Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt
July 12, 2026
I THINK MICROSOFT NEEDS TO ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS, LIKE, WHO OWNS THEM? Fury erupts as US brand fires 1,600 employees after securing thousands of foreign worker visas. One lawmaker called to end the H-1B foreign worker visa program entirely to prioritize hiring American workers.
WELL, THAT’S THAT: Hello Mrs. Owens.
July 11, 2026
I KNOW YOU LAY AWAKE ALL NIGHT WAITING FOR SATURDAY MEMES! Your wait is over. Rejoice: Bring Out Your Memes.
July 10, 2026
SEND IN THE CLOWNS: Here Are the Dems Running to Replace Graham Platner. It’s a Total Circus.
2026 PROMETHEUS AWARD WINNER: A Kiss for Damocles: Book 1 of Shai (Tales From the Long Night).
The enemy is dead. Their guns still aim.
The Mutual Prosperity invaded Hesperides Colony centuries ago–dropped asteroids on the oceans, triggered a volcanic winter, killed millions. The invaders eventually died fighting. Their orbital artillery AI, Damocles, did not. It has spent three hundred years killing anything that looks like a threat: radio signals, powered vehicles, anything that might let humanity rebuild fast enough to strike back.
Seventeen-year-old Shaifennen “Shai” Roehe grew up in a mineshaft, scrounging salvage from the ruins of a dead civilization. Then she finds a crashed military shuttle from the Long Night buried in a highland ravine. It’s the biggest salvage find in living memory–and it comes with secrets. Traitors from the original war. A murdered alien marine who died fighting for humanity’s future. And enough battlesteel and fabrication equipment to turn her struggling homestead into something that scares the right people.
From there, Shai has to navigate a volatile trade mission to the nearest town, untangle a conspiracy that runs generations deep, survive assassination attempts, and figure out why every faction on Hesperides–the Riders, the Archive, the alien Imps, the new Trade Association that smells a lot like the old tyranny with better hair–seems to already know about a project she has only just stumbled into.
Shai’s universe is one filled with fallen empires, implacable war machines, lost civilizations, hostile xenos, the occasional ancient unspeakable horror, and she’s going to bring the ruckus to every corner of it.
A finalist for the 2026 Prometheus Award for Best Novel, A Kiss for Damocles is the first book in the Tales From the Long Night series. Post-apocalyptic science fiction with a ferocious protagonist, deep world-building, earned political stakes, and a genuine belief that humanity can take back what it lost — if it can stop fighting itself long enough to try.
SORRY, WE CAN’T POST SUCH WORDS: What would Churchill think of the land of Lucy Connolly and Henry Nowak?
THERE’S A DEAL TO BE HAD: UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER: Iran Is Already Begging for a Deal. Don’t Give Them One.
MEN HAVE THE VIRTUES OF THEIR FLAWS: Iran: “What Saves Us and the Free World Is the Ego of Donald Trump”.
AH, BUT YOU SEE, THE IMAGINARY ARROW OF HISTORY IS WITH THEM: Never left enough.
WE ALWAYS KNEW IT WOULD COME TO THIS: Iran, Persuasion, And The Limits Of Rational Actor Theory.
PEOPLE WHO NEVER HEARD OF THE STREISAND EFFECT: Sort of a Reverse Boycott.
LOOK, SOMETIMES I GET EXERCISED… Teach The Children Well.
THIS JUST IN: Congratulations to J. Kenton Pierce.
July 9, 2026
GOING OUT REMINDING US WHY THEY DESERVED BETTER: TCW’s 12 of the best: Jordan Peterson gives Tommy Robinson the fair hearing he deserves.
IT’S A BOLD POLITICIAN WILLING TO SAY THIS (OR ONE WITH NOTHING TO LOSE): Exclusive: Liz Truss interview Part 2 – The disaster of feminism.
OF COURSE THEY DID: NYC Leaders Just Voted to Give Themselves a Massive Pay Raise.
AS IF DEMOCRATS ARE FIT TO GOVERN ANYTHING: Francesca Hong Continues to Prove She’s Unfit to Lead Wisconsin, but Can Democrats Stop Her?
THEY CAN RUN BUT THEY CAN’T HIDE: Not in the age of New Media: The New York Times Is Trying to Do Damage Control After the Graham Platner Implosion.
BOUND TO HAPPEN: Japan To Raise Foreigners’ Residency Fees Significantly.