Stephen S Power

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Changing the world one page at a time. 30+ years in publishing. Novelist, short story writer, poet and aspiring dramatist. stephenspower.com.

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Oh my god

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Yes but back then he thought it was a bad thing.

Trump’s VP pick also once called Trump “America’s Hitler”

I think this exact same thing about the Yankees. Unfortunately, the woman who runs the program is an army brat, so I doubt she'd change from bombs to books.

The Padres have a “salute to our veterans” where they ask veterans to stand and be applauded at EVERY SINGLE fucking home game and just once I’d like then to change it up and have like, librarians and teachers and sanitation workers be saluted instead

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Tempted to read J. D. Vance's Hillbilly Elegy? Skip it and listen to this instead

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

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If you wish you had a succinct, mainstream explanation of the horrors of Trump's Project 2025 you could send to your friends and relatives, People magazine has provided one. Please spread this link. No matter how bad you think it is, it's worse. people.com/what-is-proj...

What Is Project 2025? Inside the Far-Right Plan Threatening Everything from the Word 'Gender' to Public Educationpeople.com Donald Trump's far-right allies created Project 2025 as a blueprint for his possible second term. The controversial plan would push a Christian nationalist agenda that dramatically reshapes the U.S. g...

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Just a reminder that People mag has a great Project 25 write up that you can share with your less politically aware friends and fam people.com/what-is-proj...

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If you’ve shared this but haven’t read it yet, you should. PEOPLE isn’t pulling punches. Just printing “Christian Nationalism” in relation to the platform of a presidential candidate is more than many pubs have done.

Just a reminder that People mag has a great Project 25 write up that you can share with your less politically aware friends and fam people.com/what-is-proj...

People's circulation is more than 30M but I bet that's low given thst it's a staple at doctor's offices, stylists, nail salons etc.

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Brad Johnson

That's a brilliant idea. I'd make it a reading club and give a discount for each book read.

Great thread about a great album.

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Joy Parry

I was just there. A sign on the stump notes the tree is still alive and could grow shoots.

We have reached Act V of Richard III faster than I would've thought.

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Dell Cameron

There is little more satisfying than pressing the weight of professional authorities on some a-hole when they need a personal response to feel better about themselves.

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George Takei

Absolutely the right call.

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Camden Rose

Probably not your intention, but I love the idea of a ghost watching the TV show that was on when its person died. I totally would stick around if I died while the Jets were in the Super Bowl--even some terrible play is what killed me.

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Paul Waldman

If Joe drops out, everyone who said he should will promptly say he shouldn't and will immediately dump on his successor.

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Deep Cuts in a Lovecraftian Vein

My D&D group is now playing a mashup of Shadowrun and Call of Cthulhu. I'll have to check out EC.

My 4-star review of THE BOOKSHOP: A History of the American Bookstore, by Evan Friss. www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Stephen S. Power’s review of The Bookshop: A History of the American Bookstorewww.goodreads.com What an engaging book that pairs well with THE BOOK-MAKERS by Adam Smyth. I was particularly inspired by the chapters on Gotham Book Mart, Oscar Wilde and Drum & Spear, so much so that while visiting ...

The perfect symbol of America: a piece of sh*t wrapped in a flag. Photo: David Zalubowski/AP

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Michael Hobbes

Giving up the incumbent advantage because a bunch of disingenuous and/or nihilistic journos have condemned Biden like he's an old building seems the dumbest thing imaginable. Biden wasn't my choice in the 2020 primaries, but he's the president now, and just being the president is a big advantage.

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Notice how everyone is somehow talking about Biden Too Old right now, and NOT about how the Supreme Court just legalized Trump being a dictator for life and gutted the administrative state, and how the Heritage Foundation is now issuing terrorist threats? Think that might not be an accident?

That part isn't the disinfo part. It's the chaos and rumormongering that is going to be used to get Mike fucking Johnson etc. into power once they push Kamala Harris out of the line of succession. It's also being used to distract everyone from mounting a coordinated response to the Supreme Court

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Again, Black people are an exception here, as basically anyone who stayed in the Jim Crow South has a living memory of living under what amounted to fascism, including the “always walking on eggshells/lack of social trust/long periods of boring endurance/randomized terrifying violence”

Pretty much. What it mostly boils down to is that most Americans really don’t have the faintest idea what living under modern authoritarian regimes actually looks like, and how it’s often at the same time way more boring and way more scary than they’d imagined.

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Paul Waldman

June 6 was an audition to be on Trump's death squad. What do you think the cost of a pardon will be?

Remember: Everything Hitler did was legal, and the first people he sent to camps were his political enemies. Box 1 checked. Box 2 threatened immediately afterwards.

The Supreme Court's decision on presidential immunity is complex and alarming. Thankfully, The Big Picture is breaking it down. Discover how this ruling could enable presidential abuses of power and what it means for Trump’s legal issues. If you care about our Republic's future, this is a must-read.

The Return of the Imperial Presidencythinkbigpicture.substack.com The radical Supreme Court has given Donald Trump everything he asked for and more with immunity.

Everything Hitler did was legal, and the first people he sent to camps were his political enemies. Box 1 checked. Box 2 threatened immediately afterwards.

along similar lines, has anyone actually explained *why* the seal team six hypo is ruled out by the majority opinion? all I've seen is right-leaning law profs mocking everyone who raises the issue. but nobody has explained why a president wouldn't be immune for assassinating a rival

Everything Hitler did was legal, and the first people he sent to camps were his political enemies. Box 1 checked. Box 2 threatened immediately afterwards.

There is no depth to which Jonathan Turley will not sink. He’ll say that Trump will never do the outrageous things Trump threatens to do, and that there are laws in place to prevent it, then when Trump does them he will say the laws don’t apply and that Trump was forced to do the things by woke.

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Ed Zitron

Brilliant look at how companies have turned the idea of a Minimum Viable product into, once successful, a Least Viable Product. I'm also including this in my research on what I'm calling New Modernism, a response to the fracturing of society thanx to capitalism akin to Modernism's birth from WWI.

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Mike Masnick

I think it means the one person who reads the paper is struggling.

He will die within three months if he loses and cannot then steal the election.

If Biden loses in Nov, well, that’s a disaster for everybody, but not especially for Joe Biden, he’ll be okay (unless revenge indictments start flying) but if Trump loses, that’s 100% absolutely a massive catastrophic personal tragedy for him, and I really hope you all join me in making that happen