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Amal El-Mohtar
@amalelmohtar.com
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Wrote half of This Is How You Lose the Time War & all of The River Has Roots. Next book: Seasons of Glass & Iron, March 24, 2026. I have a newsletter you can sign up for at amalelmohtar.com
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Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com · May 7
Absolutely thrilled to share the cover to next year's short story collection coming out from @tordotcom.bsky.social! I'm obsessed with it!

Comes out March 24, 2026, but you can pre-order it now wherever you like getting your books! Here's Macmillan's link.

us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
On a gradient background that goes from blush-pink at the top to a muddy green at the bottom, a book cover. Super-imposed on a pastoral, oil-painting style image depicting a forested foreground and a hilly background beneath a soft champagne sky, is superimposed a 3-dimensional rhomboid-shape, the facets of which play with space. One facet shows a pale cloudy sky, and from it, a brown hare emerges chasing the hind legs and bushy tail of a wolf, the rest of which vanishes out of the rhomboid frame. The rhomboid's other facets -- which create the kind of infinity loop of an Escher painting -- are either blush-pink or covered in the greenery from the background. Above the rhomboid is the title, and the subtitle "Stories"; below it are the words New York Times Bestselling & Award-winning Author Amal El-Mohtar. My name and the word "Stories" are in the same blush-pink as the rhomboid's facets.
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PLEASE PAY ATTENTION THIS STORY

THIS WOMAN SHOULD NOT BE ROTTING IN A PRISON CAMP

(no one should be)
chanda.blacksky.app Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 9h
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Leqaa Kordia is Palestinian and is the last pro-Palestine student protestor who is still being held in government custody. She has recently suffered a medical emergency while incarcerated. Please fill out this form to send a letter to your congressional reps demanding her release:
Tell Congress: Free Leqaa Kordia from ICE detention!
Leqaa Kordia, a 33-year-old Palestinian woman from Paterson, NJ, who courageously protested the genocide in Gaza, has been held in ICE detention for nearly 11 months. The Trump administration and IC...
actionnetwork.org
February 9, 2026 at 2:55 PM
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oldenoughtosay.com
masking is not an extreme measure; it’s like, level zero of measures. it’s the easiest possible option
npr.org NPR @npr.org · 11h
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy. n.pr/4akK70l
Olympic Covid restrictions are gone, but some athletes still self-quarantining
For most people, the pandemic days of masking are behind us. In certain corners of the Winter Olympics, though, things still look a lot like they did in Covid times. Some athletes are taking extreme measures to stay healthy.
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February 9, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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Molasses-brained this morning but pleased to have scored stats

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 9th 2026 (Easy), in 03:11
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Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
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February 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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fareedblackman.bsky.social
No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.
May 3, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Air Canada I understand we’re approaching Valentine’s Day but I simply don’t think an airline should advertise its sales with “fares worth falling for”
February 9, 2026 at 3:11 PM
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Even in this thoughtful and excellent essay, the exceptionalism is hard to shake. "Where else but in America could a left-wing, brown-skinned immigrant, a racialised ‘other’, become the mayor of a globally influential city?" Who is the mayor of London? Who are the mayors of Montreal and Toronto?
lrb.co.uk London Review of Books @lrb.co.uk · 11h
‘As the Swedish diplomatic historian Anders Stephanson writes, “the alarming fact” is that “everyone on this earth has an enormous stake in how the United States chooses to be and act in this world.” Not just enormous, but existential.’

Adam Shatz’s Winter Lecture:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Adam Shatz · Another Country: Visions of America
Is America a dream or a nightmare, a democratic paradise or a bastion of white supremacy and religious intolerance? Is...
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February 9, 2026 at 2:04 PM
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elizabethcobbe.bsky.social
Strong recommend for @amalelmohtar.com 's The River Has Roots! Beautiful, winding, (literally) lyrical story. The bonus short story at the end is also really touching and lovely.
hardcover copy of Amal El-Mohtar's The River Has Roots
February 8, 2026 at 11:20 PM
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rebeccasolnit.bsky.social
"you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free...."
seachanger.bsky.social malena @seachanger.bsky.social · 2d
message from MN
From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here. From a Comrade 19h. C One of the nuts things about organizing in the Twin Cities right now is that even the most long term organizers who've been here for decades can't keep track of all the resistance that is going on. There are so many self-organized crews just doing work that in any conversation with someone from another neighborhood you might stumble over a whole collective of people resisting in ways you didn't think of. There's a crew of carpenters just going around fixing kicked-in doors. There are tow truck drivers taking cars of detained people away for free. People delivering food to families in hiding. So many local rapid response groups that the number is uncertain but somewhere between 80 and the low hundreds- especially when one considers that several immigrant communities have their own non-English rapid response networks usually uncounted in the main English-language directories. People standing watch outside daycares and schools. This whole resistance has so many poles of initiative and leadership, so many layers of self-organization, that it's extraordinarily difficult for the state to repress or for opportunists be they Democrats or movement-riding parties) to co-opt and control. Of course, that's built up through many years and decades of organization, and not only through explicitiv political campaigns or formations built during times of crisis and rupture like 2020. It is also built through day-to-day mutual aid, culture building, workplace and tenant organizing, and simple, basic relationship building among neighbors and coworkers here.
February 8, 2026 at 2:12 PM
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dwmmphotography.bsky.social
Last Thursday evening at Bernardo WMA in New Mexico.
Nearing the end of their wintering season.
February 8, 2026 at 5:19 AM
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Skipped a step in my eagerness to proceed, but a satisfying sequence ultimately

