Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

SFPA members, there’s still time to nominate your favorite poems of 2025 for the Rhysling Awards! Nominations close February 15, so get yours in today!

Thrilled to be part of this incredible roster with my story, “From the Ice and the Darkness.” A reminder that this horror anthology is still crowdfunding. It’ll happen regardless but if you can chip in it’ll help Stars and Sabers keep bringing you more great fiction. ko-fi.com/post/Our-Thi...

Please call the Senate they will vote very soon on whether to allow dangerous sulfide-ore copper mining on the edges of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Tell them to vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140 (H.J. Res. 140).

ICYMI

Wild fact from @billmckibben.bsky.social's latest newsletter: "The last colder-than-average month on planet earth was in February of 1985, which means that no one under the age of forty has ever known one."

Last week the far right started peddling a narrative that the outrage over Epstein is a moral panic. Today, like clockwork, a more polite version of that narrative appears in the Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

If you’re reading for the Nebulas, Hugos, Auroras, Locus, Ignytes, or most SFF awards, I’d love it if you’d consider this short story. It’s now also on the BSFA long-list. This one means a lot to me so I hope you’ll give it a read.

Understanding society is dangerous to reactionaries selling racial animus & crushing austerity, while enriching the rich

The world is going to blow past the 1.5 C goal of the Paris Accords. Even limiting global warming to 2 C will be very hard. But we might still be able to pull it off if we change tactics, and focus more attention on climate “Emergency Brakes”. globalecoguy.org/hitting-the-...

Really good listen. Entirely applicable to the rise of reform and the Tories dive into extremeism.

making tulsi gabbard DNI is itself a watergate level scandal

what impressed me most today was that a huge crowd of people who mostly had never been tear gassed managed to retreat without running or trampling each other. under a cloud of gas that was not moving (zero wind), people held onto each other and walked blind down a street packed tight as sardines

Our ✨January 2026 Issue✨ is now free to read online! Find it here: havenspec.com/issues/issue... Or get the PDF and EPUB: ko-fi.com/s/c906166bff The January Issyou features seven stories and four poems all written in second-person POV!

We already have a warrant requirement. It's called the US Constitution. If that's not fucking binding them, what the hell does your little agreement mean?

Fellow SFWA members, I hope you won't be leaving the poetry section blank in your Nebula nominations. It's the first year of the award, and important to show that it gets the love it deserves. If you don't know where to find great SFF poetry, just ask me or another SFWA poet, and we can direct you

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

NEW | Wind and solar generated more power than fossil fuels in the EU for the FIRST time ever. 🌪️ and ☀️ made up a RECORD 30% of 🇪🇺 electricity, up from 20% just five years ago. https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/european-electricity-review-2026/

The parallels with domestic-abuser rhetoric are getting so crude & overt that mainstream pundits might even have to notice & write about them soon.

Democratic leaders need to fear being branded as collaborators more than they fear being called soft on crime

per the story, the “Abolish ICE is bad” dude is also a “former Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection official”

As Bill Gates recommends a “strategic pivot” away from climate change, the Gates Foundation made record investments in fossil fuel companies in 2024, despite its 2019 pledge to divest. No one should ever listen to Gates about climate change again.

Just 20 days left to pre-order SHOESHINE BOY & CIGARETTE GIRL (after that, they’re just orders). So I’m starting this 🧵 of what early readers have said so you know what to expect. Pre-order links here: www.starsandsabers.com/books/shoesh... Today’s blurb:

Award Eligibility Post I believe I only have one Rhysling eligible piece this year which may or may not be cathartic depending on your investments in or relationship to the state of Florida (it may look funny on mobile but the space is optimized on desktop) www.radonjournal.com/issue-10/men...

The product of our Google searches of 'ocean heat content' is: luxurylaunches.com/transport/se...

hi poets, I'm taking poetry submissions over at Strange Horizons this month strangehorizons.com/submit/poetry-submission-guidelines

Need something to read over the weekend? Here’s my fully updated 2025 award eligibility post. Whether or not you’re reading for awards, there’s plenty of reading here to keep you busy. www.pacornell.com/2025-awards-...

"Miriam was fourteen when the food in her mouth turned to ash." Utterly heartbreaking, beautifully written. @slashnburnett.bsky.social in @mythaxis.bsky.social

Six years ago, it seemed like the Midwest was well on its way to building the first offshore wind farm in the Great Lakes. Then the project withered on the vine — and a civil lawsuit puts the blame on utility FirstEnergy’s bribery scheme in Ohio ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/01/08/f...

Senators from states where Trump’s Gestapo have killed people should publicly commit to rejecting unanimous consent in the senate until the House holds public hearings on what happened and the people responsible resign.

7 Democrats just voted today to confirm a Trump judicial nominee who refused to say what happened on January 6 or answer who won the 2020 election: Durbin Hassan Kaine King Klobuchar Shaheen Welch

Best TikTok thing going is the two dudes trying food from every country without leaving NYC. If you haven’t seen them yet, it’s incredible. My favorite so far is last week’s. Legit got me emotional.

SCOOP: 404 Media has obtained material that explains how Tangles and Webloc, two surveillance systems ICE recently purchased, work. One can track phones without a warrant and follow their owners home or to their employer.

wow really helpful, thank you new york times

Ways to build community & combat fascism no matter where you are.

Friends, thank you for stepping up! Over $40,000 worth of dash cams have been ordered so far for ICE observers in the Twin Cities! Early orders are trickling in, but we’re getting them packed and deployed ASAFP - several were installed yesterday, these are ready, and 300+ are on the way!

After a white county in South Carolina rejected a data center, developers have sets their sights on a Black community for a proposed data center complex the size of 1,200 football fields

This is the way. Lawless, faceless Gestapo are shooting Americans in the streets. Somebody needs to start treating this like the emergency it is.

We’re setting up a national call to discuss the killing and lawlessness by ICE in Minneapolis. We’ll be joined by leaders who will provide concrete next steps for a national response. We hope you can join us: www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Democrats need to understand that they can just say “It’s insane to threaten Greenland” and “I don’t think ICE should murder Americans in the street” and you don’t need to pretend to link it to the affordability crisis. Say bad things are bad.

100%!! A must-read editorial by ace climate journalist @emorwee.bsky.social. @mason4c.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social @gchalliance.bsky.social @fossilfueltreaty.bsky.social @who.int @climate4health.bsky.social @climatemuseum.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org

"Renee was one of the kindest people I’ve ever known,” her mother said. “She was extremely compassionate. She’s taken care of people all her life. She was loving, forgiving and affectionate. She was an amazing human being.” www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

"We are still educating the young as if there were no planetary emergency... the crisis we face is first and foremost a crisis of mind, perception, & values, hence, a challenge to those institutions presuming to shape minds, perceptions, & values. It is an educational challenge"- David Orr, 1992

"... to reflect the current shitstorm now that plastic everywhere is basically disappearing? -Kinoko" Smart use of form and humor in this searing flash! @slashnburnett.bsky.social in @flashfictiononline.bsky.social

Heat pumps *and* balcony solar. This is the way to start the new year! thank you @scottwiener.bsky.social Senator Wiener!

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

Is 2026 the last time we'll see healthy #coral globally? theconversation.com/will-2026-be...