Richard Swan is live with an AMA over in Reddit's version of Swanstantinople! Head on over there for a chin wag about THE SCOUR and the other, far less important books he's releasing in the coming 12 months: www.reddit.com/r/RichardSwa...

hi my book comes out tomorrow 😭

"The pace of oppression outstrips our ability to understand it, and that is the real trick of the imperial thought machine. It's easier to hide behind forty atrocities than a single incident."

How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS: In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

A new poll from Data for Progress found that “voters of all parties” are open to leftist policies, and that a majority of Democratic voters polled preferred democratic socialism to capitalism “when written definitions of each are read aloud to them.” Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/gen-z-...

"Every divine execution begins pretty much the same: with me, bored and sweaty, staring down at the worn patch that sits before the altar of Tempestra-Innara..." We're excited to share an excerpt from @lyndsayely.bsky.social's The Lost Reliquary! reactormag.com/excerpts-the...

Just over one month until THE LOST RELIQUARY comes out! 😱 But you can read an excerpt *right now* over at @reactormag (Ps. Thanks, Reactor!)

Well, that’ll solve the problem

good morning, if you live in Georgia I highly recommend double checking your voter registration today!! mvp.sos.ga.gov/s/ (they sent out a bunch notices over the summer & if you didn't login, it auto moved to you over to being inactive and you won't be able to vote in upcoming elections)

the Nazis attacked higher education as an enemy of the state, first Jewish and "leftist" professors were banned and then the curriculum restructured to only say what the Party wanted. German education was once envy of the world and it was destroyed In 5 years, college attendance in Germany fell 53%

I spoke with the NYT Magazine a while ago but have now heard that an editor said they can't quote me because I'm "too liberal" to be a trusted source. You know what's always the first example conservatives use to claim I'm "too liberal"? My work in the 1619 Project, organized by the NYT Magazine.

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

The Nazi extermination programs didn’t begin with Jews. It began in September 1939 with the involuntary euthanasia of people with disabilities and the mentally ill under the Aktion T4 program. That’s how they developed their techniques of mass extermination.

Remember that this was happening just as the right (and the useful idiots of the non-right) was swollen with performative celebrations of how Charlie Kirk was the hero of free speech

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

We are in the middle of a campaign in this state to turn Charlotte into Chicago in the general public’s mind. For the obvious reasons. I would just like to add that this Republican controlled general assembly still has no budget & likely won’t this year.

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

Nancy Mace acting on disinformation that the shooter was trans: goes off on tirade against "trannies" Nancy Mace when the actual shooter is a Christian white man: "he's just a poor lost boy, let us pray for him."

The policing of "tone" and "civility" and "incitement" is always completely one-sided.

Voter suppression is necessary for minority rule.

Yeah, @jaywillis.net nails it: "One possible reason the conservative justices usually don’t explain their pro-Trump shadow docket opinions: Their pro-Trump shadow docket opinions might read like this."

The biggest sporting event in the world is happening in our backyard. But most New Yorkers will be priced out of watching it live. Sign our petition calling on FIFA to put game over greed: zohranfornyc.com/gameovergreed

UPDATE: Of the indictment unsealed Monday, @hrc.org President Kelley Robinson says that "what we are seeing in Alabama is not new .... We saw it during Jim Crow, and now, it's being used to go after a civil rights lawyer fighting to protect the rights and lives of transgender Alabamans."

No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.

Among other things, there has been a total collapse of any pretense that government agencies aren't overtly partisan tools distinguishable from campaign accounts.

WAKE UP. THE PRESIDENT IS DECLARING HIS INTENTION TO USE US TROOPS AGAINST AMERICAN CITIES THAT VOTED AGAINST HIM. If you have access to elites, it’s your moral obligation to go scream at them, physically shake them around if you can, until they realize WHAT IS HAPPENING. Stop pretending!

If Biden had said even one-tenth of this, he’d have been impeached and removed as a dictator. What is wrong with our elites? They’re paralyzed by their fear of looking unsavvy or biased against MAGA. They’re going to keep pretending everything is normal until the bullet passes through their face

This hot mic Zuckerberg moment show their numbers are all lies, undercutting Trump’s entire economic agenda. In a rational world every media outlet would be leading with it.

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You’re not putting on armor. You’re building a dam, and every vaccinated person is a brick.

Thanks to RFK Jr.'s new restrictions, you may have a tougher time getting a COVID vaccine. Here are some options for getting your booster:

THE INFINITE STATE is 25% off preorders right now on B&N

Holy shit: Stateline spoke to nearly a dozen firefighters, agency staffers and contractors, who said that top officials assigned to the fire deployed the crews to a remote location under false pretenses so federal agents could check their immigration status. www.hcn.org/articles/fir...

Trump wants Cuomo. Cuomo is courting Trump. The same people who bankrolled Trump's campaign are bankrolling Cuomo. So, NYC, a vote for Cuomo is a vote for Trump. It's that simple.

It's not about what YOU want, Tom. A Dem congressman should focus on what Dem voters want: someone who actually listens to us, instead of Wall Street, Trump, or some center-right think tank. Mamdani's shown he can do that. If you can't, just join the damn fascists already.

A story about Meta’s community standards.

KASIE HUNT: Over the summer you said, “There’s no vaccine that’s safe and effective”. Do you still believe that? RFK JR: “I never said that.” KASIE HUNT: “Play the clip.” RFK JR (clip): “There’s no vaccine that is safe and effective.” (March 2024) ht: @cwebbonline.com

Lethbridge contact Rob Miashiro (NDP) [email protected] or Nathan Neudorf (UCP) [email protected]

The thing about a lot of these never Trump Republicans is that, unlike a lot of institutionalist Dems who think the fever will break and we can all return to comity or whatever, these guys saw the rot up close and know the only appropriate response is to tear them out of government root and branch.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

BREAKING: Social Security Administration chief data officer and whistle-blower Charles Borges has resigned after bombshell report that SSA put highly-sensitive data at risk. He sent out an email to colleagues moments ago. Here is the text of his email shared with me:

NEWS: CVS, the largest pharmacy chain in the country, is currently not offering Covid vaccines in 16 states and DC — even to people who meet the new FDA criteria — because the CDC hasn't signed off and isn't expected to do so (if it does so) for at least three weeks.

On my way to #DragonCon.

Re-upping this again, please spread far and wide:

Show hearings and trials are a key marker of a concentration-camp regime. Even in countries with existing detention crises, the conscious step to degrade due process for targeted groups further diminishes the larger legal system while shifting power to emerging quasi-legal and extralegal approaches.

Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:

If the attorneys start the settlement talks with "we already have direct contact information for 100,000 authors who have provided information about 250,000 books" they're telling Anthropic that they can obtain direct proof of potentially $37,500,000,000 in statutory damages at trial.

Hey, I have had some questions about who is allowed to file. Here is the class certification: