A couple more polish passes and this novelette will finally be complete and ready for first readers.

Here’s the thing. Disney can’t fix this simply by taking a mulligan on Kimmel—he was a symbol for the larger issue. Disney’s larger mistake was bending knee to fascism, and the only way to build back is with equal or greater force in the opposite direction: using their cash to oppose fascism.

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

This is amazing.

required reading

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The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Talk with friends and family. Let them know that Facebook, Instagram, Threads, TikTok, and X will no longer be safe—that the Trump regime is attacking free speech in this country, and the oligarchs that own those platforms are helping with it.

Cancel your streaming services and let them know why.

The Free Speech President has now pulled two of the three major late night hosts off the air through threats and intimidation because of their jokes. Obviously I’m behind Jimmy Kimmel 100% in the face of this fascist garbage. Speech against this admin isn’t just being chilled, they’re freezing it.

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I finished reading Moonflow moments ago and must say that it is very, very good. This is a trip you want to take.

TikTok will officially become a surveillance tool for the Trump regime and its billionaire backers. Larry Ellison helped build the detention and surveillance state in China via his company—Oracle—and now he’ll do it here. Spread the news, tell your friends, and encourage everyone to delete TikTok.

These are right-wing terror events I covered just from 2017 to 2023. It's not even close to comprehensive. The government's trying to erase this history.

The far-right, Trump and his cabinet keep saying we’re being dramatic or “snowflakes” for calling the right what they are: Fascist Nazis. We call them Fascist Nazis because they’re doing EXACTLY what the Nazis were doing in Germany back in the 30s and 40s, now in present day America.

Here is some non-satire for you: Trans rights forever.

Here are four ways anyone can support and help their local library: • Get a library card ⭐️ • Use your library card 🌟 •Visit the library 💫 •Tell everyone to get a library card and support their local library ✨

I have newslettered a newsletter! In this inaugural edition, I barf out words about evil times, #horror, catharsis, emotional equilibrium, and Animal Crossing. buttondown.com/michaeljrise...

An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish. The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.

Amazing how those democratic lawmakers who were hunted down in their homes in the middle of the night in Minnesota weren’t a watershed moment of political violence, huh?

MAGA 3 days ago: Chicago is about to find out the meaning of WAR MAGA today: the left needs to stop condoning violence

NEW: Federal funding for organizations that help students with hearing and vision loss across eight states will stop at the end of the month, according to letters sent by a top Education Dept. official and obtained by ProPublica. By @jodiscohen.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

Just one chapter in and this already feels like a very important book. Couldn’t be more timely—about society collapsing as an authoritarian regime and its gestapo trample rights, beat down peaceful protesters, and destroy lives.

There are no real checks and balances left. The various branches are ruled by conservatives looking to strengthen efforts towards ethnic cleansing, no matter how these efforts infringe on people's basic human rights. They're all about concentration camps, masked gestapo members, and brutality.

Our Founding Fathers and generations of American colonists and English before them opposed a standing army. They would recoil at this imagery. It’s fundamentally un-American.

If you fell down that first hole in Hollow Knight Silksong that took you back to the beginning, you have to repost this. That’s the rule.

Baskin is great. Highly recommend checking it out on Shudder. #LastFourWatched

Tomorrow night at @bloodstonebookshop.bsky.social in Sacramento. Includes art by Margaret Brundage, Frank Frazetta, and @mrj81.bsky.social's original painting for Scott Nicolay’s DS book caterpillars. Special edition (26 lettered copies) of caterpillars signed by Matt and Scott will be available.

"You're a charlatan. That's what you are." -- Cantwell to RFK Jr

RFK Jr. spent over two hours in front of Congress today spewing lie after lie — starting with his promise to "Make America Healthy Again." It’s time for accountability. CONTACT your representatives with our link in bio 🔗 to demand they #ImpeachRFk

We need folks like @jbpritzker.bsky.social @mayorofchicago.bsky.social to make it plain: the military policing civilian streets is a violation of our long-cherished Revolution Principles. It is offensive to very heart of the American constitutional order.

Out now on ebook and paperback! Mad Days: Stories and Curses is the perfect reading for the spooky season. A terrifying collection of tales and illustrations, available on Amazon and Bookshop! Amazon bit.ly/4lZImtq Bookshop bit.ly/41USpIQ

9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

Pritzker: "We don't want troops on the streets of American cities. That's un-American and frankly the president ought to know better. This one doesn't seem to. He hasn't read any books. He doesn't seem to understand the Constitution or the laws."

Meta is an unethical company run by Peter Thiel’s techno-fascist billionaire protégé—Mark Zuckerberg—and is part of the Trump regime’s surveillance state. It’s time to leave Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp—and while you’re at it, drop Amazon, Google, and OpenAI as well. Learn how in this thread:

I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.

Despite the right using yet another tragedy to push their anti-LGBTQ+ agenda, it would appear that the Minneapolis shooter was a nazi who had praised Hitler in the past. There's also evidence that the shooter had de-transitioned or realized they weren't trans after all

Now is a good time to resurrect this: share.google/u4g2TLDeN93f...

They're openly calling to lock up every trans person by force. We need every ally to speak out forcefully against this because trans folks cannot do this on our own.

It's official! HWA Sacramento has partnered with the Sacramento Public Library for a spooky reading and panel this October.

Very excited for today’s library haul: The End of the World as We Know It - ed. by Golden and Keene Tantrum - Rachel Eve Moulton The Staircase in the Woods - Chuck Wendig Universality - Natasha Brown The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom

Happy new Deftones album day to those who celebrate.

Enjoyed a very productive day of writing/editing this morning, reading a chunk of S.A. Cosby's latest midday, and proofreading for a contract gig from mid-afternoon until evening. It's good to be busy.

The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe

Here's a tweet by the current DHS PR officer pushing fascist and nazi imagery. He calls for trans people to be eradicated.

This should get WIDE circulation: MIT stating that it “has no confidence in the provenance, reliability or validity of the data and has no confidence in the veracity of the research contained in the paper.” gizmodo.com/mit-backs-aw...

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Thanks, Gabino! Still time left in the summer, for those of you looking for your next beach read... why not, BUOYGEIST? a.co/d/23uR9Z4