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Jon Meltzer

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SF reader, music listener, surviving Ivy faculty brat, once thought ebooks were a great idea. Oook.

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Erik Hoffner @erikhoffner.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
This is the US Constitution page @ the Library of Congress Sections 9 and 10 have been removed 9 includes habeas corpus, the courts' review of unlawful detention & imprisonment This gov't can't change the Constitution w/ sneaky editing, but it's a new low: constitution.congress.gov/constitution/
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 15/06/2025
I did not edit this, this is the actual parade with the actual music being played. CINEMATIC
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Noble Scars @noblescars.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
From the #TeslaTakedown protest today in the Back Bay in Boston. About 300ish people there today.
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John Cusack @johncusack.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
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Stephanie Kennedy @wordswithsteph.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
As of today, a new term has entered our language. A “rubio” is a spineless lump of nothing. Example: Don’t be such a rubio.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 27/02/2025
my superpower for predicting things? paying attention to what people with power say and do
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
“If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing.” A classic quote from Malcolm X, who was assassinated 60 years ago today.
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Chris Kluwe, adjudicated poaster @chriswarcraft.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Make sure these people are never able to eat in public again
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 19/02/2025
Works as advertised
“Gulf of Weasel-dicked Fascist Chuds”
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
A fun thing to do with this supposed Napoleon quote is to do a google search to see what forums it appeared on with this exact wording before 2022. I'm no computer whiz, so maybe I messed up, but the only hits I got were these two...for Stormfront, a neo-Nazi forum.
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Re: 15th Dec: New clashes in Moscow errupts between ethnic Russians and migrants from the Caucasus. Police detain 8
Quote:
Originally Posted by metalman862
He who saves his country violates no law.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
-Edward Abbey
Go Russians! Beat the invaders into the ground
AND I hope the Russian MEN remember to beat to the ground those who brought the invaders -- and those who support them -- i.e., the government and the mainstream media reporters.07-23-2005, 01:11 PM
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Re: Napoleon
He who saves his country violates no law.
Patriotism
Bonaparte, Napoleon
1769-1821 French General Emperor
Now thats a good quote!
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
I hear the nagging question you ask inside your head a few hundred times a day: "Is it me, or has a huge portion of this country lost its mind?" It isn't you. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/dont-gasli...
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Don't Gaslight Yourself. You're Right To Grieve What's Happening to America.
I know what you're thinking.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Fascism isn’t coming to America, it’s already here. We are long past the warnings of an approaching existential threat looming on the distant horizon of our story, which many of us spent the past decade imploring people not to ignore. johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/fascism-is...
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Fascism Isn't Coming To America, It's Here. Do Americans Have the Strength to Drive it Out?
Fascism isn’t coming to America, it’s already here.
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WIRED @wired.com · 15/02/2025
SCOOP: The top US election security watchdog has frozen all of its efforts to aid states in securing elections. The move represents the first major example of the country’s cyber defense agency accommodating Trump’s false claims of election fraud and online censorship.
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Top US Election Security Watchdog Forced to Stop Election Security Work
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has frozen efforts to aid states in securing elections, according to an internal memo viewed by WIRED
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"Gulf of America" is just a loyalty test. It's a way of checking who is going to abrogate reality for no reason other than a cowardly refusal to stand up to the bully or an opportunistic willingness to toady up to one. Anyone who will call it that will help you round people up or look the other way.
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Just Jack @just-jack-1.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
"Daddy says he owns you. Can you get me an ice cream?"
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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
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Voters Were Right About the Economy. The Data Was Wrong.
Here’s why unemployment is higher, wages are lower and growth less robust than government statistics suggest.
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Eric Columbus @ericcolumbus.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This is brilliant
r/AITAH
2 days ago
WokeBeans

AITA for pretending to think beans in chili are "woke", to prank my Cousin who is obsessed with being "anti woke" and who loves chili?
My cousin is known for making chili. And he's good at it. He makes his own chili flakes from his "secret combination" of various dried chilies, it has a very nice kick. It's like the perfect amount of spice, it's hot but not too hot. He also always adds kidney beans. Not canned beans either.

Anyways for the past 2 or 3 years by Cousin has become obsessed with all this bullshit about what is or isn't "woke" and how "woke" things are the end of the world. He's always been a good dude so I don't know what his bag is but he is completely obsessed. It's annoying.

So the other weekend I was at his place and he was making his famous chili. So I got the idea for a little prank. I was like "I'm surprised you still put beans in your chili." He was like "What? Why?" I was like "Beans in chili are so woke. Everyone is saying so." He was like "What do you mean?" And he was like genuinely concerned. As if this was something serious. I said something like "Yeah beans in chili are woke, the original conservative Texans who made chili only used meat and chili. San Francisco liberals started adding beans to chili in the 60's because so many hippies were vegetarian. Now all the woke scientists are saying beans are a better protein source than meat." He didn't say anything to that.

