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We made a site - Resist2025.org
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voters in one of America’s bluest, most "progressive" states rejected a measure to cap skyrocketing rents — and now, it seems, one to ban *forced prison labor*
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in retrospect, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords really might've been a better basis for a system of government.
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And today, Joe Biden signed an Executive Order preventing 700,000 Teamsters from taking cuts of up to 75 percent of pension from ex-employers, and affirming that Sean O'Brien, @Teamsters president and special guest at the RNC, is a soulless, craven, back-stabbing mook.
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Just heard from Fadi that I was the first journalist in Paris to interview him. That staggers me and it says so goddam much. He has a story unlike any athlete in Paris and yet remains deliberately unheard. Makes me want to holler.
Just interviewed Fadi Deeb, the only Palestinian Olympian from Gaza as well as the only Palestinian Paralympian. An incredibly kind, incredibly resilient human being. Thank you to @leylahamed for the introduction.
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A little story about my #LifeBMemoir that I need to get off my psyche's shoulders:
Earlier this year a neighbor asked if I would be willing to speak with neighborhood book club, in June.
I said yes, put date on calendar. Thread. . .
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This is the sacred text they should be teaching in Oklahoma schools
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Trump agreed on a September 10th debate.
It now appears he's backpedaling.
Voters deserve to see the split screen that exists on a debate stage.
I'm ready. So let's go.
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Could not agree more. Brooks is an intellectual lightweight who's never worked a day in his life.
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I will stop caring about JD Vance potentially fucking a couch when JD Vance stops caring about whether people who won't fuck him have children.
Until then, my official position is that people who can't be left alone in Raymour & Flanigan shouldn't be Vice President.
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All hands on deck, Dear Friends 🇺🇸
I support Kamala Harris 100% ‼️ I also honor President Joe Biden’s decision. Such a hard one. We have never been here before. The stakes could not be higher. These words from “The Open Space of Democracy” (2004) “Democracy depends on engagement, a firsthand accounting of what one sees, what one feels, and what one thinks, followed by the artful practice of expressing the truth of our times through our own talents, gifts, and vocations.
Question. Stand. Speak. Act.
We have a history of bravery in this nation and we must call it forward now. Our future is guaranteed only by the degree of our personal involvement and commitment to an inclusive justice.”
We will rise‼️
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Powerful Dems:
Sometimes you call me about class & rural, though you rarely listen.
Now would be a good time to call me again.
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Nearly $15,000,000 donated through ActBlue in the last hour alone.
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I will do all that I can to help elect @KamalaHarris the next President of the United States.
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On behalf of the American people, I thank Joe Biden for his extraordinary leadership as President of the United States and for his decades of service to our country.
I am honored to have the President’s endorsement and my intention is to earn and win this nomination.
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Thrilled to have been able to talk to @frumpenberg about her gorgeous first book of fiction, HOUSEMATES, for @lareviewofbooks. We had such an incredible talk <3
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Really thoughtful insights tonight on climate writing from @dwallacewells @bhar_venkat @JonathanSBlake and Jenny Offill. “The end of the world as we know it, is not the end of the world, full stop.”
Hosted at the iconic Bradbury building by @LAReviewofBooks @berggruenInst 🤩✨
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Like Manichaeism, Both-Sidesism is a faith. Both sides are held to be the same. People of the Both-Sides Faith believe they simply describe the world. In fact they follow a doctrine that arranges everything for them and delivers them from the responsibility to think.
This is galling: Media accounts are noting that both Trump and Dems are attacking the other as a grave threat to democracy.
But Dems base this on what Trump and his allies *say in their own words.* Trump makes shit up.
Media isn't making this clear. 1/
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