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John Rogers
@johnrogers.bsky.social
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"You can't grind your way to a just society" goes on the t-shirt.
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James M. Fraleigh@jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social |
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Deadlines are my lifeline! Solo copyeditor (academic, scholarly, textbooks, trade nonfiction) and proofreader (any genre!). 🍩 appreciator. Enthusiastic New Jerseyan 🤌🏻 user. He/him.
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John Rogers
@johnrogers.bsky.social
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"You can't grind your way to a just society" goes on the t-shirt.
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Ian Boudreau
@iboudreau.bsky.social
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The reason polling keeps getting weirder is because every year, more and more normal people stop answering the phone for any reason
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Kate Messner
@katemessner.bsky.social
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Hot take: I'm truly not interested in hand wringing over how much people will miss enjoying the books of men who have turned out to be abusers. I'm far more concerned about the missing art that women haven't been able to create/publish because they crossed paths with such men.
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Bill Corbett
@billcorbett.bsky.social
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This is the way. Won’t pass the GOP House but still 100% worth doing. Spreads idea, puts these shitstains on defense.
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Joanne Freeman
@jbf1755.bsky.social
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Leave water out for them! Birds holding their mouths open are overly hot and they pant to cool themselves off.
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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc)
@shengokai.bsky.social
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This deserves a quoteskeet because this will not be business as usual: this will be worse. In the event Biden drops out and Harris becomes the nominee, the republicans will launch a coordinated campaign of misogynist racism (misogynoir) against Harris, the likes of which we have never seen.
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Julia L
@calenmir.bsky.social
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In case anyone needs a reminder on the things to do to prevent COVID: -wear a mask in public, even outdoors (preferably a KN95, N95, or other respirator) -improve ventilation + air quality -stay home + rest as much as possible when sick -test for COVID, but beware false negatives -general hygiene
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Louisa
@louisathelast.bsky.social
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This is so true. I’ll never forget in 2008, seeing a white supremacist crying on the news after Obama’s election. He said “we used to BE somebody.” They miss the days when the mere fact of being white made them “better,” more important, than everyone else
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Bree (half of Kit Rocha)
@mostlybree.kitrocha.com
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This is how they do it, this is always how they do it.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò
@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social
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“Trump was convicted of a set of felonies,” Lazer says. “The impact it had on surveys was zero. Biden had a debate where most people said it proved he was too old. Survey respondents said, ‘Yeah, I saw that. He’s too old. I’m still voting for him.’ The numbers just aren’t moving.”
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David M. Perry
@lollardfish.bsky.social
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it continues to be about activating voters rather than persuading people to shift positions. as it ever is ...
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James M. Fraleigh
@jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social
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"This is Free Trader Beowulf, calling anyone…"
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executive editor, barbell quarterly
@swolecialism.bsky.social
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the question that seems to go unasked is: if you, george clooney, don't get what you want, what are you going to do
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George Pearkes
@peark.es
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The details of this are surprisingly good! There's no reason that members of Congress should be trading single name stocks, even if it's being done on their behalf by an advisor. *SENATORS ANNOUNCE DEAL ON CONGRESSIONAL STOCK TRADING BAN: NBC
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En Buen Ora
@enbuenora.bsky.social
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my kingdom for a Democratic Party which (a) existed and (b) didn't feel trapped between taking on Trump & his allies as the horrendous bog monsters they all are and trying to make all the Republicans who support him not feel bad
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James M. Fraleigh
@jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social
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Brutal, dangerous heat in the NYC area, but you'll never catch me kvetching when a place like Las Vegas exists. I've felt 116° out there and it's straight-up deadly. This 10-day stretch looks like the Devil's EKG:
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Joe Sudbay
@joesudbay.bsky.social
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At this point, any elected Dem who goes on tv, radio or talks to media should be talking about Trump and Project 2025 and the very real dangers they pose for this country That's it. Don't play the media's game. Change the game Make it about Trump and Project 2025
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Nicholas Grossman
@nicholasgrossman.bsky.social
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Reps. Ilhan Omar, Cori Bush and AOC have all put out "Biden is the nominee, support him" statements. The left-most part of the Democratic Party fighting to keep him while the right-most part—centrists, swing district Reps, NeverTrumpers, etc.—push for him to drop out was not on many Bingo cards.
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Max Kennerly
@maxkennerly.bsky.social
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Among these, I always get stuck on the Senate filibuster. It did not exist in any form while the Framers were alive. The current form, in which a Senator can stop a bill permanently without doing anything, did not exist until the 1970s. But it's treated as sacrosanct.
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James M. Fraleigh
@jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social
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Anyone still asking “Can they do that?” about Trump and his lackeys either went into cryosleep on January 19, 2017, or is a New York Times op/ed columnist.
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Melissa Gira Grant
@melissagiragrant.com
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I don’t think “but can they do that?” is the most informed question to guide Project 2025 analysis, not without “what do they mean by that?” and “are they already working on that?” and “who are their allies on that?”
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Tikkun Olamunist - ירמל גרױס
@tikkunolamunist.bsky.social
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If you think "working class" is white male auto workers who live in the suburbs, and not multiracial Starbucks baristas, Amazon warehouse workers, and Wal-Mart greeters of all genders, you are perpetuating a revanchist racist myth, the reality of which died with Reagan.
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Snitty
@clofsnitville.bsky.social
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Trewhella is telling the truth of the anti-abortion movement out loud: opposition to abortion is grounded in hostility to the full and equal participation of women in public life and in adult society. It always has been and always will be.
