Jeff Esterholm

Note to DOJ: Time to unredact the felon-in-chief’s name, many times.

Midwest Shadows: A Conversation with Mary Thorson The award-winning short story writer talks moral darkness, historical horrors, and the quiet dread lurking in everyday places.

Midwest Shadows: A Conversation with Mary Thorson
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“Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’ tips its cap to the fans Cillian Murphy suits up for a return to Netflix’s gangster epic

“Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’ tips its cap to the fans
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The Effects of Urban Renewal on Mid-Century America and Other Crime Stories Check out The Effects of Urban Renewal on Mid-Century America and Other Crime Stories - <p><strong>Honored Fiction Author, <em>Wisconsin Library Association </em>(2024)</strong></p><p></p><p>The last ...

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Hey, it’s #MondayReads time! Think of it like a key party, but you know, with books! Repost this post and tell us what you want reposted. Me, I’ve been chopping up the Epstein class for years. #BookSky

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Shipwreck hunter discovers sunken 150-year-old luxury liner off the coast of Wisconsin Scuba diver Paul Ehorn's recent discovery of the Lac La Belle was nearly 60 years in the making and is part of an overall uptick in Great Lakes shipwreck discoveries.

“On Oct. 13, 1872, the ship sank a couple hours after departing Milwaukee due to a leak that sprung during a storm. The ship was carrying cargo and 53 passengers. Eight people died after one of the lifeboats capsized.”
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32 Novels We’re Excited About This Spring

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Enjoyed the hell out of The Secret Agent. The actors are so natural in the parts they play in a wicked period of history.
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Now Congress Is Coming for the Books A new bill would punish schools that let students read about gender identity or "lascivious dancing"

“And so, as the U.S. wages war on a vicious theocracy in the Middle East, a cadre of right-wing zealots is trying to build one here at home.”
~ Ron Charles

Let your representative know:
“NO” on H.R. 7661.
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Hello all. It is again that time of year when nominations open for the Anthony Awards. For those attending Bouchercon later this year, please consider LIKE-MINDED INDIVIDUALS for the best anthology/collection category. Nominations end April 30, 2026. Good luck to all! #Bouchercon
#AnthonyAwards

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Lazar Headlines Event Alongside Member of Extremist Book Banning Group ‘Moms For Liberty’ Lazar’s allegiance to the far-right agenda gets more and more brazen by the day

Lazar Headlines Event Alongside Member of Extremist Book Banning Group ‘Moms For Liberty’

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Yes, please. 🙏🏻

Just like that, sun to fog and a 20 degree drop.

Good Heavens, what a cover. Thank you @frankvatel312.bsky.social. This latest collaboration between me and @meproctor.bsky.social bursts out of the stables @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social on April 17th. It's a sometimes brutal road trip for our two heroes.

5 Library Wins Worth Celebrating | American Libraries Magazine American Libraries highlights five recent victories for libraries, library workers, and their communities.

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News on Tough from @rustybarnes23.bsky.social

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Six Americans have died as conflict spurs global fallout

Avoid using “fallout” metaphorically, especially in a front page headline, when claims about nuclear weaponry are central to the war we’re in

Nah. Head’s gonna drop off first.

Trump demonstrating his mental disfigurement by bragging about his ballroom and chuckling immediately after claiming that "we grieve" for 4 US soldiers killed in the war he just initiated

Trump does not possess empathy and does not grieve for any other person's misfortune

“Send me to the front, Pops!”

If you’ve received your Anthony Awards 2026 nominations form, I would appreciate your consideration of my short story, “Caregivers,” in the Best Short Story category. It appeared in 2025 in Tough, and you can read/reread it here:
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My local grapevine tells me ICE is still active in the Twin Cities.

One driver boxed in their car, which was smashed front & back.

Another impersonating a FedEx employee needing a signature to deliver a package.

“I was born here, and I'll die here against my will
I know it looks like I'm movin', but I'm standin' still
Every nerve in my body is so naked and numb
I can't even remember what it was I came here to get away from”

~Bob Dylan, “Not Dark Yet”
#SundaySentence

On the watch list.

I’ve got Hard Rain Gonna Fall as this morning’s ear worm.

Wisconsin lies in the path of nuclear fallout, UW-Madison researcher's modeling shows UW-Madison’s Sébastien Philippe is an expert in modeling nuclear war. He’s now working with the United Nations to research and reduce the risk of that happening, but he told WPR’s “Wisconsin Today” th...

“On Feb. 5, the last formal nuclear weapons treaty between the U.S. and Russia expired. And Wisconsin is in the path of potential nuclear fallout from more than 400 nuclear missile silos in North Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado and Montana.”
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Anything to avoid the Epstein files. Anything to barrel America on into authoritarianism.

“Could it be that I’m the absolute felon-in-chief with authoritarian tendencies?”