Dr. phil. Richard Z. Gallant 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇪🇺

A new beginning: my website and Substack are live. I’ll be sharing the making of The Anankē Threshold — a mythic science fiction novel — and other work in progress.
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In the Beginning, a Story Welcome

Hello friends! I’ve just launched my Substack — a place to share updates on my novel The Anankē Threshold and other works in progress. Behind-the-scenes notes, research, and writing updates. First post here: rzgallant.substack.Anankēkē-the-beginning-a-story and the website launches on Monday.

Yes, there is apparently.

Just reached out to WingNut & WB re: The Silmarillion adaptation. Offered consulting grounded in Tolkien’s epic roots—wyrd, exile, heroic fate. If they aim for gravitas over gloss, I’m ready.
Inklings Prize, 2024
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New York Times headline: EPA Plans to Reconsider a Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos

What is this—Make Asbestos Great Again? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/u...

You have to listen to this:

An image about writing

An image about writing

My muse when I dismiss an erudite pun and go for the fart joke instead.

The Jewish community is in pain. Antisemitism is surging and it’s mostly met with silence. Eric Ward of Race Forward is right. Antisemitism doesn’t just threaten Jews, it destabilizes Democracy itself. Don’t be silent.

Pete Buttigeig hits the nail on the head.

#USDemocracy

“Y’all, we did it — Tulsa just created a $105 million reparations plan for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre.”

(From @thebwstimes.bsky.social )

San Diego residents force ICE out of their neighborhood.

These ICE thugs know how much shame they bear for their cruel and unconstitutional actions, which is why they don't show their faces. 😡

This is what is coming if the big BILL passes it’s part of project 2025 remember when 47 said “vote for me, this will be the last time you will have to vote because it will all be fixed beautifully”
Everyone needs to stand up for democracy now!

That’s called a dictatorship.

#ProudBlue #DemVoice1

My daughter's first concert - got to meet the singer of the Italian dark wave band Kirlian Camera, Elena Fossi, tonight. It's now her favourite band and I wouldn't be surprised if my 12-year-old goes goth soon.

Oof. We’ve fallen so far, so fast.

Requiring REAL IDs and passports and birth certificates to vote?!?

Imagine if these were required to buy a gun.

For those who missed it, Lyons wants to handle deportations like Amazon handles packages. Let that sink in.

China continues trolling the US with new videos. Here’s one - “US sweatshop factory”

I’m old enough to remember when I took out a full-page ad in the New York Times last fall to publish a letter signed by 225 mental-health professionals saying that Trump’s severe personality disorders made him destructive and dangerous.

Imagine if you just ate an edible🤣🤣🤣

If you’re on #DisabilityBenefits, it’s ok to have hobbies, holidays, food deliveries, and so on. Benefits exist so disabled people can live safely, independently, with quality of life. Don’t let government rhetoric make you feel guilty for existing.

Priorities…👇

Trump. Is. A Total. Piece. Of. Shit. ✨

Condemn Representative Keith Self and take appropriate disciplinary action Text SIGN PLXNHU to 50409 to send this to your officials.

A member of Congress is quoting Goebbels—Hitler’s propagandist!—on the House floor.

If you’re asking #WhatCanIDo, here’s your chance.

Condemn Rep. Keith Self for bringing Nazism io Congress.

Let the Republican Nazis know—in Cory Booker’s words—we will not stand for it.
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This was….five months ago

“The Trump administration accidentally texted me its war plans… Do senior Trump administration officials use Signal regularly for sensitive discussions? Do the officials believe that the use of such a channel could endanger American personnel?”
Jeffrey Goldberg

Which laws did Trump officials break?

…Staff Sgt. Troy S. Knutson-Collins, 28, of Battle Creek, Michigan.