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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 12h

From the paper that brought you Woodward and Bernstein? Egad!

The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 14h

Your luggage is carrying not only your clothes, but germs from airport terminals, hotel lobbies, city streets and parking lots.

Here’s how to give it a good cleaning:

Your travel gear is gross. Here’s how to clean it.

Medical and cleaning experts share tips on how to clean common travel items like luggage, toothbrush holders and neck pillows.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 22h

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS Cornwall” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/nokings/even...

NO KINGS Cornwall · No Kings

**In America, we don’t put up with would-be kings.** Our peaceful movement is only getting bigger and stronger. “NO KINGS” is more than just a slogan—it’s the foundation our nation was built upon. Bo...

www.mobilize.us

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 23h

Bound book day for THE INSIDER! And what a beautiful object the fine people at Penguin Press have produced. I could not be happier with it, or with them.

Pub date is November 4th -- oh boy, or maybe shudder.

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 2d

I am seventy-five years old, and I guess I am cursed for the rest of whatever life is left to me to try to figure out how the genuinely stupidest people on earth came to be able to control the once greatest country on earth. To have been born in 1950 and for things to come to this, well, fuck me.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 2d

Rep. Buddy Carter: "Donald Trump deserves the Nobel Peace Prize. That's why I'm introducing a resolution today that will honor him with the Nobel Peace Prize."

(It doesn't work like that lol)

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 4d

Getthefuckouttamyway! (NYC)

Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d

What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 4d

Tracy Flick becomes the woman she was always destined to be.

statuskuo.substack.com/p/pam-bondi-...

Pam Bondi Is a Piece of Work

And it’s clearer than ever that she sees her job as covering for and protecting criminals within the Trump regime.

statuskuo.substack.com

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 6d

Exactly the Kent State moment I was expecting. Alas, more of these to come, now that shame has left the civic building.

chicago.suntimes.com/news/2025/10...

Attorney for woman shot by Border Patrol claims officer said 'Do something b----' before shooting

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government's claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorn...

chicago.suntimes.com

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 6d

Not a common choice, but hey, Gore can be approached and appreciated from so many angles.

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 6d

As Gore said/lamented. "Always a godhead, never a god."

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 6d

This is Vidal's best novel and that is really saying something. It puts him up there with Mary Renault and Robert Graves.

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 7d

Quite true! But the rest of a Vidal essay willl always pack a whole lot more wit and insight and erudition. I think he was the best American literary essayist of the past century.

H.L. Mencken’s Winking Ghost @harrysimmons3578.bsky.social · 7d

What I enjoy most about Gore Vidal's literary criticism is that he often tells you more in a sneering aside than most critics will tell you in an eight page review.

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 7d

Can we have the seventies back, please? Upsides like this more than make up for the, um, downsides.

Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 7d

Aired October 5, 1979: Blondie performing on The Midnight Special

Blondie • Live Midnight Special • 1979

YouTube video by Blondie Archive

youtu.be

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 9d

Whereas one of Wallace Stevens's colleagues at the Hartford thought that he was really just a big kidder in his poems.

Levi Stahl @levistahl.bsky.social · 9d

He often seemed to be living in a dreamland.

—one of T. S. Eliot’s colleagues at Lloyds

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 9d

Dude did ayahuasca before ayahuasca was cool. (That is Lucien Carr in the middle, btw.)

ginsbergpoem.bsky.social @ginsbergpoem.bsky.social · 10d

@beatgrrrl.bsky.social - Burroughs Yage Letters, Ginsberg's and Trump's America, today, the anniversary of the Howl verdict and upcoming anniversary of the Howl reading - allenginsberg.org/2025/10/f-o-...

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 10d

The Saudi Comedy Fest -- unbelievable! -- is nicely timed to coincide with this anniversary. Gotta love their sense of humor, right?

Andy Carvin @acarv.in · 11d

The Saudi government murdered Jamal Khashoggi seven years ago today. His editor @karenattiah.bsky.social wrote this two years ago.

Opinion | The moment I knew the world would try to move on from Jamal Khashoggi

I could see it coming at Time’s 2018 Person of the Year celebration.

wapo.st

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 10d

One of Kerouac's best books. On balance is got better reviews than ON THE ROAD, but the shock of the new had worn off and sales were far less.

Beatghoul ⑆⑇⑈⑉ @beatgrrrl.bsky.social · 10d

October 2, 1958: Jack Kerouac's The Dharma Bums was first published. The semi-fictional accounts in the novel are based upon events that occurred years after the events of On the Road.

Jack Kerouac wearing a suit and tie sitting side saddle in a large wooden chair.

A copy of the novel The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac.

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 10d

"Saudi Comedy Fest"!!! Yeah, everybody knows that their political assassinations and dismemberments really kill. Amazingly a number of women comics are performing at it. Sisterhood ain't so powerful when Saudi cash is on the table. Mo' money, less integrity.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/w...

At Saudi Comedy Fest, American Free Speech Becomes the Punchline

www.nytimes.com

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 13d

I believe he wrote high-class porn for Olympia Press. Versatile!

Howard A. Rodman @rodman.bsky.social · 13d

September 27 was Alexander Trocchi Freedom Day.

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 13d

Will Kirkus start reviewing new flavors and brands?

Rakesh Satyal @rakeshsatyal.bsky.social · 13d

They’re blurbing yogurt now

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 14d

You could go back to this classic, almost ur-memoir to refresh. your sense of the artistry a great writer can bring to the form.

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 14d

Just saw it and it has some very powerful moments and some overstated and silly ones. The zeitgeist will kick in when commentators on the right notice that it is very much in sympathy with left radical revoutionaries committed to and capable of expert violence. Hoo boy, just you wait.

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 14d

I like this list enormously and especiallly applaud the inclusion of Harry Mathews and Edward Dahlberg.McElroy always defeated me, though, and I tried more than once.

Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 15d

You will want to read this amazing book by Patrick Leigh Fermor and then its two sequels. He did exactly that.

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 24d

Ilya Kuryakin!

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Gerald Howard @ghoward1950.bsky.social · 24d

Thank you!

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