What is with the pathology of candidate fundraising emails saying some version of “Help, we’re desperate and getting outspent please rescue us with your dollars”? This is the most demotivating message ever.
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Mark Simpson-Vos
Профиль VivelyI care about ideas doing work in the world Professional humanist and book editing person Seeking to enter by the narrow gate. Religion | History | Indigeneity | Music | Sport MN born NC by choice Always #GDTBATH | #DurhamNC #BullCity
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Manisha SinhaHistorian here new book alert dropping this Fall by @dukepress.bsky.social I really enjoyed my conversation with David Rubenstein before members of Congress but I am afraid some have taken the wrong lesson from #theriseandfallofthesecondamericanrepublic
As I was just saying
Mark ChadbournPolish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski on The Long Game: “Putin is not really capable of a running-start invasion of NATO. “What he's capable of is some kind of provocation that, in their mind, would show East Europeans that NATO is pathetic and would not react. “We would react.”
Authors: helpful insight here into how publishers prepare to catalog and market your book.
UNC PressWe just wrapped up launching our Spring/summer 2027 list 👏 and if you've ever heard publishers talk about "launch meetings" and had no idea what we mean, we explain it here 👇 open.substack.com/pub/uncpress...
Especially while Ukraine is at war with Russia and Russian missles are periodically hitting NATO soil….
James FallowsLet me tell you, having chronicled Pentagon-style war game on attacking Iran nearly 25 yr ago, every single "surprise," "darkening turn," "narrowing option," spreading warfare," "rising casualties," "no easy exit," etc that comes drip-by-drip is EXACTLY why GHWB WJC GWB OBAMA BiDEN did NOT do this
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It’s not just that this hamstrings writing on campus. It also strikes down a crucial center of collaborative, peer-to-peer leaning at the university.
Rebecca Colesworthy“Closing the Writing Center and removing its leadership now sends a disturbing signal about how seriously Harvard actually takes [its] mission.” Closing a writing center or library or dept or program or university press—an attack on one is an attack on all. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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"More than 130 chartered Boeing 737 flights operated by Eastern Air Express have landed at Akron-Canton since April 20, sometimes to pick up people in restraints who have disembarked from a prison bus or unmarked vans."
How Akron-Canton Airport is becoming a major hub for deportationsAn airport spokeswoman says that Homeland Security operations at Akron-Canton Airport are expected to be temporary, but she did not know how long.www.beaconjournal.com
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The William and Mary Quarterly forum on the recently discovered John Dickinson documents, revealing his previously unknown secret attempt to prevent the American Revolution, is now available online! The WMQ has generously made the issue open access for the next month. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57168
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In recent weeks, congressmen like Rep. Tom Emmer (R-MN) and Rep. Michael Rulli (R-OH) have leveled racist attacks against immigrant communities in their districts. As I note in CAMPAIGN TRAILS, a century ago those same racist attacks were being made against people named Emmer and Rulli.
Pulling Up the LadderIn recent weeks, Republican representatives in Congress have repeatedly insisted that specific groups of immigrants in their communities will never be assimilated into American life, that they pose a ...campaign-trails.ghost.io
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MY EXCITING NEWS The audiobook version of Shades of Forever, narrated by @tessirondale.com, won a Kirkus Earphones Award for excellence in audiobook presentation! Go forth and consume it with your earholes!
SHADES OF FOREVER by Chris Kluwe | Kirkus ReviewsTess Irondale’s narration elevates this unique story about an otherworldly AI known as Box th…www.kirkusreviews.comChris KluweJust got some very exciting book news about my recently released novel Shades of Forever that I will be able to share in exactly one week
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minnesota state rep jess hanson rides elon musk for filth for trying to defend his pervy app: "when the richest man in the world hangs out with the epstein class... we cannot act surprised when he's trying to protect the number one tool used to make child sexual abuse material"
Oliver Willisminnesota state senator directly taking on musk and his big pockets PRECISELY HOW DEMOCRATS SHOULD BE DOING IT