The Fall/Winter issue of the Colorado Review with my personal essay, “Lariat.” It’s about my difficult relationship with my father and the childhood traumas he endured that affected him, me, us. I’ve been writing this essay my entire life, I think; this is one iteration. @coloradoreview.bsky.social

ICYMI my short story, Callie the Cat, is up this month at @doricliterary.bsky.social doric-literary.com/2025/11/01/c...

What an amazing lineup! This is going to be incredible!

I’ve voted 7 times to reopen the government in a way that holds Trump accountable for his lawlessness and prevents a health care crisis. I’m prepared to work toward a compromise, but this “deal” before us does not come close to meeting those terms. Voting NO. Full statement:

for fucks sake, democrats.

I will not support a deal that does nothing to make health care more affordable. We are in a health care emergency. A simple one-year extension of these tax credits would cost less than Donald Trump’s $40 billion bailout for Argentina. A vote for this bill is a mistake.

This administration is criminal and cruel.

Electric Sheep Reading Series – SpecPo Hugo Edition! November 12 8 pm (US Eastern) Guest Host: Holly Lyn Walrath Guest of Honor: Marie Brennan, 2025 Hugo Winner for Best Poem Readers: Brian U. Garrison Ai Jiang Oliver K. Langmead Angela Liu Mari Ness Brandon O’Brien, Poet Laureate 2025 WorldCon

Another big endorsement for Andrew Cuomo. And it only cost $959 million in tax breaks.

It’s official! I have a short story collection coming out Nov 3! Pre-orders open now! And look at the gorgeous cover designed in-house by @hollylynwalrath.bsky.social www.interstellarflightpress.com/houseofillus...

The ACA was enacted in 2010. Republicans hated it from the get-go. They’ve had *15 years* to come up with their own plan. They don’t have one and never will.

I’d be pleased if you read my new story, written in first-person plural point of view: “We missed more than the Bradleys’ house, of course. We missed the Bradleys.”

It’s me! Coming out Saturday—or #caturday Until then let me say what a joy it is to work with @courtlandavenue.bsky.social and @doricliterary.bsky.social . Dave responds to submissions super-quick and stories are edited thoughtfully and gracefully and in collaboration with the author. Submit!

SNAP benefits expire Nov. 1. If you are in a place financially to donate to a local food pantry, now is a great time. I started a monthly donation to my local. Benefit: feeds people. Bonus benefit: collective action and community support are the opposite of these weasels want us to do. Win win.

In Opinion “The United States is cutting off the kind of foreign aid that keeps children alive for 12 cents a day, but it’s willing to invest far larger sums in a dubious effort to prop up a distant economy — while effectively subsidizing tycoons who made bad investments,” Nicholas Kristof writes.

a functional press would, every single day, repeatedly, across numerous paragraphs in every story about him, make it clear that this is indisputably the most corrupt President in U.S. history

Crazy and incompetent.

In “Takin’ It To The Street” Michael McDonald expresses the need for leaderless grassroots action after expressing broad solidarity and skepticism of self-appointed leadership, in this essay I will…

“.. despite his pledge that construction of the $250 million addition wouldn’t ‘interfere’ with the existing building.” @washingtonpost.com www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott donated $63 million to Morgan State University, the largest gift in the school’s history. As HBCUs face deep federal cuts, her investment will fuel excellence, access, & equity. This is how you build a stronger future for generations to come. wjla.com/news/local/m...

If you or someone you know is thinking about applying to MFA programs this year, at Minnesota we are fully funded for 3 years including covering your student fees, 1-1 teaching (mostly creative writing) with chances to teach in the summer, you can join the union, and live in a major city.

Open enrollment for ACA plans began yesterday in Idaho. One couple got notice that their monthly premium next year would jump from $51 to $2,232 as subsidies expire. 25,000 Idahoans are expected to be priced out of coverage. This is what's at stake in Trump's shutdown.

Among the Education Department’s new appointees is Lindsey Burke, the lead author of Project 2025’s education section. She envisions dramatic enrollment declines for public schools: “We’re going to have a lot of empty school buildings.” By @megomatz.bsky.social @jsmithrichards.bsky.social

Unless and until some kind of compelling legal and moral argument is presented as to why this is a legitimate use of deadly force, this is just…mass murder.

What’s at stake in this shutdown.

The 400 richest Americans are now worth a record $6.6 trillion. The entire bottom 50% of America is worth just $4.2 trillion. Read that back. When 400 people control more wealth than half a country’s population, we have a very serious problem.

Trump is a criminal. Release the Epstein files!

Give me the peace prize or I will declare war on you is definitely a take.

I'm reeeeeally supposed to be grading... so put together this @bookshop.org list of these fave recent indie press short story collections: bookshop.org/wishlists/0a...

Pull up a chair cuz it's chili night at The Los Angeles Review! Thanks so much for publishing my flash fiction! #flashfiction

Hey authors, the official list of Anthropic works is available for searching. secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Hey @marchxness.bsky.social fans! It's cover reveal + preorders day for HIT REPEAT UNTIL I HATE MUSIC: THE MARCH XNESS ANTHOLOGY, edited by @angermonsoon.bsky.social and @meganc.bsky.social! Available for preorders (+ ARC requests) NOW, link in our bio or www.splitlippress.com/march-xness-anthology

An Animated Introduction to the Magical Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges

If you’re worried about losing your health care, apparently Trump has a message for you:

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Rapture—we’re doing this again?

Going hard for that Nobel Peace Prize while proving again he doesn’t know what seeking asylum means

Healthcare is a human right—no exceptions. Every other developed nation provides some form of universal healthcare. It's unacceptable that the U.S. does not.

Disney suspending the Star Wars franchise for the way they portray the Empire

The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama. His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful. Now he is tweeting in support of me. This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*. Or used to work.

OH MY GOD

The OG Antifa

It is absolutely insane to me that we're having a debate over whether or not the rightwing deploys violent rhetoric within days of a Fox News personality calling for homeless people to be killed by lethal injection. There is no excuse for this obliviousness. It's unacceptable.

Anatomy of Two Giant Deals: The U.A.E. Got Chips. The Trump Team Got Crypto Riches. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u... The corruption is stunning.

OK, @washingtonpost.com. Time to re-hire and apologize to Karen Attiah. You can do it. Think it all through. Do you really want your "brand" to be identified with the revolting and violent ideology Charlie Kirk championed? You can be better.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

In the Sunday Times today—thanks for reading & for the kind words 🙏🏻 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

respectfully, I think every single person in the country could stand to reflect on this