Hugely honored to see THE SLIP win the 2025 Kirkus Prize in fiction. Thank you @KirkusReviews!

He’s right, of course, but it doesn’t really mitigate the fact that Cornyn was happy to stay on the bus as long as Trump was throwing other people under it

@LucasESchaefer great read

Happy to have contributed to this excellent issue.

THE SLIP paperback comes out 6/23 and ahead of the launch I’m going to some of the real Austin locations featured in the novel. First up: the iconic Amy’s on South Congress 🍦🥊

It seems there is an entirely different set of rules for Republicans and Democrats.

Every time the shadow docket has touched a contested map, the outcome favors Republicans. Texas gerrymander: allowed. New York Democratic flip: blocked. Louisiana: VRA gutted. Virginia Democratic map: refused to save it. Alabama: a Black district erased. Same direction every time.

This is truly one of the worst things the court has done — both in terms of legitimacy and in terms of the law — since I have been covering the court.

In which I reveal the appropriate punishment for posting too many unboxing videos. THE SLIP paperback comes out 6/23 🥊

There is no world in which this is okay.     Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito did not recuse himself from cases involving Trump’s Treasury Department while his own son was secretly working there as a political appointee and attorney.    His son's employment was hidden so thoroughly that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated.    If Alito had recused himself, the secret would have come out. He didn’t recuse himself.    This is a clear conflict of interest, and the American people deserved to know about it.    The federal recusal standard is clear: a justice must step aside in any case where there is a reasonable basis to question whether he or she can be impartial. A justice ruling on cases involving the department where his son works fails that test. The Treasury Department sits at the center of some of the biggest legal fights of this administration, and challenges to Trump’s $1.776 billion January 6 slush fund could be headed to the Court next.    The Supreme Court is the only court in America with no binding code of conduct. That is completely unacceptable, and it has to change NOW.    Congress controls the Power of the Purse, and therefore the Court’s funding. If the Court will not adopt a binding code of conduct with real recusal review on their own, I support withholding their funding until they do.   notus.org/us-news/samuel-phi…

Attn Austin! Join us Tuesday, June 23 at First Light for the paperback launch of THE SLIP with some of my favorite writers. 90s garb is encouraged so if you’ve been looking to bust out those JNCOs, now’s the time! 🥊

Interesting to see Texas Republicans weighing in on the disqualifying nature of infidelity

A TEA takeover of Austin ISD will very likely be announced as early as August 2026. If you live in Austin and care about public education, now is the time to start organizing in preparation for the state occupation of our schools. statesman.com/news/education…

I hope everyone sees this for what it is. Houston ISD, Beaumont ISD, Ft Worth ISD and potentially Austin ISD under state control. The dismantling of public education couldn’t be more blatant.

The family of a child who was repeatedly raped by a man who Ken Paxton let off with no new jail time is speaking out: “The fact that Attorney General Ken Paxton allowed this man to get away with molesting and sexually abusing [our] son for three years is completely disqualifying. Adam Hoffman could have faced life in prison. Instead, Ken Paxton and his office offered him a deal that kept him off the sex-offender registry and included no new jail time.”

one interesting thing about all the AI slop writing -- and everyone getting sick of it -- is that people are increasingly engaging in the kind of textual analysis once reserved only for we english major nerds. now regular non nerds are diagramming sentences to prove AI wrote them

This is a front page story and weeks long scandal for anyone other than Trump.

Losing to an asshole doesn’t make you not an asshole, FYI!

Yes. Talarico has an apparently sincere and deeply-felt personal faith journey—it's not instrumental. The theory of the campaign is that he's a nice, clean-cut young man running against a villainous side character from a Coen brothers movie