downerdog.bsky.social
Dem, dog lover, perspiring writer
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Loved Watership Down. The Spencer Quinn books are very different. There's a lot of humor with the dog's POV. Worth a try as a fun break from the political doom we're living in.
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Is Fox even covering Palantir? If not, the MAGA folks have no idea it's happening.
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For nonfiction, I unexpectedly loved Naomi Klein's Doppelganger.
Tim Alberta's The Kingdom and the Power and the Glory was eye-opening and disturbing.
Neither of these, though, will give you a break from politics.
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Another great dog-centered mystery series is the Chet-and-Bernie books by Spencer Quinn. Usually I'm skeptical of books from a (non-human) animal's POV, but these are delightful enough to forgive the anthropomorphisms.
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Thank you. Very cleansing.
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The Big Beautiful Bill contains this
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Noem literally turned habeas corpus into. “Gotcha” question.
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I called my representative and senators about this. For the first time, I got through (not voicemail) to all three. That worries me that people aren't calling as much. None of the people I spoke to had heard of this line in the BBB. It's very sneaky.
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I'm finding myself on the same side as Laura Loomer with this nomination. What is happening?
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tRump lecturing his constituents that we don't need so many material goods, that we can be just as happy with fewer dolls and pencils.
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It's like he took Baudrillard's theory of the Simulacrum as a challenge.
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I agree. Trumpism is so quickly becoming normalized. We need to actively and constantly remind ourselves that it is abnormal, and to resist letting it just be "the other side."
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So I guess the tariffs aren't *all* bad.
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Very helpful as an answer to MAGAts who say, "But Biden overused Executive Orders too!"
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And, to be fair, T did say that he knew nothing about Project 2025. That was a lie.
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Actually, all of the questions at the Ricketts town hall in Kearney were great. Every one of them was smart, informed, thoughtful, and well-crafted. This kind of pushback (civil and respectful but also urgent and emotionally charged) from this audience gave me hope.