John Chu

The writer who won the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. Not the movie director. (He/him/his) Mastodon: @[email protected] Bluesky: @johnchu.bsky.social

[Caitlin Rivers @cmyeaton]

This is troubling for multiple reasons, but a big one is companies won’t invest in R&D and clinical trials if they don’t think they can get a fair regulatory review—which is at the end of a long and extremely expensive process.

[Mike Levin @MikeLevin]

This should be a bigger story.

A Reagan-appointed judge just ruled Trump’s Energy Secretary illegally ran a secret panel of climate deniers to cook up a biased report and sabotage clean air rules.

They didn’t follow the law, didn’t follow the science, and betrayed the public to serve Trump’s agenda.

Disgraceful. https://t.co/s3xD3rfeIX

[Lincoln Michel @TheLincoln]

I think it is time to stop pretending that billionaires aligned with the Trump administration are in any way trying to have a free press or accessible information. The point of owning the Post, TikTok, Twitter, etc. is the same as the point of LLMs: controlling information.

[P a u l ◉ @SkylineReport]

This happened four days before the inauguration. That part matters.

He wasn’t president yet.
So this can’t be waved away as an “official act.”
No immunity dodge. No presidential cover.

Just a private citizen taking foreign money right before the policy payoff.

That’s not governance.
That’s a bribe.

[Lizzie Johnson @lizziejohnsonnn]

I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated.

[derek guy @dieworkwear]

Why are so many people offended by this suggestion? Jeff Atwood and Betsy Burton earned $100M, partly through co-founding the Q&A network Stack Exchange. They're giving away $50M over the next four years to some of the poorest people in rural United States. Why is that bad?

[Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @ReichlinMelnick]

That makes fourteen federal prosecutors who have resigned from the Minnesota office, plus an additional four who resigned from the national DOJ Civil Rights Division office, since the Minneapolis operation began.

[Jeet Heer @HeerJeet]

This is why the argument that the Epstein files are a "nothingburger" are silly. Lots of very damaging information in there about very powerful people.

[ProPublica @propublica]

A note from our editors:

[Ash Sarkar @AyoCaesar]

Unless your Odyssey has Helen of Troy played by a woman who actually hatched from an egg, I don't want to see it.

[Jackie Wong @rockerskating]

Amber Glenn re: change of the Ice House name to Winter House: It's unfortunate that we can't embrace the word "ice" because of these circumstances in my own country; I can't imagine how the people affected by [ICE] are dealing, this is only a minor inconvenience for me in the bigger picture
https://t.co/EuiWrfAxyl #MilanoCortina2026

[scary lawyerguy @scarylawyerguy]

There is nothing stopping reporters from giving this the level of coverage they did to Hillary's email server or Biden's age, they simply refuse to do it and instead expect some deus ex machina to do it for them.

[Daniel Dale @ddale8]

"I won the state three times, but I got no credit for it," the president said today about Minnesota, a state he doesn't get credit for winning three times because he lost it three times.

[John Chu @john_chu]

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Secret cabals! A wise mentor (or is he?) A sister who keeps trying to assassinate you!
https://t.co/zHp6HWMPhs

[John Chu @john_chu]

Canadians! This week (2/2-2/8) Indigo has a 25% sale on their Most Anticipated Sci-Fi books, which includes The Subtle Art of Folding Space!
Bugs in physics! Fraught family relationships! Equivalence reports in the form of egg tarts!
https://t.co/vcuuYmnUaU

[Meagan Duhamel @mhjd_85]

This is such a huge problem! He got his Olympic spot last March. And competed ALL SEASON to this program. Why was he only told a week before the Olympics that he can’t use it? What’s happening? This is outrageous and so unfair to the athletes.

[Governor Tim Walz @GovTimWalz]

Two days ago it was Elissa Slotkin. Last week it was Jerome Powell. Before that, Mark Kelly. Weaponizing the justice system against your opponents is an authoritarian tactic.

The only person not being investigated for the shooting of Renee Good is the federal agent who shot her.

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

She gave him her Nobel Prize and he forgot her name the next day.

It couldn't be more perfect. Pure comedy. 10/10.

[John Chu @john_chu]

The Subtle Art of Folding Space is one of Esquire's "22 Most Anticipated Books 2026", along with books by famous people whose work I love, such as Amal El-Mohtar and George Saunders!
(Comes out on 4/7 Available to preorder now!)
https://t.co/hsn9ghWZmQ

[Adam Cochran (adamscochran.eth) @adamscochran]

DHS deleted this one because:

-The family was driving home and got blocked.

-ICE deployed flashbangs and tear gas INSIDE the car.

-The 6-month old child stopped breathing and had to be rushed to hospital.

DHS did NO investigation & rushed to lie to defend the officers.