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Kate Heartfield @kateheartfield.com · 11/09/2026

The ebook of Mercutio is on sale in the US and Canada for $0.99, at all retailers, I think. Not sure how long that will be the case. It's a strange medieval prequel to Romeo & Juliet with bad fairies, Umberto Eco meets Susanna Clarke, going for a song at the moment www.kateheartfield.com/mercutio/

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Mercutio

Coming soon from HarperVoyager UK. May 7, 2026: UK hardcover edition and ebook. Worldwide audiobook. August 18, 2026: Canada paperback, hardcover and ebook. June 2027: US paperback edition (this will ...

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Dan Hartland @danhartland.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

🎙️CRITICAL FRIENDS RETURNS🎙️ In the latest @strangehorizons.bsky.social criticism podcast, @electrapritchett.bsky.social & @ajodasso.bsky.social talk to me about popular fiction: what is it, what does it do, why - and how - should we read it? Books, films, TV, more: what makes popular lit … popular?

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Critical Friends Episode 27: Pop Fiction

In this episode of Critical Friends, the Strange Horizons SFF criticism podcast, A. J Odasso and Electra Pritchett join Dan Hartland to talk about popular fiction.

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sixty years ago today, the starship Enterprise launched and with it, a vision of the future where humanity had moved beyond its divisions. I was there at the beginning, and I can tell you...

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Gavia Baker-Whitelaw @gavia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

WHEN will Star City be renewed. Apple Tv has so much money, they can't leave me like this.

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The Nation Magazine @thenation.com · 08/09/2026

Florida Senate candidate Angie Nixon was an outspoken foe of the book-banning legislation on the floor of the state House of Representatives. And when the Republican majority rejected her arguments, she started a bookstore and community hub. bit.ly/4iTfV25

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Angie Nixon Is Fighting for the Right to Read

The Florida Senate candidate responded to Republican book-banning schemes by opening a bookstore.

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Paul Witcover @paulwitcover.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Read an article yesterday by a freelance editor talking about how they had added a premium for editing AI fiction. Editors, please don’t do this! Do not be a part of humanwashing AI slop.

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Steve Lovekin @jslovekin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

A wonderful choice for the Clarke Award.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

You can now get electric vehicle rebates in California! It's $3,500 for a new EV, $1,750 for a used EV. First-time buyers only. www.latimes.com/business/sto...

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California is bringing back EV rebates. This is how to get one

California is budgeting $135 million for new electric vehicle incentives, with special exceptions for California-based companies.

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It's been 10 days since we began the annual Strange Horizons fund-drive! So far, we've raised 75% of our base goal of $22K, which will allow us to continue existing in 2027. We would love to get there, and beyond, so we can raise our writers' pay. To help us: www.backerkit.com/c/projects/s...

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Strange Horizons 2027 Fundraiser

The annual Strange Horizons fundraiser! Support this free, online, award-winning, weekly magazine of SFFH, which runs entirely on reader - YOUR - donations!

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Ursula K. Le Guin @ursulakleguin.com · 29/06/2026

We're thrilled to present the shortlist for the 2026 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction:

A bouquet of flowers next to a stack of books that includes:

Audition by Pip Adam (Coffee House Press)
Sunward by William Alexander (Saga Press)
Call and Response by Christopher Caldwell (Neon Hemlock)
Midnight Timetable by Bora Chung, translated by Anton Hur (Algonquin)
The Works of Vermin by Hiron Ennes (Tor Books)
Notes from a Regicide by Isaac Fellman (Tor Books)
Mad Sisters of Esi by Tashan Mehta (DAW Books)
One Message Remains by Premee Mohamed (Psychopomp)
Slow Gods by Claire North (Orbit)

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Chris Murphy @chrismurphyct.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Trump has turned the White House into a 24/7 corruption operation. This is a national crisis. Trump thinks the public will stop paying attention. So I went to the Senate floor to call his bluff. I told the ENTIRE STORY of his 500 days of corruption. 1/ Here it is - in one🧵

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Eric Lipton NYT @ericlipton.nytimes.com · 28/06/2026

Since the start of President Trump’s second term, The New York Times has been documenting examples of moves by members of Mr. Trump’s family or the families of top aides to profit off of Trump administration policy actions. Today we take another look.

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Trump Cut a Billion-Dollar Mining Deal. His Sons Stand to Profit.

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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

"Pulte has begun to follow in the footsteps of what Hegseth has been doing at the Pentagon, Blanche at Justice, and Patel at the FBI. Looking at their purges along with the mass hirings at ICE, one sees that we’re entering a period of maximum authoritarian threat." open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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The Old Dictator and His Young Henchmen

The president is aging and ailing, but his lieutenants are hale and hungry.

