A Little Fire Burning

All human wisdom is contained in these two words: ‘Wait and Hope.’ Readblr/politics side blog.

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CRABS GOT THE WRONG ONE????!

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Bluesky is on it.

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You can begin this process at any time, regardless of how old you have become.

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From here:

Republican leaders seek to quell Mitch McConnell speculation as rebellion grows

John Thune says he spoke to McConnell on phone as secrecy over 84-year-old’s health prompts Maga backlash

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On it, boss!

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Yay!

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Funny how all these Man of the People socialists with obvious contempt for women - uh, I mean “HR ladies” - keep turning out to be sex pests with generational wealth 😒

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I wonder if the Platner debacle will convince any of these dudes in politics who see themselves as kingmakers that good candidates succeed not because the PSA and Morris Katz types are geniuses who saw a star where no one else did, but because the candidates themselves have a special sauce. These don't seem like super introspective people, though.

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anok yai for vanity fair special edition, july 2026.

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anok yai for vanity fair special edition, july 2026.

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Moonlit Kitten, 2026 by Brazilian artist Daniel Arthur

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The End of Reading Is Here

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human histo

Grim and bleak and bad

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Trump is our first postliterate president. It is difficult to imagine him being elected leader of a country where information is primarily spread through text. Ahead of the 2024 election, an NBC News poll of 1,000 voters found that Joe Biden had a 49-point lead among respondents who read newspapers. Trump has pioneered a style of communication that exploits our distracted, disputatious age. “So many people, particularly in the academic and journalistic circles, think of him as a political revolutionary,” Roderick Hart, a communications professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, told me. “And I see him much more as a rhetorical revolutionary.”

In the 1985 book No Sense of Place, the media theorist Joshua Meyrowitz observed that television and other electronic media inundated Americans with new kinds of information about their prospective leaders. Print media gave the public access only to politicians’ polished remarks; video let Americans see their presidents sweat, sneeze, and stammer. Voters began to focus on “dating criteria” instead of “résumé criteria,” he told me. “More than in the past, authorities today must often ‘look and sound good’ rather than write and reason well,” Meyrowitz wrote in No Sense of Place. He predicted that the decline of print and rise of electronic media would ultimately push people toward populist leaders. They would shun authority and institutions in favor of the candidate who made good television. He published his book soon after Ronald Reagan, a former actor, had won reelection.

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The End of Reading Is Here

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human histo

Grim and bleak and bad

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Like 9 months ago nobody had ever heard of that psycho in Maine