Susanna Fraser Stone
@susannafraser.bsky.social
Author, reader, birdwatcher hoping to be befriended by crows, Auburn fan. Southern by birth, Pacific NW by choice despite ongoing homesickness for good BBQ. She/her.
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Want to be kinda bummed about the state of the world but in a sci-fi way in 100 words? Well do I have the story for you.
November 19, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Want to be kinda bummed about the state of the world but in a sci-fi way in 100 words? Well do I have the story for you.
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This by the way is the reason I think the term "fiscal conservative" is bullshit. Because we know that literally every time we do UBI it's an economic multiplier, we know single payer healthcare is cheaper, fed folks are more productive. Spending that money IS the fiscally conservative approach.
November 20, 2025 at 12:55 PM
This by the way is the reason I think the term "fiscal conservative" is bullshit. Because we know that literally every time we do UBI it's an economic multiplier, we know single payer healthcare is cheaper, fed folks are more productive. Spending that money IS the fiscally conservative approach.
Finished reading You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian and an utterly heartwarming m/m baseball romance set in NYC in 1960 was apparently just what I needed to read this week.
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Finished reading You Should Be So Lucky by Cat Sebastian and an utterly heartwarming m/m baseball romance set in NYC in 1960 was apparently just what I needed to read this week.
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The important thing to bear in mind as Trump's popularity begins to wobble is that the disastrous economic consequences of the things he's done in the first 10 months of this term have not even *begun* to hit. We've been coasting on the fumes of the economy he inherited and soon they'll be gone.
my wife and her entire team were fired over Zoom from their program manager jobs at a local nonprofit Seattle hospital this Spring because Trump just stopped paying Medicaid reimbursements. and this is a relatively affluent urban center
we're really not prepared for what's coming
we're really not prepared for what's coming
As a direct result of President Trump's Big Ugly Bill, almost 300 jobs will be cut from Providence Swedish's First Hill, Cherry Hill, Ballard, and Issaquah hospitals and clinics. These are not the only layoffs we've seen in our health care system in Washington state in recent months.
November 19, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The important thing to bear in mind as Trump's popularity begins to wobble is that the disastrous economic consequences of the things he's done in the first 10 months of this term have not even *begun* to hit. We've been coasting on the fumes of the economy he inherited and soon they'll be gone.
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November 18, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Mamdani is a child of privilege therefore his socialism is cosplay designed to rile up downwardly mobile youngsters into stealing money from job creators. Wilson is poor and her socialism is just a way to get job creators to pay for her expenses.
You guys realize that taxing people to pay for services isn't socialism, right? This is just how governments work.
November 17, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Mamdani is a child of privilege therefore his socialism is cosplay designed to rile up downwardly mobile youngsters into stealing money from job creators. Wilson is poor and her socialism is just a way to get job creators to pay for her expenses.
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“she flamed out and faded away” is such funny framing for a woman publishing an excerpt of her book in vanity fair, where she also works. I wish I could flame out and fade away so successfully
Vanity Fair's West Coast Editor Olivia Nuzzi was a star political correspondent until scandal led her into exile—and to a California up in flames.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
In an excerpt from her book, ‘American Canto,’ she takes stock of scorched earth.
Olivia Nuzzi's 'American Canto': Read the Exclusive Excerpt
She flamed out and she faded away. 'Vanity Fair'’s West Coast Editor returns to the written word to survey scorched earth.
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November 17, 2025 at 2:18 PM
“she flamed out and faded away” is such funny framing for a woman publishing an excerpt of her book in vanity fair, where she also works. I wish I could flame out and fade away so successfully
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Folks, a famous author isn't ever going to contact you out of the blue to offer you literary services. It's always a scam. Also, speaking as an at least semifamous author, you wouldn't want any services we did offer, we're just barely handling our own shit, much less anyone else's.
I've now heard from 3 authors targeted on X by a scammer impersonating Lois McMaster Bujold. Bujold impersonator refers author to "Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary", also an impersonation. Goal: to sell editing svcs. Scam is impersonating multiple authors & agents writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...
If a Famous Author Calls, Hang Up: Anatomy of an Impersonation Scam - Writer Beware
You open your email program one morning. The usual work stuff. Some spam (annoying that it got past your filters!). A couple of newsletters (maybe later). You sip your coffee, scroll down. Wait. What’...
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November 16, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Folks, a famous author isn't ever going to contact you out of the blue to offer you literary services. It's always a scam. Also, speaking as an at least semifamous author, you wouldn't want any services we did offer, we're just barely handling our own shit, much less anyone else's.
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reminder that Dubs, Washington’s live mascot, is an ABSOLUTE UNIT
November 16, 2025 at 1:44 AM
reminder that Dubs, Washington’s live mascot, is an ABSOLUTE UNIT
Just finished reading Sun of Blood and Ruin by Mariely Lares. It's a swashbuckling gender-bent anti-colonialist Zorro story set in an alternate 16th century Mexico, and I'd love to see it adapted for TV.
