My guess is that Orangio and Wormbrain shorted a bunch of Kenvue Brands stock well before their Tylenol announcement #crooks

"Antiscience Is an Existential Threat" | My op-ed with @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social for #TimeMagazine on our new book, #ScienceUnderSiege: time.com/7317436/scie...

No national coverage for this study, but it could be one of the most important things to happen in a while. Doing #climate #science while thinking like a lawyer. Vital. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Y'all, Monday, 9/15, is our deadline for the next issue of Ponder Review. If you haven't sent us your best writing since before June 15, then send us something soon and don't miss out! #submissioncall ponderreview.submittable.com

Polish, Dutch, German and Italian aircraft worked together last night to shoot down 19 Russian drones over Poland. This might well have been the very first time German soldiers helped defend Poland from aggression.

#Bloomington #Indiana @wesblake.bsky.social is coming to town on Oct 10! Join us at Morgenstern’s at 6 pm. Plenty of notice, so no excuses :-) #booksky

My wonderful wife @mlagodzki.bsky.social is taking off for a month-long residency, and my goal is to get down the words for the first draft of the next novel before the end of Sep. Over/under? Wish us both luck.

Felt like a pie chart was in order. Number of mass shooters since 2018: 4197 % of mass shooters since 2018 that were transgender? 0.095% % of mass shooters that were cisgender: 99.905%

"Real conservation means not just focusing on the plight of a single species but on the ecosystem in which it lives, supports others, and is supported." - Caroline Sutton, author of “Eyes in the Soles of My Feet" in @easthamptonstar.bsky.social www.easthamptonstar.com/guestwords-o...

I hate Nazis

Also inside, on p27: from me about The Lives and Deaths of Véronique Bangoura x Tierno Monénembo, Ryan Chamberlain (tr.), which is out now from @schaffnerpress.bsky.social. Thanks to @laurencerand.com for the review copy! #Guinea

Are you Black but grew up in a White family? If so, I’d really appreciate a chance to speak with you to get a sense for what it felt like. In complete confidentiality. Please DM me. Thanks!!! #novel #writing #fiction #characterization

Throwback to the author photoshoot last year and the book review by @fullybookedinky.bsky.social for Best Thriller Books. New novel is finished and coming soon!

We are pleased to announce that Boman Desai of Chicago, IL, is the winner of the 2025 Nicholas Schaffner Award for Music in Literature for his novel BRAHMS COMES TO DINNER, which we will publish in June of 2026!

Check out the new paperback from @anandalima.bsky.social Craft is fantastic! #booksky

Two Minnesota lawmakers are in grave condition following apparent “targeted” shooting, officials say Authorities believe the shooter was impersonating law enforcement

Bloomington, IN. Come and be heard. Saturday, Jun 14: Monroe County Courthouse. #nokings #democracy

One pro immigrant protester being carried unconscious to the other end of the street here in Paramount, CA, was hit by a federal agency vehicle. Getting attention from protester medics.

BREAKING The President of California’s largest union has been detained during an ICE raid.

The late exit poll results from #Poland not encouraging but within statistical margin. Still hoping for a win for #democracy and openness.

We do not need anyone who “would lead Poland in a style similar to Trump.” It will be an anxious weekend, but I fervently hope to see Rafal Trzaskowski win. #poland #democracy #freedom www.npr.org/2025/05/28/g...

In the mid to long term, the funding cuts will hurt all of us, not only those who are finding their work hamstrung today. #science #climate #resist (no paywall) www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Revision #3 won’t do itself. Time to crack those old finger joints.

No paywall. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/o...

Somehow, folks have been sold on “AI” being more than fancy autocomplete. It’s surprising and sad when people who write or do art for a living use this dumb machine as a shortcut through creativity. #humanmade #art #creativity www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

In defense of the #semicolon. theconversation.com/semicolons-a...

I do love my em dashes. First my favorite color (orange), then democracy, and now this? Simply cannot have nice things anymore. If they come to deport me or take my Oxford comma, that will be a bridge too far.

It was an exceptional week. Thank you everyone who made it possible. @penamerica.bsky.social #penamerica #booksky #freedom

I talked to @davidfrum.bsky.social about kleptocracy, autocracy, and what connects them youtu.be/cpU26qBcBuw?...

#Philadelphia and #Baltimore, hope to see you on Monday or Tuesday for a Controlled Conversations book talk. Head House Books, Philadelphia. 6:30 pm, May 5. With Tricia Coscia. www.headhousebooks.com/event/evenin... Ivy Bookshop, Baltimore. 6:00 pm, May 6. www.theivybookshop.com/event/karol-...

I get it. Draining the "swamp" by siphoning out all the money for themselves. #trumpcrimes No paywall www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/u...

Thank you, Sunbury Press. www.sunburypress.com/blogs/author... #booksky #democracy #freedom

Look who was just featured at the Poetry Society of Tennessee's 68th annual Poetry Festival. Congratulations, Christian! #poetry poetrytennessee.com/2025/03/07/6...

Don’t miss out on this amazing intensive happening THIS weekend!!!

Larry David delivers. #BillMaher #Usefulidiot #autocracy Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/o...

The Department of Homeland Security denied Mahmoud Khalil permission to attend the birth of his first child, who was delivered at a New York hospital on Monday, according to emails reviewed by The New York Times.

Yes. We can learn many things about resistance from those who came before us. (No paywall: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...) #resistautocracy

Any comment from me would be insufficient. @penamerica.bsky.social please make a statement. #warcrimes #stoptheviolence

Simple test: if you have reason to fear state retribution for something you state publicly, including on social media, you live under an autocratic regime.

How would you prove you’re not a camel if denied due process? #resist #fascism www.wired.com/story/homela...

Thank you @penamerica.bsky.social for including Controlled Conversations among the finalists for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel! Congratulations to all the finalists Venita Blackburn, Michael Deagler, Samuel Kolawole, and Karla Cornejo Villavicencio! #booksky

Today's US EO orders the Attorney General to identify + take expeditious action to stop enforcement of "all State & local laws... purporting to address “climate change” or involving “environmental, social, and governance” initiatives, “environmental justice,” carbon or “greenhouse gas” emissions."

Why a mass burial if there is nothing to hide here? www.cnn.com/2025/04/05/m...

How does one make someone who doesn't care about anything feel pain? -- My #SundaySentence this week is from @klagodzki.bsky.social's Controlled Conversations, a novel set in the '80s in Soviet-oppressed Poland. Beautifully written. #Booksky

The fact that the most thorough and technologically advanced genocide of our time, the rise of fascism & destruction of US academia, are all being justified under the umbrella of opposing antisemitism is not just a heinous trick of history. It means something quite profound.

Lexington readers—come see Rick Childers (@rickchilders.bsky.social ) and I discuss our debut books at the Lexington Public Library! 🗓️Sunday, April 13 ⏰2 - 3 pm 📍Lexington Public Library: Beaumont Branch Register at events.lexpublib.org/event/12814006

Thank you, @penamerica.bsky.social and the judges! Congratulations to all PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel longlist honorees! If this is a dream, don’t anyone wake me up. #literature #novel #publishing

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