John Shirley
@johnshirley2024.bsky.social
Writer of books, scripts, lyrics. Bram Stoker Award for Black Butterflies; Spur Award for Gunmetal Mountain. Newest sf novels: SubOrbital 7, Stormland. New novel: The Silver Revolver. Writer: The Crow. Deep Space 9 et al. Science! https://john-shirley.com
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Where are the people yelling, "well they should have done everything the right way" now? GFY. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Green Card Interviews End in Handcuffs for Spouses of U.S. Citizens
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:48 AM
Where are the people yelling, "well they should have done everything the right way" now? GFY. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Spawn with me, baby.
From the popculturechat community on Reddit: Miss Universe 2025 National Costume Competition: Miss Norway, Leonora Lysglimt-Rødland, Dons a Salmon-Inspired Costume 🐟
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November 27, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Spawn with me, baby.
Why? Because like Trump he's an intel asset for Russia.
November 27, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Why? Because like Trump he's an intel asset for Russia.
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Gerrymandering unconstitutional-equal under the law isn’t Roberts partisan version.
But No. Carolina courts sided w/republicans on map
Justice Kagan ⬇️
“These gerrymanders enabled politicians to entrench themselves in office as against voters’ preferences,” she wrote
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...
But No. Carolina courts sided w/republicans on map
Justice Kagan ⬇️
“These gerrymanders enabled politicians to entrench themselves in office as against voters’ preferences,” she wrote
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...
In Election Cases, Supreme Court Keeps Removing Guardrails
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Gerrymandering unconstitutional-equal under the law isn’t Roberts partisan version.
But No. Carolina courts sided w/republicans on map
Justice Kagan ⬇️
“These gerrymanders enabled politicians to entrench themselves in office as against voters’ preferences,” she wrote
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...
But No. Carolina courts sided w/republicans on map
Justice Kagan ⬇️
“These gerrymanders enabled politicians to entrench themselves in office as against voters’ preferences,” she wrote
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/u...
There goes another glimmer of hope.
Well, this sucks!
What is it, really, that Rapist and Convicted Felon Trump has that gets everything going his way?
Seriously, what?
Has Karma abandoned just causes entirely?
FFS this asshole was trying to steal votes!
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What is it, really, that Rapist and Convicted Felon Trump has that gets everything going his way?
Seriously, what?
Has Karma abandoned just causes entirely?
FFS this asshole was trying to steal votes!
wapo.st/4ofur3d
Georgia prosecutor ends 2020 election interference case against Trump, allies
Prosecutor Peter Skandalakis deemed the prosecution flawed and impractical.
wapo.st
November 26, 2025 at 6:28 PM
There goes another glimmer of hope.
For fans of Lou Reed and John Cale. With my friend and sometimes music collaborator Michael Layne Heath.
'LOU REED/JOHN CALE: SONGS FOR DRELLA' w/ Michael Layne Heath
My guest this week is Michael Layne Heath (critic, author & compiler of My Week Beats Your Year: Encounters With Lou Reed), who brings us the Lou Reed & John Cale performance film Songs For Drella to ...
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November 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
For fans of Lou Reed and John Cale. With my friend and sometimes music collaborator Michael Layne Heath.
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Waters off the California coast, part of one of Earth’s richest marine ecosystems, have acidified faster than most of the rest of the world’s oceans over the past century, according to a new study. #cawater www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...
California’s coastal waters are transforming at a surprising rate. Here’s what the future could look like
Waters off the California coast, part of one of Earth’s richest marine ecosystems, have acidified faster than most of the rest of the world’s oceans over the past century, according to a new...
www.sfchronicle.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Waters off the California coast, part of one of Earth’s richest marine ecosystems, have acidified faster than most of the rest of the world’s oceans over the past century, according to a new study. #cawater www.sfchronicle.com/climate/arti...
#sff The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction that was supposed to come out this last summer is finally out. They got a new publisher and there were growing pains. It contains my novelet 'The Corporate Soul' and Afrofuturist sf from Maurice Broaddus and other cutting edge sf and fantasy.
At last here is the place to download the *digital* version of the new issue of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. The paper version is supposed to be shipping now.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Summer 2025
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine which is the original publisher of SF classics like Stephen King’s Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for A...
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November 26, 2025 at 7:41 AM
#sff The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction that was supposed to come out this last summer is finally out. They got a new publisher and there were growing pains. It contains my novelet 'The Corporate Soul' and Afrofuturist sf from Maurice Broaddus and other cutting edge sf and fantasy.
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Explore this GIFT ARTICLE from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/s...
Fighting for ‘The Right to Night’ Under Starry, Rural Skies
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November 26, 2025 at 1:32 AM
Explore this GIFT ARTICLE from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/s...
