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DOJ official Todd Blanche promised to dump his crypto holdings no later than 90 days after his Senate confirmation in March.
But about a month into the job — before divesting — he ordered an end to investigations into crypto companies.
By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @shaw.al
But about a month into the job — before divesting — he ordered an end to investigations into crypto companies.
By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @shaw.al
Top DOJ Official Todd Blanche Shut Down Crypto Enforcement While Holding Crypto Assets
The second-highest official at the DOJ, Todd Blanche rose to prominence as Trump’s personal defense attorney. His actions violated the federal conflicts of interest law and his ethics agreement, exper...
www.propublica.org
December 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
DOJ official Todd Blanche promised to dump his crypto holdings no later than 90 days after his Senate confirmation in March.
But about a month into the job — before divesting — he ordered an end to investigations into crypto companies.
By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @shaw.al
But about a month into the job — before divesting — he ordered an end to investigations into crypto companies.
By @coreygjohnson.bsky.social @shaw.al
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LAcon V needs Program Participants!
Fill out the interest form here: lacon.org/programming/programparticipant
You will need to log in using your LAcon V Planorama account.
Survey closes March 31, 2026. It's not possible to edit the survey once submitted, but you can submit it again!
Fill out the interest form here: lacon.org/programming/programparticipant
You will need to log in using your LAcon V Planorama account.
Survey closes March 31, 2026. It's not possible to edit the survey once submitted, but you can submit it again!
November 27, 2025 at 3:51 AM
LAcon V needs Program Participants!
Fill out the interest form here: lacon.org/programming/programparticipant
You will need to log in using your LAcon V Planorama account.
Survey closes March 31, 2026. It's not possible to edit the survey once submitted, but you can submit it again!
Fill out the interest form here: lacon.org/programming/programparticipant
You will need to log in using your LAcon V Planorama account.
Survey closes March 31, 2026. It's not possible to edit the survey once submitted, but you can submit it again!
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I was not planning to attend WorldCon in ANAHEIM! But this is WorldCon Poet Laureate and she is EVERYTHING and I want to celebrate her!
LAcon V is pleased to announce @teresempierre.bsky.social as a Special Guest.
She is an award-winning Canadian writer and editor whose work has appeared in Uncanny, Fantasy Magazine, & Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Her work has been shortlisted for the Ignite, the Elgin, & the Aurora.
She is an award-winning Canadian writer and editor whose work has appeared in Uncanny, Fantasy Magazine, & Best Canadian Fantasy and Science Fiction.
Her work has been shortlisted for the Ignite, the Elgin, & the Aurora.
December 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
I was not planning to attend WorldCon in ANAHEIM! But this is WorldCon Poet Laureate and she is EVERYTHING and I want to celebrate her!
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We want your Program items!
Now is the time to pitch us your unique and unusual program ideas around sci-fi, fantasy, or fandom-related topics in general.
Fill out the Program Participant Interest Form on our site now: www.lacon.org/programming/...
Now is the time to pitch us your unique and unusual program ideas around sci-fi, fantasy, or fandom-related topics in general.
Fill out the Program Participant Interest Form on our site now: www.lacon.org/programming/...
December 10, 2025 at 12:09 AM
We want your Program items!
Now is the time to pitch us your unique and unusual program ideas around sci-fi, fantasy, or fandom-related topics in general.
Fill out the Program Participant Interest Form on our site now: www.lacon.org/programming/...
Now is the time to pitch us your unique and unusual program ideas around sci-fi, fantasy, or fandom-related topics in general.
Fill out the Program Participant Interest Form on our site now: www.lacon.org/programming/...
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Read about all open volunteer positions and apply over at lacon.org/volunteer.
Volunteers – LAcon V
Important Links:
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December 20, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Read about all open volunteer positions and apply over at lacon.org/volunteer.
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The price of a membership is increasing from $230 to $250. This price increase takes effect on January 4th.
