profsteve.bsky.social
PhD Rhetoric and Politics, Professor, Writer, Gamer. Interested in institutional speech, political campaigns, and how idiosyncratic choices inform our future. Lifelong fan of the power to do things with words.
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And, I know that Trump supporters will say "ha ha, he doesn't mean that. He's not really saying he's a king. He's just trolling libs." Folks, yes. That's the whole point of paralipsis (I'm not saying; I'm just saying). He uses irony to say two things at once, so he always has plausible deniability.
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The revival of Detroit may get stalled over this. It won't help those still struggling in Flint. Add in labor shocks impacting farms & orchards across the state... Then triple whammy if prices rising at the same time bc tariffs hit food supply from Mexico and Canada (half what is eaten in Michigan)
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Removed. Don't want to be part of the problem. Good catch!
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How do we go from here to what's needed? Do we rely on people within the party to take over leadership and remake approaches to engagement and priority setting? Who is your Dream Team?
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I guess that depends on what you want from a city and your approach to the world. I think there is something to love about every city I've visited, and ATL, as a mecca of the New South with a rich history, is not an exception.
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Day one. It was a Promise.
My best hope is that some enrenched resistance and journalism, paired with infighting between camps in power, will stall the worst of it to give us time to take the Senate in 26. ('Never much of a real hope... just a fool's hope.')
Open to any other hope you've found!
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There more money in hospitals than in fences, and there's always more coming to replace those that fall and can't be fixed.
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Audio books can help. Libby is a free no-ads app that links your local library card to a database and you can check out e-books and audio books for two week blocks. I use it all the time and my wife used it to crosd the 75 book mark last year!
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That's... good? news. Also, I get to not change anything in my own life, so double good?
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This is an incredibly telling graph. Did you find the source data?
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I'm just here for the Dragonlance reference. Is that your honorific because you see yourself with the lance atop the keep wall, fending off a dragon?
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Here's the article from Medium if you haven't seen it: medium.com/illumination...
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No. Weird.
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Tara said no but I say Yessssss.