An ICE officer who shot a US citizen in Chicago last month bragged about the incident in texts afterwards, according to court documents. It’s just one of the latest examples of how, contrary to the Trump administration’s own narrative, the agents supposedly helping are posing a danger to residents.

Stone Circle #ThrowbackThursday poem : "Greyhound" by Caroline Shea (@therealcshea.bsky.social) #TBT stonecirclereview.com/greyhound/

Australia has so much clean energy they're literally giving it away. Meanwhile, GOP is in all-out war to stamp out solar www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

It's Black Speculative Fiction month! All October, health allowing, I'll update this thread with fun recs for classic & current black spec fic & a bonus work of my own. 1. MY BONES & MY FLUTE www.barnesandnoble.com/w/my-bones-a... 2. A RUIN OF SHADOWS www.barnesandnoble.com/w/a-ruin-of-... 1/2

Poisoned soil, contaminated water, rubble, unburied human remains: a new report details the war’s horrific consequences.

NEW: I have confirmed that federal law enforcement detained at least one protester along with the people targeted in the Canal Street immigration raid yesterday. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/federal...

October's newsletter is up with updates, ghost story recs, and a novel excerpt. Read it here: www.patreon.com/posts/141375...

I've been working on two different long-form projects this year, but just know that if you're ever interested in bringing on a genre reader or class speaker etc, I am HERE & super game to discuss short stories forever! if you've read my work, this is probably the big one:

October's newsletter is up with updates, ghost story recs, and a novel excerpt. Read it here: www.patreon.com/posts/141375...

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

So nice to see our editor's novel MARGARET THE FIRST here!

If you, like me, are craving a good ghost story:

human as haunting; ghost as machine; inanimate as alive; Gothic as Tragedy; past as eternal return

Books are a perfect technology that will never die.

photos don’t quite capture it but if you like shimmer inks, the jacques herbin émeraude de chivor ink is absolutely incredible to write with & to look at

For all your October reading needs, a collection of hauntings:

Worth adding, “AI may know - but they cannot compare their experience to ours, and we cannot know whether or not to believe them”. (Relevant passage attached from Wolfe, The Fifth Head of Cerberus)

Stephen Miller is murdering Venezuelans and Colombians in cold blood bc he believes it helps his propaganda campaign to paint Latinos as dangerous. www.theatlantic.com/national-sec...

Weiss very intentionally does not describe herself as a conservative or Republican and wraps her politics in terms like "free press." That makes more useful at advancing Trumpism than explicitly right-wing figures. newrepublic.com/article/2014...

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

For the first time in history renewable energy sources are now generating more power than coal worldwide. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

“Four months ago, in Skrmetti, the Court used purported medical uncertainty to give Tennessee more flexibility to discriminate. Today, Alito used purported medical uncertainty to give Colorado less flexibility to protect.”

In 1999, Bill Clinton announced that “the last, best unprotected wild lands anywhere in our nation” would be shielded by a new rule that banned roads and drilling. Today, these lands could soon see chainsaws and logging trucks amid a push by Trump to raze these ecosystems for timber.

ONE WEEK! DC! Come to the launch party in Adams Morgan! @rvoronacote.bsky.social and me at Lost City Books and a few fun surprises, and a very spooky party www.eventbrite.com/e/happy-peop...

Gonna be thinking about this lede for a minute.

You know what’s a great read? @kristinaten.bsky.social’s Bunny Ears over in @nightmare-magazine.com! Creepy summer camp vibes, body horror, and one of the best endings I’ve read in a while. Don’t sleep on it :) www.nightmare-magazine.com/fiction/bunn...

We wanted to understand Democratic Socialists of America. So we talked to two old guys who voted for Trump. (Yes, this is literally the article.)

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.

The Long Ago: A Medieval and Renaissance Reading List + some thoughts on medievalism and why we return to certain eras in fiction and scholarship again and again. Read here: www.patreon.com/posts/long-a...

“Anti-fascism was one of the most unifying and electrifying banners to organize under during Trump’s first administration.” - important reflection from comrade Matthew Whitley on not dismissing the ways antifa IS real (but not what Trump says) @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/09/27/t...

ICYMI:

The Long Ago: A Medieval and Renaissance Reading List + some thoughts on medievalism and why we return to certain eras in fiction and scholarship again and again. Read here: www.patreon.com/posts/long-a...

I'll stand by "I am tired of tidings," for the most part. But getting a message that @thedodgemag.bsky.social nominated "East of Eden" for the Best of the Net anthology, those were tidings that put some wind back in my sails. Thank you to the editors, especially @sambranopoet.bsky.social.

1. In a groundbreaking legal filing, transgender patients, represented by Women's Law Project, have filed a legal complaint against UPMC for capitulating to Trump and dropping trans care. Federal funding threats do not override state law. Subscribe to support our journalism.

two tiny poems up on HAD today! ❤️☠️

The figures presented in an investigation by journalist Yuval Avraham, published by +972 & The Guardian, lead to the conclusion that "only about 17% of the dead were armed or identified as Hamas members." 🆓🔗 archive.is/1tN72

a Tuesday novel scrap before I force myself to get more work done: "How stupid, she thought, how human, to believe harm to others did not harm you, too."

NYT: gone. WaPo: gone. LA Times: gone. CBS: gone. CNN: gone. MSNBC: going. Plus almost all local newspapers & local TV news stations. Plus almost all of social media. The information environment is utterly dominated by the right & everything else is downstream of that.

I talked to Dan Dwyer of the wonderful Johnnycake Books about the store's history, his 35 years in rare bookselling, and what he wished more people knew about the world of rare books. Conversation linked here: www.patreon.com/posts/interv...

I talked to Dan Dwyer of the wonderful Johnnycake Books about the store's history, his 35 years in rare bookselling, and what he wished more people knew about the world of rare books. Conversation linked here: www.patreon.com/posts/interv...

bonus: "The candle must not die, because then there is no story."

"I think Donald Trump can get away with it because he understands something very basic about the development of American military power over the last few decades, which is that the United States doesn't really have to win wars. We just go in and kill a lot of people."

ICYMI this morning!

"But a candle will burn at noon." (Aspects) "I am giving you the candle now--you won't let it out?" "It will burn." (The Once and Future King) "I shall (..) banish the Darkness." "I will wait until then." (Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell)

I talked to @coyhall.bsky.social about the (delightfully) eerie The Owl Men of Shanidar, gendered dynamics in sci-fi, history as storytelling, and writing the premodern. Conversation linked here: www.patreon.com/posts/interv...

Tomorrow night!!! Come on by!

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

For the evening crowd!