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Doctor of Stories

@doctorofstories.bsky.social
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Uni lecturer in Literature; additional specialties in drama, modernism, cultural history, and Psychology. Narratives in general. Former actor, director,& script consultant. BA Oxon; MS&MA(dist);PhD Also politics & pets.

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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Elon is trying to argue that X is worth nearly as much as Twitter was. Objective estimates, by contrast, have X dropping to 25% of Twitter’s previous value. This is clearly the same sort of financial fraud that earned Trump 30+ felony convictions.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
It's critical for everyone to remember what an Executive Order is. It is the President communicating orders to members of the executive branch. Policies to pursue, actions to take, etc. They are not laws. They are not close to being laws. They are formalized memos to employees. That's all.
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Gerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Same lil buddy. Same.
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
Cast Yourself As a Villain Go Big or Go Home
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
It is better to be thought a fool and say nothing than to speak and remove all doubt- Maurice Spitzer
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Mike Rothschild @rothschildmd.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
The US is scheduled to co-host the World Cup in 2026 and the Olympics in 2028. Why would thousands of international athletes and millions of fans from around the world come to a country where tourists, asylum seekers, and visa holders are being disappeared to foreign prisons?
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Idiocracy looks more like a documentary every day.
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
A lot of the people in this tragic farce are unapologetic villains. Donald Trump and Stephen Miller have been the bad guys their entire life. But Marco Rubio is a study in spinelessness. A festival of hypocrisy. There is nothing Marco would not sacrifice to advance himself. Pathetic.
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Pass it on. #StandWithUkraine
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 28/02/2025
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ringwiss @ringwiss.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Fun fact: nondebatable ≠ nonfilibusterable. As far as I can tell, there’s no reason this couldn’t be done on a motion to proceed to a budget resolution or to a reconciliation bill.
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
RIP CFPB
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Light the celebratory cars! (Playing, Philly. I love you.)
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
MISTER SAMUEL L JACKSON
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I think Nike just gave us a motto for the next four years (two until midterms)
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Rami Jarrah @ramijarrah.com · 31/12/2024
The New Year 2025 from Damascus #Syria
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 30/12/2024
For anyone who needs a quick primer on the last few days of the bad place and its Drug Lord:
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
The unified cyber bullying of the richest man in the world on the other space is phenomenal
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
Me Facing 2025
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Way to read the room, guys.
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/12/2024
Nancy Mace lied about being assaulted. I keep saying this but she still hasn't sued me for defamation.
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
It sounds like when Marge Greene threatened to release all the other ethics cases from Congress, that at least a few of them featured Chip Roy
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Traces of Texas @tracesoftexas.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
The Texas Quote of the Day: I have a real soft spot in my heart for librarians and people who care about books. ---- Former Texas governor Ann Richards
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission @cpsc.gov · 04/12/2024
#GoodNightBlueskyWorld
A fox in the moon wearing a mask that says courage together. The text reads: Good night, kind friends. Tomorrow we care for one another all over again. Quinn the Safety Fox.
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Daniel Bergstresser @dbergstresser.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Poem by Joseph Fasano
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
The fall of Aleppo feels huge.
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Castaway gave me unrealistic expectations of finding companionship through sports.
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Between the Denmark outage and the severing of the internet cables in the Baltic last week, Putin is certainly feeling emboldened to make moves in the EU
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DrDinD.bsky.social @drdind.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Translation of the Navajo prayer for this day of gratitude. The Beauty Way
Today I will walk out, today everything negative will leave me
 I will be as I was before, I will have a cool breeze over my body.
 I will have a light body, I will be happy forever, nothing will hinder me.
 I walk with beauty before me. I walk with beauty behind me.
 I walk with beauty below me. I walk with beauty above me.
 I walk with beauty around me. My words will be beautiful.In beauty all day long may I walk.

 Through the returning seasons, may I walk.
 On the trail marked with pollen may I walk.
 With dew about my feet, may I walk.
 With beauty before me may I walk.
 With beauty behind me may I walk.
 With beauty below me may I walk.
 With beauty above me may I walk.
 With beauty all around me may I walk.
 In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, lively, may I walk.
 In old age wandering on a trail of beauty, living again, may I walk.
 My words will be beautiful…
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Mark Zaid, Esq @markzaidesq.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
I have spoken publicly abt concerns my clients, fed employees & others have w/incoming #Trump Admin re: retaliation. We are compiling lists of attnys, CPAs, Drs (counseling field) who wld be willing to provide pro bono services if necessary. If interested, please email me at mark@markzaid.com.
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Pam Bondi was picked after Harvey Weinstein withdrew from consideration over health concerns.
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Mikel Jollett @mikeljollett.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
A lot of the positions people like RFK jr. take (anti-vax, anti-pasteurization etc.) get described as “controversial.” They’re not. There is no controversy. This is long-settled science. The correct term is “stupid.”
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Matt Gaetz is the Dennis Hastert of Roy Moores
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Quinn Sutherland @reelquinn.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
It’s astonishing how quickly some men become radicalized when nobody laughs at their jokes.
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
America for the next four years
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Brent S. Sirota @brentsirota.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
Breaking Bad: You don't want a criminal lawyer, you want a 'criminal' lawyer.
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ill-boo-mi @yallchemist.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Matt Gaetz has been training for this role as Attorney General since he was a teenager. Google “Matt Gaetz 17 year old” to learn more.
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Not just that our incoming AG is an accused pedophile But that most of the House GOP is keenly aware of Gaetz tastes. Here they are reminding him.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
"The age of men is over. The time of the orc has come..." Leaked draft of Trump's inauguration speech
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Everyone he’s picking for cabinet posts outside of Zeldin are current serving GOP officials. They go to him. Replacements are elected or appointed. He fires them. People like Rubio, Stefanik, and Noem are then out of government. Am I missing something?
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Cats are also kinda nifty
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 02/08/2023
[zither music plays] Who is the sixth co-conspirator?
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 02/08/2023
I get angrier every time I read another paragraph. Words mean things -- legally, this isn't treason. Morally, it absolutely is. It's vile, cowardly moral treason against the United States and its people. Fortunately it's also a whole bunch of other crimes that people should die in jail for.
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 01/08/2023
Where is Michael Flynn’s name in all of this?
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 31/07/2023
Paul Reubens was a talented artist, a wildly funny comedian, an inspiration to generations, and ultimately, in these last words, a profoundly decent man
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 31/07/2023
This Is Just to Ruff I have eaten the cat food that was in their dish and when they meowed at me complainingly I licked them Forgive me they are fascinating their food so good and so not mine
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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 31/07/2023
I worry they'll say the same thing in 2024.
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 31/07/2023
This is why we can’t have nice things
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Doctor of Stories @doctorofstories.bsky.social · 29/07/2023
Twitter’s CSA team is now just Elon and a jar of Vaseline.
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