Ben Stiller is calling out the White House after it used a clip from Tropic Thunder in a video promoting the Iran war.
“We never gave you permission and have no interest in being part of your propaganda machine. War is not a movie,” Stiller wrote.
DHS claimed "an ICE agent had fired 'defensive shots' into Martinez's vehicle after Martinez 'intentionally ran over' another agent."
But body cam video now "shows that Martinez's vehicle, a blue Ford Fusion, was stationary or going at a very low rate of speed when he was fatally shot."
I WEAR COWBOY HATS ON THE TEEVEE - TAKE ME SERIOUSLY!!!
photo of newspaper page of Arkansas Catholic November 3 1944.
Book cover
Clearing my desk after "Ghost Flight: A World War II Pride and Prejudice Variation." Lisieux is France's second most important shrine, seeing horrific fighting in 8/44. P 8 of The Arkansas Catholi 11/3/44. The "Miracle of Lisieux" tells the tale of the Carmelites.
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The latest edition of Austenesque Thoughts is available. I examine hw "What if?" is at the core of Austenesque Fiction. open.substack.com/pub/austenes...
Ghost Flight: A Darcy and Elizabeth story set in WWII.
Happy Wednesday! Yes, everyone, the book is finished! "Ghost Flight: A World War II Pride and Prejudice Variation" is available for pre-sale through Release Day--June 30. This Historical Romance can be found at Amazon locations worldwide in e-book and print
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Photo of homemade succotash
Tonight is steak and succotash.
Senators Joni Ernst.
Been that since 1965.
As Trumpsters claim they really truly care about antisemitism, note the new Pentagon press secretary. jewishinsider.com/2025/05/king...
This new way of doing things appears to be corrosive not just to students but also to teachers. Koebler’s investigation shows that the AI lobbyists courted schools by making appeals to instructors, showing them that the likes of ChatGPT would make curriculum-building and assignment-giving that much easier. Now, teachers, too, seem to be taking the easy way out, as a recent New York Times story shows that college professors have been using chatbots to create their lesson plans, just as their students are using them to complete said lesson. The result of all of this is so obvious that it doesn’t really bear repeating, but I guess will anyways: Everybody who uses AI is going to get exponentially stupider, and the stupider they get, the more they’ll need to use AI to be able to do stuff that they were previously able to do with their minds. The tech industry’s subscriber-based, “as-a-service” model is obviously on full display here, except that the subscription will be to intellectual capacity. The more you subscribe, the less “organic” capacity you’ll have.
"Everybody who uses AI is going to get exponentially stupider, and the stupider they get, the more they’ll need to use AI to be able to do stuff that they were previously able to do with their minds"
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Meme of Sailors Rest Book cover and review quote
Happy Wednesday! One of my favorite projects was the Pride and Prejudice/Persuasion crossover "The Sailor's Rest." Follow Elizabeth & Anne, Darcy & Wentworth through a kidnapping, a naval battle, and a comeuppance in this full-length novel. Available in Spanish, too! www.amazon.com/Sailors-Rest...
The latest edition of Austenesque Thoughts is available. Please join me to take a look at the differences between novels and short stories. #excerpt from Ghost Flight, too. open.substack.com/pub/austenes...
Today is the launch day for "The Last Gift!"
Sophia enthuses:
"It was a moving, funny, and brilliantly well-written universe, where Jane Austen’s books are in one world.
"The ending had me absolutely choked up. It was so well-written! Words cannot describe it."
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Tomorrow is a special day. No, not taxes, but perhaps something related to death? What if July 18, 1817, was not the end, but merely the beginning for Jane Austen? Please enjoy my short story, "The Last Gift" (4,500 words, e-book only), which releases tomorrow. www.amazon.com/Last-Gift-Au...
I’ll go first. My #Austenesque short story “The Last Gift” is available for preorder thru 4/15. www.amazon.com/Last-Gift-Au...
Happy #SelfPromotionSaturday Let your #Austenesque readers know what’s new.
Here's the reality: they've backed themselves into a corner. If they bring him home there will be hell to pay. It's clear that they believe that the lesser hell is not bringing him home. So we need to make that hell the worse hell. Start calling and screaming at all of your representatives now! 1/2
My Austenesque short story, The Last Gift, is in Presale through April 15 on all Amazon platforms. The tale considers what would happen if July 18, 1817 was not the end but the beginning for Jane Austen. What if she invented her heaven and her characters awaited her? www.amazon.com/Last-Gift-Au...
A tidge over one week before my #Austenesque short story, The Last Gift, is available as an e-book on all Amazon platforms worldwide. 4,500 words.
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A tidge over one week before my #Austenesque short story, The Last Gift, is available as an e-book on all Amazon platforms worldwide. 4,500 words.
www.amazon.com/Last-Gift-Au...
The latest edition of Austenesque Thoughts is available. Looking to see where your plotline will take you.
open.substack.com/pub/austenes...
Also take note of their masks - as the administration demands that Columbia et al ban masks on campus, so they can identify protesters more easily.
The Mayor of Somerville, MA (where this took place) says that the mostly masked ICE agents misidentified themselves as "police" even though they had no connection with either Somerville or Tufts police. whdh.com/news/video-r...
Please like this post if you're as tired of "winning" as I am.
#IncompetentKrasnov
Kelly: When I was flying in combat over Iraq during the first Gulf War, I didn’t expect that there was a 10-year-old kid sitting in South Africa who would one day become the richest guy in the world and call me a traitor for doing my job. Now, he kind of acts like a 12-year-old kid
The acting head of the government’s human resources arm, Charles Ezell, is refusing to testify in tomorrow’s case that challenges the legality of the recent mass firings of federal workers. His absence raises serious questions—what is there to hide?
Want to bet they will change all the locks?
