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?
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Sorry, I don't reply to DMs
"It is a throwback to McCarthyism"..."dangerous in the sense that it is directed at a specific ideology, namely the left, without offering much evidence...And it’s also dangerous in the sense that it’s ignoring the lion’s share of nihilistic violent extremists" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Trump administration prepares sweeping crackdown on leftist networks
The Justice Department’s program to root out violent “Antifa” extremism is raising First Amendment concerns.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
"It is a throwback to McCarthyism"..."dangerous in the sense that it is directed at a specific ideology, namely the left, without offering much evidence...And it’s also dangerous in the sense that it’s ignoring the lion’s share of nihilistic violent extremists" www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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So… he’s giving them their own money?
Where’s the tariff money?
Where’s the tariff money?
December 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
So… he’s giving them their own money?
Where’s the tariff money?
Where’s the tariff money?
Take back my English Lit degree! had to look up obumbrate (darken), obnubilation (darken/obscure), nontrepreneur (leader of entrepreneurs), haboob (dust storm), scroddled (mottled pottery), dottle (tobacco plug), goluptious (voluptuous), mumpsimus (obstinate belief in error), reboant (reverberating)
December 18, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Take back my English Lit degree! had to look up obumbrate (darken), obnubilation (darken/obscure), nontrepreneur (leader of entrepreneurs), haboob (dust storm), scroddled (mottled pottery), dottle (tobacco plug), goluptious (voluptuous), mumpsimus (obstinate belief in error), reboant (reverberating)
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California judge rules that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around Autopilot www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/c...
“.. Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles.” sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...
“.. Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles.” sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...
California judge rules that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around Autopilot
An administrative law judge in California ruled Tesla's license to sell or manufacture cars in the state should be suspended for 30 days.
www.cnbc.com
December 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
California judge rules that Tesla engaged in deceptive marketing around Autopilot www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/c...
“.. Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles.” sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...
“.. Tesla Robotaxis are crashing once every 40,000 miles, whereas the average human driver in the US crashes about once every 500,000 miles.” sherwood.news/tech/teslas-...
I'll watch South Park's Melania instead. youtu.be/nk181HYmcZY?...
December 17, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I'll watch South Park's Melania instead. youtu.be/nk181HYmcZY?...
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We are failing our kids
December 16, 2025 at 3:06 PM
We are failing our kids
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
Time Magazine should put out Understatement of the Year issues. For 2025, I nominate "This is not normal."
December 16, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Time Magazine should put out Understatement of the Year issues. For 2025, I nominate "This is not normal."
He sums it up so well.
December 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
He sums it up so well.
Even Trump’s RIP posts are all about him — flattering himself & peddling his dumb delusions while, with cutesy slanders, attacking the deceased. He’s not even smart enough to feign basic sympathy. He thinks he can get away with cringeworthy sarcasm and still get full credit for being a normal human.
December 15, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Even Trump’s RIP posts are all about him — flattering himself & peddling his dumb delusions while, with cutesy slanders, attacking the deceased. He’s not even smart enough to feign basic sympathy. He thinks he can get away with cringeworthy sarcasm and still get full credit for being a normal human.
How the Trump Stole Christmas.
Only 2 dolls & 5 pencils for Cindy Lou, an end to affordable health insurance for the Who family, good-bye to Whoville's nannies, gardeners, janitors, cooks, and now they want the Christmas trees (and higher electricity bills).
Only 2 dolls & 5 pencils for Cindy Lou, an end to affordable health insurance for the Who family, good-bye to Whoville's nannies, gardeners, janitors, cooks, and now they want the Christmas trees (and higher electricity bills).
December 13, 2025 at 5:19 PM
How the Trump Stole Christmas.
Only 2 dolls & 5 pencils for Cindy Lou, an end to affordable health insurance for the Who family, good-bye to Whoville's nannies, gardeners, janitors, cooks, and now they want the Christmas trees (and higher electricity bills).
