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Claire Willett@clairewillett.bsky.social |
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Playwright. Chaos Muppet. Raconteuse. The internet’s gay Catholic aunt. Author of the time travel series THE REWIND FILES. Just a Virgo who can’t drive. clairewillettwrites.com (she/her) (PDX)
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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pretty stunning how the billionaire class(and yes that means the legacy media) have completely turned on Biden. They'd rather have a fascist dictatorship than pay taxes and a living wage to employees. Insane power grab in front of the cameras
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Claire Willett
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and it’s applicable to so many things. I remember a thing years ago where some story about harassment of women in hijabs in France was in the news and I realized I didn’t have nearly enough Muslim women on my TL to be hearing actual informed opinions and I needed to expand the POVs I was taking in
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Claire Willett
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I hate going to the doctor so wouldn’t have gone if I hadn’t thought I had something I could give to someone else. but like I for real could have died if it had gone on longer!!
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Claire Willett
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oh I forgot that a Twitter thread about underreported Covid symptoms in December 2020 saved my life because it got me to go to the ER and that’s how I learned I had blood clots in both lungs
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Claire Willett
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Black Twitter is a perfect example of how people can learn from in-community conversations that don’t include them without interrupting or inserting yourself or demanding emotional labor. you just follow and listen and on your OWN TIME you get to examine where you’re experiencing personal discomfort
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Claire Willett
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exactly, how you interact with it is a choice if you only ever see people who think exactly like you do, sure, I guess I can see how the whole thing feels like an exercise in collective wanking
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Claire Willett
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we raised like tens of thousands of dollars on Twitter for strike support but whatever!
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Claire Willett
@clairewillett.bsky.social
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I mean I guess that this is certainly one very privileged way to engage with social media, where you already know everything so what’s the point in listening and learning, but I am unquestionably a better informed and more engaged person because of people on Twitter whose labor was invaluable to me
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Claire Willett
@clairewillett.bsky.social
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honestly also that
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Claire Willett
@clairewillett.bsky.social
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absolute icon shit
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Claire Willett
@clairewillett.bsky.social
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“For many years, I have lived with the secret of Deep Throat's identity. It has been hell, and I have dealt with the situation by telling pretty much anyone who asked me, including total strangers, who Deep Throat was. Not for nothing is indiscretion my middle name.” I LOVE NORA EPHRON SO MUCH
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Claire Willett
@clairewillett.bsky.social
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receipts, btw
www.huffpost.com/entry/deep-t...
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Claire Willett
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I mean I have always secretly believed that the chances are greater than zero that Woodward and Bernstein made out during one of those intense, drama-filled late night work sessions and then never told anyone about it, but he is such a smitten baby fanboy when he first meets Felt, it’s W I L D
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Claire Willett
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oh also if you read Woodward’s memoir about his relationship with Felt and how they met when he was really young and starstruck by him and wanted SOOOOOOO BAAAAAD for Felt to think that he was cool and take him seriously, it is surprisingly full of Gay Energy
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Claire Willett
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it would improve 100x by having more women in it, for one thing though that “Watergate Girl” book is terrific
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Claire Willett
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she writes about it in one of her essay collections and she’s basically like “I decided the best way to deal with the fact that I’m terrible at keeping secrets was just to like not even try” 😂
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Claire Willett
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I used to be Woodward > Bernstein because of sheer loyalty to Ephron but then I saw him in the documentary his son made about her life and he really fucking loved that woman until the day she died, plus then Woodward’s Republican brain worms have multiplied in the years since, so I switched teams
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Claire Willett
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my favorite historical tidbit is that Nora Ephron, who was married to Carl Bernstein at the time, figured out that Deep Throat was Mark Felt and apparently told a TON of people just like casually at parties she is my hero
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Moira Donegan
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“He took away abortion and he wants to be a dictator” should be plastered on every surface and blaring out of every speaker.
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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This is what every executive who says they “work 18 hours a day” means
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Shiv Ramdas
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keep hitting the reality of who they are- their true face is so fucking ugly even they will refuse to acknowledge it exists
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Courtney Milan
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Trump can say he'll distance himself from Project 2025 as much as he wants, but in his last term he appointed every faithful FedSoc judge he could get his hands on, and that's basically the entire game.
