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Trump’s SuperPAC running ads for “Trump’s Project 2025.”
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RUBICONS out now! Novelist. Short story writer. Essayist. Professor. Usually furious.
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Trump’s SuperPAC running ads for “Trump’s Project 2025.”
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If the future you want is no future at all, then sure, vote Republican.
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This.
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Trump knows this. The guys running the project worked for him, and its goals absolutely align with his. Dude can’t even lie well, even though it’s all he does.
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If you vote for Trump, you are voting for the death of America and the destruction of tens of millions of lives, including your own. Or do you really never want anyone to be able to retire? #StopFascism
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Today the ongoing first draft of the Old Man Project passed 10000 words. Progress… #writingcommunity
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Funny how I don't hear any of the right-wing trolls yelling about pedophiles now that Trump's name has been found many times in the Epstein files. It's almost like those trolls knew they were full of shit all along.
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I just can't celebrate #July4th. It's always been problematic because tens of millions of Americans have never been as free as straight white rich men, but with the Republican Party conspiring with the Supreme Court to restore a monarchy, this year's holiday seems farcical.
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Trump is all over the Epstein files and the Supreme Court just trashed the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, setting up this country to become a fascist paradise, but yeah, #MSM, keep talking about the debate.
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Just as in 2016, you've got to vote blue, no matter the candidate, simply because that is the only chance we have at preserving democracy. If you "vote your conscience" this time, it may be the last time you ever vote at all, at least in a legitimate election.
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We're not even voting for Biden or Trump. We're voting for a democracy clinging to the edge of a cliff while SCOTUS steps on its fingers, or for out-and-out fascism under the dumbest dictator possible.
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I know this for sure: if this country is stupid enough to elect Trump again and democracy ends because the Supreme Court has basically said presidents are actually kings, I'm not changing one goddam thing I do or say. I hope you feel the same way. #OnYourFeetOrOnYourKnees
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Can we just bury the idea of American Exceptionalism now, since half this country is wildly supporting an authoritarian bigot who is also a serial sexual predator, and half of the other half of the country is liable to do another round of protest votes, even after what happened in 2016?
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Fellow writers, now that Republicans and SCOTUS are closer than ever to killing any semblance of democracy, I guess I’ll meet you all in prison someday. #Resist #OnYourFeetOrOnYourKnees
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Fellow writers, now that Republicans and SCOTUS are closer than ever to killing any semblance of democracy, I guess I’ll meet you all in prison someday. #Resist #OnYourFeetOrOnYourKnees
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How fucked up is fucked up? Pretty fucked up.
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Completely unsurprised that the illegitimate Supreme Court is overtly acting like a branch of the authoritarian Republican Party.
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How the MSM and a lot of y’all sound.
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These critics of Biden are being ageist and ableist. He's an old man with a cold, and he's always stuttered. How is that more disqualifying that being a fascist bigot serial sexual predator who wouldn't know the truth if it landed in his pile of blow?
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Twitter: "Yeah, Trump is a shitweasel who couldn't stop lying if you paid him, and he wants to kill democracy dead....but Biden stutters and has a sore throat!" Ye gods, we're doomed.
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Re: Will Patton's character in S2E1 of OUTER RANGE: I can't completely hate a character who sings Motley Crue's "Home Sweet Home" to his badly injured son.
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And now for #somethingpositive:
As I've said before, this badass song is even more badass live. They play it with the intensity of metal.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTKJ...
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And now for #somethingpositive:
This song doesn't get enough love.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmCH...
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I don't know what special kind of dipshit votes for Lauren Boebert, even when she's only facing other Republicans, but it did give us this in somebody's tweet: "Boebert beats off all her opponents."
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And now for #somethingpositive:
I'm teaching this book in my CNF literature class next year. It follows four people before, during, and after the crack epidemic. Everybody who judges addicts should read it.
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Still really annoyed this is EVIL’s last season.
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Not a new article, but one we should think about.
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"I know what marijuana smells like. I went to a Seals & Croft concert." --Millie, FREAKS AND GEEKS
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And now for #somethingpositive:
I loved this movie. You can tell that it was written by someone who has experience in publishing and academia, or who did good research.
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PSA for Kindle owners:
Today, Silvia Moreno Garcia’s novel SILVER NITRATE is on sale for $1.99.
#WritingCommunity
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Hunter Biden found guilty of gun charges. Well, there goes his presidential campaign. Golly gee, how will the left ever recover?
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While Kalene peruses the dystopian manuscript, I embark on a new one, which I will refer to as The Old Man Project. #writingcommunity
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And now for #somethingpositive:
How is this song FORTY YEARS OLD?
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Well, that took a turn.
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Lindsey Graham called D-Day a failure because today’s conservatives aren’t satisfied with only supporting contemporary Nazis.
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#pridemonth fun fact:
Every month is Pride Month. Every day is Pride Day. We are alive and thriving and unashamed.
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#pridemonth fun fact:
If you're straight and not an ally, we don't give a damn what you think. 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
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One reason I bet Donnie Fascist and Melania don't sleep in the same bed: Dude is incapable of ever shutting up. He probably whines about how unfair it is to be tried for crimes he committed even when he's asleep.
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I slept wrong and my neck is killing me, but I'm still writing this dystopian manuscript. Marvel at my dedication, puny humans! #writingcommunity
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Now the @GOP is officially against birth control. It's been true for a long time, but it's doubly true today: Any woman who votes Republican is putting her own head on the chopping block and handing some white man the axe.
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It feels like this revision is taking forever.
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Apparently this is a real thing? As a male college professor, I'd just like to clarify that this is gross and pathetic. Other people's sex lives and reproductive decisions are none of your fucking business.
www.salon.com/2024/06/03/t...
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The world can make me unutterably weary. It can throw obstacles before every step. It can ignore me and dismiss me and even be hostile. But it can't stop me. Still here. Still writing. Still living and loving. Still fighting. #youcantyouwontandyoudontstop
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“All through my life, I have been tested. My will has been tested, my courage has been tested, my strength has been tested. Now my patience and endurance are being tested.”
― Muhammad Ali #quotesirelateto
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#MAGA: "If they can convict Trump of defrauding his donors by falsifying records so he could pay hush money to a porn star, they can convict any of us of defrauding donors by falsifying records so we can pay hush money to a porn star! What is this, Iran?"
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And now for #somethingpositive:
A heartbreaking story about the dangers of being young and Black in contemporary Mississippi. A necessary book.
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"How dare you convict an actual criminal of crimes?" yell the same people who are fine with hundreds of years of injustice for innocent poor, Black, and Brown people. #MAGAts
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Turns out MAGA is furious that the guy who regularly commits crimes in full view of the world got charged and convicted of a crime.
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