The latest @locusmag.bsky.social is full of goodness, including a spotlight on @tananarivedue.bsky.social and my reviews of @comptonwrites.bsky.social’s Dead First, Kim Fu’s The Valley of Vengeful Ghosts (@tinhouse.bsky.social) and @edashtonwriting.bsky.social’s After the Fall.
Infowars/Onion combo logo in rainbow saying “I support the onion’s hostile media takeover.”
It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.
Life imitating art.
In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.
Barry McCaffrey: Trump muses on awarding himself the Medal of Honor. A truly vile insult to the US Armed Forces.
WOW: A stunning new report in the WSJ reveals that military advisers intentionally excluded Donald Trump from the command room during the recent high-stakes operation to extract a downed U.S. airman in Iran, because they feared his erratic behavior could jeopardize the mission. 1/
YOUR RESULTS Millennial You came of age when jeans were skintight and slung at your hipbones. You rolled with the punches as waists got higher and the legs got looser. You're suspicious of a barrel cut, but you're more than willing to try new things. After years of being made fun of by younger and older generations, you mostly just dream of a pair of pants that exist outside of online discourse.
According to the Washington Post, I am somehow a Millennial. www.washingtonpost.com/style/fashio...
Now DOJ is demanding 2024 ballots from Michigan without a proper legal basis. Is it just a coincidence that it’s targeting swing states like Michigan, Georgia, and Arizona in the lead-up to the 2026 election?
www.nbcnews.com/politics/ele...
A young rat who hasn’t developed a sense of timing ran in front of us this morning, nearly bumped into Cdog and did bounce off a rat trap before darting between buildings. My dude, if you had waited THREE MORE SECONDS we wouldn’t have seen you at all.
SCOOP --> Paramount, Meta, and X are refusing to say what happened to their huge contributions to Trump's presidential library after Sen Elizabeth Warren raised questions about its fund getting dissolved. Ds say tens of millions remain unaccounted for.
Details here:
newrepublic.com/article/2092...
Susie Wiles has summoned Republican consultants from across the country ahead of what promises to be a bruising battle to retain control of Congress.
Caught great stand up last night.
NEW: A PR company is operating a bizarre fake news site that's plagiarizing original journalism at a massive scale -- all while spewing misinformation, publishing hallucinated quotes, and replacing real people’s names with “Jane Doe.”
Also: it misquotes the Pope.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
House of Games is a damned good film.
Donald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump Iran decided to fire bullets yesterday in the Strait of Hormuz - A Total Violation of our Ceasefire Agreement! Many of them were aimed at a French Ship, and a Freighter from the United Kingdom. That wasn't nice, was it? My Representatives are going to Islamabad, Pakistan - They will be there tomorrow evening, for Negotiations. Iran recently announced that they were closing the Strait, which is strange, because our BLOCKADE has already closed it. They're helping us without knowing, and they are the ones that lose with the closed passage, $500 Million Dollars a day! The United States loses nothing. In fact, many Ships are headed, right now, to the U.S., Texas, Louisiana, and Alaska, to load up, compliments of the IRGC, always wanting to be "the tough guy!" We're offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don't, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY! They'll come down fast, they'll come down easy and, if they don't take the DEAL, it will be my Honor to do what has to be done, which should have been done to Iran, by other Presidents, for the last 47 years. IT'S TIME FOR THE IRAN KILLING MACHINE TO END! President DONALD J. TRUMP
Breaking 🚨 Trump threatens Genocide again:
“We’re offering a very fair and reasonable DEAL, and I hope they take it because, if they don’t, the United States is going to knock out every single Power Plant, and every single Bridge, in Iran. NO MORE MR. NICE GUY!“
Folklore Matters logo: a green man image in the centre of a circle with the text folklore matters around the outside
We’re busy planning series two of our podcast, Folklore Matters, but @dianearodgers.bsky.social and Sophie found some time to do a quick ‘best bits’ of series one. You can listen here: folklore-matters.captivate.fm/episode/seri...
Eugene Daniels is a former runaway and sex worker going after traffickers in the darkest corners of New York.
Louis Menand in the New Yorker on Elisa Tamarkin’s Done in a Day: Telex from the Fall of Saigon.
www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
"What’s the point in having elected leaders if they’re not going to start costly wars that nobody voted for? How else were we going to spend those billions of dollars we had lying around? Invest in public schools and healthcare? That's ridiculous."
IT IS GLORY TO BATHE IN THE BLOOD OF YOUR ENEMIES BUT TO ALSO BATHE IN THE SHOWER.
Dog love is best love.
ICYMI pre-orders are LIVE for the audiobook of The Wingspan of Severed Hands!
Lucasfilm releases New Trailer for ‘The Mandalorian & Grogu’
A brand-new epic, action-packed trailer for “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu” has arrived! The trailer and an all-new poster are now available to download and share. Lucasfilm’s “Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu” opens…
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