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Publish my book! My mom loved it! I post like I'm famous. My opinions are not my employer's, but they should be. he/him
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bluesky being closed to conservative ideas is good because there's no such thing as a conservative idea

submitted 19 hours ago • 10 comments

if you’re going to be transphobic in my mentions I truly cannot emphasize enough that the two clicks I need to block you are both: a) easy and b) satisfying

submitted 1 day ago • 9 comments

Great piece and this run of paragraphs really resonated with me. Democrats will try anything but believing in their own voters and advocating for things.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Still haven't gotten anything published, but on the off chance I pull it off someday, I'm going to put it on the record right now that no one will ever read so much as a word of AI in anything I write. Not a single one.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

It’s not possible for “illegal” immigrants to receive federal benefits like Medicaid. There are no examples of this happening; they just keep lying about it as an excuse to take healthcare from vulnerable Americans. I don’t understand why mainstream media chooses not to push back on this obvious lie

submitted 1 day ago • 107 comments

If you want a sneak peak into our future imagine the politicization of everything. Whether the government performs a function entirely dependent on whether the government likes you. You want your social security check? Small business loan? Let's have a look at your facebook posts first

submitted 1 day ago • 29 comments

I'm wary of allowing myself to get too excited about sophomore albums from bands with extremely promising debuts, but I am really digging Wet Leg's new singles so far. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeL2...

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Considering that his bosses are desperately caving to Trump, a brave speech by Pelley. And some important words. A very democratic message that carefully avoids being Democratic. We need more folks in civil society sounding like this.

submitted 2 days ago • 7 comments

We're in the universe where Tom Cruise lives.

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

When the Cass Review came out last year, the NYT rushed to cover it complete with post notifications. After reviews in Germany and Utah came out supporting gender affirming care for trans youth, dead silence. You can be just as biased in what you don't cover as what you do.

submitted 3 days ago • 36 comments

It’s crucial to keep emphasizing that these EOs were lawless. There was never a plausible argument they were constitutional. This administration has nothing but contempt for the constitution and the rule of law.

submitted 5 days ago • 49 comments

Antivaxx and libertarianism are the same--they can exist only when the majority of the population buys in to what it takes to live in a society, allowing the minority to think they are outsiders thriving on their own exceptionalism.

submitted 4 days ago • 44 comments

The book I'm writing right now is the most overtly political one I've ever attempted, and I cannot for the life of me figure out how to write believable characters for it. I feel like I'm being cringey and unsubtle and yet:

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments