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Seyward Darby

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4 years

My husband is getting notifications from his place of employment that, in the 6 months since anyone has gone into the office, RATTLESNAKES have taken up residence. And they're happily multiplying.

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This is my friend Ethan. He lost sight in one eye when a police officer shot a tear gas canister directly into his face while he and his incredible mother were cleaning up after an early protest in Minneapolis after George Floyd was killed. What follows are his mom's words. /1

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ok some context, I guess there have ALWAYS been rattlesnakes in the area around the complex. it's the getting inside and setting up shop that's interesting or horrifying, depending on how you feel about snakes.

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"Nobody deserves this excessive militant style of policing. Mothers should never watch police injure their babies, and then not render aid, it’s inhumane. Black and brown mothers have dealt with this for over 400 years in this country." /13

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"He was traumatized. He is home healing. The other day he told me he can’t wait to get better so he can continue to go to stand up for social injustices." /12

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"A police officer struck him with a tear gas canister to his face, from just several feet away, right in front of me. I screamed for help, but no help came from the officers sadly, but from our beloved community. A stranger drove us to hospital, he saved my sons life." /10

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4 years

"My son and I went to a community clean up in the afternoon over on Lake street. We wanted to stand up for justice in a way that also helped the beloved community we once lived in." /2

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4 years

"Black and brown lives matter. And know, that of course my sons life matters, BUT right now Black and brown lives matter. Please look at history, it really weaves the path to where we are today sadly." /14

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4 years

Ethan's mom, Anne, is a FORCE. I'm so proud of know both of them. I met Ethan when he was four. It's nothing short of thrilling to see the young man he's become, and infuriating to see what's happened to him for standing up for what's right, and necessary, and overdue. /19

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4 years

"My son is now permanently blind in his right eye. The right side of his face was smashed causing fractures to his eye socket, cheek, sinus and nose, he has surgeries to repair the fractures over the next year." /11

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4 years

What a photo.

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4 years

"My son and I went to Thailand before he was even 5, he saw poverty. He learned to understand money doesn’t bring happiness and that we need to love our fellow humans. He believes we are all worthy of love and happiness. He educated himself on social injustices." /6

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4 years

"Ethan is so passionate about liberation for all the social structures holding people down. He wants to be a politician/law maker/activist/ revolutionary/artist and help make our country and world better, compassionate and liberated. We need justice and liberation." /8

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4 years

"The people in our apartment complex were mostly black and brown. This is where my son had his early years, playing with Hispanics, Asian Americans, African Americans, East Africans. He always knew we were privileged." /4

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4 years

"My privilege brought me to share this, I’m heartbroken, but people need to know what happened. Not all police are bad. But why is this country so violent and we incarcerate so many? I don’t want my son near officers ever again." /15

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4 years

"When I was in college we lived in Minneapolis and I have fond memories of going to blockbuster, which was turned into the auto zone, which was burned. We lived in low income housing while I was a single mother in college." /3

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4 years

"He found his voice in high school, diving into America’s history. He came home telling me about segregation, Jim Crow, the war on drugs and systemic racism. How the system was created for keeping us down through Hollywood, media, welfare and prisons...so many other things." /7

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4 years

"We would go down to county for child care assistance and food stamps, I made sure he understood because we were white, we had more support." /5

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4 years

"He is in college working on a degree to do just that. His GPA is 3.6. He has the biggest heart of anyone I know." /9

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4 years

"We are privileged because others are oppressed, we should STOP oppressing. This is largely a white problem. ... Please donate to black and brown causes." /18

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4 years

"I know mothers that are black feel the same, it’s a feeling of powerlessness and fear. Where is our compassion, our humanity? We are all family." /16

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4 years

"My friends, nothing is lost when others gain, when homeostasis occurs among humanity and compassion and opportunity are celebrated for all." /17

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Seyward Darby

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4 years

For those interested, Anne just shared their GoFundMe page, set up after Ethan's nasal surgery today:

Recovery, organized by Ethan Marks

Hi! My son and I were helping at a clean up on 5/28 in Minneapolis when a tear gas cannister hit his right eye, h… Ethan Marks needs your support for Recovery

www.gofundme.com

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Seyward Darby

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4 years

My dog would like to file a formal complaint regarding all the unexpected fireworks in Brooklyn that are causing her to tremble uncontrollably for hours each night.

