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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 4h

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 21h

Hugely honored to see THE SLIP win the 2025 Kirkus Prize in fiction. Thank you, Kirkus!

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 1d

Love to see THE SLIP on the shelves The Mysterious Bookshop! Now signed 🥊

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for including THE SLIP on your shelves, @mcnallyjackson.bsky.social! (Now signed in downtown Brooklyn!)

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 3d

Upcoming events for THE SLIP across Austin and Texas. Tix on my website. Join us! 🥊🥊🥊

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 3d

Upcoming events for THE SLIP across Austin and Texas. Tix on my website. Join us! 🥊🥊🥊

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 4d

I told you guys back when ICE first invaded LA the agents tried to go into my hometown Whittier public library to pee. When the librarians told them to get lost they peed all over the building and flower beds in broad daylight.

PortiaMcGonagal @portiamcgonagal.bsky.social · 4d

The way these people think they're entitled to whatever they want. This is what happens when you raise children who are never told no. 1/

www.rawstory.com/kristi-noem-...

'Very difficult situation': Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.During a Sunday interview on ...

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Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social · 4d

One big asymmetry that Dems enable: Republicans attack Dem VOTERS as evil, enemies of the state and now, per Trump, a problem for the military to get rid of. We have one politician who called some of them deplorables and one who said they were weird and people behave as if these are the same

Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 4d

The media trots out the "deplorable" comment from a decade ago to castigate the left. Once a week now Trump implies that the military should destroy democrats, and it is just how things are.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Trump to the Navy: "We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats."

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Scary Werewolf Bar Kochba @dickius.bsky.social · 4d

Wow, it must be terrible being told that you can’t use the bathroom.

'Very difficult situation': Kristi Noem whines locals not letting ICE agents use restrooms

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem complained that her agents were not being permitted to use restrooms in Chicago because of opposition from residents.During a Sunday interview on ...

www.rawstory.com

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Cristian Farias @cristianfarias.com · 4d

This video of Chicagoans intervening to save a man from being abducted off the streets by ICE is making the rounds on Instagram.

Community action works.

Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DPZL2AL...

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Kathryn Edwards @klouw.bsky.social · 4d

ICE causes problem, calls police for help. Police refuse. “Ald. Julia Ramirez, whose 12th Ward includes Brighton Park, said there was “pure escalation” from federal agents on Saturday. She said community members feel that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are antagonizing protesters.”

Morgan Fairchild @morgfair.bsky.social · 5d

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Federal agents shoot woman they say 'boxed in' authorities on Chicago's South Side

Authorities were on patrol when they were "rammed by 10 cars," according to a statement from the Department of Homeland Security. One of the drivers "was armed with a semi-automatic weapon," prompting...

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Atrios @eschatonblog.com · 4d

We are here, in part, because guys like Schatz would never say this to "ezra klein" - a rich media guy - but somehow think "adam" is suppose to be dismissed and ignored but also do unpaid comms work for them

Lifelong Democrats for Zohran #ImWithHim 🌊🌊🌊 @vodkasnowflake.bsky.social · 4d

brutal lol

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 4d

Seems unfortunate to throw away our representative democracy to validate the feelings of a sweaty weasel like Stephen Miller, bitter that everyone who has ever come into contact with him recognizes him for the antisocial freak that he is.

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 4d

This isn't subtle or metaphorical: Stephen Miller has repeatedly declared the federal government will use violence against officers of the legal system. Now he's calling a federal judge part of "an organized terrorist attack" and saying it's an "absolute necessity" to deploy troops against her.

Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4d

Everyone is trying to have a normal Saturday night and the president's top advisor is on X announcing that civil war is necessary

@StephenM on X: Legal insurrection. The President is the commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces, not an Oregon judge. Portland and Oregon law enforcement, at the direction of local leaders, have refused to aid ICE officers facing relentless terrorist assault and threats to life. (There are more local law enforcement officers in Oregon than there are guns and badges in the FBI nationwide). This is an organized terrorist attack on the federal government and its officers, and the deployment of troops is an absolute necessity to defend our personnel, our laws, our government, public order and the Republic itself.

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 5d

It was clear from the beginning that ICE staffing up was going to be a full employment program for racists, barroom bullies and wife beaters

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Elizabeth McCracken @elizmccrack.bsky.social · 10d

Hello! I am teaching a course for the splendid American Short Fiction MFA for All, on physicality in fiction. I have a lot of thoughts on the subject. Kevin Wlson & Tommy Orange are also teaching! Deadline to sign up for my class is 10/5.

americanshortfiction.org/mfa-for-all/

MFA for All - American Short Fiction

MFA for ALL MFA for All was born from our desire to create a space where MFA-quality instruction is widely accessible to writers no matter their age, background, location, or financial situation. MFA ...

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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 5d

This is a declaration they will use federal resources to deploy violence against judges, prosecutors, and attorneys general. There's no other coherent interpretation of the phrasing, including "only remedy," "legitimate state power," and connecting those people with "terror networks."

Stephen Miller
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The issue before is now is very simple and clear. There is a large and growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country. It is well organized and funded. And it is shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors and attorneys general. The only remedy is to use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism and terror networks.
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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 6d

Watching the rise of Bari Weiss is a good reminder that pretending that a bad faith operator is operating in good faith benefits only the former.

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 6d

RIP CBS News which will now be a journalistic operation in the same way the “University” of Austin is a university

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 6d

Nice write up on THE SLIP in the Provincetown Independent 🥊

Boxing His Way to a New Self - The Provincetown Independent

In most cities, there’s a boxing gym where “anyone could be accepted, if they were willing to put in the work,” says a trainer in Lucas Schaefer’s novel The Slip […]

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 6d

This is all an egregious violation of our norms and laws but also an incredible tell that they know this is a losing fight for them

Will Harris @willharrisinva.bsky.social · 7d

If you go the White House website, you see this. You also see the words “Americans Don’t Agree with Democrats’ Actions” followed by an incredibly lengthy list of organizations. When you click on each one, you get a note or letter from that organization about the need for a continuing resolution. 1/🧵

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 6d

“Weird” was fine but “creepy busybody losers” is more apt

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Lucas Schaefer @lucaseschaefer.bsky.social · 7d

I seem to remember Project 2025 polling at 4% and it’s nice to see some Democrats finally acting like it

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Ned Resnikoff @resnikoff.bsky.social · 9d

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

Charles PM @charlespulliam.bsky.social · 9d

Fuckin yikes, man

Some comics were transparent about their willingness to ignore their moral convictions in order to play at the festival. “So what, they have slaves?” asked Tim Dillon in a podcast segment that led to his firing from the festival. “They’re paying me enough money to look the other way.” Pete Davidson offered a similar take, acknowledging in a chat with Von that people have asked him why, given his father’s death on 9/11, he would take a paycheck from the Saudi government. He did not address the criticism directly, but he did suggest he was happy to forget 9/11 for the right price: “I just know I get the routing, and then I see the number, and I go, ‘I’ll go.’”

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Lauren Ashley Davis @laurenmeidasa.bsky.social · 9d

Longtime Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper said that she can't find any military officials who attended the meeting in Virginia with President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth and liked what they heard.

www.rawstory.com/trump-milita...

'Disbelief': Pentagon reporter can't find one military official who liked Hegseth's speech

Longtime Pentagon reporter Helene Cooper said that she can't find any military officials who attended the meeting in Virginia with President Donald Trump and Secretary Pete Hegseth and liked what the...

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