Scarlett
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YES! Chuck, where do you live? Can you call your Senator?
Congress must take action to restore the rule of law.
February 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
YES! Chuck, where do you live? Can you call your Senator?
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Anyone who happened to know that the White House would announce and then suspend tariffs within 24 hours just made a boatload of money.
February 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Anyone who happened to know that the White House would announce and then suspend tariffs within 24 hours just made a boatload of money.
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These are the clowns Congress refuses to stop.
February 3, 2025 at 1:41 PM
These are the clowns Congress refuses to stop.
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advance copies have arrived and if it looks like i’m trying to hug it, that’s because i am 🥹
February 3, 2025 at 2:24 PM
advance copies have arrived and if it looks like i’m trying to hug it, that’s because i am 🥹
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one of the defining features of the techbro dipshits now running the USA is their absolute refusal to consider that anyone, ever, has thought about problems before them
time after time they come in, propose a solution that was rejected years ago because it's stupid, and call themselves geniuses
time after time they come in, propose a solution that was rejected years ago because it's stupid, and call themselves geniuses
Ah, yes, I’m sure no prior administration thought to ask how all the payments are made.
February 4, 2025 at 12:16 AM
one of the defining features of the techbro dipshits now running the USA is their absolute refusal to consider that anyone, ever, has thought about problems before them
time after time they come in, propose a solution that was rejected years ago because it's stupid, and call themselves geniuses
time after time they come in, propose a solution that was rejected years ago because it's stupid, and call themselves geniuses
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NEW: Judge AliKhan blocks Trump's funding freeze (for now), ordering OMB to instruct all federal agencies that received the original memo that they must reinstate any stopped payments. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
February 3, 2025 at 10:09 PM
NEW: Judge AliKhan blocks Trump's funding freeze (for now), ordering OMB to instruct all federal agencies that received the original memo that they must reinstate any stopped payments. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)
Elon Musk’s Bureaucratic Coup
Welcome to the “rapid unscheduled disassembly” of the United States government.
www.theatlantic.com
February 3, 2025 at 11:22 PM
I wrote about Musk and this bureaucratic coup as plainly as I could. There's reporting in here & the particulars are overwhelming but what's happening is so clear: He's not trying to run the federal govt like a software company He's trying to turn it into a political weapon. (gift link)
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Markets react to black woman winning country Grammy.
February 3, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Markets react to black woman winning country Grammy.
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No writer is a failure until they are dead. Full stop. A career in writing is built over decades. It's built like a house, brick by brick, book by book. Not published yet? Emphasis on YET. Book not selling? It's not selling YET. You're only done when you quit.
And I don't think you're ready to quit
And I don't think you're ready to quit
February 4, 2025 at 12:56 AM
No writer is a failure until they are dead. Full stop. A career in writing is built over decades. It's built like a house, brick by brick, book by book. Not published yet? Emphasis on YET. Book not selling? It's not selling YET. You're only done when you quit.
And I don't think you're ready to quit
And I don't think you're ready to quit
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Y’all, @haymarketbooks.org is offering 40% off their Black Liberation books—including my new book, “Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education” and the book I coedited “Balck Lives Matter at School.”
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February 3, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Y’all, @haymarketbooks.org is offering 40% off their Black Liberation books—including my new book, “Teach Truth: The Struggle for Antiracist Education” and the book I coedited “Balck Lives Matter at School.”
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/65-40-...
www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/65-40-...
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It’s a lesser point but the idea that AI will immediately prove a useful tool for streamlining government is by itself such a ludicrous tell. It’s a separate indicator of the staggering overconfidence these children have.
February 4, 2025 at 12:58 AM
It’s a lesser point but the idea that AI will immediately prove a useful tool for streamlining government is by itself such a ludicrous tell. It’s a separate indicator of the staggering overconfidence these children have.
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Introverts - don't stand up, be comfortable laying in the cut. You're dope.
February 3, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Introverts - don't stand up, be comfortable laying in the cut. You're dope.
