Y'all! trade reviews are starting to come in and THE FIST OF MEMORY got a STARRED review in Publishers Weekly calling it an "expertly executed epic". As a writer its one thing to craft something you think is special and unique, another for others to agree. 🙏🏾⭐ www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-7564-1...
The direct line between what happened to Mamie Till Mobley after Emmett was killed and what’s happening to this woman now is becoming a circle. A dot, actually.
Mississippi Free Press@mississippifreepress.org · 12h agoChristine Wells Wonsley, the mother of Nolan Wells, has learned that the Mississippi Board of Nursing opened a professional misconduct investigation against her following an anonymous complaint, the family’s lawyer said. www.mississippifreepress.org/nolan-wells-...
This is a cute picture of Thomas, but what I want you to look at is the orange comforter. See? It's very orange. We THINK it's from JCPenney's originally, but we don't know for sure. Most importantly, it's old and well-loved, and dying. I need to find a new one, same comforter, to replace. Help?
#BookstoreRomanceDay 💛💛💛💛💛 🎫
Romancing Portland@romancingportland.bsky.social · 15h ago✨🔍 GOLDEN TICKET HUNT 🔎✨ Bookstore Romance Day is 8/15, and we're celebrating by hiding a GOLDEN TICKET in 4 Portland bookstores. Find one, and you'll win a Sunday ticket to 💜 Romancing Portland! 💘 Grand Gesture Books 💘 Literary Arts Bookstore 💘 Always Here Books 💘 Parallel Worlds Bookshop
We can have SO MANY screaming arguments about shit WotC is or is not doing. But not this. Please, leave this alone. I am tired of this one.
I'm excited to post my @laworldcon.bsky.social schedule, which not only features a reading and several amazing panels but also a Worldcon first: a live D&D actual play with @amalelmohtar.com, @benjaminrosenbaum.com, @cxorlando.bsky.social, @seananmcguire.bsky.social, and Xu Mason, DM'ed by me!
Wednesday reminder! 👇👇👇
High Priestess, Low Patience@cheriepriest.com · 3d agoHeads up folks! My Seattle mystery about a psychic travel agent slash karaoke queen is a special price for August! For just $1.99 you can grab the ebook from all the usual suspects - just click here and check the right-hand column here for links: 👇 www.simonandschuster.com/books/Grave-...
@sarahbethdurst.bsky.social Thank you for the gift that is The Sea of Charms. Also, you win the @7nina.bsky.social award for "Best Depiction of an Orange Cat".
It’s important to understand that when 1.2 million Americans are dying from a disease, any government action is excessive and tyrannical, but if a dozen trans women want to play soccer no government action can go far enough
“a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet”
Tom Joscelyn@tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 2d ago“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
THREE exciting books out today, proud of all of them! UNCANNY X-MEN #33, the start of the WILD RIDE arc! Gambit needs an EXORCIST! Art by Luciano Vecchio! SHE-SPAWN #3: Incredible art, Jessica continues her American journey! BIRDS OF PREY OMNIBUS #2, STUNNING new Nicola Scott cover! Get them!
Tech oligarchs are saying people who make six figures are the only ones who can vote. The president is trying to restrict anyone from getting an art or education degree. But do continue to farm out your books and shows to AI and robots. I'm sure Orwell's 1984 would have had the same ending.
RFKJr claims Lyme disease was created by scientists,which is the closest he’s come to admitting that science exists. Meanwhile, Ötzi the Iceman, who died more than 5.3K years ago, had Lyme disease. Apparently prehistoric humans are part of the conspiracy. Get me off this timeline
It it is indeed not a real Darwin quote, and I’d remove the original repost if possible.
Pierre Polyester@canadian-critic.bsky.social · 4d agoAnyone with any amount of intelligence knows this is not a real Darwin quote. But the logic behind it seems to be playing out so therefore this meme lays somewhere between satire and reality. There is now a clear and present divide once again.
