Dave Mason Writes

I'm old enough to remember when the bad guys hid their faces and good guys didn't.

Screen grab of Amazon's Best Sellers in War Fiction list showing Dave Mason's Between the Clouds and the River at #70.

Friday morning in good company!
#historicalfiction

If the sandwich is a serious weapon, send the ICE goons to do their shit armed only with hoagies and grinders.

What a fucking time to be alive.

Have they met many humans?

DC ‘Sandwich Guy’ Acquitted In Another Embarrassment For Jeanine Pirro Jeanine Pirro tried to make an example of Sean Dunn. She ended up delivering a hero to Washington, D.C.

If the goal was to eliminate whatever thin slice of respect (plus lettuce, tomato, onions, and mustard) Americans might have had for the soggy remains of their justice system, this is a free footlong right up the hoo-hoo.

Canada's economy gained 67,000 jobs in October | CBC News The Canadian economy added a surprising 67,000 jobs in October and the unemployment rate ticked down to 6.9 per cent, Statistics Canada said on Friday, beating economists' expectations for the month.

Just spoke to a Canadian friend (Chairman of a group of manufacturers in the automotive / defense sector) who's on his way to China right now. His words: "Canadians have moved past thinking about the USA."

Shit talk the guy, then expect him to be ready and willing to listen to your bullshit whining? Fuck off, eh!

Screen grab of Amazon's Best Sellers in War Fiction list showing Dave Mason's Between the Clouds and the River at #70.

Friday morning in good company!
#historicalfiction

Translation: If we don't subvert democracy now, we're fucked.

China’s Clean Tech Exports Trump U.S. Oil And Gas This week’s Current Climate newsletter also looks at pulling lithium from the Great Salt Lake for batteries and talks with Gina McCarthy about local efforts to fight climate change

Chinese exports of clean energy-related products through July 2025 total $120 billion.

The U.S. exported just $80 billion of carbon-based energy in the same period.

Betting on the wrong horse in every way.

Let this sink in. The President of the United States is now appealing a court order forcing him to feed starving children.

If it was positive, we'd have it.

A Reminder that Love is the Only Truth - an Editorial Review of "Between the Clouds and the River" Book Blurb:1942: Twenty-four year old Bernhardt Lang is swept along by the currents of war, until an unexpected ally helps him live a life of his own making, in a place he could never have imagined hi...

[Mason] has a singular voice which takes the convention of the comma splice and throws it away to devastating effect. At first the long single sentences may feel slightly daunting, but… they ebb and flow like the tide, sweeping you along on a wave of delectable, distinctive description.

EO-N By Dave Mason | BookTrib. If you’ve never recognized the contribution of Canadian aviators during World War II or fully grasped some of Nazi Germany’s horrors, EO-N by Dave Mason will open your eyes.

"If you’ve never recognized the contribution of Canadian aviators during World War II or fully grasped some of Nazi Germany’s horrors, EO-N will open your eyes.

Those things alone make it worth reading but fail to capture just what a terrific debut novel this is."

#historicalfiction #booksky

I see what you did there...

A Reminder that Love is the Only Truth - an Editorial Review of "Between the Clouds and the River" Book Blurb:1942: Twenty-four year old Bernhardt Lang is swept along by the currents of war, until an unexpected ally helps him live a life of his own making, in a place he could never have imagined hi...

[Mason] has a singular voice which takes the convention of the comma splice and throws it away to devastating effect. At first the long single sentences may feel slightly daunting, but… they ebb and flow like the tide, sweeping you along on a wave of delectable, distinctive description.

Screen grab from Amazon's Best Sellers in War Fiction page, showing Dave Mason's Between the Clouds and the River along with books by Eoin Dempsey, Tom Clancy, and Omar el Akkad

Just hanging out with Eoin Dempsey, Tom Clancy, and Omar El Akkad, as one does! #warfiction #Amazonbestsellers

It got drowned out in all the good news from last night, but Boston Mayor Michelle Wu became the youngest person to be reelected in the city's history.

She ran unopposed because her opponent--Patriots owner Bob Kraft's son--withdrew a few months ago after realizing he had no hope of winning.

Screen grab of graphic from Spotify. Pink Floyd's The Division Bell / High Hopes.

Cool/moody November morning.
Writing weather.
This one's in the headphones.

The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river
For ever and ever

Perfection.
And man, that bell…

OpenAI in Danger After Authors Suing It Gain Access to Its Internal Slack Messages Authors and publishers, who are suing OpenAI, secured access to internal Slack messages and emails discussing the deletion of pirated books.

Authors/publishers who filed a suit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured internal Slack messages and emails discussing mass deletion of a pirated books dataset.

The communications could demonstrate willful infringement, leading to damages of $150,000 per work, a massive increase from $750.

In 1933, Nazis refused to let elected members vote in parliament.
In 2025, Republicans refuse to seat Rep.-elect Adelita Grijalva.
In 1933, Germany’s parliament surrendered power and rubber-stamped dictatorship.
In 2025, the Republican-run Congress surrendered power and rubber-stamped dictatorship.

Screen grab from Fox news with text that reads "By winning, democrats are actually losing"

“War is peace.
Freedom is slavery.
Ignorance is strength.”
― George Orwell, 1984

It's 2025.
Are we really this fucking stupid?

They spelled "awful" wrong.

FBI Warns of Criminals Posing as ICE, Urges Agents to ID Themselves In a bulletin to law enforcement agencies, the FBI said criminal impersonators are exploiting ICE’s image and urged nationwide coordination to distinguish real operations from fakes.

Can't distinguish between criminals.

www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

"Conservative"

You broke it.
You fix it.

In Vancouver, A Court Ruling on Indigenous Land Triggers Real Estate Angst A court ruling that granted an Indigenous group rights over some 800 acres of metro Vancouver is causing unease over private-property rights in Canada.

"The court’s decision caused public anxiety over the legal status of property in one of the wealthiest and densely populated regions of Canada.

Richmond Mayor Malcolm Brodie… touched off a firestorm, warning the judgment “may compromise the status and validity of your ownership.”

Wow.

Screen grab from Amazon's Best Sellers in War Fiction page, showing Dave Mason's Between the Clouds and the River along with books by Eoin Dempsey, Tom Clancy, and Omar el Akkad

Just hanging out with Eoin Dempsey, Tom Clancy, and Omar El Akkad, as one does! #warfiction #Amazonbestsellers

The "Hey, I run a book club that would love to read your novel" scammers sure seem to be out in full force right now.

Not sure they're grasping the "buy a book/read a book" concept.

Uh... V2G is in no way a "new idea". Norway has been testing on a large scale for about 5 years.