This evening is the FINAL stop on @sentencebender.bsky.social 's and my Apprehension/Red Star Hustle book tour. It's been a whirlwind of fun! Meet Sam in-person at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social in San Diego, CA, and I'll be joining virtually. maryrobinettekowal.com/events/book-...

We should create a dark money slush fund to help all the totally real New Yorkers and Californians who view themselves as political refugees now to move states. Call it a Super Pack.

Yes fucking smoked No on Prop 50. Bye bye to Darrell Issa 👋

There are 364 days until the 2026 elections where we pick 435 new Representatives and 33 new Senators to put a check on Trump’s power. There are 425 days until the next Congress is seated and Donald Trump takes on his final form: LAME DUCK.

😎😎😎😎 GOOD THINGS CAN STILL HAPPEN 😎😎😎😎

Donald Trump has spent the first ten months of his LAST term -Enriching himself and his friends -Attacking American cities -Destroying small businesses and jobs -Shitting on the American people He is more unpopular than ever, and he was completely rebuked tonight.

OH AND HEY-- ALSO one week from tonight I'll be at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social talking with the ever-wonderful @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social about writing and dinosaurs and GOD'S JUNK DRAWER. Stop by! Ask questions! Get books signed! Far away? Order books to get signed and sent to you!

Dick Cheney didn’t find WMDs in Iraq, but we did find WMDs in America tonight: WAY MORE DEMOCRATS.

Folks upset about Prop 50 potentially passing, causing Republicans to lose representation are so, so close to getting it. In ‘22, Republicans used their control of state legislatures to net 16 extra congressional seats, according to the Brennan Center.

It’s New Book Tuesday, which means booksellers everywhere will be stuck in an all-day workshop. They’ll be working as they shop all the amazing new titles coming out today

I will be voting YES on Prop 50 and writing in Zohran Mamdani, just in case it works like that.

People don’t appreciate how important dad jokes are. Without dad jokes, pop culture is just culture.

It’s either full moon and empty moon or new moon and old moon. I don’t mean to be waxing on about this but they need to gibbous some consistent nomoonnclature.

I accidentally searched for “childscare” and ended up hiring a French au perewolf. The kids actually loved him like a father but it didn’t work out. He started moonlighting and his personality really shifted.

Imagine being the first vampire to chomp into a blood orange. You’d have serious citrust issues after that.

Can you imagine if future-me went back in time, wrote my life’s story, published it, and then I stumbled across it in a bookstore? That would be an autobuyography for me.

Sure, the book has a Table of Contents, but does it have a Table of Discontents where the author lists all their beefs?

It’s very disturbing that the main argument from the loudest voices against Zohran Mamdani for mayor of NYC boils down to “Muslims are Anti-American” (categorically untrue)

The Supreme Court is moving closer to overturning gay marriage by considering a challenge from historic villain and serial divorcee Kim Davis. So if you and your partner are looking at the uncertain future of Obergefell and considering getting married sooner rather than later but don’t…

The KFC guy showing up behind home plate at the World Series is just another example of America’s colonelialist expansion into foreign countries.

Game time, Booksky. Change the whole vibe of a book by adding a word to a title. I’ll start: Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret Thatcher.

If I were a billionaire seeing so many people casually saying “Eat the rich,” the last thing I’d want is for my fellow billionaire to cut off food assistance to 1 in 8 people in the country.

The last time I met an Ancient Greek philosopher he put his hand on my face and said “I got your gnose!” and I couldn’t obviously know it at the time but it really epissteme off. You gotta watch out for that Socratease.

It’s a unique sense of panic when your 4-year old asks you, apropos of nothing, “What do you know about toilets?”

Get my mind out of the gutters? You mean the gutters that protect the very foundations of my edifice by sluicing away everything the heavens throw at me? The gutters that keep the world from seeping into every crack, bringing the cold and decay into the only domicile I can claim as my own in a cruel

AHA, so the truth is Trump is upgrading his bunker. That explains all the führered pace. A pretty helter-shelter job by the looks of it.