Hey, folks. There's a @gofundme.com set up for artist Andy Fish, who is going through a very tough fight with two forms of cancer. He and his wife, cartoonist Veronica Fish (my Blackwood series cohorts) could use some help during this very tough time. I'm donating, hope you can. tinyurl.com/4wa86a6c
Donate to Help Andy Fish’s Fight Against Two Cancers, organized by Gina Gabianelli
Help Andy’s Fight Against Two Cancers Meet my cousin Andy Fish, father … Gina Gabianelli needs your support for Help Andy Fish’s Fight Against Two Cancers
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Nearly 600 #newbooks are being released this week. Highlights ✨ Dolly All the Time by #AnnabelMonaghan His Game His Rules by #JAHuss Velveteen vs. The Consequences of Her Actions by @seananmcguire.bsky.social Ghalen by #WalterMosley The Glass Unicorn: Part 10 by @yasminegalenorn.bsky.social
It's that time again for me to beg you to vote, for free, once daily, to send my mother and her 65 pound stinky problem child to a parade. The enemy encroaches. cont.st/EVKPgo_DXjIO...
your regular reminder that the national shoplifting crisis was a manufactured moral panic largely engineered by corporations in order to cover up their own mismanagement — and that wage theft is the largest category of theft in the U.S.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoFerguson: "Just this weekend, I was shopping at a big home improvement store to buy a drill. I had to hit a call button and wait 15 minutes for an associate to unlock a padlock. Social trust has evaporated and people are taking advantage of it, and the same is true of our federal benefit programs."
yeah this is just lying like, this isn’t fudging, “we’ve only used this projection that’s favorable to us” type statistics manipulation like we’re used to, this is just flat out up is down black is white lying in the service of pushing nazi policy and it should be treated as such
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2mo agoStephen Miller: "Based on what I've heard, we could balance the federal budget if the only dollars that went out of the treasury went to individuals who were properly, lawfully, correctly eligible to receive them"
THIS FUCKER DID *WHAT??* THAT IS A WAR GRAVE!
Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · 3mo ago“With few exceptions, snorkeling and diving are off-limits around the USS Arizona.”
1. Major media outlets are credulously reporting that cost of the Iran War was $29 billion so far, citing the Pentagon. This number is absurdly low. It is based on flawed accounting and completely excluding major categories of costs. But it still made all the headlines.
UPDATE: Media parrots Pentagon’s low-ball cost estimate for Iran War
This week, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Acting Undersecretary Jules Hurst, the Pentagon’s Chief Financial Officer, answered questions about the cost of the Iran War while testifying before House…
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The freedom to read is not partisan. It is American. Tell Congress to oppose the Federal Book Ban Bill. Via @everylibrary.bsky.social #read #reading #library #libraries action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661
PETITION: Don't Let the Federal Government Regulate Your Reading
Not one country's freedom and liberty has ever been increased by banning books.
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There is something so insidious about the "only take them as long as you need them" language that they always frame as a very compassionate moderate position. My brain has quirky chemistry. When I go off my meds, it gets bleak. Just like when I take off my glasses, I can't see as well.
Mitchell Epner@mitchellepner.bsky.social · 3mo agoI take Lexapro. I have taken Lexapro for over two decades. The times that I have discontinued taking Lexapro have ended very badly for me. RFKJ is trying to kill millions of Americans like me. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...
SCOOP: The F.D.A. blocked the release of studies finding that Covid and shingles vaccines were safe. In the case of Covid, FDA staff had to withdraw studies heading toward publication: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/u...
F.D.A. Blocked Publication of Research Finding Covid and Shingles Vaccines Were Safe
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The CDC quietly stopped helping states test for infectious diseases like rabies. RFK Jr. is gutting critical public health services and making our country less safe. I'm calling on him to answer for his dangerous choices.
I have seen people I cared for deeply destroy friendships, burn down careers, and wreck their own lives, all because some asshole with enough money to weather almost any disaster told them they'd be "dependent" if they didn't.