Register now: www.lacon.org/register
Fans can lock in the lower rate now by signing up for an installment plan: www.lacon.org/2025/05/10/i...
Register now: www.lacon.org/register
Fans can lock in the lower rate now by signing up for an installment plan: www.lacon.org/2025/05/10/i...
December 17, 2025 at 1:09 AM
The price of a membership is increasing from $230 to $250. This price increase takes effect on January 4th.
Register now: www.lacon.org/register
Fans can lock in the lower rate now by signing up for an installment plan: www.lacon.org/2025/05/10/i...
Register now: www.lacon.org/register
Fans can lock in the lower rate now by signing up for an installment plan: www.lacon.org/2025/05/10/i...
My fellow Americans, take heart, speak up and Organize. Please do what you can to resist autocracy, kleptocracy, and inhuman, un-Constitutional practices.
youtu.be/4gONRpnScRE?...
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Fighting for a Better Life for All!
YouTube video by AFT
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December 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
My fellow Americans, take heart, speak up and Organize. Please do what you can to resist autocracy, kleptocracy, and inhuman, un-Constitutional practices.
youtu.be/4gONRpnScRE?...
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It's Giving Tuesday, and we're giving you free workshop excerpts 😁 Cardboard Versus Real, Breathing Characters with Apex Magazine Managing Editor, Rebecca E Treasure @retreasure.bsky.social
youtu.be/wRkYeq49ZsM
#authors #writingworkshop
youtu.be/wRkYeq49ZsM
#authors #writingworkshop
Cardboard Versus Real, Breathing Characters with Rebecca E Treasure, Managing Editor, Apex Magazine
In this excerpt from her workshop, "6 Powerful Exercises To Polish Your Prose," Managing Editor at Apex Magazine, Rebecca E Treasure, explores how to avoid creating two dimensional characters and…
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December 2, 2025 at 7:21 PM
It's Giving Tuesday, and we're giving you free workshop excerpts 😁 Cardboard Versus Real, Breathing Characters with Apex Magazine Managing Editor, Rebecca E Treasure @retreasure.bsky.social
youtu.be/wRkYeq49ZsM
#authors #writingworkshop
youtu.be/wRkYeq49ZsM
#authors #writingworkshop
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We stand with @womensmarch.com in calling for nationwide walkouts Jan. 20, 2026.
Mark your calendars and tell a friend. More coming soon.
#FreeAmericaWalkOut 🤝
Mark your calendars and tell a friend. More coming soon.
#FreeAmericaWalkOut 🤝
We walk out because a Free America is the only America worth calling great. This is a protest and a promise. Take the walkout pledge here: https://act.womensmarch.com/survey/FreeAmericaWalkoutPledge/ #FreeAmericaWalkout #FreeAmericaWO #FreeAmericaFromFascism
December 2, 2025 at 7:13 PM
We stand with @womensmarch.com in calling for nationwide walkouts Jan. 20, 2026.
Mark your calendars and tell a friend. More coming soon.
#FreeAmericaWalkOut 🤝
Mark your calendars and tell a friend. More coming soon.
#FreeAmericaWalkOut 🤝
Book of the New Sun fans, the Re-Reading Wolfe Podcast is back ! Join other enthusiastic Gene Wolfe fans in seeking to understand this lavish literary epic with genteel hosts, Craig Brewer and James Wynn. rereadingwolfe.podbean.com
You can support this epic delve ! www.patreon.com/rereadingwolfe
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December 2, 2025 at 9:21 PM
Book of the New Sun fans, the Re-Reading Wolfe Podcast is back ! Join other enthusiastic Gene Wolfe fans in seeking to understand this lavish literary epic with genteel hosts, Craig Brewer and James Wynn. rereadingwolfe.podbean.com
You can support this epic delve ! www.patreon.com/rereadingwolfe
You can support this epic delve ! www.patreon.com/rereadingwolfe
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IDEA turns 50 this Saturday, and the urgency for inclusion continues.
