Jim Ryan
@jim-ryan
Milwaukee, WI. Hey, let’s get rid of guns and billionaires. A place where I probably haven’t written much in ages but perpetually might again soon: Goodreads:
BREAKING: Found footage of Haley Stevens singing about gifts from AIPAC! #haleystevens #abdulelsayed #misenate
This paragraph, from Mark Z. Danielewski’s amazing new novel, Tom’s Crossing, reads like a future historian writing about the 2024 election.
Finally reading Jane Mayers’ Dark Money and there’s a lesson here for leftists (among whom I count myself). The Kochs turned the Republican Party into their party by investing in it rather than sitting back and calling it not good enough.
Just got to this paragraph in Michael Lewis’ The Fifth Risk, where he discusses the mind boggling array of things done by “bureaucrats” at the USDA.
FWIW, weaning off Amazon has been much easier than I expected it to be. Started by cancelling Subscribe and Save subscriptions, moved on to ordering books from eBay and independent booksellers like Half Price Books, and just cancelled Prime. Fuck fascist-friendly billionaires.
It’s truly sad to see someone so beloved become just a miserable, nasty, bad person.
Reading @lioneltrolling.bsky.social’s When the Clock Broke and chapter one on David Duke makes a pretty strong case that it’s the racism, stupid.
From It Can’t Happen Here, by Sinclair Lewis, in which the “quite remarkable surgeon” Dr. Macgoblin campaigns for the fascist candidate Buzz Windrip and subsequently becomes his Secretary of Education, Culture, and Public Relations.
Amazing how the picture takers in the background look like white hoods sticking up out of the crowd.