Sunny Moraine

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Writer of the horrific and weird, recovering sociology PhD w/focus on war and genocide. Christian Druid. Creator of the GONE podcast. Author of YOUR SHADOW HALF REMAINS, out now from Tor Nightfire. They/them.

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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 ...

So then how is it a *squints* you know, a ceasefire deal If the fire will not cease

“Any Gaza ceasefire deal must allow Israel to resume fighting until its objectives are met, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Sunday, as talks over a U.S. plan aimed at ending the nine-month-old war were expected to restart.”

Hamas says it's waiting for Israeli response on Gaza ceasefire proposalwww.reuters.com Hamas is waiting for a response from Israel on its ceasefire proposal, two officials from the militant Islamist group said on Sunday, five days after it accepted a key part of a U.S. plan aimed at ending the nine-month-old war in Gaza.

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If you're saying that the only way you'll agree to a temporary ceasefire is if you are guaranteed that you can go right back to armed aggression at its end, I'm skeptical that you'll negotiate in good faith during the ceasefire.

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UK - rejects far right France - rejects far right Iran - elects a moderate President There is a global pushback against the far right building.

There is a particular kind of Social Media Person for whom the most COMPLETELY UNACCEPTABLE RESPONSE is to say, gently, “I know you’re talking about this thing in your reply but that wasn’t really the thing I was talking about in my post and I’m sorry but I don’t want to talk about that right now”

Obviously different countries are different and one should be wary of drawing any conclusions, but I see this and I’m reminded of one very basic fact, which is that by far the biggest political coalition in the US is an anti-MAGA/anti-far right coalition

The 2nd leading pollster projects a similar result—if anything a higher range for the Left coalition. This wld be a much stronger result than expected for the Macron bloc. If confirmed, key takeaway: Left & Macronist voters transferred onto each other much more than expected. Clear anti-RN front.

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The cluster of moms at after-school pickup, the people you see on the 8:15 bus to work, the barista at your local coffee shop, your customers if you yourself are the barista, the neighbor you secretly hate, your first roommate who you still talk to on Facebook, your informal lunch break smoking club

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We’ve returned to the olden days, when word-of-mouth was the only real way to advertise. As an author, if you enjoy a book, please: tell your friends. Your group chat, your sewing circle, your family WhatsApp, your work Slack, the voice channel of your MMORPG guild, anything.

Hey, so. I understand that this is anecdotal and not research, but. It is WILD how useless social media has become for promo. It's a fucking disgrace, really.

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Well France apparently just collabed between everyone else to kick a far right party out of the chance to take power, it can be done if enough people want it to be, folks

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He doesn’t even bother to disavow Project 2025’s aims, but the fact that they’re shying away from direct association with it demonstrates that it’s a vulnerability. If the press is looking for something new and substantive to report on, they could start with the dystopia that these folks want for us

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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Well done France. Let’s all take little cheer from the man.

Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Losem.youtube.com A short song from one of Woody's radio broadcasts. (1940's?)Featured in this performance are:*Woody of course-guitar and voc.*the great SONNY TERRY on harmon...

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there are many reasons we need to win in the fall, but one of them is that i simply am not going to abide by letting both the brits and the french lecture us

*MACRON'S GROUP PROJECTED TO WIN MORE SEATS THAN FAR RIGHT *LEFT ALLIANCE SET FOR 170-215 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *LE PEN'S GROUP SET FOR 110-158 SEATS IN FRENCH VOTE: ESTIMATES *FRENCH LEFT SET FOR SHOCK ELECTION VICTORY, PROJECTIONS SHOW

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Happy Sunday! Who's ready & counting down? 🎃🦇👻💀🎃🦇👻💀🎃

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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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"Skinny jeans give me the ick" Bitch, neither one of us will ever retire. Get better priorities.

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Some Millennials in my timeline are insecure because Gen Zs are telling them their ankle socks age them. I can't stress enough that you don't need to care about what a bunch of 20-somethings think about your clothes, mainly bc you don't have to care about what ANYONE thinks about your clothes.

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Thirty days until this little monster hits bookshelves! Remember: preorders are crucial. Here’s the amazing Rachel Harrison giving you some reasons to get you some.

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I am on record saying if you paid the Undertaker a billion dollars to run against Trump and Trump saw him in a debate he’d immediately drop out. This isn’t a joke I really believe that.

Replace Biden with John Cena.

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So a thing about AI is that, not understanding the material itself, it cannot understand what the gap is in someone else’s understanding. Students already have access to materials that will repeat important points over and over. They don’t need more.

Also known as “training your replacement.” 😩

Morehouse to be the first university to use virtual AI teaching assistantswww.axios.com The Atlanta HBCU will have AI teaching assistants this fall.

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ten year old me filling up cue cards for "types of medieval weapons" and "kinds of fruit" because this is what Redwall taught me I needed to know before writing a novel.

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Because I got a few new followers recently: A project I’m especially proud of is a weird little mostly one-person horror drama podcast called GONE It’s about a mentally ill woman who wakes up one morning to discover that everyone in the world seems to have vanished sunnymoraine.com/gone/

Gonesunnymoraine.com There’s no way to plan for being alone. There’s no way to plan for what comes next. This is a story about what happens when the world goes dark, and everyone else is gone. Gone is a serial horror fict...

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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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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

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This is the editorial view of the guy who controls which posts get shown on Vichy Twitter and which get buried. Insane that journalists continue to use it as a source of information and contribute to its legitimacy

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NEW: updated edition of our American Autocracy Threat Tracker Shows the full range of Trump’s dictatorship would look like— including proof of his close ties to Project 2025 “He is lying when he denies it and we have the receipts.” www.justsecurity.org/92714/americ...

American Autocracy Threat Trackerwww.justsecurity.org A comprehensive catalog of the autocratic threat to democracy based on former President Donald Trump and his associates’ autocratic plans and promises.

“Remember, Red: Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.”

tell me your fav film with a quote.

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Doing it once is incredibly hard. They will ask you lengthy questions poking at a traumatizing subject. They will read all your correspondence. They will talk to your friends about what your friends think about it. They will also, by the way, want exclusivity until their story drops.