Mysti
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Author, editor, Anthony-nominated publisher of LOW DOWN DIRTY VOTE anthologies of crime short stories
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Here’s a fun fact: More than 1000 people have signed up at runforwhat.net to run for office since last night. 😈😈😈
November 5, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Here’s a fun fact: More than 1000 people have signed up at runforwhat.net to run for office since last night. 😈😈😈
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ’s win reminds me of the time we heard Gus Newport (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_New...) speak about being Berkeley mayor. He said he was a socialist but he still had to meet payroll.
Wishing you good fortune with job ahead, Mayor-elect Mamdani!
Wishing you good fortune with job ahead, Mayor-elect Mamdani!
Gus Newport - Wikipedia
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November 5, 2025 at 4:56 PM
@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social ’s win reminds me of the time we heard Gus Newport (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_New...) speak about being Berkeley mayor. He said he was a socialist but he still had to meet payroll.
Wishing you good fortune with job ahead, Mayor-elect Mamdani!
Wishing you good fortune with job ahead, Mayor-elect Mamdani!
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What he said: 💯 🎯
November 1, 2025 at 6:55 PM
What he said: 💯 🎯
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"The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor
November 2, 2025 at 1:53 PM
"The poor are not there by chance or by blind and cruel fate. Nor, for most of them, is poverty a choice. Yet, there are those who still presume to make this claim, thus revealing their own blindness and cruelty." #PopeLeoXIV #DilexiTe #RememberThePoor
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71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data.
Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”
As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.
Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”
As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.
November 2, 2025 at 7:00 PM
71.5% of ICE detainees have no criminal convictions, according to government data.
Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”
As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.
Don’t fall for Trump’s lies about targeting the “worst of the worst.”
As Trump's regime terrorizes communities to fill up detention centers, remember that some of his biggest donors are private prison corporations.
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Speaker Johnson: Federal employees aren’t being paid. Nutrition cuts may cause children to go hungry. Millions are seeing their health premiums soar.
End the 6 week paid vacation you’ve taken. Join your Democratic colleagues and negotiate an end to this shutdown.
End the 6 week paid vacation you’ve taken. Join your Democratic colleagues and negotiate an end to this shutdown.
November 2, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Speaker Johnson: Federal employees aren’t being paid. Nutrition cuts may cause children to go hungry. Millions are seeing their health premiums soar.
End the 6 week paid vacation you’ve taken. Join your Democratic colleagues and negotiate an end to this shutdown.
End the 6 week paid vacation you’ve taken. Join your Democratic colleagues and negotiate an end to this shutdown.
San Francisco peeps: Seal Rock Inn Restaurant reopened in January. We finally got over there for breakfast. The menu is shorter, very Vietnamese-French influenced and quite delicious! Mains are on average $22, but so, so yummy! Can’t wait to go back and try a Cuban. sealrockinn.com/restaurant/
Restaurant | Seal Rock Inn
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November 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
San Francisco peeps: Seal Rock Inn Restaurant reopened in January. We finally got over there for breakfast. The menu is shorter, very Vietnamese-French influenced and quite delicious! Mains are on average $22, but so, so yummy! Can’t wait to go back and try a Cuban. sealrockinn.com/restaurant/
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“This language from the Vice President betrays so much of the promise we have as a nation.”
November 1, 2025 at 4:44 AM
“This language from the Vice President betrays so much of the promise we have as a nation.”
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The average US taxpayer spends $36 a year on SNAP
You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670
Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem
If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy?
You’re doing their dirty work.
You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670
Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem
If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy?
You’re doing their dirty work.
October 31, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The average US taxpayer spends $36 a year on SNAP
You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670
Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem
If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy?
You’re doing their dirty work.
You know what they spend on corporate subsidies? $670
Poor and disabled people who need food are not the problem
If you’re angry about “your money” feeding people but not angry it’s giving tax cuts to the wealthy?
You’re doing their dirty work.
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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Adelita Grijalva now holds the record for longest delay between winng a special Congressional election and being sworn into office.
Why the delay from Mike Johnson?
Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.
Why the delay from Mike Johnson?
Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.
October 31, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Adelita Grijalva now holds the record for longest delay between winng a special Congressional election and being sworn into office.
Why the delay from Mike Johnson?
Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.
Why the delay from Mike Johnson?
