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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 6h

I do not think we should have authoritarianism school.

Will Saletan @saletan.bsky.social · 6h

Here's a neat trick they teach in authoritarianism school: If you purge the people who measure the effects of your policies (BLS, MMWR), you can just claim everything's great, and nobody can prove how much damage you're doing.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 7h

This is true.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 7h

I bet having a pint glass smashed against your face feels so good.

“I deserve this.“

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 7h

You famously don’t know about books. “That’s Liz. She doesn’t know. About books.”

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Jed Haas, Drawler of Silly Comixes @jedhaas.bsky.social · 10h

Possibly the single best opening panel I’ve ever read in this one

Branson Reese @bransonreese.bsky.social · Sep 17

swanboy.com

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 12h

"This is a good hook and we should pin the piece to it." —every editor

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 12h

If you, like me, have a habit of ordering the week-old egg salad the bagel guys line up to give you a kiss on the mouth.

I moved away.

Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 13h

One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.

Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 12h

countdown until the scolding op ed . . .

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 12h

tfw you've learned so much from history

Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 13h

The US military stops getting paid from next week.

White House has, for now, ruled out legislative fix for military pay

Over 1 million military paychecks could go unfulfilled on Oct. 15.

www.politico.com

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 12h

I could watch 40 hours of this thing

Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 13h

Heart full of admiration for New Directions. Only got their Nobel announcement email blast out TODAY. That's what I like to see.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 13h

and yet she didnt rt the grippy gooper

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⛈ 🦅 mekadebines 🦅 ⛈ @greatlakesqueer.bsky.social · 13h

Bebías Into Ohndaa Ke, a new anthology on queer Indigenous land relations that includes my story in Michif about a transmasc Metis lesbian buffalo hunter, is now available for purchase, and I’m dyinggg bc it got blurbed by so many of my favorite scholars!!!

Bebías Into Ohndaa Ke: Queer Indigenous Knowledge for Land and Community, edited by Sydney Rae Krill & Kleo P Skavinski

Lii Deu Faan Kaa-Wiikihtochik | The Two Women Wed by Kai Pyle

Back cover featuring blurbs by Billy Ray Belcourt, Dian Million, Daniel Voth, Joseph M Pierce, Gina Starblanket, and Heidi Kiiwetinepinesiik Stark

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 13h

@xrayfm.bsky.social needs merch that just lets ppl know I would commit crimes for @djgilliflower.bsky.social

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Maria Bustillos @mariabustillos.com · 15h

weak lol sure they would

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16h

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

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JPB @jpb.bsky.social · 15h

some notes I took from Sofia Samatar & Kate Zambreno's TONE

Sofia Samatar & Kate Zambreno's TONE

Notes [oldest to newest] 1. Melancholy collage 2. Tone as "an organizing quality of feeling" 3. Trash in "The Rings of Saturn" 4. Fred Moten on "voice" and "sound" 5. Fred Moten on "university wo...

archivum.jeremypbushnell.com

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Brian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 17h

One more thing: people are homeless because they have been deprived of housing.

You solve homelessness with homes.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 16h

Calling him "Tulsa artist" is so funny

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Nick @ecosozialismus.bsky.social · 17h

Fuck you Aaron Schmautz. This is why we kept you out of the labor council.

Portland police union head welcomes fed support to help ‘horrifically understaffed’ cops end ‘burst’ in crime

President Donald Trump has signaled he wants to send National Guard units into Portland, Ore., in order to protect the city as well as ICE facilities, which he said have come under attack by Antifa…

nypost.com

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 16h

Here's a movie that's good. A good movie.
archive.org/details/The_...

archive.org

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 16h

would you say you're the baseline there

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 16h

haven't said it yet but this was great, btw. Thanks for it.

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 16h

Make a new bigger golder one lfg

The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 16h

Speaking with Fox Business Friday morning, Rep. Buddy Carter said that (instead of working to end the government shutdown) he and his colleagues were going to file a resolution “today” to honor the president with the Nobel Prize. trib.al/otK0dlI

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 16h

this rules

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Dustin @theunread.bsky.social · 1d

maggie nelson why are you picking a fight with steven hotdog

Maggie Nelson against her copycats: In a new Paris Review interview, the influential poet, essayist, and author says braided fragments won’t save your writing: “I think people have a hope and a prayer that if they toss in a bunch of quotes, or⁠—and I certainly did not invent the numbered form⁠—add numbers to a piece, it will all magically hang together.”

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