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5 years

LOOK AT THIS AMAZING DOG ON MY FLIGHT. His name is Harvey and he has a squeaky penguin and I love him. Cc @darth @dog_rates

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my hot take is that 99 percent of 20-somethings aren't qualified to write essays giving advice about anything. my other hot take is that college students should stick to campus newspapers to share their opinions about world events bc that's literally what campus papers ARE FOR.

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2 years

Now can we have to-go cocktails back?

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7 years

PSA: I want more lady writers to pitch me. Lady writers are awesome. Spread the word & send kickass longform ideas to seyward @atavist .com.

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3 years

PSA: Journalism is a collective effort, not an individual pursuit.

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2 years

@surlybassey I too think about this detail *a lot* -- think of the number of American students who have read this book, this passage. Literally millions of missed opportunities to talk about white supremacy. I sure as hell don't remember my English teacher using it as a teaching moment.

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4 years

"No war, no war, no war, no war, no matter how much a few middle-aged men in suits who will not die in that war want one. No, no, no. This is all that needs to be reported." @hamiltonnolan

Say 'No War' You Cowards

Splinter is your home for news and opinions that challenge power in our political and economic system that's becoming more unhinged each and every day.

www.splinter.com

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Seyward Darby

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Not all tradwives go full-on June Cleaver and take to TikTok to brag about their baking skills. Others study English at Harvard, marry a rich guy, and pen essays for preeminent publications poorly mimicking the writers they once studied.

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1 year

Our dog is having minor surgery today to remove a benign cyst, and the only other time she's been under anesthesia she had a mild seizure, so plz send your good vibes to the very best girl.

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2 months

I don't know what to do with myself after reading this paragraph.

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2 years

@surlybassey I wrote about this in my book!

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16 days

i was the editor of a student newspaper during the biggest crisis the university i attended had ever faced. when i'm asked about the experience now, i always talk about how awful and off-the-mark most of the professional media covering it were. anyway, plus ca change....

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Seyward Darby

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4 years

Got a message from a friend in MN last night; said she and her teenage son were out cleaning up after protests, which they'd attended, when the police showed up. A cop pushed her, and her son grabbed his arm. Cop shot tear gas directly into her son's face, destroying one eye. /1

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5 years

This lady is who I want to be when I grow up. @darth

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3 years

Thanks to @nytopinion for asking me to write this. Thanks to all the experts whose work informed it.

Opinion | The Far Right Told Us What It Had Planned. We Didn’t Listen. (Published 2021)

Wednesday wasn’t Trumpism’s “last gasp.” It was the manifestation of a long-held fantasy. And most perpetrators walked away, uncuffed, to fight another day.

www.nytimes.com

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Seyward Darby

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5 years

You know you made the right life partner choice when you’re en route to meet him at a sold out movie and won’t have time eat dinner, but you text him mournfully anyway about your hunger and he says, “I know, I got you food already. It’s with me in line.”

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3 years

The dog continues to be on lockdown while her spine heals, and never has a creature on earth been so bored.

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2 years

Not only do I record everything, I often make myself a voice memo right after an interview to describe what happened, emphasize details about the subject/subject matter, record what I felt, etc.

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3 years

Actual "genitalia assessment boards," from the same party that brought you fear-mongering about imaginary death panels.

Anthony Michael Kreis

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3 years

Legislation in Georgia introduced to create genitalia assessment boards to investigate student athletes’ reproductive organs, secondary sex characteristics, and chromosomes to enforce sex segregated sports in violation of federal law. #gapol h/t @mwilsonGA

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Super cool that the US govt just OKed sending billions in military aid to a country that's openly calling US college students peacefully exercising their right to protest "terrorists."

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(a) Terrorism is an ideology. (b) They are openly supporting terror. (c) They are terrorists

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4 years

i'm going to tell my kids this was the U.S. Senate.

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4 years

i keep retweeting these things, these clear warnings, and it just doesn't matter and i feel so friggin powerless.

Lambda Legal

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4 years

IMPORTANT: Barrett used "sexual preference" (not "sexual orientation") when discussing her views on marriage equality. This is a dogwhistle. The term "sexual preference" is used by opponents of equality to suggest that being #LGBTQ is a choice. #BlockBarrett #SCOTUSHearing

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5 years

Today I choose joy. Today I choose @lizzo .

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2 years

Except the 12-year-old's, I guess.

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2 years

NEW: A 12-year-old child victim of rape and incest should be forced to carry and birth her father's child, Mississippi House Speaker Philip Gunn says. Even in such cases, he opposes abortion exceptions. "Every life is valuable," Gunn said.

