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Sarah Darer Littman@sarahdarerlittman.bsky.social |
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MG and YA novelist, Sydney Taylor Honor book SOME KIND OF HATE, BACKLASH, and many more. Teacher, dot connector, columnist, chocolate eater. sarahdarerlittman.com
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Courtney Milan
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My personal feeling is that in cases of sexual assault "I'm going to wait to see what else develops" is a fine, but if you loudly announce that what you're seeing is inadequate and not enough and should not be believed by anyone, that's not waiting to see what else develops.
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Amanda Marcotte
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Yeah, just like he claims he never met any of the over two dozen women he's sexually assaulted.
www.thedailybeast.com/donald-trump...
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Sarah Darer Littman
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There’s a reason why the snowbirds come back up north in the summer 😂
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Sarah Darer Littman
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How many gazillion degrees is it?
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John Schwartz
@jswatz.bsky.social
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Linda Greenhouse is a national treasure: "The opinion reads as an untamed excursion through Justice Alito’s id, with passages that are close to unhinged." www.nytimes.com/2024/07/03/o...
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Core, The
@corey-lanini.bsky.social
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My favorite part of the UK election coverage was the fact that, even though Reform was projected to win 18 seats and only gained 5, every Reform win was treated like a failure of democracy and I feel like we could use a little more of that on this side of the pond.
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Micah
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the four year old, mad at my wife: “you broke my heart into pieces and they rolled all the way to Legoland and we have to go to Legoland to put them back together” absolutely incredible work, kiddo, I am in awe
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Sarah Darer Littman
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I avoid Goodreads for my mental health. Sure, I might miss some nice reviews, but I know my brain and the bad ones stick harder. I put the book out there and I know there are going to be people who like it and people who don't. I have to protect the brainspace for writing the next book!
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Sarah Darer Littman
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"In the Germany of the 1930s, business leaders were not necessarily enthusiastic about Hitler...But they associated democracy with labor unions & wanted to break them. Seeing Hitler as an instrument of their own profit, [they] enabled the Nazi regime. This was, in the end, very bad for business."
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Sarah Darer Littman
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Voting matters (including doing the WORK of GOTV) and "coalitions are necessary." open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...
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Sarah Darer Littman
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Love this as well as the origin story: forward.com/culture/musi...?
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Ray Radlein
@radlein.bsky.social
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LETTUCE ALL CELEBRATE
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Amanda Marcotte
@amandamarcotte.bsky.social
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We all have a role to play. Tell people about Project 2025.
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Amitha Jagannath Knight
@amitha.bsky.social
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ICYMY I have a poem in this! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽 Honestly didn't realize it was horror when I wrote it. Just thought it was a poem about a society where walls were built by and from your ancestors. 😆💀
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Warren Frey
@freyburg.bsky.social
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Final thought on the UK election in light of the tremendous crapstorms everywhere else in the world
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Sardonicus
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Sent to me by a friend.
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Sarah Darer Littman
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HARD NOPE. forward.com/opinion/6300...
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Sarah Darer Littman
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I really hope this is the case - as a political junkie you forget how detached the average voter is from the election this far out.
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Pwnallthethings
@pwnallthethings.bsky.social
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UK politics can be grim, but election night there with constituencies being largely ungerrymandered, losers standing next to winners of podiums, and the "election season is 6 weeks, not 2 years" default is incredibly wholesome
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Sarah Darer Littman
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More inspiration from Across the Pond.
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Amanda Marcotte
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I wrote this Wednesday, drawing on search data and social media evidence.
But I got anecdotal confirmation last night. I was a 4th party and spoke to an educator from a suburban district who expressed worry about "plan 2025 or whatever it's called."
www.salon.com/2024/07/05/p...
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Claire Cock-Starkey
@nonfictioness.bsky.social
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This is great from the Guardian: Analysis by the Sutton Trust suggests that Keir Starmer’s cabinet will have the highest number of ministers educated at comprehensive schools, and the lowest proportion in modern history who went to private schools.
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Al Petterson
@eyelessgame.bsky.social
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It really is a weird symmetry that this year the UK elections are the 4th of July and the US elections are the 5th of November.
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Sarah Darer Littman
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My son Told me about this site and it is greatly enhancing my enjoyment of the UK 🇬🇧 election results matteason.co.uk/scream/
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Ella Dawson
@brosandprose.bsky.social
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ELLE Magazine said my new novel is a "quintessentially millennial take on the return-to-campus novel, told with equal parts sensitivity and self-deprecation"!
