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Librarian, literature geek, knitter, opera fan, book history person. Researching commonplace books and poetry readers. Opinions here are my own. She/her/hers. Queer and furious. 🏳️🌈
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I wanted to put, in one place, a documented list of all of the ways that speech is being threatened.
The list is admittedly incomplete. It is also overwhelming.
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/real-chill...
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I tried it and immediately transformed into Elmer Fudd.
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I also keep thinking about how metaphorically empty you have to be to become a Trump or a Vance or a Musk. No principles, no deeply held beliefs other than greed and hate and lust for power, no inner life, no imagination. May their hollowness be their downfall, just like it was for that statue.
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It seems like more of a metaphor than ever. A garish display of racist power hiding a fundamental hollowness at its core. Looks monumental, but is actually empty and weak enough to be toppled by determined people acting together.
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Do you use a credit card? Rent or own a home? Use utilities like water and electricity? Send your kids to school? Have a job? Eat? Drink? Deposit money in a bank, or withdraw it? The government provides services and safeguards that enable us to do ALL of this safely. Now Musk is taking it all away.
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Do you fly in airplanes? Drive on highways? File taxes? Have kids or elderly parents? Go to the doctor? Prefer not to be poisoned by toxic chemicals? Then you rely on the government services that Musk is hobbling. It is tragic that many Americans won’t realize this until those services are killed.
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First, continue figuring out how to play those last three 16th notes in that one measure while my left hand plays the bass line. Then continue figuring out the tiny incremental actions I can take to protect democracy -- or, at the least, ruin a fascist's day and make them cry.
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How my semester is going: immediately after one search committee I was on wrapped up its work, I was asked to be on another. I said yes because if I'd said no, someone else would have had to be on two searches at once. It's important work! But there aren't enough of us to go around for it.