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Writer. Translator. Short stories: Killing The Water, 2010, Penguin India. Translation: Black Ice, 2012, HarperCollins India. Nomad - Dhaka, Calcutta, Tulsa, Boston, Detroit, Providence, Bay Area, LA, Toyota, Philadelphia.
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He ran as a fascist from the moment he came down the escalator. Ten years of denial of what was right in front of our faces got us to this point.
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I lived in LA for about a year. There were so many things I loved about it. And I discovered LA is so large and sprawling -- there are many LAs folded in it and I was able to encounter several of those. Met some lovely people there.
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I'd like someone to channel Peter Weiss and write a play.
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He must set out to compete with himself as to how low to go.
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Has anyone noted that Musk looks like a flasher holding his coat in such a way that any second he'll be letting go?
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And when working at a college in later years that was struggling financially I also know that grants helped defray some operational expenses from the college. Budgets are based on these expectations. Without this, some schools will only head for collapse sooner than they might otherwise.
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I meant "would not"
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Much of the fascist agenda is based on white anxiety over 2044 when whites here would become a numerical minority hence the drive to entrench white minority rule so it cannot be touched. The National Party's official declaration of Apartheid is for them a model.
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I"m one of those humans and yet I find myself now in Philly surrounded by something I've rarely been in the midst of. Even been invited to two parties for the first time ever in my life and I think I need to channel your approach when I attend.
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This whole thing was just Vance carrying water for Elon to rehire the nazi Musketeer, with Trump putting his weight behind it as well. Another sign of who's running the country.
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"Aggressively attack the universities," like Vance said.
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Did the Broederbund set up a secret cell here decades ago in anticipation of today?
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Many of us grew up seeing powder milk/oil tins with U.S. markings. There was a sentence about coming from the generosity of the people of the U.S. I can't remember it. I even unloaded some cartons of aid from a U.S. C-130 for a local Red Cross. But the media doesn't cover this side of the story.
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Every donor country does this: most of the 'largesse' helps prop up their own economic sectors. This is mostly ignored in all the talk of aid going away to furreners.
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In all the talk about aid going to furners, it's always lost that much of aid, most?, goes to pay for American goods and services, propping up quite extensive economic sectors. Gutting aid is more of the 'let's shoot our own feet' and we can go for the genitals next.
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Will the literature fellowship applicants have to apply for patriotic fiction this time around? And will translations be considered at all? Does Free America need to read anything written in foreign languages? Will Musketeers be in the jury panels?
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I never met her but heard a lot about her from Nadiya.
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Who needs science when there's the great glorious AI?
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this is just the start, by next month they will have detailed dives into every member of his family, their extended family in India, the works. You cannot escape the Indian media Claiming Notable Indians Abroad Industrial Complex. It has never been done.