So proud of myself. Took a chance and did jiujitsu in Houston even with bad knees and one bad shoulder. Great coach and students.

Talk about an ending! Jaw meet floor.

I know it's AI, but it's so beguiling....

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Seeing your book reviewed in print still rules

Lyft driver this morning is an amputee who summited Everest. You don't get to type that every day!

Southern friends - do you still have frozen Fordhook (not baby) lima beans in your grocery stores? I miss them! I was the world's pickiest eater as a kid, but even then I loved Fordhooks. I haven't seem them in Portland for years and years.

Fox said five-year-old film was current and even showed other places and labelled them Portland. (But all us Portlanders already knew they were lying.) www.propublica.org/article/port...

NEW: Firm Tied to Kristi Noem Secretly Got Money From $220 Million DHS Ad Contracts www.propublica.org/article/kris... w @josh-kaplan.bsky.social @amierjeski.bsky.social

This is disgusting. "Raskin’s letter said Maxwell has received customized meals personally delivered to her cell, after-hours time in a private exercise area and access to a service puppy." www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/d...

Reading about a scandalous old murder case. "When reporters confronted her with allegations of adultery, incest, and murder, she replied, 'Well, nobody's perfect.'"

Packing for Houston school visits next week. I'm looking forward to my second visit EVER to an Aldis to get groceries. And now I know to pack a quarter!

He might as well send troops to Bezos’ house and Amazon HQ to fix the problem of dying malls. www.thedailybeast.com/president-do...

Remembering my dad, a Marine in WWII, on this Veteran's Day. Young enough that I think his mustache was augmented with eyebrow pencil.

#GVerse #Update - via @calltoactivism.bsky.social "Just wanted to point out that Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff is quite possibly the most vulnerable Senator in America right now and tonight, he voted no on this deal. This is what courage looks like."

Music to my ears. Being booed by 20,000+ people! Good job DC!

Sarah Connor: Why won’t you just die? T-1000: Wow, what a great question! By asking that question you‘ve shown that you’re interested in life and death, and that you’re more philosophical than most. Let’s unpack that…

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

Hey, Turbotax, do you know something I don't know?

The richest man on the planet starved 600K people to death simple because he could. No other reason.

This makes my day! Stay Dead was super interesting to research. I talked to a pilot who flew private jets and read a whole bunch about assassins.

Love it when BookBub recommends books I recommended!

This is a nightmare, honestly. A growing unchecked army of violent bigoted brownshirts bragging about hurting people. And this is just the stuff we see, that we know. There's certainly much worse waiting to be learned.

Ooh lucky library!

Author, screenwriter Edward/Savio and I talk for way too long about writing and whatnot. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ZBu... Also available on Spotify and Apple podcasts. Search Edward Savio.

Cannot wait!

The IRS is reportedly not offering its Direct File program next year. Here’s a look back at how TurboTax owner Intuit spent two decades fighting to prevent Americans from filing their taxes online for free: (Published 2019)

Learn more about the original Portland frog: www.kgw.com/article/news...

For others looking to follow this story: www.fox13now.com/news/local-n... The woman being arrested is Marta Leiva. Her attorney is Adam Crayk, and has shown that she does hold a valid permit, valid through 2029, pending an asylum trial. She is a single mother of 4. ICE must be held accountable.

So this seems very meta @chucktingle.bsky.social Lucky Day is a Multnomah County Library Lucky Day book.

I’m at that awkward age (66) where the question is not “What do I want to be when I grow up?” but “What do I want to be as I grow old?”

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 91st day out of the last 103. 12 days of work in 103 days. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

I see that CBS chose not to air this part. It probably explains much of what they did decide to air.

Because the huge Anthropic class action settlement limits eligibility to works registered w/ US Copyright Office, non-US writers are mostly locked out. But there's a similar proposed class action covering Canadian authors (click Documents link, then Amended Notice) www.cfmlawyers.ca/class-action...

I got recognized at the gym today as an author. Always a little weird to feel this stare from a person you don't recognize at all. Cool too!

I hate this administration.

Portland clearly on fire.

this is insane. www.kivitv.com/canyon-count...

One year I was doing school visits when the librarian got a call. Banned Books Week was the following week, and she had booked time in all the classrooms. She was told she could not discuss it or even mention it, as it would be "poking the bear."

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

I love Lynda Barry. Got to hang out with her once at Wordstock (now the Portland Book Festival). www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

I know all the other writers are getting AI-generated scam emails about book clubs, but this lady is the real deal! I can tell just by looking at the name of her website.

I just donated a few copies of @stephenking.bsky.social Misery to a prison. Books are lifelines. wapo.st/43Kp7gO

i thought i was going insane turns out i’m just paying attention

Me: I can probably spend about 10-15 minutes a day on PT. Physical therapist: That's all the time you'll have NOT doing PT.

Nice to see USA Today getting on the Coffin Moon bandwagon! Go, @keithrosson.bsky.social

Portland dance group offers free Latin dance lessons at ICE facility 💃🏽

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

For possibly the first time in writing 31 books, I know a word the copyeditor doesn't know! (At least not as a verb.)