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Looking for an infectious read?
DARK SPORES: Stories We Tell After Midnight Volume 4. Enter the dark, mycelia-laden world of mushroom horror.
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#horror #horrorbook #mushrooms #sporror #ilovehorror

The Definitive Story of Tesla Takedown In February, a Bluesky post caught the eye of Alex Winter. The result is a coalition of environmentalists, anti-Trump advocates, and federal workers that’s been hyping Tesla’s stock slide ever since.

With @davidgilbert.bsky.social : We retraced the history of the #TeslaTakedown, which began with a BlueSky post + has evolved into a nationwide movement that's led thousands to protest outside Tesla dealerships. It's laying the infrastructure for other political fights

www.wired.com/story/tesla-...

Update 2: One week and over $22K raised! · The Twisted Spine - NYC's Horror Bookstore and Café It's been one week since we launched, and we just passed $22,000! We're well on our way to hitting our initial goal, but please continue to share with friends and family! Every bit helps, and every do...

A friendly reminder to please help this NYC horror bookstore become a reality!

Blocking Nazis, trolls, and fascists doesn’t make it an “echo chamber.” People need to stop gaslighting us into thinking we have to listen to Nazis and debate trolls in order to be informed.

Sergeant Becraft was hospitalized this spring for thoughts of suicide and was put in an Defense Department inpatient program for depression. She said four of the 20 patients she met in the program were transgender people dealing with the trauma of the new policy.

A transgender soldier who’s being pushed out of Army checked herself into hospital for suicidal thoughts.

She arrived and found other suicidal transgender soldiers there too.

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In new episode of SistersInLaw, we discussed this week’s Supreme Court opinions, and the big cases that remain. You can listen here.
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Got a blog up where I talk about writing a series that imagines the nuclear arms race but with supernatural creatures.

www.literaryunderworld.com/2025/06/04/v...

RIP: Johnathan Joss, the voice of John Redcorn on #FamilyGuy. Murdered for being #gay. In #Texas where this #HateCrime is not being investigated as such. His 3 #dogs were killed and his house burned down. Spread the word. #LGBT. Police must investigate fully.

a drawing of a calico cat lying on a pride flag

happy pride, i love you ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🏳️‍⚧️

The Government says no more than that today. Yet, somehow, the Court has now apparently determined that the equity balance weighs in the Government's favor, and, I suppose, that it is in the public's interest to have the lives of half a million migrants unravel all around us before the courts decide their legal claims. Even assuming a likelihood that the law permits the Government to terminate parole grants in this fashion, I would let the courts decide that highly consequential legal issue first-consistent with standard stay practices and, especially, the necessary harm-centered focus. Instead, the Court allows the Government to do what it wants to do regardless, rendering constraints of law irrelevant and unleashing devastation in the process.

Jackson: “[T]he Court has now apparently determined … that it is in the public's interest to have the lives of half a million migrants unravel all around us before the courts decide their legal claims.”

What time is it? Time for @concarolinas.bsky.social breakfast club! Love starting the weekend hanging out with these amazing writers. 📚💚

I’ll see you at the Ripped From the Headlines panel!

See you there!

A basset hound sitting with his head stuck in an empty dog treat box.

Current vibes.

My library hold list agrees with this observation. 😁

A Siamese cat standing in a hallway, being pet by a person standing behind him.

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Holy shiitake! Trump fired Shira Perlmutter, the Director of the US Copyrights Office apparently because she refused to let Elon Musk raid the place to steal author’s intellectual property rights

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Did you know you can vote for Dark
Spores in the Dragon Con Dragon Awards?

You can!

This mushroom covered cover was created specifically
for the anthology by artist Lynne Hansen Art and we
couldn't love it any more if we tried!

Vote by July 19th!

05/03/2025 Uncomfortably Dark Horror Special Report SELF (S)CARES ANTHOLOGY PROJECTCalling all self-published horror authors! Get those short stories ready! Open submissions begin next week for this brand-new anthology geared toward spotlighting the be...

SELF SCARE COVER REVEAL AND SUBMISSION GUIDELINES!
Calling all self-published horror authors! Please share!
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Canada is coming to our rescue!!

They have expanded their hotline for us here!!

Thank you CANADA!!

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

DOGE will absolutely (on lost tax revenues alone) cost more money than any claimed savings

Ok so yeah, this has quickly become the #1 misunderstanding about the canceled grants

the grants are not “subsidies” or “entitlements” to Harvard or Princeton or whatever

they aren’t going into universities’ endowments

they are competitive contracts won by these universities to do research

Author Q & A: Former NewsTribune reporter releases 10th book A former NewsTribune reporter recently published her 10th book, “Blackfire Rising,” is a compendium of several novels, novellas and short stories published over a 15-year span.

In which I run my mouth about BLACKFIRE RISING, making the switch from newspapering to a freelance life, and other such topics.

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Senate Republicans would rather you didn’t find out they just voted to give the biggest banks billions in profits from overdraft fees that kick working people when they’re down. Disgraceful.

Meanwhile, every Senate Democrat voted against it.

Graphic of book cover against background of winter road with pine trees and full moon and wolf. Text: I howled again, just between me and the moon, who pulls this Change from me.

The next book in my werewolf secret agent series is about to release from @falstaffbooks.bsky.social, and I am psyched about it! (If you pick up the print book, you get the book as an add on. Also, you can buy directly from the publisher.)

#BookSky

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Uh oh the Trump administration accidentally added us to their group chat

We’ve had a great time at #MidSouthCon, and the Literary Underworld crew has had a blast! We got to hang with the awesome @kradec.bsky.social, rant on our favorite topics in panels, and sling booze until the wee hours. Oh, and sell books. Catch us at literaryunderworld.com, and see you next time!