C.B. Bernard
@cbbernard.com
Novelist (ORDINARY BEAR, SMALL ANIMALS CAUGHT IN TRAPS), nonfiction writer (CHASING ALASKA). Pacific NW/Alaska expat in Rhode Island exile. Dogs, books, boats. Feet in the ocean, head in the clouds. Find me at www.cbbernard.com.
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Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
January 25, 2026 at 5:32 PM
Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com
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I just donated $500 to UNIDOS MS, which is supporting the community resisting ICE in Minnesota. I’m calling on my Hollywood friends (you know who you are) to match me or beat me (organization of your choice).
www.givemn.org/donate/Unido...
www.givemn.org/donate/Unido...
January 24, 2026 at 9:03 PM
I just donated $500 to UNIDOS MS, which is supporting the community resisting ICE in Minnesota. I’m calling on my Hollywood friends (you know who you are) to match me or beat me (organization of your choice).
www.givemn.org/donate/Unido...
www.givemn.org/donate/Unido...
FInd out who this guy is so I can buy him lunch.
Protester in Minnesota: I’m 70 years old and I’m fucking angry *disappears into gas*
January 24, 2026 at 5:34 PM
FInd out who this guy is so I can buy him lunch.
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Jan. 22 @ 2:05 PM — Most of Rhode Island and Massachusetts' Bristol County could see 1 to 2 feet of snow on Sunday & Monday, according to our meteorologists' latest predictions. Get details and updates on 12 News and WPRI.com .
January 22, 2026 at 7:16 PM
Jan. 22 @ 2:05 PM — Most of Rhode Island and Massachusetts' Bristol County could see 1 to 2 feet of snow on Sunday & Monday, according to our meteorologists' latest predictions. Get details and updates on 12 News and WPRI.com .
Thread for those looking for a speck of hope this morning.
I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
January 22, 2026 at 1:22 PM
Thread for those looking for a speck of hope this morning.
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Though we tumble and splash in the blood, harried by brutes on all sides—still we must promote our new novels. Anyway, the book is about the blood and the brutes and us and our tumbles, and Rob Hart likes it.
January 21, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Though we tumble and splash in the blood, harried by brutes on all sides—still we must promote our new novels. Anyway, the book is about the blood and the brutes and us and our tumbles, and Rob Hart likes it.
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holy shit
An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune
January 21, 2026 at 11:02 PM
holy shit
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Minneapolis, today.
Note how three agents holding the civilian down.
Why spray?
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Note how three agents holding the civilian down.
Why spray?
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
January 21, 2026 at 9:23 PM
Minneapolis, today.
Note how three agents holding the civilian down.
Why spray?
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
Note how three agents holding the civilian down.
Why spray?
www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...
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Nick Fuentes urging Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota: "Bro, do it. Do something. Just stop chickening out. I'm just tired of the idle threats... Please pull the trigger. Please kill them, Mr. President. Please just kill them."
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
Nick Fuentes: “Please pull the trigger. Please kill them, Mr. President. … I'm not actually wishing for violence, but please send in the military and restore order.”
www.mediamatters.org
January 20, 2026 at 9:28 PM
Nick Fuentes urging Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act in Minnesota: "Bro, do it. Do something. Just stop chickening out. I'm just tired of the idle threats... Please pull the trigger. Please kill them, Mr. President. Please just kill them."
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
www.mediamatters.org/nick-fuentes...
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Steve Bannon's Flood the Zone With Shirt strategy has unfortunately conquered the ruling class
January 21, 2026 at 8:58 PM
Steve Bannon's Flood the Zone With Shirt strategy has unfortunately conquered the ruling class
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The madman speaks. His energy is erratic. The room is silent. The fact that his delusional personally tinged screed comes one day after Carney's lucid, eloquent and grounded messaging must be a much starker comparison to those in the room than it is to me. It's a Holy Shit moment for the world.
January 21, 2026 at 2:04 PM
The madman speaks. His energy is erratic. The room is silent. The fact that his delusional personally tinged screed comes one day after Carney's lucid, eloquent and grounded messaging must be a much starker comparison to those in the room than it is to me. It's a Holy Shit moment for the world.
This Davos speech is bellicose and batshit crazy. That the world has changed irreparably has been clear for a while, but this makes it visible in a very real way that can no longer be ignored, rationalized, or explained away. I fear for my country. I fear for the future. I fear for the world.