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How many years of growth will this steal from the American people? What freaking choose agents Trump and Republicans are.
I've always felt Trump's job is tearing this country apart and delivering us for Putin... Even if Trump is gone, what is wrong with this person?
How many years of growth will this steal from the American people? What freaking choose agents Trump and Republicans are.
I've always felt Trump's job is tearing this country apart and delivering us for Putin... Even if Trump is gone, what is wrong with this person?
Doctor Critical of Vaccines Quietly Appointed as C.D.C.’s Second in Command
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:01 AM
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/h...
How many years of growth will this steal from the American people? What freaking choose agents Trump and Republicans are.
I've always felt Trump's job is tearing this country apart and delivering us for Putin... Even if Trump is gone, what is wrong with this person?
How many years of growth will this steal from the American people? What freaking choose agents Trump and Republicans are.
I've always felt Trump's job is tearing this country apart and delivering us for Putin... Even if Trump is gone, what is wrong with this person?
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It is also heartbreaking that many of the parents of these children are so deep in conspiracy land that they blame the hospitals not the lack of vaccines for their childrens' deaths. This op-ed begins with one such story:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
Opinion | I Went to an Anti-Vaccine Conference. Medicine Is in Trouble.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:55 AM
It is also heartbreaking that many of the parents of these children are so deep in conspiracy land that they blame the hospitals not the lack of vaccines for their childrens' deaths. This op-ed begins with one such story:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/o...
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After two infants died, the Louisiana Dept of Health under the leadership of the new incoming deputy director of the CDC, delayed notifying the public for months of a whooping cough outbreak. Instead, he ordered DOH to stop promoting vaccines. Pertussis is currently a national health crisis.
Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak
After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
After two infants died, the Louisiana Dept of Health under the leadership of the new incoming deputy director of the CDC, delayed notifying the public for months of a whooping cough outbreak. Instead, he ordered DOH to stop promoting vaccines. Pertussis is currently a national health crisis.
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At last here is the place to download the *digital* version of the new issue of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. The paper version is supposed to be shipping now.
The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Summer 2025
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, founded in 1949, is the award-winning SF magazine which is the original publisher of SF classics like Stephen King’s Dark Tower, Daniel Keyes’s Flowers for A...
weightlessbooks.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:25 AM
At last here is the place to download the *digital* version of the new issue of THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION. The paper version is supposed to be shipping now.
I'm now looking for a lexicon...
"Quantum World Even Stranger Than We Thought"
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"Quantum World Even Stranger Than We Thought"
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November 25, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I'm now looking for a lexicon...
"Quantum World Even Stranger Than We Thought"
phys.org/news/2025-11...
"Quantum World Even Stranger Than We Thought"
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DOGE accessed and exported mountains of government data, including Social Security and IRS information, putting it on their personal, un-secure laptops. Some of it went to third parties, like into Palantir’s Foundry database system. And data from the National Labor Relations Board went to Russia
See You In Hell, DOGE :)
The Department of Government Efficiency officially put down.
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November 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
DOGE accessed and exported mountains of government data, including Social Security and IRS information, putting it on their personal, un-secure laptops. Some of it went to third parties, like into Palantir’s Foundry database system. And data from the National Labor Relations Board went to Russia
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How did this quack become so influential? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_...
Andrew Wakefield - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:11 PM
How did this quack become so influential? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_...
"According to legal precedent, it is unconstitutional to remove books from a public library simply because the books include a character who identifies as LGBTQ."
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes or...
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November 25, 2025 at 8:01 PM
"According to legal precedent, it is unconstitutional to remove books from a public library simply because the books include a character who identifies as LGBTQ."
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Other senators who have participated in the group’s actions have included Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico.
(Should be free)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
(Should be free)
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Chuck Schumer Faces Pushback From a ‘Fight Club’ of Senate Democrats
www.nytimes.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Other senators who have participated in the group’s actions have included Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts, Jeff Merkley of Oregon and Martin Heinrich of New Mexico.
(Should be free)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
(Should be free)
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/24/u...
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'Felony' Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks $50 Million Claim — Latest example of how felon Trump is seeking to provide taxpayer-funded compensation for those he considers aligned with him. #MorningJoe 'ScaredBro' Scarborough would not/did not cover this.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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November 25, 2025 at 7:33 PM
'Felony' Flynn, DOJ in Settlement Talks $50 Million Claim — Latest example of how felon Trump is seeking to provide taxpayer-funded compensation for those he considers aligned with him. #MorningJoe 'ScaredBro' Scarborough would not/did not cover this.
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Invest in companies that make breathing masks, and consider getting into survivalism. RFKjr may drive us all to become doomsday preppers.
November 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Invest in companies that make breathing masks, and consider getting into survivalism. RFKjr may drive us all to become doomsday preppers.