Steve Howell

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“Among eight Mount Airy congregation members interviewed, none thought Biden should concede the nomination to another member of the party. “I think it’s a little late in the game for them to start switching people out,” said Danayah Randolph, 21, of Philadelphia.”

Should Biden drop out? What his supporters said at a Philadelphia Black Church where he campaigned Sunday.www.mcall.com Here’s what supporters of President Joe Biden had to say about the increasing calls for him to end his re-election bid.

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You had me at “exceedingly dry in-jokes for recherché subcultures”

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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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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

Endless caffeinated screaming

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Sweet Galactus, I hate this picture. Anyway, Rosewater is the New Scientist Book Club pick. I carry on about it here.

Imagining Nigeria as ground zero in an alien invasionwww.newscientist.com Tade Thompson, author of sci-fi novel Rosewater, the latest pick for the New Scientist Book Club, on subverting the expectations of invasion narratives and writing about people not tech

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Ich Bin Ein Auslander… by Glenn Ligon, 1991 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137891

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Final thought on the UK election in light of the tremendous crapstorms everywhere else in the world

WELL DONE, UK.

Agreed.

AAHHHHHHHHHHHH

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endless life

I'm getting a lot of "We told you so" from this photo.

I've never seen this photo before. Two of my absolute favorite writers, side by side. Fantastic. (Courtesy of the official Bradbury Facebook page.)

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This is one of the most dystopian signs I've ever seen. Republicans are quickly turning this country into an unrecognizable freakshow.

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As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

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Also, of course I want you all to buy my books, but I won’t see that money for a very long time, and it will only be a little bit. I get maybe $50 a month from book sales. So things like Patreon are far more supportive. www.patreon.com/jendiagammon...

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My free book 'Immortal, Invisible' up at Subterranean Press, cover art by @alisonsampson.bsky.social (one of my favourite artists). Read for zero sestersi.

Immortal, Invisiblesubterraneanpress.com Subterranean Press creates readable art, publishing limited editions and groundbreaking original works of science fiction, fantasy, and horror.

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new anxiety just dropped:

People over 50 with anxiety may be up to twice as likely to develop Parkinson’s disease as their peers without anxiety, a new analysis suggests.

Study suggests connection between anxiety and Parkinson’s diseasewww.washingtonpost.com Researchers compared people 50 and older who were diagnosed with a first episode of anxiety between 2008 and 2018 with a control group without anxiety.

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Periodically, I like to reread my favorite Scottish poem: Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence.

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NYT: Joe should quit, he stutters Philly Inquirer: Trump is a fucking criminal what the fuck are we doing here

God Bless Paul Davies and the @PhillyInquirer: "The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump...There was only one person at the debate who does not deserve to be running for president. The sooner Trump exits the stage, the better off the country will be."

To serve his country, Donald Trump should leave the race | Editorial Boardwww.inquirer.com Biden had a horrible night Thursday. But the debate about the debate is misplaced. The only person who should withdraw from the race is Trump.

FAFO

Laughs in schadenfreude. newrepublic.com/post/183289/...

Los Angeles’s Mayor Was Contemplating a Mask Ban. She Just Got Covid.newrepublic.com Karen Bass floated banning masks for protesters days before coming down with Covid-19.

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Joseph Kosuth, Language Must Speak for Itself, 1991 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1136766

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This means romance authors. This means poets. This means screenwriters and playwrights and actors of anything remotely risqué. And eventually, anything secular. They have no point of satisfaction until they’ve erased all of non-Christian expression.

I'mma say this for all the people in the back. Don't vote for a person. Vote for your rights, for the rights of others. On page 5 of Project 2025's 180-day plan they openly call for outlawing porn, recommending imprisoning anyone who creates it. Are you an NSFW artist, or like the art? THIS IS YOU.

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What about the convicted felon, folks? The noted fraud? The rapist? The classified document thief? Should he be standing down? No? Illuminating. Not at all good, but illuminating.

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Always be your true self. If the timid townsfolk hide behind closed doors as you float past with your raggedy Muppet hair, a tattered cardigan, and wrapped in a gloom of your own making, so be it.

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Beware of the book festivals! (My latest Guardian Books cartoon)

Yesterday’s used book haul. I’ve read Banks’ novels, but never his short stories. This will be my second Leckie novel.

If and when the time comes, resist.

ART is the only thing that makes keeping homo sapiens around worthwhile. If we cede that unique feature of our species to AI, we may as well weigh our pockets down with obsolete smartphones and walk into the hot-plastic ocean.

Kurt Vonnegut on getting characters from one room or time or place to another: “I don’t provide limousine service for them; just put them there.”