November 16, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Just finished reading Sun of Blood and Ruin by Mariely Lares. It's a swashbuckling gender-bent anti-colonialist Zorro story set in an alternate 16th century Mexico, and I'd love to see it adapted for TV.
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There — I fixed the analysis so it is actually accurate to what happened when 8 Senate Dems caved instead of keeping up the righteous fight to deliver lower health care costs for Americans.
November 11, 2025 at 2:09 AM
There — I fixed the analysis so it is actually accurate to what happened when 8 Senate Dems caved instead of keeping up the righteous fight to deliver lower health care costs for Americans.
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I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
November 6, 2025 at 12:49 AM
I've seen this go by a few times on TikTok now and I have to say, I love this idea. We need a way to convince people to keep running even if they don't win, maybe building the loss into it as a troll move is the secret.
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The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
November 5, 2025 at 3:59 PM
The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout:
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
Humanities majors killed on the job market
1) Mamdani- Africana Studies
2) Spanberger -French
3) Sherill - Global History
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As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
November 5, 2025 at 2:52 AM
As many have pointed out, Mamdani didn't stand apart from our trans brothers and sisters. He didn't play the "Gee, gosh, it sure is complicated," milquetoast moderate card. And he crushed.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
The way forward is together, not over the bodies of our own.
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Pope Leo is doing Catholicism the wrong way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
BREAKING: After ICE refuses to allow detained migrants to receive the Eucharist, Pope Leo calls on Trump and Vance to respect migrants‘ dignity and religious liberty.
“They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”
“They must allow ministers to assist with their needs. They've been separated from their families and no one knows what happens.”
November 5, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Pope Leo is doing Catholicism the wrong way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
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I really don’t understand why it’s so hard for certain people to understand that Mamdani is doing so well because he is advocating for more than “keep Trump from taking the few good and/or semi-decent things that remain” and is articulating a real vision for how to make New York better.
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
I really don’t understand why it’s so hard for certain people to understand that Mamdani is doing so well because he is advocating for more than “keep Trump from taking the few good and/or semi-decent things that remain” and is articulating a real vision for how to make New York better.
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Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
November 5, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Good things are possible and we don’t have to settle.
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The race to credit a few transphobic ads for Trump winning narrowly in an extremely incumbent-hostile environment was an absolutely classic pundit’s fallacy
whatever you think of Spanberger, the fact that her opponent ran a campaign based almost entirely on transphobia and is on track to eat shit in the biggest blowout the state has seen since 2009 is unambiguously a huge win
Earle-Sears ran what felt like 12 billion ads about how much she hated trans kids and I didn’t hear a single pundit say she should stick to real issues that affect real people.
November 5, 2025 at 1:52 AM
The race to credit a few transphobic ads for Trump winning narrowly in an extremely incumbent-hostile environment was an absolutely classic pundit’s fallacy
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The chief of naval research, an admiral, has been replaced by a 33 year old DOGE staffer www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...
SCOOP: Trump Swaps Decorated Admiral With 33-Year-Old DOGEr
The highly unorthodox personnel change affects a critical government research role.
www.thebulwark.com
October 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM
The chief of naval research, an admiral, has been replaced by a 33 year old DOGE staffer www.thebulwark.com/p/scoop-trum...
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70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.
May I present a former clerk to Justice Gorsuch.
October 26, 2025 at 11:18 PM
70% of working age SNAP recipients work full time. The companies should pay them a living wage! SNAP is corporate welfare.
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One of Trump's most successful cons is that he is a patriot. The bitter truth is that Trump is an antipatriot. He destroys things that make America worthy of love and admiration. ICYMI @monacharen.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-mar-...
Trump’s Mar-a-White House
The president is desecrating a symbol of liberal democracy and replacing it with a tacky, bloated eyesore.
www.thebulwark.com
October 26, 2025 at 6:00 PM
One of Trump's most successful cons is that he is a patriot. The bitter truth is that Trump is an antipatriot. He destroys things that make America worthy of love and admiration. ICYMI @monacharen.bsky.social: www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-mar-...
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What we should have learned from COVID is our infrastructure could be improved to provide for everyone and basic community preactions and an emphasis on improving things like air circulation and healthcare access were crucial in future pandemics.
Instead politicians turned us against each other.
Instead politicians turned us against each other.
October 26, 2025 at 2:12 AM
What we should have learned from COVID is our infrastructure could be improved to provide for everyone and basic community preactions and an emphasis on improving things like air circulation and healthcare access were crucial in future pandemics.
Instead politicians turned us against each other.
Instead politicians turned us against each other.
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the duality of man
October 26, 2025 at 1:18 AM
the duality of man
I’ve spent the past several days on the Olympic Peninsula as a sort of quiet getaway using the vacation time I’d already had approved for this year’s unfortunately canceled Surrey International Writers Conference. Among other things, I hit up some used bookstores. My purchases:
October 26, 2025 at 2:26 AM
I’ve spent the past several days on the Olympic Peninsula as a sort of quiet getaway using the vacation time I’d already had approved for this year’s unfortunately canceled Surrey International Writers Conference. Among other things, I hit up some used bookstores. My purchases:
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