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HR Ryan

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Writer 🦉baseball fan ⚾ fighting for women's liberation Native New Yorker, now NH Dem Editor of "Bootheel Boy", Mark Littell's fourth book www.amazon.com/author/marklittell

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HR Ryan @hrryan.bsky.social · Mar 4

NOTHING IS OVER UNTIL WE DECIDE IT'S OVER

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Bluto's Speech from Animal House

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HR Ryan @hrryan.bsky.social · 1h

And Biden and Blinken tried very hard to negotiate a ceasefire, but neither side would agree. Now I'm wondering if Qatar was also dragging their feet, hoping Trump would get elected - he's fine with bribery.

HR Ryan @hrryan.bsky.social · 1h

There is nothing to sign yet, as far as I can gather. None of the "next steps" after the hostage release have been agreed upon.

HR Ryan @hrryan.bsky.social · 1h

Everyone behind him has the fixed smile people make when they are humoring obnoxious drunks.

HR Ryan @hrryan.bsky.social · 2h

But Lovecraft's clunky lurid prose was a big part of his appeal. "You fool, Warren is dead!"

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BeijingPalmer @beijingpalmer.bsky.social · 4h

Dune is a badly written novel but it’s very exciting if you read it at the right age for the ideas to captivate you enough that your brain can compensate for the prose.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 17h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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HR Ryan @hrryan.bsky.social · 2h

So much of science fiction is like that.

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Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com · 2h

Four cemetery workers, all U.S. citizens, arrested during a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement operation that crossed over onto the private Concordia Cemetery in the west suburban village of Forest Park.

Forest Park cemetery workers recount traumatic clash with ICE; mayor calls for crackdown to end

‘If this is happening to me, a U.S. citizen, what are they doing to the other individuals?’

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dharmalee3❌👑 @dharmalee3.bsky.social · 2h

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HR Ryan @hrryan.bsky.social · 2h

I'm sure Trump was in on it too.

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The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 3h

Donald Trump tried to rewrite history (again) Monday—this time at the expense of Hillary Clinton.

Trump Invents Tale of World Leader Snubbing Hillary Clinton

The 79-year-old president gave a false account of Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s 2016 meeting with Clinton—one that made himself look good.

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HR Ryan @hrryan.bsky.social · 3h

I never pay any attention to that guy. Or to Jon Stewart.

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Ragnarok Lobster @eclecticbrotha1.bsky.social · 3h

So many similarities to GOP candidate Nixon dispatching Kissinger to sabotage LBJ's Vietnam talks, initiating a horrendous Cambodian bombing campaign after winning the 1968 election - only to sign essentially the same deal in 1973 that LBJ had put together 5 years earlier.
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