“From climate change to smoking & cancer, this is the story of how doubt has been manufactured. This 10 part series will explore how powerful interests & sharp PR managers engineered doubt about the connection between smoking & cancer & how similar tactics were used to make us doubt climate change.”

I think a lot about this moment during the Jerry Rescue in Syracuse in 1851. This local rich guy had been persistently antagonistic to abolitionists. He was like, “Yeah slavery is wrong, but asking for immediate emancipation is too radical, and you guys are a bunch of hysterical lunatics.” …

Large protests are common knowledge machines 🧠🔄🧠

#KindleBookGiveaway -- since it's *free* I can't get copies to giveaway, so claim them while it's free!

Fun fact about the IOC's one time only, all or nothing, SRY gene test 'to identify men'. It's entirely possible to test positive after being pregnant with a boy. Fetal DNA can cross the placental barrier and linger in the maternal bloodstream for decades.

Makes me wonder what the penalty for public defecation/urination is.

Did you know you can meet me and @kbspangler.com IRL, FR? And get your SIDEQUESTED Book1 copy autographed? And see us make a fool of ourselves? Yep.

This is the attitude I want my legislators to have to the whole Project 2025 agenda the GOP is pushing. Sand in the gears, baby!

Underlying all the regime's deployment of untrained people to various tasks is the belief that nothing requires actual knowledge, training, skills, or - especially in the case of cabinet-level officials - effort.

FUN STORY! When I started @standupforscience.net Emory leadership instructed the Wheel not to cover me or the protests we led around the WORLD. I asked for support & Emory sent General Council to meet with me and then refused to allow the NYT photographer onto campus...BUT WAIT THERE'S MORE...

"I avoid politics." No bestie, you avoid uncomfortable conversations about politics. From the moment you were born til the day you die, you've been thoroughly and utterly enmeshed in the policies, systems, and governance of a society that shapes your experience. You just try not to think about it.

FUN FACT: Cases of mail voting fraud are extremely rare, accounting for only 0.000043% of total mail ballots cast, or about four cases out of every 10 million mail votes.

Reminder as everyone — correctly — talks about ICE in airports that armed troops are still walking around and that Trump plans to keep them here for the rest of his time in office.

Today they banned my book. Here’s what I want you to know: thebloggess.com/2026/03/25/t...

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Also, seems like a coordinated attempt nationwide. Several states are proposing or have recently passed "Halo Zone" or "Buffer Zone" laws. * Kentucky (SB 104) * South Carolina (SB 175) Alabama, Kansas… Florida already has one. Donors are likely giving funds, lawyers, wording to every state.

Per current discourse on #wizards and #wizard fiction: Seems a good time to menttion that if you're looking for other-series options, you can pick up the first nine #YoungWizards novels as #ebooks in a bundle. (Unless you're in the UK: we can't sell to you due to Brexit...sorry.) bit.ly/YWNMESET

Malcolm Kenyatta, who was one of Fetterman’s opponents in the primary, pulling no punches: “John promised that he was going to go to D.C. and be Democrats’ 51st vote. And instead he’s gone to D.C. and is behaving like Donald Trump’s fucking intern.” Gift link www.inquirer.com/politics/pen...

Breaking the ICE: Lessons from the Resistance in Minnesota A Countrywide Speaking Tour Three different touring groups will carry out concurrent tours covering the Midwest, the East Coast, and the West Coast, for a total of two dozen events. You can find the tour dates here:

Judge Tanya Chutkan’s face is gonna be on money someday.

I think it's vitally important that everyone know that when baby bear cubs are orphaned and taken to our local wildlife center, they get fed and rehabbed by people masking their scent and wearing costumes like this so they don't get habituated to humans

Top White House advisor Stephen Miller, the longtime architect of Donald Trump’s anti-immigration policies, asked Texas Republicans last week in a closed-door meeting to kick undocumented children out of public schools.

The regime is counting on your exhaustion. 😮‍💨 Your neighbors are counting on your presence. 🤝 3,000+ events this Saturday. Choose your side. March 28. #NoKings2026

And just to note again, if you're not certain whether your work is included in the settlement, check the database here. If your work is in the database, the settlement payment per work is over $1000. It is WORTH FILLING OUT THE FORM. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/?_gl=...

Question for Entangled authors: did Entangled file a claim on your behalf in the Anthropic settlement, without your authorization to do so? (They are reportedly charging a $50 administrative fee for this.) Contact me (Writer Beware) in confidence: [email protected]

Good morning. We're getting word that a (bullshit) deal on ICE/CBP funding might be moving this morning. That means you need to CALL your electeds ASAP and tell them no blank check for ICE or CBP: act.indivisible.org/sign/ice-out...

