Dustin
@theunread.bsky.social
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I no longer run a bookstore in Portland.
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theunread.bsky.social
I do not think we should have authoritarianism school.
saletan.bsky.social
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.
sherylnyt.bsky.social
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:
theunread.bsky.social
This is true.
atrupar.com
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."
theunread.bsky.social
I bet having a pint glass smashed against your face feels so good.

“I deserve this.“
theunread.bsky.social
You famously don’t know about books. “That’s Liz. She doesn’t know. About books.”
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jedhaas.bsky.social
Possibly the single best opening panel I’ve ever read in this one
theunread.bsky.social
"This is a good hook and we should pin the piece to it." —every editor
theunread.bsky.social
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.
erinbiba.bsky.social
One of my favorite things about NYC is whenever anyone runs for office here they are required to disclose their bagel order.
theunread.bsky.social
countdown until the scolding op ed . . .
theunread.bsky.social
I could watch 40 hours of this thing
theunread.bsky.social
Heart full of admiration for New Directions. Only got their Nobel announcement email blast out TODAY. That's what I like to see.
theunread.bsky.social
and yet she didnt rt the grippy gooper
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greatlakesqueer.bsky.social
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
theunread.bsky.social
@xrayfm.bsky.social needs merch that just lets ppl know I would commit crimes for @djgilliflower.bsky.social
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mariabustillos.com
weak lol sure they would
atrupar.com
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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brian-goldstone.bsky.social
One more thing: people are homeless because they have been deprived of housing.

You solve homelessness with homes.
theunread.bsky.social
Calling him "Tulsa artist" is so funny
theunread.bsky.social
would you say you're the baseline there
theunread.bsky.social
haven't said it yet but this was great, btw. Thanks for it.
theunread.bsky.social
Make a new bigger golder one lfg
newrepublic.com
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
theunread.bsky.social
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.”