Stephen Fishbach

Order my novel now at Survivor loser. Pushcart Prize and Story Foundation Prize-winning writer.

Your retweets of me are endorsements.

[Stephen Fishbach @stephenfishbach]

My novel Escape! is now available for pre-order at https://t.co/BZ5UE5xuUT or https://t.co/gDoQqVo0qZ (which sounds like a horror movie).

I wrote a post about it and about my inspiration for writing it.
https://t.co/migldPkYjR

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

Let me tell you what just got reported, because you will not believe it until you see it laid out.

The Trump administration cut a billion-dollar tungsten deal with Kazakhstan. Tungsten is the metal we need for missile warheads, fighter jets, and computer chips. Trump himself got on the phone to close it. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick worked it from the inside, sending letters, leaning on the Kazakh president, lining up as much as $1.6 billion in federal financing.

Within weeks of those negotiations, investors tied to a firm partly owned by Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump took a 20% stake in an entity connected to the very same Kazakhstan project their father was negotiating. Around that same time, Cantor Fitzgerald, the firm run by Lutnick’s own sons, raised $210 million for a partner in the deal and pocketed the fees.

The fathers set the policy. The sons cashed in.

Six days after the Trump sons and their partners moved their money, Lutnick signed the final deal.

The reporting found one or both families have financial ties to at least 14 companies working with the government on critical mining deals.

The total federal funding flowing toward those companies tops $8.9 billion.

This is your tax money.

It is supposed to secure our supply chains and protect our troops, not pad the portfolios of the President’s children and the Commerce Secretary’s children.

This is the most corrupt administration in American history. It is not close.

We must keep digging, and keep asking the questions they do not want asked. Republicans in Congress are unwilling to lift a finger. Mike Johnson is running a protection racket.

Either we will end the corruption, or the corruption will be the end of us.

https://t.co/yFOl7zvOhC

[Stephen Fishbach @stephenfishbach]

see you later #survivor, looks like my new identity is tweeting about traffic

[Stephen Fishbach @stephenfishbach]

tyson not winning this season because they refused to time him out on sudoku/ never explained the rules is one of the great reality television injustices of all time.

[Allan @TheAllanAguirre]

Tyson dragged a partner who DID NOT HOW TO SWIM in a swimming challenge and then CRUSHED A PUZZLE
in seconds to WIN THE DAILY.

It genuinely might be the most impressive daily challenge performance ever.

[Stephen Fishbach @stephenfishbach]

@alexritchie006 thank you, this is th eperfect breakdown

[Stephen Fishbach @stephenfishbach]

going to be in Australia for 10 days for book events in October. If I can only see Sydney or Uluru which should I choose?

[Stephen Fishbach @stephenfishbach]

@mylesmkuah most of that time is for writer festival stuff

[Stephen Fishbach @stephenfishbach]

@snoopysgotgame I'll be in Melbourne at the Wheeler Center

[Stephen Fishbach @stephenfishbach]

@TaxEvadinDemSoc @OneturtleThat This is why I drive in reverse in the opposite direction

[Stephen Fishbach @stephenfishbach]

There's something so bleak about a multi-hour drive with Google Maps--seeing that no matter how much you accelerate, or how brilliantly you navigate traffic, your projected arrival time doesn't change at all.

Makes me think that knowing the future would actually be horrible.

[Stephen Fishbach @stephenfishbach]

@ClaireRehfuss the 'deleted scenes' episodes of the Challenge were always extremely uncomfortable.

[Stephen Fishbach @stephenfishbach]

@dragqueenjp I was going 150, felt bad about hitting a few kids but wanted to prove the Maps app wrong!

[USA Reject @sadreturns]

this is the cover my copy has

[Roger @rdd147]

Doctors 25% more likely to miss a diagnosis on a patient within 3 months after Ai is implemented. The results indicate Ai has an immediate negative effect on professionals skillsets vs prolonged reliance.

https://t.co/ciPB3DdR2J

[Stephen Fishbach @stephenfishbach]

@pimlius Didn’t need this post

[Stephen Fishbach @stephenfishbach]

@survivorslayy @robcesternino @lydiabkollins @oliviarodrigo It’s beautiful….

[Stephen Fishbach @stephenfishbach]

Flippen! Ben Burns! Patters! A 19-person whale buffet from Final 3 Con!

https://t.co/yR0CZmANJ1

[Stephen Fishbach @stephenfishbach]

If you’re in Chicago I’m at this free literary event right now at the Harold Washington library! Lauren Groff! Daniel Kraus! Me! I’ll be on a panel at 3 pm about suspense and humor.

[Stephen Fishbach @stephenfishbach]

@michaelmalice I was just thinking this, that one positive result of people offloading all their thinking and correspondence to ai is that they’ll start being nicer to each other

[Everything Price Sufferer (but especially eggs) @agraybee]

From 1966 to 2025 we dropped sterile flies over South America that ate screwworm and thus prevented them from spreading, but the le epic efficient cracked coders at DOGE thought this was a silly waste of the ~0 dollars it cost us.

[Ben Rhodes @brhodes]

Some guy named Nick Bilton serving an audience of 1 (Bari) service an audience of 1 (Ellison) serving an audience of 1 (Trump). This is how oligarch-authoritarian takeover of media happens