Notices by Lili Saintcrow (lilithsaintcrow@raggedfeathers.com)

"Now that the agreement has been canceled, the DOJ will no longer monitor the ADPH to ensure compliance."
https://popular.info/p/trump-administration-cancels-program

The moment I find myself thinking, "Wow, *you* must be fun at parties," is the moment I apply a block. Life is too short for Well Actuallys, sealions, Reply Guys, and the Perpetually Indignant.

Curate your space, my beloveds.

A tracker for persons disappeared by Trump and the Republicans.
https://public.tableau.com/app/profile/danielleharlow/viz/UnitedStatesDisappearedTracker/Map

"Hence the paradoxical situation of literature in the conservative parts of the United States, where it is dismissed as having no utility and yet is also seen as enormously dangerous."
https://lithub.com/viet-thanh-nguyen-most-american-literature-is-the-literature-of-empire/

"If, tomorrow, Donald Trump revoked his entire regime of tariffs, it would not matter. It might temporarily delay some economic pain, but the rest of the world now understands that it must move forward without America."
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/the-american-age-is-over

Yeah, that's enough for me today. Gonna go to bed and read about Victorian-era murders, because that seems more cheerful.

"With each subsequent Hunger Games book, Collins has stripped away more and more of the spectacle of the Games in order to grab a certain subsection of readers by the scruff of the neck and shake them so they finally get the fucking point."
https://www.polygon.com/analysis/547538/hunger-games-suzanne-collins-explained-meaning

The madness will continue until rich white men suffer real, actual consequences—social, financial, legal—for their actions. It’s that simple.

Coming into my mentions full of apologia for the rich is not recommended. Christ Jesus, respect yourself more, also, read the fucking room.

Boy, historians are just going to have a field day with all this.

An enchilada and two chocolates later, the world looks a little less grim.

Back to revising smutty vampires!

Because if a publisher is saying this publicly, Christ alone knows what’s going on privately.

…yeah, so, if a publisher is publicly saying, “We’ve spent out authors’ royalty money and can’t pay them without a loan or GFM”, that is HIGHLY concerning and I would take it as a sign NOT to do business with that publisher.

I would also, if I had already signed a contract with that publisher, seek professional advice about rights reversion, and a full independent audit of all sales.

Just as a beginning.

@herhandsmyhands Yep. It’s a goddamn business, and authors need to protect themselves.

"The more detainees, the more money they make. It stands to reason that these companies have no incentive to release people quickly."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/19/canadian-detained-us-immigration-jasmine-mooney

"...Zuckerberg’s company is trying to muzzle yet another whistleblower — one who happens to have written a book full of alleged anecdotes about him and fellow Facebook executives that aren’t just embarrassing but also politically damning."
https://www.vox.com/technology/403954/facebook-whistleblower-book-zuckerberg-sandberg

It’s difficult to convey the breathtaking speed with which we decided, en masse, to punish the director who had attempted to force the script on us. We considered it a killing insult to be *scripted* after he’d made such a point of discouraging our active, authentic enjoyment.

The audience had responded to our authentic enjoyment of pieces we’d spent serious time refining. The enthusiasm was infectious.

The director mistook the window-dressing (our coordinated movements, a little play-acting during solos) as the reason for the response.

Anyway, we ruined the next competitions by being as soulless as possible. The following semester we all chose not to join the advanced choir again. We told other girls not to bother.

For the rest of our school careers, that director couldn’t get another advanced group together.