Naomi Kritzer

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Writer of SF/F and Minneapolis/St. Paul election guides.

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Whenever I get anything Oklahoma-related in my inbox I know they are trying to reach a congressman who unfortunately has a similar name. So I said hey, let’s throw a quick pitch at this guy, why not, at least he’ll see it, unlike my social media posts. Marketing genius? Probably not. Hope he’s OK

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I think a lot about how the Nazis were voted into office. But that outcome wasn't inevitable—people could've made a different choice. Fascism is like a vampire; you must first invite it inside.

The UK and France just proved that getting out and actually voting makes a difference. Don’t let anyone ever tell you differently.

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Things seem bleak but it’s probably a bad sign for Republicans that people have started mentioning their actual goals and political blueprint and their response is “how fucking dare you??”

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Just like none of the bold investigators backfilling Joe Biden's feeble debate performance with punchy anonymous quotes have ever figured out why Trump was rushed to Walter Reed, claimed he wanted a spur-of-the-moment weekend checkup, and a year later declared that he had NOT had a series of strokes

"Executive Time" fell out of the coverage of Donald Trump in the most incredible way. Nobody writing about his quest to become president again ever mentions the fact that he hated the job when he had it and he couldn't and wouldn't really do it!

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I want to start an ad campaign: "Instead of high speed rail we got... Theranos." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of universal healthcare we got... Juicero." TAX BILLIONNAIRES "Instead of clean tap water we got... NFTs." TAX BILLIONNAIRES

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some ambitious young creative should make a series of Schoolhouse Rock-style animated info clips based on Project 2025

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In the exact same nine day period that Biden and his White House and campaign have been flailing, Trump has offered voters a window into his own mental state and vision for term 2 It’s not great! www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

QAnon Memes, F-Bombs, and Tribunals: As Biden Faltered, Trump Amped Up the Crazywww.rollingstone.com Trump quietly had his own week from hell while the media was hounding Biden

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TRUMP: I am going to drop daisy-cutter bombs on Seattle just cuz BIDEN: I'll have the Bob Salad — ha, COBB Salad, whoops. NYT: Biden's Gaffe Sends Shockwaves Through Democratic Party; Trump Pledges Infrastructure Changes to Northwest

what are we doing here? he accidentally said million instead of billion and then immediately knew it and corrected himself. he didn’t “flub a line” and then “make an effort to correct himself,” he did the speaking equivalent of a typo that you know you’ve made and instantly correct

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Voting is, after all, dino-might.

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If you are mad at the NYT and don't feel like fucking with the auction today, I also invite you to just go directly to donate.romancingthevote.com which is where all of our auction payments will go, and from there directly on to voting organizations who will make sure those who WANT to vote can.

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At Convergence Con, a dinosaur is advocating for voting by a voter registration table.

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The Romancing the Vote fundraising auction ends today at 8 p.m. eastern. Still plenty of time to bid! My annotated books are currently sitting at $102 and $100 each. www.32auctions.com/organization...

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PSA America we're not part of the UK's little "commonwealth" and haven't been for almost 250 years, so under no circumstances do we need to follow UK directions about their fake little knighthoods and forms of address

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The increasingly brazen endorsement of political violence by the GOP is a tremendously dangerous development that warrants high-profile media coverage.

NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech. "Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!" Video and story here: newrepublic.com/article/1834...

MAGA Gov Candidate’s Ugly, Hateful Rant: “Some Folks Need Killing!”newrepublic.com Mark Robinson, the GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, has a long history of incendiary comments. But he may have topped himself this time.

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I didn't plan on making these daily updates, but we crossed into the 200s over the holiday and that seems like a reason to celebrate. Only 286 subscriptions remain before we've erased all the losses caused by Amazon!

We appreciate the support we're getting here. Today, it's down to 326.

Okay you know what it's 12:30 am, knock off the fucking fireworks, asshole with the probably illegal boom makers.

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co-sign but i will add: i don't know the best path but i do know the worst path, and that's replacing him with anyone other than kamala, via any process whatsoever.

I have no idea the best path re Biden but I do know a solid week straight of “Biden Old” and “Rich Dems Worried” above-the-fold stories are *obscene* in the face of SCOTUS using the Constitution to wipe their asses purely in the service of reinstating a felon rapist as president. Crazy-making shit.

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This whole thing

So hey, here's a thing I don't think a lot of folks know: That whole "Patient Zero" thing? The French-Canadian airhost who supposedly spread HIV all over America? That's not real. That's not what happened or how it happened.

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honestly hate that every time there's an industry bad actor, lists of "works by marginalized authors to support instead" start circulating like it's a moral obligation to be done out of guilt, & it's crickets every other day of the year. my art is not to be taken in as a reactionary measure

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This is super gross.

IMO this is a straight-up ageist and ableist image, no?

Louise Erdrich's "The Sentence" is on sale today for $3 on Kindle. This is a book about 2020 and Minneapolis and both metaphorical and real ghosts (among other things) and it's so, so good. www.amazon.com/Sentence-Lou...

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My 2012 fantasy short story "Scrap Dragon" is now available from Cast of Wonders Podcast. They did a fabulous job (the story is written in dialogue form, with a storyteller and a kibbitzer, and they have two people doing it.) www.castofwonders.org/2024/06/cast...

Cast of Wonders 591: Scrap Dragon | Cast of Wonderswww.castofwonders.org Once upon a time, there was a princess. Does she have to be a princess? Couldn’t she be the daughter of a merchant, or a scholar, or an accountant? An accountant? What would an accountant be doing in…

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If this pissed you off. If you believe voting is still/always important. If you think everyone should be able to exercise their right to vote w/o barriers. You can do something to help w/o even putting on pants. Support the @romancingthevote.bsky.social auction. www.32auctions.com/RomancingThe...

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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.

He voted in both 2020 and 2022.

My kid, wearily: no one is actually eating Tide Pods, MOM.

Moral of the story: your teens are also concerned about what misinformation YOU have encountered on the World Wide Web.

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this chyron is raising a lot of questions already answered by the chyron

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this is one of my least favorite tropes and it is especially ridiculous when the heroes have just shot their way through an army of mooks to get to the villain oh, you can kill 475 henchmen but the guy who is actually responsible for ordering them around is a step too far? do you hear yourself?

the whole ‘actually, killing the villain makes us just as bad as him’ trope had done incomprehensible damage to society and i’m not kidding

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Gotta read the whole thread

When an article says "some scientists think" then remember this: I, a scientist, once thought I could fit a whole orange in my mouth. I could, it turns out, get it in there, but I hadn't given sufficient thought to the reverse operation.