Tricia Romano

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Author of the forthcoming The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper that Changed American Culture

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Breaking news: President Biden is finalizing plans to endorse major changes to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks, including proposals for legislation to establish term limits for the justices and an enforceable ethics code, according to two people briefed on the plans.

Biden set to announce support for major Supreme Court changeswww.washingtonpost.com The president has discussed the plans with constitutional scholars and members of Congress in recent weeks.

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anyway congrats to all the "maybe he could pivot to call for unity" imbeciles

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When I got jumped in March 2016 at a Trump rally by Neo Nazis and Trump cheered it on from the stage the Democratic mayor issued a statement about violence on both sides and the ACLU supported Trump’s right to yell at people to attack me. Stop looking to institutions to protect you from fascists.

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the general vibe at the moment

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in all the (appropriate) memorializing of Shelley Duvall as a performer in the work of male auteur directors, spare a thought for her own auteur work: Faerie Tale Theatre was one of the few actually good media products aimed at children in the 1980s, but because it didn't sell toys it's forgotten

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I don't think this is nothing per se, any of this signaling is damaging, but I do think there's something to the idea two of these Congressmen who added themselves to this list tonight are a former VP of Goldman Sachs and a former comms director for a hospital conglomerate.

For those of you keeping score, three more members of Congress and Michael Stipe have asked Joe Biden to withdraw from the campaign tonight

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Adam Liptak should be fired for this. It's not some sort of minor technical error or a debatable issue. He's simply lying.

In which the New York Times' top Supreme Court reporter says the court "enhanced the availability of abortion" this term www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/p...

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In which the New York Times' top Supreme Court reporter says the court "enhanced the availability of abortion" this term www.nytimes.com/2024/07/08/p...

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Both abortion cases were punts, not vindications. You do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to the Supreme Court www.jezebel.com/these-are-no...

These Are Not Abortion Victorieswww.jezebel.com Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

My friend and fellow former Village Voice writer @joeconason has a very prescient book coming out tomorrow called the Longest Con. Here he is on The Morning Joe on MSNBC talking about how the GOP is full of crooks. www.msnbc.com/mornin...

How conservatives grew to 'milk their constituents for every penny'www.msnbc.com Author Joe Conason joins Morning Joe to discuss his new book 'The Longest Con: How Grifters, Swindlers, and Frauds Hijacked American Conservatism'.

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The NYT Parkinson's "scoop" is even worse than it seems from the headline, bc buried in paragraph 11 the reporters *know* Dr. Connard met with someone other than Biden, and on March 28, 2024 the President's Public Schedule shows Biden was in NYC the whole day

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

It's my birthday. The very best thing you can do for me is to support my book The Freaks Came Out To Write. You can do so by 1. buying it (for yourself or someone else) 2. reviewing it (on Goodreads, Amazon etc), or 3. sharing how much you liked it on social media.

Today, on my birthday, I am a special guest on Why Is This Interesting's Monday Media Diet column. I talk about my sick addiction to media, listening to news articles, and how all the Voice writers have the best books. shorturl.at/Sc5Bf

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Still marveling at Gorsuch's Ohio v. EPA opinion, in which he confused nitrogen oxide (a pollutant) with nitrous oxide (laughing gas). He did this five times, never once getting it right—in an opinion overruling the EPA's own expert scientific analysis! s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...

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I am enjoying this week a lot.

To be clear: a coalition of the Left — the socialists — and the Greens were able to block the far Right in France. And there is a lesson here for the US: voters across the West want the neoliberal experiment to end. We CAN and we MUST end it to save the future & improve people's wellbeing to boot!

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DIRECTLY INTO MY VEINS btw

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We gotta do the same thing here to complete the set

The far right have been beaten in the UK and France this past week. This is promising. This is progress. Fuck those fascists.

soooo....

Look how fun shutting down fascists is. I want this for us, too

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It's genuinely helpful that the press has successfully signalled that they will not treat Kamala Harris generously or fairly if Biden steps aside for her. Clarifying!

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Well this is grim

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Stephen Miller now following Trump's lead and saying he has nothing to do with Project 2025. 1. His organization is on the Project 2025 advisory board. 2. He recorded a video as part of Project 2025 training tools 3. You can see Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 publication in the background

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it’s almost like, once people find out what Republicans actuslly want to do, most of them are horrified

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genuinely hopeful sign that every big name GOP garbage monster is frantically trying to distance themselves from Project Say The Quiet Part Loud In an Easily-Digestible Bullet Point Format About Which There Can Be No Confusion. this means we should all absolutely continue never shutting up about it

We had a great time chatting!

Now up on Beat Connection: I spoke with 'The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice' author @tromano.bsky.social about early raves in Vegas and spinning at the Tribeca Grand. Don't miss it! michaelangelo.substack.com/p/bc083-q-an...

BC083 - Q&A: Tricia Romano (May 2024)michaelangelo.substack.com The author of 'The Freaks Came Out to Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice' discusses formative DJs and spinning at the Tribeca Grand

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Co signed

take me the fuck back to when the web looked like shit like i miss the fuck out of that

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if i had to pinpoint the beginning of the internet's long decline i would say it's when "search-engine optimisation" became a thing burying the worthwhile beneath the profitable has been the death knell of every industry ever

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When the Guardian has a better take than the New York Times. And CNN. And the Sunday talk shows. And …

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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Remember: Texas is not a red state. Texas is a massively voter-suppressed state, with a lot of people working very hard and very thanklessly to fix that.

Come on, y'all. For America. For Ted. Let's do this.

Ted Cruz gets bad news in Texas Senate racewww.newsweek.com A Manhattan Institute survey of 600 likely voters in Texas showed Cruz's lead over Democrat Colin Allred is just 3 points.