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Usman T. Malik

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Writer I Runner I Rheumatologist A DARK & NARROW HOUSE (Putnam/Penguin RH USA & Titan Books UK-4/6/2027) MIDNIGHT DOORWAYS (Putnam/Titan 2028) queries @rhaliterary Insta: usmantanveermalik www.usmanmalik.org

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Emily C. Hughes @emilyhughes.bsky.social · 1h
my dad & stepmom lived a couple blocks from the WTC. the morning of 9/11/01, they'd left the windows cracked, and when they were allowed to return, there was a thick layer of dust on everything in the living room. in 2018, my stepmom died of multiple myeloma. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/08/n...
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Toxic Dust Was Everywhere After 9/11. Little Was Done for Months.
Newly released records show how residue from the World Trade Center towers coated the inside of homes. Officials allowed residents to return with scant guidance.
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Wole Talabi | Preorder THE FIST OF MEMORY @wtalabi.com · 13h
Africanfuturism is an anchor point for science fiction that is not just by Africans, or set in Africa, but about Africa. This is an excellent sampler from my brilliant publisher @dawbooks.bsky.social Its a great deal! www.humblebundle.com/books/africa...
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African Futurism: Nnedi Okorafor, Wole Talabi, and Adam Oyebanji by DAW Books
Read daring, imaginative science fiction stories in this African Futurism ebook bundle! Pay what you want and support BINC!
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 4h
NEW: Records show Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to state business. with @texastribune.org
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Ken Paxton’s Security for Travel Cost Taxpayers Millions. Just 1 in 6 of His Trips Had a Stated Business Purpose.
Records show the Texas attorney general has taken nearly 1,000 trips during his tenure, costing $3.3 million in security. We could only connect 138 of those trips and $553,000 in security costs to sta...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 4h
ICE is a militia of serial abusers.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 10h
They’re live-streaming the execution of the person they think they can get away with doing that to first. It’s a test. If they can do that, they’ll expand the margins of permission.
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Jay Kuo @nycjayjay.bsky.social · 4h
Give this a listen. Video: buff.ly/ah0p0SE
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Matthew Cheney @melikhovo.bsky.social · 3h
Nearly two dozen shootings
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Shabana Mir @shabana.bsky.social · 12h
Vardges Sureniants (Armenian, 1860–1921). Ferdowsi Reading "Shahnameh" Poem to Shah Mahmud of Ghazni (1913, oil on canvas).
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 12h
thank u both! And hi Doug!
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 12h
Thank you, Jeff! Ermmm. super-nervous now
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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 17h
Having long been aware of those tech bros who read my work as utopian porn, where they’ve taken that doesn’t exactly surprise me.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 15h
“A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.” theintercept.com/2026/10/08/i...
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ICE Agent on Scene of NYC Shooting Was Posing as Construction Worker, Eyewitness Says
A member of Congress at the scene confirmed to The Intercept that there was a child in the victim’s car when ICE agents shot at it.
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 15h
The biggest one, however, for them is Islamophobia. They don't want to raise their kids in a country where they constantly have to defend their faith or live in fear for their lives. Do u see where our country is headed?
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 15h
the g$noc!de (one of them told me he felt his hands were stained in blood by his living here for 3 yrs after the g began).
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 15h
I know of a dozen more who're making plans to do the same Reasons? Mass shootings in school, tremendous insurance hurdles in providing care, despair at the direction of the country and state of political discourse,
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 15h
I can name at least a dozen Pakistani doctor families who've moved out of the US in the last 6 months. One family didn't even bother with the US citizenship even, though they were eligible. Thread:
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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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brian j. @talkwordy.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
please help if you can, elise is good people
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R.B. Lemberg. Yes, still in Kansas @rblemberg.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
First I hear about this, wishing Elise quick healing. Please spread the word and help if you can.
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
My deepest condolences, Sonia Inna lillahe wa inna ilaihi Rajaioon
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 07/10/2026
Oh no Please help Elise
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S.H. Mansouri @shmansouri.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Oh yeah, my debut novel drops in like 4 hours. Not sure what the deal is with those <p> thingys, but enjoy! bookshop.org/p/books/scre...
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Scream Like a Prayer
Check out Scream Like a Prayer - <p>A perfect capsule of growing up, or trying to, in 1985. Except this 1985 is seeping blood, and blood, and more blood.</p><p>-<strong>Stephen Graham Jones</strong>, ...
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I adore the Lane-Poole one as well for its weird archaic language. U can never have too many Nights translation Borges gave a talk on the Nights where he says A Thousand Nights and One in Spanish would imply a thousand Nights and Infinity—so ure not far off!
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Heal well, Elise.
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sorry not sorry, I guess? So glad the book worked for u, Martin Fingers crossed it lands before thousands of equally discerning eyes come April!
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Emma Osborne 🍉 @redscribe.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Oh fuck. Elise is so kind and is such a valuable member of the community. Shares and donations are amazing, thank you <3
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Elise Tobler, editor of the fabled SHIMMER magazine and now THE DEADLANDS is hospitalized after cancer and an infection. She made SFF an inclusive, interesting place and broke out many authors. Help if u can gofund.me/6ea1bf7a4
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Donate to Help Support Elise While She Recovers, organized by Sean Markey
