Mat Johnson

"Power doesn't always corrupt. Power always reveals. When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do."

-Robert Caro

I am gonna go out on a limb and say that a Jersey dude so horrified that he went to his first protest and is trying not to cry on camera has a pretty good chance of staying radicalized. And that while Bluesky loves to pick apart things like this, this kinda video moves the needle for OTHER dudes.

Have you tried burning it all down?

I have read great and glorious poetry that's endured a millennia. Yet when I wake, I think:

Perfect hair, to the second power of forever
Ask him do he need it? Hells yeah, now or never
On a mission with friends of fair weather
Sooner the better, off to Mt. Tuna, wear your leather prepared sweater

Billionaire Jim Ratcliffe claiming that the UK is being “colonised” by immigrants as he sits on a mountain of tax-dodged cash perfectly sums up what the far right is all about.

They blame migrants to distract from the super-rich ripping us off. Divide and conquer. We must never fall for it.

It's astonishing to see this data in chart form:

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

THEY ARE BUYING UP WAREHOUSES TO HOLD HUMAN BEINGS IN DETENTION INDEFINITELY.

I feel crazy at how everyone is acting like this is normal. These are concentration camps being built right before our eyes. These buildings are not meant to house human beings. People will be caged like cattle and die.

Leon Botstein absolutely has to leave Bard College

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century.

He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...

The ‘abolish ICE’ door is cracked open and every one of us needs to push and keep pushing.

“Liam’s father, Adrian Conejo Arias, said the family was in hiding. He cited a bomb threat at his son’s former elementary school and ICE agents patrolling the Columbia Heights home they no longer live in.”

Post a banger that's not in English.

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Just such a stark reminder that white racists have never been, and will never be, cool.

When I’m depressed, I sing a special melancholy song, to the tune of Disney’s Pinocchio’s, “I Got No Strings.” It goes:

“Life is hard
And then you die
But just don’t ask
No questions why”

And it works!!! I’m still alive! Despite some really fucked up shit, too!!!

Remember when Hollywood was functioning and producing content in a regular basis? That was so cool. (You had to be there.)

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.

Working-Class
Middle-Class
Upper-Class
Epstein-Class

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

The glibness with which these people are dismissing what is, fundamentally, an extensive record of elite atrocities makes me think it’s better if I don’t finish this sentence

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Respect 💪

Name them
shame them

COMMENTARY: We should believe President Trump

In no functioning country is this allowed.

TV show and comic book Wonder Man wearing the signature red sunglasses

We're all wearing red sunglasses next summer, right?

A photo collage of authors Mat Johnson, Nicola Griffith, Fonda Lee, Darcie Little Badger, and Pete Rock. It reads "Announcing our 2026 selection panel!" at the top, and has the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction logo at the bottom right.

We're thrilled to announce the panel of authors who will select the recipient of the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

Nicola Griffith
Mat Johnson
Fonda Lee
Darcie Little Badger
Peter Rock

Anyone can nominate work for this $25,000 prize; nominations will be open March 1st through 31st.

Jeffrey Epstein emailing Peter Thiel: Finding things on their way to collapse was much easier than finding the next bargain. ... Return to tribalism. Counter to globalization. Amazing new alliances.

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

StoryBoard Conference, a week-long creative writing intensive! Craft talks, workshops, social events, and so much more.

Chicago, this August. Applications due March 27. Come write and celebrate writing with me.

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Lighthouse Lit Fest is coming up. You got a novel you're trying to take to the next level? Apply, come, and let's work it out.
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Nothing perverts and corrupts the soul like prolonged exposure to money and power.