Only 2 dolls & 5 pencils for Cindy Lou, an end to affordable health insurance for the Who family, good-bye to Whoville's nannies, gardeners, janitors, cooks, and now they want the Christmas trees (and higher electricity bills).
This is horrendous--a slimy tactic endangering 3.5 million desperate asylum seekers. Arguing asylum seekers would be deported to countries other than their own, Trump's ICE triggers statutory grounds to deny them the *right* to apply, instructing judges to refuse action on their pending applications
Immigration judges are "pretermitting" huge swathes of asylum claims on the grounds that the person can be deported to a third country instead — one of the explicit statutory grounds for denying the right to apply for asylum.
This is now happening at large scale nationwide.
This is now happening at large scale nationwide.
December 12, 2025 at 6:12 PM
This is horrendous--a slimy tactic endangering 3.5 million desperate asylum seekers. Arguing asylum seekers would be deported to countries other than their own, Trump's ICE triggers statutory grounds to deny them the *right* to apply, instructing judges to refuse action on their pending applications
December 12, 2025 at 1:43 AM
This, on the same day 23 House Dems -- including my representative, for whom I will never cast another vote -- joined Republicans to table a resolution to impeach.
December 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
This, on the same day 23 House Dems -- including my representative, for whom I will never cast another vote -- joined Republicans to table a resolution to impeach.
Trump's Moscow besties -- credited with convincing Trump not to release previously-pledged missiles to Ukraine -- were behind a plan to plant bombs on flights to the U.S. last year.
Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...
December 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Trump's Moscow besties -- credited with convincing Trump not to release previously-pledged missiles to Ukraine -- were behind a plan to plant bombs on flights to the U.S. last year.
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If you're in the White House press corps, still showing up to your job every day and not saying anything as Trump attacks your colleagues -- almost always women, I'd add -- then this is on you as well.
Reporter: “Are you committed to releasing the full video?”
Trump: “Didn't I just tell you that?”
Reporter: “You said that it was up to Sec. Hegseth.”
Trump: “You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place…You are an obnoxious, actually a terrible reporter.”
Trump: “Didn't I just tell you that?”
Reporter: “You said that it was up to Sec. Hegseth.”
Trump: “You are the most obnoxious reporter in the whole place…You are an obnoxious, actually a terrible reporter.”
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
If you're in the White House press corps, still showing up to your job every day and not saying anything as Trump attacks your colleagues -- almost always women, I'd add -- then this is on you as well.
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“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
December 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
“I’d have no problem releasing the video”
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
“I didn’t say that, you said that. Fake news.”
5 days apart 😬
(From @therecount.com )
According to his jailer, when Thoreau was locked up for civil disobedience, Emerson asked, “Henry, why are you here?”Thoreau said, “Waldo, why are you NOT here?”
Someday we’ll ask every silent pol, journalist, educator, influencer, Why were you NOT on Trump’s FBI list of Americans he disagreed with?
Someday we’ll ask every silent pol, journalist, educator, influencer, Why were you NOT on Trump’s FBI list of Americans he disagreed with?
Oh, look, just like Nixon’s enemies list from his "Political Enemies Project." They're lack of original ideas is astounding. I guess they're coming for all of us now.
December 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
According to his jailer, when Thoreau was locked up for civil disobedience, Emerson asked, “Henry, why are you here?”Thoreau said, “Waldo, why are you NOT here?”
Someday we’ll ask every silent pol, journalist, educator, influencer, Why were you NOT on Trump’s FBI list of Americans he disagreed with?
Someday we’ll ask every silent pol, journalist, educator, influencer, Why were you NOT on Trump’s FBI list of Americans he disagreed with?
Levels of cancer-causing benzene are 37X what they used to be near this facility. Trump has halted monitoring & reporting by this and other large industrial plants.
Our investigation showed that levels of benzene, a cancer-causing gas, were 37x higher than what the facility reported in the past.
