Stone Cold Jane Austen 🏳️‍⚧

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Author of Victories Greater Than Death, All the Birds in the Sky, City in the Middle of the Night, Never Say You Can't Survive, New Mutants: Lethal Legion

Coming soon: The Prodigal Mother!

Critic @WashingtonPost.com. Co-host @ouropinions.bsky.social

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Highly recommend both this and the collection I first read it in, A People’s Future of the United States

In a future divided America, a lone bookstore straddles the border between two new nations. But it's getting harder to avoid choosing a side. My story "The Bookstore at the End of America" just got a beautiful audio adaptation from Cast of Wonders: www.castofwonders.org/2024/07/cast...

Cast of Wonders 593: The Bookstore at the End of America | Cast of Wonderswww.castofwonders.org A bookshop on a hill. Two front doors, two walkways lined with blank slates and grass, two identical signs welcoming customers to the First and Last Page, and a great blue building in the middle…

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who's coming to alameda for @maggietokudahall.bsky.social's book release party this weds? www.booksinc.net/event/maggie...

MAGGIE TOKUDA-HALL at Books Inc. Alamedawww.booksinc.net Books Inc. Alameda welcomes local author Maggie Tokuda-Hall to celebrate her latest genre-defying graphic novel THE WORST RONIN with fellow graphic novelist Thien Pham! Buy Tickets on Eventbrite

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I love this story.

Thank you!!!!!!

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Thank you so much!!!! 💘

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Yay thanks!!!! 😻

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What's weird is how much coverage there was of the surging right and a collapsing center and but no attendant deep coverage of the left? Not even to explain why news orgs seemed to be ignoring it other than stories accusing antisemitism b/v of opposition to Israel policy. So frustrating.

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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It held

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bad luck for biden to run in an electoral cycle where "are you old" is the most important issue instead of in one of the cycles where email security procedures or accuracy of vietnam war medal citations was the most important issue in the country.

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All of the people indulging in these fantasy Democratic primary scenarios think that people vote reflexively because it’s what they themselves do; they don’t realize that turnout is a product of hard work. Unseen, unheralded work. By unseen, unheralded people.

I don’t know why they think pissing off the door-knockers and canvassing power of the party will end well, but these people don’t understand what they refuse to see

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JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front appears to have worked very well. —No bloc close to majority. Follow this 🧵 for results and more:

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Obvs these guys will govern again like ghouls no matter what branding they adopt—but I do think it’s fascinating that they are at least acting like Project 2025 is something to run away from

"I don't know anything about Project 2025" says man recording Project 2025 promotional video in front of Project 2025 publication. More substantively, Project 2025 has embraced Trump and Miller's immigration approach of using power to close both legal and illegal immigration.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX facility is wreaking havoc on fragile ecosystems in South Texas: www.nytimes.com/2024/07/07/u...

SpaceX’s Assault on a Fragile Habitat: Four Takeaways From Our Investigationwww.nytimes.com The development of Elon Musk’s facility in South Texas did not play out as local officials were originally told it would.

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For the people who don’t have time, here’s your Readers Digest version. You’re welcome.

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Hello social medias... You may not be aware a major Cat 5 hurricane struck an area that normally doesn't get them. The eye passed directly over Carriacou and Petit Martinique. The devastation is tremendous. The need is great. You can help and make a difference: www.gofundme.com/f/the-people...

Help the people of Carriacou and Petite Martinique recover, organized by Marine and Yachting Association of Grenada MAYAGwww.gofundme.com On 1 July, the eye of Hurricane Beryl bore down on two tiny i… Marine and Yachting Association of Grenada MAYAG needs your support for Help the people of Carriacou and Petite Martinique recover

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If Biden said something like this it would spell the end of not only his campaign but his current tenure. It's just one of countless examples of insane gibberish from Trump that the press & Democrats are choosing to treat as an immutable part of the electoral landscape rather than a story or issue.

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A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes. It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.

Holy. Shit. They're literally saying Trump's felonies aren't that bad compared to the "real felonies". Bear in mind, they're ignoring J6 and "gimme 12000 votes" call and the stolen docs. We joke, but this is literally Newsmax copy.

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Re: what I said yesterday - credit where credit is due to @rbreich.bsky.social: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We should all be terrified of Trump’s Project 2025 | Robert Reichwww.theguardian.com The presumptive Republican nominee has promised to give rightwing evangelical Christians what they want – and more

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Okay, first set of call scripts. I know I'm not the only one getting 2016/"But her emails!!!" flashbacks.

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Ok - this is a question I get a LOT, and am starting to get a lot again. Here are a few tips on calling electeds: 1. Try not to stress too much about the method of contact - e.g. email/calling. The important thing is getting in touch.

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We need more, but credit where due: both The Nation (June 2024 issue) and Boston Review have run a breakdown of the Project 2025 “Mandate for Leadership” document. Media Matters, too. Lots of good work going on digesting this. www.bostonreview.net/articles/ins... www.mediamatters.org/project-2025

Where are the columnists who are experts in specific fields, breaking down what the Heritage Foundation + Trump want to do to each individual federal agency? E.g. I read the section dedicated to our intelligence agencies, and had to stop, since I was starting to feel a little nauseous.

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Just this morning I brought up Project 2025 with a woman who is well-educated, fairly politically savvy, and a staunch Democrat. She had never heard of it. When I gave her a precis, she was HORRIFIED.

This is super important work. And it looks like it's actually having an effect. Normal people learn about Project 2025 and are scared as shitless as they should be. The Nation, The New Republic, Rolling Stone, Boston Review and others are doing the work that NYT and WaPo are neglecting.

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I will bang this drum forever: in THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE FREE: THE GERMANS, 1933-45 Milton Mayer interviewed 10 ordinary Germans after WW2 to learn how fascism took hold. There was never a moment when everyone woke up:

if you’re waiting for everyone around you to wake up, you’ll wait forever. this is how the people grinding our bones to make their bread WANT you to be. paralyzed, alienated & purposeless

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As a side note, this is John McEntee, Trump's Director of White House Personnel and the primary architect of Project 2025. On Tik Tok he said he gives counterfeit bills to homeless people so they will be arrested when they go to spend them.

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Torn between saying this is a PSA and charging you all to read my skeets

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quitting fossil fuels is popular pass it on www.theenergymix.com/3-4-of-peopl...

3/4 of People in Fossil-Producing Countries Want Rapid Transition to Clean Energywww.theenergymix.com Nearly three-quarters of the people in fossil fuel-producing countries want their governments to speed the transition to clean energy, while a minority think big businesses are addressing climate chan...

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£10 received yesterday, nothing today and it’s almost 5pm. please can anybody help get this moving?💸💕 anything at all helps🥹🫂

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