Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
@pearlbear.com
Black, Trans, Queer, multi-genre writer. Ph.D. Neuroscience. MFA student Antioch University. Cazadero, CA & Seattle, WA
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Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
@pearlbear.com
· Jan 6
A 🧵on my books, in order:
The Casitian Universe Omnibus
📚 3 Novels
👽Good aliens
🌈Queer characters
💖Love stories
🌼Optimistic
🚀Space travel (a little)
🪐Planet colonization
⚠️ Culture clash
Soon to be out in paper!
author.maxwellpearl.com/pages/the-ca...
The Casitian Universe Omnibus
📚 3 Novels
👽Good aliens
🌈Queer characters
💖Love stories
🌼Optimistic
🚀Space travel (a little)
🪐Planet colonization
⚠️ Culture clash
Soon to be out in paper!
author.maxwellpearl.com/pages/the-ca...
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Slave ships.
Genuinely curious: If your family is American, what brought them here?
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
Mine: religious nuttery & primogeniture
February 3, 2026 at 3:02 AM
Slave ships.
Proud to be the 32nd backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Trans in the Machine: Chronicling the New Cyberpunk Canon! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
Trans in the Machine: Chronicling the New Cyberpunk Canon
A first of its kind exploration of transness in cyberpunk. Putting Trans+ voices front and centre, this academic yet accessible book will feature interviews from dozens of creatives and media experts....
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February 2, 2026 at 5:56 PM
Proud to be the 32nd backer 😎 on @BackerKit Crowdfunding for Trans in the Machine: Chronicling the New Cyberpunk Canon! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...
I can see this (and other trends) as the beginning of a (probably long) process of blue states orienting more toward each other and the world, and less toward the federal government, eventually leading to their departure.
In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from WHO, California is the first state to participate in the agency's disease monitoring network. Are others following?
As the U.S. bids adieu to the World Health Organization, California says hello
In the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from WHO, California is the first state to participate in the agency's disease monitoring network. Are others following?
n.pr
February 1, 2026 at 9:25 PM
I can see this (and other trends) as the beginning of a (probably long) process of blue states orienting more toward each other and the world, and less toward the federal government, eventually leading to their departure.
Seen in bustling Cotati, CA - a big group of probably high school aged kids in a protest march against ICE.
January 30, 2026 at 9:25 PM
Seen in bustling Cotati, CA - a big group of probably high school aged kids in a protest march against ICE.
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1) that's already not legal
2) this is way way way less than what we need to demand
3) when will the Senate/House Dem leadership finally get the big picture here
2) this is way way way less than what we need to demand
3) when will the Senate/House Dem leadership finally get the big picture here
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Jeffries demands ban on deportation of US citizens as part of DHS reforms
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation fun…
www.kget.com
January 30, 2026 at 3:36 AM
1) that's already not legal
2) this is way way way less than what we need to demand
3) when will the Senate/House Dem leadership finally get the big picture here
2) this is way way way less than what we need to demand
3) when will the Senate/House Dem leadership finally get the big picture here
Called mine.
January 28, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Called mine.
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How many years have we been watching gun nuts open carry semiautomatic rifles into, like, a Dunkin' Donuts as a statement against government control? And they're now silent over a citizen being murdered by federal agents and then blamed for legally carrying a firearm?
January 26, 2026 at 5:49 PM
How many years have we been watching gun nuts open carry semiautomatic rifles into, like, a Dunkin' Donuts as a statement against government control? And they're now silent over a citizen being murdered by federal agents and then blamed for legally carrying a firearm?
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COLLECTIVE
LIBERATION
OR
BUST
LIBERATION
OR
BUST
Solidarity will break them.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 AM
COLLECTIVE
LIBERATION
OR
BUST
LIBERATION
OR
BUST
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I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
January 24, 2026 at 7:23 PM
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
January 24, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
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Republicans are doubling down on Trump’s obsession with taking over Greenland and introduced a bill to make it the 51st state.
