Lucas Schaefer

Debut novel THE SLIP out now from @simonbooks. Winner of 2025 Kirkus Prize for fiction. Paperback 6/23/26.

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

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

[Chris “Law Dork” Geidner @chrisgeidner]

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.

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

@snjeriwambugu Thank you!

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

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

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

@thedadlitpod 🙏🙏🙏

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

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that his name appears nowhere on the Treasury Department website, he has no public resume, and his bar listings are outdated.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. 
 https://t.co/FV2Tkpz7Dk

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

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! 🥊

[Christopher Hooks @cd_hooks]

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

[Dan Dawer @Dan_Dawer]

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.

https://t.co/sQ2R0P53Dc

[Lauren Ashley Simmons @LASimmonsTX146]

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.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

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.”

[Emily Dreyfuss @EmilyDreyfuss]

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

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

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! 🥊

[Tim Miller @Timodc]

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

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

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

[Christopher Hooks @cd_hooks]

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

[Lucas Schaefer @LucasESchaefer]

Those of us poor souls who were involved in the TX21 race in 2018 can now breathe a sigh of relief that the primaries have ended (fingers crossed) the political careers of two of the most exhausting people the state has to offer.

[Team Talarico @TeamTalaricoHQ]

Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’

@JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist, after one of Ken Paxton’s wealthy lawyer friends got involved in the case.

Ken Paxton even kept him off the sex offender registry. Adam Hoffman was supposed to serve 25 years to life, but instead he served less than a month. As of this week, he’s now back on our streets because of Ken Paxton’s corruption.

Ken Paxton is the most corrupt politician in America, and it is costing Texans, it’s endangering our children, and it must end. The Epstein class has no place in Texas.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

turns out this line of attack (and the vest with his name on it) didn't save Chip Roy from losing his primary

[Scott Braddock @scottbraddock]

Every Texas Republican who lost tonight licked President Trump's boots, got nothing for it but betrayal, and is headed out to pasture. Make sure you feel it when the door hits you so you learn something this time.

[Ed Zitron @edzitron]

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly.

https://t.co/xUhZvtpwah