Jackson R. Brooks 📚🎥
@deedlestomes.bsky.social
Neurodivergent fella? Yep. Aspiring prose stylist? Maybe. Love books and movies, WIP “The Slow God Crumbles”
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Speaking of war crimes, this new story by Matt Aikins about a 3rd SF Group A-team, its Afghan proxies, and the “Nerkh Nine” prisoners they murdered is extremely thoroughly reported. Matt first covered this case in 2013 and has spent the last 4 years digging back in. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...
Nine Bodies Turned Up at a Green Beret Outpost. What Really Happened?
www.nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Speaking of war crimes, this new story by Matt Aikins about a 3rd SF Group A-team, its Afghan proxies, and the “Nerkh Nine” prisoners they murdered is extremely thoroughly reported. Matt first covered this case in 2013 and has spent the last 4 years digging back in. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/m...
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A year today since Evan Wright took his own life. Please go out and read something he wrote this week—GENERATION KILL, or his expose about a senior CIA counterterrorism official HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER IN AMERICA, or HELLA NATION, a collection of his eclectic pre-2003 reporting.
Here is Evan the first time I met him—with Tito Ortiz, who was on a USO tour—and the last time, with Evan’s son.
Most interesting man I’ve ever known, lost senselessly. It can happen to the calmest, most unflappable people, and sometimes there’s no way to know even if you’re checking in regularly.
Most interesting man I’ve ever known, lost senselessly. It can happen to the calmest, most unflappable people, and sometimes there’s no way to know even if you’re checking in regularly.
July 12, 2025 at 1:32 PM
A year today since Evan Wright took his own life. Please go out and read something he wrote this week—GENERATION KILL, or his expose about a senior CIA counterterrorism official HOW TO GET AWAY WITH MURDER IN AMERICA, or HELLA NATION, a collection of his eclectic pre-2003 reporting.
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“I have documented serious cases of torture, including mock executions, all types of beatings, electricity being applied to ears and genitals and other parts of the body…Look, I’m calling this part of Russian war policy. It’s clear that it’s organized.”
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
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April 30, 2025 at 2:26 PM
“I have documented serious cases of torture, including mock executions, all types of beatings, electricity being applied to ears and genitals and other parts of the body…Look, I’m calling this part of Russian war policy. It’s clear that it’s organized.”
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...
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“After reports of two major strikes against targets inside Yemen, officials at U.S. Central Command are refusing to discuss whether either action resulted in multiple civilian casualties or if either strike was militarily justified”
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Reports of Civilian Deaths in Yemen Are Mounting. The Pentagon Is Remaining Mostly Silent. | Military.com
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April 30, 2025 at 1:35 AM
“After reports of two major strikes against targets inside Yemen, officials at U.S. Central Command are refusing to discuss whether either action resulted in multiple civilian casualties or if either strike was militarily justified”
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
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The title of my novel + opening epigraphs!
March 26, 2025 at 1:06 AM
The title of my novel + opening epigraphs!
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SACRAMENTO NOIR IS OUT NOW! www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/sacr...
March 4, 2025 at 4:20 PM
SACRAMENTO NOIR IS OUT NOW! www.akashicbooks.com/catalog/sacr...
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A banner day for American letters! Arcade Publishing will be releasing William T. Vollmann’s Cold War-GWOT-Lonely Man masterwork A TABLE FOR FORTUNE in four volumes in 2026!
March 5, 2025 at 8:15 PM
A banner day for American letters! Arcade Publishing will be releasing William T. Vollmann’s Cold War-GWOT-Lonely Man masterwork A TABLE FOR FORTUNE in four volumes in 2026!
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William T. Vollmann's A Table for Fortune is getting published by Arcade Publishing
March 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
William T. Vollmann's A Table for Fortune is getting published by Arcade Publishing
Starting off the year with a double-header; I’ve never read more than one book at a time, so I’m curious to see how this experiment unfolds. More importantly, I’m just super excited to read Denis Johnson again AND jump into my 1st Jim Harrison work
January 10, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Starting off the year with a double-header; I’ve never read more than one book at a time, so I’m curious to see how this experiment unfolds. More importantly, I’m just super excited to read Denis Johnson again AND jump into my 1st Jim Harrison work
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Trump’s cabinet shall from here on be known as the Jackass Brigade. They are the stupidest bunch to come along in all of American history.
