Lia Matera
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12 crime novels, 2 Edgar nominations; 14 stories, 1 Shamus winner, 1 Int'l Thriller Award nom
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12 crime novels, 2 Edgar nominations; 14 stories, 1 Shamus winner, 1 Int'l Thriller Award nom
Editor, anthology of stories by my betters
ChatGPT says I died in 2022, making me...a ghost writer?
Member CA Bar
Sorry, I don't reply to DMs
The look on Watters' face. I hate knowing there must be millions like him, getting off on sneering, refusing to let facts and empathy spoil the fun watching bullies at work.
A follow up on this Jesse Watters clip from 3 weeks ago. The victim of ICE testified today before Congress that she was on her way to a 39th scheduled treatment at a traumatic brain injury center.
February 4, 2026 at 1:29 AM
The look on Watters' face. I hate knowing there must be millions like him, getting off on sneering, refusing to let facts and empathy spoil the fun watching bullies at work.
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LA law enforcement should 1) ask ICE/HSI for their ID; 2) tell ICE personnel to remove their masks; 3) ask to see permits for any weapons being carried; 4) ask to see a warrant signed by a judge for each specific arrest they make; 5) ask to see the proof of ICE/HSI agents own citizenship.
June 7, 2025 at 7:34 PM
LA law enforcement should 1) ask ICE/HSI for their ID; 2) tell ICE personnel to remove their masks; 3) ask to see permits for any weapons being carried; 4) ask to see a warrant signed by a judge for each specific arrest they make; 5) ask to see the proof of ICE/HSI agents own citizenship.
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>75,000 have been dragged off to ICE detention camps, access to most denied. Families don't know where parents/children are, lawyers are shut out, and every day new reports of overcrowding, freezing, injuries from beatings, sickness from spoiled food. EVERY politician should be screaming about this!
happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.
February 3, 2026 at 5:21 PM
>75,000 have been dragged off to ICE detention camps, access to most denied. Families don't know where parents/children are, lawyers are shut out, and every day new reports of overcrowding, freezing, injuries from beatings, sickness from spoiled food. EVERY politician should be screaming about this!
The building on the right disappears into visual nonsense (is that a giant tennis shoe?) under improbable "we ♥️ our ICE" sign. But even that looks more real than the Norman Rockwell townspeople goonily smiling at ICE. I guess you don't have to try hard if you train your voters to believe anything.
February 2, 2026 at 10:09 PM
The building on the right disappears into visual nonsense (is that a giant tennis shoe?) under improbable "we ♥️ our ICE" sign. But even that looks more real than the Norman Rockwell townspeople goonily smiling at ICE. I guess you don't have to try hard if you train your voters to believe anything.
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It was probably difficult to foresee that Trump would put the Kennedy Center out of business.
February 1, 2026 at 11:59 PM
It was probably difficult to foresee that Trump would put the Kennedy Center out of business.
Maybe it was inevitable that some contrarian lefties, esp. those who never had a good word to say about Obama, would find reasons to praise the Melania film. But pretending any film about any First Lady would've been as vapid? Might as well say any nature-threat film would've been just like Birdemic
February 2, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Maybe it was inevitable that some contrarian lefties, esp. those who never had a good word to say about Obama, would find reasons to praise the Melania film. But pretending any film about any First Lady would've been as vapid? Might as well say any nature-threat film would've been just like Birdemic
Another disgusting act of Trump appeasement/enrichment possibly explained by mutual association with Epstein. Where is our George Smiley to trace this back to Putin, mentioned in so-far released files >1000 times? Did Epstein and Trump give Putin a honey pot big enough to drown American democracy?
February 2, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Another disgusting act of Trump appeasement/enrichment possibly explained by mutual association with Epstein. Where is our George Smiley to trace this back to Putin, mentioned in so-far released files >1000 times? Did Epstein and Trump give Putin a honey pot big enough to drown American democracy?
Artists won’t perform there because he’s defiled every aspect of what made it great, even slapping his name above Kennedy’s in a piggish display of narcissism. Now he’ll shut it down in petty revenge, opening a new source of bribes while pretend-planning some big ugly monument to commerce over art.
Donald Trump and Ric Grenell want to do to the Kennedy Center what Donald Trump and Stephen Miller want to do to America: Crush everything about it that is pure and good and remake it in their distorted, hateful image.
February 2, 2026 at 1:33 AM
Artists won’t perform there because he’s defiled every aspect of what made it great, even slapping his name above Kennedy’s in a piggish display of narcissism. Now he’ll shut it down in petty revenge, opening a new source of bribes while pretend-planning some big ugly monument to commerce over art.
What a horrific thing to do… and why? It’s as pointless as it is cruel. I hope the children aren’t psychologically scarred for life.
Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
February 1, 2026 at 6:18 PM
What a horrific thing to do… and why? It’s as pointless as it is cruel. I hope the children aren’t psychologically scarred for life.
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This really is it.
Not satisfied with rape, he needed to know his sperm was special and so funded the work of "race scientists" in the academy and promoted online spaces for racists to yap. His allies spent the 2010's claiming they didn't have free speech
or academic freedom bc their colleagues rejected eugenics.
or academic freedom bc their colleagues rejected eugenics.
January 31, 2026 at 3:49 PM
This really is it.
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"The largest immigrant deportation and prison contractors in the US are expecting an epic payout this year: for every $1 that they donated to GOP campaigns in 2024, these private companies stand to reap more than $11,000 in increased annual revenue."
