The UK edition of THE SLIP is coming from Hamish Hamilton @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social in January 2027. Excited to welcome some new fighters into the ring 🥊🥊🥊
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Debut novel THE SLIP out now from Simon & Schuster. Winner of 2025 Kirkus Prize for fiction. Paperback 6/23/26.
The UK edition of THE SLIP is coming from Hamish Hamilton @penguinbooksuk.bsky.social in January 2027. Excited to welcome some new fighters into the ring 🥊🥊🥊
Thrilled that PASSO FALSO (“False Step”), the Italian edition of the THE SLIP, is coming from NN Editore in October, translated by Michele Martino, cover photo by Jim Lommason 🥊🥊🥊
Thrilled that PASSO FALSO (“False Step”), the Italian edition of the THE SLIP, is coming from NN Editore in October, translated by Michele Martino, cover photo by Jim Lommason 🥊🥊🥊
I feel like Insta knows about this, but Bluesky doesn't. I'll be posting about it when I get my copy. See below for the roster of writers (including me) who contributed to this interesting project edited by novelist Josh Riedel.
Lucas Schaefer@lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 4w agoHad a blast contributing to Josh Riedel’s Thirty Cabins zine alongside an A+ roster of writers. Link to preorder below!
Had a blast contributing to Josh Riedel’s Thirty Cabins zine alongside an A+ roster of writers. Link to preorder below!
Something I want liberals to get more comfortable with is staking out values that aren't dependent on credentials or institutions.
Joe Stieb@joestieb.bsky.social · last mo.Well i mean if 4 people support something it can’t be wrong and inhumane
The Birthright citizenship ruling should be a wake up call to any Dem who is still on the fence about court reform. We are essentially one seat change away from the Court undoing Reconstruction by fiat.
5-4 for what it explicitly says in the constitution is incredible. They were this close to undoing the civil war entirely. bsky.app/profile/mjsd...
Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last mo.The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
For them, it does. They cannot conceive of a world in which someone they think should belong to a suboordinate class has the same rights as them. That's also why they hate the Reconstruction amendments. bsky.app/profile/gabr...
Gabriel Malor@gabrielmalor.bsky.social · last mo.Justice Thomas, also in dissent, similarly claims that it "devalues" citizenship to recognize the children of "birth tourists and illegal aliens" as citizens. Again, as if the quality of American citizenship depends on who else is a citizen.
fundamentally, Alito and Thomas believe that the 14th Amendment established a hierarchy of citizenship or allowed the elected branches to do so. but that is totally ass backwards! it was explicitly written to *preclude* any hierarchy of citizenship. it is right there in the text!
really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*
Adam Serwer@adamserwer.bsky.social · last mo.That's right.
![During the ratification debates, Senator Cowan took aim
at the Roma people too, characterizing them as undeserving
of birthright citizenship because they “wander[ed] in
gangs,” “infest[ed] society,” and “impos[ed] upon the simple
and weak everywhere.”49 And again, Senator Conness dismissed Senator Cowan’s prejudices: “The only invasion of
Pennsylvania within my recollection was an invasion very
much worse and more disastrous to the State, and more to
be feared and more feared, than that of Gypsies. It was an
invasion of rebels [at Gettysburg].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lzlqyldh7nfc34pfffvd24ko/bafkreihrli2ghfantwmdgc4pk4rr4ddt4ajq4xgnggxhs4qv4hojeppmpi)
I Am Not A Lawyer™. (Though I spent a year studying law) Neither is @joshtpm.bsky.social But we both know something about US history (him w PhD), including about anti-Asian immigrant wave of late 1800s. And agree w him 100% here. That this was 5-4 is a relief. That it was not 9-0 is an emergency.
Josh Marshall@joshtpm.bsky.social · last mo.In a way one of the clearest proof points of the citizenship clause is the United States v. Wong Kim Ark case, 1898. And not because it was the precedent. It is difficult to grasp just how racist the US was in 1898, both in a "hard" biological as well as a general cultural sense. Anti-Asian ...
If you hate birthright citizenship the person who hates America is you.
You know it's an extremist, partisan court because the opinion here is not 9-0. The Constitution does not leave any room for doubt on this question.
Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · last mo.The Supreme Court strikes down Trump's attack on birthright citizenship. By a 5–4 vote, it holds that the 14th Amendment guarantees citizenship to children born of unauthorized and temporary immigrants. Roberts and Barrett join the three liberals. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Or maybe it will be your Republican member of Congress since many of them seem eager for the chance
Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social · last mo.congrats america, some faceless government official will now be inspecting your childs genitals if they want to play sports with their friends
Anyone participating in the project of rehabilitating W or pretending he didn’t help usher in this disgraceful era need only be pointed toward his judicial legacy before being laughed out of public life
I don’t have much to say about Slaughter, and honestly I think we do too much justice to the Roberts Court by treating its opinions like serious judicial reasoning. But I will say that it’s striking how openly the court treats congressional oversight as somehow antithetical to democratic government
Slaughter belongs in the anti-canon, a decision so egregiously wrong it has zero precedential value and is self-discrediting. It is not a plausible reading of a constitutional ambiguity, it is constitutionalizing the structure of an autocracy.
Our independent federal regulatory agencies were created to protect the public from corporate harms. The only reason to end these protections is to give corporate America even higher profits by shifting the risks of harms to individual people. The shame of the John Roberts court.
Dems have to run on this hard. Do not let the RFK types try to spin what his own party just signed off on here. Actual Monsanto, the comic book villain of Adbusters days, was shielded from liability over poisoning Americans. I don't care if it's slopulism: this Supreme Court wants you dead.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF BAYER'S BID TO LIMIT LAWSUITS IN STATE COURT CLAIMING ITS ROUNDUP WEEDKILLER CAUSES CANCER
They're bad about EVERYTHING. Packing the Court has to be one of the very first things the next D president/Congress push through.
Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · last mo.Reuters: U.S. SUPREME COURT RULES IN FAVOR OF BAYER'S BID TO LIMIT LAWSUITS IN STATE COURT CLAIMING ITS ROUNDUP WEEDKILLER CAUSES CANCER
Hard to imagine a group of people who hates their fellow Americans more than the “conservatives” on the Supreme Court
Had fun chatting with my friends at First Light Books ahead of THE SLIP paperback launch tomorrow 6/23. Join us!
Had fun chatting with my friends at First Light Books ahead of THE SLIP paperback launch tomorrow 6/23. Join us!
Since reviewing THE SLIP last summer, Ron Charles has been such a tremendous advocate for the novel. It was a real honor to get to chat with him about marketing, publishing and THE SLIP for his wonderful substack. THE SLIP comes out in paperback next Tuesday, June 23.
Since reviewing THE SLIP last summer, Ron Charles has been such a tremendous advocate for the novel. It was a real honor to get to chat with him about marketing, publishing and THE SLIP for his wonderful substack. THE SLIP comes out in paperback next Tuesday, June 23.
