Ryan Van Loan

Ryan Van Loan

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Former infantry NCO turned fantasy/scifi author repped by DongWon Song

THE SIN IN THE STEEL, THE JUSTICE IN REVENGE, & THE MEMORY IN THE BLOOD out now from Tor Books!

Eat. Lift. Travel. WRITE.

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I think the best way to change the @nytimes.com is to cancel your subscription. They may pull their heads out of their ass (perhaps not, they seem quite firmly lodged) if they begin bleeding dollars.

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One reason why a Parkinson’s expert might have visited the WH 8 times in 8 months is bc a big Parkinson’s bill just got passed and signed. But don’t let that little bit of fact get in the way of your shitty ableist rumor mongering, NYT

Breaking News: A Parkinson’s expert visited the White House eight times in eight months from last summer through this spring, according to official visitor logs. The administration has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease.

Parkinson’s Expert Visited the White House Eight Times in Eight Monthswww.nytimes.com The White House has said that President Biden has no signs of the disease and that there has been no reason to update the most recent testing, conducted in February.

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There certainly is an agenda being pushed out there.

It held

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Political reporting, 2024

Reminder folks, the polling data had Romney even, and slightly ahead of Obama in October(!) I don't remember the cries for Obama to step aside or down at that point. Sorry 538, not here for your vibe clicks. (Obama went on to win comfortably)

This is an incredible take considering Hillary Clinton's lowest lead in these same spots in July was 6 points

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hey someone did both the tweet and the article blurb right

President Biden and other Democrats are increasingly focusing their attacks on an aggressive right-wing agenda called Project 2025 that is being pushed by allies of presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump — prompting Trump and his team to lash out in recent days at supporters of the effort.

Democrats focus attacks on right-wing Project 2025 pushed by Trump allieswww.washingtonpost.com The former president has sought to disavow the plan being touted by former advisers and aides, but Trump has endorsed many of the same ideas.

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Oh hey y’all guess what I have a new book coming out in March 2025 & you can pre-order it if you want! You can do so from anywhere, I recommend your local indie, but meanwhile here’s Macmillan’s link us.macmillan.com/books/978125...

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“Fascism sucks up power left unattended” deserves to be carved over the entrances to grand public buildings

largest french turnout in 40 years, to keep the nazis down. fascism sucks up power left unattended

This. If every work of an artist contains the same theme or element (I don't mean variations, I mean the same) over and over again, I do think it likely is saying something.

I think this is basically true, but I think there's a corrollary that shitty art *is* often legitimately and inadvertantly revealing of the author's character - e.g. THE ROOM (2003) being a completely on-the-nose rendering of Tommy Wiseau's own ego and insecurities.

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The key here is that the far left decided they’d biggest enemy was the fascists, not the center-left. Hoping we can learn the same lesson here.

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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This is a subtweet about Frankenstein because I don't want to be a dick, but I also want some facts out there. 1. Most novels at the time were anonymous. We can't make definite judgements about why Mary Shelley's name wasn't on it. It was common practice. The novel was barely respectable. 1/?

Really enjoyed this review: as someone who grew up after the fact, I hadn't connected how those two were essentially one after the other and in communication with one another. Makes a lot of sense.

have been making my way through oliver stone’s 1980s output and it is very interesting to watch PLATOON and WALL STREET as variations on a theme boxd.it/6PuxHJ

Review of ‘Wall Street’ (1987) ★★★★boxd.it Watch Platoon and Wall Street back-to-back and you’ll quickly see that these are two movies tackling the same questions: what does it mean to be a man and how does one become a man? To answer the…

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The thing that's obvious to everyone and that nobody can actually write in the press is that the American (and yes, I'm sure elsewhere too) right wing is led by bad people and the object is to make more people extremely bad in basically every respect. It's anti-society

My emo sunflowers are coming in, haha.

Some photos of the sunset over the weekend.

This is actual journalism. Refreshing to see after the deluge of mainstream media deciding journalism is them creating narratives from the ether.

Oh, this is good. This is very good.

Why is the pundit class so desparate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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Who TF cares what pundit say? “You were wrong about 2020. You were wrong about 2022. We were going to get wiped out. Remember the red wave?” Biden says to the reporter in the clip, before unloading another set of races which he says the media falsely predicted. www.salon.com/2024/07/06/w...

"Wrong about everything so far": Fired-up Biden blasts reporters for suggesting he can't winwww.salon.com "We'll see," Biden said when questioned on his ability to continue in the presidential race.

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NY Times: You thought this election might be about an unprecedented convicted criminal running to overthrow Constitutional democracy? You think you decide the narrative? Oh no. That’s our turf. And we say the most important thing in the election—nay, the world—is Joe Biden’s age.

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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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Oh, this is good. This is very good.

Why is the pundit class so desparate to push Biden out of the race? | Rebecca Solnitwww.theguardian.com Yes, Biden had a bad debate – but so did Trump. The media is once again repeating the mistakes of 2016

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an entire movement of wicked people who celebrate wickedness

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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This is a of a piece with climate change and the last two decades of political coverage. The need to describe both sides results in reporting that places them on level footing and too often, actually elevates the side most divorced from reality.

The article says that Biden wasn't "old" (aka displaying these new symptoms) in 2023, but a review of @washingtonpost.com 2023 Biden articles definitely has him as being too old for the job then. So which is it? If you were wrong last year, why should we believe you now?

President Biden, who at 81 is the oldest person ever to hold the office, has displayed signs of accelerated aging in recent months, said numerous aides, foreign officials, members of Congress and others who interacted with Biden over the last 3½ years.

Biden’s aging is seen as accelerating, lapses described as more commonwapo.st Aides, foreign leaders, donors and members of Congress say Biden has seemed slower and more often loses his train of thought in recent months, though close aides insist he remains mentally sharp

Nothing more patriotic than cancelling your NYT subscription and using that money to support local press, candidates, etc.

This.

If you care about the USA, the single best thing you can do today is to contribute to a downticket race thats close. The second best thing you can do is cancel your NYT subscription and use that money for the purpose.

No kings. No constitutional amendments by courts. Democracy, full stop. Happy Independence Day, America. Let's keep this tradition going, yea?

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I have a newsletter out today about how writing (sort of) prepared me for parenthood. Check it out here: www.ryanvanloan.com/campaigns/vi...

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Hillary headlines in 2015. Don't let the media fool you again. Image Courtesy of angry_staffer.

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i was just going to make a post about this. if trump decides you are an enemy of the state or a “threat to national security” and has you deported, citizenship or not, there’s nothing you can do to get home. he has full legal power to render you stateless.

Related, if trump is summarily deporting citizens under his new mass deportation regime, citizenship and an ability to appeal to the law isn’t going to get people back in the country. The executive runs border security

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these people do not intend to ever lose power again

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court presidential immunity ruling: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be" www.mediamatters.org/project-2025...

Heritage Foundation president celebrates Supreme Court immunity decision: "We are in the process of the second American Revolution"www.mediamatters.org