I wish I could share a relevant anecdote here about something a publisher once said to me but I am too discreet. HOWEVER, if you're ever told the key to an author's success is something that isn't writing books, run.
Just a legal historian here reminding everyone that “high crimes and misdemeanors” do not need to be felonies.
They can include political abuses and stupidity, like, hypothetically, destroying the economy and wiping out people’s savings in 3 days.
A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.
Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
thinking about the amount of context necessary to explain to someone from 2010 what people are protesting with signs reading "cheap eggs not measles" or "tax the rich, not the penguins"
val kilmer, a man with dark hair dressed in gold armor holding a sword. he stands in front of a stone doorway
i will love you forever madmartigan 🖤
So did millennials. RIP Doc 😢
Excerpt from here: https://web.archive.org/web/20250331121424/https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/civil-war-mark-twain-fiction-trump-reality-excerpt
From THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP: web.archive.org/web/20250331...
"There’s no messiah who will sweep in and make everything better. That’s up to you and me."
Fighting Back: A Citizen’s Guide to Resistance | Ordinary people have more power than they know.
Read it + share it with a friend:
Sending a Russian dissent back to Russia to be tortured and/or killed perfectly encapsulates this loathsome administration’s lack of American values.
LIVING in fascism
Connect with people
Strengthen your support network
Prepare your possessions, pets & pathways
Care for your physical/mental health as best as possible
Find tiny, joyful moments everywhere
Avoid mainstream media
Be ready to help
Be ready to ASK for help
(please add!)
Today I learned …
They’re going to do it piecemeal to reduce the risk of concerted pushback. It will be one firm and one school at a time playing Prisoner’s Dilemma. A few have already picked Defect.
Senator Tina Smith & A @SenTinaSmith More bullsh!t. @realDonaldTrump, you can't shut down the Department of Education - and you know it. Fox News even knows it. So stop it. We know you're just trying to wear us out. But for the record, I am not overwhelmed. My zone isn't flooded. I will fight your illegal behavior until the cows come home, and I'm pretty sure the hundreds of thousands of people who've contacted my office since you started this nonsense are on the same page
Be like Tina.
When admin or trustees say they want to shut down a course on queer theory or Black feminism to teach Shakespeare or Milton, it’s good to remember they don’t want to read Shakespeare or Milton either
ralls apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1912
ralls apples, painted by amanda almira newton, 1912
X post by Timothy Snyder (@TimothyD ...), posted 6 hours ago. The post reads, "The people Attorney General Bondi is calling 'terrorists' have had no trial and no chance to defend them. We do not know they are. Ignoring the Constitution does not make us safe. It puts us all in peril."
I know this first hand. When I was a child, my entire community was branded as spies and sabateurs, justifying our internment inside barbed wire camps for years without due process, trial or charge.
If you let the executive deport people to a foreign gulag just by pronouncing the word “terrorism,” then expect to be called a “terrorist” soon yourself.
There is no such thing as a "frivolous" or "unserious bill" before a state legislature or Congress. That belief is how fascism worms into law.
If a bill is looking to do evil things, the politician(s) behind it are looking to do evil things.
When people tell you who they are, believe them.
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That's it. Remove @schumer.senate.gov as minority leader. Enough Quislings.
In case you need a break
Democrats in array?
👇🎯 Everything since January 20 boils down, ultimately, to a total failure of everyone in the legislative branch to fulfill their damn oaths of office to country & Constitution.
No longer can this be the face of our fight for democracy!
Chuck needs to resign.
So, you’re going to roll over and let them have their way?
Time to retire
This isn't the canary in the coal mine, it's a mine shaft full of dead miners.
Hoping this doesn’t qualify as what @george-lakoff.com calls a trial balloon…
Brb, going to watch whitehouse.gov and congress.gov for any bullshit about this
First they came for….
Yo, does anyone have alternatives to publishing your book on Amazon? I’m all for a great migration