On #TheFlipSide, Democrats are working to get taxpaying, American citizens in D.C. statehood.
On #TheFlipSide, Democrats are working to get taxpaying, American citizens in D.C. statehood.
January 22, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Republicans are doubling down on Trump’s obsession with taking over Greenland and introduced a bill to make it the 51st state.
On #TheFlipSide, Democrats are working to get taxpaying, American citizens in D.C. statehood.
On #TheFlipSide, Democrats are working to get taxpaying, American citizens in D.C. statehood.
Great thread in MN.
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 3:29 PM
Great thread in MN.
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The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
January 21, 2026 at 2:26 PM
The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
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Word. I once saw this issue described in the metaphor of a line cook, in full view of everyone else, hocking a loogie into someone's food.
Yes, obvz, fire the cook. But the main issue is, he did it without fear of punishment. He didn't even try to hide it.
The real problem is the whole kitchen.
Yes, obvz, fire the cook. But the main issue is, he did it without fear of punishment. He didn't even try to hide it.
The real problem is the whole kitchen.
Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.
His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him
January 21, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Word. I once saw this issue described in the metaphor of a line cook, in full view of everyone else, hocking a loogie into someone's food.
Yes, obvz, fire the cook. But the main issue is, he did it without fear of punishment. He didn't even try to hide it.
The real problem is the whole kitchen.
Yes, obvz, fire the cook. But the main issue is, he did it without fear of punishment. He didn't even try to hide it.
The real problem is the whole kitchen.
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Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?
January 20, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?
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And for those leftists who said “both sides are the same,” you all were deathly wrong. Even if that was true, voting for Dems would have made MAGA and, by extension, the Republican Party obsolete. This would have allowed room for a progressive party to take root.
January 20, 2026 at 4:03 AM
And for those leftists who said “both sides are the same,” you all were deathly wrong. Even if that was true, voting for Dems would have made MAGA and, by extension, the Republican Party obsolete. This would have allowed room for a progressive party to take root.
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From @sifill.bsky.social
"The Civil Rights Movement saved America from drowning. Now this country appears to be going under for the fateful third time. King and those involved in the Civil Rights Movement ushered in this country’s last, best...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
"The Civil Rights Movement saved America from drowning. Now this country appears to be going under for the fateful third time. King and those involved in the Civil Rights Movement ushered in this country’s last, best...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
It's King Day!
Don't Allow Them to Memory Hole What It Means
open.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 7:17 PM
From @sifill.bsky.social
"The Civil Rights Movement saved America from drowning. Now this country appears to be going under for the fateful third time. King and those involved in the Civil Rights Movement ushered in this country’s last, best...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
"The Civil Rights Movement saved America from drowning. Now this country appears to be going under for the fateful third time. King and those involved in the Civil Rights Movement ushered in this country’s last, best...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS
January 15, 2026 at 9:34 PM
I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS
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American Indian Movement (AIM) patrol trucks have been spotted around NE and folks are flagging them as suspicious and giving them unwelcoming glances because they don’t know who they are. This is the AIM logo and flag, which you might see on their trucks. They are friends!
January 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
American Indian Movement (AIM) patrol trucks have been spotted around NE and folks are flagging them as suspicious and giving them unwelcoming glances because they don’t know who they are. This is the AIM logo and flag, which you might see on their trucks. They are friends!
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These lines from Edwin Grabhorn, renowned San Francisco printer, writing in 1948, now seem bitterly ironic in light of what Silicon Valley has done from the area.
Rather than ‘illumination’ we’ve got the exact opposite
Rather than ‘illumination’ we’ve got the exact opposite
January 16, 2026 at 10:01 AM
These lines from Edwin Grabhorn, renowned San Francisco printer, writing in 1948, now seem bitterly ironic in light of what Silicon Valley has done from the area.
Rather than ‘illumination’ we’ve got the exact opposite
Rather than ‘illumination’ we’ve got the exact opposite