Francis Sparks

We are trapped in an imaginary crisis The make-believe problems of 2025

These are the fantasy problems of a fictional world. One where the billionaire's fears of being taxed are more terrifying than people going hungry. Where affordable housing is more terrifying than a sexual predator in office.

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Damn, great program. Sad day

Just so’s we’re all clear, almost 3/4 of everything we buy from Europe is now 15% more expensive.

HAPPY PEOPLE DON'T LIVE HERE | Kirkus Reviews A mother and daughter move into a haunted apartment complex in this debut novel by an acclaimed short story writer.

1ST REVIEW! “Sparks works within a highly stylized mix of quirky and eerie—but from within her own idiosyncratic vision, she celebrates the power and strangeness of weird women and girls. For anyone who has ever wished they made Nancy Drew novels for grown-ups.” www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

Dude at work made a Mr. Miyagi reference and this kid was like “Who’s Mr. Miyagi?” And we were like “You don’t know who Mr. Miyagi is?!” And he goes “He sounds like a fake ass karate teacher” and I said “Brother you ain’t gonna believe this shit”

Time to bring back the summoning circle for writers!
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Keep reminding folks of this.

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

ICYMI: “Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social has filed a bill to ban law enforcement officers in Tennessee, including ICE, from wearing masks while making arrests (and ID themselves) — the “Stop American Gestapo Act” www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

Brutal.

It feels weird to me that we're supposed to call our representatives to be like: "Hey can we not initiate another forever war?" You'd think they'd be able to handle that one without a ton of input.

The owner of Twitter sends out 100 right wing propaganda tweets every single day and the algorithm is set up so that every single person on Twitter has to see every single one of these tweets. Now here’s another piece about Blue Sky’s ideological diversity problem.

Have ICE protests made Los Angeles too dangerous to live in? We asked three scowling retirees at a Shoney's in Branson.

We All Are Going To Die Joni Ernst Quote "We all are going to die." - US Senator, Joni Ernst, in response to being told cuts to Medicaid and SNAP will result in deaths. A Portion of All RAYGUN Sales Raise Money For Organizations That We Supp...

That’s one heck of a campaign promise, Joni:
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VOTER: “But people will die!” (if you kick them of Medicaid)

ERNST: “Well, we all are going to die.”

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Pedro Pascowl

Netflix Adapting S.A. Cosby’s ‘All The Sinners Bleed’ For TV, Orders Quinn Shephard Drama ‘The Body’ The streamer also greenlit Quinn Shephard drama series ‘The Body’.

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Defending copyright is very important at a time when the impetus to alter it skews toward corporate power, away from the individual. It's a powerful protection for creators and philosophical or abstract arguments against it are often distasteful in how they weirdly align in action w those in power.

No, you’re not crazy.

They are deporting brown people and importing white people.

Let’s clear something up: SNAP stands for Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program — the LARGEST federal program to fight hunger in the country!

It blows my mind that the party that touts its “Christian values” is the same party that is SET on taking food from the hungry.

Signed up all the SGJ books at the Sioux Falls B&N.

NEW: Minnesota’s graduation rate just reached the highest level on record.

Two years ago, we made the single-largest investment in public schools in state history.
 
Today, we’re seeing the results.

Registries for pregnant women and children with autism, but no registry for guns?

Constituents to Chuck Grassley: "Are you bringing back that guy from El Salvador?"

Senior Citizen: “If I get an order to pay a ticket to pay $1200 and I just say ‘no’, does that stand up? Because he just got an order from the Supreme Court and he just said ‘screw it’”

“I’M PISSED!”

Secrets, Buried Trauma and 'Weird Goth Children' — Meet Amber Sparks' Happy People Don't Live Here (Exclusive) Amber Sparks is releasing her debut novel, 'Happy People Don’t Live Here,' and PEOPLE can exclusively reveal its cover. Out Oct. 12, the novel is a 'gothic mystery' that at it's heart, is 'about mothe...

Hey guys! I am in People Magazine! Rambling like a weirdo! And you can see my book cover! I’ve never had an exclusive before! This is so weird and cool tbh people.com/see-the-cove...

Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bs... • 27m New — Edward "Big Balls" Coristine of DOGE now has digital access to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), an agency source has confirmed to me. Two Sets of Testicles, So Divine... • 19m You don't have to say his dumb user handle every time, right? Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsk... •18m i'm afraid i do, two sets of testicles

Hey, @schumer.senate.gov :: you better not be playing cute with your language about stopping the SAVE Act. I hope you intend to VOTE NO ON CLOTURE, as opposed to what you did with the CR when you told us you'd vote no on the bill, but still voted YES on cloture. We are in no mood for games.

trying to "its a prank its a prank" our way back to a manufacturing economy

we are maybe two weeks from jesse watters declaring that it’s gay for men to have sex with women