Give everyone equal access to death cabs, not just cuties
"Good tsar, bad boyars" has been a recurring theme of Trumpism every year the dude's been office. It's wild.
Even when they show signs of weakness or forced regret, we must not give an inch. Authoritarian governments still respond to public opinion, which is why sustained pressure matters. We have to keep making clear that these thuggish actions are unconscionable and will not be tolerated. Don’t let up.
Heads up, #Iowa folks.
Well, a) that mellowing was much more around the economic sphere- social and political reform was meager and b) to your earlier point, any reform that came about did because of intense external pressure, both positive and negative
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If you create things: Don’t ever believe they’re dead. Believe you have an opportunity to finish what you start. Believe good work will stay with your readers. Believe that sometimes, you get a second chance.
I’m gonna take a goddamn nap now
Six months ago, my editor contacted me and gave me the opportunity to finish this work. I have written another 50,000 words and today I just turned in my final updated article. 3.5 years, 750,000 words: No idea how I actually feel at this moment.
NEWS. 13 years ago, I started work on an encyclopedia of U.S. military actions. Three years of work, 700,000 words- and two weeks after turning in the last article, the publisher axed the project.
I am 50 and I desperately want to stop making decisions. The old bastards running this country are deeply sick. Stay home and do Legos and learn how to make gnocchi, what the fuck are you doing
Welp, hasn’t happened yet, blew my parlay
The US government installed “hereditary chiefs” across countless Native American nations, in order to have someone “credible” to sign treaties with. Literally one of the first things we did as a country
This is the only day of the year I post
In my sci-fi novel Acadia from 2013:
-A Russia-related scandal leads to a complete overhaul of the US intelligence community
-An anti-Mexican demagogue briefly seizes power
-the richest man in the world rules space in collusion with pro-AI forces that secretly shape US foreign policy
Told ya
"The Empire is like America ten years from now".
Please tell me one of the kids gets thrown off Hell In A Cell and plummets 16 ft through an announcer’s table
three million years ago somebody picked up a rock because it looked like a little face and held onto it
This is older than any god this is who we truly are
the pope isn't from chicago unless he works being from chicago into every conversation
Recognize ≠ respect
You don’t flip over the table when you’re holding aces
Great minds!
Feeling emboldened that perhaps, in my lifetime, we could have a pope that was in The Sea and Cake
*two wolves fly out of the soles of your feet*
Didn’t even need the third F-18 to get a pope from Chicago, it turns out
-Their fleet could not have accomplished anything had they not briefly paralyzed the New Republic’s political and military leadership.
The Mothma Doctrine was proven correct; while the First Order and Final Order bet on huge capital ships which could force the surrender of key planets, neither could deal with the numbers or agility of the Citizens’ Fleet once concentrated. This is why the First Order destroyed Hosnian Prime-
Associate Director for Research Libraries position at the Smithsonian Institute
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A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
