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Tricia Romano

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Author of The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper that Changed American Culture. https://linktr.ee/tromano_writer

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Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · Jan 23

I've never made a shortlist for anything! (Unless you count being on a list of very short people). I'm so honored to be a finalist for @bookcritics.bsky.social Award for Nonfiction with these books. 🙌

National Book Critics Circle @bookcritics.bsky.social · Jan 23

We're excited to announce the shortlist for the 2024 NBCC Award for Nonfiction! Congratulations to all of the finalists.

The finalists for the 2024 NBCC Award for Nonfiction are The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America’s Invasion of Iraq by Steve Coll (Penguin Press), Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham (Avid Reader), The Freaks Came Out To Write: The Definitive History of the Village Voice, the Radical Paper That Changed American Culture by Tricia Romano (PublicAffairs), Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood by Gretchen Sisson (St. Martin’s), and We’re Alone by Edwidge Danticat (Graywolf).

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Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · 13h

and like how many times they have been etc etc

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Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · 14h

I really, really hate being cold. it's freezing in my house. it's oct 13th! why is it so cooooold

Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · 15h

We have a man on our team with a nickname for his fat ass.

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John Fralloween @johndavidfraley.bsky.social · 16h

Love this game, love this team, but the next reliever who walks anyone with a seven run lead stays in Canada

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Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · 16h

i'm no expert but those throws seem wildly wide

Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · 16h

what the hell are these throws

Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · 16h

yesssssss!

Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · 16h

me, knee deep in taxes: oh, let's check on the mariners, hope they are doing ok after yesterday's close game.

Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · 22h

idk I don't see anything wrong with this lol

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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 1d

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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 22h

Belichick at 6am: I'm dedicated to UNC I'm not going anywhere

Belichick at noon: Nashville is real close to here only a few minutes by plane Jordon

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memeorandum @memeorandum.com · 22h

ICE tickets Chicago man with legal residency $130 for not having his papers on him: 'It's not fair...I'm a resident' (Gregory Royal Pratt/Chicago Tribune)

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 1d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 1d

Truth telling.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 1d

Front page of Scottish newspaper The National today.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 1d

Lying about where the center and the left are is the core element of Bari Weiss' Free Press propaganda grift. Now it's part of CBS News.

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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 1d

The Free Press framing of DSA as a Dem Tea Party is also indicative of their willingness to lie.

DSA has what? One member of Congress now? They don't have anything like Koch money. Also, what conspiracies and violent rhetoric do they spread?

It's not analogous. Bari's narrative here is a lie.

How the DSA Became the Democrats' Tea Party
Zohran Mamdani isn't the fringe anymore. He represents the ideological center around which the party is...
SEPTEMBER 17, 2025
OLIVIA REINGOLD

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Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · 1d

lolol that's amazing

Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · 1d

On fire, I'd say

Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · 1d

IT IS A BUTTPLUG!!!!!!!!

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you are not immune to trenchant analysis @wrongopinionman.bsky.social · 1d

I suppose every mariners game can't be as excruciating as 15 innings

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lifelong new york jets fan @zjwhitman.bsky.social · 1d

I mean it's not like Toronto started their ace and faced a Mariners team coming off an emotional 15 inning game that devastated their pitching staff

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Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · 1d

still doing better than expected....

Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · 1d

Seahawks

Tricia Romano @tromano.bsky.social · 1d

Are.... are we good?

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AnnaClimbsMtns🔱 @annaclimbsmtns.bsky.social · 2d

Is your team no longer in the MLB postseason? Want to hop on the Mariners bandwagon? We will welcome you with open arms! Here are some reasons why you should join us.
- We've never been to the WS, let alone won it.
- Our best player has a nickname celebrating his big ass.

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