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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 2d

Against the Day? More like Against the Reader with all these dang plots! Just kidding but really the book does kinda lose itself when it leaves america for europe just my two cents

alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 2d

Imagine if Goodie Cloyce saw this shit

alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 3d

Found a good one

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 3d

I wish every writer got a nobel prize

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 3d

“"One of the chants that has become ubiquitous at these protests at Broadview is, 'Love your neighbor, love your God, save your soul and quit your job," said Black, who pastors at the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. ‘Everybody chants that.’”

Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 4d

NEW: I spoke to clergy and faith leaders who've joined protests at the Chicago-area ICE facility.

Three say they've been shot with pepper balls, sometimes while praying.

All say ICE is also violating their religious freedom, and one is arguing it in court. religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Religious protesters say ICE threatens religious freedom in Chicago

(RNS) — Despite potential danger, religious leaders and faith activists have been a visible presence at Chicago-area ICE protests, some waving signs with slogans such as ‘Love thy neighbor’ and ‘Who w...

religionnews.com

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 4d

Turning on the oven light to speed up the roast chicken

alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 4d

“the role of the tree for decades
taken by a bonsai, voices
rising from tennis courts —
Fields. Smell of the tall grass, new cut.
As one expects of a lyric poet.
We look at the world once, in childhood.
The rest is memory.”

Louise Glück. Nostos. 1996.

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 5d

“those onetime honkytonk cities of the plain”

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 7d

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 7d

The rethuglicans ruined my trip to John Adams’ house with their government shut down

alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 7d

⬆️ Thomas Pynchon. Against the Day. 2006.

alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 7d

“the dark promise revealed to Americans during the Civil War, obeying since then its own terrible inertia, as the Republican victors kept after Plains Indians, strikers, Red immigrants, any who were not likely docile material for the mills of of the newly empowered order.”

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 8d

A better world is possible

immacule.bsky.social @immacule.bsky.social · 9d

Pope Leo XIV with Young Palestinians from the Youth of Jesus’ Homeland in Palestine.

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 8d

as was said three thousand years ago so still it must be said 'the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether.'

alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 8d

Driving my father-in-law’s truck listening to Dylan’s Modern Times. recommend.

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 8d

Never considered the idea of multiple golden ages. Real puts the actual, historical and singular golden age to shame

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 9d

Roth producing his own Library of America editions and not using the Gun Larson caligraphy? The Nobel Committee had its reasons

alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 12d

These ICE fellas have zero hustle. in this rotten empire even the hired goons are in collapse.

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Devin 🌞 Thomas O’Shea @devintoshea.bsky.social · 18d

a true honor to go on Left Reckoning to talk VINELAND with @mattlech.bsky.social — prep for PTA's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER — check it out ⤵️

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 17d

Great ep!

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 17d

2026 the word "maiden" is coming back into the vernacular

alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 17d

Great point! and also explains why the colonies lost the revolutionary war

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 17d

for a lot of you, it's the summer I turned petty

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alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 20d

You better believe my own journal entries from the last few days have a bootleg-emerson ring to them

alex angelosanto @alexangelosanto.bsky.social · 20d

"Every primal Truth is alone an expression of all Nature…A leaf is a compend of Nature, and Nature a colossal leaf.“

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