December 11, 2024 at 11:23 AM
Trump’s cabinet shall from here on be known as the Jackass Brigade. They are the stupidest bunch to come along in all of American history.
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‘He has come out an old man’: joy and grief as loved ones released from Assad prisons
‘He has come out an old man’: joy and grief as loved ones released from Assad prisons
Family members describe renewed hopes after decades-long searches for political detainees in ‘Kingdom of Silence’
Moammar Ali has been searching for his older brother for 39 years.
In 1986, Syrian soldiers arrested the university student Ali Hassan…
www.theguardian.com
December 7, 2024 at 8:09 AM
‘He has come out an old man’: joy and grief as loved ones released from Assad prisons
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Munro was an utter failure as a mother and as a human being. I have not read anything by her since these revelations. And I never will.
December 8, 2024 at 4:03 PM
Munro was an utter failure as a mother and as a human being. I have not read anything by her since these revelations. And I never will.
These came in the mail 😍
November 30, 2024 at 10:24 PM
These came in the mail 😍
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This. Again, the US wants to blame others for the crises we cause.
“Seventy percent of the illegal weapons seized from criminals in Mexico come from your country. We do not produce these weapons, nor do we consume synthetic drugs. Tragically, it is in our country that lives are lost to the violence resulting from meeting the drug demand in yours”
Mexican President Claps Back at Trump Over Tariffs
Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum threatened to implement retaliatory tariffs should Trump implement his proposed economic measures against Mexico.
www.rollingstone.com
November 29, 2024 at 5:09 PM
This. Again, the US wants to blame others for the crises we cause.
“So many of them had been unwilling to share the world with one another—they had rather die—but after all, they had not left the world; they were still here, unseen among the living, the Invisible Ones, les Morts et les Mystères, and now, if for this moment only, they seemed disposed to harmony.”
November 29, 2024 at 4:36 AM
“So many of them had been unwilling to share the world with one another—they had rather die—but after all, they had not left the world; they were still here, unseen among the living, the Invisible Ones, les Morts et les Mystères, and now, if for this moment only, they seemed disposed to harmony.”
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My new book, THE MISSION: The CIA in the 21st Century, is done. Now writing an epilogue: what's to come. It'll be the most dangerous era since 9/11. A director of national intelligence in thrall to Putin. A nakedly political CIA chief. A president who'll be a dictator on day one. Buckle up, America.
November 24, 2024 at 8:33 PM
My new book, THE MISSION: The CIA in the 21st Century, is done. Now writing an epilogue: what's to come. It'll be the most dangerous era since 9/11. A director of national intelligence in thrall to Putin. A nakedly political CIA chief. A president who'll be a dictator on day one. Buckle up, America.
Get to know your mutuals: In no particular order, post 10 things you like
Books
Movies
David Zaslav hate posts
William T. Vollmann
Anything with the word “cocksucker in it”
Martin Scorsese
James Ellroy
History
Animals
CCR
Books
Movies
David Zaslav hate posts
William T. Vollmann
Anything with the word “cocksucker in it”
Martin Scorsese
James Ellroy
History
Animals
CCR
Get to know your mutuals: In no particular order, post 10 things you like
Books
Movies
Dogs
Cats
Motown
Coffee
Trail running
Driving without a destination
Ancient political theory
The Food Network
Books
Movies
Dogs
Cats
Motown
Coffee
Trail running
Driving without a destination
Ancient political theory
The Food Network
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Music theory
Cozy socks
When you’re working and it’s like running downhill and suddenly you wrote like 15 pages as though possessed
Precocious readers
Mermaids
Mountains
Snow
Old clockwork
Earnestness
Chocolate
Music theory
Cozy socks
When you’re working and it’s like running downhill and suddenly you wrote like 15 pages as though possessed
Precocious readers
Mermaids
Mountains
Snow
Old clockwork
Earnestness
Chocolate
November 25, 2024 at 11:29 PM
Get to know your mutuals: In no particular order, post 10 things you like
Books
Movies
David Zaslav hate posts
William T. Vollmann
Anything with the word “cocksucker in it”
Martin Scorsese
James Ellroy
History
Animals
CCR
Books
Movies
David Zaslav hate posts
William T. Vollmann
Anything with the word “cocksucker in it”
Martin Scorsese
James Ellroy
History
Animals
CCR
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Get to know your mutuals: In no particular order, post 10 things you like
Books
Movies
Dogs
Cats
Motown
Coffee
Trail running
Driving without a destination
Ancient political theory
The Food Network
Books
Movies
Dogs
Cats
Motown
Coffee
Trail running
Driving without a destination
Ancient political theory
The Food Network
Get to know your mutuals: In no particular order, post 10 things you like
Music theory
Cozy socks
When you’re working and it’s like running downhill and suddenly you wrote like 15 pages as though possessed
Precocious readers
Mermaids
Mountains
Snow
Old clockwork
Earnestness
Chocolate
Music theory
Cozy socks
When you’re working and it’s like running downhill and suddenly you wrote like 15 pages as though possessed
Precocious readers
Mermaids
Mountains
Snow
Old clockwork
Earnestness
Chocolate
Get to know your mutuals: In no particular order, post 10 things you like
Lesbian books
Carolina wrens
Peonies
Little creeks wending through forests
Genderfuckery
Lavender (the color and the plant)
Scratching my cats’ ears
The problematic TV show Dollhouse
Linguistics
Mountains, Gandalf!
