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AI fakes spread disinformation. Is the distrust they create even worse? Manipulated images undermine our shared reality—and the democracy built upon it.

Manipulated images undermine our shared reality—and the democracy built upon it.

Stocks are ⬇️ which means thrifting is ⬆️!

When we h(a)unted We stalked the halls of dead malls, ghosts before our time. We lived by sense, taste and smell and sight, by instinct, lust and desire and rage. We were not quiet. We were not neat. The world is a hun...

This is my latest flash. maudlinhouse.net/when-we-haun...

Trump’s War on Iran Could Screw Over US Farmers The Middle East supplies a huge amount of the world’s fertilizer. Conflict in the region has sent prices soaring ahead of the critical spring planting season.

there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran

This isn't getting any less true as the war goes on...

Cook County prosecutors dismiss 21 cases against ICE protesters, including suburban moms arrested in sit-in Cook County prosecutors dismissed 21 cases that were filed against protesters at the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center in Broadview.

www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/04/c... [gift link]

Yes, That Mancini’s: How a Legendary St. Paul Steakhouse Raised $35K for the Resistance - Racket ‘The Gathering for Good’ brought the West 7th neighborhood together.

For @racketmn.com, I wrote about The Gathering for Good, the huge fundraiser Mancini's Char House & Lounge--yes, that one--held two weeks ago for ICE victims in St. Paul's West 7th neighborhood. One of my best, huge thanks to everyone involved.
racketmn.com/yes-that-man...

The cover for Uncanny Magazine Issue 69, "Kuolonuni" by Broci: A femme-looking figure with blue-green wavy hair and red eyes stands with one hand atop the other, open palmed up, a blue-pedaled flower with yellow stamens floats above centered to their chest. On their head is a pale blue snake with red eyes curled like a circlet. Their sleeves are pink, and their shoulders have wavy, yellow feathers or hair attached to a yellow and pink high collar. Behind them, green lily pads crowd each other out in a black background. The whole image has a hand-drawn look, with the colors textured like watercolors on paper. In white text is the "Uncanny" banner, "March/April 2026," Issue Sixty-Nine," and the artist, writer, essayist, poets, and Uncanny staff credits.

Join the Space Unicorn Ranger Corps! There are many ways to SUPPORT UNCANNY MAGAZINE! Patreon! Subscriptions from Weightless Books! Or just spreading the word! buff.ly/zqm7ede

Chicago Is Lit: March Literary Events in and around Chicago and the Midwest | Third Coast Review Memoir and Narrative Storytelling During COVID The Society of Midland Authors presents a panel discussion titled “Memoir and Narrative Storytelling During COVID” with writers Michele Weldon, Gerry Ple...

Lit Editor Business for @thirdcoastrvw.bsky.social. New Chicago Is Lit column. Lit events in Chicago, Illinois, and the Midwest. Attn: @americanwritersmuseum.org

If you're an author, bookstore, publisher, organization, please reach out to me about future events

thirdcoastreview.com/lit/2026/03/...

"But remember that your editor’s job is not to antagonize you, it’s to make your work better. If they’re flagging that a sentence is unclear, it’s not because they hate you. It’s because the sentence … was unclear."

Writing from Liminal Spaces; A Conversation with Rebecca Roanhorse - PSYCHOPOMP.COM Shingai Njeri Kagunda talks with author Rebecca Roanhorse.

TODAY!!

do we ever have something SPECIAL for you, beloveds!

originally slated for @fantasymagazine.bsky.social 100 💔

but here for YOU nonetheless:

Writing from Liminal Spaces; A Conversation with @rebeccaroanhorse.bsky.social by @shingai-be-like.bsky.social

psychopomp.com/writing-from...

Submissions open for new volume of poetry and micro-prose on themes of "modern midwest monsters"! Deadline is Jun. 2, 2026!

www.middlewestpress.com/2026/03/send...

As a veteran-owned business, Middle West Press is proud to administer and underwrite The Aiming Circle—an on-line community of practice that serves writers of themes and topics related to war and military service.

Members include poets and playwrights, scholars and soldiers, essayists and analysts!

My Career Has Croaked: Oversaturation in the Anthropomorphic Frog Fiction Market All the best anthropomorphic frog stories have already been written, yet I carry on. My favorite was the one about the would-be Olympic decathlete who unsuccessfully petitioned the IOC to recognize th...

