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Luke Griffin
@lukegriffin.bsky.social
· Sep 20
This is my pup, Tate. She’s continuing the lessons her predecessors began in how to be a better being.
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It really would be nice to have some serious discussion of this or other mechanisms to support independent (non-rich) media. It is nuts that people apparently think campaign ads can influence elections, but what people see between the ads doesn't.
Economists Dean Baker @deanbaker13.bsky.social often goes into detail of an idea of how to do this, via a tax credit.
cepr.net/publications...
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Fixing the Media and Campaign Spending by the Rich
Explore the issue of media spending by the rich and its impact on democracy. Discover potential strategies for addressing this problem.
cepr.net
November 13, 2025 at 2:18 AM
It really would be nice to have some serious discussion of this or other mechanisms to support independent (non-rich) media. It is nuts that people apparently think campaign ads can influence elections, but what people see between the ads doesn't.
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On JSTOR, dipping into Angela Carter essays and stories published in journals roughly 1975-1990. I went for "The Tiger's Wife," but also found "Notes on the Gothic Mode," which she wrote as she was writing The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography. www.jstor.org/stable/20158...
Notes on the Gothic Mode on JSTOR
Angela Carter, Notes on the Gothic Mode, The Iowa Review, Vol. 6, No. 3/4 (Summer - Fall, 1975), pp. 132-134
www.jstor.org
November 16, 2025 at 2:26 PM
On JSTOR, dipping into Angela Carter essays and stories published in journals roughly 1975-1990. I went for "The Tiger's Wife," but also found "Notes on the Gothic Mode," which she wrote as she was writing The Sadeian Woman and the Ideology of Pornography. www.jstor.org/stable/20158...
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Hi!! I got TWO bookstore events this week:
Monday at Parentheses Books in Harrisonburg, VA:
www.parenthesesbooks.com/events
Wednesday at Little District Books in Washington DC:
littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...
Please come hang out, and please tell your peeps! I don't wanna be lonely...
Monday at Parentheses Books in Harrisonburg, VA:
www.parenthesesbooks.com/events
Wednesday at Little District Books in Washington DC:
littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...
Please come hang out, and please tell your peeps! I don't wanna be lonely...
Lessons in Magic and Disaster Event with Charlie Jane Anders
Join us for a Conversation and Q&A with Charlie Jane Anders, Author of Lessons in Magic and Disaster About the Book In the vein of Alice Hoffman and Charlie Jane Anders's own All the Birds in the ...
littledistrictbooks.com
November 16, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Hi!! I got TWO bookstore events this week:
Monday at Parentheses Books in Harrisonburg, VA:
www.parenthesesbooks.com/events
Wednesday at Little District Books in Washington DC:
littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...
Please come hang out, and please tell your peeps! I don't wanna be lonely...
Monday at Parentheses Books in Harrisonburg, VA:
www.parenthesesbooks.com/events
Wednesday at Little District Books in Washington DC:
littledistrictbooks.com/products/les...
Please come hang out, and please tell your peeps! I don't wanna be lonely...
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November 16, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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"And because there is no limit to, the challenge to love more than one is loved, or to be always more seduced - if not death."
- Seduction
- Seduction
November 16, 2025 at 5:46 AM
"And because there is no limit to, the challenge to love more than one is loved, or to be always more seduced - if not death."
- Seduction
- Seduction
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Larry Summers has been trying to tell us precisely who he is for more than thirty years.
You know who else tried to tell us?
Brooksley Born, Elizabeth Warren, Shelia Bair, Christine Legarde, Claudia Sahm, Janet Yellen and on and on and on.
You know who else tried to tell us?
Brooksley Born, Elizabeth Warren, Shelia Bair, Christine Legarde, Claudia Sahm, Janet Yellen and on and on and on.
November 16, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Larry Summers has been trying to tell us precisely who he is for more than thirty years.
You know who else tried to tell us?
Brooksley Born, Elizabeth Warren, Shelia Bair, Christine Legarde, Claudia Sahm, Janet Yellen and on and on and on.
You know who else tried to tell us?
Brooksley Born, Elizabeth Warren, Shelia Bair, Christine Legarde, Claudia Sahm, Janet Yellen and on and on and on.
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EFF is focused on your data privacy. That means opposing law enforcement’s all-too-easy access to commercial data brokers and the illegal sharing of your info held by the government. takebackctrl.org/reclaim-you...
November 15, 2025 at 11:02 PM
EFF is focused on your data privacy. That means opposing law enforcement’s all-too-easy access to commercial data brokers and the illegal sharing of your info held by the government. takebackctrl.org/reclaim-you...
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Charlotte friends, if you know an org that needs whistles, you know who to call. 💕
I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
“When the 8 African American sheriffs took over the largest counties in North Carolina, it became a threat to the good ol’ boy system,” says the sheriff of Charlotte. These new sheriffs broke ties with ICE.
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
November 15, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Charlotte friends, if you know an org that needs whistles, you know who to call. 💕
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I found underneath the massive backyard leaf pile my beautiful children have been playing in for the past four weeks a decomposing rabbit
November 15, 2025 at 10:01 PM
I found underneath the massive backyard leaf pile my beautiful children have been playing in for the past four weeks a decomposing rabbit
post your favorite star trek character. wrong answers only.
