Janet D. Stemwedel

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Academic philosopher, lapsed chemist, occasional science writer, perpetual ethics booster. All views my own. (she/her)

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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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They’re already doing the birtherism again. Lol

If they do put Kamala Harris on the top of the ticket, I am prepared for a level of misogynoir unwitnessed since Rosa Parks sat down on that bus.

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We understand this correct? Project 2025 is not fringe on the right. It's just that everyone in the center and on the left doesn't pay attention to evangelicals cause y'all think they're funny and weird instead of wildly fucking dangerous. Project 2025 is dead serious and extremely popular.

Project 2025 is a creation of Evangelicals and it's the core mission of the evangelical right. It's what major evangelical organizations have been building towards for decades. It's not fringe. (I just fact checked a whole book a out this.)

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I love it when the far right are ‘sad and disappointed’. 🇫🇷 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

France's far right 'sad and disappointed' over election resultwww.bbc.co.uk With the champagne on ice, they thought they were on the brink of victory - but it didn't happen.

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If you are in the LA area, those rescues would be greysave or fast friends. Almost anywhere in the world you can go to greyhoundpets.org to see the group near you

greyhoundpets.org

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I just got an email from my local greyhound rescue that Caliente, the dog track at Tijuana, is closing. If you're in southern California and thought about a retired racer this might be a great time to reach out to an adoption group. Retired track dogs make awesome pets.

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Italian prosecutors in Milan investigated how Dior is producing their handbags. They found that the workers were sleeping in the facility so bags could be produced around the clock. Consumers pay $2,780 per bag. The production of the bags costs Dior $57. Ht: @maxroser.bsky.social

Now we know how much it costs to make a $2,800 Dior bagwww.businessinsider.com In recent months, Italian authorities raided Dior subcontractor workshops where people were working around the clock, they said.

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The far right cope machine is already trying to manufacture a narrative about the massive loss the French fascists faced today. They are scared they can sense what’s coming to America and it’s not fascism. Popular fronts win and scare fascists. Keep them on the back foot they are weak and scared.

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Marisa Kabas

if harris was chosen because of optics, consider the optics of passing over the first black female vice president as the heir apparent. and optics aside, it’s simply fucked up. you don’t have to be a harris fan to see that.

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this isn’t about whether or not you personally like kamala harris. the vice presidential candidate is chosen as the one to step in if the president cannot fulfill his duties. passing her over in this moment would fundamentally change the way veeps are chosen going forward.

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by choosing anyone other than harris to replace biden should he decide to step aside, the party would be revealing they very cynically chose her as veep for optics without believing she could actually be president.

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Y'all still masking? With 4+ years of long COVID, I've been sick more times the past 4 years than I have from 2014-2019 (probably longer since I rarely got sick pre-2020). The times I've been sick since 2020, it's been people that stopped masking that I unfortunately can't avoid.

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Polls predicted a loss and the people said different. Important reminder.

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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Gaza City in the north is experiencing really horrific bombardments right now- while families are on the streets trying to go to a safe place that doesn’t exist 😢

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coming out of my auction stupor to see folks are suggesting we do a presidential thunderdome. do the political elites need a weighted blanket & some chocolate milk???

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lord i see what youve done for other peoples

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“Her message for people fighting for gay rights today: ‘Put your ass on the fire the way we did – risk your ass.’”

From the age of 17, Nancy Valverde was repeatedly arrested by the Los Angeles police department for wearing masculine clothing. By the time she died, at age 92, the city had named a square in her honor, its first public monument to a lesbian.

The Chicana butch lesbian who defied the LAPD – and won: ‘I couldn’t be someone else’www.theguardian.com Decades after Nancy Valverde was first arrested for wearing masculine clothing, the city of LA finally honored her with its first public monument to a lesbian

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Definitely! I’ve written about why transit should be free: scott.mn/2022/12/20/w...

Who's afraid of free transit?scott.mn

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version with alt text. Michelle Wolf really delivered here; she’s been hella sharp every time i’ve seen her perform.

Just a reminder that Michelle Wolf nailed it at the White House Correspondents Dinner. NYT, I’m looking in your direction especially.

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Link is coconut-pilled. 🥥 🌴

UK and France have both defeated their right wing parties in elections this year. The US needs to get its shit together.

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France telling their fascists to fuck off.

Far right fails in France elections, leftist alliance on top: Exit pollwww.aljazeera.com The second round of France’s snap parliamentary election called by President Emmanuel Macron has drawn a high turnout.

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Moira MacLean

They’re denying fans and cooling resources unless workers make official safety complaints, thereby marking themselves for retaliation. It’s so evil.

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Aunt Sylvia’s Home for Wayward Women and Lurid Tulips

Like fr if you cancel your #amazonprime subscription today let them know it’s on account of worker mistreatment at Amazon PDX9.

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Happy #primeweek! I just want to let y’all know that the Amazon shipping warehouse where my husband works is denying workers fans during a nationally recognized heat emergency and everything you order during time week places workers’ lives at risk.

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They are already bragging are and how this went to “Rich” people like this isn’t specifically on a Black campus During a time of ( purposeful) Black underemployment . And a general abandonment of support for Black issues that the Manhattan Institute has already said was the plan

lol it’s going to be so stupid in ten years when exclusive schools for rich people brag that they use real human teachers

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The reality is that their policies aren't popular, and telegraphing them so plainly and in such a convenient format to reference, they've made it easier than ever to pierce the veil of their populist bullshit.

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Project 2025 and Heritage have stuck to Trump and the GOP in ways seemingly no other issue has. It's the first time I've seen them play actively defensive on an issue instead of brushing it off.

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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.

Has anyone priced out the value of the mass transit systems to the areas they serve, not just to the actual riders? If so, I suspect there’s data to support an argument against charging fares at all…

Meanwhile, hardening fare gates to better exclude people who can't afford BART's highest-in-the-nation fares will cost $90 million. www.bart.gov/about/projec...

New Fare Gates & Station Hardening | Bay Area Rapid Transitwww.bart.gov

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Meanwhile, hardening fare gates to better exclude people who can't afford BART's highest-in-the-nation fares will cost $90 million. www.bart.gov/about/projec...

New Fare Gates & Station Hardening | Bay Area Rapid Transitwww.bart.gov