Rob Costello

Wow. Not every Sunday you wake up to a reader review like this.🥹 (And btw, I do teach setting at The Highlights Foundation and R(ev)ise and Shine! 😊) www.cloudbusterpress.com/an-ugly-worl...

This week’s main story is about how more and more white nationalists, antisemites, and Nazi sympathizers seem to be integrating into the Republican Party, how some of them are currently running for office, and how old you can be for JD Vance to consider you “a very young boy.”

Now fucking arrest Mark Zuckerberg

None of us should forget this. Meta should be subjected to corporate death penalty and permanently broken up into small pieces.

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

Kansas Dem Sen. nominee Adam Hamilton on trans rights: “I don’t think we should take a small group of people and bully them, pick on them, and hurt them. I understand one thing really clearly when it comes to transgender people, and that is Jesus told me I was to love my neighbor as I love myself”

The hottest anyone has ever looked in a movie

#Paxton claims to put Texas first, but where has he been? Talarico’s ad that exposes a troubling travel record stretching across states & countries while Texans face real challenges. #SheShed #Talarico #Texas

📊 Nearly 6 in 10 Americans agree that Trump has dictatorial ambitions and could destroy U.S. democracy, a new poll has found. But partisan splits over election integrity remain strong, with Republicans and Democrats disagreeing on the biggest problem U.S. elections face: https://demdock.com/4siMvxc

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

Let's go, Sam Forstag! That's how you stand up for trans people on the national stage. If congressional candidates in western Montana—one of the most competitive House races in the entire country—can stand up for trans folks in every aspect of our lives, democrats everywhere should take note.

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

Tick tock, motherfucker.

Thank you President @BarackObama for letting the country know Mississippi Matters! Visit ScottColom.com/vote today to make your voting plan. Let's go win on November 3rd!

THIS...

She done lost her damn mind.

Zelenskyy: "Prices are rising because of the war in the Middle East, the blocking of Hormuz. Everyone understands it. If we want to speak with people fairly, if we want to be clear, if we want to speak with our nations openly, people have to hear reality. Don't play games with people."

NEW: Staff at HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette told @adamm0rgan.bsky.social AI is infiltrating their workplaces, from generating cover art and back cover copy, to publicity materials, to rejection emails, as execs tell junior staff to "champion" the tech. www.wired.com/story/book-p...

breaking image of bezos meeting trump

who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible

“The most ordinary man imaginable” will go down as one of the most memorable putdowns of all time.

This was an enjoyable exercise... www.my9albums.com

I am really proud of my horror display for Halloween! As promised, I'm tagging @coreyfarrenkopf.bsky.social in it. There's both with and without books so you can see the design

Same... SMDH.

Listen, we have just a few days left!! Help us fund more time loops!! (I really ALSO wanna reboot The Deer Is Messed Up next year… which is unrelated but also 👀 if this funds in time I will have more faith we can do deer next!)

Where the f**k is The Expanse? Come on, guys... JFC.

My top ten... (*AHS: Hotel is my favorite season of the series. I would have selected the show as a whole if it were an option.)

oh...this is bad

Think of all the money you'd save if you didn't buy food!!!

Kate O’Flynn wins Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for ‘Widow’s Bay’ at the Emmys.

Abdul El-Sayed: "Weijia, with all due respect, this is the third time you've asked about a Twitch streamer ... their whole game is to make us fight culture wars so that we don't pay attention to the fact the president has made $2.2 billion ... "

Good news: he lost.

nice quote from Mandami comms person Emilia Rowland to the New York Times

Happy paperback publication day to Rob Costello @cloudbusterrob.bsky.social and his fab cast of contributors - for WE MOSTLY COME OUT AT NIGHT (Running Press). It's a Lambda Literary Award Finalist, Locus Award Finalist AND Bram Stoker Award Finalist. Grab it now! bookshop.org/p/books/we-m...

Make no mistake—this is Mike Rogers' position on data centers. He's got up to $2.6 million invested in companies cashing in on the data center boom, all while Michiganders watch their utility bills soar.

We had a wonderful time getting to know YOU! Everyone should listen for their dose of queer joy!

I had the best time talking to Vance and Baz for the WROTE Podcast! They are wonderful interviewers and it was a lot of fun to chat. Give it a listen?

Great piece!

I think it's nice that the president's most trusted aide is the It's All For You Damien nurse from The Omen. She's qualified and she's doing an amazing job.

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