The Original Sin of politics was the invention of the passive voice, when Adam and Eve ate of the Tree of Vague Unaccountability. Wild how all those violent ICE agents just … got hired … and deployed … somehow. Who can possibly say how? It’s all a mystery.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Susan Collins: "I think what happened is far too many ICE officers were hired and deployed without adequate vetting and training"

Republican Rep. Andy Harris incorrectly told a reporter they were breaking the law as the reporter and others recorded an exchange with him last night. Harris had just wrapped up a debate with Democratic challenger Dan Schwartz.

THE FLESH KING, the second Ford and Neuland book (and sequel to THE PALE HOUSE DEVIL), is out in paperback today!

Good answer

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

1. She's president's human binky & controls his social media 2. Foreign govts use her a conduit for Trump 3. She's lied about much of her background 4. She wouldn't or couldn't get security clearance (see 3) 5. She has an obsession w/ Trump giving their relationship a vaguely inappropriate dynamic

NUMBER 1 TOP NEW RELEASE IN HISPANIC LITERATURE NEW RELEASE - AMAZON NUMBER 3 HORROR COLLECTIONS & ANTHOLOGIES - NEW RELEASE AMAZON

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.

‘ed sheeran nuked from orbit by ms rachel,’ i mutter to myself, descending deeper into impenetrable madness

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · last mo.

Ms. Rachel: "Ed Sheeran had an opportunity…Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows." "If more than 20,000 white children were killed…everyone would be shouting…Treating some children's lives as less worthy of outrage is racist. Silence during a genocide is not neutral."

Publishers need to stop with this construction: House of Leaves meets Jumanji All the Sinners Bleed meets Erasure John Wick meets Ghost in the Shell Shrek meets The Princess Bride Fourth Wing meets Formula One Ninth House meets Legendborn The Invisible Man meets Love Is Blind...

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Ursula K. Le Guin — 2026 Prize for Fiction

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EXCLUSIVE: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Investigation by @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

The ebook of The Wrong Dead Guy is just $2.99. It's like if Carl Hiaasen wrote a sort of fantasy/SF weird heist thing...There might even be a monster. I'm not sure. It's hard to remember. But it's just $2.99. You read it and tell me.

This is still happening! The Wrong Dead Guy is just $1.99. It's like if Carl Hiaasen wrote a sort of fantasy/SF weird heist thing...There might even be a monster. I'm not sure. It's hard to remember. But it's just $1.99. You read it and tell me.

Voting is still ongoing for the Ignyte Awards, and I'm on the ballot for the first time, with my novelette "We Begin Where Infinity Ends" alongside other brilliant writers and finalists. Do read, recommend and vote for your favorite works✨💫

The Ignyte Awards@theignyteawards.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Congratulations finalists! Public voting is now open thru August 16: ignyteawards.fiyahlitmag.com/vote/ We encourage you to read or otherwise engage with the nominated works/folks between now and then. Thanks for tuning in!

This photo should be on the front page of every single newspaper in America today.

Happy for Hungary, the EU and the world

Hey so my third book came out this week, but I'm recovering from major hand surgery (bone extraction) so my ability to promotion online is severely hindered. If you all can help spread the word about my feral space opera trilogy, I'll love you forever.

OUT NOW!

Aliette de Bodard@aliettedebodard.com · 8mo ago

New US edition of Dominion of the Fallen! Deliciously gothic atmosphere & queer characters from around the world in a ruined Paris Out March 10 2026 awfulagent.com/ebooks/the-h... Preorder (or buy UK edition) & get EXCLUSIVE ebook www.aliettedebodard.com/2026/01/23/d... Covers @fringe-element.net

TV Review: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (opening episodes) Gen Z’s Star Trek hits the sweet spot for youthful adventure mixed with Gen X cynicism @annmichelleharris.bsky.social has our review at the NOAF blog www.nerds-feather.com/2026/01/tv-r...

TV Review: Star Trek: Starfleet Academy (opening episodes)

Gen Z’s Star Trek hits the sweet spot for youthful adventure mixed with Gen X cynicism Star Trek has grown significantly from the origin...

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My yearly TV roundup is up at @lawgunsmoney.bsky.social, in which I talk about how the best shows of the year were the one the ones that thought about how to use the television medium to its fullest effect. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/best...

Best TV of 2025 - Lawyers, Guns & Money

Every year for the better part of a decade, I write one of these TV roundup posts, and every year for most of that time, I have opened with some variation on the same observation: talking about TV in ...

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Amazon owns Goodreads, so yes your choice in reading tracker is political. Choose Pagebound instead, we’re 🌱 indie & self-funded 🧃 anti-AI & ad-free 🧙‍♀️ built by 2 women #booksky

Como todo lo que llevo leído de este autor, me ha gustado mucho. Muy bien escrito, y es muy difícil no enamorarse de la historia del ciego Marruecos. #LibrosKHz

Pleasure deep. I share it with you in my post on Porgy and Bess: aqueductpress.blogspot.com/2025/12/the-... Where and When the Livin Is Easy....

The Pleasures of Reading, Viewing, and Listening in 2025, pt.8: Nisi Shawl

Where and When the Livin Is Easy by Nisi Shawl  There is a magic land, a land found in a once-upon-a kind of time.   For me, a favor...

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Well lookie here! It's my best of/most notable/favorite young adult science fiction, fantasy, and horror books of 2025! reactormag.com/notable-youn...

Notable Young Adult Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror of 2025 - Reactor

Check out 30 of the best young adult titles of the year

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The worst person in the world and he won't SHUT UP

Still in a state of shock trying to process the tragic loss of one of the most gifted men in the entertainment industry & his wife when the Embarrassment-in-Chief disgraces common human decency with this repulsive, deranged statement. #NoWords 🤮

More than that, his crew threatened to open fire on the murderers. He rescued civilians, returned to base to refuel, flew back, and rescued more civilians. Then he denounced the crimes to his HQ. For all this he received death-threats throughout his life. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Th....

Hugh Thompson Jr. - Wikipedia

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Benitho Talerand@benithologie214.bsky.social · 10mo ago

This is Hugh Thompson Jr., the U.S. Army pilot who stopped the Mỹ Lai massacre by landing his helicopter between soldiers and civilians

So, I won a National Book Award.