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Steph
@giventorant.bsky.social
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So much of the ‘housing crisis’ could be resolved if vacant offices got renovated into 1 & 2 bedroom apartments and at the very least it’d go a long way to free up houses which are being used as share houses which could be better utilised by families
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Sarah J. Jackson
@sjjphd.bsky.social
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I’m writing but I’m also still thinking about how loving and wholesome the relationships between members of Wu-Tang Clan always were. Hanif Abdurraqib has a gorgeous vignette about this in “A Little Devil in America.”
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
@gothamgirlblue.com
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The fact that qualified, capable candidates with normal flaws are having trouble with a gold-plated tin pot dictator and convicted felon is not a reflection on the candidates; it is a reflection on the electorate. White people are outrageously racist. That’s it. A smidge less racism and we’d win.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
@mtsw.bsky.social
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Normally I think focusing on a few specific things and driving the message home over and over would be the wisest course of action but in this case the entire Republican Project 2025 document is such a toxic sludge pile just pointing to the entire thing and being like "look at this shit" works
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Nun Ya
@ishfery.bsky.social
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ICE must be destroyed
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Kameron Hurley
@kameronhurley.bsky.social
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I think we've gotten so beaten down by the relentless media doomscroll that we keep thinking this is just how things have to be, when in fact there are super easy, known ways to change it, and we are quite capable of doing it. Just being reminded of that can be helpful now and again
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Jill Weinberger
@jillybobww.bsky.social
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This is also a nice reminder that when conservatives say, "Judeo-Christian" they mean "Christian," because you know nobody at Project 2025, including the person who wrote "Judeo-Christian" below, means anything but Sunday when they talk about deciding what people can & should do on the Sabbath.
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE
@golikehellmachine.com
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deadly serious, if you can convince small business owners that the republicans intend to pass a law that tells them they *cannot* operate on sunday, the party implodes *overfuckingnight*
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b-boy bouiebaisse
@jbouie.bsky.social
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i think the thing that is leading me to check out of the biden conversation as much as possible is the sheer amount of certainty being expressed. i am not at all confident that i really know anything here!
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James M. Fraleigh
@jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social
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These political candidates need to not be sending me email-length texts already.
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Ed Burmila
@edburmila.bsky.social
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I am once again being forced to tap the sign
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Benjamin Dreyer
@bcdreyer.bsky.social
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A fine question. 1. If you google a quote and the only hits are woo-woo quote sites, or if it's repeatedly attributed to a writer without a source attribution, odds are good that it's fake. 2. Wikiquote's Misattributed sections are a blessing. 3. Can't find it via Google Books? Strike 3.
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ChelseaNH
@chelseanh.bsky.social
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Banning contraception really stands out for me. They think they're going after all those promiscuous single women; meanwhile, married couples are realizing the "should we have another kid" discussion is turning into "can we afford to have sex."
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Amanda Smith
@amandasmith.bsky.social
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This!! Start with “they want to end no fault divorce, sell national parks, and ban porn” end with tax structure.
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Michael
@fleerultra.bsky.social
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i maintain that biden’s biggest weaknesses and missteps have nothing to do with the very real effects of aging and everything to do with the fact that his politics are themselves old and outdated
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Gregory Hays
@aristofontes.bsky.social
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Biden seems to have mastered something that escaped university presidents: you don’t have to do what the NYT tells you. You can just … not do that.
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🏳️⚧️ The Josie Zone
@josie.zone
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So wise
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Martha Crawford
@shrinkthinks.bsky.social
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So many people who spend zero time with the elderly are now experts in gerontological neuroscience
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Marie Enger
@soengery.bsky.social
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Cartoonists absolutely wish publishers knew this trick! If you paid us a monthly salary and gave us health insurance it would not take us 5 years and countless side projects to make a graphic novel.
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Ada Palmer
@adapalmer.bsky.social
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That feeling is why I #SharGoodNewsToo Many things are terrible, but the year we have a malaria vaccine, a shot that gives 100% HIV protection, & global carbon output is finally *falling* not rising should see a mix of headlines not 100% bad. They want despair; despair stops action #HopeIsResistance
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Nathaniel Glasgow
@ncglasgow.bsky.social
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A lot of the current deluge of pernicious bullshit seems tailor made to sow even more division among the liberal to left spectrum. If you find yourself fighting with, scolding, and alienating people with whom you agree on 80% of stuff, consider who benefits from that.
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Lindley Ashline
@lindley.bsky.social
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And if that's not a good enough reason for you, every time you do this you tell your local fat people not to come on down to your democratic party or DSA or anarchist or whatever meeting and help out
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James M. Fraleigh
@jamesmfraleigh.bsky.social
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Definitely the look of a guy for whom it’s all fuckin’ amalgamation and capital.
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Patrick Nielsen Hayden
@pnh.bsky.social
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“Fascism sucks up power left unattended” deserves to be carved over the entrances to grand public buildings
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Brandy Schillace
@bschillace.brandyschillace.com
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A reminder for Sunday eve: We historically lived and died blithe little lives concerned only with an area the size of a small town. You do not need to be plugged into the mainframe to work for justice. Just keep holding the light for those nearest; you are doing your bit already.
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Olivia Wertheimer
@kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social
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Also part of why they're happening is to force people to forget about covid, and the other part is because masks fuck with facial recognition software. Therefore, wearing a mask especially in an area with a mask ban, is the most punk thing you can do.
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