mlaser54.bsky.social
• Writer of novels (Eulogy; 6-321; Old Buddy Old Pal; My Impending Death; etc.) and other things (The Word-Lover’s Lexicon).
• https://michaellaser.com/
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What about a national vigil to show the world that we DON'T stand by this president? Imagine video of thousands in every city holding candles (or cell phone flashlights) -- which would serve, as well, as a message to Ukraine, that the people of America still stand with them.
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What about a national vigil to show the world that we DON'T stand by this president? Imagine video of thousands in every city holding candles (or cell phone flashlights) -- which would serve, as well, as a message to Ukraine, that the people of America still stand with them.
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What about a national vigil to show the world that we DON'T stand by this president? Imagine video of thousands in every city holding candles (or cell phone flashlights) -- which would serve, as well, as a message to Ukraine, that the people of America still stand with them.
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What about a national vigil to show the world that we DON'T stand by this president? Imagine video of thousands in every city holding candles (or cell phone flashlights) -- which would serve, as well, as a message to Ukraine, that the people of America still stand with them.
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What about a national vigil to show the world that we DON'T stand by this president? Imagine video of thousands in every city holding candles (or cell phone flashlights) -- which would serve, as well, as a message to Ukraine, that the people of America still stand with them.
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What about a national vigil to show the world that we DON'T stand by this president? Imagine video of thousands in every city holding candles (or cell phone flashlights) -- which would serve, as well, as a message to Ukraine, that the people of America still stand with them.
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What about a national vigil to show the world that we DON'T stand by this president? Imagine video of thousands in every city holding candles (or cell phone flashlights) -- which would serve, as well, as a message to Ukraine, that the people of America still stand with them.
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What about a national vigil to show the world that we DON'T stand by this president? Imagine video of thousands in every city holding candles (or cell phone flashlights) -- which would serve, as well, as a message to Ukraine, that the people of America still stand with them.
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And then, when they refuse to hold town halls, go picket at their offices, every week until the midterms - it worked in NJ in 2018. (All credit to the determined leaders of NJ11!)
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The point is, you don't know how your actions will affect others. You may influence and inspire people, without ever knowing it.
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I searched for, but couldn't find, an anecdote I read long ago, about an official who saw this protester, alone in the rain outside the White House, and was moved to do more, thinking, If that guy has the guts to do this, all by himself, then I'd better do my part.
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@mikiesherrill.bsky.social, my Congresswoman, may have something to say about this.
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But also:
"...just 30 percent of voters supported an end to birthright citizenship, according to the poll..."
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"...57 percent of voters, including 19 percent of Republicans, disapproved of Mr. Trump’s decision to pardon those involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol."
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He needs to give that pisher Greenblatt a zetz.
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But it's okay, because this is the "National" kind.
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Call the nuns!
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We're all going to be doing a lot of swerving for the next four years, dodging their debris.
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Kind of tragic that that answer that occurs immediately to almost everyone here is "President of the U.S."
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Who are you, Nathan Hale?
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I didn't know the background on this one. Here's some: link.motherjones.com/public/35592...
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Thank you for this. When I read the Stephens essay last night, I wanted to spit. You answered him well.
(This would be a good time for a revival of "Rhinoceros," by Ionesco. Very fitting for our moment.)
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I'm not a lawyer, but... couldn't each of these organizations file an Anti-Slapp suit, and force him to pay attorney's fees? Might that slow down the avalanche of these suits that's headed our way?
www.rcfp.org/resources/an...
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But seriously... they live on a different planet, and breathe an entirely different atmosphere of alternative (non)-facts. From that strange place, everything we believe and value looks incomprehensible and therefore crazy. I hope we figure out a way to communicate with them soon.
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My novel:
Eulogy, in which a man learns, hours after delivering his father’s eulogy, that his hard-working, unassuming dad spent three years in prison. Consumed by the news, he sets out to unravel the mystery.
www.amazon.com/Eulogy-Micha...
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Two Books! A novel and a book of interesting words.
First, The Word Lover's Lexicon
(Sorry about the image: the link enlarges the cover so much that you can't see it!)
www.amazon.com/Word-Lovers-...
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“Prices will come down,” Trump said in August. “You just watch: They’ll come down, and they’ll come down fast...” He added in September: “Vote Trump, and your incomes will soar. Your net worth will skyrocket. Your energy costs and grocery prices will come tumbling down.”
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...need to hold their elected officials accountable.
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These are but a few examples of Trump’s prior book-cooking efforts. They hint at what the president-elect, emboldened by a subservient GOP and friendlier courts, is more likely to succeed at this time: taking away the objective numbers that businesses rely on to make decisions, and that voters...
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He blew up an agricultural statistical agency that evaluated his trade wars’ impact on farmers. He tried to redefine “poverty” so that fewer people would count as poor under his watch. Likewise for pollution deaths.
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Indeed, Trump was frequently aggravated by his lack of control over official metrics last time around. He hated that anyone measured the spread of covid-19 (“If we stop testing right now, we’d have very few cases, if any,” he proclaimed in June 2020.)
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“You can apply the concept of destroying independence at every agency,” Vought told Tucker Carlson last month. “I even saw it in aspects of OMB with regard to who gets to make the decisions on statistics. There are little pockets of independence that have to be, just we got to remove those.”
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31/ We need to learn how to share this land, otherwise we will be sharing it in our graves.
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30/ Once I thought we could never solve our conflict, we would continue hating each other forever, but it is not written anywhere that we have to go on killing each other. The hero makes a friend of his enemy. That’s my duty.