Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead by K.J. Parker: Review by Adrienne Martini - Locus Online Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead, K.J. Parker (Orbit 978-0316566988, $18.99, 352pp, tp) January 2026. K.J. Parker (AKA Tom Holt) is back in his medievalesque world with Sister Svangerd and the Not Quite Dead. If you've enjoyed previous visits to this world – Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City is a standout – you already know what to expect from this story of Brother Desiderius, a monk/forger, is …Read More

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As a woman with a female gaze, simply do not do this. We don’t want this. We want Magnum PI. We want ‘79 Knicks. We want to see what your leg day do.

The basic reality is that over the last 4 decades the Republican Party has become increasingly nativist and is now in thrall to a band of lunatics who are actively working toward a white ethnostate. That is due to dynamics on the American right, not because the AP started saying "undocumented."

Movie review from Guardian on Melania.

“Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.”

― Elizabeth Zimmerman

#KnitSky 🧶 #InTheseTimes

Disabled son of ICE detainee dies after 30 days of hospitalization It had been months since Wael Tarabishi seen his father. The family is calling on ICE to release Maher Tarabishi so he may attend his son's funeral.

there are so many gutting stories, but this one is hitting me extra hard. just imagining wael tarabishi slowly dying without his dad there to care for him because he was jailed by ICE makes me…i don’t have words. this country is disgusting.

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

Whatever is in the Epstein Files is so explosive that the leaders of the Department of Justice are openly breaking the law every day to keep us from seeing it. (Just a reminder amongst all the other stuff flying around.)

The world learned today that you absolutely have to bully this dumb old asshole as a collective. Better late than never for them, but we better get used to being aggressively humiliated for the next few years.

These are concentration camps. And these are the numbers they're comfortable sharing.

Stand With Minnesota A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation

crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours.

please keep sharing with your networks.

Conservatives Say Renée Good Was Brainwashed By Bible Into Loving Thy Neighbor

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I don’t know who needs to hear this right now, but crying is okay and normal and you’re allowed to do it.

Abolish and prosecute ICE. They did a murder in broad daylight today. Imagine what they're doing in the closed facilities we're somehow not even allowed to see.

We Are the Bad Guys The swaggering threat to global stability is us.

“What do we call it when a stronger person decides to rob a weaker person because he can? It is just gangsterism. We are the most dangerous gangsters in the world today. Not in the sense of being charming rogues or alluring antiheroes. We are the bad guys.”

Isn’t this how The Three-Body Problem kicks off?

Rough vibes on this website today, likely because people feel Hopeless and Helpless Because Can't Stop It and No One Who Is Supposed To Is Trying To So Now We're Fighting Each Other™. I recommend activities such as book, or potentially instrument if you like instrument, or even do talk on phone.

The Cracker Barrel thing was THIS YEAR. We have three more years of this shit. Anybody who makes it to 2028 without looking like Nosferatu will be required by the state to start a skincare brand.

The horns and whistles work What it's like to watch community activists stand up to a Border Patrol raid.

ICE whistles work.

The issue is not that we don't talk to each other. It's that some people think that "talking" means getting to debate your existence, and that's abusive and controlling.

Whew. Roll out that 25th.

I get these overtures to debate this or that person and let me ask you something. Why, in god’s name, would I do that? Is this high school? Do I have abs again??? Stacked bangs? What’s debating do in 2025??

Were there moments that you missed? Anything that happened that’s on the cutting room floor? I don’t think there’s anything I missed that I wish I’d gotten. I’ll give you a little anecdote: Stephen Miller was perhaps the most concerned about the portrait session. He asked me, “Should I smile or not smile?” and I said, “How would you want to be portrayed?” We agreed that we would do a bit of both. And then when we were finished, he comes up to me to shake my hand and say goodbye. And he says to me, “You know, you have a lot of power in the discretion you use to be kind to people.” And I looked at him and I said, “You know, you do, too.”

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story.

Holy. Shit.

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thriftbooks.com is an awesome company with soooo many options!

I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

Reviewers' Choice: The Best Books of 2025 - Reactor Reactor’s regular book reviewers talk about notable titles they read in 2025

I really love seeing the kind of roundup where lots of reviewers reflect on their reading like this. Both as an author & as a reader, it's wonderful to get a glimpse into what company a given book keeps at a critic's holiday party, & I'm delighted to see RHR here!

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I hope someone draws this wonderful story about Tom Stoppard's Arcadia and the power of the arts to help us see things differently, to the attention of our Education Secretary. Do read it, it will lift your spirits.

Philip K Dick movies all have names like CORTICAL IMPASSE and are based on short stories called like "Let's See What's Going On Down at the Brain Factory"

Was reminded of my very favorite tweet of all time today: