Justin Weinberger
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Justin Weinberger
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· Nov 18
Zombie Season 3: Rise of the Ancients
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Just got back from my third book tour in the last fourteen months. Pumped to finally lift the curtain on our big, zombie-filled finale, full of twists, scares, humor, and friendship. If you're one of those folks who wait for the whole series to be available before you start, this is the day!
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Until one of these guys faces serious prison time they’re going to keep leaning into their atrocities and asking with a smirk if we’re triggered
Hegseth says he would have ordered second strike on Caribbean vessel reut.rs/3XBMtCb
Hegseth says he would have ordered second strike on Caribbean vessel
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Saturday that he backs a September 2 decision to launch a second strike on a suspected drug boat in the Caribbean.
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December 6, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Until one of these guys faces serious prison time they’re going to keep leaning into their atrocities and asking with a smirk if we’re triggered
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Writers — the ones you know and love, the ones you think of as successful — have sources of income outside that book you read. Most of us are a half-step ahead of the landlord at best, and struggling to maintain health insurance. We figure out other ways to make a buck.
I wrote 12 novels.
Hit #2 on the NYT bestseller list.
Optioned three works for film and TV.
Have close to 20 short fiction works in anthos.
I have 35,000 BSky followers.
Have you seen my jewelry shop that keeps my lights on.
www.peculiarityshop.com
Hit #2 on the NYT bestseller list.
Optioned three works for film and TV.
Have close to 20 short fiction works in anthos.
I have 35,000 BSky followers.
Have you seen my jewelry shop that keeps my lights on.
www.peculiarityshop.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Writers — the ones you know and love, the ones you think of as successful — have sources of income outside that book you read. Most of us are a half-step ahead of the landlord at best, and struggling to maintain health insurance. We figure out other ways to make a buck.
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Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
November 10, 2025 at 1:49 AM
The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.
People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.
And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.
Whoever decided to make all the electric cars wish by playing that one chord from Bohemian Rhapsody is the world's greatest earworm troll and I am so grateful to share this world with you.
November 9, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Whoever decided to make all the electric cars wish by playing that one chord from Bohemian Rhapsody is the world's greatest earworm troll and I am so grateful to share this world with you.
I cannot stress strongly enough how phenomenal a decision it was, and is, to use Safari's "hide distracting items" feature to totally erase the NYT Editorial section of their website from my life.
November 6, 2025 at 2:16 PM
I cannot stress strongly enough how phenomenal a decision it was, and is, to use Safari's "hide distracting items" feature to totally erase the NYT Editorial section of their website from my life.
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Stand up, fight back.
October 18, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Stand up, fight back.
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I can't remember when I started filing Bari Weiss under "this person does not matter to me" but I've largely ignored her for a long time, so this segment was actually wildly helpful for me in understanding her and uh, fucken yikes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
Bari Weiss: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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October 13, 2025 at 4:49 PM
I can't remember when I started filing Bari Weiss under "this person does not matter to me" but I've largely ignored her for a long time, so this segment was actually wildly helpful for me in understanding her and uh, fucken yikes
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...
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I will never not repost this
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October 5, 2025 at 9:09 PM
I will never not repost this
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This is a far cry from enough, but it's a cry to rally around, in an era where the Republican Party has turned against everything good about America.
The opening and conclusion of the 161-page findings of fact and rulings of law from Young — a Reagan appointee who has already made headlines — will be getting attention.
It is a response to a post card he received, apparently in response to one of his rulings (likely in the NIH funding case):
It is a response to a post card he received, apparently in response to one of his rulings (likely in the NIH funding case):
September 30, 2025 at 10:30 PM
This is a far cry from enough, but it's a cry to rally around, in an era where the Republican Party has turned against everything good about America.
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Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated.
Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”
This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.
Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”
This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated.
Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”
This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.
Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”
This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.
Brad Lander for Sanity. Brad Lander for Senate.
I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)
September 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Brad Lander for Sanity. Brad Lander for Senate.
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i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
September 23, 2025 at 12:32 PM
i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.
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Hell yes @popheist.com. We're having so much fun over there and y'all should join us. It's pop culture writing freed from so many of the typical constraints.
popheist.com/products
popheist.com/products
September 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Hell yes @popheist.com. We're having so much fun over there and y'all should join us. It's pop culture writing freed from so many of the typical constraints.
popheist.com/products
popheist.com/products
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This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt.
Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.
Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.
moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.
September 19, 2025 at 2:41 PM
This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt.
Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.
Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.
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"we're going to keep showing up until they stop abducting our neighbors" brad lander is truly the best of us
I just spoke to NYC Comptroller Brad Lander as he left police custody following his arrest at immigration court. Here’s what he said:
September 19, 2025 at 1:29 AM
"we're going to keep showing up until they stop abducting our neighbors" brad lander is truly the best of us
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The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
September 18, 2025 at 2:56 PM
The last political column I was allowed to write in the @washingtonpost.com was a criticism of Obama.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
His people took issue with my piece, but we were respectful.
Now he is tweeting in support of me.
This is how free political speech and respect for debate *actually works*.
Or used to work.
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David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel:
"This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."
"This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."
September 18, 2025 at 1:49 AM
David Frum on Jimmy Kimmel:
"This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."
"This is not cancel culture because it's not culture. It's state repression. It's an order from the government. Here is the script, you must read, if you do not read it, you will be taken off the air."
TIL you can use the Safari's browser's "hide distracting items" feature to erase the NYT opinion section completely.
"...But why stop there, Justin?"
Who said that.
"...But why stop there, Justin?"
Who said that.
September 11, 2025 at 6:12 PM
TIL you can use the Safari's browser's "hide distracting items" feature to erase the NYT opinion section completely.
"...But why stop there, Justin?"
Who said that.
"...But why stop there, Justin?"
Who said that.
Thanks to @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social for channeling my inchoate rage into 2000 words that have the truth and clarity a chatbot fakes with such feckless confidence.
If The Thieving AI Company Can Survive The Legal Settlement, Then It Is Not Big Enough | Defector
There is an easy answer to the question “How long does it take to write a book?” but it is not a true one. The easy answer is the duration between when you actually start putting your pen down on the ...
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September 9, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Thanks to @mckinneykelsey.bsky.social for channeling my inchoate rage into 2000 words that have the truth and clarity a chatbot fakes with such feckless confidence.
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In dissent, Justice Sotomayor wrote for the Democratic appointees, “We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.“
SCOTUS conservatives OK Trump admin's racial profiling of Latinos in low-wage jobs
Five of the six Republican appointees to the Supreme Court wrote nothing Monday. But their actions, and Justice Kavanaugh's concurrence, paint an alarming picture.
www.lawdork.com
September 9, 2025 at 1:16 AM
In dissent, Justice Sotomayor wrote for the Democratic appointees, “We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent.“
"Democratic leaders have had six months to come up with a plan. If there’s a better plan than a shutdown, great. But if the plan is still nothing, then Democrats need new leaders."
September 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"Democratic leaders have had six months to come up with a plan. If there’s a better plan than a shutdown, great. But if the plan is still nothing, then Democrats need new leaders."
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It's a rough time for artists, writers and other creators. If you have the means to do so, consider helping out a creator this weekend. Possibly sign up for their Patreon, or buy a commission, or buy their book. If not, maybe just help spread the word about one of their works. Everything helps.
August 29, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It's a rough time for artists, writers and other creators. If you have the means to do so, consider helping out a creator this weekend. Possibly sign up for their Patreon, or buy a commission, or buy their book. If not, maybe just help spread the word about one of their works. Everything helps.
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The news from the past few days is a stunning example of what happens when the state decides it wants to crush just one guy
August 25, 2025 at 1:16 PM
The news from the past few days is a stunning example of what happens when the state decides it wants to crush just one guy