November 16, 2025 at 12:19 AM
post your favorite star trek character. wrong answers only.
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Record profits are unpaid wages.
Amazon announced 14,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $40M last year.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
UPS announced 48,000 layoffs. Its CEO made over $24M last year.
Intel announced 20,000 layoffs. Its new CEO's pay package is valued at nearly $69M.
This is what I mean when I say the system is rigged.
November 15, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Record profits are unpaid wages.
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I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
“When the 8 African American sheriffs took over the largest counties in North Carolina, it became a threat to the good ol’ boy system,” says the sheriff of Charlotte. These new sheriffs broke ties with ICE.
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
But GOP lawmakers cracked down this week, overbidding the governor’s veto to adopt this law:
North Carolina GOP Is Cracking Down on the Black Sheriffs Who Stood Up to ICE
Boosted by new supermajorities, Republicans are closing in on legislation to mandate more collaboration with ICE and preempt local policies hard-won by immigrants’ rights advocates.
boltsmag.org
November 15, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte.
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018.
We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:
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oh no
MTG: “.. “I am now being contacted by private security firms with warnings for my safety as a hot bed of threats against me are being fueled and egged on by the most powerful man in the world. .. The man I supported and helped get elected.”
@mediaite.com #GA14
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@mediaite.com #GA14
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November 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
oh no
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I have some bad news for you about scores & scores of esteemed Harvard professors…
Harvard disgraces itself every day it continues to bestow the "University Professor" title on Summers
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 15, 2025 at 10:51 PM
I have some bad news for you about scores & scores of esteemed Harvard professors…
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Please watch
I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?
November 15, 2025 at 11:23 PM
Please watch
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"But it's not only the letting go — there's also the rejoicing of how we can break the system that created the trauma and the division between us and the original caretakers of the land."
November 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
"But it's not only the letting go — there's also the rejoicing of how we can break the system that created the trauma and the division between us and the original caretakers of the land."
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If you ever found find yourself writing and publishing a sequence of words like this, you should:
a. go sit in a room by yourself and reflect on the life choices that led you to that moment, and
b. not be allowed within 1000 years or schools, day cares, and other facilities serving young people
a. go sit in a room by yourself and reflect on the life choices that led you to that moment, and
b. not be allowed within 1000 years or schools, day cares, and other facilities serving young people
Let us also not lose sight of how weird of an aside this is in the second graph
November 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
If you ever found find yourself writing and publishing a sequence of words like this, you should:
a. go sit in a room by yourself and reflect on the life choices that led you to that moment, and
b. not be allowed within 1000 years or schools, day cares, and other facilities serving young people
a. go sit in a room by yourself and reflect on the life choices that led you to that moment, and
b. not be allowed within 1000 years or schools, day cares, and other facilities serving young people
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Peter Sekaer, New York, c 1934.
November 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Peter Sekaer, New York, c 1934.
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Universality is key.
Universal basic income.
Universal healthcare.
Universal college.
Universal childcare.
We need to make a NEW New Deal with all Americans. We're ALL in this together.
Universal basic income.
Universal healthcare.
Universal college.
Universal childcare.
We need to make a NEW New Deal with all Americans. We're ALL in this together.
This is could well be a historic midterm for Democrats.
Don’t waste it on centrists who won’t come through when it matters. Run vocal progressives.
You won’t end Trumpism without anti-corruption crusaders and warriors for social and economic justice who believe in taxes & big, universal programs.
Don’t waste it on centrists who won’t come through when it matters. Run vocal progressives.
You won’t end Trumpism without anti-corruption crusaders and warriors for social and economic justice who believe in taxes & big, universal programs.
Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵
November 15, 2025 at 5:16 PM
Universality is key.
Universal basic income.
Universal healthcare.
Universal college.
Universal childcare.
We need to make a NEW New Deal with all Americans. We're ALL in this together.
Universal basic income.
Universal healthcare.
Universal college.
Universal childcare.
We need to make a NEW New Deal with all Americans. We're ALL in this together.
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What an incredible life. May her memory be a blessing to everyone who loved her.
“Don’t let the bastards grind you down. I love you all.”
November 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
What an incredible life. May her memory be a blessing to everyone who loved her.
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The slow-moving cut-off low pressure system off SoCal coast, which has entrained a plume of extremely moist subtropical air, is now bringing widespread rain across nearly all of SoCal, with embedded heavy downpours; widespread flood warnings/advisories are in effect. [1/2] #CAwx
November 15, 2025 at 6:25 PM
The slow-moving cut-off low pressure system off SoCal coast, which has entrained a plume of extremely moist subtropical air, is now bringing widespread rain across nearly all of SoCal, with embedded heavy downpours; widespread flood warnings/advisories are in effect. [1/2] #CAwx
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Yet more photos from my walk.
November 15, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Yet more photos from my walk.
Just threw out my oatmeal and punched up the burrito taxi*
*fun fact I’ve never personally used a burrito taxi
*fun fact I’ve never personally used a burrito taxi
Fed the 11 year old donuts and mashed potatoes for breakfast. Follow me for more parenting tips.
November 15, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Just threw out my oatmeal and punched up the burrito taxi*
*fun fact I’ve never personally used a burrito taxi
*fun fact I’ve never personally used a burrito taxi