The Trump admin has halted efforts to monitor for benzene near large industrial plants like this one, leaving communities in the dark about the air they breathe. (2/2)
The Trump admin has halted efforts to monitor for benzene near large industrial plants like this one, leaving communities in the dark about the air they breathe. (2/2)
Air Pollution From Industrial Facilities Is Far Worse Than Estimated
The Trump administration has put a stop to EPA rules that would have required more than 130 industrial facilities to install air monitors to measure pollution. Millions of people living near these…
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 3:30 AM
Levels of cancer-causing benzene are 37X what they used to be near this facility. Trump has halted monitoring & reporting by this and other large industrial plants.
Years of renewing green cards, extensive interviews, background checks, classes, citizenship tests, then at their naturalization ceremony, officers asked "what country they were from, and if they said a certain [non-white!] country, they were told to step out of line..." www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Immigrants kept from Faneuil Hall citizenship ceremony as feds crackdown nationwide
Trump administration is pausing naturalizations for immigrants from 19 countries.
www.wgbh.org
December 7, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Years of renewing green cards, extensive interviews, background checks, classes, citizenship tests, then at their naturalization ceremony, officers asked "what country they were from, and if they said a certain [non-white!] country, they were told to step out of line..." www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
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The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
December 6, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow
It looks like hands trying to drag the Earth into Hell.
And it IS hell, watching FIFA abase itself with ridiculous mawkish flattery so Trump won't F up the 2026 World Cup.
And it IS hell, watching FIFA abase itself with ridiculous mawkish flattery so Trump won't F up the 2026 World Cup.
in the movies this is the screensaver on the computers at the world’s most evil company
December 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
It looks like hands trying to drag the Earth into Hell.
And it IS hell, watching FIFA abase itself with ridiculous mawkish flattery so Trump won't F up the 2026 World Cup.
And it IS hell, watching FIFA abase itself with ridiculous mawkish flattery so Trump won't F up the 2026 World Cup.
Not to mention the grounds for a hand recount, if Dems demand one: 31K votes for Van Epps appeared after 99.4% of ballots were counted--mathematically impossible because remaining precincts could yield only 1K votes. He "won" by < 16K votes, so he'd have lost but for that late dump of suspect votes.
@drrenemd.bsky.social
I was flabbergasted. The election was NOT yet certified. How long did he delay a certified result?
I was flabbergasted. The election was NOT yet certified. How long did he delay a certified result?
December 5, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Not to mention the grounds for a hand recount, if Dems demand one: 31K votes for Van Epps appeared after 99.4% of ballots were counted--mathematically impossible because remaining precincts could yield only 1K votes. He "won" by < 16K votes, so he'd have lost but for that late dump of suspect votes.
Last year, Trump ordered MAGA echo chamber to repeat ridiculous slanders about Haitian immigrants "eating the dogs...eating the pets." His racist chest-beating ultimately got debunked, was too stupid to stick. But his ugly racism is insatiable, so this year he's demanding DOJ & MAGA slander Somalis.
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He called her "garbage" by name. The President of the United States called a sitting US Representative, and a child immigrant from Somalia, "garbage." This can never become normal. WE MUST REMOVE THIS MAN FROM POWER.
He called her "garbage" by name. The President of the United States called a sitting US Representative, and a child immigrant from Somalia, "garbage." This can never become normal. WE MUST REMOVE THIS MAN FROM POWER.
December 5, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Last year, Trump ordered MAGA echo chamber to repeat ridiculous slanders about Haitian immigrants "eating the dogs...eating the pets." His racist chest-beating ultimately got debunked, was too stupid to stick. But his ugly racism is insatiable, so this year he's demanding DOJ & MAGA slander Somalis.
Cable “news” shows offer the stupidest possible takes because the stupider they make viewers, the richer they get.
December 5, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Cable “news” shows offer the stupidest possible takes because the stupider they make viewers, the richer they get.