Thank you again for sharing your take on the film Deliver Ne from Niwhere. I'm still thinking about its vision of Springsteen's artistry, and mental health bravery. It's a superb film. 🎥

Bruce Springsteen sang a slower/understated "Thunder Road" (to a most enthusiastic standing ovation) at the NYPublic Library annual Library Lions gala where he was honored by several other writers.

Chavez in Venezuela discovered that they didn’t need to shut down the “fake media” but instead buy it and use it as a legitimizing tool. So the rich cronies just bought every media. It’s a playbook, nothing new, just new to you

the media turns blatant lies and abhorrent cruelty into talking points to be debated. and they know exactly what they're doing.

i have no use for any of that, and neither should anyone else.

MSM has been failing us for a while though. Just look at last summer, when it accepted Trump’s denial of any connection or knowledge of Project 2025 and couldn’t stop talking about Biden’s age.

I’ve found terrific sources outside of WP, NYT, and anything on network TV.

You can thank Ronald Reagan (no more Fairness Doctrine) and Bill Clinton (Telecom Act of 1996) for this. They sowed the seeds of this authoritarian takeover of our media system.

an old-fashioned letter via UP Postal service would take a tiny fraction of the time required in this online age that benefits absurd services like Common App.

it is very poorly designed. we do not have hours to spend on this. students are disadvantaged if recommenders just give up.

this would be comical except it does indeed impact on individual lives.

This story and your The Doll Master really unnerved me. And Doll Master is the only short story whose ending made me gasp out loud!
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Substack posting for Hallowe'en

Why would Democratic governors allow this fascist administration redraw maps all over the county to keep him in power when they could neutralize this tactic by doing it in all the blue states?

GET TO IT!!!

Seriously, why are we the only state with the guts to do this?

As a canadian.... USA democracy has always felt like a bad joke, espicially hearing that the USA is the "world's greatest democray"
Everything is SO complicated, money is everywhere and a 2 party system feels so outdated, the electoral college is worse, and gerrymandering sounds so ANTI democracy

the Democrat Party needs to retire their elderly and give way to young people who have not been corrupted by APAC & the billionaires, still innocent to self serving wheeling & dealing, has the stamina to actually fight the fascists subjugating the population -USA needs fighters, not pencil pushers.