Karl Trautman
@redhead324.bsky.social
My new ebook of short stories...
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#reading #shortstories #Booksky
Print edition out soon!
books2read.com/u/38zePV
#reading #shortstories #Booksky
Print edition out soon!
Available now at your favorite digital store!
The Appocalypse and Other Stories by Karl G. Trautman
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October 21, 2025 at 7:32 PM
My new ebook of short stories...
books2read.com/u/38zePV
#reading #shortstories #Booksky
Print edition out soon!
books2read.com/u/38zePV
#reading #shortstories #Booksky
Print edition out soon!
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Statement from all Democratic governors.
June 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Statement from all Democratic governors.
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How extreme is the June 7 Memorandum on federalizing the National Guard?
One of several issues: It has NO geographic limit. None. No mention of California or any other state. It's open-ended.
Now this from President Trump: "Well, we're going to have troops everywhere."⬇️
One of several issues: It has NO geographic limit. None. No mention of California or any other state. It's open-ended.
Now this from President Trump: "Well, we're going to have troops everywhere."⬇️
Trump: Well, we're going to have troops everywhere.
Reporter: What’s the bar for sending in the Marines
Trump: The bar is what I think it is.
Reporter: What’s the bar for sending in the Marines
Trump: The bar is what I think it is.
June 8, 2025 at 9:42 PM
How extreme is the June 7 Memorandum on federalizing the National Guard?
One of several issues: It has NO geographic limit. None. No mention of California or any other state. It's open-ended.
Now this from President Trump: "Well, we're going to have troops everywhere."⬇️
One of several issues: It has NO geographic limit. None. No mention of California or any other state. It's open-ended.
Now this from President Trump: "Well, we're going to have troops everywhere."⬇️
Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act: Notes on Preserving the American Republic talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/obser... #democracy #imagination #collectiveaction
Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act: Notes on Preserving the American Republic
A short time ago, former U.S. Attorney Barb McQuade posted this passage...
talkingpointsmemo.com
March 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Observe, Orient, Decide, and Act: Notes on Preserving the American Republic talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/obser... #democracy #imagination #collectiveaction
Stephen Junius Brutus, A Defense of Liberty against Tyrants: "Must it not then necessarily come to pass, that if the king...be infected with lunacy, either continually, or by intervals, that the whole state fall inevitably to ruin?" #americandemocracy #ruleoflaw #separationofpowers
#theresistance
#theresistance
February 17, 2025 at 2:09 AM
Stephen Junius Brutus, A Defense of Liberty against Tyrants: "Must it not then necessarily come to pass, that if the king...be infected with lunacy, either continually, or by intervals, that the whole state fall inevitably to ruin?" #americandemocracy #ruleoflaw #separationofpowers
#theresistance
#theresistance
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"I am on a night train from Kyiv, bound for Zaporizhzhia, a city in the southeast of Ukraine which is about twenty miles from the front... As I get ready to go to sleep, I find myself thinking that Americans are also speeding towards a line."
snyder.substack.com/p/crossing-a...
snyder.substack.com/p/crossing-a...
Crossing a line
Borders between one kind of life and another
snyder.substack.com
February 13, 2025 at 4:38 PM
"I am on a night train from Kyiv, bound for Zaporizhzhia, a city in the southeast of Ukraine which is about twenty miles from the front... As I get ready to go to sleep, I find myself thinking that Americans are also speeding towards a line."
snyder.substack.com/p/crossing-a...
snyder.substack.com/p/crossing-a...
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On 2/8/25, Mainers met in Rockland to sing songs of love and resistance, publicly repudiating of the poisonous and dangerous direction taken by our country. 35 of us learned, then sang, "Till The Whole World Sings," written by Scott Johnson and Chad Warren for World Singing Day. youtu.be/3orQCA8nLhk
In Rockland Maine, Resistance Singers Learn "Till The Whole World Sings" (2/8/25) - The Audacity
YouTube video by The Audacity: Creative Action Together in Maine
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February 14, 2025 at 9:50 PM
On 2/8/25, Mainers met in Rockland to sing songs of love and resistance, publicly repudiating of the poisonous and dangerous direction taken by our country. 35 of us learned, then sang, "Till The Whole World Sings," written by Scott Johnson and Chad Warren for World Singing Day. youtu.be/3orQCA8nLhk
Travel back to the late 1980s and early 1990s with Losing My Religion. Follow Manny in Hawaii as he dives into postmodernism in graduate school. He moves back to the mainland and eventually becomes a professor. What is the place of truth in politics? #fiction #indiebookauthor #amreading
February 16, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Travel back to the late 1980s and early 1990s with Losing My Religion. Follow Manny in Hawaii as he dives into postmodernism in graduate school. He moves back to the mainland and eventually becomes a professor. What is the place of truth in politics? #fiction #indiebookauthor #amreading
Experience the late 1980s with Road To Nowhere. Manny returns to Boston for graduate school, tests boundaries, begins a romance, travels out west again, politically acts and pursues a doctorate in fits and starts. Yet Jimmy Carter's loss still haunts him. #fiction #amreading #indieauthor
February 16, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Experience the late 1980s with Road To Nowhere. Manny returns to Boston for graduate school, tests boundaries, begins a romance, travels out west again, politically acts and pursues a doctorate in fits and starts. Yet Jimmy Carter's loss still haunts him. #fiction #amreading #indieauthor
Transport back to the early 1980s for a mix of political passion, failed romances and travel! Follow the adventures of Manfred Schmidt at a small New Hampshire college and beyond in Sweet Dreams Are Made of This. How will he balance his desire with his ambition? #amreading #indieauthor #fiction
February 16, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Transport back to the early 1980s for a mix of political passion, failed romances and travel! Follow the adventures of Manfred Schmidt at a small New Hampshire college and beyond in Sweet Dreams Are Made of This. How will he balance his desire with his ambition? #amreading #indieauthor #fiction
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The majestic Na’Pali Cost of Kauai by bhishman www.reddit.com/u/bhishman/s... #photography #Hawaii #landscape #mountains #Ocean #nature
November 25, 2024 at 4:31 PM
The majestic Na’Pali Cost of Kauai by bhishman www.reddit.com/u/bhishman/s... #photography #Hawaii #landscape #mountains #Ocean #nature
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Ironically I need to make a correction on this tweet — it’s NOT a scoop — Washington City Paper scooped me! I apologize I didn’t see! washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7540...
