Chuck Twardy
@chucktwardy.bsky.social
What oft was thought. Writer, teacher, mostly retired. Book of short stories “Middle Distance”: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07P6DR243
Also some stuff at https://medium.com/@catwardy
Also some stuff at https://medium.com/@catwardy
The Streisand Effect—suppression of news only attracts more attention to it—surely is at work with 60 Minutes story, but it doesn’t matter because the only audience that counts is one man.
December 22, 2025 at 8:21 PM
The Streisand Effect—suppression of news only attracts more attention to it—surely is at work with 60 Minutes story, but it doesn’t matter because the only audience that counts is one man.
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While we mourn the loss of former Governor Jim Hunt, it's important to reflect on why he mattered, and why North Carolina is better today because of his service. ❤️
December 22, 2025 at 11:48 AM
While we mourn the loss of former Governor Jim Hunt, it's important to reflect on why he mattered, and why North Carolina is better today because of his service. ❤️
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This tells you that Vance thinks the MAGA base isn’t just full of diehard racists; he thinks it’s full of diehard racists who are also too cowardly to be openly racist if they think people might disapprove
JD Vance: "In the United States of America you don't have to apologize for being white anymore"
December 21, 2025 at 8:58 PM
This tells you that Vance thinks the MAGA base isn’t just full of diehard racists; he thinks it’s full of diehard racists who are also too cowardly to be openly racist if they think people might disapprove
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If you’ve ever done any publishing/writing work you learn pretty early on that framing headlines/titles as questions is lazy and generally seen as a no no.
December 20, 2025 at 3:26 PM
If you’ve ever done any publishing/writing work you learn pretty early on that framing headlines/titles as questions is lazy and generally seen as a no no.
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Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
December 19, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!
Seriously, does the US government have a warehouse full of meter-tall steel letters that can be attached to any building on a day’s notice?
December 20, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Seriously, does the US government have a warehouse full of meter-tall steel letters that can be attached to any building on a day’s notice?
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Billionaire control of media is bad and we should say that.
No billionaires, no autocrats in control of mJor media or platforms.
No billionaires, no autocrats in control of mJor media or platforms.
December 19, 2025 at 2:11 AM
Billionaire control of media is bad and we should say that.
No billionaires, no autocrats in control of mJor media or platforms.
No billionaires, no autocrats in control of mJor media or platforms.
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Idk, we've done a lot of bad things, as a country. But that kind of doesn't matter?
The thing is always to do good things, henceforth
The thing is always to do good things, henceforth
December 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Idk, we've done a lot of bad things, as a country. But that kind of doesn't matter?
The thing is always to do good things, henceforth
The thing is always to do good things, henceforth
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"Some people “coordinated” because they believed in the Nazi project, others coordinated because they felt it would advance their careers or bring profits to their businesses, and still others coordinated because they felt they had no choice." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
Opinion | The Movie I Was Afraid to See
www.nytimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:10 PM
"Some people “coordinated” because they believed in the Nazi project, others coordinated because they felt it would advance their careers or bring profits to their businesses, and still others coordinated because they felt they had no choice." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/o...
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In neighboring Virginia, the state minimum wage today is $12.40 - a full 70% higher than here in North Carolina.
When their lawmakers began raising the wage a few years ago, the big corporate lobby squealed that it would destroy jobs and make Virginia workers worse-off.
But it never happened.
When their lawmakers began raising the wage a few years ago, the big corporate lobby squealed that it would destroy jobs and make Virginia workers worse-off.
But it never happened.
December 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
In neighboring Virginia, the state minimum wage today is $12.40 - a full 70% higher than here in North Carolina.
When their lawmakers began raising the wage a few years ago, the big corporate lobby squealed that it would destroy jobs and make Virginia workers worse-off.
But it never happened.
When their lawmakers began raising the wage a few years ago, the big corporate lobby squealed that it would destroy jobs and make Virginia workers worse-off.
But it never happened.
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Lovely new video for Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) by George Harrison just dropped, directed by Finn Wolfhard surprisingly: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0d_...
George Harrison - Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth) [Official Video]
YouTube video by George Harrison
www.youtube.com
December 16, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Lovely new video for Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth) by George Harrison just dropped, directed by Finn Wolfhard surprisingly: www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0d_...
