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 🔥🔥🔥

An abomination’: Idaho hunters earned thousands of dollars to kill newborn wolf pups, records reveal @guardian  “Wildlife advocates incensed as documents show state paid out $2,000 per kill in effort to shrink state’s wolf population” Lost for words A new low for humankind in #Idaho Utterly #Shameful theguardian.com/us-news/2026…

🚨 URGENT: The Endangered Species Act is under attack. S.5653 would gut the Endangered Species Act, the law that brought bald eagles and humpback whales back from the brink. Call your senators NOW: 202-224-3121. Tell them to vote NO on S.5653.

We just learned Idaho paid hunters $2,000 for every newborn wolf pup they killed. Meanwhile, Trump is working to weaken the Endangered Species Act, putting imperiled wildlife at even greater risk. This is an abomination. There’s no undoing extinction. bit.ly/4z9sYBg

It's morning again in America.

My debut novel, AMERICAN RAPTURE, will be published by Riverhead Books, and by all these amazing European publishers. A dream. I'm grateful to many, many people, and am thinking most about my late brother Robert, for whom this book was written.

Our dying Earth Across a Fevered Pacific Ocean, Seabirds Are Starving With massive heat waves and an intense El Niño reshaping the marine food web along Central Coast of California, emaciated common murres are washing ashore in unprecedented numbers. nationalgeographic.com/envir…

Jon Stewart on Chuck Schumer: “Someone has to meet this moment. You have an opportunity to actually govern. One of the first things you need to do is remove that system of seniority from Democratic politics. It’s a bullshit system and it needs to go. Chuck Schumer fought tooth and nail against half of these fucking people. He does not understand the urgency of the moment and what the future demands”

I will be contacting both of my Senators and asking them not to vote for Chuck Schumer as Majority Leader. I encourage you to do the same.

🌊Some highlights from JB Pritzker's "Day One" Agenda--his demands to the new Democratic Congress for legislation that should be introduced immediately: 🔵 Tariff refund checks to all Americans, with interest 🔵 Allow private lawsuits against ICE for constitutional violations 🔵 Make home medical care a required Medicaid benefit 🔵 Codified standards that bar agencies from cancelling grants over shifting "agency priorities" 🔵 Modernize SSI: raise the $2,000 asset limit (frozen since 1989) and end marriage penalties 🔵 Tax-exempt bond financing for new nuclear plants 🔵 A federal agency or oversight standards for dealing with gambling addiction nationally 🔵 Legislation making disaster aid based on measurable need, never on how a state voted

NEW: Meet incoming speaker Hakeem Jeffries’ donors: Anduril and Palantir executives, Wall Street investors, crypto lobbyists, and donors funneling contributions through AIPAC. We followed the money behind Hakeem Jeffries. readsludge.com/2026/11/04/th…

Brian Schatz, Dems’ incoming #2 in the Senate, recently went on CNN to say Democrats shouldn’t try to pass anything Trump is likely to veto. That’s super dumb. Americans voted for big change. Dems need to act accordingly! newrepublic.com/article/2175…

The last time Democrats had power in the Senate, Chuck Schumer blocked *bipartisan* bills that would have prohibited big tech exploitation from even getting a floor vote. This is an economic populist anti-big tech wave and those bills and more are getting a vote this time. The voters clearly want to cut big tech down to size, stop it from running industrial policy, regulate it, force it open, stop the madness of Andreessen and Google running the country. Not for nothing the lobbyists are scurrying around this morning trying to make big tech anger an asterix, and only "really" about data centers.

Voters are rejecting Islamophobia a lot louder than many people in national media

We at @heatmap_news published an early look at how dreadful the night was for the data center industry. Some examples in here I haven’t seen covered elsewhere. Highly recommend you read & share 🗳️ heatmap.news/politics/data-c…

These election results mean that corporate America is in a LOT of trouble. The old model of hiring a Dem lobbyist when the Dems win or an R lobbyist when the Rs win, and then doing business as usual, is over. Corporate profits are at record highs, and the labor share of the economy is at record lows. That's going to reverse. Dozens of data center ballot initiatives passed, as did limits on electric utility lobbying, and a flood of young populist left-wing candidates will now be taking office in red and blue states. Americans are angry at corruption and corporate greed. A Democrat won a South Carolina Senate seat on a campaign to break apart the awful health care system we have. We are going to see a bunch of fumbling around for awhile as the new candidates figure out how to govern, but after that, it'll be a reversal of the neoliberal era. Get ready for actual public utility regulation in a lot of different sectors, as well as stronger rules against monopolies, corruption, price gouging, excessive CEO pay, and financial extraction. Pour one out for CNBC and Jim Cramer.

y'all better grow a fucking spine this time

Tearing down all the data centers and replacing them with Criterion Closets.

I hope Dem leaders understand that this surge is because people want someone to stand up to big money and not because they want more resistance theater

Someone please tell him we will name the two extra stars on the flag after his sorry ass!!!

🦆💙🪿🩵BREAKING!: Tonight, voters spoke loudly, and foie gras has now been BANNED in Denver, CO and Washington D.C.! This is a major victory for the rights of ducks & geese. Thank you to all who showed up and took action, and shout-out to @ProAnimalFuture for leading the effort!