Trey Lawson

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Educator. Writer. Critic. Cinéaste. Plus actor. Co-host Tomb of Ideas, a Marvel Horror Podcast | he/him

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And arguably what I am enjoying most is that this is not the hero theory of history. We’re not seeing a charismatic leader carry the election through rhetoric and force of personality. We’re seeing populations say: nope. I like the power of nope.

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I am enjoying this week a lot.

To be clear: a coalition of the Left — the socialists — and the Greens were able to block the far Right in France. And there is a lesson here for the US: voters across the West want the neoliberal experiment to end. We CAN and we MUST end it to save the future & improve people's wellbeing to boot!

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seems like what happened in france is that centrism and leftism each identified the other as the favorable alternative to fascism, voters who identify with either accepted this as true, and the far-right was marginalized as a result, which is... the opposite of pitting them against one another?

In France, the left coalition comes in first, Macron second, the far-right third. The best way to defeat fascism is not centrism, it’s a strong left.

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*in numbers not seen in decades*

BREAKING NEWS: Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which instead came in third in initial results as polling stations closed.

Projections in France's election show voters rejecting the far rightwww.npr.org Voters turned out in numbers not seen in decades to stop the far-right National Rally from taking power in the French National Assembly. Polls predicted a first-place finish for National Rally, which ...

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Starving your constituents to own the libs, cool strategy This party is just outright evil, there's no other way to look at it

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.

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Hey hey, if you're enjoying @criterion.bsky.social Channel's excellent program of films set in Times Square, you might wanna give a listen to our FUN CITY CINEMA podcast episode on the subject: pod.link/1525341222/e...

Fun City Cinemapod.link “As you see, we’re flying over an island. A city. A particular city. And this is a story of a number of people, and a story also of the city itself.” That’s from the opening voice-over of the 1948 mo...

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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

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It's genuinely helpful that the press has successfully signalled that they will not treat Kamala Harris generously or fairly if Biden steps aside for her. Clarifying!

Nirvana - The Man who Sold the World Burning Down the House - Tom Jones & the Cardigans Common People - William Shatner

Los Lobos’ live cover of The Beatles’ “Tomorrow Never Knows”

tomorrow never knows (live) Los Lobosyoutu.be from El Cancionero: Mas Y Mas

The inside out characters in my head

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reminded of a scene from Terry Pratchett's Going Postal

A hill I will die on: all white-collar crimes are violent crimes. It's just that the violence is removed from the perpetrator because the perpetrator is wealthy.

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“[Haute’s] ninth graders know almost nothing about climate change because it is not taught in the lower grades, he said. He spends at least a week on the topic but is covering only “the basics,” he said.”

Textbook authors told climate change references must be cut to get Florida’s OK The directive appears similar to requirements the state imposed on math and social studies textbooks said to include “critical race theory” and “social justice” material www.orlandosentinel.com/2024/07/05/t...

Textbook authors told climate change references must be cut to get Florida’s OKwww.orlandosentinel.com The action appears similar to requirements the state imposed on math and social studies textbooks said to include “critical race theory” and “social justice” material. The s…

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Using “DEI” as pejorative is just the newest work-safe slur replacement for bigots to use to get off on the privilege of fake plausible deniability, tale as old as time

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Kickstarter Pre-launch page is up! www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe... Less than 3 days until we're Live. Follow the page to be notified immediately upon launch!

Coming soon: JM DeMatteis Presents The DeMultiverse Phase 2 +Edward Gloomwww.kickstarter.com 5 new comics with artists Tom Mandrake, Shawn McManus, David Baldeón, Vassilis Gogztilas & Scott Koblish. Superhero, fantasy & more!

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13 year olds have been ripping their teachers behind their backs since the dawn of formal schooling. I could see this being a really interesting profile of a school with some obvious culture problems, but turning it into a fake trend piece on mean teens is an absolutely wild thing to do.

Seventh and eighth graders in Malvern, Pennsylvania, impersonating their teachers posted disparaging, lewd, racist and homophobic videos on TikTok. The incident is the first known mass attack of its kind by middle schoolers on their teachers in the U.S.

Students Target Teachers in Group TikTok Attack, Shaking Their Schoolnyti.ms Seventh and eighth graders in Malvern, Pa., impersonating their teachers posted disparaging, lewd, racist and homophobic videos in the first known mass attack of its kind in the U.S.

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BREAKING: Judge Aileen Cannon halts some Trump deadlines in the Mar-a-Lago proceedings and creates a substantial delay in the case by setting a briefing schedule to precede deciding whether there will be supplemental briefing regarding the effect of Trump v. U.S. on the case.

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This is the entire view of the right and one they’re pushing out tons of propaganda about. It’s why we get 10,000 stories of people shoplifting from Walgreens and nothing about tax cheats even though it involves multitudes more money. They want to define crime as existing entirely within the poor

Holy. Shit. They're literally saying Trump's felonies aren't that bad compared to the "real felonies". Bear in mind, they're ignoring J6 and "gimme 12000 votes" call and the stolen docs. We joke, but this is literally Newsmax copy.

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Loving these quotes from Iranians explaining their vote. CC: Americans who think there’s little difference between Biden and Trump.

Whoa.

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the thing is, the richest country in the history of the world could absolutely afford to fund FEDERAL SANDWICH, forever, and then while we might not be the coolest country because there's other stuff too, in one way we would be the cool sandwich country

POSTAL BANKING is a great idea and it leads me to my other great idea: FEDERAL SANDWICH. Guaranteed access to a sandwich to anyone who wants one at ANY US Federal Govt facility. Let me explain. No, there is too much, let me sum up:

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"RETRUTH IF YOU WANT TELEVISED MILITARY TRIBUNALS" is, to me, a deranged and instantly disqualifying thing for a presidential candidate to say, but on the other hand joe biden looks and sounds very old

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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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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If this resonates with you as an expert in your field, please feel free to hit me up on how to pitch an op-ed to MSNBC dot com

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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I just want to save this series of tweets for posterity. Hopefully, we’ll have a chance to go back over what’s going on here when tempers have cooled.

Ah, we’ve reached “the director saw LADY FROM SHANGHAI in film school” portion of the movie. #TheLastDriveIn

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I gotta say that people are having a lot of trouble distinguishing cognitive decline (Trump) from age-related changes in expression (Biden). Biden is elderly and talks like it. Trump literally does not have preserved reality-testing

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the breadth of misinformation is unreal. a woman next to us at dinner said she went to cuba when “trump opened the border” and her date said “best president ever.” obama did that!!! trump reversed it!!!

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Biden was great in the George Stephanopoulos interview. Couple points I wish he’d hammered down on more, but it went well, and Biden had Stephanopoulos forced to concede on a few points, like the fact that polling is very, very broken.

Well, specifically for the final season.

Weird fact: Manny Coto, director of DR GIGGLES, was also EP and showrunner for STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE #TheLastDriveIn