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Joyce Reynolds-Ward@joycereynoldsward.bsky.social |
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Writer of speculative fiction from the wide open spaces. Rural liberal. Dispenser of horse cookies to the Desert Prince and Grumpy Old Mare. Former special ed teacher who's forgotten more about cognitive assessment than most people knew. #SFWA
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Ryan Van Loan
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This is a of a piece with climate change and the last two decades of political coverage. The need to describe both sides results in reporting that places them on level footing and too often, actually elevates the side most divorced from reality.
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Ryan Van Loan
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That's the problem with the modern mainstream media. They misrepresent things (Biden, Trump) we can objectively see ourselves for clicks and vibes and to conform with their preconceived notions...and then they say Democracy dies in darkness and trust us. How can we sift good reporting from bad now?
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Sarah M.- our lady of perpetual exhaustion
@killianfantasy.bsky.social
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Since emancipation. Ain't nothing new under the sun. So if this knowledge of the lengths supremacists will go to to make their ideal world is new to you, I'm sorry. But you have to get over it and be prepared to join the fight that the rest of us have been in for decades.
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Sarah M.- our lady of perpetual exhaustion
@killianfantasy.bsky.social
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These good ol' boys who run our state were bad before and Trump's only made them bolder to act in their barely veiled racism. The conservatives of this state would rather slit their throats than let black and brown people or "illegals" appear to be getting ahead of them and it's been that way
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Sarah M.- our lady of perpetual exhaustion
@killianfantasy.bsky.social
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When Nikki Haley ran for governor, a member of their own party, they called her a raghead. The congressman who yelled "You lie!" at Obama's state of the union was from SC. His name is Joe Wilson btw and he's running for reelection.
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Sarah M.- our lady of perpetual exhaustion
@killianfantasy.bsky.social
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I have CONSISTENTLY voted Democrat since I was registered. My 1st presidential election I watched Gore fucking win only for the presidency to be handed to Bush. In my state I've watched fight tooth and nail to keep any progressive policies from happening.
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Sarah M.- our lady of perpetual exhaustion
@killianfantasy.bsky.social
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I going to put this bluntly. I'm from SC. My senators are Graham and Scott. When the call goes out to call your reps, let me tell you, these men DO NOT CARE about my Black ass. I have watched governor after governor blatantly ignore the wants of the constituents. 🧵
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David S. Bernstein
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The ramped-up hits on Project 2025 must be landing — Trump just shoved it right in front of the bus
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward
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Yep. It was pretty ambitious and I think pretty much succeeded. I kept thinking of Le Guin while reading this..and Premee, how do you pull it off? OutLovecrafting Lovecraft, and now evoking Le Guin...amazing.
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Shiv Ramdas
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Liz Truss going full goose stepping neo nazi in public is an excellent indicator of how the Tories are going to react to this rout
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Noel French
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Most pro labor president and not coincidentally the first since Reagan who does not have an ivy league degree. They hate him!
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Vinchenzo the Jackal
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Yup, Biden might be dogshit on international issues and foreign policy and military policy, but nobody has ever been a bigger threat and waged a harder war against the rich wealthy elite in decades like Biden. Biden's attack on corporate monopolies and rising taxes are scaring the billionaire bigots
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Shiv Ramdas
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Though tbf at this point I don't think it's a biden thing, I think the dems know that this is their path. Push them harder down it but that doesn't remotely happen with King Donald running Epstein island 2.0 from the WH
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Shiv Ramdas
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If you actually want to see anything like a curtailing of these robber barons owning your whole life you'll bring back the only president of my lifetime who actually took them on where it hurt them and has vowed to raise their taxes
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward
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Yep. It's very clear.
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Jayaprakash has a mastertape
@jayaprakash777.bsky.social
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Long 🧵: It's going to be interesting seeing how little some nerds internalised any of the concepts of sexual consent, power dynamics, etc we were all talking about a few years ago, as the recent allegations against a beloved content creator filter through the discourse cycle.
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David
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Yes. Never underestimate elite donors in terms of dorm-room level political analysis. Classic elite brain dumbassery where they think success in some random area means they're skilled in anything they want to be
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David
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Can't stop thinking about how, if they succeed, they'll immediately start thinking about how to sideline Harris. These are not people who will be happy with her at the top at all (and they have been so unsubtle about this too!) I don't see a lot of grappling with that clear next phase of this
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ManhattanJuryAppreciator
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It really is amazing how much visibly this is an elite revolt against Biden. Major donors! East coast pundits! The Disney heiress! The only protestors we can find are in the Hamptons!
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Shiv Ramdas
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actually a pretty decent endorsement of how bad he's been for the billionaire class that they are trying to end the constitution to bd rid of him
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Mela Storm
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The GOP is trying to pull the same crap on Joe Biden that they pulled on Hillary in 2016. Remember that feeding frenzy? The GOP always resorts to dirty tricks because their policies are appalling. They just want to take our rights away.