I called my rep & both senators today explicitly stating that any deal funding CBP and/or ICE is a non-starter, as they're the agencies responsible for the worst violations of civil rights & constitutional guarantees.

Friends in Maine, you don't have to vote for establishment dem Janet Mills or nazi poser Platner. Get Andrea in there to replace Susan Collins & we all win.

The book is a satire about the founding fathers, cloning, and the kakistocracy run amok [fictional] [probably, who even knows anymore]. The code is preorder25.

Dude, I’m splitting north of $45K with my publisher. It took maybe an hour to fill out all of the claim forms. Dooooo ittttttttt. (The forms are not well designed and the whole thing is a PITA but I’m not leaving that kind of money on anybody else’s table.)

A month ago, we noted that Jared Kushner’s appointment as special envoy for peace meant he would need to file a financial disclosure so that he could resolve potential conflicts of interest and called on him to proactively divest from Affinity Partners. He hasn’t.🧵

Barnes & Noble shoppers, today you can get 25% off preorders of my books AUSTENLAND (new edition with lots of bonus content) and PRINCESS ACADEMY: the graphic novel (art by @victoriaying.com!). Discount code: PREORDER25

HEY WRITERS (not just SF/F writers) HAVE YOU BEEN PROCRASTINATING ON MAKING YOUR ANTHROPIC SETTLEMENT CLAIM? SFWA is running a webinar event OPEN TO ALL WRITERS (not just members! not just SF/F writers!) on Thursday. Sign up here: www.sfwa.org/events/anthr...

There are two particularly remarkable things in this episode. 1) RFK Jr says that the stomach is microbiome is made up of plants. He specifically says "Your stomach microbiome is plants". It is not. I think he has been confused by the term "gut flora". He is the head of Health and Human Services.

Reminder: The vote-by-mail fraud rate is 0.00006%. Donald Trump doesn't care about election integrity; he only cares about disenfranchising millions of voters.

NEWS Michigan AG Dana Nessel SUES the Trump admin to stop an ICE warehouse in the city of Romulus: It’d hold up to 500 people, has only six bathrooms, and frequently floods, including last year, per the suit. Another suit like this recently succeeded in Maryland. Background buff.ly/ux7owSY

A ton of new litigation in DC already this week. A thread:

ICE being in airports is terrible *even if they behave at first.* And if they're smart, they'll act "normal" until everyone's used to them, especially white folks. Once they're a regular presence, inertia will make them harder to remove. And they'll no longer have incentive to behave.

Also they keep trying to get me to claim someone else's books so there's that

No matter how the Court rules, or what Republicans do next, I will continue to fight for all Americans to be able to cast their ballots and have them counted. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/if-t...

"Their priorities are war + military spending because that generates a lot of profits for the wealthy. Many of our politicians own stock in these weapons profiteers. [The] march made the connection between AIDS, health care & #Palantir.” @riseandresist.bsky.social www.advocate.com/politics/adv...

I'm so looking forward to this conversation with my dear friend and colleague @amalelmohtar.com. If you're in Glasgow, or anywhere near, please join us on Tuesday, 7 April, at Waterstones Argyle Street.

On the value organizing using your own brain: 🧵 For my PhD, I read a mountain of books and over 2,000 European printed and manuscript maps & atlases c.1450-1650 (and some older ones). I identified 200-ish maps/atlases with distinctive imagery of peoples of the Americas (not just stick figures). 1/

A year later, I'll say: we will never know— we will never have the faintest idea— how much money is getting made in insider trading windfalls from people in Trump's circles who have an hour of notice about the chaotic swings in stuff Trump just *says* about the war with Iran.

The SAVE America Act is voter suppression. It targets working people who don’t have the time or money to chase down a passport or other documents. Congress should be protecting our right to vote, not trashing it. Tell them: stop the SAVE America Act! https://bit.ly/4dwS8Cv

There was ONE ATC in the tower at LGA during last night's crash. ONE ATC, at LGA!, dealing w ALL air and ground traffic, including a plane filling w a strange smell and no gate to return to. The Pentagon wants $200B for a vanity war, but our ATC towers are empty. Budgets are moral documents.

New, from me: The federal government is required to track job satisfaction among its employees. The Trump admin stopped collecting the data, so a nonprofit stepped in. The results show that a collapse in morale and zero trust in Trump agency leaders. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/federal-em...

Hey! I just realized that @kbspangler.com's A Girl and Her Fed wrapping up in 2025 means that it's eligible for a Hugo!

For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

When lawmakers and advocacy groups frame queer existence itself as a threat to young people, age-verification laws become ideological enforcement instead of regulatory policy. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...