David D. Levine
@daviddlevine.com
Hugo- and Nebula-winning writer of THE KUIPER BELT JOB, the ARABELLA OF MARS trilogy, and over 60 science fiction and fantasy stories. He/him.
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Hello! I'm an award-winning science fiction writer and these are my four published novels. I have also published over 60 short stories! You can find out more about me and my writing at daviddlevine.com.
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I’m the Mayor of Minneapolis. Trump Is Lying to You. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
Opinion | I’m the Mayor of Minneapolis. Trump Is Lying to You.
www.nytimes.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:24 PM
I’m the Mayor of Minneapolis. Trump Is Lying to You. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/08/o...
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Good lord--we're way behind Luxembourg?! This is outrageous! Get to the coffee pot, quick! USA USA!
January 9, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Good lord--we're way behind Luxembourg?! This is outrageous! Get to the coffee pot, quick! USA USA!
If you write a quadrillion stories, that's petafiction.
If you write a story featuring a Ford Fiesta, that's autofiction.
If you write a story featuring a Greek cheese, that’s fetafiction.
January 9, 2026 at 6:30 PM
If you write a quadrillion stories, that's petafiction.
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Multnomah Country, Oregon, has posted warnings to residents that ICE agents are impersonating utility workers.
You read that right. ICE is now impersonating utility workers in order to gain access to people's homes and businesses without a warrant.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
You read that right. ICE is now impersonating utility workers in order to gain access to people's homes and businesses without a warrant.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
ICE officers impersonating utility workers, Oregon lawmaker says
NW Natural issues notice telling public how to ID its employees and contractors.
www.oregonlive.com
January 9, 2026 at 1:55 AM
Multnomah Country, Oregon, has posted warnings to residents that ICE agents are impersonating utility workers.
You read that right. ICE is now impersonating utility workers in order to gain access to people's homes and businesses without a warrant.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
You read that right. ICE is now impersonating utility workers in order to gain access to people's homes and businesses without a warrant.
www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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One of the victims in Portland *called 911 for help and reported the shooting himself*
No call for medical attention came from ICE.
No call for medical attention came from ICE.
US Border agents shoot, wound two people in Portland, city officials say
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents shot two people in Portland on Thursday afternoon, according to the FBI, Portland police and city officials.Portland p
katu.com
January 9, 2026 at 12:12 AM
One of the victims in Portland *called 911 for help and reported the shooting himself*
No call for medical attention came from ICE.
No call for medical attention came from ICE.
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Great thread. I will add one thing: it’s very clear that when ICE is going into a new city, it’s not going into a city who hasn’t learned. Organizers are sharing. They start and people already have every license plate number they’ve used and are tracking their vehicles on day one.
They don't have capacity to terrorize more than 2-3 cities at a time.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
Which means they rotate teams to new cities without relief.
Which means consistent resistance by fresh activists in each new city will break them over time.
Which means if you're city's not occupied, rest up and get ready.
"The Department of Homeland Security plans to pause operations in Chicago — where Gregory Bovino, a Border Patrol official, has led controversial arrest efforts — to support the immigration enforcement operation in Minnesota."
January 9, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Great thread. I will add one thing: it’s very clear that when ICE is going into a new city, it’s not going into a city who hasn’t learned. Organizers are sharing. They start and people already have every license plate number they’ve used and are tracking their vehicles on day one.
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Every word, a stepping stone on an amazing journey.
January 8, 2026 at 2:32 PM
Every word, a stepping stone on an amazing journey.
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On Jan 20 we walk out everywhere.
Resistance doesn’t need permission. It needs to confront power.
A year into Trump 2.0, billionaires and big oil win.
Midterms will limit MAGA so 2026 is the cash-out.
We refuse. On Jan 20, feminists pull labor, money, consent. See you in the streets. #FreeAmerica
Resistance doesn’t need permission. It needs to confront power.
A year into Trump 2.0, billionaires and big oil win.
Midterms will limit MAGA so 2026 is the cash-out.
We refuse. On Jan 20, feminists pull labor, money, consent. See you in the streets. #FreeAmerica
January 4, 2026 at 5:52 PM
On Jan 20 we walk out everywhere.