Lesbian books
Carolina wrens
Peonies
Little creeks wending through forests
Genderfuckery
Lavender (the color and the plant)
Scratching my cats’ ears
The problematic TV show Dollhouse
Linguistics
Mountains, Gandalf!
November 25, 2024 at 10:44 PM
Get to know your mutuals: In no particular order, post 10 things you like
Books
Movies
Dogs
Cats
Motown
Coffee
Trail running
Driving without a destination
Ancient political theory
The Food Network
Books
Movies
Dogs
Cats
Motown
Coffee
Trail running
Driving without a destination
Ancient political theory
The Food Network
I’ll contribute: One of my 2nd great-grandfathers taught Burl Ives how to play the banjo
I’ll also do this.
One like=one piece of lore from my background.
One like=one piece of lore from my background.
Why not.
One like=one piece of Anna lore (until I run out of steam).
One like=one piece of Anna lore (until I run out of steam).
November 25, 2024 at 2:06 AM
I’ll contribute: One of my 2nd great-grandfathers taught Burl Ives how to play the banjo
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I’ll also do this.
One like=one piece of lore from my background.
One like=one piece of lore from my background.
Why not.
One like=one piece of Anna lore (until I run out of steam).
One like=one piece of Anna lore (until I run out of steam).
I'm off work tomorrow, let's go.
One like = one piece of Helena lore.
One like = one piece of Helena lore.
November 25, 2024 at 1:57 AM
I’ll also do this.
One like=one piece of lore from my background.
One like=one piece of lore from my background.
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Last night, I unlocked all posts on my Blood Meridian Substack and made them free. Anyone who wants to view those essays can, but I won’t be posting new ones. Any revenue that comes in will be donated to the Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
November 21, 2024 at 6:41 PM
Last night, I unlocked all posts on my Blood Meridian Substack and made them free. Anyone who wants to view those essays can, but I won’t be posting new ones. Any revenue that comes in will be donated to the Center for Missing and Exploited Children.
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I love @meganabbott.bsky.social 's books, excited for her new book next year. And I'm a huge, HUGE fan of Denis Johnson's books. He's an all-time favorite of mine.
Here's Megan in Crime Reads talking about Denis Johnson's masterclass novel, ANGELS, with the cool as hell Polly Stewart.
Here's Megan in Crime Reads talking about Denis Johnson's masterclass novel, ANGELS, with the cool as hell Polly Stewart.
I was so honored to get to talk to Polly Stewart about one of my favorite books, maybe more timely than ever.
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The Backlist: Megan Abbott on Noir, Fatalism, and Denis Johnson’s ‘Angels’
From the time I began this column, nearly two years ago, I’ve been looking forward to interviewing Megan Abbott. I first became aware of her work in 2016, when I read The Fever over the course of a…
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November 21, 2024 at 8:56 PM
I love @meganabbott.bsky.social 's books, excited for her new book next year. And I'm a huge, HUGE fan of Denis Johnson's books. He's an all-time favorite of mine.
Here's Megan in Crime Reads talking about Denis Johnson's masterclass novel, ANGELS, with the cool as hell Polly Stewart.
Here's Megan in Crime Reads talking about Denis Johnson's masterclass novel, ANGELS, with the cool as hell Polly Stewart.
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November 21, 2024 at 2:28 PM