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The Fig Economy
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Fucking WHAT DID I SAY
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
@gonebabygone.bsky.social
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Compare this to when Trump says something like “we’re gonna catch Goofy and execute him for his crimes folks” and people in the press go “Mr. Trump seemingly analogized criminals to a Disney character as he called for harsher legal penalties”
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Sarah Posner
@sarahposner.bsky.social
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what
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Courtney Milan
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More importantly: We are now less than three hours from the end of the 2024 Romancing the Vote auction!
Will we get to $950,000 total raised over three years? We'll find out soon!
www.32auctions.com/organization...
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Faine Greenwood
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I for one am pretty fixated on not having to spend even more years of my life wondering if Donald fucking Trump is going to deploy nuclear weapons
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Claire Willett
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it’s the kids craft store letters that really make it sing
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Tom Scocca
@tomscocca.bsky.social
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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes
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Faine Greenwood
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The Heritage Foundation “don’t make us kill you, Democrats” statement may mark one of those moments people will read about in 100 years (hopefully!) and think to themselves “why didn’t they freak out when they heard the extremists say that?” (Sadly, it’s just not how humans work most of the time)
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Claire Willett
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Don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out!!!!
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Claire Willett
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oh yes they are all over it
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Claire Willett
@clairewillett.bsky.social
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anyway support your small town women-owned progressive indie bookstores
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Claire Willett
@clairewillett.bsky.social
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everyone in the college housemates group chat has been singing the praises of “Snacking Cakes” ever since it first came out so I’m very excited about that one
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Claire Willett
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Cloud & Leaf Bookstore in Manzanita, Oregon has never let me down yet. we’ve got queer witches, Salish punks, espionage, kaiju, a magic bookshop, and cake. SUMMER IS ON
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Claire Willett
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oh yeah he is longtime besties with many of the worst people in America
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Claire Willett
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as a Catholic this feels like a proportionate response this specific guy has been actively attempting to divide the church for years and that’s literally the definition of schism
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Claire Willett
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obviously like your mileage may vary as to your own feelings about what those norms ARE (mine, too, are complicated!), but I wish that this energy was transferable to things like impeaching corrupt justices or firing congressional reps who supported an insurrection
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Claire Willett
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I think the thing I respect about this the most is the acknowledgment that it’s the cardinal saying “Pope Francis isn’t a real pope because he’s too liberal for my personal tastes” that broke the norms, which means taking action is not just acceptable but the only way to defend the norms
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Claire Willett
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god this makes it even funnier
bsky.app/profile/acab...
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Claire Willett
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excommunicating the fuckers who won’t respect your duly elected authority because you want to use it on behalf of people they hate, and who have forfeited their right to power because they’re using it to undermine progress, is the energy I wish Democrats would take into the White House JUST ONCE
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Claire Willett
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with Pope Francis, as with Joe Biden, my frustrations are many but I have NO NOTES when he goes into straight-up “fuck you” mode and I think we’d all like him better if he did it more often his campaign to dick over all the far right wing cardinals who try and sabotage him brings me real joy
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Cheryl Rofer
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The Dobbs decision, now Project 2025. There's more than enough to beat Trump right there, and his campaign staff knows it.
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Claire Willett
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AAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHA YESSSSSSSSSSS this guy sucks so much
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Claire Willett
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would also love to see the right-wing contortionism where suddenly they decide to stan simply because Biden kicked them out
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Claire Willett
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listen there’s still time maybe it has to happen in like 3 months so the movie that wins some actor an Oscar nom in ten years can be called “October Surprise”
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Zamira Rahim
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Meanwhile over at the Telegraph, a leader writer wonders if a community taking part in the democratic process means its time to stop "handing citizenship out" to them. The absolute state of this.
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Shiv Ramdas
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The fact they're simultaneously running don't vote campaigns and trying to undermine the dem candidate is proof that the moneybags who own these publications are united in realizing their robber baron days are drawing to a close under a guy who is the most pro labour president of the 21st century
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Byron C Clark
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Kelly-Jay Keen aka Posie Parker received 196 votes in the electorate she stood for, meanwhile, this woman won the seat with over 24,000 votes
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Romancing the Vote
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I also want to add some context to this from the #VoteRiders website.
$35 funds the cost of securing a vital document (such as their ID or birth certificate) for one voter
$50 pays for directly contacting 100 voters, targeted because they are likely to need ID help
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