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 8th 2026 (Hard), in less than 20 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
February 8, 2026 at 5:23 AM
amalelmohtar.com
Stressed myself out at the end knowing I was so close but clock is ticking & I had fully forgotten a clue staring me in the face but green field maintained at temporal cost

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 7th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 12 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
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February 7, 2026 at 5:15 PM
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aluino.blacksky.app
For Black History Month, I want to bring attention to who is considered to be the first Black superhero, and that’s Lionman.

He debuted in Philadelphia’s “All Negro Comics” in mid 1947.

ANC is the first comic written and drawn solely by Black writers and artists. Edited by Orrin Cromwell Evans.
All Negro Comics #1, featuring several characters like “Ace Harlem” and “Lionman” Lionman in an original All Negro Comics panel. The narrator says “Lion Man ‘shoots’ first…. The flying body of Brosser makes a bull’s eye…” Lionman throws a man into another man. Lionman in newer comics in a redone version of one of his older outfits.
February 7, 2026 at 2:49 PM
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I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.
MILAN (AP) — The troubled Caribbean country, Haiti, has fielded two athletes for the Milan Cortina Winter Games, and they will proudly wear Haitian symbols — although one less than intended after intervention by the International Olympic Committee. The skiers will compete in uniforms designed by Italian-Haitian designer Stella Jean that originally featured an image of Toussaint Louverture, the former slave who led a revolution that created the world’s first Black republic in 1804. The IOC ruled that the image violated Olympic rules barring political symbolism, requiring Jean to come up with a creative solution: painting over the nation’s founding father.
February 6, 2026 at 11:43 PM
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astrokatie.com
GM: Charisma check.

Mamdani: [rolls natural 20]

GM: that’s a d6 how did you

Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊
February 7, 2026 at 5:01 AM
amalelmohtar.com
this ultimately felt like a triumph even tho I felt v slow doing it

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 6th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 8 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
February 6, 2026 at 6:49 PM
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lizrummy.bsky.social
From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X)

"Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal?

Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail…

Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you.

Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."
February 6, 2026 at 3:47 PM
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Indigenous fire stewardship brings rare Ontario prairie back. After nearly disappearing, the Black Oak Savanna at Alderville First Nation is thriving again thanks to 25 years of Indigenous-led restoration. tinyurl.com/25xfwttl
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A First Nation’s prairie grows in Ontario, then burns | The Narwhal
A portion of the Alderville Black Oak Savanna is burned each year, giving way to new life. Conservation efforts have revived the rare tallgrass ecosystem that was nearly lost to colonialism
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February 6, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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acyn.bsky.social
Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.”

Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.
February 6, 2026 at 4:11 AM
amalelmohtar.com
A counting error just as it was all coming together!

I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 5th 2026 (Tricky), in less than 10 minutes
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cluesbysam.com
Clues by Sam
A daily logic puzzle where you deduce who is a criminal!
cluesbysam.com
February 6, 2026 at 3:34 AM
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thelincoln.bsky.social
One must imagine Sisyphus rolling the boulder down into Plato's cave and everyone running Indiana Jones style
February 6, 2026 at 3:22 AM
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I will never tire of bringing back the legend of Bigolas Dickolas and This is How You Lose The Time War

amalelmohtar.com/letter-of-ne...
The Twelve Days of Bigolas Dickolas Wolfwood
Dear Friends, Previously, on Amal Content: A lot has happened since then. I truly struggle with how to talk about the past 12 days, during which a viral tweet from an anime fan account with an exce...
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February 5, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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matociquala.bsky.social
Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday.

It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.
lalahaenzy.com Omg. WTF is Happening? @lalahaenzy.com · 4d
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
February 5, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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aishaforward10.com
I’m on the scene at Franklin and 1st. A convoy of about a couple dozen ICE/HSI agents broke the entryway into an apartment building at 6am. No warrant presented. Less than 24 hours ago, Tom Homan announced the end of large convoys in Minnesota… Bullshit.
February 5, 2026 at 12:49 PM
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Come chat with meeee
tricon-hfx.bsky.social TriCon @tricon-hfx.bsky.social · 4d
Enjoy free coffee & casual conversation with a writer & 3-7 friends @tridenthalifax.bsky.social!

We will be opening sign-ups for kaffeeflatsches ON TUE, FEB 17th! Space is limited with each writer & will be booked on a first-come, first-serve basis to registered attendees only.
A blue card with "KAFFEEKLATSCH" running up the left side has a picture of a cappuccino over the names and credits of seven authors: Amal El-Mohtar, Julie Czerneda, Isaac Fellman, Terese Mason Pierre, Tiffany Morris, Jennifer Giescrecht, and David Demchuck.
February 5, 2026 at 3:22 PM
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It should be illegal for brands to email you more than once a week
February 4, 2026 at 7:43 PM