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Jared Gillins 🥧
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Husband, brother, and friend. Doubt-filled, believing Latter-day Saint Christian. Professional editor, amateur reader, and enthusiastic home chef.
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All right—I took the trouble to migrate here, and I'd like to try to be a poster, not just a reskeeter. Here's me:

I'm a technical editor and writer by day, and I've been slowly (slooowly!) working on a nonfiction narrative book for the last several years about my mom's very loving, very (1/10)
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my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter
How autumnal is this equinox on a scale of 1 to 10? Your feedback is very important to us.
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I'm a human rights lawyer. I've worked on countless immigration, asylum, & refugee cases.

As the fascist in chief sends ICE and the military to target immigrants in Chicago, here are tangible steps you can take to protect your immigrant neighbors.

(No paywall)
www.qasimrashid.com/p/how-to-pro...
How To Protect Your Immigrant Neighbors From ICE Raids
Answering common FAQs on countering ICE raids, and providing 7 meaningful ways to better protect our immigrant and undocumented neighbors
www.qasimrashid.com
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People saying Trump is dying or possibly dead, but I for one would urge caution, because it is quite possible a second healtbar will appear as he enters his second phase and a gargantuan centipede will burst forth from his torso, so be careful of his new sweep attacks and toxic buildup from bites.
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i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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That's pretty much the entire regime consolidation strategy, which is why I still think it will be unsuccessful. A successful coup in the U.S. would probably avoid the authoritarian aesthetic and focus on winning the loyalty of key power blocs. Trump is doing the opposite.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
This is a real photograph of Washington, DC this week, where the United States president has ordered military occupation in peacetime, and ordered the display of colossal portraits of himself.

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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There is just no precedent in recent world history of an advanced industrialized country sabotaging its own scientific establishment, and destroying the base of scientific knowledge necessary for basic policymaking. An avowedly, actively anti-knowledge regime.
Head of NASA Sean Duffy intends to destroy a satellite that collects key data on carbon dioxide and plant health, by causing it to burn up in the atmosphere. The U.S. Dept of Agriculture and private agriculture firms use the data to forecast crop yield, drought conditions and more.
Why a NASA satellite that scientists and farmers rely on may be destroyed on purpose
The Trump administration has asked NASA staffers to draw up plans to end at least two satellite missions that measure carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, according to current and former NASA employees.
www.npr.org
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Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”
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Don’t let this die. Keep elevating this.
Pete Hegseth shares a clip saying women shouldn’t have the right to vote, the 19th Amendment should be “repealed,” and women should “submit” to their husbands: “All of Christ for All of Life”
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The EPA announced that it has terminated collective bargaining agreements with five unions representing thousands of employees.
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Save hard copies of books. What LLMs don't erase from the internet, fascists will erase from public life. Nothing digital or temporary (like a museum exhibit) is safe. Keep hard copies of history. Slavery. The Holocaust. Civil rights. Everything.
Smithsonian removes Trump from impeachment exhibit in American history museum
A temporary placard, on display since 2021, described the president's historic impeachments. Officials said the exhibit was restored to an earlier version following a review of legacy content.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Every time you buy this book, you slightly increase the chance of Elon Musk yelling at me. Please do your part.
The brilliant, hilarious, bestselling investigation into space settlement is now in paperback! Leaving Earth and settling Mars feels tempting these days, but have we thought this through? A CITY ON MARS has answers. Learn more:
www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/639449...

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Among the greatest promotional photos of all time are these for the 1990 television movie of IT, where it looks like a prestige legal drama about a firm of hot young lawyers and one associate who likes to dress up like a clown.
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House Republicans are setting up a new select subcommittee on January 6, chaired by Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA), to “continue Congress’ investigation” into the Capitol attack. But here’s the thing the original bipartisan January 6 Select Committee already conducted a full investigation.
Chambray shirt on the right, hands down.
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You should never follow any of these color charts. They are all stupid.

I'll show you why. 🧵
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I am no constitutional scholar, but I can't help but feel that "the President gets to dictate what every university can teach and what every television station should broadcast" is closer to what the founding fathers were worried about when it comes to free speech than trigger warnings on syllabi.
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Still the greatest takedown of men who complain about women's voices on podcasts/radio (written by Katie Mingle of 99% Invisible)
Katie Mingle 4EVA