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Brian Williams (He/Him)@professionalhench.bsky.social |
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Nerd, parent, bio-geek, union rep, tinker, LEGO aficionado, bookworm. Trans rights are human rights.
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Brian Williams (He/Him)
@professionalhench.bsky.social
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I just finished reading these on the strength of Seanan’s recommendation, and they’re just as good as she says here. If you enjoy superhero fiction at all, you should read these. My daughter is going to love the hard copy versions when they arrive at our local bookstore.
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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WE ARE THE ONES WE HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR there is no daddy potus magic there is no special counsel daddy magic If someone is going to make change it is us. A sustained grassroots effort that lasts years. All of us. This is the only way out.
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Vituperative Erb
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I’m not sure what the surefire way to win the election is but I am fairly certain a sure way to lose is to spend the next 4 months with Democrats talking about how much their candidate sucks and how we’re doomed
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
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Hey! Remember Republicans saying "Obamacare will make death panels to kill your grandma!"? Then you should probably go check out chapter 14 of the Project 2025 manifesto. Because every Conservative/Republican accusation is a confession.
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
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Because, again: Disability is the only minority anyone can join at any time, & which everyone will join, if they're lucky enough to live that long. A disease, a quirk of genetics, a bus, a bad fall from a curb. Anything. And the only thing we have that could consistently make this fact survivable…
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Jessica, Kait's Wife 🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
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There are some authors who are mad at "wokeness" because they miss the days when all the characterization work you needed to do was say that your villain "looked to be a Spaniard."
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Brian Williams (He/Him)
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So many conservatives seem to have forgotten that the formalized rules of modern management-labor interaction was developed as an alternative to open warfare with the unions.
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Brian Williams (He/Him)
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Ugh. Cancer sucks, fuck cancer.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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lmao FUCK THIS. Trump's Project 2025 wants to take money out of your wallet and give it to your boss
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Brian Williams (He/Him)
@professionalhench.bsky.social
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Oof, I’m sorry for your loss. Glad she got to experience those parts of SC, but oof that’s young.
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southpaw
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When he’s asked why Senate Judiciary won’t conduct its own hearings, Sen. Whitehouse generally cites Sen. Graham’s threat to filibuster any subpoenas directed toward SCOTUS oversight. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/republi...
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Ali Trotta
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GOOD
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Will "scifantasy" Frank
@scifantasy.bsky.social
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Always this. Everybody wants to own the river.
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Joe Katz
@joekatz45.bsky.social
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The next challenge isn't just limiting climate change, but helping people adjust to/survive its impacts on daily life. Does anyone trust the GOP to do that?
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Romancing the Vote
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We want to say something about the donation that put us over the top, to a one million dollars lifetime fundraising achievement, because it was a special one. It was yours.
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Elizabeth Picciuto
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Related related observation: many political journalists can be pushed one way or another on a story by irritation at certain extremely online news junkies criticizing them.
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Kaitlin Has Had Enough
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You’d think we’d be over the illusion of a perfect candidate, but we keep trying to kick that football every time Lucy offers
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Mr. Am I Being Detained
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Was thinking the other day about the looming prospect of dark days ahead, and it occurred to me that during the hardest times of my life, I have memories of laughing or having a great meal or feeling surrounded by love, and maybe survival is just linking enough of those moments to make a bridge.
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Andrea Grimes
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i don't know how to make it any clearer: the GOP's 14th Amendment platform plank establishing fetal personhood because something something "states' rights" is about as "moderate" and "softened" as it was "moderate" and "soft" to allow chattel slavery in Confederate states
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Wicked Ho
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anyway here’s a baby raccoon sleeping in a hammock
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e.w. niedermeyer
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So the more I see of this, the more I respect it. The Cybertruck is so unrelentingly and singularly absurd that the only sane aesthetic response is to heap yet more absurdity on top. This exudes a level of "you're locked in here with me" energy that you don't often get the opportunity to witness.
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Randall Munroe
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Number Line Branch xkcd.com/2956
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Faine Greenwood
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A truly premeditated rat-fuck.
