The Draft At long last, the draft is done. Is this a beautiful and polished piece of writing? No. It’s a draft, which means you will find flubs and errors. I did make an effort to tidy it up so the mos…

Gondor Calls for Aid!

No, wait, Gemma does.

My Honors Project Draft is complete! I could use readers, especially ones willing to give feedback. Here is the link to the draft - a PDF is included in the post.

thebraceletproject.com/the-draft/

But wait, there's more!

#gemmapompeii

Home - Author Dianna Gunn Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive Horror, out NOW As the horrors close in around us, we turn to story to process our fears, our desires, and our futures. In Choices: An Anthology of Reproductive F...

Lots of new followers lately, so I think it's about time to do a Big Thread of Books

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Fire Kilmeade.

Now that the Kirk afterglow is fading, it's good to see media outlets reporting on this.

This was the bigger story that happened that day.

Charlie's neck getting fatally scratched shouldn't have been allowed to be a bigger story than the largest network in the US calling for mass extermination.

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Today, I posted the next installment of a dystopian fiction series I’m going to be working on for the foreseeable future. It’s a bit of an experiment. If you want to follow along, you can find the first three installments here, free for now.

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Trump: "ICE is coming to Chicago!"

Chicago: "We have salt trucks."

Curtail? Congress and SCOTUS have willingly handed over power to the president.

Cover of Burn Down Master’s House, by Clay Cane. A drawing of flames surrounding a mansion.

Choose 20 books on your current TBR shelf. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.
No explanations, no expectations, just covers.13/20 #20dayTBRchallenge #blackbooksky #booksky

Taylor's reporting confirms a lot of things I've been feeling and seeing since November.

1. The increase in influencers and pundits saying the same thing and using the same language.

2. The loud silence about trans people or any of the abuse we face.

3. The sudden nut coddling of Gavin Newsom.

This is gorgeous

pssst it’s not just mamdani. there’s omar fateh in the twin cities, katie wilson in seattle. there’s graham platner primarying susan collins in maine, and saikat chakrabarti primarying nancy pelosi in SF. and so many more.

Democrats are drawing closer to the crypto industry despite Trump divisions The crypto industry is seeing growing support from the Democratic Party, though it's far from unanimous.

While I wasn't surprised the quarter fundraising and AIPAC are major influences, I wasn't expecting cryptocurrency to be a major discussion point. Shame on me, I guess.

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Every Democrat Who Helped Pass Trump’s Dangerous Crypto Bill Seventy-eight Democrats helped push through a bill that will upend cryptocurrency regulation.

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a man is being attacked by a monster with a lot of legs ALT: a man is being attacked by a monster with a lot of legs

Now that Disney owns Fox, which means they own the Alien franchise, I can't stop thinking about how the Alien Queen is now a Disney Princess/Queen.

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new newsletter just dropped: this one is three smaller but connected essays, one on the novelist Huysmans, another on the mangaka Araki, and the third on the relation of religion (not spirituality) and philosophy, as well as psychosis buttondown.com/theadversary...

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Newsom’s office crafted law protecting PG&E after company’s crimes killed 84 people | FIRE - POWER - MONEY Investigation Documents reveal how California Gov. Gavin Newsom protected PG&E after the company caused deadly fires and pleaded guilty to the felony killing of 84 people.

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Newsom’s office crafted law protecting PG&E after company’s crimes killed 84 people | FIRE - POWER - MONEY Investigation Documents reveal how California Gov. Gavin Newsom protected PG&E after the company caused deadly fires and pleaded guilty to the felony killing of 84 people.

Newsom speaks out of both sides of his mouth

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I think there are others who are working to meet the moment. But for whatever reasons, they don't get nearly the same amount of media coverage for it as Newsom does

congrats!

Federal Agents Are the New Proud Boys It used to be far-right groups who flooded cities wearing masks and military gear, looking for a fight. Now it’s anonymous federal agents who are violently attacking people on the street.

Don't we suspect they've literally been recruited from various militia groups (of fat, white losers), including the Proud Boys?

via @newrepublic.com

Wow! Gavin Newsom is so committed to his Trump parody!

Saikat Chakrabarti Wants to Remake the Democratic Party Saikat Chakrabarti, a founder of Justice Democrats and former top AOC aide, is challenging Nancy Pelosi for her seat in Congress. He talked to Jacobin about his vision for an ambitious program to tran...

Saikat Chakrabarti, a founder of Justice Democrats and former top AOC aide, is challenging Nancy Pelosi for her seat in Congress. He talked to Jacobin about his vision for an ambitious program to transform the US economy and reverse class dealignment.
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Holy shit.

Given the political games being played with US House districts, I hope everybody is paying extra close attention to the Senate elections coming up.

Thirty-five opportunities to stop Trump.

No AIPAC, no dinosaurs.

this is so wonderfully weird, give her all the golds 🥇

ICE agents fire on vehicle, standoff with family ends in San Bernardino A Saturday morning confrontation between federal immigration agents and a local family in San Bernardino escalated into gunfire and a seven-hour standoff before ending without arrests, according to…

Masked unidentified agents tried to murder a man who they claimed was wanted for assaulting a fed without any real evidence so they completely fucked off after firing multiple rounds into the man’s vehicle with his family inside

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America’s Largest Landlord Makes Deal With DOJ to Settle Price-Fixing Claims in RealPage Case Greystar, which manages nearly 950,000 apartments, has agreed to stop using “anti-competitive” algorithms to suggest rents. ProPublica previously showed how such software lets landlords set rents in a...

Greystar was using rent-setting algorithms from software company RealPage, the subject of a 2022 ProPublica investigation that showed the firm was helping landlords decide prices in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior.

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