Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
@pearlbear.com
Black, Trans, Queer, multi-genre writer. Ph.D. Neuroscience. MFA student Antioch University. Cazadero, CA & Seattle, WA
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Max Pearl 🏳️⚧️
@pearlbear.com
· Jan 6
A 🧵on my books, in order:
The Casitian Universe Omnibus
📚 3 Novels
👽Good aliens
🌈Queer characters
💖Love stories
🌼Optimistic
🚀Space travel (a little)
🪐Planet colonization
⚠️ Culture clash
Soon to be out in paper!
author.maxwellpearl.com/pages/the-ca...
The Casitian Universe Omnibus
📚 3 Novels
👽Good aliens
🌈Queer characters
💖Love stories
🌼Optimistic
🚀Space travel (a little)
🪐Planet colonization
⚠️ Culture clash
Soon to be out in paper!
author.maxwellpearl.com/pages/the-ca...
Called mine.
January 28, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Called mine.
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How many years have we been watching gun nuts open carry semiautomatic rifles into, like, a Dunkin' Donuts as a statement against government control? And they're now silent over a citizen being murdered by federal agents and then blamed for legally carrying a firearm?
January 26, 2026 at 5:49 PM
How many years have we been watching gun nuts open carry semiautomatic rifles into, like, a Dunkin' Donuts as a statement against government control? And they're now silent over a citizen being murdered by federal agents and then blamed for legally carrying a firearm?
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COLLECTIVE
LIBERATION
OR
BUST
LIBERATION
OR
BUST
Solidarity will break them.
January 25, 2026 at 12:28 AM
COLLECTIVE
LIBERATION
OR
BUST
LIBERATION
OR
BUST
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I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
January 24, 2026 at 7:23 PM
I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.
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Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
January 24, 2026 at 4:01 PM
Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position
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Republicans are doubling down on Trump’s obsession with taking over Greenland and introduced a bill to make it the 51st state.
On #TheFlipSide, Democrats are working to get taxpaying, American citizens in D.C. statehood.
On #TheFlipSide, Democrats are working to get taxpaying, American citizens in D.C. statehood.
January 22, 2026 at 7:46 PM
Republicans are doubling down on Trump’s obsession with taking over Greenland and introduced a bill to make it the 51st state.
On #TheFlipSide, Democrats are working to get taxpaying, American citizens in D.C. statehood.
On #TheFlipSide, Democrats are working to get taxpaying, American citizens in D.C. statehood.
Great thread in MN.
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 3:29 PM
Great thread in MN.
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The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
January 21, 2026 at 2:26 PM
The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.
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Word. I once saw this issue described in the metaphor of a line cook, in full view of everyone else, hocking a loogie into someone's food.
Yes, obvz, fire the cook. But the main issue is, he did it without fear of punishment. He didn't even try to hide it.
The real problem is the whole kitchen.
Yes, obvz, fire the cook. But the main issue is, he did it without fear of punishment. He didn't even try to hide it.
The real problem is the whole kitchen.
Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.
His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him
January 21, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Word. I once saw this issue described in the metaphor of a line cook, in full view of everyone else, hocking a loogie into someone's food.
Yes, obvz, fire the cook. But the main issue is, he did it without fear of punishment. He didn't even try to hide it.
The real problem is the whole kitchen.
Yes, obvz, fire the cook. But the main issue is, he did it without fear of punishment. He didn't even try to hide it.
The real problem is the whole kitchen.
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Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?
January 20, 2026 at 11:16 AM
Maybe Greenland could invade us instead?
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And for those leftists who said “both sides are the same,” you all were deathly wrong. Even if that was true, voting for Dems would have made MAGA and, by extension, the Republican Party obsolete. This would have allowed room for a progressive party to take root.
January 20, 2026 at 4:03 AM
And for those leftists who said “both sides are the same,” you all were deathly wrong. Even if that was true, voting for Dems would have made MAGA and, by extension, the Republican Party obsolete. This would have allowed room for a progressive party to take root.
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From @sifill.bsky.social
"The Civil Rights Movement saved America from drowning. Now this country appears to be going under for the fateful third time. King and those involved in the Civil Rights Movement ushered in this country’s last, best...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
"The Civil Rights Movement saved America from drowning. Now this country appears to be going under for the fateful third time. King and those involved in the Civil Rights Movement ushered in this country’s last, best...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
It's King Day!
Don't Allow Them to Memory Hole What It Means
open.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 7:17 PM
From @sifill.bsky.social
"The Civil Rights Movement saved America from drowning. Now this country appears to be going under for the fateful third time. King and those involved in the Civil Rights Movement ushered in this country’s last, best...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
"The Civil Rights Movement saved America from drowning. Now this country appears to be going under for the fateful third time. King and those involved in the Civil Rights Movement ushered in this country’s last, best...
open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...
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I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS
January 15, 2026 at 9:34 PM
I DO NOT CARE IF THE PERSON ICE IS BRUTALIZING IS A U.S. CITIZEN OR NOT AND EVERY TIME YOU MAKE THE DISTINCTION IT'S LIKE YOU'RE SAYING YOU'RE FINE WITH THEM BRUTALIZING IMMIGRANTS
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American Indian Movement (AIM) patrol trucks have been spotted around NE and folks are flagging them as suspicious and giving them unwelcoming glances because they don’t know who they are. This is the AIM logo and flag, which you might see on their trucks. They are friends!