hello. friends if you're reading this, you're likely a Friend of The Deadl… Sean Markey needs your support for Help Support Elise While She Recovers
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Travis @travtufts.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Don’t listen to the mayor or the district downplay the reliance on AI in the classroom. Listen to the DONOR’s own priorities, which are driving the adoption of this policy. “We want to be deeply in the classes,” [Paul] English said, “and ultimately, we want every teacher to be using AI.”
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Boston is embracing AI in its public schools, unlike NYC and LA - The Boston Globe
The fast-moving technology has some educators, parents, and students worried, even as others argue there’s room for experimentation.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I'm voting YES on Prop 40, the California billionaire tax. Here's why.
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Why I Support The California Billionaire Tax
Billionaires are crying foul about California's proposed wealth tax.Don't fall for their fearmongering.A one-time, 5% ta
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Tanvir Ahmed @tanawir.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The perfect season to go on a jaunt with some lonely monsters tearing up the highlands (and to tear a little into the megalith's profits, too)
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The Night Sweeps the Mountains Away
One evening at summer's end, in a town where nomads and caravans prepare to cross the mountains, the day laborer Sado meets a young woman with a painfully familiar tattoo at the corner of her eye. The...
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Shveta Thakrar @shvetathakrar.com · 06/10/2026
Perfect time to preorder my ridiculous vampire novel, FANGS NOT INCLUDED! Then you'll get a lovely surprise when it shows up in May.
The cover of FANGS NOT INCLUDED, with four Indian vampiric girls, one of whom is holding a camera.
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John Moe @johnmoe.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Really great thread here and this essay is wonderful. It makes me feel more sane for being long repulsed by this ghoul of a show.
It is a performance of joy so excessive, so desperate, that it reveals the void it attempts to cover. It is the logic of the assembly line applied to human connection. What Fallon offers is a standardized production of “fun” that feels increasingly like a desperate plea to ignore the crumbling world outside the studio walls.
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Haha. Ditto
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I’m halfway through my first (and possibly only) read of Moby Dick, and M. John Harrison and his ‘clomping hoof of nerdism’ need to meet Mr. Melville.
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Thank u, Martin. It's the the product of 7 years of ruminating and 5 yrs of writing. So glad they sent u a copy! Let's hope the ending lands for u.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
CNN and CBS News are now under the control of the Ellison family. We need independent, pro-democracy media to grow. If you agree, please subscribe to Democracy Docket now. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Usman T. Malik @usmantm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
13 yrs later this remains one of the best selfies I’ve ever taken (originally done for an HWA newsletter)
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 325-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.
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Nayan Ramachandran @thetrin.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026
The Butlerian Jihad is real.
Pope Leo XIV: In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
With this monopolized media empire comes not just size but unprecedented power. The power to throw workers under the bus. The power to price-gouge because consumers have few alternatives. The power to decide which stories get told, but more importantly, which stories DON'T get told.
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AIPAC Tracker @trackaipac.com · 03/10/2026
Jared Kushner's investment firm is the largest shareholder in an Israeli financial company with at least $456 million invested in 9 firms supplying Israel's military
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Sloan Ashton @ashton7sloan.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Zach Bryan and his band walked into Robert Kraft’s Gillette Stadium wearing “Free Palestine” shirts tonight. I love the chutzpah…as they say.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Today's jobs report is a reminder that tax cuts for corporations and the rich don’t create jobs or grow the economy. What's required is investment in working people — and better wages. When workers have money to spend, the economy grows and businesses create more jobs. Remember this.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
BREAKING: A while back, I sued DOGE (FOIA) to get Musk's communications. DOJ argued that Musk wasn't a govt employee anymore, BUT Hegseth just hired him again to work on a Pentagon warfare initiative called Project Meridian. So we noticed Judge Boasberg. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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am-mccarthy.bsky.social @am-mccarthy.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Universities keep rewarding the architects of the demise of our democracy.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 02/10/2026
Republicans are pulling money out of North Carolina to defend KANSAS. That’s bleak af for them and I Iove it. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
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Republicans Pull Money From North Carolina Senate Race As Midterm Prospects Dim
As the Republicans try to hold their majority, the Senate Leadership Fund is diverting resources to Kansas, which has become a growing concern for the party.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 02/10/2026
Wait. What? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ten...
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Ten Objects Around Your House That Are Actually Just Tilda Swinton Getting Lost in a Role
November 5, 2021 (her b-day) 1/13/23
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Tachyon Publications @tachyonpub.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
For over 30 years, #HapandLeonard have been raising hell, righting wrongs, and eating copious vanilla cookies. This fall, @joerlansdale.bsky.social brings their story to a close. To honor the end of the road, every Tachyon Hap and Leonard title is 20% off all October long buff.ly/FR2eV1f
promotion for Hap & Leonard sale with images of all Tachyon Hap & Leonard titles

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Anodyne @anodynesix.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
"The illegal invasion killed 100 people, Venezuelan officials reported, including civilians. People in Caracas described the attack as terrifying, with U.S. aircraft dropping bombs 'indiscriminately.' ... The U.S. has since been seizing all of Venezuela's oil revenues and its oil reserves[.]"
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