If weird is my thing, then the new book is plenty weird, all right.

It's a sign of the times that AI companies are deciding whether or not to allow the military to engage in mass surveillance of US citizens and this is treated as a legitimate debate of two reasonable positions.

Hey Chicago! If you live in or around Hyde Park area, don’t go to the new Barnes & Noble. Call & Response Books is AROUND THE BLOCK, Black owned by a husband and wife couple, and their selections are amazing. They host community events all the time and have a zine! Support them!

I know everyone is watching what’s happening in Iran, but Ice arrested another set of journalists for reporting on their black bagging of American citizens in Nashville last night.

Tomorrow marks the 61st anniversary of Bloody Sunday in Selma, Alabama. It also marks the 60th anniversary of the Supreme Court first upholding the Voting Rights Act. We have gotten so, so far away from a Court that cares about democracy. New from me at @brennancenter.org:

Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.

I remember being a kid and having a hard time with Sauron being unprepared for the Hobbits to destroy the Ring. Now the thing that seems so unrealistic about it was that the Dark Lord had such a solid grasp on what he was doing. (1/ )

Addendum: anyone telling you a man who got a Nazi tattoo over his Heart SHOULD be a senator, for whatever reason, may as well have a Nazi Tattoo over their heart.

I'm not kidding or being hyperbolic, but I genuinely do not understand what Noem was fired for. It sure as shit wasn't incompetence. It's hard to celebrate it when she's still walking free, and god knows they've probably replaced her with someone even fucking dumber/worse.

We at Salon Sinister have a strict policy of no fucking AI in our magazine EVER. If you send us that shit, we'll print it out, tape it to a brick, and throw it through your front window AS HARD AS WE CAN. Then while you're distracted, we'll kidnap your dog and give it a better life.

Kechi and I have now made it home to Evanston. If you wanna see what we’ve been up to, you can check it out here: tinyurl.com/mweb24jb

Getting angry about this Tom Holland guy, he’s not even from The Netherlands.

“Free Iran?” Who’s gonna free us???

Kechi @happyblackchick.bsky.social is doing her one-woman show (Su)Pervirgin at Caveat NYC today at 1. For those of you interested, HERE is a livestream link: tinyurl.com/t4jpem2p (1/ )

Yo, I just had breakfast from the Clinton Street Baking Co. in NYC. I picked it because it was closest to our parking spot, and gyatt-DAMB it was good! WAY better than the pedo presidency and the start of WWIII!

Closing in on a decision re: whether it's good that clouds of rich vampires get to destroy every industry they descend upon all the time forever

I sure am tired of this just awful news every single day. This new law in Kansas is fucking deplorable. I dunno, maybe we’d do better to persecute pedophile cannibals instead. Just a thought.

Counterpoint: No. ICE doesn’t need reform. Abolition and prosecution is the bare minimum.

Hey, NYC/East Coast people! @happyblackchick.bsky.social and I am coming to you NEXT WEEK for the Black Women in Comedy Laff Fest, and we're putting on a show! Get your tickets here! tinyurl.com/3828p486

Hey, there! Head over to Patreon and check out what Kechi and I got up to for Mardi Gras next year, and what we've got coming up! www.patreon.com/posts/make-i...

NO people are tearing up my heart with the Mardi Gras photos. PLEASE DO NOT STOP.

I don't even know where to begin addressing the death of Jesse Jackson. To say he was an icon is not enough. He was a fact of life, an undeniable force, like gravity, like light, electricity. One of my earliest memories was of a Black man running for president--because of him. Rest well, Reverend.

Hey all, check out my recent interview with the truly amazing Dominick Rabrun. We talk about his indie-released short story collection, Vévé-Punk: Birth of the Dream and a whole lot else! This guy is the real deal, and you need to learn about him sooner than later! www.patreon.com/posts/151010...

If I were Watson I would do this funny bit where I fart and pretend Sherlock Holmes did it and make him explain how he knows it was me like what he saw me eating and then id be like ewwww you’re getting all that from my farts you freak! fart detective over here and the inspector would high five me

I guess I do agree that AI is a big deal in the sense that it’s going to make everything worse for the foreseeable future against all reason, logic, and evidence of it largely being a scam staring all of us in the face

I haven’t seen this exact phrasing used, but we can agree that they’re rounding people up, right?

They gotta go.

Has Tom Hanks ever had to declare Hankruptcy?

The deal was: they demagogue about “illegal aliens,” they militarize the border, they deport people who get reported by their bosses… but they don’t actually go looking for undocumented workers at farms, in kitchens, or on job sites. It was there to discipline labor, not create a shortage of it.

This Yemeni coffee @happyblackchick.bsky.social bought me for Valentine’s Day is unconscionably delicious. Also, we’re in love and we’re married, and I can’t believe this is our life together!!

Over and over again, ICE has not told the truth about what they did in Minnesota, smearing people as "terrorists" or "assassins” and giving false accounts of what happened. This is just one unbelievable example of many. But this was under oath.

Just realized our waffle iron is in here with us somewhere….

Damn. I liked James Vanderbeek’s work. Especially once he started taking grown-up roles. Sorry to see him go.

this is the stuff that needs to be leading the major network news shows/papers/media/etc.

People talk to me so rudely and so often and I have absolutely reached my fucking limit with it. Truly just over it.

I repeat, Pam Bondi was appointed to help cover up the Epstein Files/crimes for the same pedophile criminal traitor who bribed her $25K when she was Florida AG in 2013 to help cover up his fake university fraud scheme. She’s not an AG, she’s a crook and should be in jail today.

i am increasingly bothered by terms like "showdown" or "face-off" or "clash" when used to describe corrupt and fascist power coming up against resistance because there's an implied symmetry that does not exist.

Can somebody tell me how THEEEEE FUCCCCK I’m supposed to bring myself to pay taxes this year?

Boy, the Dead Zone sure hits different these days….

This, from @jamellebouie.net is exactly right. And I think so many folks have refused to see or admit what Trump is because admitting implicates them, or their families, so denial is easier.

So let me get this straight. The U.S. Attorney’s Office had a draft statement announcing Jeffrey Epstein’s “suicide” dated August 9, 2019. He didn’t die until August 10. Totally normal. Nothing to see here. www.thedailybeast.com//epstein-fil...

Maybe I shoulda pretended to care about football a little because now I don’t have a Super Bowl party to go to so I ain’t got no garlic tamarind wings!

If there’s one thing I know, it’s that FANTASY never truly dies. It’s always a joy to work with them, and now is a GREAT time to click through and read work from a murderer’s row of talent—and ME!

I could go for an extra-dirty martini right about now. Extra olives to go with the extra olive juice.

You know what? Don't bother me until there's a Guyver vs. MacGuyver movie.

I wrote about some of my favorite people on their shared birthday today. Head over to my Patreon and check it out--and you know what? Sign up to support me while y're at it--or just hang out FOR FREE! tinyurl.com/3wn6z7p5

I know genAI is a great thing and completely successful and inevitable because my phone always knows when I mean "he'll yes" or "kith it to the curb." All of it works so well that it's a GREAT idea to destroy impoverished communities and drain the fucking oceans for it!