Resistance doesn’t need permission. It needs to confront power.
A year into Trump 2.0, billionaires and big oil win.
Midterms will limit MAGA so 2026 is the cash-out.
We refuse. On Jan 20, feminists pull labor, money, consent. See you in the streets. #FreeAmerica
Resistance doesn’t need permission. It needs to confront power.
A year into Trump 2.0, billionaires and big oil win.
Midterms will limit MAGA so 2026 is the cash-out.
We refuse. On Jan 20, feminists pull labor, money, consent. See you in the streets. #FreeAmerica
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So I have only just discovered at some vague point in the next couple weeks Google is going to break the way my work email works, and the company has done nothing to alert people to it.
www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/g...
www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/g...
Gmail preparing to drop POP3 mail fetching
: It's January 2026, and Google is finding innovative new ways to make one of its services worse
www.theregister.com
January 7, 2026 at 6:25 PM
So I have only just discovered at some vague point in the next couple weeks Google is going to break the way my work email works, and the company has done nothing to alert people to it.
www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/g...
www.theregister.com/2026/01/05/g...
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Harold will return in Avengers: Domesday
January 7, 2026 at 3:54 PM
Harold will return in Avengers: Domesday
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Indie writers take note. The Zon is ignoring requests from both authors and former publishers to take down fraudulent listings.
Read's Lili's blog for details. And if you are over there and see this high-priced forgery with no cover? You could protest it as a fraud.
Read's Lili's blog for details. And if you are over there and see this high-priced forgery with no cover? You could protest it as a fraud.
(Yes, I'm still annoyed, even if I don't have time to pursue the matter further.)
Lili Saintcrow | Scamazon Games
I didn’t want to write this, but I suppose I have to. Let’s start with a little background. A small/indie publisher I love is retiring, which means the press is closing down. This is be…
www.lilithsaintcrow.com
January 7, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Indie writers take note. The Zon is ignoring requests from both authors and former publishers to take down fraudulent listings.
Read's Lili's blog for details. And if you are over there and see this high-priced forgery with no cover? You could protest it as a fraud.
Read's Lili's blog for details. And if you are over there and see this high-priced forgery with no cover? You could protest it as a fraud.
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Prepare to say goodbye to Discord (the enshittification will begin no later than date of IPO +3 months):
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/chat-platform-discord-confidentially-file-233734571.html
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/chat-platform-discord-confidentially-file-233734571.html
January 7, 2026 at 12:45 PM
Prepare to say goodbye to Discord (the enshittification will begin no later than date of IPO +3 months):
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/chat-platform-discord-confidentially-file-233734571.html
https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/chat-platform-discord-confidentially-file-233734571.html
Just rewatched the original Battlestar Galactica miniseries (2003) and was reminded that, at that time, "wireless" (as a noun) was a clever reinvigoration of an obsolete term rather than the quotidian word it has since become.
January 7, 2026 at 2:19 AM
Just rewatched the original Battlestar Galactica miniseries (2003) and was reminded that, at that time, "wireless" (as a noun) was a clever reinvigoration of an obsolete term rather than the quotidian word it has since become.
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I’m developing a game where you have to go back to assassinate Adam. It’s a first person shooter.
January 7, 2026 at 12:58 AM
I’m developing a game where you have to go back to assassinate Adam. It’s a first person shooter.
Every fan of Star Trek, Babylon 5, Andor, and every other show in which ordinary people face facism should read this essay.
My latest essay for @uncannymagazine.bsky.social is live!!
My editor: "I've never published a more important essay." 🥹
My editor: "I've never published a more important essay." 🥹
These Stories Teach Us How to Fight - Uncanny Magazine
Chicago, October 2025. I need you to know we tried. I bought whistles and saline eyewash for my friends, students. The theatre bought 150 whistles. They were gone in days. A neighbor 3D-printed hundre...
www.uncannymagazine.com
January 7, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Every fan of Star Trek, Babylon 5, Andor, and every other show in which ordinary people face facism should read this essay.
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I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.
January 6, 2026 at 8:09 PM
I spent an excessive number of years moderating a gaming forum and I learned a great deal about community spaces and cultivation, whether I wanted to or not. I have critical advice for anyone who runs a game store or gaming convention. Please share this thread with people who run those things.
