Meanwhile Pete Hegseth thinks the wars of the future will be a soldier beauty pageant and pushup contest. Ignoring the actual ways in which war is being fought, right now, in Ukrane, Gaza, and across worldwide computer networks.

Next Saturday Oct 18, millions of people across America will join together to send a clear message: We the people have the power. Find your local event today and raise your voice for the science, facts, and truth we need to counter the authoritarian overreach of President Trump and his enablers.

Not at all Nobel.

Very pleased to announce a return to the world of Gaunt, Bone, and Shadowdrop, in a stand-alone story in the next @bcsmagazine.bsky.social .

Thank you! I'm delighted to be included in this Table of Contents! ("Nine Billion Turing Tests," originally published in @reactorsff.bsky.social will soon appear in The Year's Top Robot and AI Stories, sixth annual collection, edited by Allan Kaster ‪@infinivoxsf.bsky.social‬ .)

Early voting is underway for Prop 50 in California. I urge anyone in the state to vote yes. This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/what-blue-states-should-do-when-red

Pre-order: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B... Stories by: @ecastroianni.bsky.social @grantcollier.bsky.social @gregegansf.bsky.social Rich Larson @kyliu99.bsky.social James Morrow @trnapper.bsky.social Amal Singh Lavie Tidier Jay Werkheiser @librariangoblin.bsky.social

I'm on my way down to Santa Cruz! Please don't let me be lonely this evening.......

Oct. 18 there'll be new U.S.-wide “No Kings" protests. I'm planning to go to the one along El Camino Real between Sunnyvale and Palo Alto. There may be events more convenient for you. Not everyone's circumstances will allow them to protest, but every bit can help. www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

May we take heed to Jane Goodall's last words. Let us do all we can to perpetuate her legacy. ✨

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

My short story "Model Collapse" is out today at Reactor Magazine. It's a dark SF tale about a government agent and his mentee who are sent into a remote town on a mysterious and dangerous project. Edited by Ellen Datlow. Cover by Keith Negley. Link in thread.

News media when Democrats are in power: The Democrats need to learn to compromise! News media when Republicans are in power: The Democrats need to learn to compromise!

I've enjoyed Nisi Shawl's work, and this sounds like an interesting project. gofund.me/e34374fb8

My book officially drops in almost a month!! And I’ll be reading at the online launch event!

For fellow Californians -- the legislature recently passed five bills to support trans rights. You can encourage Gov. Newsom to sign them here: www.gov.ca.gov/contact/ or call (916) 445-2841. More details below: transfamilysos.org/action-neede...

This is factually correct. Rhetorically correct, also.

As a paid up member of the do-everything-at-the-last-minute club, I needed this reminder.

Sharing an urgent ACLU petition that ICE free an Atlanta journalist arrested in June who is still being held -- and who might be deported very soon -- despite a court order that he be released. action.aclu.org/send-message...

Trans rights are human rights, people. That’s the beginning and end of the whole matter.

Everything is day by day, but worth noting some dates for groups that have stood up: -7 weeks since front-page claims that Harvard would pony up $500m to appease Trump. Still hasn't happened. -2+ weeks since Trump posted threat below. ICE running wild in Chi + everywhere. But not Nat Guard.

Trump’s problem is that so many Americans — including his MAGA base — believed that he’d expose a powerful global elite. But every day it's becoming more and more clear that Trump is actually part of that global elite. Expect him to lash out as the walls close in.

Absolutely fucking horrifying. A greenlight for racial profiling and terrorizing communities. John Roberts and the MAGA majority shredding the constitution to carry Trump's water.

LISTEN to Gov. J.B. Pritzker warning: Authoritarians thrive on your silence. Be loud for America.

So many of those jobs lost were held by Black women. Thanks to our dear leader, so many of them were fired from nonpartisan fed jobs.

Something I appreciate about science fiction is the eternal tango between gosh-wow scientific excitement and dour skepticism. Sometimes these threads are side-by-side on bookshelves, or within the works of a single author, or even within one story. Utopia and dystopia, the rocketship and the Bomb.

The single biggest money earner in my entire career is a 5,000 word short story published in Asimov's in 2011 that was never nominated for any award except the Amazon Readers' Poll It's literally made me more money than any of my novels have. Protect your rights.