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

And the Nebula Award for Novella goes to... 👀 The River Has Roots, by Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia) 🥳 Congratulations to ALL our novella-writers. Your work moves mountains in genre! #61stNebulas #SFWA

And the Nebula Award for Novella goes to...

The River Has Roots, Amal El-Mohtar (Tordotcom; Arcadia)

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Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association @sfwa.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Our Infinity Award is another recent addition - and an important one. Not everyone lived long enough to be considered for SFWA Grand Master, and yet... our genre is FILLED with brilliant creators whose voices advanced the conversation. Thank you, Roger Zelazny, for everything. #61stNebulas #SFWA

Our latest Infinity Award Recipient Roger Zelazny

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Life in Common @arthursmid.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

"For all the times that 'honesty' is mentioned in Claude’s constitution, I would argue that it is fundamentally dishonest to have a machine emit many categories of sentences, including any sentences using first-person pronouns."

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No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious

Taken to its logical conclusion, this line of thinking is absurd—and damning.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 04/06/2026

many people who would have lived longer will die because of this. he’s one of the most destructive people on the planet.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 02/06/2026

another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

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Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System

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Helen McCarthy @glider.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

#ShareGoodNews - scientists are engineering ways to capture the microplastics clogging up our food chain.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr. are acquiring a drone company that is seeking to meet Pentagon demand after Trump banned the use of Chinese drones. We’re just weeks into Trump’s war and already his family has found a way to cash in. Everything is for sale.

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Noah Shachtman @noahshachtman.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Oil prices are at multi-year highs. Your home electric bill is through the roof. The Strait of Hormuz is jammed up. And the Trump administration wants to ... pay $1 billion to stop renewable energy projects. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/c...

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Trump Officials Weigh New $1 Billion Deal to Stop Offshore Wind Farms

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Vincent Ledvina @vincentledvina.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

Finally finished my timelapse of the lunar eclipse under the aurora in Fairbanks, Alaska! Check out the massive substorm turning the ground green in front of the eclipse, too! This is one of my favorite timelapses I have captured!

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 08/03/2026

"A woman who claims she was abused as a minor by both Epstein and Trump has given the FBI vivid accounts that include aspects of her life corroborated by the The Post and Courier through public records ... she claimed Trump forced her to commit a sex act on him sometime around 1984."

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Fuzzy memories and hard facts: An SC accuser's claims against Epstein, Trump examined

An alleged victim of Jeffrey Epstein gave FBI agents true accounts of her time growing up in SC. Claims she made about Donald Trump remain unsubstantiated.

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Josh Mankiewicz @joshmankiewicz.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

“Rodriguez had a meeting scheduled for March 17 with ICE's Enforcement and Removal Operations. She frequently reported on stories critical of ICE for Nashville Noticias, the Spanish-language outlet.” www.tennessean.com/story/news/l...

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ICE detains Nashville journalist in Alabama county jail

Immigrations and Custom Enforcement arrested a journalist working for local news outlet Nashville Noticias during a March 4 traffic stop in South Nashville.

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Sam Levin @samtlevin.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket. When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.” Video + interview with her and her daughter:

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ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care’

Juanita Avila later helped expose ICE’s ‘arrest first, justify later’ tactics in a lawsuit that won a major victory for immigrants’ rights

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Arley Sorg @arleysorg.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

"What are the experiences of people of color in the publishing industry?" arleysorg.com/by-the-numbe...

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By the Numbers 10 - Arley's House

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Jason Sanford @jasonsanford.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Last September I reported on how scammers are using generative AI systems (LLMs) to create fake book club communities, including Discord chats with AI-powered members. As an update, the scammers are getting better. Check out this new scam email I received today. 1/ www.patreon.com/posts/genre-...

Dear Jason Sanford,

My name is Hannah Green and I am with Distinct Book Club.

Our readers spent time with Sublimation Angels and it sparked some of the most thoughtful conversations we have had around science fiction. The grief at the center of the story, paired with questions of control, belief, and rebellion, really resonated. Chicka’s search for truth stayed with readers long after the final page.

We host live reader podcast conversations featuring recommended authors, and we would love to invite you to join us for a relaxed discussion about the story, its ideas, and the world behind it.

No pressure at all. Just sincere appreciation and an open invitation.

Warm regards,
Hannah Green
Distinct Book Club
https://distinctbookclub.org
hello@distinctbookclub.org

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Benjamin Balthaser @blbalthaser.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

“Covid is over” might be the biggest lie sold to us in a staggering decade of lies

Covid-19 ls Still Killing a Disturbing Number of Americans, Study Finds
Between 2022 and 2024, covid-19 killed roughly 100,000 Americans annually, new research by CDC scientists shows.

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Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

Permian Basin oil field solved the earthquake problem but created another problem in the process: giant geysers of toxic wastewater. www.wsj.com/business/ene...

