Andy Roo

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Politics, news, soccer, progressive, organizer, cartographer, father. I have a dog.

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Former Police Chief Adrian Diaz Threatened PubliCola With Lawsuit Over Post Describing His Coming-Out Interview Please help us offset the major legal costs we incurred defending ourselves against the former chief. Read more and find out how to help: publicola.com/2024/07/15/f...

Former Police Chief Adrian Diaz Threatened PubliCola Over Post Describing His Coming-Out Interview - PubliColapublicola.com We need your help offsetting the cost of defending ourselves against the former police chief’s lawsuit threat. By Erica C.…

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Genuinely no one ticks off as many boxes of shit I hate ✅Fanatical Catholic convert ✅Fake Appalachian grifter ✅Venture capitalist ✅Friend of Peter Theil ✅book promoted on Oprah ✅man who somehow looks worse with a beard than without

Vance is, you guessed it, an adult Catholic convert

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Tempted to read J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy? Skip it and listen to this instead

‎If Books Could Kill: Hillbilly Elegy on Apple Podcastspodcasts.apple.com ‎Show If Books Could Kill, Ep Hillbilly Elegy - Mar 23, 2023

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If you’ve shared this but haven’t read it yet, you should. PEOPLE isn’t pulling punches. Just printing “Christian Nationalism” in relation to the platform of a presidential candidate is more than many pubs have done.

Just a reminder that People mag has a great Project 25 write up that you can share with your less politically aware friends and fam people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

God damn Old Gods of Appalachia puts on one hell of a show

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If this isn't fascist rhetoric, then I don't know what is. This is from Posobiec's speech. I don't think I've ever seen so many different euphemisms for "Jews" in such a short piece of writing.

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the editor of the New York Times reacting to a potential Trump second term with “fasten your seatbelts” is so deeply vile i can’t wrap my mind around it. these people have detached themselves so completely from the things they cover that the rise of fascism becomes just something exciting to watch

I'm no ivy league fail upward brunchlord news professional, but I feel it's generous to call conspiratorial fascism (managed by a sociopathic manbaby with a fourth grade reading level) "disruptive" that's kind of like saying nuclear annihilation is "modifying"

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doing journalism (just got off a call with the woman who called Alito’s wife a cunt)

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When the Uncanny Magazine Year 11: This One Goes to ELEVEN! Kickstarter reaches 525 Backers, we'll post an EXCLUSIVE Mini-Interview with solicited poet Ai Jiang! www.kickstarter.com/projects/lyn...

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The next Beasts of Burden arc in chaos form.

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Trump v. US was about power, not law: Both the decision in the immunity case and the process by which the Supreme Court made its decision were deliberately crafted by a Republican supermajority to maximize the electoral chances of the Republican nominee ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

The Supreme Court Protected More Autocrats Than Just Donald Trumpballsandstrikes.org The result in the Supreme Court's Trump immunity case will protect many more aspiring autocrats than just Donald Trump.

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"“Israel’s intentional and targeted starvation campaign against the Palestinian people is a form of genocidal violence and has resulted in famine across all of Gaza,” 10 independent UN experts said in a statement on Tuesday." www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/7/...

UN experts say Israel carrying out ‘targeted starvation campaign’ in Gazawww.aljazeera.com Report says famine has spread throughout the enclave after nine months of war.

The FC Olympia Women's Team is in the USL2 national playoffs! And they just beat Oakland to move to the West Coast Championship! The team is fundraising to help pay for travel costs, so if you can, please consider helping out our local team! givebutter.com/7r56Ng

USL FC Olympia Donation Campaign 2024givebutter.com By Oly Soccer Foundation

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it's time for my favorite ever law review student note: harvardlawreview.org/print/vol-13...

watching british election returns the question struck me: what would democrats do with a landslide? what’s the wish list? beyond saving democracy of course.

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"Whether we turn to the declarations of the past, or to the professions of the present, the conduct of the nation seems equally hideous and revolting. America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future."

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warmly reflecting on leap my publisher made to take the tingleverse mainstream. very thankful to my buds at @torbooks.bsky.social and the many other horror authors who have welcomed my trot. enjoy this footage of first nightfire meeting and preorder bury your gays youtu.be/ipAHfhtjY2w?...

CHUCK AND NIGHTFIRE FIRST MEETyoutu.be warmly reflecting on leap my publisher made to take the tingleverse mainstream. very thankful to my buds at TOR/NIGHTFIRE and the many other horror authors who have welcomed my trot. enjoy this footage of first nightfire meeting and preorder bury your gays https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781250874658/buryyourgays

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You know what, we shouldn’t forget to celebrate the one truly good thing that did happen today: Steve Bannon went to prison apnews.com/article/stev...

Trump ally Steve Bannon surrenders to federal prison to serve 4-month sentence on contempt chargesapnews.com Longtime Trump ally Steve Bannon has been taken into custody after surrendering at a federal prison to begin a four-month sentence on contempt charges.

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It's also a bit breathtaking to see the sheer amount of power the Republican judiciary has arrogated to itself this term, all without a single act of Congress

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I think about this line a lot these days.

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Like there's a lot they were not especially clear about, and all sorts of reasons where we shouldn't tie our own future to their past. But "Kings are bad; the President is not a King; he must be constrained by law" is one of the few things they were, to their credit, very clear about

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Democrats should probably get off their fucking asses and do some court expansion on the Supreme Court.

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Regretting canceling my subscription to the New York Times on a morning when they’re bringing me an oped from Bill Maher AND an interview with Steve Bannon. What a tantalizing feast for the mind, sadly beyond my reach now

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There is literally no good reason to watch a debate between Joe Biden and Donald Trump. You say you have a good reason? No you don't. It's a bad one and your brain is tricking you

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Every morning I check the news and it's like -SCOTUS Eliminates Three More Basic Rights, Only Six Remain -President Mispronounces a Word, Will Now Lose Election to Senile Hitler -New AI Company Uses Artist Blood to Let Billionaires and Racists Live Forever, Gets $45 Billion Valuation

Summer vacation is the fucking worst. This shit sucks so bad and is so expensive tgat I am getting pissed off at teachers. And we are only one week into the break!

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UBI saves boatloads of public money. That should motivate certain types of people. But it’s also kind. Which fills those same people with a straight up berserker rage.

Individuals who received the $1,000/mo or $500/mo payments were more likely to find a stable, full-time job than before they received the basic income. Results showed 45% of participants secured housing, while $589,214 was saved in public service costs. "It's freedom. It's freedom from poverty..."

Denver gave people experiencing homelessness $1,000 a month. A year later, nearly half of participants had housing.www.businessinsider.com Participants in Denver's basic income program received up to $1,000 a month. They became more housing secure and landed full-time jobs.