I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

HAPPENING NOW: DHS just expedited Liam Conejo Ramos' asylum hearing to this morning, meaning it's possible the five-year-old and his family could be deported as soon as today. Rep. Joaquin Castro: "The Trump administration is trying to take him away again." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

AOC: We are going to have to reckon, as a country, with this time. And I hope that that reckoning includes prosecution of people who are involved with the lawbreaking and human rights violations they are knowingly engaging in right now.

Never been later to a party, but I’m finally watching DS9. The backstories of most of the major characters are ludicrous. God I love Trek.

over the next 3 years, be ready for seeing a lot of coverage of Republican lawmakers, business leaders, university leaders who did absolutely nothing to stall Trump (on the contrary) — about how *actually* they were wringing their hands all along. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/05/u...

JUST IN: Democrats flip a red seat in the Texas Senate. Taylor Rehmet wins against Leigh Wambsganss, a conservative activist who helped lead right-wing efforts to take over TX school boards. With all early vote, and 95% of precincts, in, Dem up 57/43. Trump won this seat by 17% in Tarrant County.

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Absolutely incredible sequence from CNN. "Maduro was a paranoid lunatic always lying about the CIA trying to overthrow him. Anyways, now that the CIA has overthrown him..."

Alex Pretti and Renee Good are who was killed when observers were filming.

"They told us what they were going to do. They published it. They put it on a website. And when it happened, the press was surprised." Hoo boy, everyone should bookmark this @parkermolloy.com piece & make sure everyone involved in media reads it.

"These agents, and the president who sent them, are no one’s heroes, no one’s saviors—just men with guns who have to hide their faces to shoot a mom in the face, and a nurse in the back."

A big part of the story here is that women like Renee Good are braver and stronger than they could have ever imagined and that just doesn't fit with what MAGA men tell themselves about how gender works. It just does not compute.

Like I'm sorry that these events all read like a didactic feminist novel but that's not my fault

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

Even with everything else going on, this still sounds like a dark joke.

A new statement from the Minnesota Senate's Democratic Majority Leader, Erin Murphy. "ICE is a brutal invading force that acts without accountability or the most basic respect for human dignity or life."

@gavthorpe.bsky.social Thanks for reposting that! While I’ve got you here - I read “Acceptable Losses” back in 2002. My protagonist in my first published BL story is named Okhotnik (“hunter”) after your Jaeger (“hunter”). 🚀

Going to enjoy watching this crash and burn 71-29%

It's award season! I have two novelettes up for awards at @analogsf.bsky.social: "Strange Events at Fletcher and Front!" and "Isolate". Subscribers can vote for both by clicking this link, scrolling to Novelette, and finding them listed by title in the dropdowns. analogsf.com/analog-scien...

On a wholesome note, the lovely folks over at @goonhammer.com included me in a poll for Best Black Library Debutant. I am not going to win, but it's super cool to see myself included! If you've got a second, head over there and vote for me (or whoever you think deserves it!) bsky.app/profile/theb...

My "favorite" reviewer is the guy who buys every single Warhammer 40k book (verified purchases!) reads them, leaves them 1 star if they have any women in them, threatens that he will stop buying the books, then buys the next one

If people don't actually use the shitty AI we keep violently thrusting at them, the bubble will pop, and our wasteful investments into water guzzling, anti-human infrastructure will bankrupt us. Despite spouting shit about free markets/consumer first, we have decided you WILL use our slopgorithms.

Kinda funny that Trump thinks "asylum" means other countries send people from insane asylums, and a) this is real life, not a ham-handed Idiocracy-type satire, b) he has surely been corrected several times but is incapable of updating his priors, & c) most media politely agree not to mention it.

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The trolley problem isn't that people are tied to the tracks. They're not. They see the trolley coming and they're setting up lawn chairs and pouring drinks. They ignore the danger or rationalize it in favor of comfort or entertainment or power right up until the moment of impact.

The 2025 @goonhammer.com Book Awards! Who will win Best Black Library Debutant? Nominees are: > @andiewington.bsky.social > Avalon Irons > @tomrpike.bsky.social > @mikevincent-author.bsky.social > R S Wilt > Rusty Zimmerman VOTE NOW! www.goonhammer.com/the-2025-goo... #Warhammer

For non-German speakers: “Dear media, I can’t stand the headline "No agreement between the US and Denmark” any longer. If an armed man storms a bank, you don't run the headline: "Robber and cashier can't reach an agreement on money transfer." Stop framing imperial aggression as normal diplomacy.”

Despite years of "economic anxiety" discourse, the core drivers of Trump support have always been bigotry and misinformation. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

A guy just walked past me in downtown Pittsburgh on his phone saying: “Nobody has a monopoly on the pigeons. Nobody is allowed to feed all the pigeons by themselves. It’s not fair.”

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The assholes in charge hate and seek to punish anyone who displays any virtue

"It said the UK’s richest 1% produced more carbon pollution in eight days than the poorest 50% used in a year." Reducing inequality is a key part of addressing the climate crisis. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Posts may be a bit more sporadic from me today as my kids are home from school because my city is being brutalized by the federal government to the extent that it's unsafe for schools to be open

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“You speak Russian like you have your dick out.”

This is just going to always be my go-to response to this kind of thing anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

We live in an age where it's not enough that some people want to be incredibly destructive—they insist we appreciate them for it. Love them. Give them awards. This open letter is disingenuous, condescending, and gross.

Google Docs autosuggestions are really unhelpful when writing Warhammer. No, Google, I really did mean to write "betwixt".

Under my regime, the tech industry must have all new technologies approved by a citizen jury who assess 1) what problem the tech is attempting to address and 2) whether it actually addresses it

LOL wasnt AI supposed to be used to save money? It takes more time, more money, more enviro effects, more ethical problems, ... all for an ad that everyone hates?

Wikipedia getting rid of their mobile subdomain, m dot wikipedia dot org, has been so long coming I thought they would never do it. It’s the “renaming Nakama” of Wikipedia

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

this sentence alone, my goodness

If a politician: -Has never cared at all about whales before; -Is in the pocket of big oil, an industry which has a financial incentive to oppose alternative energy; and -is a well-documented liar, You don't have to take their "we have to stop offshore wind to save whales" claims seriously.

Wrote a really messed up scene. You guys are gonna like it. Sorry you’ll probably have to wait until 2027 to see it!

One last book purchase before Christmas.

Still immensely proud of my second short story's publication in Death and Duty. Physical copies are on sale now!

'the economy' is people burning through slabs of glass and silicon at an absurd rate even though they don't need or want to

This is why there’s moralizing in my fiction. I’m not sorry & it won’t change. It’s there because there are bad people, and when they read my stories, I don’t want it to be possible for them to imagine themselves as my story’s hero. ”I know writers who use subtext, and they’re all cowards.“