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For the love of all that is good in this world do NOT buy books from Amazon. Cancel your Amazon accounts.
Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent
Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent
February 3, 2025 at 9:34 PM
For the love of all that is good in this world do NOT buy books from Amazon. Cancel your Amazon accounts.
Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent
Go to the Library (in person or online ebooks!) and support local bookstores instead. Please #BookSky don’t be ambivalent
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The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has warned New York hospitals that complying with the White House’s executive order to end gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could well violate state law.
N.Y. Attorney General Warns Hospitals Against Canceling Transgender Care (Gift Article)
A White House executive order last week threatened to pull federal funding from hospitals that provide gender-affirming care. But not providing the care could violate state law, Letitia James said in ...
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The New York attorney general, Letitia James, has warned New York hospitals that complying with the White House’s executive order to end gender-affirming medical care for transgender youth could well violate state law.
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America has been taken hostage by a convicted criminal who is supposed to be sitting behind bars.
February 3, 2025 at 6:58 PM
America has been taken hostage by a convicted criminal who is supposed to be sitting behind bars.
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Who dies in a Horror movie- political
Who lives- political
Who is the main character -political
Who is the sidekick- political
How are certain characters portrayed - political
What you show (and what you hide) - political
Who lives- political
Who is the main character -political
Who is the sidekick- political
How are certain characters portrayed - political
What you show (and what you hide) - political
February 3, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Who dies in a Horror movie- political
Who lives- political
Who is the main character -political
Who is the sidekick- political
How are certain characters portrayed - political
What you show (and what you hide) - political
Who lives- political
Who is the main character -political
Who is the sidekick- political
How are certain characters portrayed - political
What you show (and what you hide) - political
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I love BlueSky so much more than X.
That’s it. That’s the skeet.
That’s it. That’s the skeet.
February 3, 2025 at 11:48 PM
I love BlueSky so much more than X.
That’s it. That’s the skeet.
That’s it. That’s the skeet.
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If you're wondering whether you should promote your book or your latest publication now with all the chaos, the answer is yes. We need your words. We need to flood the channels with art and literature. So go for it, friends.
February 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
If you're wondering whether you should promote your book or your latest publication now with all the chaos, the answer is yes. We need your words. We need to flood the channels with art and literature. So go for it, friends.
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If the Democratic leadership in Congress does not want to use democracy, we would like to borrow it for a time.
February 3, 2025 at 3:17 PM
If the Democratic leadership in Congress does not want to use democracy, we would like to borrow it for a time.
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BREAKING: 2 federal employee unions, AFGE & SEIU, file suit seeking to block DOGE access to Treasury Department payment database. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
storage.courtlistener.com
February 3, 2025 at 10:42 PM
BREAKING: 2 federal employee unions, AFGE & SEIU, file suit seeking to block DOGE access to Treasury Department payment database. Doc: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times
@peterbakernyt.bsky.social
@peterbakernyt.bsky.social
February 3, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A private citizen, with the backing of the President, illegally shut down a major government agency over the weekend and it is not on the front page of this morning's New York Times
@peterbakernyt.bsky.social
@peterbakernyt.bsky.social
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i love that in addition to everything else, elon musk is the dumbest asshole on the planet
February 3, 2025 at 4:50 PM
i love that in addition to everything else, elon musk is the dumbest asshole on the planet
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The level of failure of the political press right now is going to be studied in literal history books for years
February 3, 2025 at 8:17 PM
The level of failure of the political press right now is going to be studied in literal history books for years
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A reminder that fiction — books, film, games, what have you — is always political. The willful absence of “politics” in any work is itself a political choice and a political act. Who gets to tell (and sell) stories is political. It might be an undercurrent — covert, not overt. But it’s there.
February 4, 2025 at 12:10 AM
A reminder that fiction — books, film, games, what have you — is always political. The willful absence of “politics” in any work is itself a political choice and a political act. Who gets to tell (and sell) stories is political. It might be an undercurrent — covert, not overt. But it’s there.