Thank you @maudlinhouse.bsky.social and @mallorysmart.bsky.social for publishing this.

maudlinhouse.net/my-career-ha...

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

I wrote for Brevity Blog about how my mentor set me right about my memoir, just as I felt my worst about its future.

Thanks for sharing, @rozmorris.bsky.social!

War Boys debuts from @triohousepress.org July 1, 2026.

#warboys #memoir #2026debut

I finally gave in to peer pressure and made an award eligibility graphic (two months late 😂). Nebula nominations close in less than a week and Hugos in a month! Would love if you considered my poems or short stories.

Words to Meet the Moment - Live from the Grand Event Center, Northfield, Minnesota 1/18/26 On January 18th, 2026, people of Northfield, Minnesota and the surrounding area gathered at the Grand Event Center for a reading of poetry to help express their feelings at a particularly troubling ti...

On Jan. 18, 2026, people of Northfield, Minn. gathered at the Grand Event Center for a reading of poetry to help express their feelings at a particularly troubling time for their country, their state, and their community.

Recorded audio-stream via KYMN Radio:
kymnradio.net/2026/01/18/w...

“Words to Meet the Moment”, a 42-page chapbook poetry anthology centered on community trauma, resilience, and healing is now available via Content Bookstore in Northfield, Minn. Proceeds benefit Northfield Community Action Center.

Book link here:
www.contentbookstore.com/browse/filte...

BOTH VOLUMES NOW ON @bookshop.org & other "non-'Zon" booksellers !!!

Prize-winning reads for those who serve, and those whose lives are touched by military service!

“Our Best War Stories”
- VOL. 1: bookshop.org/a/102773/978...
- VOL. 2: bookshop.org/a/102773/978...

Meta Director of AI Safety Allows AI Agent to Accidentally Delete Her Inbox Meta Superintelligence Labs’ director of alignment called it a “rookie mistake.”

NEW: Meta’s director of AI safety, supposedly the person at the company who is working to make sure that powerful AI tools don’t go rogue and act against human interests, had to scramble to stop an AI agent from deleting her inbox against her wishes...

In which I write about old dark house movies and our new Gilded Age.

‘We’re losing accessibility’: America says goodbye to the mass-market paperback The so-called ‘pocket book’ sold in supermarkets is being phased out across the US, the latest sign of an ongoing shift in how people are choosing to read

“Paula Rabinowitz … argues the format’s genius was its physical intimacy and portability … ‘I consider [the mass market paperback] one of the significant technological interventions, of the 20th century.”

www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f...

JUSTICE THOMAS delivered the opinion of the Court. The United States enjoys sovereign immunity and cannot be sued without its consent. By means of the Federal Tort Claims Act, Congress waived that sovereign immunity for certain tort suits based on the conduct of Government employees. See 28 U. S. C. §§2674, 1346(b). But, in the provision at issue in this case, Congress retained sovereign immunity for a wide range of claims about mail. Specifically, the FTCA’s postal exception retains sovereign immunity for all claims “arising out of the loss, miscarriage, or negligent transmission of letters or postal matter.” §2680(b). This case concerns whether this exception applies when postal workers intentionally fail to deliver the mail. We hold that it does.

The Supreme Court's second and final ruling of the day, USPS v. Konan, bars lawsuits against the Postal Service for maliciously and intentionally refusing to deliver someone's mail. It's 5–4, with Gorsuch joining the liberals in dissent. Bad decision! www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

We Interrupt the Regularly Scheduled RA Training Blog Post Because.....WHY I LOVE HORROR is a Bram Stoker Nominee ...for Superior Achievement in Long Non-Fction.  Superior Achievement in Long Non-Fiction Borwein, Naomi Simone, ed. —  Global Indigenous H...

Well this happened today.....

We Interrupt the Regularly Scheduled RA Training Blog Post Because.....WHY I LOVE HORROR is a Bram Stoker Nominee

raforall.blogspot.com/2026/02/we-i...

"[Cohen] he examines six 1990s novels and two post-9/11 novels that explore the impact of the end of the Cold War [... including Tim] O'Brien's "In the Lake of the Woods" [...] Cohen emphasizes how these works reconnect the past to a present that is ironically keen on denying that connection."

BANNING BOOKS IN AMERICA | Kirkus Reviews Confronting a “dangerous moment.”

Kirkus Reviews reviews, quirkily www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...