ICE Detention Contractors Are Reaping Massive Profits
The largest immigrant deportation and prison contractors in the US are expecting an epic payout this year: for every $1
jacobin.com
January 30, 2026 at 8:45 PM
"The largest immigrant deportation and prison contractors in the US are expecting an epic payout this year: for every $1 that they donated to GOP campaigns in 2024, these private companies stand to reap more than $11,000 in increased annual revenue."
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This was posted in the new Epstein files release and removed about 20 mins later.
Wonder why that is.
Wonder why that is.
January 30, 2026 at 6:44 PM
This was posted in the new Epstein files release and removed about 20 mins later.
Wonder why that is.
Wonder why that is.
Wow, hundreds of people a year in China eat these mushrooms (I assume accidentally) and, 12-24 hours later, spend 1 to 3 days hallucinating basically the same things, even with their eyes closed: tiny humans, animals, fantasy figures moving all around. No other psychedelic is this uniform in effects
the idea of hallucinating dozens of elves or whatever is terrifying to me www.bbc.com/future/artic...
'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans
Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.
www.bbc.com
January 23, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Wow, hundreds of people a year in China eat these mushrooms (I assume accidentally) and, 12-24 hours later, spend 1 to 3 days hallucinating basically the same things, even with their eyes closed: tiny humans, animals, fantasy figures moving all around. No other psychedelic is this uniform in effects
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Companies helping deport migrants getting huge tax breaks. "The [ATF] report notes that... Amazon, AT&T, Home Depot, Microsoft & Palantir ‘helped ICE track, detain & deport families’ while [saving] a total of $19 billion in... corporate taxes under the OBBBA...’” www.commondreams.org/news/ice-cor...
5 Top ICE 'Corporate Collaborators' Saved $19 Billion in Taxes Under Trump: Report | Common Dreams
"While masked officers terrorize communities—smashing into cars, harassing citizens, and inflicting violence with impunity—Trump’s corporate backers are laughing their way to the bank."
www.commondreams.org
January 23, 2026 at 1:27 AM
Companies helping deport migrants getting huge tax breaks. "The [ATF] report notes that... Amazon, AT&T, Home Depot, Microsoft & Palantir ‘helped ICE track, detain & deport families’ while [saving] a total of $19 billion in... corporate taxes under the OBBBA...’” www.commondreams.org/news/ice-cor...
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Exactly! Bad enough few GOP pols stand up though they see the party losing elections, but where are the big universities and law firms, corporations he forces to pay tariffs or lose business by passing on the cost? I wish they feared our contempt as much as they apparently fear Trump’s goons.
It is important to acknowledge who is standing up and who is just trying to get by. Every day Americans are standing up while the powerful are mostly standing by.
Why aren't law firms standing up and sending lawyers to Minneapolis. Why aren't the corporations speaking out? Why isn't the media?
Why aren't law firms standing up and sending lawyers to Minneapolis. Why aren't the corporations speaking out? Why isn't the media?
January 21, 2026 at 7:16 AM
Exactly! Bad enough few GOP pols stand up though they see the party losing elections, but where are the big universities and law firms, corporations he forces to pay tariffs or lose business by passing on the cost? I wish they feared our contempt as much as they apparently fear Trump’s goons.
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1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has stopped paying for detainee medical treatment
ICE halted payments in October, and the situation will persist for at least several more months
popular.info
January 20, 2026 at 1:42 PM
1. ICE has STOPPED PAYING for medical treatment for its 73,000 detainees
ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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ICE has not paid its bills to 3rd party providers since OCTOBER and the situation will likely persist for MONTHS, a Popular Information investigation reveals
Meanwhile, critically ill ICE detainees are not receiving care
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Megalomaniac’s letter to Norway’s PM would make comic book villains blush: “Considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize…I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace…but can now think about what is good and proper for [USA]…Complete and Total Control of Greenland”
January 19, 2026 at 4:20 PM
Megalomaniac’s letter to Norway’s PM would make comic book villains blush: “Considering your country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize…I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace…but can now think about what is good and proper for [USA]…Complete and Total Control of Greenland”
3 stories online today about ICE murdering/maiming regular folk, bystander videos showing needless merciless assaults. Imagine the flood of stories if MAGA billionaires hadn't bought up most msm & online media in exchange for Trump handing them everything they want up to & including foreign nations.
January 16, 2026 at 12:54 AM
3 stories online today about ICE murdering/maiming regular folk, bystander videos showing needless merciless assaults. Imagine the flood of stories if MAGA billionaires hadn't bought up most msm & online media in exchange for Trump handing them everything they want up to & including foreign nations.
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Worth every second
January 15, 2026 at 2:50 PM
Worth every second
Article worth reading: 1st-hand account by a Columbia alum of Airport Customs interrogating him about what he wrote/posted as undergrad about protests he witnessed. They took & ransacked his phone, kept him in cell all day, deported him to Australia. For non-inflammatory reporting. Trump's America.
January 14, 2026 at 9:19 PM
Article worth reading: 1st-hand account by a Columbia alum of Airport Customs interrogating him about what he wrote/posted as undergrad about protests he witnessed. They took & ransacked his phone, kept him in cell all day, deported him to Australia. For non-inflammatory reporting. Trump's America.
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Congressman Ted Lieu, a former Air Force veteran, issued a stark warning to U.S. military members, that military action against Greenland without explicit congressional authorization would constitute following illegal orders. He reminded service members they swear an oath to the Constitution, not 🤡…
January 13, 2026 at 8:26 PM
Congressman Ted Lieu, a former Air Force veteran, issued a stark warning to U.S. military members, that military action against Greenland without explicit congressional authorization would constitute following illegal orders. He reminded service members they swear an oath to the Constitution, not 🤡…