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"how it works, you see, is one side shoots bullets at us, and we die, and then people get mad at them and vote us in. then we bluster and mutter and get voted out, and they get to shoot at us again. that's the agreed-upon tradeoff"

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

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

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

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

submitted 30 days ago • 22 comments

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."

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Happy May Day, don’t be a scab.

submitted 47 days ago • 6 comments

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.

submitted 64 days ago • 33 comments

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

submitted 68 days ago • 24 comments

Imagine laws, but for rich people.

submitted 69 days ago • 50 comments

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.

submitted 75 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 85 days ago • 122 comments

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

submitted 98 days ago • 62 comments