Andrea Powers

@andreacpowers.bsky.social

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She Is Too Fond of Books, and It Has Turned Her Brain. On Goodreads. I support Mastodon.social AND Metafilter.

Lurker and Supporter for Balloon-Juice.com

Obviously Massachusetts.

Retired from IBM.

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www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Project 2025 plans to dismantle the federal agency that tracks hurricaneswww.mediamatters.org The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agency that predicts changes in climate, weather, oceans, and coastlines and provides data that informs lifesaving forecasts such as tr...

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👀 Oh, wow, I just noticed that the MENEWOOD hardcover is 60% off right now on Amazon! www.amazon.com/Menewood-Nov... About the book here: nicolagriffith.com/books/menewo...

Amazon.com: Menewood: A Novel (The Hild Sequence): 9780374208080: Griffith, Nicola: Bookswww.amazon.com Amazon.com: Menewood: A Novel (The Hild Sequence): 9780374208080: Griffith, Nicola: Books

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The ever-astute Rebecca Solnit on how the pundit class has turned into a mob stampeding America toward a catastrophe. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Why is the pundit class so desparate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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Nnedi Okorafor, PhD

We saw a nice dose of this in the US during the height of the pandemic when people didn’t care if the elders died. How they are useless, vapid and have no purpose, by definition. “Get out of the way, make room for me, a younger person”. Our elders! Remember?? I do.

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And now the NYT makes sense:

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Aaron Rupar

If Biden can't campaign he should consider passing the torch, but the elite press (and especially the NYT) is desperately trying to will this into existence. And it's really gross. (2/2)

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Biden's age and poor debate showing is obviously a legit story, but what we've seen over the last week is a hysterical feeding frenzy aimed at some combination of self-vindication, settling old scores, claiming a scalp, and the desire of some in the media to have Trump back in power. (1/2)

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"Trump is the candidate of chaos, uncertainty, and erratic behavior. Democrats can win a race against him by offering Americans the opposite: steady, calm, and confident leadership. Joe Biden has provided that." – Stuart Stevens www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

The Absurdity of the Dump-Biden Uprisingwww.theatlantic.com Nervous Democrats mount an antidemocratic campaign against their own president.

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In light of the latest round of bullshit in the NYT or WaPo or other "papers of note," I offer you Gen. Sherman's words: "You have heretofore read public sentiment in your newspapers, that live by falsehood and excitement; and the quicker you seek for truth in other quarters, the better."

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Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis

And many more: www.theguardian.com/politics/gal...

Polling place pooches: dogs on UK election day – in pictureswww.theguardian.com Guardian readers have been sharing their pictures of dogs at polling stations. Here are some of them

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Guardian election day coverage is all dogs and cats.

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the U.S. press' refusal to clearly inform the electorate the modern GOP is an utterly destructive, valueless cancer is among the biggest ethical and journalistic failures in modern human history happy holidays!

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Adam Kotsko

Meanwhile, Republicans can completely rewrite the constitution, change our social contract, and preside over an unprecedented redistribution of wealth to the richest Americans while receiving millions fewer votes. Seems great!

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I’m happy to vote for whoever, but I also see all the Biden should drop out editorials in the NYT, and I remember when they published that Tom Cotton piece. I have a hard time telling journalism from rat fuckery these days.

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Sigrid Ellis

Do not, ever, criticize how someone else gives help. Don't y'all at someone who fosters cats just because people are dying somewhere else. Other folks are all doing what we can, and if that person can help cats? Well, cats need help, too. So do trees, waterways, library archives, you name it.

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the thing about replacing biden with harris is that if literally anyone in her orbit thought there was a single chance in hell she was interested, it'd be all over axios, politico and the NYT already. it's a dead letter written by bored columnists who aren't talented to enough to write about sports

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This is a marvelously succinct articulation of the stakes of the 2024 election. It's by @mjsdc.bsky.social and it was how he summed up the implications of the most recent SCOTUS decisions. The theater criticism about which candidate performed better on Thursday obscures these massive stakes.

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We’re in the middle of a full blown crisis and being forced to have conversations about power and abuse and aging and trauma and the past and the future that we were never taught to have. In fact, capitalism actively incentivizes not having those conversations.

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Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.

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Talia Lavin

One of my favorite books I ever worked on. I used to show up in the editor’s office every now and then and say: This is it! This is the Great American Novel! Also, MC is a dream to work with.

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New York Times: Obi-Wan Kenobi Is Too Old For This Fight And Should Drop Out And Let Luke Or Possibly C3PO Replace Him For The Good Of The Galaxy

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36 years ago today I met and fell instantly and irrevocably in love with @kelleyeskridge.bsky.social. 36 years later, we're living the life that bloomed from that moment. Every day is a miracle. Here's that story in photos. nicolagriffith.com/2024/06/26/a...

A Miracle Built on a Moment: a 36-year love story in photosnicolagriffith.com 36 years ago today I met and fell instantly and irrevocably in love with Kelley. 36 years later, we're living the life that bloomed from that moment. Every day is a miracle. Here's that story in photo...

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The Eagle Has Landed was Jack Higgins' 35th published novel. The Shell Seekers was Rosamunde Pilcher's 25th published novel. Hilary Mantel published 9 novels, a collection of short stories & a memoir before writing Wolf Hall. Support your midlist writers. Craft takes time.

Love this, because it also applies to publishing.

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The deadline is today. I just did this. You should too. Do it now.

11 steps to keep Meta from stealing your data to train AIdeborahcopaken.substack.com You only have until June 26, 2024 to say no to Meta taking your personal photos and words and using them to train their generative AI. Here are step-by-step directions for opting out.

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NEW! CNN’s facts-optional debate moderation is a gift to the liar presswatchers.org/2024/06/cnns...

CNN’s facts-optional debate moderation is a gift to the liar | Press Watchpresswatchers.org By declaring that there will little or no live fact-checking, CNN is announcing that it doesn’t give a damn about the difference between truth and lies.

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FUNBAG! defector.com/its-never-to...

It's Never Too Late To Fall In Love With 'Stop Making Sense' | Defectordefector.com Time for your weekly edition of the Defector Funbag. Got something on your mind? Email the Funbag. And buy Drew’s book, The Night The Lights Went Out, while you’re at it. Today, we’re talking about gr...

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Amanda Marcotte

I'm really proud of this one. A lot of ink has been spilled on how Silicon Valley is failing to innovate, and turning to enshittification and shady products like cryptocurrency and AI. But I tie it to politics and why it's turning tech billionaires fascist. www.salon.com/2024/06/24/a...

A viral blog post from a bureaucrat exposes why tech billionaires fear Biden — and fund Trumpwww.salon.com Silicon Valley increasingly depends on scammy products, and no one is friendly to grifters than Trump

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I wrote about the out dated ‘tomayto/tomato’ comparisons of US + UK journalism, and how, for better or worse we are increasingly the same - the Amazonification of news is here www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

US and UK journalism are different. But they’re going to get a lot more similar | Emily Bellwww.theguardian.com Although the Washington Post uproar has highlighted cultural differences, we’re probably heading to the same place

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Breaking news: now offload the two Murdochians and start over. Robert Winnett will not join The Post as editor www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/...

Robert Winnett will not join The Post as editorwww.washingtonpost.com Robert Winnett, hired by Washington Post publisher William Lewis, faced questions about his U.K. work, including stories based on stolen records.