AND SPEAKING OF SIGNINGS... One week from *right now* I'm going to be at @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social with @ericheisserer.bsky.social talking about his fantastic new crime drama-procedural-reincarnation book, SIMULTANEOUS. I got to read it early, it's great, stop by and join us for a chat.

I consider myself incredibly lucky to to have the inimitable @jonathanmaberry.bsky.social not just as a mentor but a great friend, too. Catching up on a little light reading, thanks to @mystgalaxybooks.bsky.social, my fav #SanDiego bookstore. Thanks Kelly Ann(I think? 😱) for your help! #BookSky

Hey, can you help me out? This October, we’re donating 2% of our revenue to K-12 teachers and librarians to help them stick their libraries with new, diverse books. We’re providing $500+ in books to at least 6 educators in San Diego County. We need your help to find them.

I have really bad ADHD so I set a timer for every 7 minutes and when it goes off I ask myself “What have you accomplished in the time it took for them to rob the Louvre of priceless jewels?” Now I have really bad ADHD and no self esteem.

I wish the people who voted to return Trump to the White House could understand the symbolism of him immediately turning around and tearing down the White House.

Are you really searching for a mystery book if you don’t use the incognito mode of your browser?

Every few months we get news of how much better AI models are getting and how much harder it is to tell the AI from the reality. And every time I think of this short story by Borges, and it gives me hope that AI’s pursuit of perfecting realism will be its undoing. Let me explain.

The East Wing of the White House is historically where the First Lady and her staff work so at least they didn’t have to worry about bothering anyone when they started bulldozing it.

Dear Universe, We wanted you to tear down the white supremacy, not the White House. Please try again.

Somebody needs to talk to Santa Claus about data privacy. He really shouldn’t be accepting cookies everywhere he visits.

Who decided those 12 foot tall skeleton Halloweendecorations should be called “giant skellys” and not “Jumbones”? I’m so mad just thinking about this, which is how I know I need to go to sleep.

Inflation is so bad under Trump that even the protesters are inflated. Everyone laughing instead of being afraid is APR nightmare for them.

San Diego has been Mysterious Galaxy’s home for 32 years. But we’ve only lived here for 12 years. I’m so proud of my adopted city and to be part of this amazing community. Seeing so many people show up to protest the wannabe-king justifies my hope that this country has the capacity to become

Fox News: “With no violence at yesterday’s 2,600 protests nationwide, it’s clear that this was not the work of communist Antifa. This kind of camaraderie is the signature of one of the world’s worst terrorist organizations: Al Qindness.”

If you’ve bought Amish furniture, Quaker Oats, or something from basically any multi-level marketing company, you understand a fundamental axiom of American capitalism: Sects sells.

People got more mad at Obama for his desire to pontificate on certain subjects than they get at Trump for his desire to bombdeficate on his subjects.

I’m sure the Air Force loves it when Donald Trump makes AI videos of himself turning their billion dollar war planes into F-Shitsteens to dump on the American people.

We should have known he’d be a militaristic dictator when he published “The Artillery of the Deal.”

Me: “…Eventually, the bones and fetid bodies of so many animals kept everyone away from her tower, and she lived out her days in solitude.” Her: “Perhaps you’re the one in the tower? Perhaps your jokes are a way of distancing yourself from others and protecting yourself…

Me: Only 21 likes on that post? Ah, who cares. I’m doing it for the love of the game, not the fame. Also me: The entire marketing strategy for my independent bookstore depends on the success of my dad jokes on here. The world: *lights itself on 🔥*

If you’re attending the No Kings protests today, remember you’re not just fighting against something terrible. Because struggle without hope is nihilism. So I hope you’re out there fighting because you also believe a better world is possible.

Be careful when you use the oldest trick in the books, you could really gilgamesh around with someone’s head. Enkidu not, it’s very risky.

If I had to guess, I’d say Ted Cruz is voicing the Cowardly Lyin’.

The Trump Administration says their excessive use of force is entirely justified because Karoline Leavitt played The Circle Game at today’s press briefing and America looked.