S. Kirk Walsh
@skirkwalsh
Author of bestseller THE ELEPHANT OF BELFAST, @CounterpointLLC. @HodderBooks, UK/Commonwealth. @MfaAlma faculty. Words: NYTBR, @texashighways, & elsewhere.
Happy Paperback Pub Date to EOB! I'm very grateful to every person who has brought the world of Hettie and Violet to so many readers. Thank you to the support of @ABAbook and my @CounterpointLLC team: Harry Kirchner, @DanSmetanka, @sarahjgrimm, @RachelFersh, @mfishmann & others!
I'm here at the Texas Capitol with @JoaquinCastrotx and @GregCasar and we are FIGHTING BACK against Trump's plan to silence Texans' voices.
Join me, Jasmine Crockett, Joaquin Castro, Greg Casar, James Talarico, Gina Hinojosa, and the people of Texas as we fight back against this power grab.
Lucas Schaefer’s debut The Slip is one of the summer’s most talked-about books—praised by NYT, NPR & beyond. Set in an Austin boxing gym, it’s a powerful story of identity, belonging & transformation. Read more: magazine.lonestar-lit.com/issues #TheSlip #T...
a houston community college student speaking tonight at the TX redistricting hearing says she isn't politically involved but she felt she had to show up because this plan is "designed to silence the people who had already struggled to be heard"
Reminder that @MarfaRadio is hiring a reporter! Deadline for applications is tomorrow - Friday, 7/25. Details here: marfapublicradio.org/careers
We were warned months ago that the people of Gaza would starve. That they were BEING starved by Israel and its vast network of allies, particularly the United States. This is evil in action made possible only through American power. It MUST end.
South Park just carpet-bombed Trump and lit the Paramount merger on fire in the process.
The Times's reassignment of four critics is one thing, but its downgrading of the so-called traditional review is altogether another: newyorker.com/culture/the-le…
Just 40 days ago, Democratic lawmaker Melissa Hortman and her husband were killed by an unhinged Trump supporter and the story has basically already vanished from the national consciousness. DO NOT LET IT.
this is extraordinary work by @propublica @texastribune and their fearless partners projects.propublica.org/venezuelan-imm… #txlege
I just held a rally in Plano, TX — a red part of the state — and 1,000 people showed up. Many said it was their first political rally ever. There’s something happening in Texas…
Republican Rep. Thomas Massie on Mike Johnson's handling of the Epstein scandal. "Who's he gonna pick? Is he going to stand with the pedophiles and underage sex traffickers? Or is he gonna pick the American people and justice for the victims? This is the ultimate decision the…
Hunter Biden is not wrong here.....and it's high time somebody said it about these Obama staffers. "David Axelrod who had one success in his political life, and that was Barack Obama. And that was because of Barack Obama, not because of f*ckin’ David Axelrod. And David Plouffe,…
This should be breaking news every American hears about. A new study shows more than 1,000 Americans will die every year because Republicans cut Medicaid to pay for billionaire tax cuts. nbcnews.com/health/health-…
Not clear the president has fully accomplished his aim of getting people to stop talking about his relationship to Jeffrey Epstein
Oh, this is why MAGA is angry with Obama. 😆
Michelle: You just wanna show everyone your ankles, huh? Barack: Why you hating on my non-swollen ankles, Michelle?
Here's something good... The local NPR station needed to replace $1.4m in cuts. Anticipating the loss, they had found big donors willing to match up to $700k. They made the appeal this morning, and by afternoon, the community had rallied in sums as small as $5 and saved it.