My contribution to the Trump Story Project, "What Someone Else Does Not Want Printed," is now live at Slate.

I wrote a very long post on the problems of the kleptocracy and some ideologies for fighting it over here on my Patreon.

(Reposted from Patreon)

Over the next ten days, under the auspices of Slate, Héctor Tobar, Ben H. Winters, Nisi Shawl, Saladin Ahmed, Lauren Beukes, Jeff VanderMeer, Kashana Cauley, J. Robert Lennon, Edan Lepucki, and I will present a series of short, sharp investigations of what the near future in America might bring.

Here is a storify of my Inauguration Day Twitter rant welcoming the new folks to the resistance.

Do the work that is before your hand to do.

There is enough work for everyone, and enough hands to get it all done eventually.

Here is the text of the emails I just sent to my U.S. Senators, Elizabeth Warren and Ed Markey,

I grant the right under Creative Commons for anyone who wishes to repurpose this text for their own use when contacting their elected representative.

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Dear Senator Warren,
In light of recent allegations and ongoing concern about foreign meddling in ( Read more... )

So let's talk a little bit about the long con, and about the career of Real Estate Mogul Donald Trump (tm). Let's talk about how he actually makes his money ( Read more... )

Here is the text of the letter I just sent to Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, because I thought people might like to see it, in case they want to write their own.

17 November 2016

Governor Charlie Baker
Massachusetts State House
Office of the Governor
Room 280
Boston, MA 02133

Dear Governor Baker,

I am a resident of the Commonwealth ( Read more... )

It's been a while, livejournal, but I think I have something to say again, so I'm back.

On fear:
A lot of you are really scared right now ( Read more... )

So I want to talk about diversity, and representation, and why I think these things are so damned important. And it's really, really simple, but I think some people don't get it simply because they don't have the personal context to get it.

Representation is important because everybody needs to see themselves reflected in art. It's validating. It ( Read more... )

I pause this livejournal for a moment of appreciation of that which is FINE:


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