Victor Suthammanont

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So.excited for this day, and a dream come true!

Hollow Spaces book cover of lit match with city backdrop. Crime Writers of Color in magnifying glass.

Happy release day to @victorsuth.bsky.social for HOLLOW SPACES! www.counterpointpress.com/books/hollow...

HOLLOW SPACES is an Apple Books Staff Pick!

Crime Writers Of Color Coming Attractions: July-September 2025 by Elizabeth WilkersonMrs. McMahon was the ultimate matchmaker in my elementary school. She had an uncanny knack for putting the perfect book in each kid's hands. In my case, that meant Encyclopedia B...

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REPORT OF INVESTIGATION INTO ALLEGATIONS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT BY GOVERNOR ANDREW M. CUOMO raiso STATE OF NEW YORK OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL LETITIA JAMES Anne L. Clark Yannick Grant Vladeck, Raskin & Clark, P.C. Joon H. Kim Jennifer Kennedy Park Abena Mainoo Rahul Mukhi Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP August 3, 2021

The allegations against Cuomo that forced him to resign aren’t he-said, she-said.

They’re he-said, she-said, she-said, she-said, she-said, she-said, she-said, she-said, she-said, she-said, she-said, she-said.

The NY AG found he sexually harassed 11 women. So he quit.

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Liberal stronghold, Waco, TX

image depicts a standard “NO PARKING ANY TIME” sign that has been altered with white tape. Two pieces of tape obscure the letters “P” and “R” in the word “PARKING,” transforming it into: ”NO —KING ANY TIME”

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Live Updates: Minnesota Lawmaker Is Assassinated in Act of ‘Targeted Political Violence’

Does anyone think these unspeakably evil political assassinations of Democratic lawmakers would’ve occurred without the vicious permission structure erected by Trump, Vance, Rubio, and their MAGAts?

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

This bespoke exception for the Fed is one of the most brazenly made-up things I've ever seen the Supreme Court do (which is saying something). There is no principled basis to distinguish the Fed from other independent agencies. The conservative justices just don't want Trump to crash the market!

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

@connolly.house.gov @markwarner.bsky.social Thank you for re-introducing the Chai Suthammanont Healthy Federal Workplaces Act last session. I hope that you'll consider introducing it in this session if the opportunity arises. It is important legislation that will protect federal workers.

Told in alternating timelines, Victor Suthammanont’s mystery-thriller begins 30 years ago, when John Lo—the only Asian American attorney at his prestigious law firm—is put on trial for murder. Three decades later, John’s two estranged children reunite to reinvestigate the crime. With Hollow Spaces, author Suthammanont wraps his murder mystery with observations about family loyalty, professional ambition, racial issues, and corporate culture.

HOLLOW SPACES is featured with 41 other debuts coming this summer. Very proud to be included in such good company!

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Review: Before Hitler took over Germany, Bertie was happy and trans in Berlin In his debut novel, Milo Todd tells the story of a trans man in Berlin who must adjust to a life of secrecy after Hitler ascends to power.

@latimes.com calls Milo Todd's THE LILAC PEOPLE "exhaustively researched, gorgeously crafted and presciently timed."

Read the full review here:
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Happy Indie Bookstore Day for those who celebrate!

If you were considering ordering Hollow Spaces, check out the preorder sale @barnesandnoble.com! 25% off using the code PREORDER25

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Welp, got an answer to this question: Apparently the answer is no tariffs are being collected. Trump broke the system
www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/c...

This is driving me crazy too. Not long ago 10% universal tariffs were considered the worst-case scenario, something even Trump wasn’t crazy enough to impose. Now have those PLUS 125% tariffs on China. Together, these raise raise inflation by about as much as original “Liberation Day” tariffs did!

The 10% tariff alone is a $2500 per household annual tax hike!

The Court does not need to find, and it is not inclined to find, that Martinez intentionally lied. His second declaration and his sworn live testimony during the hearing acknowledged the truth of what the plaintiffs' witnesses were saying, and once on the stand, he freely admitted what he did not know. At times, he appeared anguished by both the demise of the agency and by his being cast in the role of agency spokesman; there were multiple painful pauses when you could see the battle between his conflicting loyalties to his new employers and to the truth playing out on his face, and he grimaced or turned red before he answered. He had the demeanor of an abused wife brought to court by her husband to drop the charges.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson on the CFPB employee whom the administration forced, under oath, to parrot its false claims denying the illegal dissolution of the agency: “He had the demeanor of an abused wife brought to court by her husband to drop the charges.” storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Proud to see my alma mater, New York Law School, among the signatories.

Dean Chemerinsky and other #lawschool deans "speak as legal educators, responsible for training the next generation of lawyers, in condemning any government efforts to punish lawyers or their firms based on the identity of their clients or for their zealous lawful and ethical advocacy."

There is an important oral history project being undertaken to document the experiences of the federal workforce during these unprecedented times. If you're a federal employee/contractor (or recently terminated one), please consider contributing:
www.oah.org/2025/03/04/f...

When the history of this time is written down, the cowardice will be remembered as much as the fascism

Glad to see the American Bar Association standing for the rule of law. All lawyers can safeguard these principles. You can read the statement here.

BY EMAIL Re: United States v. Eric Adams, 24 Cr. 556 (DEH) Mr. Bove, I have received correspondence indicating that I refused your order to move to dismiss the indictment against Eric Adams without prejudice, subject to certain conditions, including the express possibility of reinstatement of the indictment. That is not exactly correct. The U.S. Attorney, Danielle R. Sassoon, never asked me to file such a motion, and I therefore never had an opportunity to refuse. But I am entirely in agreement with her decision not to do so, for the reasons stated in her February 12, 2025 letter to the Attorney General. In short, the first justification for the motion-that Damian Williams's role in the case somehow tainted a valid indictment supported by ample evidence, and pursued under four different U.S. attorneys is so weak as to be transparently pretextual. The second justification is worse. No system of ordered liberty can allow the Government to use the carrot of dismissing charges, or the stick of threatening to bring them again, to induce an elected official to support its policy objectives. There is a tradition in public service of resigning in a last-ditch effort to head off a serious mistake. Some will view the mistake you are committing here in the light of their generally negative views of the new Administration. I do not share those views. I can even understand how a Chief Executive whose background is in business and politics might see the contemplated dismissal-with-leverage as a good, if distasteful, deal. But any assistant U.S. attorney would know much i i red oril, in this ily. wing the perset arthro he Reside is ving to, give him that advice, then I expect you will eventually find someone who is enough of a fool, or enough of a coward, to file your motion. But it was never going to be me. Please consider this my resignation. It has been an honor to serve as a prosecutor in the Southern District of New York. Yours truly, Hagan Scotten Assistant United States Att…

AUSA Hagan Scotten, former clerk for John Roberts, really put some mustard on his resignation letter.

Congrats!

✨COVER REVEAL TIME✨
I never imagined I would be releasing the cover of a book that is very in tune with what is going on in the world right now, but here we are. I started writing CHLOE VEGA AND THE AGENTS OF MAGIC in 2018 when immigrant families were being separated at the border... (1/4).

Excited to reveal the cover of my novel, HOLLOW SPACES, coming out on 8.5.25 from Counterpoint Press. It's available for pre-order now (www.counterpointpress.com/books/hollow...) and you can sign up for events at victorsuthammanont.com.

I really can’t wrap my head around congressional Democrats’ response to the past 12 days of crises. It reeks of pathetic capitulation. Trump is asserting dictatorial powers of absolute control over the entire government and the reaction is “we don’t swing at every pitch”? An appalling abdication.