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Indrapramit Das
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The person in the screenshot wouldn't agree, but this (the screenshotted take) is exactly the kind of thinking that leads progressives to circle right back into fascism and its anti-art characteristics.
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Faine Greenwood
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Start mongering/sowing/spreading some appropriate terror.
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Sarah Posner
@sarahposner.bsky.social
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THE ABORTION PLANK IS A PERSONHOOD PLANK
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Tristan Snell
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Since the debate: Donald Trump has hidden from public view for 11 days. Joe Biden has done 18 public events — and counting.
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Morgan Dawn
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Measles exposure: Santa Clara County / Santa Cruz County / San Jose airport/Southwest airlines
1. A Starbucks at 624 Blossom Hill Rd. in Los Gatos
2. Taqueria Los Pericos in Santa Cruz
3. San Jose Airport
4. Chicago airport
Paywall free link
archive.is/2024.07.08-2...
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Emma Evans
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1. Cancel the NYT 2. When they come a' beggin' you back tell them WHY you canceled 3. Tell them to put you on their DO NOT CONTACT list.
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Return of the Cmonmacques
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I love how the news was like “we can’t publish this avalanche of accusations about Harvey Weinstein because they may not be true but does Biden have Parkinson’s? You decide”
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Claire Willett
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“softened language” = we started to realize this shit was polling badly so we are going to return to doing it quietly instead of loudly in the hopes that you forget
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Jill Weinberger
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It's important to note that in France, yes, a fascist majority was prevented, but they still doubled their presence in parliament. The fascists didn't stay home. They went & voted. It's just that enough decent people showed up to beat them back to a significant degree (& make them cry). SHOW UP.
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geoffrey
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hey someone did both the tweet and the article blurb right
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Naomi Kritzer
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"Sometimes I wonder if all this coverage is because the media knows how to cover a normal problem like a sub-par candidate; they don’t know how to cover something as abnormal and unprecedented as the end of the republic. So for the most part they don’t."
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Uncanny Magazine
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PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE SHARE, SPACE UNICORNS! The Uncanny Magazine Year 11: This One Goes to ELEVEN! Kickstarter is LIVE! Only *you* can make a 11th year of Uncanny Magazine happen! Help us make more magic, Space Unicorns!!! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lyn...
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Dr. SkySkull
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A good reminder. I don't know if Biden's mental state is a serious cause for concern or not, but we're seeing *exactly* the same playbook that was used on Clinton, down to the "allies are concerned" articles. And Clinton is *still* doing fine.
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Somhairle
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All the Xuya books are so good. I recommend you read them all.
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Faine Greenwood
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This learned helplessness around “no one is going to care about these things (that a lot of normal people do demonstrably care about)” I’m seeing some people display is just so counterproductive.
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The Fig Economy
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“Is suddenly in doubt” “Has boomeranged” I don’t know that I’ve ever seen a purer example of the press depersonalizing its own role than this. Holy Christ.
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Andrew D Thaler
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I see we've reached the "famous artist credibly accused of sexual assault wasn't actually a great artist and you're a chump for liking him" phase. Consider that pretending terrible people can't make great art helps terrible people who make great art whedon their way into vulnerable communities.
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Brian Williams (He/Him)
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Yeah, that’s a hard one to top, so well done.
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WholesomeMemes
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Dr Sarah Hendrica Bickerton 🏳️🌈
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We told you this would happen with the removal of Chevron.
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wade of mutilation
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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:
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Claire Willett
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I am not a political media strategist but nonetheless I feel pretty solid about this
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Amanda Smith
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“They want to eliminate national parks” is a very simple way to get just about anyone on the Stop Project 2025 train. Are there much more glaring and life-threatening goals of P25? Yes but even your most bigoted cousin does not want to see the parks system sold for parts.
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Brian Williams (He/Him)
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Sugar, that’s *my* chair.
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Courtney Milan
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A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes. It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.
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Peter Jacobs
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If Biden said something like this it would spell the end of not only his campaign but his current tenure. It's just one of countless examples of insane gibberish from Trump that the press & Democrats are choosing to treat as an immutable part of the electoral landscape rather than a story or issue.
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Melissa Gira Grant
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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this.
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins...
www.mediamatters.org/project-2025
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