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NYC opens first-in-the-nation homeless shelter for transgender people Ace’s Place will offer 150 beds and services including counseling, financial literacy workshops and a work-study program in the culinary arts.

NYC opens first-in-the-nation homeless shelter for transgender people

Ace’s Place will offer 150 beds and services including counseling, financial literacy workshops and a work-study program in the culinary arts.

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When Technology is Essential, the Right to Repair Becomes the Right to Live Today on the blog, author Tim Chawaga discusses to philosophy infusing his new sci-fi novel SALVAGIA.

Today on the blog, author @timchawaga.bsky.social discusses to philosophy infusing his new #scifi novel SALVAGIA. #newrelease #bibliophiles #WritingCommunity #hopepunk

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Querying authors: get your queries in to Susan before she closes!!

the republican party hates public goods and wants to force feed you and your family slop produced by its billionaire allies

including @timchawaga.bsky.social's debut novel, SALVAGIA, forthcoming August 12th! 🤿

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Including SALVAGIA by @timchawaga.bsky.social!

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens ISLA VISTA, CA—In the days following a violent rampage in southern California in which a lone attacker killed seven individuals, including himself, and seriously injured over a dozen others, citizens ...

12 years earlier.

Happy to announce that am officially OPEN for Queries again!

If you've written something in the SF/F (or near-SF/F) genres please find me on QueryTracker here:

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Revealing The Villa, Once Beloved by Victor Manibo - Reactor A dark history is unearthed amid crumbling façades in a new gothic horror arriving November 2025

It’s finally here! Thank you so much to @reactorsff.bsky.social for ushering into the world the cover for my gothic horror THE VILLA, ONCE BELOVED! Welcome to Villa Sepulveda…hope you survive your stay.

11/25/25 from @erewhonbooks.bsky.social. Preorder info ⬇️

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6 Films Silvia Moreno-Garcia Recommends for Writers I subscribe to Alfred Hitchcock’s theory of suspense versus surprise. Mystery, he said, is when the spectator knows less than the characters in a movie. Suspense is when the spectator knows more th…

I'm at Crime Reads, talking about how films like Shadow of a Doubt and Hitchcock's theory of suspense inspired my latest novel, THE BEWITCHING. And I recommend movies writers should watch.
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SALVAGIA is part of the Barnes & Noble pre-order event! Pre-order numbers are really important for me and a little discount is great for you, win-win!

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I mean fine but if Mamdani was Spider-Man the editor of the big local paper would have a completely over-the-top and underexplained vendetta against him

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My statement on Donald Trump's threat to deport me and his praise for Eric Adams, who the President "helped out" of legal accountability.

Zohran Mamdani received more first-round votes (432,305) than Andrew Cuomo received total votes after ranked choice voting (428,530).

That means more people ranked Zohran first than ranked Cuomo anywhere on their ballot (without ranking Zohran above him).

Zohran and Attorney General Tish James marching together in NYC Pride.

A joy to march in NYC Pride with the people's champ Tish James 🏳️‍🌈

We can have nice things Zohran Mamdani proved you can fully embrace progressive values—and win.

New — I wrote about how Zohran Mamdani’s win shows the power of a positive vision for the future, New Yorkers’ rejection of fear-based politics, and provides a blueprint for progressive Jews and Muslims to create a multi-racial, multi-faith coalition that supports prosperity for all.

Read it here:

it turns out that embracing a multi-racial, multi-faith democracy is the best path towards peace in this chaotic world.

A Muslim son of immigrants might become mayor of NYC in part because he cross endorsed and supported a Jewish candidate and Black candidate, and vice versa.

It's a beautiful American story for the rest of us. A nightmare for all the right people ;)

It's so New York.

Although Zohran would with a plurality without RCV, I think the candidate collaboration that RCV encouraged helped him do so well. It both underscored his positive message and elevated many voices talking about why NOT to vote for Cuomo.

what’s funny is that if pro-cuomo centrist democrats were less myopic they might see that mamdani was running the kind of campaign that could help rebuild the party brand — accessible with an outsider persona and a focus on “kitchen table” issues.

What matters is that Cuomo and all the people who endorsed him are still going to claim they're the rightful heirs to the Democratic Party, how dare young people challenge them, all of that.

The difference is they're now just unaffiliated lunatics, banging on the windows. They're not the party.

Polls are about to close, but if you’re in line by 9:00 PM, STAY IN LINE! They must let you vote!

Can't believe it's been that long. I remember reading you in Buzzfeed. Congrats!

Ujamaa Community Bookstore Bookshop We are Flanner House's Black-owned community bookstore located in the Near Northwest neighborhood of Indianapolis, celebrating authors, artists, and activists. Named after one of the seven Kwanzaa pri...

Happy Juneteenth. Here are 10 Black sci-fi, fantasy, and horror book recommendations. If you can support Black owned bookstore today when you order these books, do so. If you don’t know a Black owned bookstore to order from I’m using my local one here in Indianapolis; bookshop.org/shop/ujamaa

I still can't get past the idea that people in America are now supposed to accept that this is a valid form of law enforcement and just assume it's fine when random dudes in groups with face-coverings, no ID, no warrant, & no uniform grab people off the street and force them into unmarked vehicles

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant.

This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.