January 16, 2026 at 4:35 PM
American Indian Movement (AIM) patrol trucks have been spotted around NE and folks are flagging them as suspicious and giving them unwelcoming glances because they don’t know who they are. This is the AIM logo and flag, which you might see on their trucks. They are friends!
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These lines from Edwin Grabhorn, renowned San Francisco printer, writing in 1948, now seem bitterly ironic in light of what Silicon Valley has done from the area.
Rather than ‘illumination’ we’ve got the exact opposite
Rather than ‘illumination’ we’ve got the exact opposite
January 16, 2026 at 10:01 AM
These lines from Edwin Grabhorn, renowned San Francisco printer, writing in 1948, now seem bitterly ironic in light of what Silicon Valley has done from the area.
Rather than ‘illumination’ we’ve got the exact opposite
Rather than ‘illumination’ we’ve got the exact opposite
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The reason I think it is important to say this is that it helps us focus on the likely risks.
It is, to me, very unlikely that a state will simply choose not to hold elections.
It is also, to me, very likely that voter intimidation and suppression will increase beyond the current terrible method.
It is, to me, very unlikely that a state will simply choose not to hold elections.
It is also, to me, very likely that voter intimidation and suppression will increase beyond the current terrible method.
Your regular reminder that there is no legal path from martial law to suspending elections in this country.
That doesn't mean there is no path. It just means that we need to reject the framing that the federal government has any legal authority to cease elections.
That doesn't mean there is no path. It just means that we need to reject the framing that the federal government has any legal authority to cease elections.
January 15, 2026 at 6:22 PM
The reason I think it is important to say this is that it helps us focus on the likely risks.
It is, to me, very unlikely that a state will simply choose not to hold elections.
It is also, to me, very likely that voter intimidation and suppression will increase beyond the current terrible method.
It is, to me, very unlikely that a state will simply choose not to hold elections.
It is also, to me, very likely that voter intimidation and suppression will increase beyond the current terrible method.
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Gender-based violence researchers told @19thnews.org that the widespread visibility of physical violence against women in public spaces does not happen in a vacuum and goes hand-in-hand with the policies and messaging coming from the administration. 19thnews.org/2026/01/ice-...
ICE violence against women is increasingly visible — and largely untracked
The killing of Renee Nicole Good — and the viral video that followed — underscores the forceful tactics long used against marginalized women.
19thnews.org
January 15, 2026 at 6:21 PM
Gender-based violence researchers told @19thnews.org that the widespread visibility of physical violence against women in public spaces does not happen in a vacuum and goes hand-in-hand with the policies and messaging coming from the administration. 19thnews.org/2026/01/ice-...
This is nothing new. I mean there's a reason MLK wrote that letter from a Birmingham Jail. The state can been criminalizing protest it doesn't like forever.
I think that people don’t comprehend that the state has been unapologetically beating young people’s asses basically nonstop & charging us with massive crimes for protesting since at least Occupy Wall Street & growing up like that has a chilling effect on the way people engage with democracy
January 15, 2026 at 6:13 PM
This is nothing new. I mean there's a reason MLK wrote that letter from a Birmingham Jail. The state can been criminalizing protest it doesn't like forever.
Hey #queer #bipoc #creativenonfiction and #memoir writers- do you have any developmental editor recommendations?
January 15, 2026 at 6:07 PM
Hey #queer #bipoc #creativenonfiction and #memoir writers- do you have any developmental editor recommendations?
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"It’s not hard to imagine that Renee Good would have also found writing and artistic community in the city, had she lived."
I wrote about why it matters that Good was a poet, and the connection of poetry to resistance. nonprofitquarterly.org/why-it-matte...
I wrote about why it matters that Good was a poet, and the connection of poetry to resistance. nonprofitquarterly.org/why-it-matte...
Why It Matters that Renee Nicole Macklin Good Was a Poet | Nonprofit Quarterly | Civic News. Empowering Nonprofits. Advancing Justice.
After her death at the hands of ICE, Renee Good’s legacy as a poet is much more than her one published poem.
nonprofitquarterly.org
January 15, 2026 at 2:15 PM
"It’s not hard to imagine that Renee Good would have also found writing and artistic community in the city, had she lived."
I wrote about why it matters that Good was a poet, and the connection of poetry to resistance. nonprofitquarterly.org/why-it-matte...
I wrote about why it matters that Good was a poet, and the connection of poetry to resistance. nonprofitquarterly.org/why-it-matte...
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This was a deeply, personally important piece for me to write, about my fibromyalgia and resistance against ableist capitalism.
But it’s also for all of you fatigued warriors out there - I honour you.
With thanks as ever to @wearequeeraf.com for the space to write about the under-platformed.
But it’s also for all of you fatigued warriors out there - I honour you.
With thanks as ever to @wearequeeraf.com for the space to write about the under-platformed.
Unshakeably tired? You're not the only one muddling through the spike in fatigue
www.wearequeeraf.com/unshakeably-...
www.wearequeeraf.com/unshakeably-...
Unshakeably tired? You're not the only one muddling through the spike in fatigue
How can we begin to bring our best to our work from a new foundation of radical compassion?
www.wearequeeraf.com
January 12, 2026 at 3:47 PM
This was a deeply, personally important piece for me to write, about my fibromyalgia and resistance against ableist capitalism.
But it’s also for all of you fatigued warriors out there - I honour you.
With thanks as ever to @wearequeeraf.com for the space to write about the under-platformed.
But it’s also for all of you fatigued warriors out there - I honour you.
With thanks as ever to @wearequeeraf.com for the space to write about the under-platformed.