A petition via moveon.org to keep Stephen Colbert on the air. I'm only an occasional viewer, but man, when everything is on fire watching Colbert really helps. sign.moveon.org/petitions/co...

I think, in light of all the rotten people out there spreading terf nonsense, today would be a good day to support trans creators. Trans folk, please add your links to this thread for books or crafts or whatever you do!

a lot of people putting their jobs on the line in a crashing economy to warn their country of the danger we are all in under rfk jr.

are you ready for some big news? WE ARE OPEN for BIPOC subs for issue 100! and we are celebrating with a special theme: Transition, Migration, and Borders: Movement in, and of the Body 💖for those of us who find home in liminal spaces💖 find out more here: psychopomp.com/fantasy-maga...

Yesterday's protest along El Camino was again a good experience, with lots of people and signs, lots of drivers honking support (some with their own signs.) I know of 9 people in my social circle who joined this protest who weren't in the last one, and one of those 9 talked 4 more into joining in.

TODAY: This Labor Day, we stand together for a country that puts working families before billionaires. Find an event near you: bit.ly/3Vm59ED

On 9/1, I and lots of folks will be protesting along El Camino from Redwood City down to Santa Clara. Details below or see tinyurl.com/historic17x17k . There may be similar events near you: maydaystrong.org. Not everyone has the time or safety to protest, but if you can, every little bit can help.

WOOHOO! My very first APOD ( Nasa’s Astronomy Photo of the Day) I am so pleased and honoured that the APOD team selected my crazy plasma time lapse. It was a pretty unusual sight. They rarely float in the air ( err, I mean space….) like that. #astronomy

Your daily reminder that most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.

Labor Day: Bigger Than Ever 17x17K Rally! 📍 El Camino Real, Santa Clara to Redwood City. 🗓️ Monday, Sept 1 | 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM It will be an epic rally of 17,000 people that spans 17 miles on El Camino Real, from Santa Clara to Redwood City. Together We Will is hosting, and IPA+ will be there!

I just backed this new sword and sorcery magazine: igg.me/at/battlebor...

Reposting info on Labor Day protest.

Monarez is playing her weak hand perfectly, and should be a model for institutional resistance for the next four years: 1. Make them fire you 2. Don’t go along to get along 3. Don’t apologize, have confidence in your own integrity and the importance of your role 4. Always escalate the conflict

Growing up as Cold War American kids in the '80s, what we learned was that countries who put up giant pictures of their leaders were either run by Communists or religious fanatics. The news would show us their parades with the subtext that such egomaniacal spectacle was as un-American as it gets.

On 9/1, I and lots of folks will be protesting along El Camino from Redwood City down to Santa Clara. Details below or see tinyurl.com/historic17x17k . There may be similar events near you: maydaystrong.org. Not everyone has the time or safety to protest, but if you can, every little bit can help.

Illinois Governor Pritzker on Monday (via www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...) spoke of "[P]ublic servants who have forsaken their oath to the Constitution to serve the petty whims of an arrogant little man ..." Yes, exactly. They deserve an old fashioned term: oath-breakers. (Thanks to digbysblog.net )

Masked raids are tools of fear, not freedom. Despite what this administration wants you to believe, they are not about “safety.” They are about letting ICE agents hide from accountability while carrying out inhumane acts.

It’s more important than ever to understand your right to due process. Here’s what you should know. youtu.be/metN4EiDtmQ

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit

We're in federal appeals court today challenging President Trump's executive order restricting birthright citizenship. The Constitution is clear: All children born on U.S. soil are citizens, whether Trump likes it or not.

The Hour of the Dragon has at arrived! Our crusade to bring blood-and-thunder back to the Frontlines of Fantasy! Help us deliver world-class sword-and-sorcery and join our ranks - BATTLEBORN is live! We have some incredible fiction we can't wait to share! www.indiegogo.com/projects/bat...

The Voyager Declaration from courageous NASA staff members was just sent. Please take a look and sign on in support. @standupforscience.bsky.social www.standupforscience.net/nasa-voyager...

Uncanny Magazine will be opening to short story and poetry submissions once the @kickstarter.com reaches Fully Funded! The sooner we do that, the sooner the writers can submit!!