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Alexander Chee

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Novelist and essayist, most recently author of How to Write an Autobiographical Novel. Professor of Creative Writing at Dartmouth College. He/him.

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Paris Marx's avatar Paris Marx @parismarx.bsky.social
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Google’s emissions are up 48% in 5 years. Microsoft’s are up 30% since 2020. Those soaring figures are being driven by mass investments in data centers to power AI tools. Generative AI is a climate disaster and data center expansion must be stopped.

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Nails Nathan's avatar Nails Nathan @chadstanton.bsky.social
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They’re being very explicit about their fantasies and explicit plans

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lowtax speedrun enjoyer's avatar lowtax speedrun enjoyer @rickywlmsbong.bsky.social
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jacob rees-mogg has to lose while standing next to a guy wearing a baked beans-themed balaclava

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Dave Levitan's avatar Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social
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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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Yair Wallach's avatar Yair Wallach @yairwallach.bsky.social
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Shocking scenes as a major G7 country votes decisively for the not completely shitty option

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b-boy bouiebaisse's avatar b-boy bouiebaisse @jbouie.bsky.social
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these people do not intend to ever lose power again

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Alexander Chee's avatar Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social
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Lol thank you, we’ll see how far this goes.

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Philip Bump's avatar Philip Bump @pbump.com
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Colossal has long been one of my favorite sites. Excited to see them here.

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Alexander Chee's avatar Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social
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Thanks. She was by all accounts a very generous person.

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Alexander Chee's avatar Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social
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“This was her afternoon,” he said. “She took one the day she died. Now we have all these edibles left over. We’re just giving them away.”

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Alexander Chee's avatar Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social
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My cousin gave me some of his late mother in law’s edibles and now I feel like a golden retriever hanging out a car window on a summer day and also strangely fond of this woman I never really knew.

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Heba Essam 🍉's avatar Heba Essam 🍉 @hebaessam.bsky.social
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This is my friend Walaa Safi, she has paraplegia due to the war and can't afford her medications. The campaign will help Walaa buy her medications and improve. Please consider donating to help ease Walaa's life during this challenging time.❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹❤️‍🩹 she deserves a better life. 🙏

gofund.me/e637e1de

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Sarah Parcak, Book Writing Madness 's avatar Sarah Parcak, Book Writing Madness @indyfromspace.bsky.social
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This is what I said yesterday. Harris won't get on the ballot in a lot of states, period the end. Utter chaos. Cope w Biden being the candidate people. He's it.

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Don Moynihan's avatar Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social
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You can have concerns about Biden's age, but still be absolutely appalled about editorial choices that convey the issue as more important than the Supreme Court offering a pre-emptive thumbs up to a criminal presidency

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Alexander Chee's avatar Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social
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If that stuff had left him in position for this he’d be nearly drafted already.

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Alexander Chee's avatar Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social
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In his home state. But he never hesitated to spoil popular initiatives at the level of the senate. Raising the minimum wage, protecting the environment, ending the filibuster.

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Alexander Chee's avatar Alexander Chee @alexanderchee.bsky.social
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Nobody’s going to vote for Manchin nationally

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Jonathan Ladd's avatar Jonathan Ladd @jonmladd.bsky.social
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Congrats to all the profs at elite law schools who loudly vouched for John Roberts and Neil Gorsuch when they were nominated. Hope you placed your students in some nice clerkships.

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Emma Evans's avatar Emma Evans @trance.bsky.social
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It's important to note that Trump tried to order this at least twice we know of during his regime.

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London Review of Books's avatar London Review of Books @londonreview.bsky.social
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16 per cent of Americans agree with the statement that ‘the government, media and financial worlds in the US are controlled by a group of Satan-worshipping paedophiles who run a global child sex trafficking operation.’ RFK Jr is their man.

Deborah Friedell:

www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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Soraya Nadia McDonald 's avatar Soraya Nadia McDonald @sorayamcdonald.bsky.social
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Brb declaring myself a corporation so I can have some rights

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Prisonculture's avatar Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social
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No shame in feeling scared, overwhelmed and not knowing what to do. To me feeling one's feelings doesn't preclude taking action. These are confusing times. Give yourself some grace.

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Chris Geidner's avatar Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social
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Today’s SCOTUS immunity ruling was a political ruling more than a legal ruling, as is seen by the lack of law in Chief Justice John Roberts’s 6-3 opinion for the conservatives.

My Law Dork report: www.lawdork.com/p/robertss-m...

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Brooke Binkowski's avatar Brooke Binkowski @brooklynmarie.bsky.social
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I just logged in for my daily dose of depressing job searching and all the "AI editor" jobs are disappearing without a trace. Is nature healing?

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Nails Nathan's avatar Nails Nathan @chadstanton.bsky.social
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"This means that if Trump returns to office, he will have free rein to wield the Justice Department as he sees fit—and he and his allies have already given plenty of indications as to what they plan to do." Alito and Thomas serve a very useful function in drawing attention away from Roberts.

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C.H. Romatowski's avatar C.H. Romatowski @romatowski.bsky.social
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Really am perplexed that the pushback question from the Court was “Could the President assassinate a political rival?” and not, more specifically, “Could POTUS assassinate one of us?”

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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I started my career reporting on how people were using the Internet in dictatorships, and if there's one BIG thing I learned from talking to a bunch of people who literally had served jail time for political blogging, it was "choose your battles wisely, and don't say dumb things in dumb places."

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Adam Bonin's avatar Adam Bonin @adambonin.bsky.social
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As Justice Sotomayor explains, today's Supreme Court decision on Trump immunity transforms America from a land of "no more Kings" to one of "no, more Kings."

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Rima I Anabtawi's avatar Rima I Anabtawi @rimaanabtawi.bsky.social
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The far-right National Rally leader is unconditionally opposed by French Jewish groups for her party's historic antisemitism. Israel's diaspora affairs minister, however, is 'impressed' by her positions, adding that Netanyahu is seemingly 'of the same opinion'

www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

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