Echoes of a very dark past. From the Chicago Sun Times: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...

I’m horrified by Trump’s order to send 300 National Guard troops to Chicago. We’re only nine months into a four year term and already the president is trying to invade an American city. If you’re in the Guard, you can and should refuse these orders.

At Decatur Book Festival yesterday. Great time. Met so many cool people.

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

The Rave audiobook is now available on a bunch of platforms, including the ones pictured. You deserve only the Very Best in High Quality Audio Entertainment, so feast your ears on this delightful masterpiece narrated by the fantastic Erika Ventura and powerfully produced by The Other Stories crew.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I've been sitting on this for quite a while, anxious to share but knowing the wait would be worth it. Now that #TheRuin (last book in the #AelfraverTrilogy ) is nearing completion, I can finally show you all the truly spectacular illustration done by the incredibly talented @kalmahul.bsky.social !

The Narratess Indie August Sale is ongoing until the 25th! Dozens of indie fantasy, sci-fi and horror books are on sale or even free! Go check out this amazing sale! indiebook.sale 💙📚

Researching where to #publish my first #audiobook (written by me, recorded by a human voice actor, edited by humans). #FindawayVoices #Audible and more have been pitched to me, but I’m not sure yet. Anybody have any opinions they want to share? What platforms worked for you? Any to avoid, #authors?

NEW: PublicSquare, a website that lets you search for businesses in your community that explicitly want you to know they endorse Trump/MAGA values, is backfiring as people use it to boycott those businesses. www.huffpost.com/entry/public...

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

I care less about Signal chats and more about the blacksite offshore concentration camps we're sending random people to without any semblance of a trial, so I'll be interested to see if the national media can rub their bellies and pat their heads at the same time this week. Historically they can't.

The Department of Government Efficiency, for example

going to start calling myself a centrist and then listing all my leftist views as proof, just going to start moving the overton window by force

France’s far-right leader Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of embezzling European Union funds. She has been sentenced to 4 years in prison and banned from running for public office again. During her previous campaign she was friendly to the Kremlin but recently began to sour on them publicly.

On April 29, 2025, I will have had this meme on my phone for 5 years. 5 whole years.

Confirming, as was obvious from context already, that this wasn’t a one-off. They are routinely using Signal to evade statutory record retention requirements.

🔑 under-discussed point — why they were on signal:

Okay, this is my newest very very favorite meme.

Something to think about

WIRED talked to actual federal auditors about how government auditing works—and how DOGE is doing the opposite.

“If she wants to know something specific, but doesn’t want people to notice her asking questions, she should simply make incorrect statements while in the company of experts. Her companions will correct her, especially if they're men.” - Advice for female agents in WW2, provided during SOE training

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Republicans piss and moan about “free market capitalism” right up until the market decides it wants #Tesla to die. Here we have the true face of the right wing: another bailout, the umpteenth upward failure for #elonmusk

We recently asked why people love to support their indie bookshop and overwhelmingly folks mentioned how these spaces build community. Thank you to all the indies that champion and help build connections within our local communities ❤️ This work is noticed and deeply appreciated!

It would be a real shame if y'all shared this online, printed out a few and hung up all around the Eastern Shore of Maryland. 😉

Pass it on: The Resistance is alive and well and angry. Reports of our demise might have been premature

Elon's government email is: [email protected] Please don't send anything to it, that would not be good at all! theintercept.com/2025/03/06/e...

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.

Hi! I’m Julian, an indie author who writes far-future arcanepunk fantasy. Anti-fascist, anti-capitalist, and anti-imperialist to the core. It’s also pro-empathy, humanitarian, environmentalist, and defiantly hopeful. If any of that’s your vibe, you’ll love my books.

DOGE recommended firing workers at: -FDA, which oversees Neuralink -FAA, which oversees SpaceX -USAID, which probed Starlink -CFPB, which oversees Tesla's financing arm and a potential payment platform on X. "Conflict of interest" is a severe understatement.

what a day

As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.

MAGA wants peace in the same way a guy that beats his wife just wants a happy marriage.

Tesla stock fell 8% today. Time for Elon to send an email explaining what he does.

Once again begging for the Alternate Timeline

Today’s my birthday, I'm 29. The best gift for me would be reposts and retweets 🎉🎉🎉 Thank you for your interest in what I create! 💕🥹

I prefer to personalize my letters to congress.

Found DOGE HQ #pathofexile2

Things I got excited about as a kid: visit from a friend, new video game or book, pizza Things I get excited about as an adult: fixed-rate natural gas plan’s price per therm renewing at $0.68 instead of $0.79