This has been the autocrat’s playbook for a decade or two: have friendly oligarchs buy up independent media and then they impose government-friendly editorial policies so the autocrat doesn’t have to get their hand directly dirty killing the free press.

Guy who is paid an insane sum to pretend AI chatbots are the future purports AI chatbots are the future despite literally no one wanting them in anything for any reason.

The world right now:

Do not steal books, I beg. Borrow from a library. Libraries lend e-books!

More news companies doing this nonsense. Have a look at the first two paragraphs of ProPublica’s mission statement. How is a genAI app going to do *investigative journalism* when it can only access what is already available on the web? When it can’t be relied upon to check sources? It’s ridiculous.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

Just like they used to say when Biden was president!

As a grant writer for environmental causes, I’ve seen first-hand how funding for the environment often takes a backseat to medical research and human services. This article helps demonstrate why this is a problem; the environment is a HUGE influence on public health and quality of life.

"What we're witnessing is not reform. It's the hollowing out of an institution Americans rely on in every emergency. The actions will leave the country less prepared for the next foodborne illness cluster, maternal mortality crisis, or emerging pandemic." time.com/7338714/dr-d...

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

(Repost with screenshot) The Subtle Art of Folding Space got a starred review from Library Journal! "Chu finds a delightful and poignant intersection between the multiverse, family dysfunction, and dim sum in his debut novel."

ICYMI: new covers for Dominion of the Fallen in the US! New editions with introductions by @aptshadow.bsky.social and @kateelliottsff.bsky.social, plus bonus short stories Preorder now and save your receipt, there will be a preorder bonus.

SCOOP from me + @makenakelly.bsky.social: despite recent reports, DOGE isn’t dead—it’s actually everywhere. @wired.com www.wired.com/story/what-i...

It's funny I don't remember this being the take during the Biden presidency

The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans. Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.

Left: FDR campaign speech, October 1936 Right: 1936 electoral map

I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

In a normal world this would be a scandal.

The EPA is starting to allow the use of pesticides containing PFAS on food. The move is part of an effort to roll back the regulation of what are called "forever chemicals" because they don't break down easily in the environment.

This is the technological equivalent of not being able to get your house insured in Florida, and for similar reasons. share.google/SOpWK172vQx5...

Things are going great. The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika as a hate symbol. The policy similarly downgrades the classification of nooses and the Confederate flag. Instead, the Coast Guard will classify the Nazi-era insignia as “potentially divisive” wapo.st/3Mbd9a6

Did you read my post from last week about how contract woes caused me to withdraw an accepted story from F&SF, ending my 54-year quest to be published in that magazine? But wait (as the saying goes) — there's more! Scroll down at the link for an update. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗

Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.

America's political elite has decided that climate change is no longer that important or worth talking about, but rest assured, it's still happening, it's extremely bad, and yes, it is going to affect you here in America.

Such a good book!

And the winner is Masquerade by O.O. Sangoyomi, accepted on her behalf

#BREAKING U.S. District Judge Sara Ellis in Chicago is entering a preliminary injunction governing the use of force against protesters and journalists.

Glen Cook returns to his pioneering grimdark fantasy series with Lies Weeping. We recently had the pleasure of chatting with Cook about his latest novel and his journey as one of the pioneering authors of grimdark fantasy. www.grimdarkmagazine.com/interview-wi...

The grandfather of grimdark brings a brand-new book in the Chronicles of the Black Company. We're delighted to share an excerpt from Lies Weeping by Glen Cook!! reactormag.com/excerpts-lie...

Did everyone know Glen Cook is starting a whole new Black Company series taking place after Glittering Plain *next week*???

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

Trump Told CBS What to Cut From 60 Minutes Interview—And They Listened newrepublic.com/post/202618/...

Are they in a mass grave?

Donald Trump’s father destroyed Steeplechase Park, the iconic amusement palace of Coney Island. Before demolition, he hosted a party for his rich fuck friends where bikini clad waitresses gave them bricks to throw through Steeplechase’s famous stained glass windows

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

👉TOMORROW at the never-need-a-reason-to-visit Trident Booksellers & Cafe!

Today we're reviewing THE LOST RELIQUARY, the tale of an irreverent divine knight on a quest to end divinity that had us hooked from start to finish. Full review! Thanks to @sagapressbooks.bsky.social for the ARC!

You cannot be fucking serious

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

Pritzker: "In any other country, if federal agents fired upon journalists & protesters when unprovoked what would we call it? If officials marched down streets harassing civilians & demanding their papers, what would we say? I don't think we'd have trouble calling it what it is: authoritarianism"

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...