K.T. Nguyen
@ktnguyenauthor.bsky.social
Author of Agatha and Anthony Award-winning psychological thriller You Know What You Did. Dogs, Dems, Mets.
My teenage son gets into violent fights at school. We're always at the principal's office. One of the girls he beat up was hospitalized. He gets $75/mo allowance. He wants $10 on top of this for brass knuckles. We agreed but stipulated he can only use one hand/fist to bully. Will this "rein" him in?
If only Hillary Clinton had the circumspection to construct a blanket fort around her home computer…
Pantone’s “color” of the year, described as a “refuge of visual cleanliness.”
Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security. Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952
Grocery prices HIGHER under Trump. (Reality is even worse than graphic given corporations are temporarily eating tariff costs).
70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.
Anthony Michael Kreis@anthonymkreis.bsky.social · 12mo agoMay I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.
Did you know that over 1.3M active duty service members and veterans rely on SNAP benefits to feed themselves and their families? Now you know.
I'm not sure you can get more marie antoinette than taking away food stamps before thanksgiving while you build a gold and marble dance hall so the other crooks can bring bribe you over a badly-cooked (argentinian) steak
CW: protester being struck in the head by a pepper ball Footage I took earlier of the moment Reverend David Black, a regular protester outside of the Broadview Detention Center, was shot in the head with a pepper ball by ICE agents on the roof of the facility.
I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.
The perfect encapsulation of Politico. "Of course the White House is lying, but it's a pretty savvy lie, so let's see how it plays?" It's all a fun little game with no stakes to them. It's like they're recapping episodes of Real Housewives.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last yr.This short passage from a Politico afternoon newsletter captures a huge amount of the advantage gained by lying at scale and the why the DC press corps remains wired for the GOP.
THIS is how news needs to be reported. On-the-ground witness accounts. (See link below) *Contrast NYT parroting administration talking points and constant left/right framing. www.rawstory.com/it-was-heart...
'It was heartbreaking': Naked zip-tied children dragged from homes in 'surreal' ICE raid
Just hours after President Donald Trump said U.S. soldiers should use America's cities as “training grounds,” federal law enforcement officials on Tuesday night descended upon an apartment complex in ...
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Abbreviated version of Anthony Award Best First Novel speech for YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DID. Visit your local library, sign up for a library card, join Friends of the Library. Read, write, speak while you still can. #booksky #authorsky
Got to meet one of my THIS MAMA IS LIT! podcast guests IRL! With @ktnguyenauthor.bsky.social at Poets & Writers in DC. Check out K.T.’s episode of TMIL at the link below, or wherever you get your podcasts! literarymama.substack.com/p/kt-nguyen-... #writingpodcast @literarymama.bsky.social
Here’s a story that’s becoming all too common: federal immigration agents using racial and ethnic profiling as a rationale for stopping, questioning and detaining U.S. citizens who they suspect are undocumented.
A U.S. Citizen Detained by ICE for Three Days Tells His Story
A conversation with George Retes, an Army veteran swept up in a California raid
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K.T. Nguyen just won the Anthony Award for Best First Novel at Bouchercon! To help celebrate, listen to her podcast episode on THIS MAMA IS LIT! (Link below or find TMIL wherever you get podcasts!) literarymama.substack.com/p/kt-nguyen-... @ktnguyenauthor.bsky.social @literarymama.bsky.social
Reviews incoming! Horror, thriller, mystery, and suspense selections from @ktnguyenauthor.bsky.social Andrew K Clark, Asha Greyling, and @blacktopkid.bsky.social for your next great read! Reviews at Goodreads www.goodreads.com/review/list/... #bookworm #bookrecs #writingcommunity #booksky
"It’s almost as if the truth has been staring us in the face all this time, but seventy-seven million Americans voted for Donald Trump anyway."
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein: A Quiz
1. Were Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein friends? A. I don’t know. B. If by “friends” you mean that the two men partied together at Mar-a-Lago, tha...
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NOIR AT THE BOOKSTOIRE is this Thursday! Today's featured guest author is @ktnguyenauthor.bsky.social.
ICYMI: @ktnguyenauthor.bsky.social, author of You Know What You Did, talks w @evalangston.bsky.social & @hollyrizzutopal.bsky.social about being the child of immigrants, OCD, and her time as a magazine editor.
K.T. Nguyen: Lived Experience as Fiction
Eva Langston and Holly Rizzuto Palker chat with K.T. Nguyen, author of You Know What You Did, about being the child of immigrants, OCD, and her time as a magazine editor.
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A lie gets half-way around the block, while the truth is putting its shoes on. But its shoes are on and I’m going to tell the truth.
Susan Rice on Pete Hegseth attacking DEI while betraying his own incompetence: "If you're a white, Christian, cisgender, macho MAGA man, you can be as dumb as a rock and be deemed qualified to serve as Secretary of Defense. That's apparently what we've learned from this episode."
Workers are not asking to get rich. They just want to afford three meals a day. In the richest country in the history of the world, no one should work for starvation wages. It is time to raise the disgraceful $7.25/hr federal minimum wage to a living wage of AT LEAST $17/hr.
If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.
