If you had told me in 2012 that Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign manager would be posting like this 13 years later i would not have believed you
Charlie Close
@charlieclose.bsky.social
1994 Followers
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Writer. Very short stories. Progressive politics. Progressive rock. Progress. Michigan USA.
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Evel Knievel thinks the files are on the other side of the Snake River Canyon.
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Looking forward to research papers with lots of footnotes.
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hi, cis folks!
this is present day reality for UK trans folks. it’s outrageous someone should have to have taken this journey to live as themselves, participate in society, & be with who they love.
hi, cis americans!
this is a future trans americans see that starts with “we need to compromise.”
I want to explain a few things and then it might be clearer why UK trans people are upset. In 2001 I married my wife, Sylvia. In 2005 I started medical transition. (1/13)
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It's absurd seeing people lecturing trans people and telling them they HAVE to support someone who opposes trans rights for president three years from now—or else fascism wins!—when there are other leaders who are still standing up for trans rights, from Illinois to Kentucky.
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect.
As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
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The danger got worse until the mayor had to face it. Once he faced it squarely, the town helped him beat it.
I thought it was a new movie, but no. Turns out it's fifty years old.
It's a great movie and I'd recommend it to anyone, but most especially my elected representatives in Congress.
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I went to see a screening of the movie Jaws. It's about a government official, the mayor of a small town, who didn't want to confront an urgent danger because he considered it a distraction from the agenda he ran on. His viewpoint was very understandable and completely wrong.
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This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.
Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social
newrepublic.com/article/1996...
The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins
Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.
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Ten coconut cream pies.
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