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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

"There is, however, one big difference between Trump’s trade policy and China’s. Namely, the Chinese appear to know what they’re doing."

How Trump Is Making China Great

Why we’re going to lose the trade war, and much more besides

paulkrugman.substack.com

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 8h

*nods enthusiastically*

Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 8h

It’s always worked for me.

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Lucy Fishwife 🥐 @lucyfishwife.bsky.social · 8h

Thomas Pynchon is actually a literary collective, in the manner of Luther Blissett/Wu Ming. Various Pynchons have included William Gibson, Jennifer Egan, John Barth, Michael Chabon, Tom Robbins, Richard Brautigan, and Kurt Vonnegut

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 16h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 8h

😊

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 8h

Down these mean streets a Dame must walk who is not herself mean.

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 8h

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 8h

<sheep eats clover>

Gabriel Oak: From Hell's heart I stab at ewe!

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 8h

Once you see it, it can’t be unseen.

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 8h

All that pink chiffon hid a heart of pure noir.

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Nick Langley @nicklangley.bsky.social · 9h

"Martin Amis" was just one of the pen names of the late, insanely prolific Barbara Cartland. She also wrote as "Catherine Cookson" & "Mickey Spillane".

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Some Bloke in a (supernatural jazz) Hat @someblokeinahat.bsky.social · 9h

Maddening Crowd: A Space Odyssey.

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve always had my suspicions about James.

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Johannes Grenzfurthner @grenzfurthner.bsky.social · 9h

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 9h

You’ve read it!

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Mathilda Hauntedrack xx 🏳️‍⚧️ @meladyfreshness.bsky.social · 9h

Far From the Madding Crowd no-one can hear you scream?

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 9h

Far From The Madding Crowd was originally written as a space opera.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 16h

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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Gareth Dee @garethapdafydd.bsky.social · 9h

Moby Dick might have been the first great American novel but ye gods could it have done with the first great American editor.

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 9h

Which is unusual for me.

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 9h

He wrote Mason & Dixon.

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 9h

Henry James was off his face on mushrooms the whole time he was writing The Bostonians.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 16h

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Ben Stanley @benstanley.eu · 9h

By any possible standard that is a belting headline

LEFT COAST RIGHT WATCH @lcrw.bsky.social · 10h

🧵 Last May, we discovered the AZ “active club” chapter was led by Ryan Drago, who previously served 9 years in prison for manslaughter after he murdered a Latino teenager while wearing a Nazi uniform. Drago's wife, Ashley (Krogstad) Drago is also affiliated with numerous white supremacist groups.

MEET THE KILLER NEO-NAZI MASSEUSE AND HIS SAX-PLAYING ARMY RESERVIST TRADWIFE | Left Coast Right Watch

A convicted neo-Nazi murderer and is working in the Phoenix metro as a masseuse with his Nazi influencer army reservist wife.

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 9h

Thomas Pynchon was hit by a yellow cab on Broadway shortly after the publication of V, and all his subsequent novels have been written by a succession of stand-up comics. Gravity’s Rainbow was mostly written by George Burns, with an editing assist by Frank Gorshin.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 16h

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Dave Hutchinson @hutchinsondave.bsky.social · 9h

Although not all of Poland, which is typical.

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KJ Charles @kjcharleswriter.com · 10h

This is it, the most unhinged literary opinion. I will be adopting it as fact immediately.

Luke Seaber @thelong1930s.bsky.social · 12h

Lord Peter Wimsey is the narrative voice of The Waste Land.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 16h

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