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward
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Yep. I was a mouthy feminist back in the day, and did I ever get it at times.
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward
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I really freaked out during student teaching days when a kid came on strong to me--middle school-aged, right after the Mary Kay Letourneau debacle. I was polite, careful, and immediately reported it.
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward
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I've always had an uneasy feeling about Hedges and some others in that particular grouping. But I also saw a lot of sexism in left-progressive politics back in the day--hell, experienced it.
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Marc McKenzie
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What pains me is that I used to respect Hedges. I even bought one of his books years ago and found it to be a solid read. But over the past decade it's clear that the cheese has slipped off his cracker. Now he prefers to praise dictators and is okay with the US falling apart.
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Susanne Allen
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I really love all the interactions between Millie Bobby Brown and Henry Cavill in interviews because she so clearly a young woman flexing new found wiles and he’s so clearly, “Nope. The line is here. Don’t cross.” But in a kind way. We all deserved to meet that man at 16 rather than the gropers.
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Gretchen Felker-Martin 🍉
@scumbelievable.bsky.social
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A lot of rotten people are seizing on the Gaiman allegations in order to score points against the groups and politics he publicly supported. Please do not let this trick your animal brain into thinking he isn't guilty. The publishing world has horror stories about this guy going back decades.
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Shiv Ramdas
@nameshiv.bsky.social
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Anyway if you want to know the historical parallel to what is happening right now and how the beltway media figures in it, look up the Business Plot
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Shiv Ramdas
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Fun fact:The last time a Business Plot to destroy US democracy was underway, The Times also pretended it wasnt- they have wanted this since 1930
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward
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Definitely the case, in my opinion.
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Marshall Ryan Maresca
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I mean, that’s why all the But Her Emails focus in 2016. Had to make it a horse race or what is there to cover?
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Peter Clines
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A reminder...
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Liza Mazel
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What slays me is this: SUPPOSEDLY this is from people who WANT Trump to lose. They're freaked out about the -narrative-, though. MOTHERFUCKERS YOU ARE MAKING THE NARRATIVE RIGHT NOW. YOU. maybe not all, but blowing it up all day every day? That. Starting to think it's concern trolling tbh
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward
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Yep. And the lack of support for Harris from those calling for Biden to step aside says one hell of a lot.
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Shiv Ramdas
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Starying to feel hard to avoid the conclusion that this gang up on Biden is the mostly white Beltway press being Big Mad that the last president was chosen by Black voters who DGAF about their dipshit endorsement and by golly they are determined those lessers will not do it again
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Stephen Blackmoore
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Why anybody trusts the New York Times for a goddamn thing I have no idea.
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward
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Then why the heck haven't you and your friends bothered to do the REAL work of organizing a third party instead of political cosplay every four years?
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Ms . Penny Oaken
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Turns out to be a pervasive strategy for him and his friends to suppress turnout
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Turns out this guy voted in the last two elections as well Why would a voting conservative want to tell the audience of the new york times not to vote, i wonder?
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John Scalzi
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Sorry, folks, this year "no vote" is a vote for fascism, don't be that person, voting is a necessary if not entirely sufficient act
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FREYA COMICS
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So a year later when folks were like "trump is a Russian asset" or whatever... I was like "we knew that... why are people just realizing this." But people believe the Russia thing Began in December 2016. Can't convince them otherwise.
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FREYA COMICS
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2014 Trump tower server: this was long before the steel dossier (which is why the media is gunshy about those court documents btw). There was a computer in his tower and the ONLY thing it did was ping a bank in Russia. Every 24 hours. An IT guy reported it when Trump announced he was running.
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FREYA COMICS
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They didn't cover it the last two election cycles. Seems every four years we ask "why is no one talking about this?" Kind of like how we aren't talking about the weird visit trumps jet made with the only Russian plane allowed in the US last week. Or the Trump tower server thing from 2014.
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward
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THIS.
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Shiv Ramdas
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The actual Trump campaign is what's happening now in the pages of the beltway media. If they don't depress run out, he will lose in a landslide.
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Shiv Ramdas
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This is literally the entirety of why Sulz has lost his shit. Black voters showing that he isn't even an afterthought in this nations actual political calculus. He thinks defecting to Trump will get him relevance
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Alyssa 🍁
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I think it is easy to fall into the trap if you never travel and have no exposure to how good public services well funded can make life so much more manageable and enjoyable. Start making enough salary that 'I want lower taxes' becomes your hook into the idiocy of conservative "thought".
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Joyce Reynolds-Ward
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I failed at being an evangelical because I took the social justice parts of the Bible much more seriously than the fascistic parts.
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John Scalzi
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Lol. I have absolutely failed the "increasing income --> more conservative" pipeline, although that has as much to do with American conservatism becoming more (overtly) fascist as anything else.
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Stina Leicht (‘lite' like the beer)
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“We have ways of making you vote for us and ways of making you abstain.” — Evita
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