Includes a nice review of my story "Rust"!
My review of the September/October 2025 issue of @analogsf.bsky.social for @locusmag.bsky.social is now available to read online!
locusmag.com/review/analo...
locusmag.com/review/analo...
Analog: Review by A.C. Wise
Analog 9-10/25 The September/October issue of Analog opens with the novella “Suspended Animation” by Jay Werkheiser & Julian Michael Carver. Dustin Reed is a VFX specialist recruited by the mil…
locusmag.com
January 6, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Includes a nice review of my story "Rust"!
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Biologists must display their most marvelous plumage if they are to be accepted by a flock of fellow biologists.
We are now witness to this rare yet beautiful phenomenon at the Society of Integrative of Comparative Biology conference in Portland, OR #SICB2026
We are now witness to this rare yet beautiful phenomenon at the Society of Integrative of Comparative Biology conference in Portland, OR #SICB2026
January 6, 2026 at 12:49 AM
Biologists must display their most marvelous plumage if they are to be accepted by a flock of fellow biologists.
We are now witness to this rare yet beautiful phenomenon at the Society of Integrative of Comparative Biology conference in Portland, OR #SICB2026
We are now witness to this rare yet beautiful phenomenon at the Society of Integrative of Comparative Biology conference in Portland, OR #SICB2026
This writer speculates that the US invaded Venezuela because it was moving away from dollar-denominated oil sales (as did Iraq in 2000 and Libya in 2009, both of which were subsequently bombed by the US).
The Petrodollar at War: Why Venezuela’s Oil Threatens America’s Currency Empire - By Oyakhamoh Y. Carl-Abu'Bakar - Pegasus Reporters
FacebookTweetLikeShares “With 303 billion barrels of proven reserves—the largest on Earth—Venezuela holds 20% of the world’s oil. In 2018, Caracas announced it would “free itself from the dollar.” Oil sales began in yuan, euros, and rubles. Venezuela petitioned to join BRICS and built payment channels that bypassed SWIFT” BY PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS, NIGERIA | ...
www.pegasusreporters.com
January 5, 2026 at 10:27 PM
This writer speculates that the US invaded Venezuela because it was moving away from dollar-denominated oil sales (as did Iraq in 2000 and Libya in 2009, both of which were subsequently bombed by the US).
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For a moment, at least, David D Levine was one of science fiction's giants.
January 5, 2026 at 8:09 AM
For a moment, at least, David D Levine was one of science fiction's giants.
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I enjoyed THE KUIPER BELT JOB by David D Levine (2023). Hard-SF caper set, as title indicates, within our Solar System.
In promoting his book, my old pal figured out that a Times Square billboard can be rented for just long enough to snap a photo of it.
Voilà: @daviddlevine.com's name in lights!
In promoting his book, my old pal figured out that a Times Square billboard can be rented for just long enough to snap a photo of it.
Voilà: @daviddlevine.com's name in lights!
January 5, 2026 at 8:08 AM
I enjoyed THE KUIPER BELT JOB by David D Levine (2023). Hard-SF caper set, as title indicates, within our Solar System.
In promoting his book, my old pal figured out that a Times Square billboard can be rented for just long enough to snap a photo of it.
Voilà: @daviddlevine.com's name in lights!
In promoting his book, my old pal figured out that a Times Square billboard can be rented for just long enough to snap a photo of it.
Voilà: @daviddlevine.com's name in lights!
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The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply.
I want to make sure this is very clear.
I want to make sure this is very clear.
January 4, 2026 at 6:18 PM
The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply.
I want to make sure this is very clear.
I want to make sure this is very clear.
This comic is from 2019. 😕
Same As it Ever Was | Keith Knight: Gentleman Cartoonist
Same As it Ever Was | Keith Knight: Gentleman Cartoonist
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January 4, 2026 at 7:36 PM
This comic is from 2019. 😕
Same As it Ever Was | Keith Knight: Gentleman Cartoonist
Same As it Ever Was | Keith Knight: Gentleman Cartoonist
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In a nutshell.
January 4, 2026 at 9:15 AM
In a nutshell.