Did Washington Gas Convince a TV Station to Bury a Story on the Dangers of Gas Appliances?
Washington Gas appears to have pressured a D.C. TV station to bury a story on a report detailing the health risks of gas appliances.
washingtoncitypaper.com
November 27, 2024 at 10:39 PM
Ironically I need to make a correction on this tweet — it’s NOT a scoop — Washington City Paper scooped me! I apologize I didn’t see! washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7540...
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SCOOP: One of D.C.'s leading news stations, WUSA9, quietly took down two stories about the health impact of gas stoves to allow one of their advertisers, Washington Gas, to comment.
One of the stories remained down for 6 days. The other is still down.
heated.world/p/dc-news-st...
One of the stories remained down for 6 days. The other is still down.
heated.world/p/dc-news-st...
D.C. news station quietly scrubs stories on gas stove health dangers
Advocates say Washington Gas, a WUSA9 sponsor, pressured the station to take down the stories. "News is absolutely being suppressed," one advocate said.
heated.world
November 27, 2024 at 9:17 PM
SCOOP: One of D.C.'s leading news stations, WUSA9, quietly took down two stories about the health impact of gas stoves to allow one of their advertisers, Washington Gas, to comment.
One of the stories remained down for 6 days. The other is still down.
heated.world/p/dc-news-st...
One of the stories remained down for 6 days. The other is still down.
heated.world/p/dc-news-st...
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Who can claim Aristotle? | By @edithmayhall.bsky.social
The endless battle over his legacy testifies to his great authority – and the power of his thought to make the world better aeon.co/essays/dont-... #Aristotle #philosophy
The endless battle over his legacy testifies to his great authority – and the power of his thought to make the world better aeon.co/essays/dont-... #Aristotle #philosophy
Don’t cancel Aristotle – we need his ideas to hone ours | Aeon Essays
The endless battle over his legacy testifies to his great authority – and the power of his thought to make the world better
aeon.co
November 26, 2024 at 1:04 AM
Who can claim Aristotle? | By @edithmayhall.bsky.social
The endless battle over his legacy testifies to his great authority – and the power of his thought to make the world better aeon.co/essays/dont-... #Aristotle #philosophy
The endless battle over his legacy testifies to his great authority – and the power of his thought to make the world better aeon.co/essays/dont-... #Aristotle #philosophy
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Hokkaido Sunset
Otaru, Japan
#japan #photography #travel #hokkaido #travelphotography #landscape #asia #sunset
Otaru, Japan
#japan #photography #travel #hokkaido #travelphotography #landscape #asia #sunset
November 23, 2024 at 12:40 AM
Hokkaido Sunset
Otaru, Japan
#japan #photography #travel #hokkaido #travelphotography #landscape #asia #sunset
Otaru, Japan
#japan #photography #travel #hokkaido #travelphotography #landscape #asia #sunset
How I feel some days hearing the news. #ThreeWiseMonkeys
November 28, 2024 at 3:56 AM
How I feel some days hearing the news. #ThreeWiseMonkeys
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There are two types of writers: Planners and Pantsers. Planners outline in some way; pantsers work out the story as they go.
Both methods take about the same amount of time as planners spend more time upfront and often less time rewriting, whereas pantsers tend to spend more time editing afterward.
Both methods take about the same amount of time as planners spend more time upfront and often less time rewriting, whereas pantsers tend to spend more time editing afterward.
November 27, 2024 at 7:42 PM
There are two types of writers: Planners and Pantsers. Planners outline in some way; pantsers work out the story as they go.
Both methods take about the same amount of time as planners spend more time upfront and often less time rewriting, whereas pantsers tend to spend more time editing afterward.
Both methods take about the same amount of time as planners spend more time upfront and often less time rewriting, whereas pantsers tend to spend more time editing afterward.