terrellwrites.bsky.social
Nonfiction enthusiast + runner, also trying to be a better cook. Writer of a running newsletter that isn’t (just) about running 👇
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If it’s something liberals like, no matter what it is or how much sense it makes, it’s on their target list. They have all the power in the world to tear everything down — we need to acknowledge that reality — but they have *no* idea of what comes after 👇
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Which could happen multiple times in a single hurricane season
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Like the proverbial stopped clock… he’s not wrong 🤷♂️
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Oh that’s gonna be *real* popular…
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Can you explain this one for the lay folks?
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That's really interesting -- why do you think that is? (Are these men who bought books a lot 20, 30, 40 years ago, etc.?)
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@schnorkles.bsky.social Interesting numbers in this ☝️
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How… convenient
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Yeah, once it was clear Iraq didn’t have any WMD, the media pursued the admin harder. And then when things soured, they *really* went after them hard. But in the lead-up to the war, they were “all in” (pun intended 😉)
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I hear an awful lot of best-case scenarios being thrown around about this today.
Not saying they’re right or wrong, it’s just that… they sure sound familiar 🤔
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I didn't watch today's news shows, but I remember vividly the coverage in the leadup to the Iraq war in '03, and there was LOTS of media-led cheerleading going on. The memory of 9/11 was still very fresh, and the push to go to war felt like an unstoppable force.
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What could go wrong?
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So, the writers of the bill that would authorize all this (presumably) know all this, right? So, what’s the point of going through with this if what you’re saying is true (and I’m sure it is)?
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Atlanta’s Beltline project is another great example:
beltline.org/visit/
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Now that's interesting... 🤔
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With each passing day, this feels more and more like a replay of W’s second term.
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Which begs the question then… why is Congress bothering to do this in the first place? (It’s safe to assume they’d know all this too, right?)
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As all this was gearing up a day or two ago, I got curious and looked up the population of Iraq in 2003; it was just over 26 million.
Iran’s today? 92 million.
That we’re even considering this for a nanosecond is complete and total lunacy.
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Wow… I suppose this is so obvious it’s hardly worth pointing out, but if that’s the case, then they really are even more divorced from reality than we think.
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Sincere question: is anyone in the WH asking “and then what?” to any of this?
Eventually, the clock is going to run out — if/when Congress changes hands in ‘26, or the next occupant of the WH in ‘28.
(And by that point, your opponents will be ready to go thermonuclear when they’re in power again)
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Now? Or 15 years ago? (I'd imagine pretty minimally now. But 15 years ago, I'd guess he was just as involved as he ever was.)
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Oh, completely. The only rebuttal is, Buffett has run Berkshire (highly!) competently into his 70s... I guess it's just a matter of where you draw the line. (Buffett's 93 now, I think, and clearly it's time for him to retire. But should he have left at 80? I'm not so sure.)
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#2 is very interesting -- not that it would solve all that ails us, but it a) seems the most do-able, and b) the primaries are where lots of the most extreme candidates originate.
#3 sounds good, but my fear is that -- esp. w term limits -- once you do that, the lobbyists become the legislators.
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Ahhh, that’s true. Also the Enron connection.
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Eh… the last GOP admin was W’s — I don’t remember him pulling anything like this. (Correct me if I’m wrong, though.)
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You seriously cant make this shit up
A law enforcement officer points a taser at a person wearing a hot dog costume during a protest Saturday, June 14, 2025, in Portland, Ore. (AP Photo/Jenny Kane)
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Great headline! (“Touch and Go”)
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True; like, there’s nothing wrong either with a game of poker with friends. It’s the accelerant of digital technology via the betting apps that’s so problematic.
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I’m coming to the conclusion that there are three ironclad “don’ts” I’m going to (try to) teach my kids:
1) Don’t smoke
2) Don’t gamble
3) Don’t ever chat with an AI chatbot
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Absolute legend.
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"theatre"?
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All kinds of especially niche genre fiction has been able to find readers that, in the old world, never would have seen the light of day.
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Books and ebooks too -- I (like most people, I'm sure) thought ebooks could replace physical books when Amazon released the Kindle. But it turns out that while there's definitely overlap, the ebook market largely hasn't replaced the traditional book market so much as it's opened up a new one.
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Maybe... though, the music industry did find a way to get (most) people paying for music again, via subscription services. We wouldn't have predicted *that* at the peak of Napster's influence.
That's why I remain skeptical; for now, there are just too many variables, the future is still wide open.
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The tools that democratized publishing have been around for a generation now, and yet people mostly still coalesce around writers/thinkers/artists/etc. that we can share and talk about and go see. Will AI really put a stop to that? I'm skeptical.
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You may be right (we'll just have to wait and see). But one thing I'd differ w you on is that we like to share, talk about and experience art *together*. We like to go see bands we love together. We (still!) like to see movies in a big room together; same with stand-up comedy, musicals, etc...
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If you haven't watched this new discussion between @hcrichardson.bsky.social & @petebuttigieg.bsky.social yet, you should check it out. Very informative and even soothing in a way 👍
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