As the crow flies, we live a mile or two from the Portland ICE facility. Which means all night long, we hear a helicopter circling and circling.

Should I be insulted that two of my old books aren't on the Anthropic pirated list - including the one that was the best reviewed?

Nothing the Trump admin says reflects reality.

Every day is an impossible choice between muting America or bearing witness.

My Edgar Award winner, Girl Forgotten, is a Kindle deal this month!

Writing the last 5,000 words of this book, and it feels like a hot mess. But this will be my 32nd published book and now I know it always feels like that.

Reading Trump's words verbatim in @heathercoxrichardson.substack.com.web.brid.gy is scary. For this, they spent millions of dollars and put people at risk?

It's going to cost FOUR MILLION to have National Guard in Oregon. Today, the reporters outnumbered the protestors. There were only five during the day.

Five days ago, an ICE agent shoved a woman asking questions about the detention of her husband. Today they attacked two journalists. We cannot accept or normalize what has now become routine violence at 26 Federal Plaza. It has no place in our city.

Accidentally spelled democracy "democrazy" and that's what it feels like right now.

My latest newsletter - with a big reveal!

Ugh! My Facebook feed is being overrun by heartwarming stories that are about sacrifice/standing up to bullies/etc. that are all AI generated fake slop! Fake photo included. Some of them being shared by folks younger than me.

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Please stop 2025. I would like to exit the ride and find something that doesn't leave me screaming and my stomach lurching.

Thank you to the incredible @aijiang.bsky.social for this stunning blurb! 🥰😭🖤🫶 DEMON SONG comes out TOMORROW in hardcover, ebook, and audio, wherever books are sold!! 😱😱😱 @titanbooks.bsky.social 🖤

Theft is theft! Thank you @andibartz.bsky.social Gift article from The New York Times.

“Out of the three mass shootings TODAY” is one of the most tragic uniquely-American sentences out there. Most developed countries average zero per year. We have single days where you have to ask “which” when someone talks about a mass shooting.

A sentient boomer chain email is president www.kgw.com/article/news...

Swung by Twisted Spine Books today to check out Brooklyns first Horror bookstore. Meet the owners, emptied my wallet, and chatted about my upcoming event with @claymcleod.bsky.social on Tuesday September 30th at 7pm. Come celebrate the release of Broken Dolls with us!

I like this message from Mayor Wilson. Keep calling out the truth (this is a distraction) and make clear the contrast between playing w his toy soldiers vs actually doing things that improve our lives.

Shorter JD Vance: You are not allowed to criticize ICE. Goes along with shorter Pete Hegseth: You are not allowed to criticize the military's action at Wounded Knee. And shorter Donald Trump: You are not allowed to criticize me. It's full-on authoritarianism, all the way down.

This final post from Kaleb Horton is very beautiful and hits hard. This is just so sad. RIP.

Nightmare weekend in Portland hellscape included block party, Please Don’t Destroy, and farmers market. Oh the humanity!!

I still have the T-shirt from the last time. I joined the protests after seeing a video of a vet getting pepper-sprayed in the face and his arm broken. The idea that Portland is "War ravaged" is a joke. He is trying to provoke a response. I'm old enough to remember Kent State.

He's trying to create chaos. Last time, the Feds threw people into black vans and assaulted protesters.

When I contacted one of the Dick Hannah dealerships about advertising on a Sinclair station, I got a prompt and respectful response. If anyone in the Portland area is looking for a car, I highly recommend them.

What an enormous amount of suffering for a lot of people this case and its handling have caused. www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/sus...

Was coached in BJJ and then went to the gym and head a personal trainer coaching a client. A good coach is much like a parent - patient, able to focus on the big picture or the nuances as needed, praises people at the level of their ability.

Real post on another network:

Say hello to Broken Dolls! If you’re in NYC on Tuesday come to Twisted Spine where me and Clay McLeod Chapman will be talking about the book and you can meet some of the dolls!

KATU watchers - here's a useful list of news advertisers you can contact about KATU/Sinclair not carrying Jimmy Kimmel. www.bojack2.com/2025/09/acti...

So embarrassing.

FRIDAY NIGHT! SACRAMENTO! 6:30! BLOODSTONE BOOKS! See ya there!

Unsubscribed from Disney last week, and ever since they've been spamming with ads for things like Lion King on stage.

There goes that one twist. wapo.st/42IZigF

I wrote 1767 words on the plane!!

So ashamed of what is happening. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o...

So all I did was post a sceenshot of how I cancelled Disney+ with no commentary and the trolls came out of the woodwork.

Twitter, so full of lies it bends reality.

Because we live in America.

After I wrote The Girl I Used to Be, with a main character named Ariel Benson, I got contacted by - Ariel Benson! We became email penpals and when she was up in Portland, we got together. She now has her own book out called Up and Down India and Back Again.

Dear American citizens, whatever you wish more German citizens would have done in 1933, do that now.

🚨 CDC Website Scrubbing Alert We do not have a complete list but can report that CDC plans to delete or otherwise takedown many CDC pages about LGBTQ+ health, health equity, disabilities, hepatitis, HIV and more.

Copy editor thinks my character would use the word "whomever" in her thoughts. Stet.

A brief story about this photo, which I will tell in this thread -- so while at the park taking bird shots, an old white guy came up to me and started talking, which is always a dubious proposition because, well, old white guy. But he wanted to talk birds and photography -- which, hey, okay.

The metaphors are so strained, I wonder if it was written by AI.

Is it funny? Is it scary?

And under reasons, I checked other and added, "Because you guys are craven cowards about Jimmy Kimmel."

It’s not a chilling effect. It would only be chilling if you had something horrid to say, and you don’t, do you? Certainly nothing critical of the regime, and absolutely no paraphrasing, not of anyone, not at this time!