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Stephen S Power

@stephenspower.bsky.social

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Changing the world one page at a time. 30+ years in publishing. Novelist, short story writer, poet and aspiring dramatist. stephenspower.com.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 5h

Curtis's real problem is this: he's unrecognizable without his goofy little hat. But when he wears his goofy little hat hat, he reminds everyone that he owes his fame to creating maybe the worst sit-com premise ever: a crime-fighting do-wop group that hangs out in Times Square like Elmo.

Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 5h

I think it's curious that Sliwa has come out against raising, embracing and nourishing.

Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 5h

The worst thing about this win is that Napier will not be fired for one more week.

The best thing about this win is that Napier will not, for one more week, be hired to coach the Jets.

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molly conger @socialistdogmom.bsky.social · 7h

and another thing: he’s not mad. please don’t put it in the newspaper that he got mad.

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Mark Mucci @mlmucci.bsky.social · 12h

Local coverage of the #NoKings protest we attended, in my little town of Maplewood, New Jersey, where @kim.senate.gov was the headliner.
villagegreennj.com/politics/sen...

Senator Andy Kim Headlines 'No Kings' Rally in Maplewood - The Village Green

U.S. Senator Andy Kim was the headline speaker today at a “No Kings” rally…

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 12h

Is food to her just meat wrapped in dough (and sometimes there's no meat)?

Note: last year I had the best Indian meal ever in Newcastle. I also had French, Turkish and Serbo-Italian there. And somehow I also appreciated the amazing fish and chips at Beamish and chutney on a sandwich in Corbridge.

Hughster @hughster.bsky.social · 1d

The British Right are just in total freefall into savagery at this point

Jess Gill
@jessgillO3

I've never had curry or a kabab and don't intend to.
British food is the best. English breakfasts, Sunday roasts, fish and chips, pies, pasties, scones.
Also, our national dish isn't a chicken tikka masala we only think that because a Labour MP said it decades ago to push multiculturalism.
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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 12h

Or, and this has worked for me, you could put speakers in those windows and play "Pink Pony Club" on repeat.

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Virginia Sapiro @vsapiro.bsky.social · 16h

A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 14h

I don't think he stepped away. He was catapulted away.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 17h

Same energy

NYT 1931: HITLER CONDEMNS RIOTS.; He Says They Were Provoked by Paid Agents in Germany.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 15h

"History will show that NJ showed the way."--Andy Yang

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 17h

#NoKings

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 15h

Andy Yang revving up the #NoKings rally in Maplewood.

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jmcurts.bsky.social @jmcurts.bsky.social · 16h

No Kings rally in deep red Anoka, Minnesota (Tom Emmer’s district)!!

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 15h

And Naples is packed with rich white Republicans.

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JB stan account @johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 16h

No Kings in Evanston is pretty enormous

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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 16h

No Kings, Des Moines, Iowa

Anti-Fascism is Pro-American

#NoKings #Iowa

Nick selfie with sign reads anti fascism is pro American

Nick selfie with No Kings attendees and friends

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 15h

The sun is breaking through in America!

#NoKings

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Jeff VanderMeer @jeffvandermeer.bsky.social · 15h

good morning

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 15h

The frog army is inMaplewood NJ. #NoKings

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Nicole Foy @nicolefoy.bsky.social · 19h

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.

White words on a black background read:

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Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino.

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Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers.

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Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 16h

Why are we protesting? Because the #NoKings rally leader just asked us to not put pix of an 8th grade speaker on social media "for their protection." That is the Republicans' America: where every child fears becoming Anne Frank.

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Rufus Hickok @rufus-hickok.bsky.social · 16h

The fact they could get that many New Yorkers to willingly go to Times Square just shows the severity of this situation.

Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 17h

No Kings Day Oct. 18 — Anti-Trump 'No Kings' protesters assemble in Times Square, chanting, “Trump must go now!”

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 17h

#NOKINGS

New York City, NY

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Stephen S Power @stephenspower.bsky.social · 16h

Thousands in Maplewood NJ, best town in NJ

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