a huge neighborhood and a school. It’s 400,000-square-feet.

Totally forgot to add this but someone mentioned how eerie it is that a train track is running near the area and it actually runs directly behind the proposed concentration camp. This video is from the parking lot:

Naah, I want them on trial.

Where did these Epstein folks find the time to do anything given the volume of their emailing? It’s almost parodic how much they liked to chat about crimes in their dumb emails.

Happy Anniversary to those who celebrate cat attorneys.

Remember her name: Aliya Rahman Her testimony is everything and it deserves to be heard, by everyone. Decide for yourself. It’s powerful. It’s gut-wrenching. And no one should have to survive what she did. ICE MUST GO‼️

I believe he answered the question

This is the paradox embedded in literary readings and panels. I have seen many who were engaging and funny on stage and mediocre writers, and many who were awkward and shy and genuinely impressive writers. Separate skillsets. No formal overlap.

France getting serious with Musk.

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This has all been public for a couple of decades. It's Thiel’s client Vance’s job to bring this to completion if Trump doesn't suffice. (2/2)

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

A helpful tip: Blocking an account does not unfollow them. 17 people I follow still show up as following this trash basket, and I know at least some of y'all don't mean to be. Remember: Unfollow, THEN block!

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Chotiner shot that man right in the face with his own gun and he never heard the *click*.

The Trump admin’s whole case regarding Haitians in Ohio is racism, xenophobia, and lies. There’s literally nothing else to it. Legal status, proper papers. No criminal record. Employers, neighbors, local leaders say they’re a benefit to the community. It’s showy, bigoted cruelty, nothing more.

A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”

Bad Bunny with a powerful anti-ICE speech at the Grammys 🔥🔥🔥🔥 "Before I say thanks to God, I’m going to say ‘ICE out.’ We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans."

This made me cry, no lie. Complicated reasons, one being its fuck you to the baked-in structures and strictures of the world that consider harm to be inevitable.

Walsh doesn't mean this figuratively. These people want executions. They want camps. We have to protect each other.

Today in We’re All Fucked

A new study from Anthropic finds that gains in coding efficiency when relying on AI assistance did did not meet statistical significance; AI use noticeably degraded programmers’ understanding of what they were doing. Incredible.

“You cannot be neutral about the dismantling of our democracy and still expect to be protected by it,” Fort told CJR days before her arrest. “If the Constitution fails to protect US citizens, it will fail to protect the media, the free press." www.cjr.org/news/astonis...

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

Now this is a movie review www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

This is interesting, because while everything about it is absurdly disrespectful, it sets quite a high price on the training value of a novel (if you make a rough equivalence about work done) to use as a benchmark for (say) future litigation.

More from the files. Usual TW apply.

The DOJ is now removing some Epstein Files documents it has just released.

Foley Square, New York. Thousands, lots of public school students among us, in 15 degree weather to put heat on ICE.

NEW: Tens of thousands are once again bringing downtown Minneapolis to a standstill (Friday Jan 30, 2026). A massive protest against ICE and in support of a national economic shutdown. (🎥 Vince Monroy)

but don't call them Nazis

High school students marching against ICE this afternoon in Detroit, Michigan

A brave, beautiful badass. Solidarity. ✊🏽

"We have lost one of the comic giants of our age." variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.

At the moment these are all the CRJ, CR7 and CR9 Canadian made aircraft airborne in North America

Sex Matters tried to block a ban on conversion practices, but the Council of Europe has voted to make it illegal goodlawproject.org/council-of-e...

'This decision is a major setback for Sex Matters, which raised more than £65,000 to try and force the pond to ban trans people, trying to go against regular swimmers. More than 32,000 people said they wanted the ponds to remain trans inclusive – 86% of the respondents to the consultation'

What might seem like a frivolous BUY MY BOOK post could be someone whose entire livelihood and family depends on the next royalty check or advance, all of which depend on the books they can move *right now*. So it's not actually frivolous. We interview for our job every year. It is never a given.

If you pay attention to the Big Names and to the Romance, Fantasy, and Romantasy books that are killing it right now, you will see a much rosier picture than in, say, Middle Grade, which is cratering. Certain genres are not selling. It's honestly terrifying and a different landscape than previously.

ICYDK, publishing is in a decline. Many authors who have had dependable contracts in the past are now scrambling to make ends meet and seeing lower advances and fewer sales than ever. If you see lots of book publicity posts, it's because we're scared and trying to keep our jobs during The Horrors.

ICE is upset that ICE isn't welcome in restaurants after ICE ordered food at a restaurant, ate it, then arrested restaurant employees, and ICE believes this is someone else's fault, do I have that right?

An FBI raid in Fulton County resulting in the seizure of 2020 ballots and voter data should alarm us all. It’s not just about Trump re-litigating an election he lost. It’s an ominous sign of what to expect from the 2026 election. My write-up in the replies.

Why US cinemagoers are dressing as Jimmy Savile to see 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

I’ve never had a chance to post this before, and am a little nervous about it, but: I would be absolutely delighted if you put Murder by Memory on your Hugo nomination list, please and thank you.

NEVER EVER ANNOY AN OAK TREE 🫣

Quote with 5 jobs you've had: 1. Babysitter 2. Secretary/Receptionist 3. Museum Curator 4. Waitress 5. Writer

It's honestly exasperating because I don't think it should be controversial or some reality-denying statement to say "One big reason for the bad polling on trans stuff is that there was a deliberate attempt to polarize people against it"

The UK version of “Project 2025” by the Reform party includes a British ICE, a concentration camp for 24,000 people, mass surveillance and withdrawing from refugee, anti-torture and anti-trafficking conventions. It’s on their website. That’s how comfortable fascists are in the UK today.