I'm so pleased to have this excerpt up on @reactorsff.bsky.social! Check it out if you've been curious about my (*inhales*) 98-page space opera/art heist about the nature of art and love and whether androids make good boyfriends!

(no)

(who cares, I've dated worse)

*vibrating intensifies*

🎉 It's Heaven's Vault's 7th birthday today! 🎉

To celebrate we're sharing a first look at the next Heaven's Vault-related release from us the fourth (and final) book in the novellisation sequence.

Here's the gorgeous cover, with art from @anastasiawyatt.bsky.social and design by @joe.inkle.co

First ICE officer charged with assault for threatening people with a gun in Minnesota • North Dakota Monitor Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty on Thursday filed criminal charges against an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer for allegedly brandishing his service weapon at two people during…

A Minnesota prosecutor on Thursday filed criminal charges against an ICE officer for allegedly brandishing his gun at two people during Operation Metro Surge.

Via @minnesotareformer.com

If you don’t believe we are in a bubble you are in denial

This that meat that you get out of the wall in Castlevania.

For his part, Marx promised that, if elected, he would release former Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters from prison on “day one.”

Bottoms’s opponent, *checks notes* Victor Marx is campaigning on releasing Tina Peters.

“This is our year. This is the year we're going to do this,” Bottoms told delegates during his speech. “I'm going to reclaim parenthood and childhood for all Coloradans. Two sexes, no genders. We will reclaim safety and security.”

Colorado GOP gubernatorial candidate *checks notes* Scott Bottoms promises to eliminate gender in the state of Colorado. What a winning message in this year.

Goes without saying: this is a feature, not a bug

By the time they throw out your case, you've been brutalized by cops. You spent hours or possibly days in jail. Your family had to scrape together bail money. You miss work to go to court. You spend months terrified of months or years in jail

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages.

"A kneecapped Wayback Machine isn’t just bad news for accountability journalism—it will also be a blow to the legal system, as pages archived by the tool are frequently cited as evidence in litigation across the United States."

There are going to be so many stupid takes using Magyar’s win to argue that Dems should keep tacking center-right, when I think the far bigger takeaway is that “we will go after the people who corruptly destroyed the government” has *extremely* broad appeal

USAID can absolutely be part of that

The Risks and Protections of the ‘Gay Dorm’ — Assigned Segregated prison housing offers both protection and increased stigma to incarcerated members of the LGBTQ+ community.

In Georgia prisons gender-nonconforming inmates are specially vulnerable. This has led to unofficial segregation of queer prisoners in "gay dorms" which offer protections, but carry stigma and risks of their own.

Incarcerated journalist B Speaks has more here:

www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Not so little Tatu the Muscovy duckling enjoying the outdoors

Mayor Mamdani speaks at a Union Now rally.

Crowd members hold signs and cheer at a Union Now rally.

Mayor Mamdani greets crowd members at a Union Now rally.

Decades of coordinated corporate attacks on unions have put our country in an inequality crisis & a political system that answers to wealth over the will of the people.

Yesterday, I was proud to stand with workers & rally with @unionnow.org to rebuild the power of working people from the ground up.

Whistleblower says Trump officials thought USAID did 'just abortions,' asked for 'Barney-style' slides before gutting agency, per new book Read an exclusive excerpt from Nicholas Enrich's "Into the Wood Chipper"

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health.

'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

lol at "worse"

I believe the word we’re all looking for here is cowardice.

I really need health care reporters to get educated on ABA because I am extremely tired of seeing stories about ‘autism services’ being cut and then it’s just ABA uncritically represented as the best thing ever and no discussion of services autistics have actually asked for and benefit from.

People saying that student protestors were ineffective in protesting for Gaza really are missing that public sentiment has swung pretty fast and far on that, and they were absolutely a part of that.

yelling DEBATE ME COWARD and then disabling replies is the ultimate checkmate

New — I wrote about the terror and loss of the last few days, mostly so we don’t forget.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-iran...

CSU lecturer acquitted Government said he assaulted immigration agent

Cal State Channel Islands philosophy lecturer Jonathan Caravello has just been ACQUITTED of assaulting ICE/CBP last summer while protesting a brutal Ventura County cannabis farm raid! His defense argued he threw a tear gas canister away to protect protesters. The jury acquitted him in two hours.

So I see we are back at “why aren’t the students protesting” discourse.
I will once again tap the sign

If I never had In & Out ever again, that'd be fine.

WE NEED BAD IRRELEVANT TAKES IMMEDIATELY

FLOOD THE TIMELINE

Good night everyone. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace.

"Luddites" is a good term for those who oppose AI because the Luddites weren't against *all* technology, just forms of technology that they knew would pay workers less and turn out a shittier product

a sign that says 5 hours later is on a colorful background Alt: a sign that says 5 hours later is on a colorful background

I always think “I’m gonna just take a really short nap” and then it’s like

Chicago Turns All Public School IDs Into Library Cards To Boost Student Access Chicago Public Library and CPS announced the expansion of The 81 Club, building on a pilot launched in 2022 to give students access to the library system's vast collection and databases.

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC.

"All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources."

blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...