I reviewed @barrypearce.bsky.social beautiful, shattering story collection, The Plan of Chicago, for Great Lakes Review. There's Algren, for sure, but to me the closest antecedent is Farrell. Which is as high a praise as there is.
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In some ways that was the worst moment of his ownership. Like we obviously weren't gonna get him but for the owner to chuckle at the idea of trying to get the greatest player ever...
This kind of stuff is even more exciting, I think, than special elections. It's awesome when an R goes down hard, but for people to be paying enough attention to shitty Dems who accommodate the fash demonstrates anger even more clearly.
Nobody is safe from accusations of sexual misconduct. Not even Woody Allen!
Switch from The Matrix says "Not like this."
*Just in the LAST WEEK*:
- Prisons are experimenting on trans prisoners to "cure" them
- Kansas revoked every trans Kansan's driver's license
- Scouts agreed to ban trans kids
- Texas declared all health services stop helping trans kids
- SCOTUS declared it legal to out trans kids to abusive parents
That could be in Taylor's voice if you want it to be.
This would be disastrous even if the one man was the smartest, most humane and compassionate person on the planet. As it stands..
100%
Yeah, the sheer bloody cynicism of even giving lip service to liberation, encouraging them to rise up, when the "plan" (such as it was) was just to replace one cruel leader with another.
Well, not anymore, but it'll be guys pretty much exactly similar.
A Jonathan Karl tweet where Trump says that they killed all the top "candidates" to become the Supreme Leader, due to how successful the bombing was.
This also makes him telling the Iranian people to rise up and take control even more monstrous. It's regime change but the people who were going to take over were right at the top of the regime.
Oh, that's a fun game! Adding it to the daily rotation.
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It's true that no one is talking about that
I'm a normal person and I know who Stew Peters is. Also Platner is not a "poster," he is a politician running for the Senate.
Everything else aside, "acting Supreme Leader" is a very funny title. I am the embodiment of the people and the living vessel through which God's power flows (interim).
Well it is extremely well deserved to be published now
Kornel David! That had been completely erased from my brain.
Kukoc and Harper were hugely important for three titles, Dickey and Randy Brown were nice pieces. They didn't deserve what happened. In no world should Dickey Simpkins, a nice enough player, been starting in the NBA.
Jesus christ, this is brutal.
the Supreme Leader is far from a figurehead, but he also isn't the sole locus of power in Iran. The guy was older than Moses, they had plans for his dying. He was a monster who shouldn't be mourned, but this doesn't accomplish regime change.
How, exactly, is @dianejosefowicz.bsky.social already coming out with another novel? After just having a book of short stories last year? It seems unfair to be able to write so quickly and so well.
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Also going to a safe house sounds nice. It's safe! It's in the name!
Nowhere was Mamdani defending the regime, but hacks like Weiss set up these false opposites as a gotcha because they don't know how to use their brains.
"Clearly one of the good guys," think cops.
Yes!
How dare they...meet?
I despair about genuine opposition given that everyone feels the need to clear their throats by talking about the Iranian regime, but having a meeting isn't like a gotcha moment.
God, there is no plan at all. This might actually be the dumbest, most reckless thing I've heard an American president say, and that's a high bar.
As as IL-9 voter who might vote for her, the guy who most likely will win also hates Republicans
This is such a lovely piece of writing about how we're shaped by the land around us. I'd love to just send this to people when they ask why I walk so much.
The gleeful cruelty here is ao deterministicly anti-human, and no opposition party should cater even slightly to it.
Not incidentally, this will also be used to harass and immiserate anyone who doesn't look like what a cop thinks they should look like.
My first thought was "the Milwaukee police are notoriously awful" but realized I have that same thought about any police story anywhere.
This is not a defense of Kash Patel, who is an awful troll, but if someone said we need you to run the FBI, you get to do whatever cool stuff you want, not really work, and you get some sweet jackets, I'd be like, shit yeah, sign me up.