Perhaps it's because Grijalva would cast the final vote needed to release the Epstein files.
I feel like, once we get the ship of state to stop listing so dangerously to the right, we might want to work on lifting 1 out of 10 (ish?) Americans out of poverty. Remember when we lifted out of poverty half of the children in it, just with a little money during the pandemic?
More than 47 million Americans — including one in five children — don’t have reliable, affordable access to nutritious food. And as the cost of living skyrockets, more families are depending on SNAP benefits, or food stamps, to put food on the table.
October 31, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I feel like, once we get the ship of state to stop listing so dangerously to the right, we might want to work on lifting 1 out of 10 (ish?) Americans out of poverty. Remember when we lifted out of poverty half of the children in it, just with a little money during the pandemic?
Hot take: gerrymandering only works when people vote their tribe, not their conscience.
#Democracy
#Democracy
October 31, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Hot take: gerrymandering only works when people vote their tribe, not their conscience.
#Democracy
#Democracy
So happy that the courts have empathy with my hungry neighbors. I hope this works. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyiI...
BREAKING: Judge drops HUGE ruling against Trump
YouTube video by Brian Tyler Cohen
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October 31, 2025 at 9:27 PM
So happy that the courts have empathy with my hungry neighbors. I hope this works. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyiI...
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Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
October 30, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity.
They are not the same.
That feeling when you really need photojournalism to have been a thing in Hilo by 1938 to make a scene work, and lo and behold, it was!
#crimeFiction #Writing #Fiction
#crimeFiction #Writing #Fiction
October 30, 2025 at 1:37 AM
That feeling when you really need photojournalism to have been a thing in Hilo by 1938 to make a scene work, and lo and behold, it was!
#crimeFiction #Writing #Fiction
#crimeFiction #Writing #Fiction
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Good evening from Queens.
New York is not for sale.
New York is not for sale.
October 27, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Good evening from Queens.
New York is not for sale.
New York is not for sale.
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The Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB) is actively helping federal employees and contractors impacted by the shutdown. We’ll be making a $5,000 donation to help. If you have anything extra to give, please consider donating to them or to a local food bank near you, every bit helps! 🙏
October 25, 2025 at 1:43 PM
The Capital Area Food Bank (CAFB) is actively helping federal employees and contractors impacted by the shutdown. We’ll be making a $5,000 donation to help. If you have anything extra to give, please consider donating to them or to a local food bank near you, every bit helps! 🙏
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I could not be prouder that my law firm is currently litigating 60 voting, election and redistricting cases in 30 states. Even as large law firms bow down, we continue to fight for democracy every single day.
October 25, 2025 at 6:29 PM
I could not be prouder that my law firm is currently litigating 60 voting, election and redistricting cases in 30 states. Even as large law firms bow down, we continue to fight for democracy every single day.
I hope NYC makes the right call, and that the DNC wakes up.
October 25, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I hope NYC makes the right call, and that the DNC wakes up.
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I can’t attend (still sick from the cold I got at No Kings), but hoping others can! www.bayresistance.org/get-ready?li...
Bay Get Ready United Call to Action — Bay Resistance
If federal troops invade the bay or Ice raids escalate we will mobilize. On the day that it starts happening march and rally at Justin Hermin plaza in San Francisco
www.bayresistance.org
October 23, 2025 at 2:47 PM
I can’t attend (still sick from the cold I got at No Kings), but hoping others can! www.bayresistance.org/get-ready?li...
For our scientists
YouTube video by Elle Cordova
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October 20, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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I wrote about the Mamdani Method: five lessons to anchor a Democratic Party liberalism adrift at sea. Just as abolition, labor, and civil rights once gave parties their compass, Mamdani and the left-populist wing may help Democrats find theirs again.
www.waleed-shahid.com/p/the-mamdan...
www.waleed-shahid.com/p/the-mamdan...
The Mamdani Method
Five lessons to anchor a Democratic Party adrift at sea
www.waleed-shahid.com
October 20, 2025 at 5:26 PM
I wrote about the Mamdani Method: five lessons to anchor a Democratic Party liberalism adrift at sea. Just as abolition, labor, and civil rights once gave parties their compass, Mamdani and the left-populist wing may help Democrats find theirs again.
www.waleed-shahid.com/p/the-mamdan...
www.waleed-shahid.com/p/the-mamdan...