Your reminder that I'm giving away 3 autographed copies of my novella, 'The Unbearable Taste of Fruit & Wine', to 3 lucky contributors to my breast cancer Go Fund Me during the month of March!
An update & details are at the link. Please feel free to share widely!
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SCOOP — Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.
My report:
New story out today in @clarkesworldmagazine.com ! "Person, Place, Thing": go, read, enjoy! clarkesworldmagazine.com/lingen_03_26/
What's the Big Idea behind my latest book, the ecothriller Accelerated Growth Environment? Look no further: whatever.scalzi.com/2026/03/04/t...
I have booked myself into back to back parent teacher conferences, a mentoring orientation meeting, and a convention planning meeting, on the same day my wife flies to Japan. Oh, and report cards are due tomorrow morning. I have accomplished the rare but impressive Quintuplet booking lutz.
Now comes the traditional tell all book of the disgruntled Trump insider.
Jane Arraf and Hadeel Al-Shalchi reported from Amman, Jordan; Daniel Estrin reported from Tel Aviv, Israel; Ruth Sherlock and Durrie Bouscaren from Turkey; Jennifer Pak from Beijing; Tovia Smith from Boston; Julia Simon from San Francisco; Jawad Rizkallah from Beirut; Jackie Northam from Maine; Michele Kelemen, Camila Domonoske, Deepa Shivaram, Ayana Archie and Alex Leff from Washington.
This is @npr.org ❤️
So proud to work for a news organization (WITH NO PAYWALLS!) that is not gutting our Middle East coverage, but expanding it.
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NEW — An obscure Navy contractor program is making Trump’s plans to quickly build out and supply immigrant concentration camps around the country a reality.
Here I explain WEXMAC TITUS, an acronym you need to understand:
The Great Bear Sea moves from pact to practice in Canada. A decade after a 2014 agreement, the 101,200.0 km² Indigenous-led marine protected area network in the Great Bear Sea is shifting from pledge to implementation. buff.ly/fw4yA9N
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Here's hope on a stick. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/welcoming-th...
Thrilled to celebrate pub date for my new book, Plant This, Not That: Over 200 Native Plant Swaps for a More Sustainable, Pollinator-Friendly Garden. Buy it from your favorite bookseller! #nativeplants #gardening www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/elise...
if the US government logs these trees at the rate / quantity they're proposing, we'll lose one of the last old-growth forests. there's no coming back from that. if you have five minutes to leave a comment pushing back against the BLM, please do; there's a guide to that below.
Some good news
And unlearn the terrible things we were taught about being human.
Sedgwick’s prescription is “reparative reading,” a theory of more flexible sense-making that can hold truth and provide an antidote to the overwhelming paranoia of our times. While the conventional wisdom states, “Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean you don’t have enemies,” Sedgwick turns this formula on its head: “Just because you have enemies doesn’t mean you have to be paranoid.” Or to put it another way, having a direct understanding of systemic oppression (the healthcare system, police violence, the fascist state) does not condemn a person to a categorically paranoid point of view. To practice a worldview more expansive and more open to possibilities than paranoia does not mean you have to deny the reality or gravity of oppression.
Feeling paranoid about stochastic violence and weaponized media? Me too. That's why I can't stop thinking about this incredibly helpful essay by @littlewow.online in @flaminghydra.com about the idea of "reparative reading" as a corrective to the "paranoid style." flaminghydra.com/issue-511/
White and yellow graphic with the logo for Lee & Low Books at the top. The graphic is titled “Contact the Governor Day - March 2nd”. Beneath the title is an illustration of a child with long blonde hair riding on the back of an open book that appears to be flying through the air. The child has one of their arms outreached, holding up a fist. There are two smaller open books flying on either side of them. At the bottom, body text says, “Swipe through for simple action items to help protect the Freedom to Read!”
Want to help defend our freedom to read? Join our friends at Lee & Low in celebrating Contact the Governor Day — happening TODAY, March 2nd!
Visit the link below for downloadable assets, pre-written letter templates, and more resources ⬇️
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He thinks he's slick. He's not. We can condemn him for forever wars AND also remember he needs to make time in his schedule to go lie under oath about his pedophilia.
A highly complex website showing two betting accounts earning nearly $500,000 and $120,000 on a minimal number of positions.
In case you were wondering, Polymarket had yet another spate of likely inside traders betting that the US would strike Iran by February 28.
Per the due diligence investigation service Bubblemaps, the wallets used were created 24 hours earlier.
The Pentagon Pizza Index has been replaced.
I never dreamt that, as an old man, I would need to worry about a fascist coup in the USA. Life is full of surprises. Some are less welcome than others.
Today was an absolutely beautiful day in NYC. It was sunny. Clear skies. It was 51F which after this winter left me sweating in my unzipped puffer. I saw people strolling without jackets. Runners in shorts. And as I walked home, I thought about what it would be like to see bombers in the sky.
Weaponized incompetence is their abiding virtue
Men over 45, time to call your local spiders.
Another day in the hellscape of NYC. Apparently, it's frozen over. Oh no, what will we ever do. SNOWBALL FIGHT!
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Q&A: Tyler Boss and Martin Simmonds Discuss Their New Comic Book Series UNIVERSAL MONSTERS: PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
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This is amazing.
www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
Ewok sized
But what if they're a stormtrooper in a Star Trek shirt?
This is fantastic and honestly quite hopeful, because communities actually have a lot of levers they can pull to slow or obstruct these new camps. We've already seen the power of community organizing in compelling cities and towns to take steps opposing projects.
It looks like sometimes they pay if you are an employee at CVS for your training. CVS Pharmacy Training Program Jobs, Employment | Indeed share.google/esDImj1f4wFk...
