My next novel, SOMETHING NEW UNDER THE SUN, is out from @hogarthbooks on 8/3! It starts out as a Hollywood novel and then becomes...a total disaster. Fake water, teenage detectives, hallucinatory capitalism, aging child stars—and an overall preapocalyptic vibe 🔥🔥🔥

Social democracy in Mexico is dramatically accelerating ecocide

New drone surveys show that bird flu has wiped out nearly half of the females in the planet’s biggest elephant seal population. The staggering loss highlights how rapidly the virus is spreading through wildlife and how much remains unknown about its long-term impact on marine

Incomprehensible levels of slaughter by the UAE’s forces. There whereabouts of some 200,000+ people from El Fasher are unknown with the worst being feared.

🚨 BREAKING: Families woke up Thursday to find themselves suddenly on the wrong side of Gaza’s “yellow line” as Israel pushed the boundary about 300m further west during a tank incursion in eastern Gaza City. The physical blocks were shifted in Tuffah and Shujaiya, @AbdSabbah91

i really do not think i'm being hysterical. everything is fucking spiraling in the west bank and i'm tired of it not being treated as an emergency

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Look, I don't throw the term around lightly, but this is a fucking Nazi policy.

Extraordinary scenes at #COP30 as Indigenous protesters demand access. "We can’t eat money," said Nato, an Indigenous leader from the Tupinamba community… “We want our lands free from agribusiness, oil exploration, illegal miners and illegal loggers." https://t.co/yyF4m8K6cC

There it is. Exactly as I suspected. The minute the airlines and flight schedules were impacted by the shutdown, the Dems caved. Our health insurance for their convenience, just as COVID precautions were sacrificed for Delta's comfort.

The Achilles' Heel of Islam!

SCOOP: Senators quietly put language into the shutdown deal helping their donors block rules to prevent food contamination & foodborne illnesses at farms & restaurants, according to bill text reviewed by @LeverNews. The provisions come amid an explosion of food-borne illnesses.

the GOAT tammy kim wrote about union-busting at the new yorker in her newsletter today:

„In an internal memo from September, CEO Sam Altman said that OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal is to build 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033.” If Altman achieves this goal, OpenAI will need almost exactly as much electricity as India’s 1.5 billion people, and is likely to emit

College campuses have rapidly become the places with some of the least free speech in this country.

Performed at the Brit Awards in 1993, Suede’s rendition of “Animal Nitrate” announced the arrival of a new era in British rock. Released the same year on their self-titled debut album, the song’s glam-inspired riffs and provocative lyrics captured the hedonism and alienation of

We are now fully in the “massive pressure on media/social media to re-write history/memory into a pro-Israel fiction” stage of Israel’s genocide of Gaza.

Since 1975, when the top marginal tax rate was reduced from 70% to 37%, $79 trillion in wealth has been redistributed from the bottom 90% to the top 1%, according to that bastion of socialism the RAND Corporation. Trickle down economics is a total scam.

i'm very glad this technology is being forced onto us everywhere on all levels

ai companies want our tax dollars to pay for the tech they say will take our jobs lol

Ezra Klein recently declared that to win elections, Democrats should run anti-choice candidates in 3 red states that just voted pro-choice on ballot initiatives.

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