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Victor LaValle

@victorlavalle.bsky.social

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Doing what I dreamed of since I was a kid. Books: Lone Women, The Changeling, The Ballad of Black Tom, The Devil in Silver, Big Machine & more. TV: The Changeling (EP), The Terror: Devil in Silver (Creator, Showrunner) Comics: Destroyer, Eve, Sabretooth

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 19h

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 1d

“LET’S DO THE FUCKING NEWS!”

Frank Booth, a villainous character from David Lynch’s movie, Blue Velvet. Frank is a middle-aged white dude in a leather jacket, holding an oxygen mask to his face.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 1d

BTW here’s a photo from 1992, when George HW Bush announced using the Insurrection Act. But CNN wouldn’t run this because it would be boring…and not inflammatory.

George HW Bush in the Oval Office, wearing a blue coat and tie, sitting at a desk, holding a few papers as he addresses the nation.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 1d

Facts!

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 1d

Dear CNN,

When you next report on the “chaos” in Chicago in 2025, please be sure to use this painting of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 for the article.

A painting of the destruction of Chicago by fire from 1871.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 1d

He would be crying in five seconds.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 1d

These people are so relentlessly corny.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 1d

this is the jacket's breast pocket lining pulled up to make it look like a pocket square

Stephen Miller in a gray suit, white shirt, and gray tie.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 3d

Every day, billionaires prove why there should be no billionaires.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 4d

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

The Billionaire Behind Trump’s Deal for Universities

www.nytimes.com

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V.Castro @vlatinalondon.bsky.social · 5d

I am so so close to earning out on this one. Like finish line in sight and not many books to sell. It could really help me at this juncture in my career.
Grab a copy 🙌🏽🙌🏽 it’s still Latinx Heritage Month and perfect for Halloween.

bit.ly/4dQ103C

Thx @gabino.bsky.social

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 5d

I’m sorry to hear it. I was hoping it would be a nice turn for Johnson.

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 5d

Looks like fall of 2026! Very proud of it, excited for it to air.

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 5d

For sure! I was too quick to type out my outrage.

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 5d

Clinging to one bit of good news: JOHN CARPENTER’S films are featured on the Criterion Channel.

He deserves a home in the art house, the grindhouse, and the movie theater around the corner. Long live Carpenter!

Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 6d

DIRECTED BY JOHN CARPENTER ⚡ Now playing on the Criterion Channel!

A master at turning B-movie premises into dazzlingly artful nightmares, Carpenter mixes pulse-pounding thrills and subversive social commentary into some of the smartest, most stylish, and electrifying genre films of all time.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 5d

www.thehorrordome.com/cdn/shop/pro...

A tombstone. The letters RIP etched in the stone.

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 5d

Messed up my alt text. This is, of course, Walter Cronkite.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 5d

You’re right of course!

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 5d

Edward R Murrow when he heard the news of John F Kennedy’s assassination.
An older white man in a white shirt and black tie, removing his glasses at the sad news. The image is in black and white.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 6d

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Vance: "If you're an American citizen & you've been to the hospital in the last few years, you've probably noticed wait times are especially large & very often somebody who's there in the ER is an illegal alien. Why do those people get healthcare benefits at hospitals paid for by American citizens?"

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 8d

Friendly reminder to all media this week: The GOP controls both houses of Congress. They can keep the government open with their own votes.

It’s their own fecklessness and chaos that REQUIRES Dems to vote for this budget.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 9d

It made me happy to see. Wanted to share the feeling.

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 9d

On a flight home, woman in next row is reading HORROR MOVIE by @paultremblay.bsky.social .

I wanted to take a photo of the cover but for the whole three hour flight she just kept turning the pages.

Can’t think of a higher compliment to a writer.

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 11d

What a sad state of affairs in the United States!

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 11d

Yes.

Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 11d

At our kids school, they keep them in yondr pouches, so they have them but can’t use them during school. (Though kids are smart and already know ways to open the magnetic pouches!)

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Victor LaValle @victorlavalle.bsky.social · 11d

Agreed!