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Brianna Chesser

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Not the character of the day 🫶 “That’s a matter between me and my grammarian”

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · Jun 17

Arrests the right has been calling unjust government overreach for 30+ years

Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, being led out of his cabin by an FBI agent who looks like a rancher. No tactical gear, just a cowboy hat, and jeans.
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The surrender of Randy Weaver, who was Ashli Babbitt before Ashli Babbitt. In a black and white photo, Weaver is holding his infant daughter and flanked by an FBI agent and aⁿ Idaho state trooper whom he appears to be holding hands with, though maybe they’re cuffed to each other. They’re all wearing jeans, and there’s some uniformed officers behind them. There are two people in the foreground, both civilians, one of them in his teens. The FBI agent is arresting a literal terrorist with what appears to be a cell phone on his belt, and a button-down, not a bunch of body armor.

Weaver sold automatic rifles to Nazis, and also a federal agent. He was small fry, but he got most of his family killed by entering a standoff with the Feds—he told his middle school aged sons to fire on federal officers. For whatever reason (president was a democrat/they love Nazis), republicans thought that this was egregious government overreach, something they couldn’t claim about the idiot in Oregon because we all saw the video of him pointing a gun at cops, and heard the audio clearly. This was impossible for Babbitt because she was surrounded by a bunch of other screaming terrorists, allowing them to create their own fantastic narrative.
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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 54m

I have a collection of Hemingway short stories published fairly recently that have the original draft and final product, for anyone who doubts the veracity of this take.

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Y. Marie Stout @stoutpotentials.bsky.social · 10h

Good editors do the opposite of watering down the author’s voice. They show it off. Like a house after decluttering, reorganizing and adding some spit and polish.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2h

Although it can be a challenge finding an editor who gets what you were going for, working with (and listening to!) an editor always makes your stuff better. They're like a book coach, helping you be the best author you can be.

violent alien @blipstress.bsky.social · 11h

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 2h

In the comments, this exchange made me chuckle.

A thread of three comments.
1. There are some authors where I can TELL when their editor put their foot down because their writing got noticably better between books.
2. And some where you can tell exactly when they got famous enough to override their editor...
3. You don't even need to read to see where it happened most of the time,
This last comment accompanied by a picture of all seven Harry Potter books stacked on top of each other. The first three are normal book length. The last four are thick doorstops, sometimes three times as thick as book one, showing like a geological survey the point where Voldemort got so big her editors became too scared to tell her to trim things down a bit.

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 10h

Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 1h

also, foreign death squads are evil, and only one step away from domestic death squads

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

Schiff: "If a president in secret can put names on a list and kill them, then there is no war power still retained by Congress, and there's no check on an executive who may drag us into another war."

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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 2h

Huge support to the inflatable frog costume person in Portland for both embarrassing the regime and reclaiming frog imagery from the internet right.

pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 3h

The Portland protest frog has done more to protect American democracy and fight fascism than all but the tiniest handful of elected officials

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pumpkin spice amb 🎃 @amb.fyi · 2h

May Pepe be an aberration and Portland guy join Kermit in cementing frogs as permanent members of team wholesome antifascists

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Jill Blake @biscuitkitten.bsky.social · 7h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

Ingrid Bergman as Ilsa Lund in Casablanca

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reillyharper.bsky.social @reillyharper.bsky.social · 5h

Marion would fuck their shit up

a man and woman are walking down a street

ALT: a man and woman are walking down a street

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Human, We are all one /|\ . @markroemers.bsky.social · 2h

Yes a real first lady Mrs Roosevelt

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raventerp1.bsky.social @raventerp1.bsky.social · 3h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tmey...

Casablanca: "La Marseillaise" (Remastered to 4K/48fps HD)

YouTube video by Tales From SYL Ranch DARKROOM

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Tom @alas-not-me.bsky.social · 3h

From now on Viktor Lazlo will be the founder of Antifa to me.

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 1h

Sam is the piano player in the club owned by Rick, her ex, where she's waiting for Victor, her husband, a resistance leader who has escaped from a concentration camp.

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Memma 🇺🇦🌻🇨🇦🍁🦋🌎🌵 @memzart.bsky.social · 4h

Who knew being the girlfriend of the founder/leader of Antifa grants you immortality? Here are the actual “girlfriends” of the founder/leaders of “antifa.” Clementine and Eleanor 💙🦋💙

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Gabe Burgess @gabeburgess.bsky.social · 5h

Or this founder of antifa

a black and white photo of a woman singing

ALT: a black and white photo of a woman singing

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jfd8.bsky.social @jfd8.bsky.social · 5h

“We’ll always have Portland.”

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I’m Yer Boogiewoman @erin-p.bsky.social · 5h

“You played it for her, you can play it for me!”

*Sam launches into spirited piano arrangement of “Nazi Punks Fuck Off”*

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will ferrall @willferrall.bsky.social · 6h

-jets quickly scrambled to bomb Ingrid Bergman's grave-

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 1h

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 1h

she was also the wife of one of the founders of antifa, but she was rick's girlfriend.

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Social Greedia @socialgreedia.bsky.social · 6h

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 1h

she was also the wife of one of the founders of antifa, but she was rick's girlfriend.

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Matthew Sheffield @matthew.flux.community · 13h

The right-wing lies are so pathetic. Look at this caption of a photo from Portland of a woman wearing a unicorn costume:

"They may not look very physically threatening … But they are militants, sociopathic."

A 100-lb woman in a unicorn costume with a chicken purse is going to hurt ICE thugs?

A photo of a woman wearing a pink and white unicorn costume, wearing a plushie chicken purse and a bright blue backpack. She is holding a black flag with bright flowers and the word "Resist" in white. Behind her are various men looking calmly into the distance.

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 23h

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

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Brianna Chesser @chessercat.bsky.social · 1h

This is fine.

Charlie Kirk still managing to be a piece of shit.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

Rutgers Expert on Antifa Tries to Flee to Spain After Death Threats