Hey, new Bluesky friends! If you're following for my hot political takes, I'm also a bestselling fantasy author with a subversive streak that manifests in my work.
And if you followed for book stuff, be forewarned that you're gonna get the politics, too!
Marjorie Taylor Greene on CNN (!): "I'm getting phone calls from people that are saying if the ACA tax credits expire, they aren't gonna be able to have health insurance. They're going to have to drop it."
Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.
UGH! Why are we slow-walking into civil war for NO FUCKING REASON!? Nothing. There is literally NO REASON for any of this, other than the fact that a handful of obscenely wealthy men want to break this nation apart and restructure it even more to their personal benefit.
BREAKING: President Donald Trump called for the arrest of Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker as hundreds of National Guard troops seemed poised to deploy into Chicago. bit.ly/3KE474V
3 MAGA extremists have re-intro'd a bill that allows South Carolina to execute women who receive an abortion. If you haven't heard about S 323, it's because corporate media has completely ignored it.
Mallory McMorrow said she will not take AIPAC support and called the war on Gaza a genocide for the first time at an event in Allegan, Michigan yesterday.
This feels like evidence Trump's aides are deliberately gaslighting him, which is unfortunately very easy to do with dementia sufferers (Trump did it to his father) and which aides are using to seize control of the US military for their own purposes.
As President Trump ramps up efforts to send federal officers and troops into cities, criminologists are watching closely. Are the feds doing this in a smart way?
1-866-952-4456 to tell Netflix that in no way do you want Elon fucking Musk determining what you watch.
I just called, got through in about 15 seconds, and told them that I strongly support queer inclusion in their programming and that I will cancel my subscription if they cave.
As a novelist known for causing readers to reach for a dictionary on the regular, I completely agree! But if you suspect le mot juste is going to break a reader's flow, it ought to be for good reason. For me, "bien-pensant" doesn't meet that standard.
Holy cow, Whiskey Pete's body-shaming top military brass. I feel like this entire administration thinks it's on a reality TV show. Gotta keep those waists snatched in formation, girly pops!
Hegseth: "It all starts with physical fitness and appearance. If the secretary of war can do regular hard PT, so can every member of our joint force. Frankly, it's tiring to look out at combat formations and see fat troops. Likewise, it's completely unacceptable to see fat generals and admirals."
Meanwhile, other countries are hitting 100% renewable energy using combinations of hydropower, geothermal, solar, wind... and we're courting black lung disease because Old Man Trump once got his diaper in a twist about windmills near a Scottish golf course.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Fox: "We're announcing today expanded programs to help the American coal industry. We're helping it because for years it has been under assault. It was out of fashion with the chardonnay set in San Francisco, Boulder, and NYC ... coal just makes the world go round."
Good. We need more scientists to step up and fight back in the War on Science. I want to see the media flooded with wild-eyed lab techs screaming things like, "Climate change is real! Vaccines work! We're THIS close to curing cancer, and you're sending us back to the Dark Ages!"
It looks like some of the biggest investors in the anti-trans movement are fossil fuel billionaires who are trying to use trans issues to ensure that Republicans pass policies favorable to their industry.
Just watched a TikTok of an American tourist in China trying out sport assist robot legs. Weighs 4lbs, costs $1,000. AI-driven, no learning curve, capable of walking, running and climbing for you. It would be a godsend for many mobility issues.
Today TikTok is a hilarious and terrifying mash-up of people literally posting tips for When You Are Raptured (hint: don't look down) and people posting requests like, "Can I have your car when I'm left behind?"
The right wing has relied on grievance for so long, since they wound up with all the levers of power, they've been floundering emotionally and psychologically to justify their nonexistent victimhood. Among other things, CK's death restored their ability to perceive themselves as heroic martyrs.
