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David M. Perry@lollardfish.bsky.social |
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Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Read: #TheBrightAges tin'>ightages.'>tinyurl.com/brightages.
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
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Biden passed the most aggressive climate package in US history and probably ever again and I feel like the environmental beat is the only place we’re covering it
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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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David M. Perry
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I mean Ada is our compatriot in history :)
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Saeed Jones
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Taylor vocally came out against Marsha Blackburn during that evil lady’s last senate race and Blackburn still won. I think we need to give up the (understandable) fantasy that pop stars can swoop in and save the day. This is very much just my opinion, I know. But I’m right.
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chatham harrison is tending a new garden
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Even a tepid choice can be a momentous change when the alternative is evil
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Prisonculture
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Nothing is stopping every single Democratic elected official and apparatchik from taking the airwaves every single day to articulately and decisively repeat a set of cogent talking points about Trump (ie 45). Nothing. Dem PACs could be slamming him with ads now. Stop whining and do that.
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The Fig Economy
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Fucking WHAT DID I SAY
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David M. Perry
@lollardfish.bsky.social
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They are a lovely person and brilliant. You should bid on this.
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Dr. U. Whitcher (U. is for Bear)
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There's still a couple of hours left to bid on math + fiction expertise!
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David M. Perry
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seems better. they do a bunch of gun rights stuff but eh, that's gonna happen.
about.basspro.com/careers/dive...
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David M. Perry
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me and my new pet bass.
www.instagram.com/p/C9Dp_gcSrb_/
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David M. Perry
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Thread. Same.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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My favorite part of the West Wing fantasies about replacing Biden is the idea that there wouldn’t immediately be a new fatal flaw with whoever replaced him.
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David M. Perry
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Miss that place. Loved playing there.
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Dave Levitan
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Sorry still kinda stuck on the proud originalists entirely making up a new law making us a monarchy, I'm sure I'll get past it soon
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Patrick Iber
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Exit music is “Won’t Back Down”. The speech was energetic
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Moira Donegan
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#Metoo ruined lives: the women’s. For the summer issue of Bookforum, I wrote about Christine Blasey Ford’s memoir “One Way Back,” the aftermath of disclosure, and what it means to be a public survivor when storytelling has proven futile. www.bookforum.com/culture/disp...
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Yvonne Seale
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It seems a little bit on the nose that just before a highly consequential French election, a priest discovers that someone has stolen a mythical medieval sword from where it's embedded in a cliff—but then, the 2020s ain't subtle (N.B.: This is as much Roland's sword as my butter knife is Excalibur.)
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Sarah Posner
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I've written for years about the Christian right's calls for "spiritual warfare" against demonic enemies of Christian America. They used to claim their struggle is against "powers and principalities" not "flesh and blood," citing Ephesians 6:12. But it was still dangerous. Now we see how.
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Larry Glickman
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The increasingly brazen endorsement of political violence by the GOP is a tremendously dangerous development that warrants high-profile media coverage.
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CHOAM Nomsky 💭
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(Power sued somebody for calling her a Nazi on Twitter. During discovery she turned over WhatsApp messages, some of which were about her love of Mein Kampf. She also turned out to be using a groyper Twitter alt to hassle people. She is now bankrupt and even cryptofash Compact Mag doesn’t want her.)
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David M. Perry
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That’s not true usually when it comes to guest pieces. But I think this is a conservative contributing writer who doesn’t have to go through that process.
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David M. Perry
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CNN fact checked whether I in fact caught walleye while wearing a specific hat more thoroughly than the NYT checked whether the “I dont vote” guy actually voted.
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Don Moynihan
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Lmao they just changed the title of the piece from “Why I don’t vote” to “Why I won’t vote” rather than tell readers that the guy actually does vote
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Zeb Larson
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Any time I publish something with Teen Vogue, the fact-checkers lay siege to me. EVERYTHING has to be backed up. And you know what? As exhausting as it is in the moment, it makes a better piece.
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David M. Perry
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Yes. Every outlet seems to have a conservative editor who publishes whatever the conservative writers want without checking. I assume it’s good business.
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Gabriel S. Jacobs
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Still angry about this one.
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David M. Perry
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We bought an old pontoon last year, and I have mixed feelings about it, including the complexities of maintenance and I need a new motor. But I do like that you can put up an awning and then it’s like fishing in a tent. at least until the lightning comes and then you have to go inside.
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David M. Perry
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I hear you. We spent most of last year in high fire danger. This year it’s all flood. There could be a really good storm tonight. That will just totally ruin everyone’s plan for fireworks. I’m for it.
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David M. Perry
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I think it might rain.
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David M. Perry
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I guess he’s a contributing writer and so has immunity from facts?
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Claire Willett
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absolutely cannot believe that all 100 slots sold out, but let’s keep going! if we get to 120 I’ll do three separate sessions which will give everyone a wider choice of dates and still keep the group size manageable for a Q&A! $12,000 for voting rights, let’s go!!
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David M. Perry
@lollardfish.bsky.social
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I’m not sure why you think I won’t block you for trashing the people who just published me. Do you want to be blocked? Is that the goal here?
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David M. Perry
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Sure. But when I have been published in their opinion section, my work was checked very closely. This is a failure of their own procedures in particular for guest essays, which they generally check more rigorously than staff columnists (a problem too, but a diff one).
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David M. Perry
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Assuming that it is correct that he voted, then someone should lose their job. I don’t say that lightly.
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David M. Perry
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Honey, I ate the fish! :)
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David M. Perry
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There’s one set of problems to publish the same piece twice. There’s a second set to have the core claim be dishonest. And easily checked.
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David M. Perry
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Yep
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David M. Perry
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No, it’s a tractor supply hat. I threw it away. But that’s a bass pic www.cnn.com/2024/07/02/o...
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David M. Perry
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Right. I mean, people write that kind of boycott thing all the time when they’re not actually boycotting. But that hat went in the garbage and later or threw away some cat litter and some fish guts so …
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Matt
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Imagine writing the "I don't wear that hat anymore" piece in a world where your choice of hat was recorded in a public register every day, and just deciding to brazen through it while wearing the hat.
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David M. Perry
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Maybe There will be some explanation that people have the wrong guy when they’ve looked up his voting record. I don’t know. I’ll go back to my general statement That opinion pages should not be printing falsifiable bullshit. That should not be the job.
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David M. Perry
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I don’t fucking get it.
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David M. Perry
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That includes the one piece I wrote for the New York Times. They checked it very carefully. They did a good job. I appreciated the labor.
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David M. Perry
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I have published hundreds of opinion essays (as well as reported features and other kinds of pieces). But just for opinion essays – and they have always required a certain minimum level of evidence, and sometimes a ton of evidence.
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David M. Perry
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The don’t vote guy in fact seems to have voted in the last two elections.
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David M. Perry
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I did. It’s not a great picture because I took it myself and I’m a little sundrenched. Glad CNN used the bass pic instead. www.instagram.com/p/C7VBAYcPPV...
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David M. Perry
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CNN fact checked whether I in fact caught walleye while wearing a specific hat more thoroughly than the NYT checked whether the “I dont vote” guy actually voted.
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David M. Perry
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Deleted that because I thought the subject of the second clause was unclear. Hang on.
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Frankie Huang 黄碧赤
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As someone that has published multiple pieces in the Times and continue to admire the work of many of their journalists this was a hard and depressing decision for me
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