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The power combo for every right-wing populist party is “we’ll kick out the immigrants, and spend the money we save on YOU.”
Republicans are too anti-welfare state to go there. So their version is “your house will be cheaper when the migrants are gone, also here’s a massive healthcare bill.”
Republicans are too anti-welfare state to go there. So their version is “your house will be cheaper when the migrants are gone, also here’s a massive healthcare bill.”
I will never understand how so many people argue “the government can’t effectively provide healthcare” when it’s one of the few things we know, for a fact, it can do, because it already does this. It’s like claiming the government can’t deliver mail. Buddy sit down you’re not gonna believe this
December 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The power combo for every right-wing populist party is “we’ll kick out the immigrants, and spend the money we save on YOU.”
Republicans are too anti-welfare state to go there. So their version is “your house will be cheaper when the migrants are gone, also here’s a massive healthcare bill.”
Republicans are too anti-welfare state to go there. So their version is “your house will be cheaper when the migrants are gone, also here’s a massive healthcare bill.”
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This is part of what Trump said at Charlie Kirk's memorial service.
December 15, 2025 at 3:11 PM
This is part of what Trump said at Charlie Kirk's memorial service.
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utterly incapable of grace
December 15, 2025 at 2:54 PM
utterly incapable of grace
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what a vile, contemptible man our president is
December 15, 2025 at 3:28 PM
what a vile, contemptible man our president is
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The thing you need to understand about the Right is that they are absolutely fine just plain burning down higher education if taking it over ideologically doesn’t work. They’re perfectly happy reducing it to ashes.
From the Oklahoma U student paper: the school is now saying it will automatically suspend faculty (with pay) in response to student complaints
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
www.oudaily.com/news/ou-poli...
December 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
The thing you need to understand about the Right is that they are absolutely fine just plain burning down higher education if taking it over ideologically doesn’t work. They’re perfectly happy reducing it to ashes.
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America has the most marketized health care system, with co-pays and HSAs already in place to patients to act like consumers. And we have the most expensive system with poor outcomes.
Ron Johnson: "Obamacare has caused this consolidation. The solution is consumerism. Free market competition."
December 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
America has the most marketized health care system, with co-pays and HSAs already in place to patients to act like consumers. And we have the most expensive system with poor outcomes.
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Fiddler on the roof, but with ICE agents playing the part of Cossacks. I know people think of Fiddler as a heartwarming story about a funny man doing Ya-ba-dibba-dibbas, but it's literally about pogroms like this
Masked men wearing ICE vests—but who refused to present a warrant or identify themselves—roped off a construction site, trapping two men on a roof for hours in subzero temps. Protesters gathered. Masked men eventually left, and one man on the roof was taken away by ambulance kstp.com/kstp-news/to...
December 14, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Fiddler on the roof, but with ICE agents playing the part of Cossacks. I know people think of Fiddler as a heartwarming story about a funny man doing Ya-ba-dibba-dibbas, but it's literally about pogroms like this
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Currently coping by making memes.
July 1, 2024 at 8:46 PM
Currently coping by making memes.
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thanks brett kavanaugh!
Add to this that HSI just filed a declaration in our case challenging these policies saying they can’t trust REAL IDs as proof of status.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
So showing your papers isn’t even enough to end the stop.
December 13, 2025 at 2:59 PM
thanks brett kavanaugh!
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One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
December 11, 2025 at 4:51 PM
One of the most blatantly authoritarian threats in a Trump term full of them
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They are "accused of coercing women into pornography. Andrew was also accused of rape and of having sex with and beating a 15-year-old."
After the Trump administration pressured Romania, they were allowed to leave.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
After the Trump administration pressured Romania, they were allowed to leave.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
December 11, 2025 at 1:17 PM
They are "accused of coercing women into pornography. Andrew was also accused of rape and of having sex with and beating a 15-year-old."
After the Trump administration pressured Romania, they were allowed to leave.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
After the Trump administration pressured Romania, they were allowed to leave.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/u...
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I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback
December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I would like the phrase and concept of "common decency" to make a comeback
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This is the kind of thing you might hear in a 1930s gangster movie
Trump on the president of Colombia: "He's gonna have himself some big problems if he doesn't wise up ... he better wise up or he'll be next. I hope he's listening. He's gonna be next."
December 10, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This is the kind of thing you might hear in a 1930s gangster movie