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John Paul George Ringo

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"Bc he’s always been useful 2 people smarter than he is—those w/desires 4 influence & wealth—he’s been given unfathomable power by 10s of millions of voters (most will benefit not at all); the corrupt, illegitimate supermajority of SCOTUS, which granted him a near-imperial presidency; & his party."

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New publisher listing for: Excision Magazine (Fiction; pays; fee-based). #WritingCommunity

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The "young intern" at the White House who has been retweeting juvenile, racist, and otherwise embarrassing material from Donald Trump's account for at least 11 years was born on June 14, 1946 at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center, New York, NY. He sometimes goes by the name John Barron.

I literally don’t care about the Superbowl at all but that said I really hope the Patriots lose

The prophecy, fulfilled

Still life with oranges.

"So that's it? So long and good luck competing in an unfairly gerrymandered district?!" "I don't recall saying 'good luck.'"

America should move on from Trump after the latest Epstein files releases.

We voted in the Tuesday, February 10th special election.

"Girlboss" as an epithet was a load-bearing piece of the new societal consensus that women are inherently bourgeois and don't deserve power or status, and it needs reclamation stat before we truly return to monke on gender issues

We'll know if the Mike Pence fly makes a reappearance

I've joked occasionally that the only thing more pathetic than picking a fight with teenagers is losing a fight to teenagers, and man did this video back that up. I hope he replays that split decision every day of his sentence, which would ideally be served in Woke Jail instead of actual prison

My basic heuristic simply from my time as a canvasser is "portray your chosen cause in as favorite a light as possible to bystanders and onlookers, and at all times act in a way distinct from the way an opponent paid to imitate and discredit you in word and deed might act"

Yes. Make no mistake, Epstein's apparent ties to damn near everyone with money, power, and fame demand an investigation; which is why I want a Truth, Reconciliation and Demalarkization committee to get a factual recounting instead of the internet just taking one unreliable narrator at face value

I am now the Co-Editor of the @bsfa.bsky.social fission anthology. We open for submissions midnight on 13th February, and now pay 3p (roughly 4c) a word. I hope to see lots of great stories. I am very excited about this! 😁 www.bsfa.co.uk/fission

Tucker owns #caturday

You can spend a couple of hours reading and re-skeeting various diatribes and hot takes on the interminable internecine left-lib conflicts, having all sorts of feelings about it all; and then you read something like this, and it all fades to red as you remember the true face of evil in this world

Wasn't planning on flying any time in the next few years anyway but goddamn this is a bad idea

They're all Cartmans and they'd absolutely kill every one of us if they could to avoid being in the minority

A title that I as yet have no story for: "Swimming in the Wake of the Speedboat of Bad Decisions"

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com

"They're just gonna lie, nobody's gonna do anything, the public doesn't care and won't notice, they control the news" Every single government has to care about public opinion, and they're finding out that dictatorships have to care twice as hard on the good days.

Also, may I say that I don’t agree with people saying ICE and CBP need “more training.” They’re doing exactly what this administration has trained them to—impose a reign of fear in blue cities. They don’t need more training. They need to be ripped up root and branch.

FINALLY someone says it on the damned telly

"We live entirely, especially if we are writers, by the imposition of a narrative line upon disparate images, by the 'ideas' with which we have learned to freeze the shifting phantasmagoria which is our actual experience." -- Joan Didion

I loved all these and more. Get Fuzzy was a constant delight. Between Shoe, Doonesbury, Bloom County and a book of Ben Sargent's political cartoons I found on my mother's bookshelf, I hated Ronald Reagan well and truly by the age of twelve or thirteen

I just finished THEIR EYES WERE WATCHING GOD by Zora Neale Hurston.

Look at our cat! LOOK AT HIM.

Oh my goodness, this Wall Street Journal piece about Trump's ailing health that includes an interview with him (gift link). There are a number of ridiculous details in it and I'll put a few of them in this thread. (1/6)

I walked around our neighborhood today....

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Container ship on Puget Sound. Taken from Richmond Beach Road, Shoreline, Washington.

Clam chowder, iced tea, ling cod, salad, and onion rings at Seattle Fish Company!

Just finished AT THE BOTTOM OF THE RIVER by Jamaica Kincaid.

Tucker Tucker Peanut Butter surveys his realm #Caturday

A #chivalrous knight Riding under azure skies Fading into dreams #haiku #vss365

For the past five years, I have crisscrossed our state to offer free & bilingual writing classes to more than 850 students in 50 towns & cities. My very last Humanities Washington class is Tuesday night at Folio in Pike Place Market. 12/9 at 6. Register here: www.folioseattle.org/event-detail...