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Pass the NO KINGS Act Now! Join 671 people. I’m writing to urge you to co-sponsor and actively work to pass the proposed "No Kings" amendment introduced by Representative Morelle and Senator Hirono. Sign and Resistbot delivers your letter in minutes.

The NO KINGS Act just cleared the House. It’s a constitutional amendment to overturn Trump v. United States and make clear that presidents and vice presidents can be prosecuted for crimes they commit in office—official acts included.

Backstory for tonight's victory in Virginia. 🔺🐘❤️

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH

Really exciting news today. My short story “Six People to Revise You” is a Hugo finalist!

Congrats to all the finalists! See you in Anaheim!!!

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Texas republicans illegally gerrymandered their maps and never once asked voters how they feel about it.

California and Virginia let voters decide.

That’s the difference. They started this fight and Democrats are going to fucking finish it.

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A dog sitting on the floor, posting next to a basted blue tweed sport coat with notch lapels. The jacket is being displayed on a dress form.

A dog sitting on the floor, posing in front of a wall where three tailored jackets are hanging.

A dog poses on a table. He's surrounded by a tailor's measuring tape.

Every time this tailor posts a photo of their workspace, it looks like their dog is a tailor and he's showing off the garments he made.

IG z.o.e.y.a.t.e.s

How an 82-Year-Old Great-Grandmother Became a Master-Class Dem Shitposter Meet the unstoppable L. Louise Lucas.

Virginia’s redistricting victory has L. Louise Lucas’ fingerprints all over it.

Read @lauren-egan.bsky.social's profile on the 82-year-old shitposting powerhouse who helped drag Democrats into the battle:

That is gorgeous!!

Ten Years of Sword & Kettle Press An anthology of queer & intersectional speculative literature

So excited about having my story Our Story, Given to the Waves in this. Sword & Kettle does such amazing work and produces so much beautiful fiction—also LOOK at that cover

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And she was right for that.

Bird nests made from anti-bird spikes?! 🤯

Hi, I'm a nest researcher 👋 and new here on BlueSky, sharing the craziest #bird nests I've ever found. 👀 Today, I’m sharing my discovery of rebellious birds that build nests out of anti-bird spikes. And honestly, it's like telling a joke...

A thread. 🧵

Editing Services My goal as an editor is to help bring forth the best version of your book, not to impose my own ideas or preferences on your story. I edit nearly every speculative fiction genre and am intimately f…

I'm offering developmental and copy editing services! If you or someone you know wants far better editing than AI can provide, hit me up either here or through my website: whatsmacksaid.com/services/

And because I'm starting out, if you mention this post I'd be happy to cut the price in *half.*

Several Haitians on the streets rioting against gangs.

Did you check my last newsletter? This time I talk about Haiti and the incredible "Bwa Kale" resistance movement that brought the community together to fight gangs!

Please share and subscribe, and if you're feeling extra generous, help my mom fight cancer! ❤️
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Well well well... would you look at that... you can now follow along on BackerKit! 👀

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As a writer, I'm tired of settling for a pittance. I'm beyond exhausted at being told "this is the best you can get." I'm done with the world's richest people and companies stealing my stories and acting as if theft isn't theft when they do it. 2/

Genre Grapevine on the Anthropic "Blood-Money" Settlement | Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine Get more from Jason Sanford's Genre Grapevine on Patreon

The Anthropic book theft settlement is essentially done, but many more battles remain. I also agree with Catherynne M. Valente's recent essay calling the settlement "blood money." 1/
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Cover of Wolfpack by Rem Wigmore, featuring a brown-skinned woman holding a coppery fox mask. She is mostly obscured by red smoke and a little below the title is a domed white building on a green mountain

Wolfpack is OUT!

The sequel to Foxhunt, this queer solarpunk adventure features our favourite disaster bard Orfeus climbing to new heights to forge her own way ... but can you really escape the bloodstained past you inherit?

The Vengeful Wild duology is now complete!