In this @sharemylesson.bsky.social blog post, Heidi Goger explains why this moment matters for every educator: sharemylesson.com/blog/fierce-...
In this @sharemylesson.bsky.social blog post, Heidi Goger explains why this moment matters for every educator: sharemylesson.com/blog/fierce-...
November 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
IDEA turns 50 this Saturday, and the urgency for inclusion continues.
In this @sharemylesson.bsky.social blog post, Heidi Goger explains why this moment matters for every educator: sharemylesson.com/blog/fierce-...
In this @sharemylesson.bsky.social blog post, Heidi Goger explains why this moment matters for every educator: sharemylesson.com/blog/fierce-...
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The 66-page ruling Tuesday by Senior U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson of Colorado is a comprehensive rejection of a tactic regularly used by ICE to meet quotas set by the Trump administration. (via @cprnews.bsky.social)
Court demands end to unjustified warrantless arrests, restricting a tool ICE frequently uses to detain immigrants
Unless reversed on appeal, it is likely to place a severe restriction on ICE’s operations in Colorado.
n.pr
November 26, 2025 at 5:01 PM
The 66-page ruling Tuesday by Senior U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson of Colorado is a comprehensive rejection of a tactic regularly used by ICE to meet quotas set by the Trump administration. (via @cprnews.bsky.social)
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We’re beginning to see that the best strategy to counter the Trump administration's authoritarian power grabs is actually strikingly simple: the Constitution. In our latest briefing, lessons from courtrooms and communities in Chicago and Charlotte 🔗 https://protdem.org/44kC811
November 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
We’re beginning to see that the best strategy to counter the Trump administration's authoritarian power grabs is actually strikingly simple: the Constitution. In our latest briefing, lessons from courtrooms and communities in Chicago and Charlotte 🔗 https://protdem.org/44kC811
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Your daily fortune:
Ask not for whom the black tentacles rise from the deep dark sea, they rise for thee.
Ask not for whom the black tentacles rise from the deep dark sea, they rise for thee.
November 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Your daily fortune:
Ask not for whom the black tentacles rise from the deep dark sea, they rise for thee.
Ask not for whom the black tentacles rise from the deep dark sea, they rise for thee.
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As you do your last-minute shopping for Thanksgiving, remember to buy union-made goods! #BetterInAUnion
https://aflcio.org/union-thanksgiving
https://aflcio.org/union-thanksgiving
November 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
As you do your last-minute shopping for Thanksgiving, remember to buy union-made goods! #BetterInAUnion
https://aflcio.org/union-thanksgiving
https://aflcio.org/union-thanksgiving
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It’s the busiest shopping period of the year, so we’re hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
November 26, 2025 at 1:13 PM
It’s the busiest shopping period of the year, so we’re hitting pause on buying from corporations that enable Trump’s fascist agenda: weaintbuyingit.com/?utm_source=bluesky
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Riddle me this, how in the fuck is this making our communities any safer? This ICE agent sprays this disabled woman directly in the face in St Paul, Minnesota with pepper spray and then throws her to the ground. I hope she sues the hell out of ICE for this‼️#Abolish 🧊🧊🧊
November 26, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Riddle me this, how in the fuck is this making our communities any safer? This ICE agent sprays this disabled woman directly in the face in St Paul, Minnesota with pepper spray and then throws her to the ground. I hope she sues the hell out of ICE for this‼️#Abolish 🧊🧊🧊
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TUNE IN NOW: CEO @skyeperryman.bsky.social joins @npr.org affiliate @kalwradio.bsky.social's Your Call to discuss the first year of Democracy 2025 – the coalition leading the legal resistance against the Trump-Vance admin.
