To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

The New York Times quickly sending out Douthat to argue that Mamdani’s victory doesn’t really matter is so predictable it borders on self-parody. Remember, folks: Every time the Right wins an election, it’s an undeniable expression of the will of the people. If a lefty wins, it’s just a blip.

I keep getting mad at myself for never remembering to early vote but voting in the morning and then getting to be at a bar with my friends when Mamdani was named mayor in the same day was actually 10/10 and I would do it again.

...and less than 24 hours later Condé Nast has fired Lex and the rest of the Teen Vogue political desk, even as stories like this were bringing huge numbers of readers to the site

ok sure. you hate andrew cuomo because he’s an unlikable slimy creepazoid with an adversarial relationship to the people he would govern…..but what if i told you a bunch of other slimy creeps with identical worldviews said to vote for him. does that change your mind

My last public event on the east coast for a bit! Will she be reading from the newly announced ghost book? Will she make it on time?? These questions and more answered tonight!!

I have had such a good week of conversation and I am so excited to keep it going today!! www.eventbrite.com/e/we-demand-...

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It’s official! Book news appropriate for the season

This Monday, I'll be participating in the Traveling SFF Book Festival, hosted by Yume Kitasei, with Micaiah Johnson, Veronica Roth, and Julia Vee. At PT Knitwear, 180 Orchard St, Oct 13th, 6:30pm. @yumewrites.bsky.social @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social @veronicarothbooks.com @juliavee.bsky.social

We are losing something by having newsrooms where everyone who has more than a few years’ experience has gotten fired. I don’t fault a young writer for not knowing about things that happened before she was born. But now there are no editors to help give context to these stories, either.

Finally getting around to posting my October events! There may be one or two more later additions, but I am excited about all of these and I hope to see you guys there!

(If we can try to support living authors, that would be especially neat btw)

See how she’s TEASING ME?? Like I don’t already visit my Bookshop preorder of Year of the Mer like a kid shaking their Christmas presents?? Anyway pre-Order LD’s book so we can all wait together!

Save the date! @csecooney.bsky.social @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social @smartinez-conde.bsky.social @plaguedr-richards.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/e/we-demand-...

My book was named one of Mary Sue’s 10 Best Sci Fi Audiobooks of all time! *cheers* It appears I’m the only non-man and one of only two nonwhite people on the list. *boos* www.themarysue.com/the-10-best-...

I need you guys to understand I have written/thought SO MUCH about the racialization of robots and even I am too bored to take most of this “clanker” discourse seriously. You’re all wrong and you’re all right but social media doesn’t incentivize nuance enough to be the place for this discussion.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

A friend of mine was on Charlie Kirk's "watch list" of Black professors. She received so many death and rape threats that her university offered her a security detail for the walk to class. This is Kirk's legacy. You would never know it from reading all of these legacy newspaper op-eds about him.

“Demagogue shot by radical” is in fact a pretty common life outcome for demagogues. The problem here isn’t that the accurate narrative is complicated or hard to comprehend but that it’s socially inconvenient and gets scary people to yell at you.

Let this be a lesson to anyone else who hasn’t read @delilahsdawson.bsky.social! House of Idyll is out now so you can rectify that!

I wish I could remember who I saw recommend "The Space Between Worlds" by @micaiahjohnson.bsky.social so I could thank them. It's been a while since I fell into a book's world so instantaneously. And the audiobook narrator is fantastic. share.libbyapp.com/title/5089483

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It’s all an attitude of being fine with authoritarianism, just not in their preferred cities. High crime rates in Republican-led states isn’t a gotcha! It’s a tragedy and a canary in a coal mine about what systemic racism and poverty beget. Do better, y’all. Not one city should be occupied.

It has been so hard not talking about this, but I am so excited to be an invited speaker at @sirensconference.org. YOU GUYS THEY ARE GIVING ME A WHOLE KEYNOTE TALK I WILL NEVER SHUT UP AGAIN!

The bank app is telling me to "tap & pay like a boss😏" and "rally my crew". I am 37 years old and you are the bank. Don't talk to me this way.

i find it really telling all the people agreeing with this are men and meanwhile i've read more wide-ranging sci-fi pubbed by non-cis men / marketed as sci-fi in the last 5-6 years than ever? (Rivers Solomon, Alix Harrow, Micaiah Johnson, Mir Lafferty, Yoon Ha Lee, SB Divya, Bethany Jacobs, et al)

if someone in chicago wants to go to this but is broke lemme know and i'll buy you a ticket

being afraid of the subway is so fucking funny. you mean the choo-choo train???

I’d like to go on record to say Gavin Newsome sucks and I hate him.

SUBS are OPEN for our special reprint issue, SINNERS, SAINTS, & HAINTS! Send us your lovelies! Spread the word! Details here: fiyahlitmag.com/submissions/

Amazing Hugo Award winners and nominees. It's lovely seeing my community celebrate such a range of talent.

The biggest contributor to rising producer prices is profit margins. After a year of tariff talk, corporate America thinks the country's softened up for price hikes, even if their input costs aren't higher. There's no way Trump will do anything about this. Wall St will get fat while you suffer.

SEE YOU TOMORROW!!

I'm Jewish and I think about antisemitism all the time. I can't tell you how fucking weird it is that Homeland Security posting literal neo-Nazi propaganda generates less discussion about the threat to Jews than a mayoral candidate who believes Palestinians are human beings.

You only kill journalists when you want to hide what you're doing.

The final statement by Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, written months ago in anticipation of his likely death, posted on Twitter/X by a friend. Israel assassinated him tonight along with his reporting team in an airstrike in Gaza.

WORLDCON/SEATTLE FRIENDS! I will be at Concurrent on an amazing panel with this inspiring group of people!

"Come join me, Rage says, at this spark that is lit by the distance between what the world is, and what we could make it. The night is long and dark, Rage says, but I will keep us warm." - Micaiah johnson

“Bitterness is anger with nowhere to go. Bitterness and resignation are close and tempting cousins. Anger with a target is Rage and Rage is sister to Hope alone. We rage because we do believe things can be better, by fire if necessary.” -Micaiah Johnson

I can’t believe such a prominent figure in labor and racial justice movements can be beaten and imprisoned without outcry?

And while we’re at it we can teach them that every inconvenience is not an injustice…

Good news Seattle folks and #SeattleWorldcon attendees! Writers with Drinks *did* sell out... so Town Hall moved the event into a bigger space! So there are tix again. August 14, Sliding scale, grab em here: townhallseattle.org/...

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

I don’t think both parties are the same either but if I were, for example, a person whose community had been subject to bipartisan over policing and mass incarceration policies for decades, you’d have a hard time convincing the parties are meaningfully different as to my situation

A lot of older adults forced a war on universities because that’s where their kids realized their parents were evil.

The world is very bad, but I found a squirrel that looks like Napoleon