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Tracy Quan

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Author, broadcaster, emerging poet. Novels tinyurl.com/DMCG-ebook Essays powerhousebooks.com/books/persona-non-grata/ Verse www.addanomadd.com/the-vinyl-forest-tracy-quan/ MY LATEST IN RHR: tinyurl.com/47huhbn5

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In the UK?!

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a Bee Gee shrine? please say more….

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OMG thank you.

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The headlines get more suburban, less thoughtful, by the minute. Take a break from this small-minded hysteria, dear friends. Even if you are right (and you might be!) you are entitled to some dignity….

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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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I hear you. It’s all pretty disturbing to me.

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True. Experience is also a factor. Some of the reaction to his reaction came from readers who didn’t know much about men and their lives. Some readers never get past that initial stage of understanding…

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Thank you so much, John. My current access wrt subscriptions is driven by practical stuff, and this is much appreciated. TQ

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I haven’t been to the town recently, it seems a familiar name ….I may have passed through as a child, traveling. It’s near Spain? Anyway national elections get the attention, but these politics can grow locally.

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The forced sale of one’s home in the Gypsy neighborhood… Ethnic cleansing at the local level, isn't that how it starts?

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Thanks! I’m almost afraid to open the link! But I should and I will.

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That letter writer is ….telling us a lot about herself. Harris projects an image of success and fitness. We are living in the 21st century and she looks it.

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I have a fantastic greeting card in my stationery drawer that says VICTIM in large white letters on black. Too polite to send it to anyone, but have often been tempted. Off topic, sorry.

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I saw somewhere that RN in France is in charge of (how many) municipalities, and I thought “what’s it like to live in a town where the muni government is RN?” It made me uneasy. Would that be like a small US town circa 1920 run by members of the Klan?? We’re a bit sheltered in these liberal cities.

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Would be nice if they were thinking how to win over Lib Dem types, or form an alliance, but somehow Starmer ….yikes. Also, the Lib Dem people I know are quite antiauthoritarian.

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But yes, exactly, it’s bad news in other respects. Labour will be thinking about how to… sorry to say I’m imagining the worst ways to resolve that.

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Whew. I saw how (and what!) they did in a few places and this was quite a blessing. Some locales were so close, I winced. Reform votes could have ….

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Studied the numbers in a few places and super impressed w the impact of Reform on …. If all those guys had voted for….NEVER MIND.

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Was this intended as a gift link by any chance?

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Mother’s constituency changed parties and brother’s stayed the same. Both Labour now.

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Sorry to hear Suella won her seat and Penny Mordaunt lost hers….

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Millett and Mailer were so much fun. We sometimes forget the angry flirtatious energy surrounding that era, the self-deprecating humor of the men (at times). When I finally read Prisoner, I discovered I’d been misled by partisans. 😺

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I recall that younger Bush did this a lot, we know Donald speaks in ways that become word salad, I’ve heard the current mayor of NY do this, Nancy Pelosi once went on a bizarre ramble about Boris Johnson & vaccines! Anyone who speaks in public screws up. (Still, it’s a concern during campaign.)

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Very interesting piece. Thank you. It is too soon for us to disengage from the stakes of that war, and anyway it is not true disengagement.

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I mean, there are serious people who can speak about how much bread or grain or wool you’d buy for how many coins in 1209. And they can cf this with today. Do they work for the Bank of England?

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Something’s up with the 1209 and 1913 start dates. Clearly something is being hidden from us, or it’s hard to be sure who’s being more honest. I suppose you can’t go wrong providing facts only from 1913…

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Biden and Harris have become national figures. Senators are more national than governors. Also, it’s possible for Gavin, Gretchen et al to become national figures.

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These people are much too regional for the role. Gavin won’t be accepted in the East, or Southeast, and they will antagonize many black voters.

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Specifically, a prose listicle describing every authoritarian thing the future PM has done as prosecutor and party leader. I dreamt that someone was exposing my kitchen wall to salmonella. I knew I would have to clean the wall. But I knew that I COULD. #0ptimism?

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Conservatives are uprooting and relocating to create conservative "fortresses" in red states. Good. We need to be spreading into purple states to turn them blue. #ColonizePurpleStates for a future #SuperMajority.

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I had dystopic dreams “last night” though my sleep cycle is such that it was not technically night time. Unusual for me to have a menacing dream. I blame the New York Times. (Also unusual. I’m no longer in that phase of life.)

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Indeed, some feminists and supposed liberals want to preserve the cultural aspects of the Comstock Law which criminalize sex work (while removing the healthcare piece.)

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Even if there were no Project 2025—there's a slew of prominent anti-trafficking NGO's that want to do the same thing as Project 2025. Take a look at NCOSE, Shared Hope International, The Salvation Army and many others. They've been working to shut down the global sex industry for decades.

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I have just blocked two entities who use the word pussy as a term of abuse. It’s an arbitrary distinction, but for me this is a turn-off. Also, private email exists for a reason.

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In the US, I see the immigration talk becoming more phobic and hostile….in liberal, Democrat and apolitical circles. It’s unattractive, unfortunate and potentially intimidating.

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While Starmer is not my favorite human being on the planet, I’m thinking of the election in terms of options for my beloved niece (a schoolgirl), and the provision of key services for various adult relatives… everyday stuff that you cited in your recent article.

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