January 21, 2026 at 2:32 PM
This Davos speech is bellicose and batshit crazy. That the world has changed irreparably has been clear for a while, but this makes it visible in a very real way that can no longer be ignored, rationalized, or explained away. I fear for my country. I fear for the future. I fear for the world.
I am both grateful for and a little triggered by this reminder.
Just your daily reminder that books do not write themselves.
January 21, 2026 at 1:25 PM
I am both grateful for and a little triggered by this reminder.
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It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.
January 20, 2026 at 9:37 AM
It’s Penguin Awareness Day which seems like a great excuse to post the greatest ever Wikipedia edit.
Thread from the always remarkable Lauren Groff.
Sane people in the US are terrified and gutted. It will take generations to dig out of the hole a few genuinely evil people have dig for us. But please don’t retreat. Now is the time to find a way to act, to make the lives of our elected representatives harder, to work, to build communities.
January 21, 2026 at 10:54 AM
Thread from the always remarkable Lauren Groff.
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KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?”
@pkrugman.bsky.social
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@pkrugman.bsky.social
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January 20, 2026 at 12:11 PM
KRUGMAN: “.. How did a great, sophisticated nation, one of the world’s longest-standing republics, end up so fragile that it can be undone by one man’s dementia?”
@pkrugman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
@pkrugman.bsky.social
open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...
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January 19, 2026 at 9:54 PM
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Reader tears make my dark powers grow. 😈
New year, more reading! One of my favorites so far was Light from Other Stars by @erikaswyler.bsky.social. If you like emotionally devastating family stories, space travel that is horrifying, and lit-fic/sci-fi blends, go get it! It made me cry in public so you know it's good. #booksky
January 19, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Reader tears make my dark powers grow. 😈
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Looking to visit more of Dublin City's cultural gems this year? Make MoLI your first stop! Take it from one of our visitors: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - "Definitely the right place for bookworms and fans of literature!"
January 19, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Looking to visit more of Dublin City's cultural gems this year? Make MoLI your first stop! Take it from one of our visitors: ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ - "Definitely the right place for bookworms and fans of literature!"
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"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com
January 19, 2026 at 3:21 PM
"Donald Trump now genuinely lives in a different reality, one in which neither grammar nor history nor the normal rules of human interaction now affect him. Also, he really is maniacally, unhealthily obsessive about the Nobel Prize."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
Just a heads up, folks, but in light of the fact that the Booker Prize jury failed to choose my last novel, ORDINARY BEAR, for the award, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of good writing and am now free to write the worst book imaginable.
![NEW: @potus letter to @jonasgahrstore links @NobelPrize to Greenland, reiterates threats, and is forwarded by the NSC staff to multiple European ambassadors in Washington. I obtained the text from multiple officials:
Dear Ambassador:
President Trump has asked that the following message, shared with Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre, be forwarded to your [named head of government/state]
“Dear Jonas: Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize for having stopped 8 Wars PLUS, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America. Denmark cannot protect that land from Russia or China, and why do they have a “right of ownership” anyway? There are no written documents, it’s only that a boat landed there hundreds of years ago, but we had boats landing there, also. I have done more for NATO than any other person since its founding, and now, NATO should do something for the United States. The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland. Thank you! President DJT”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hbpefio3f5csc44msmbgioxz/bafkreie7itpptx3xbxhpsnlaqmwk752h7pcrion5ija2apksljtax2adx4@jpeg)
January 19, 2026 at 12:37 PM
Just a heads up, folks, but in light of the fact that the Booker Prize jury failed to choose my last novel, ORDINARY BEAR, for the award, I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of good writing and am now free to write the worst book imaginable.
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Look for the helpers
Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest
A University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest.
www.artnews.com
January 18, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Look for the helpers
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I would like to think the Mad King proclaiming “I will continue to illegally raise taxes on the American people until the NATO alliance collapses” would be the type of statement to cause Congress to act, but I’m not sure there’s any red line the GOP Congress has anymore.
Trump says he'll impose a 10% tariff (rising to 25% in June) on Denmark, Norway, Sweden, France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands and Finland, because they've sent people to Greenland, until the US can buy Greenland.
January 17, 2026 at 5:31 PM
I would like to think the Mad King proclaiming “I will continue to illegally raise taxes on the American people until the NATO alliance collapses” would be the type of statement to cause Congress to act, but I’m not sure there’s any red line the GOP Congress has anymore.