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@joshgondelman.bsky.social re: today's newsletter: The Pretender! It does exist, it's not just something I made up!

Condemning Joe Biden is an easier lift than addressing law enforcement institutions working to ship people off to places unknown.

Reading JFK's nomination acceptance, and damn, I hate that his warnings are still relevant about "the payola mentality, the expense account way of life, the confusion between what is legal and what is right."

Happy May Day, don’t be a scab.

the only way kidnapping and illegally detaining lawful permanent residents (or citizens!) in foreign concentration camps "plays out" is we all live our lives under fascism or the fascists are jailed and many of them executed. that's it. read a fuckin book.

The people who architected the financial and constitutional collapse of this country, for no reason than to torture immigrants on camera for likes and shares, should pay the penalty for their treason

Imagine laws, but for rich people.

Long ago, I wrote a novella abt a post-human world of smart animals. I wanted a short story, but the work resisted--it needed Coyote teaching lessons, the villainous raccoon tyrant, the show-down with military surplus. I couldn't cut it down to short story length, so instead I wrote a sequel.

less than five hundred years ago even the most powerful monarch was at the mercy of childhood disease and weather. now we can do literal concrete things about both and are in fact actively choosing to die of childhood disease and weather

you’re fired. wait you’re rehired. email us a list of things you’ve done today wait forget it you’re fired again. come back your job was important. you’re fired. or hired. come in to the office. wait the office has no computers go home. we are the department of government efficiency.