Mark Sarvas

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Author MEMENTO PARK (FSG) and HARRY, REVISED (Bloomsbury). @UGMAN coming Fall 2024 from ITNA Press. Winner of the American Book Award. “ … ceaselessly intelligent” - Joseph O’Neill. He/Him/His

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Lost in the ongoing Trumpapalooza is the excellent news that a malaria vaccination developed at Oxford Univ. over the last 30 years and costing only £3 per shot is being unrolled in malaria-prone countries. If it fulfills its promise, this will make an enormous difference to so many lives.

A great time to revisit this classic: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

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

My record as a pundit is unimpeachable.

He's gonna pick Vance. You heard it here.

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is this it are we unified yet

Going back to bed. For four years.

Well at least Biden’s off the front page.

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Scott Jennings on CNN right now saying this is on Dems for saying Trump will end democracy on the US. And Bash and Blitzer are like, yes, we have to tamp down the rhetoric on both sides. Absolute marks. Jesus Christ.

File under “Why Democrats lose” …

Correction: Democrats are expressing sympathy and suspending campaign ads while Republicans are saying calling Trump a fascist is stoking violence . . . and also blaming Biden and calling for his arrest. Asymmetrical decency.

Thank you. This.

New York Times Editorial Board: "Mr. Trump’s political agenda cannot and must not be opposed by violence. It cannot and must not be pursued through violence." Ok but to be clear Trump's political agenda *is* violence. We get that right? I dont want us to miss that www.nytimes.com/2024/07/13/o...

Opinion | The Attack on Donald Trump Is Antithetical to Americawww.nytimes.com Political violence is antithetical to our democracy.

Amid all the bothsides pearl clutching, not a single pundit will dare say that Trump’s own rhetoric since 2016 has ushered in this age of political violence. Remember when he urged folks at his rallies to beat up protestors? Remember January 6? Today he fell through a door of his own making.

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could we stop with the WE’RE DOOMED whenever literally anything happens

look i know we're all clinically depressed leftists but automatically going WE'RE DOOMED does not seem prudent

Know your history. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reichst...

Reichstag fire - Wikipediaen.m.wikipedia.org

Honestly, my only surprise is it took this long.

Hitting rush hour traffic on the 101 at 11 am on a Saturday reinforces my wisdom in leaving LA.

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NEW: AOC introduces articles of impeachment against Justices Thomas and Alito for failure to disclose gifts and failure to recuse. Cosponsors: Lee, Tlaib, Watson Coleman, Ramirez, Frost, Omar, Bowman Thomas: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su... Alito: ocasio-cortez.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

He's gonna pick Vance. You heard it here.

Finally.

Two Democratic U.S. senators announced Tuesday that they are seeking a criminal investigation of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas over gifts of travel, a loan for a recreational vehicle and other benefits he received from wealthy benefactors. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Democratic lawmakers seek criminal investigation of Justice Thomaswww.washingtonpost.com Sens. Sheldon Whitehouse and Ron Wyden want a special counsel to investigate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas for possible tax and ethics violations.

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‘New York Times’ Announces New Columnist Will Contribute Nothing To Society 3 Times A Weekwww.theonion.com The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America's finest news source.

“We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.” #taleoftwoBergers

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Meanwhile eight states, seven Democratic trifectas (CA, CO, MA, ME, MI, MN, NM) and Vermont, took a lesson from the pandemic and made universal free school meals permanent.

The governors of a dozen Republican-led states — AL, AK, FL, GA, IA, MS, OK, SC, SD, TX, UT, WY — opted out of a new federal food assistance program, leaving about 9.5 million students without the aid this summer

Republican-led states are blocking summer food benefits for hungry familieswww.usatoday.com Money for food is especially tight for families in a dozen states where Republican lawmakers declined to accept federal food assistance.

Happy birthday, RS. Peace and love.

“He has the striking leanness that sometimes goes with percussion. To play a battery well, a man listens to silence, until it splits itself open into rhythms, eventually into every conceivable rhythm. It does this because time is not a flow but a sequence of pulses.” #taleoftwoBergers

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🎯🎯🎯. Seriously. Yapping over espresso and cigarettes.

Important to realize as we try to retain civility on Bluesky that all the stuff we say to each other will have literally zero impact on whether Biden bows out or not, we’re just hanging around yapping about politics like a bunch of old Greek guys at a sidewalk cafe, no need to take it personally

Reminder that you never need "her head" in "nodded her head" nor "her shoulders" in "shrugged her shoulders." ^ Long suffering sigh goes here. (Free #writingtip)

Friday vibe: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV4U...

"One Last Time" - Hamilton At The White House #ObamaLegacywww.youtube.com YouTube video by Hamilton

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people who don’t vote… don’t vote they do not write op-eds in the national paper of record about how other people shouldn’t vote either unless they are pushing an agenda that has specific goals unrelated to voting

Biden will only leave if his money dries up. Period. Polls don't matter, protests don't matter. The dollars matter.

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Why I Don't Vote (OK, I Do Vote, but I Would Like to Discourage You, NY Times Reader, For Doing So For Some Reason) Via @bubbaprog.ilovecitr.us

Man, if it turns out that the right winger telling NY Times readers that they should follow his example and not vote did in fact vote in the last two elections, the Times should add this to the piece. Better than a retraction, since it illustrates a willful hypocrisy.

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"We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march." Happy birthday and long life to the master!