I kind of just assumed he'd know I was fucking with him and get the joke. We have always fucked around with each other and jokes about and all. But he was quiet all dinner.

Just yesterday I was back again at his place and he was making his chili again. There were no beans. It was a totally different chili. This guy has been making his chili with beans for like 15 years. I was like, whats up? "Where's the beans?"

He was like "I don't fuck with that woke shit." I was like "What?" He was like "Beans in chili are woke. Even you know that."

Ever…
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 11/02/2025
As others have said, the greatest transfer of wealth in US history will not be from the Boomers to their children but from them to the US healthcare system. The US is designed to make people insolvent and to keep them poor once they're there.
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John Pavlovitz @johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
It’s time for people of faith, morality, and conscience to hold the people in our lives accountable for their willing partnership with this filth. FULL POST: johnpavlovitz.substack.com/p/we-may-nee...
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Our New Cold War: We May Need to Cut Ties With Trump Supporters
I really hate this.
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Almantas, the Old Man @almantasvt.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Ada Palmer is an *incredible* writer and this thread is amazing. I'm now VERY excited for her new book!
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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Look at this Orwellian dumb as fuck bullshit on Google Maps now. We live in the dumbest world. I hate it here.
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HawaiiDelilah™ 🌊 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇧 @hawaiidelilah.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
This is how Canadian businesses are advertising. And I don't blame them. Once again, to my Canadian family and friends: I am sorry that millions of my fellow Americans voted for that festering boil.
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Camille Fournier @skamille.themanagerswrath.com · 11/02/2025
" In short, RFK Jr. doesn’t believe in the germ theory. He believes in something called the miasma theory." Oh my God
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Always Think 1st so U R #WokeAF @alwaysthinkhow.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
FYI, link to all locations www.tesla.com/findus/list/...
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Jon Meltzer @jonmeltzer.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
In response to the latest fraternity ra ... uh, "incident", this will be as deliberately ineffective as all subcommittees, task forces, and kaffeeklatches the Cornell administration has set up since the 80s when I was there. cornellsun.com/2025/02/07/c...
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Cornell Establishes Task Force to Address Campus Sexual Assault
University leaders launch an initiative to examine prevention strategies, policy reform and elevated institutional accountability surrounding sexual assault on campus.
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Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT is on sale as an ebook today for only $2.99! Here's an excerpt:
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 08/02/2025
is it woke to want to end cancer?
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Adrian Carrasquillo @adriancarrasquillo.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
NEW from me: Trump’s Deportation Dragnet Widens and Puerto Ricans Are Getting Caught in It www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-depo... via @thebulwark.bsky.social
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Trump’s Deportation Dragnet Widens and Puerto Ricans Are Getting Caught in It
The collateral damage increasingly appears to be lawful U.S. citizens.
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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Please remember something: if you had said a year ago that Trump would do even a fraction of these things, you would have been mocked, belittled, accused of “Trump derangement syndrome,” and dismissed by certain people. Identify those people and block and shun them.
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Akallabêth 🇺🇦 @akallabeth24.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Oops 😬
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Connie Schultz @connieschultz.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Posted at 2:16 a.m. Federal judge issued emergency order prohibiting Musk’s DOGE from accessing personal & financial data on millions of Americans at the Treasury Department, noting the possibility for irreparable harm. Also ordered “immediately destroy any and all copies of material downloaded…”
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DevinCow @devincow.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Starting tomorrow, get vaccinated. Everything you can. The CDC took down their list. Use this. www.immunize.org/vaccines/vis...
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Vaccine Information Statements (VISs) Overview | Immunize.org| Immunize.org
Find materials on legal requirements to give VISs to patients before vaccinating.
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Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Appreciate this candid @pkrugman.bsky.social in the Contrarian on why he left the Times opinion dept. I get it contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...
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Departing the New York Times
I left to stay true to my byline
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Foz Meadows @fozmeadows.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
so hey, not to be That Guy, but remember how SFF fans called for a boycott of Chengdu Worldcon on the basis of the CCP’s actions in Xinjiang and China potentially not being safe for certain authors? are we going to have a similar discussion about Seattle Worldcon given the circumstances, or -?
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
This is absolutely chilling. He truly is a sociopath.
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Jon Meltzer @jonmeltzer.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Done.
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Mark Sumner 🌒 @devilstower.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
This is literally handing over the future of medical science to other countries. Every day this continues will create damage to US research and universities that lasts for years—and can be measured in lives.
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Edwin Mix @edwinmix.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Please report the ADL to the ADL for its Nazi apologia hate speech. www.adl.org/report-incid...
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