N.S. Dolkart, elected official
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Author of cool fantasy stuff. Hebrew school teacher. Dad. Program Chair for Readercon, the Boston-area literary conference for speculative fiction. Now a town meeting rep and local access TV host too. Not a security guard, but I played one in an opera.
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That, in enough itself is a disqualifier.

Anyone willing to debate what ‘type of people’ deserve a certain right will one day debate if YOU deserve a certain right.
Always. Every time.

The job is seeing the humanity in ALL members of constituencies
If Moulton loses, I hope every outlet in the state and nation makes it clear he lost the primary by mouthing off about how trans women and girls in sports is a legitimate concern.
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It's why conservatives turned "woke" into something derogatory to be mocked. Because one of the most dangerous things to a conservative is a woke white person.
I was an adult before I learned Lincoln's real beliefs. Same with Susan B Anthony. All for the comfort of us poor, fragile white folks. 🤮
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Really think the biggest win today aside from just numbers is negatively polarizing the regime of 12-year-olds into fully adopting #YESKINGS as their official stance.
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If you are cancelling streaming services it's worth noting that we are currently living in a golden age of thrift store DVDs. Lot's of people have liquidated their collections because of streaming or because of the switch to bluray...
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the right insists they are the new "silent majority" but in reality they are a minority who grabbed the mic and never shut the fuck up
there is no way the right can put 7 million people in the streets
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This has been true since Sarah Palin claimed there was a “real America” to thunderous applause

The last time a Republican got dinged for speaking poorly of cities was Ted Cruz (NY, SF) in 2016, and that’s because he’s Ted Cruz not because anyone really defended cities
Nothing that any elected Democrat has ever said about Republican voters is ever as crass or as cruel as what Trump says about Democratic constituencies every single day, and the media just treats it as background noise.
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Trump is surrounded by zoomer groypers and millennial racists for whom the cancellation of Opie & Anthony was their 9/11, they have as little impulse control as the decaying shit factory they serve and already they’ve been baited into posting scat videos and “actually, he IS king.” Disaster clowns
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The funniest thing about the interminable discourse surrounding protests is that setting aside the crucial morale boost it provides to encourage long-term organization, this administration is uniquely incapable of enduring even the defanged nature of US protests and crashes out like this instantly.
I know it's a fool's errand to expect anything from the media but "President posts video of himself dumping diarrhea on America" is an important thing to call attention to for a dozen reasons
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The digital headline is even worse/morbidly funnier

The Democrats are making a HUGE mistake running against the president who’s posting AI videos of him wearing a crown flying a fighter plane dumping diarrhea on Americans in cities peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights, sez the NYT
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Yeah, it’s not great

They actually went with a “Dems in Disarray” piece as the biggest story in America right now
If Moulton loses, I hope every outlet in the state and nation makes it clear he lost the primary by mouthing off about how trans women and girls in sports is a legitimate concern.
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the psychic damage of all this aggression towards trans people and the cis folks remaining silent ... has been enormous. every little bit that counteracts this helps IMO ...
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just actually means a lot to watch politicians act like this ...
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."
Absolutely! The fact that Markey is now running for reelection against a throw-‘em-under-the-bus primary challenger makes his support a *bigger* deal.
This is important! Markey is running for reelection against a “generational change” Democrat whose position on trans rights is cynical wishy-washiness. It matters that his response hasn’t been to “moderate his position.”
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."
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“The Purdue student newspaper owns its own presses” is the sound of engines revving
Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!
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Definitely. People I’ve talked to have been less concerned about pulling a heavy load and more concerned about putting their kids out in traffic. Safe bike infrastructure is a game changer
This is important! Markey is running for reelection against a “generational change” Democrat whose position on trans rights is cynical wishy-washiness. It matters that his response hasn’t been to “moderate his position.”
Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."
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Senator Ed Markey (D-MA) at the Boston No Kings rally today, wore the trans pride flag like a scarf draped over his shoulders and included in his speech. "Because here in Massachusetts, we stand for what is right. We stand with trans people because trans rights are human rights."
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Arnold Schwarzenegger went on Bill Maher and said that Lincoln gave "the blacks" the right to vote.

"Lincoln made sure that the blacks got the right to vote. The Republican Party made sure that the blacks become citizens of the United States."

Not enough people know Lincoln was fucking racist.
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The NYT has well-discussed flaws.

But one that is not much discussed is how bad and slow and lame its domestic mass protest coverage is, always. Fly in the foreign reporters and have them cover as they would elsewhere ffs.
Newspapers still don’t understand how to cover protests.
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the improvements in bike batteries are undoubtedly important, but better, safer bike infrastructure is also a huge change
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Many parents are now are forgoing minivans for greener alternatives: cargo bikes. They have been around for decades, but the advent of the electric bike motor has made them much more popular. n.pr/3WJyZn9
Why more parents are riding cargo bikes, skipping the minivan
Many parents are now are forgoing minivans for greener alternatives: cargo bikes. They have been around for decades, but the advent of the electric bike motor has made them much more popular.
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Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.

I did it because the government isn’t.

This is what I found.
CC: Jewish Republicans, who should have learned from the Tree of Life massacre that anti-immigrant rhetoric quickly metastasizes into the kind of antisemitism people kill us over.
Some diaspora siblings need to learn that no amount of model minority behaviour will prevent us from being next & that only by working for a better, fairer, humane system for all will we protect all our communities.
Cause racists pushing anti-migrant narratives & policies won't stop with "Them".
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Some diaspora siblings need to learn that no amount of model minority behaviour will prevent us from being next & that only by working for a better, fairer, humane system for all will we protect all our communities.
Cause racists pushing anti-migrant narratives & policies won't stop with "Them".