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If you would like to learn how to do this kind of writing, I will teach you. I will, if you have no money, do it for free. I will, if you have some money, invite you to my "writing coach" patreon. I will, if you have an institutional budget, charge a fair workshop rate. Lollardfish @ gmail.

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Bumpin’ that youtu.be/eVnSAeM1MC0?...

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So they removed the black chairman of the Joint Chiefs in the middle of his 4-year tour, without cause, and they're seeking to replace him with a white retired Air Force three-star general who lacks the requisite experience as a service chief or combatant commander? Huh, how about that

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Every so often I remember that Oprah brought us Dr Phil, Dr Oz and The Secret but the only person she brought back to destroy on her show was the guy who pretended to be a worse drug addict than he actually was in a book

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Watching the new Righteous Gemstones trailer. Gonna miss that show.

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waited for a bit to listen to this because i thought it'd be brutal, and it is v brutal. what a loss. www.npr.org/2025/02/20/g...

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Interesting. Politico Nightly just out now has a piece which is directionally identical albeit perhaps tonally different from my piece this morning about the beginning of the anti-Elon backlash www.politico.com/newsletters/...

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Anyone have a debut book coming out this spring? Tell me about it — it’d be nice to hear about something nice! Your first book only happens once, friend!

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not to change the subject in a disorienting way, but I think I just met the final boss of junk web ads

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My latest @npr.org story: Because of a Trump executive order, the Census Bureau is stopping work on statistics that could help protect the rights of transgender people, Robert Santos confirms to NPR in his first published interview since resigning as the bureau's director

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NEW: Trump's pick to run the WH Faith Office, Paula White-Cain, has drawn blowback from a subset of conservative Calvinists influential among some in Trump's cabinet. Speaking to me, Doug Wilson called her an “erratic woman preacher who has been all over the map.” religionnews.com/2025/02/21/t...

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what the moment calls for is fighters instead of gormless boobs who should have retired 30 years ago. policy differences can be hashed out later, everyone can agree that Musk and Trump must be stopped and democracy restored

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This is climate arson, yes, but also the entire value proposition of Tesla, the reason for its insane stock price, is that it would end up the Amazon of electric cars: the only real game in town. Killing off non-Tesla electric car infrastructure is a gift to Musk.

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Confirmation needed but this was one way many folks pointed out that RFK Jr can destroy vaccines without simply taking them away. ACIP reviews data and makes recommendations about vaccine usage in the US.

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Hern won 60-34 in November. www.newson6.com/story/67b7b1...

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Totally flailing www.politico.com/news/2025/02...

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"The crowd again started shouting 'tax Elon,' 'tax the wealthy,” “tax the rich' and 'tax the billionaires.'" The county went 68% for Trump www.lagrandeobserver.com/news/local/r...

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I like when you see Cheetos in a commercial and someone has poured them into a big glass bowl because that’s really what you’re looking for in your Cheetos experience is to have a dish too big for the dishwasher that needs to be cleaned

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hey! me & @lollardfish.bsky.social wrote this piece for @slate.bsky.social about what's hot in 2025, because it's the Middle Ages! we see a retreat to the medieval as a (tacit) act of resistance against techbro authoritarianism. find out why... please read and share #medievalsky

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This framing drives me nuts. Public opinion is against transgender females playing girls' sports, but that is NOT the issue between Trump and Gov. Mills. They differ on whether the president can dictate, via executive order, how states oversee amateur sports. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/21/u...

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Iowa pollster Ann Selzer filed an absolutely blistering response to Trump’s lawsuit against her and Des Moines Register, calling it a flagrant attempt to circumvent the First Amendment. www.thefire.org/sites/defaul...

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Excellent piece by @radleybalko.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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@kylegriffin1.bsky.social I have no other way to contact you easily; I assume your Twitter account is hacked and phishing me?

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Fully loaded AMERICANA this week… on ground at CPAC, interview w Bernie about his anti “oligarchy” tour, talking w GLAAD about the impact of Trump taking “trans” out of all federal language, more and more semafor.com/s/BsM5JHGS8L...

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Glad someone wrote this (and glad it's Oliver, who's the best). One of my ways to see what non-news junkies are seeing is watching the 7 pm news shows, seeing what made it onto which block. And CBS took itself out of the game.

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Now why do you think it is that DOJ dismissed charges against SpaceX WITH prejudice but Emil Bove plans to hold charges over Eric Adams' head for almost four more years? www.nytimes.com/2025/02/20/u...

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Getting cited by a judge for the proposition that SCOTUS is just chaotically throwing around unhinged ideas is definitely a major “achievement unlocked” moment. My envy is so green you’d think I was a leprechaun.

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Already THE great thread in Bluesky history.

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My latest scoop: Activists are privately lobbying for Trump to rescind permits and other approvals for wind projects out West over potential impacts to imperiled eagles heatmap.news/plus/the-fig...

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The only legit "Trump third term?" story was Andy Ogles introducing a ridiculous amendment that would have let Trump but not Obama run for a third term and using it to get DOJ to drop its investigation into him.

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Embarrassing confession - I heard some references to Jeffries on a "book tour" and thought it was some wry joke. But no! He co-wrote a children's book about democracy and is touring it during the first Trump recess week.

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wrote up the unbelievable shenanigans going on in Delaware corporate law prospect.org/justice/2025...

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Genuinely couldn't believe this figure until I saw the Financial Times confirm it using Meta's own financial reporting data For THIS $100 billion is genuinely the kind of money you could "do the impossible" with. Crack nuclear fusion. HIV vaccine. Universal flu vaccine And they spent it on this

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A memo to the Education department’s Office for Civil Rights reveals that the agency will allow “only disability-based discrimination” cases to proceed. Thousands of outstanding race, gender complaints will continue to sit idle. @jsmithrichards.bsky.social @jodiscohen.bsky.social

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A group of gifted young tech people set out to save the world. For years, WIRED has been tracking each twist and turn of their alleged descent into mayhem and death. This is the delirious, violent, impossible true story of the Zizians: www.wired.com/story/deliri...

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elon musk at cpac was so fucking weird you guys I know this reads like a parody but I literally just wrote down what happened www.theverge.com/elon-musk/61...

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McConnell really had an awful final act. Could have retired at age 78 in 2020, gone out on top locking in the conservative SCOTUS. Stuck around for four years of Biden judicial confirmations, followed by two years of Trump making fun of him and memes of him falling down and glitching.

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I think @owillis.bsky.social likes to point this out: In DC Comics, when Lex Luthor ran for president, he divested from LexCorp because the idea of him winning an election without doing that was obviously just crazy.

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"[O]ffenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021" — the pardon language — now means whatever the fuck Pam Bondi, Emil Bove, and Donald Trump say it means, apparently.

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