For friends in the UK, new journal is out. Including a little something from yours truly on the history of the tentacle in weird art & literature. newweirddecadent.wordpress.com/2025/10/05/l...

Got the house decorated, the windows washed, and the plastic insulation up. Now a bit of writing, then off the watch The Lowdown.

Call your reps. There's plenty to talk about. #Resist 5calls.org

Got my contributor copy today--it's gorgeous! Thanks, TL Wiswell!

The documents from the Epstein estate released by the House Oversight Committee on November 12 showed a chummy friendship between Epstein and political, academic, and economic leaders... heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-3...

Judging by the pile o' cats in the corner, I think we have an unfortunate mouse in the house.

As if I didn't have enough projects, I just released indiehorror.co upon you unsuspecting innocents. The opportunity to do for the indie horror community what @freshcomics.us did for comics was too sweet to pass up. (... and reuse some code in the process!) Check out the thread below for details.

This month, New York became the first state to enact a law targeting a practice, typically called personalized pricing or surveillance pricing, in which retailers use artificial intelligence and customers’ personal data to set prices online... www.nytimes.com/2025/11/29/n...

Today is for getting back into the swing of things before the next holiday disruption hits. Doing some writing, some editing, and some veggie stroganoff making, all with the help of my lovely assistant.

The idea of stripping some of the country’s 24.5 million naturalized citizens of their citizenship changes the nature of what it means to be an American. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2...

I can't start on Stranger Things until I get Lily Allen out of my head.

In 1861, Americans went to war to keep a cabal from taking control of the government and turning it into an oligarchy. The fight against that rebellion seemed at first to be too much for the nation to survive. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2...

Today, the relationship between consumption and reform has taken on heightened meaning after the Tesla and the Disney boycotts. The day after Thanksgiving is the start of the holiday shopping season, and like their predecessors of a century ago... heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2...

Got the big WIP ready for a final pass, starting on the next project, and getting organized to make some Thanksgiving goodies tomorrow. Dis guy don't care.

Jays and mourning doves: Temperamental opposites.

Turning to military tribunals harks back to QAnon, a conspiracy theory that took off in 2017. It maintained Trump was leading a fight against an international ring of pedophiles that he would bring to justice through military tribunals. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2...

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

Icon. variety.com/2025/film/ne...

“If this is meant to intimidate me and other members of Congress from doing our jobs and holding this administration accountable, it won’t work,” Mr. Kelly said on Monday in a statement. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...

And yet, by Friday, Trump said he expected Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to sign onto the plan by Thanksgiving: next Thursday, November 27. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2...

rush is tori amos for boys

Need to wrap up a story by the end of the month and get going on another, but there's this holiday in the middle of everything.

Blues Brothers is on. Just sayin'.

So many birds come to fuss at the feeder.

The plan requires Ukraine to amend its constitution to reject membership in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). It says “[a] dialogue will be held between Russia and NATO, mediated by the US... heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2...

I need another week this month to get everything done.

Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

There's a young mackerel tabby who lives a few blocks away, skittish enough I wondered if it was feral or not. Now I know, because today the jackass owners let the poor thing out WITH A CONE ON.

Restating the law is not sedition, and Fox News Channel legal analyst Andy McCarthy promptly wrote: “There is no insurrection or sedition without the use of force. Disobeying a lawful order is insubordination, not insurrection or sedition... heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-2...

It is time, now and always, to say the things that need saying and make the art that needs making

"...researchers can see that the story of the migration is even more dramatic than expected, with many monarchs blown far off course but using their strong wing muscles and remarkable navigational abilities to get back on track for Mexico." www.nytimes.com/2025/11/17/s...

Representative Jared Golden (D-ME) announced that a bipartisan bill to repeal Trump’s executive order stripping the union rights from federal workers now has enough votes on a discharge petition to bring it before the House. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-1...

Good morning! There ain't no rest for the wicked Friskies don't grow on trees I got bills to pay, I got cats to feed There ain't no kibble in this world for free.

Drop someone blonde.

For over 5 years, Marjorie Taylor Greene was one of the people in Congress most disliked by Democrats. No death threats. It was only when she turned on Donald Trump that she got death threats. Just like Senators only received threats of violence after they wavered on Trump's cabinet nominations.

Fussbutts.

In Lincoln’s day, and in the Gilded Age, and in the 1930s, Americans pushed back against those trying to establish an aristocracy in the United States. That project appears to be gaining speed as well in today’s America, heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-1...

Not the weekend I was planning on, but here we are. At least I've gotten a bunch of reading and writing done.

I have made waaaaaay more progress on the latest story than I ever thought possible. Of course, I still have to edit the beast...

Here is the beautiful front cover for SUFFERING THE OTHER, art and design by RewX. See the loaded TOC here: bit.ly/4i03e3h (TOC is also in the alt-text here). Coming February 2026, pre-order open in December. Reminder, this is a benefit for @raicestexas.bsky.social and Transgender Law Center!

Birb butt.

Trump is clearly worried that the Supreme Court is going to find that much of his tariff war is unconstitutional, as the direction of the justices’ questioning in its November 5 hearing suggested. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-1...

Share a GIF of vid that reminds you of your teenage years.

I just dropped an open bag of catnip on the rug. Things are going to get wild any minute now.

My story "Antediluvian" appears in the debut issue of New Weird and Decadent: the London Lovecraft Review--available now! www.amazon.com/dp/180605101...

Failing to get an extension of the healthcare premium tax credits into the continuing resolution, House Democrats filed a discharge petition to force the House to vote on a measure that would extend the credits for three years. heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/november-1...

The Epstein files released today did not come from the DOJ's Epstein Files. They came from Epstein's estate. Pam Bondi is still protecting Trump at all costs. Today's release by Democrats was aimed at undermining her efforts. And to make it harder for Donald to pardon Ghislaine Maxwell.

In an administrative stay issued on Tuesday, the highest court upheld the administration’s request to extend a pause on a federal judge’s ruling that would have required $4bn in funding for SNAP, the food aid relied on by 42 million people, to be distributed. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My story "Primordium" is now available for your reading pleasure at Nightmare Magazine! www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/prim...

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"