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America’s Biggest Oil Field Is Turning Into a Pressure Cooker

Drillers’ injection of wastewater is creating mayhem across the Permian Basin, raising concern about the future of fossil-fuel production there.

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George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Matthew J Kuiper @matthewjkuiper.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

The only group of people whose take on the “release” really matters. “‘They are proving everything we have been saying about corruption and delayed justice,’said Jess Michaels, one of the earliest known victims of Mr. Epstein. ‘What are they protecting? The coverup continues.’” Gift link

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Epstein Victims Upset About Lack of Transparency in Newly Released Files

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404 Media @404media.co · 09/12/2025

NEW: an activist has been charged for allegedly wiping a Google Pixel phone before CBP could search it. Search was by a secretive CBP Tactical Terrorism Response Team, which ACLU says "interrogate innocent travelers." We uploaded the indictment here: www.404media.co/man-charged-...

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Man Charged for Wiping Phone Before CBP Could Search It

The exact circumstances around the search are not known. But activist Samuel Tunick is charged with deleting data from a Google Pixel before CBP’s Tactical Terrorism Response Team could search it.

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R.S.A. Garcia (BUY THE NIGHTWARD) @rsagarcia.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

For those of you who think the so-called settlement from Anthropic is good, you should know they stole millions of works, but are only paying for novels. No shorts, non-fiction etc. And if you're a non-US writer, like me, you get nothing even with a US copyright because non-US authors don't count.

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Center for Climate Integrity @climateintegrity.org · 01/12/2025

Big Oil is "wildly desperate to dodge the growing array of lawsuits over the damage caused by their decades-long scheme to deceive the public about climate change," writes @aaronregunberg.bsky.social. The fossil fuel industry is again urging the Supreme Court to help them escape accountability.

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The Supreme Court’s Ethics Code Is a Joke. Big Oil Knows That.

Oil companies want the Supreme Court to intervene to dismiss lawsuits about climate change. Amy Coney Barrett and Samuel Alito both have big conflicts of interest on that front.

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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Republican Senator Mike Rounds said Secretary of State Marco Rubio, in a call to senators, confirmed the so-called 28-point “peace plan” was actually a Russian wishlist and is “not the administration’s position”. Nor is there any threat to cut off weapons or intelligence to Ukraine.

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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 21/11/2025

ICE’s Detention Center outside Chicago was sued on October 30 for allegedly abusing detainees. One day later, a "system crash" lost all video footage that could have shown how detainees were being treated. trib.al/QwT3aqI

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 20/11/2025

TEN MONTHS IN: The national debt is higher. The trade deficit is wider. The inflation rate has worsened. The unemployment rate is up.

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Governor Gavin Newsom @governor.ca.gov · 20/11/2025

Donald Trump's idiotic proposal to sell off California's coasts to his Big Oil donors is dead in the water. We will not stand by as our coastal economy and communities are put in danger.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 21/11/2025

It's no secret that 2025 has given Americans plenty to protest about. But as news cameras showed protesters filling streets of cities across the country, cops were watching those streets through different lenses: Flock Safety license plate readers that tracked every car. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

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How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters

Through an analysis of 10 months of nationwide searches on Flock Safety's servers, we discovered that more than 50 federal, state, and local agencies ran hundreds of searches through Flock's national

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

(AP) — A confidant of Bill Pulte .. provided confidential mortgage pricing data from Fannie Mae to a principal competitor, alarming senior officials .. who warned it could expose the company to claims that it was colluding with a rival to fix mortgage rates. apnews.com/article/fann...

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/11/2025

HASSETT: We're comfortable that inflation has come way down QUINTANILLA: Even though it's been increasing for 5 straight months? HASSETT: Well I guess there's ups and downs and seasonals

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jessie🥞 @jessiejessup.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I'm single. No kids, no claims, no pre-existing conditions. The cataclysmic leap from paying $50 a month to $1,228.28 a month is a level of devastation the depth of which I'm struggling to articulate. I wasn't going to be able to afford when I thought it was going up to $350 a month. And now...😵

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Tom Nichols @radiofreetom.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

"Democrats could have held the line on the shutdown, and spent weeks watching Trump’s approval ratings fall," writes @jonathanbchait.bsky.social Instead, he argues, they're making a mistake by giving in: www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

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Senate Democrats Just Made a Huge Mistake

The shutdown was hurting Trump. Ending it helps him.

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Adam Rifkin 🐼 @ifindkarma.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

“The people who talked for years about Hunter Biden have nothing to say about the rampant self-dealing of the Trump sons, Kushner, and of course Trump himself—which is at a scale so incomprehensible and brazen it apparently warrants no notice.” @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/gtco...

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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Mamdani: My message to I.C.E. Agents and to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate the law, you must be held accountable.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/11/2025

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

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