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Posture of defeat.

Behind everything some further thing is found, forever; thus the tree behind the bird, stone beneath soil, the sun behind Urth. Behind our efforts, let there be found our efforts.

John Podhoretz tweet: "Trump bombed Iran. He can say Shylock 100 times a day forever as far as I’m concerned." https://x.com/jpodhoretz/status/1941185424174821558

Two decades of comics and he just tweeted it out

these numbers are a decent indication that the whole "the left is ostracizing young men" thing is, if not entirely fictional, at least very overblown

Illinois man sentenced to 53 years for hate crime killing of 6-year-old Palestinian American boy and wounding his mother Joseph Czuba, 73, fatally stabbed Wadee Alfayoumi in the Chicago suburb of Plainfield Township.

the journos weren't saying these kinds of things about Zionism when this murder happened

Your belief in those assertions and that anyone saying anything to the contrary is a russian asset is precisely why your party lost in 2016, 2024 and nearly lost in 2020.

Guy who's never heard of the Great Fear:

This is how I learned the pope was dead.

I've heard he's about as good as a Maryland Dem can be.

Reading is writing #8: Rachel Cusk’s accessory dwelling unit And the cost of the coming recession.

Wrote about mirrored characters in Rachel Cusk’s 2021 novel Second Place. This one is pretty much straight up english homework.

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writing a campus novel where the dean runs a spy network of sex pests

Reading is Writing #7: Headshot Rita Bullwinkel plays with her food. Also, Tariffs? Gorbachev?

Rita Bullwinkel's 2024 debut novel "Headshot," is a lot of fun. The book's characters have a weird relationship to food, and usually only think about food when they're getting their asses kicked.

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With all the tariff madness, don't lose sight of the attack on students rights and on immigrant rights.

DSA also had a contingent at the Palestine march, but IDK if it was Official

Tariffs give domestic firms greater pricing power, that's pretty much it.

How to write battle scenes #1 You could do a hell of a lot worse than Emile Zola.

I don’t think most writers write a battle scene intending to make a flag into a gendered symbol of national-sexual pride or to write the experience of defeat as orgasmic, but Emile Zola did.

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Picnic at Hanging Rock is slept on

Reading is Writing #6: Dead dogs and sad women What’s with this dog motif? Do you have something against dogs?

Reading Brad Watson's 1996 collection 'Last Days of the Dog-Men' got me thinking about how symbols are constructed in stories. Sometimes all it takes is a couple of repeated verbs.

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we'll have to make nuremberg look like a high school mock trial if we want to stop this shit from happening again

why are all tesla supporters violent criminals?

great job with the cr chuck.

BookTok, Gene Wolfe and T.S. Eliot. Books teach you how to read them. But you have to be willing to learn.

Is the cure to BookTok's illiteracy just to read more? One asshole says, "maybe?"

Which is to say, whatever comes after this there has to be a full accounting for all the crimes of the American state committed in living memory.

Some of this is directly traceable to the obama admin's decision not to prosecute the torturers and butchers from the bush admin. There's a direct through line from that unconscionable political cowardice to this cruelty becoming normal.

31 of my senators have pledged to vote no on a cloture motion I supported, the only senator backing me publicly is a brain damaged failson, someone who's good at being Senate Minority Leader help me my party is dying.