Listen here ⬇️
Listen here ⬇️
The Authoritarian Playbook: Human & environmental cost of Project 2025
Project 2025 has been devastating for people who rely on social services, both here in the US and abroad. USAID cuts have already caused over 600,000 deaths.
www.kalw.org
November 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
TUNE IN NOW: CEO @skyeperryman.bsky.social joins @npr.org affiliate @kalwradio.bsky.social's Your Call to discuss the first year of Democracy 2025 – the coalition leading the legal resistance against the Trump-Vance admin.
Listen here ⬇️
Listen here ⬇️
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A perfect holiday gift for the bookworm in your life who loves books AND worms 📚🪱
Our anthology ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION features 23 stellar tales from today's best rising stars and established voices! 🌍🪻
Get your copy here: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
Our anthology ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION features 23 stellar tales from today's best rising stars and established voices! 🌍🪻
Get your copy here: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
November 25, 2025 at 5:13 PM
A perfect holiday gift for the bookworm in your life who loves books AND worms 📚🪱
Our anthology ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION features 23 stellar tales from today's best rising stars and established voices! 🌍🪻
Get your copy here: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
Our anthology ECO24: THE YEAR'S BEST SPECULATIVE ECOFICTION features 23 stellar tales from today's best rising stars and established voices! 🌍🪻
Get your copy here: www.apexbookcompany.com/products/eco...
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Members of the military swear an oath to uphold the Constitution and have a duty not to obey illegal orders.
That the Pentagon is investigating a member of Congress for pointing that out is yet another alarming step down an authoritarian path.
That the Pentagon is investigating a member of Congress for pointing that out is yet another alarming step down an authoritarian path.
Pentagon says it's investigating Sen. Mark Kelly over video urging troops to defy 'illegal orders'
The Pentagon says it's investigating Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona over possible breaches of military law after the former Navy pilot joined a handful of other lawmakers in a video that called...
apnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Members of the military swear an oath to uphold the Constitution and have a duty not to obey illegal orders.
That the Pentagon is investigating a member of Congress for pointing that out is yet another alarming step down an authoritarian path.
That the Pentagon is investigating a member of Congress for pointing that out is yet another alarming step down an authoritarian path.
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Yesterday, a masked man pointed his rifle at protestors in Minnesota. Instead of protecting their community, St Paul PD protected him & assaulted peaceful protestors with physical force & chemical agents.
A real community defense force would fight off ICE’s masked kidnappers, not beat their victims
A real community defense force would fight off ICE’s masked kidnappers, not beat their victims
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Yesterday, a masked man pointed his rifle at protestors in Minnesota. Instead of protecting their community, St Paul PD protected him & assaulted peaceful protestors with physical force & chemical agents.
A real community defense force would fight off ICE’s masked kidnappers, not beat their victims
A real community defense force would fight off ICE’s masked kidnappers, not beat their victims
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2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
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2025 Queer Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy Books
Welcome to the 2025 list of queer adult science-fiction and fantasy books! If you’re new to this dance, this list and the ones before (see: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019) are my answer t…
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November 26, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
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2025 Queer Adult SFF Books list!!!!
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A 2022 ProPublica investigation showed RealPage was helping landlords decide rents in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior.
In case you missed it:
In case you missed it:
Rent Going Up? One Company’s Algorithm Could Be Why.
Texas-based RealPage’s YieldStar software helps landlords set prices for apartments across the U.S. With rents soaring, critics are concerned that the company’s proprietary algorithm is hurting compet...
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 8:11 PM
A 2022 ProPublica investigation showed RealPage was helping landlords decide rents in a way that legal experts said could result in cartel-like behavior.
In case you missed it:
In case you missed it:
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Our nation’s gun safety laws are only as strong as the weakest link. If leaders in Congress want to protect our communities from gun violence, they need to pass common-sense gun safety laws—like background checks on all gun sales and Red Flags laws—at the federal level.
November 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Our nation’s gun safety laws are only as strong as the weakest link. If leaders in Congress want to protect our communities from gun violence, they need to pass common-sense gun safety laws—like background checks on all gun sales and Red Flags laws—at the federal level.