Read it here: bit.ly/buthowareyoureallynovel
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Sarah Darer Littman
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Maggie Thatcher's old constituency goes Lib Dem!
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Sarah Darer Littman
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I got to vote in the UK this year and hoping the Lib Dems take my previously Conservative consituency.
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Susan Bigelow 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️
@whateversusan.bsky.social
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It's a long fight, one that goes back to 1776 and well before. But in every generation, there are those who fought back against oppression and hate, and did what they could to make the words of the Declaration of Independence real.
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Sarah Darer Littman
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Showing up at the neighborhood 4th of July party where everyone is just chillin and enjoying community and wearing red white and blue in a "Let's Go Brandon" t-shirt and Maga hat is quite the choice.
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Kelly Barnhill
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I'm just gonna say this: It's gross when old men try to have sex with young women. It's always been gross. It's grosser when old men try to have sex with young women who work for them. It's even grosser when access to housing, transportation and financial stability is in the mix. It's gross.
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Sarah Darer Littman
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File under "No Shit, Sherlock!"
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Sarah Darer Littman
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I've been doom posting since the SCOTUS decision so I offer this palate cleanser as a gift: wapo.st/4cPhubj
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Hayes Brown
@hayesbrown.bsky.social
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idk it just seems to me that laws, like tech, should be created with the question "what would the worst person i know be able to do with this power" in mind and it's truly incredible how much this opinion fails at that basic task
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Anyone who floated this idea seriously should not be allowed to operate a motor vehicle in public.
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Anil Kalhan
@akalhan.bsky.social
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Somewhere soon, at a right wing law school event near you 🗣️: "As a matter of policy I would prefer that my allies didn't threaten to kill political opponents who don't acquiesce to our authoritarian political agenda, but as a legal matter...."
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Aaron Bady
@zunguzungu.bsky.social
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"The State of Texas will not need to abide by the U.S. Department of Labor’s new overtime rule... following a preliminary injunction request ... which relies on the Supreme Court’s same-day decision that overturned the Chevron doctrine" www.hrdive.com/news/texas-s...
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Paul Rosenberg
@paulrosenberg.bsky.social
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So, today's decision has even LESS support than Dobbs:
www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-i...
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Sarah Darer Littman
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Oh hell yeah
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Kirk Reedstrom
@kirkreedstrom.bsky.social
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Anyone else up for a good scream?
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Sarah Darer Littman
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We've seen this before...the gravestones of my ancestors in Poland were destroyed and used as paving stones in WWII. www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...?
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Sarah Darer Littman
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And by people who claimed to be "strict constitutionalists". They have no shame, no honor, no conscience.
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Angry Staff Officer
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When I think about what was sacrificed on this day in 1863 for this Republic, and what meaning Lincoln gave it... Government of the people By the people And for the people And then I read the news. Sigh.
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Sarah Darer Littman
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“With fear for our democracy, I dissent" Both Sotomayor and Jackson abandoned the customary “respectfully” — for good reason.
God knows what a reelected Trump would do in a second term. God save us from this dishonorable court." wapo.st/3XP4YUO (gift link)
We can pray but we also have to ACT.
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Popehat
@kenwhite.bsky.social
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.
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Popehat
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There are two elements to the immunity decision that are particularly extreme in a way that many will miss: (1) motive is irrelevant and (2) immune acts are not just excluded from prosecution, they’re excluded from evidence. /1
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Pwnallthethings
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Like there's a lot they were not especially clear about, and all sorts of reasons where we shouldn't tie our own future to their past. But "Kings are bad; the President is not a King; he must be constrained by law" is one of the few things they were, to their credit, very clear about
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Pwnallthethings
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Not that anyone particularly cares about original meaning, but think folks should still say it out loud: For all of the things that are unclear in the founding documents and unknowabilities of what the Founders intended, "the President can kill anyone or commit a coup" was *never* legally arguable
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Mariah McCourt
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Yeah, I have to say, this is where I'm at. I think it's essential to feel your feelings including the really shitty ones. Have a good cry. Scream into the void. But this is, in a lot of ways, the ongoing fight of humanity against both apathy and authoritarianism. They frequently go together.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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very much reflective of the lack of any real survival instinct among journalists that they think the big story today is whether biden will step down
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Ashton Pittman
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In 2016, Hillary Clinton gave a speech in Wisconsin about the importance of the Supreme Court.
She warned that 2016 was "make or break" for the court—and the country.
National media—focused on her emails and Trump's antics—barely covered the speech.
www.thenation.com/article/arch...
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