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Here's a story that illustrates why primary sources are important & how Black history is whitewashed. It involves a mass slave escape, Government-sponsored slut-shaming, my nomination for the Blackest name in history & the guy who discovered two words that might end racism. A thread.

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vermont folks on reddit are tracking movements and organizing protests like a foreign intelligence agency

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“JD Vance choosing Vermont to ski is still so baffling to me: 'I'd like to go away with the fam for the weekend … where LITERALLY everybody hates me.'" ftw.usatoday.com/story/sports...

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I believe the US media would be more honest about wanna-be dictator Donald Trump and the seizure of our government by Elon Musk’s junta if it was happening overseas, so here’s my weekly news roundup in the style of such over-the-top dispatches: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/trump-inte...

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Thanks so much to the Transparent Watercolor Society of America and jurors Matthew Bird and Brienne M. Brown for selecting my work for the 49th Annual Exhibition Nocturne - Central Park. Watercolor on Arches - 30x22 inches @bsky.art

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Love to this gorgeous man who turned my world upside down when I was 16 and has been an inspiration activist singer performer writer mensch and North Star all along 🪨🌌🌌🌌

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JD Vance is skiing at a Vermont resort this weekend. The resort’s snow reporter took the opportunity to make some good trouble, sending out a message of resistance against an administration “threatening our democracy, our livelihoods, our land”. [kottke.org]

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ICYMI, I wrote about the kids who used fashion and music to tell Hitler where to stick it www.teenvogue.com/story/edelwe...

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As an offshoot of this thread, let’s talk about what happens if federal, state, or local officials text, email, call, or show up at your door wanting to talk to you about what you said about the President. I have a theme, a thesis, a throughline, a leitmotif, which is SHUT YOUR FUCKING MOUTH. /1

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Re-upping this again because I’m so pleased with how it turned out. Your 2025 Oscars roast: www.sfgate.com/sf-culture/a...

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My kind of breaking news: Robert Caro on next installment of his LBJ biography: “Well, I’ll tell you what pages I’m up to—951.” www.smithsonianmag.com/history/rifl...

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New @aoc.bsky.social letter to AG Pam Bondi about Tom Homan:

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Reminder that even AccuWeather thinks Project 2025 is ridiculous and does not want to privatize NOAA: www.accuweather.com/en/press/acc...

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Drew Magary reviews a Primanti Bros. sandwich from Pittsburgh:

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In a sentence that would have surprised both of us a few weeks ago, CIA historian @tim-weiner.bsky.social and I teamed up to outline the distinct dangers in weaponizing the FBI and CIA: www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/patel-ratc...

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We're thrilled to reveal the beautiful @foliosociety.bsky.social edition of China Miéville's Perdido Street Station! This edition will be signed by both the author and the artist, as well as include a new afterword, map, and full-color illustrations 🌃 reactormag.com/cover-reveal...

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When I was talking a lot about getting prepared for FEMA cuts and trade war, someone told me apologetically needed to mute me because it was stressful hearing about preparation they couldn't afford to do. That's a huge stress right now for ALL of us, I think-- there is no getting fully prepared.

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Pulitzer Feeling Increasingly Out Of Place In Washington Post Office

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Tim Kennedy is posting Instagram videos from the White House now so congrats I guess. Dunno how you can be professional soldier and a History Channel presenter and an Alex Jones cohost but somehow that’s legal in the Army but got forbid a nineteen year old drink a beer or put trash in a trash can

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Girl in Brookfield, Massachusetts, circa 1930s

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NATO can't protect Europe from Russia because the US has defected. The EU can't because UK is no longer a member. The UN can't because of Russia & US. We need a body with Europe + UK but not Russia + US, with existing admin infrastructure. What I'm saying is: arm the Eurovision Song Contest.

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I had the privilege of talking to @apnews.com about WIRED's Elon Musk and politics coverage. Most important thing: We're not slowing down, we're not stopping, and we're going to cover this story, relentlessly, for as long as we need to. apnews.com/article/elon...

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Frankly, I don't believe the billionare Trump suckup is actually going to run some kind of libertarian opinion section. It's way more likely to just be boring pro-Trump slop you can get from a million other right wing outlets. I guess we'll see.

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sings: rock library! library! rock library!

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Make sure, amid all the tumult, you have a little something to eat.

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Yeah, I'm a Jefferson Airplane fan. For a bunch of hippies, they were as punk as shit from 1967 to 1972. THE great American band of the era. After that they devolved into total crap, but that doesn't erase peak Airplane. Good article. Grace at 85 is still as big an entertaining asshole as ever.

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Just FYI: if you're avoiding Amazon, my books are available elsewhere: Ebooks from Barnes & Noble, iBooks, Kobo, Smashwords, all DRM-free. Paperbacks from Barnes & Noble, or your favorite bookstore can order them from their usual distributor. Here's B&N's link: www.barnesandnoble.com/s/kirstein%2...

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You first.

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This is Ralph. His body composition is approximately 40% ear. But that does not mean he wants to listen to your podcast. 12/10 (IG: ralph_kd0821)

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A short take on the WHCA's inability to do a god damned thing about the Trump Admin silencing some of its members. Remember, if they say "shush, we're working quietly behind the scenes," chances are they're lying.

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The track definitely matched the pace of the trailer, but it's also probably the most radio friendly on the album. But, honestly, getting anything revolutionary of his in a Disney trailer in 2025 America rules, and I hope a whole lot of people use this as an opportunity to look into his catalog.

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Song on the Andor Season 2 trailer. Steve F*cking Earle. youtu.be/zP7Wqt9rEL0?...

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For @teenvogue.com, I wrote about what we can learn from the kids who were brave enough to go out dancing under fascism www.teenvogue.com/story/edelwe...

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You asked, we listened... Now you can share ProPublica stories directly to Bluesky! 🦋

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it’s hard to know where anything in this country is going politically but i am 100% positive that dan bongino will accidentally shoot the gun at himself at least once

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This is so fucking unearned. So much groveling and repentance was due. Not to mention collective self-loathing.

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alright, we're gonna kick this series off with a fucking bang. my first story in the DOGE IS FOUR LETTERS series comes from nate brought, director of the executive secretariat at the national institutes of health, and you're going to want to hear what he has to say.

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“Be brave” @janefonda.com

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Democratic Leaders Stand Real Still In Hopes No One Notices Them

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I am genuinely beginning to believe this is my manifesto. This maybe the most important thing I’ve ever written. in-the-pines.ghost.io/cold-dark-co...

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I’m sorry. People radicalized because America is boring? This is what we’re doing today? BECAUSE ME AND MY BUDDIES SPENT TWENTY FUCKING YEARS AT WAR! Shit wasn’t boring for us. In fact shit was really really fucking hard and really really fucking far from boring.

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(1/X) I've done some posts about the narcissistic sociopath I work with and how dealing with him has influenced how I see Trump. Now I'd like to do something about how it has influenced how i see the people who enable Trump. It's what I call the "shitty people problem"....

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So Ruth, our rooster, started getting aggressive and threatening me on the regular. Before deciding to eat him, we decided to try getting him a girlfriend to take his mind off of violence. So far, so good. *Do not recommend this course of action for humans. Just chickens.

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Sketchbook version of the image quoted below:

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