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from this morning's Publishers Lunch: (black text on white) [small pen nib icon] Imprints: Tucker Carlson Books [blue text] Skyhorse Publishing will launch a new imprint with media host Tucker Carlson. The imprint is a partnership with Carlson's media company, which has a revenue sharing agreement with the publisher, according to the WSJ. Carlson and his business partner Neil Patel "also launched a precious metals company and a nicotine pouch company." The first list will include Russell Brand’s How To Become a Christian In Seven Days, Milo Yiannopoulos’ Ex Gay, and Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong's Killing Cancer. Brand's literary agent and previous UK publisher, Bluebird Books dropped the author due to sexual assault allegations. Brand faces rape and sexual assault charges, which he has denied, in the UK. Simon & Schuster canceled a book by Yiannopoulos in 2017 after a video surfaced in which he seemed to express approval for grown men having sex with underage boys; Yiannopoulos eventually self-published.

If you didn't know what sort of publisher Skyhorse Publishing was before, well, now you do.

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that begs the question though: in a court of law, if someone claims they were "trapped" behind a series of puzzles that they absolutely have the ability to solve but refuse to so as not to piss off their girlfriend, is that still kidnapping

Tiny story day!

I didn't do this in March, but I'm back! Drop a comment in the thread and get a tiny story just for you. If you'd like a prompt, feel free to riff off of any sort of transportation.

I'll get to these through the rest of the month, and hopefully you'll get something fun to enjoy.

Oof, so...guess what? Due to a very frustrating mistake, I had to temporarily "unpublish" my preorder option for A Waltz of Sinister Import (#3 in the Unexpected Adventures of Lady & Lord Riven)...which lost every one of its 200+ preorders! 😱

I am SO sorry for the inconvenience and frustration. 1/2

this morning was a whirlwind, let me properly flail now!!

HI YES I'm honored that "Saint Zero of the Hollows and the Eagle Knight" is available over at @lightspeedmagazine.com! it's a tragic sapphic space knights story with SO much mess. it's fine!! ✨

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New story day.

This story was deeply personal. It gave me the courage to keep resisting.

Thank you @lightspeedmagazine.com for publishing this story.

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Welcome to Heroism - Uncanny Magazine Nobody read the Terms of Service. They were in a rush to watch the latest unbelievable must-see content from someone who probably died seconds later. It seemed like as soon as anyone knew The Dare exi...

New Story Day: "Welcome To Heroism" is out in @uncannymagazine.bsky.social!

A mysterious app is daring people to increasingly impossible things for a chance at fame. The feats seem so ridiculous that nobody notices they might have some altruistic sides. Could the app have an agenda...?

Donald Trump threatening the destruction of an entire civilization is madness.

He is completely unfit to serve as President of the United States.

Invoke the 25th Amendment. Or Republicans must stand up with us to impeach him. We cannot allow him to set fire to the world.

Carl Sagan - Pale Blue Dot YouTube video by carlsagandotcom

I think one of the reasons why Artemis II had us all so captivated was that it was one of those times where we feel on such a visceral level what Carl Sagan got across in his Pale Blue Dot monologue: that we are simultaneously tiny and precious and we need each other youtu.be/wupToqz1e2g?...

Happy Bookday!!

Cover art for The Subtle Art of Folding Space by John Chu. Has a blurb from Max Gladstone "A work of crystalline vision and meticulous humanity"

Spend a little time with my novel The Subtle Art of Folding Space! Available today!
Bugs in the physics! Status reports in the form of food! Finding a family!
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Jupiter Ruins Everything | Sam J. Miller | Substack A serialized novel about tyranny, resistance, hope, and bloody revenge. In space. Click to read Jupiter Ruins Everything, by Sam J. Miller, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

Chapter 4 of JUPITER RUINS EVERYTHING drops tomorrow morning, in which Deimos tries to fix a big problem with his massive revenge plot, with the help of the digital intelligence that he programmed of his dead sibling. And then does drugs.

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