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3 years

fun(?) fact: one of the reasons we have a federal minimum wage is because my great-grandfather, who owned a lumber business, fought it all the way to the Supreme Court and, thankfully, lost.

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Seyward Darby

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4 years

I said I was going to stay off Twitter this week, but then @nytimes reviewed my book and called it "superbly written" so here I am, thrilled beyond measure.

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@seywarddarby

3 years

I used to try *not* to say y'all because I worried it made people think I was dumb, but now I use it all the time because it's hella inclusive—and also because I'm tired of worrying about what people think. Y'all FTW.

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@AlbertsonB2 @jaxwendy Y'all is one of the South's greatest accomplishments -- a second-person plural that flows so easily -- but I get not everyone can pull it off. Perhaps the more formal "you all"?

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3 years

"By almost any metric, the American chestnut was a perfect tree." When C asks how my day was, I often regale him with a great story I read. Yesterday it was this @ByKateMorgan piece.

The Demise and Potential Revival of the American Chestnut

Before a disastrous blight, the American chestnut was a keystone species in eastern forests. Could genetic engineering help bring it back?

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4 years

*clears throat awkwardly* You can now preorder my book, which has a cover I couldn't be happier with. Various links ( @indiebound , @Bookshop_Org , @BNBuzz , @amazon ) can all be found here: *hides embarrassed face behind recently washed hands*

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Seyward Darby

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3 years

All this Marjorie Taylor Greene stuff was known (or knowable), she still got funding, and she was still elected, which is to say this isn't JUST about her—it's about people who support people like her, from voters to wealthy boosters.

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2 years

🧵For the last 9 months, I've been working on an investigative story about grooming and abuse—15+ years of it, allegedly perpetrated by multiple adults, all of them colleagues—at an acclaimed public high school in Los Angeles. Today is publication day. /1

Fault Lines - The Atavist Magazine

A magnet program brought acclaim to a public high school in Los Angeles. But beneath the excellence lurked a culture of abuse.

magazine.atavist.com

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7 years

@brianstelter @PressSec would have been nice for it to have done the same regularly during the campaign

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4 years

STOP DOING LIVE BROADCASTS OF BRIEFINGS FILLED WITH LIES. THEY ARE SERIOUS PUBLIC HEALTH THREATS.

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5 years

Someone ripped open the package of poop bags and rolled them around the living room and the dog didn’t catch their face, isn’t sure she could ID then in a lineup. @darth

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5 years

@Nicole_Cliffe Also this thread makes me feel very seen bc there are so many fellow humorless bitches and I love it.

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Seyward Darby

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4 years

WRITERS! @atavist is commissioning! We want your pitches. We've done a lot to boost gender diversity in the last 2 years, but we need to do better wrt other metrics. Female, Black, LQBTQIA+, however you identify—send me your best narrative longform ideas: seyward @atavist .com

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2 years

My grandmother died on June 6. She was a force in every sense. I always loved how she said my name in her delicious Southern drawl. She started high on the first syllable, went low on the second, like it was music. I can hear it in my head, and I hold it in my heart.

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This is so important to emphasize: A LOT of student newspapers are wholly independent from the universities they cover. If you're reading, watching, or listening to content from these places, consider giving money to support their work.

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I have gotten a few questions about how to donate to student journalism outlets without supporting Columbia itself. @ColumbiaSpec is an independent nonprofit with zero financial ties to the university, if you want to kick them some money.

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@KristyPuchko I saw ONCE in theaters in the Czech Republic. There's a moment when the female lead says "I love you" in Czech to the male lead. He doesn't know what she said. But everyone in the audience did. The sweet ripple of oohs and sighs that went through the theater gave me chills.

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4 years

It's National Beagle Day, which is apparently a thing? Here's our girl.

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3 years

there is no better GIF for the present moment.

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RIP Christopher Plummer 👑

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@tbvaleska @MonicaBPotts Feels right to share this photo from a protest yesterday in response to this thread.

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5 years

Me: “I’m doing a dry January.” Husband: “So a high January?” . . . . Touché.

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3 years

Who, and I'm asking sincerely, is going to movie theaters? How are there movies that are ONLY playing in theaters?

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2 years

I met Joan Didion in 2007, as a college senior. "The Year of Magical Thinking" had inspired my thesis, which was about poetry as a means of assuaging grief. I read the book, and wrote the thesis, bc my boyfriend had died right in front of me 3 weeks before the fall semester. /1

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2 years

@j_zimms True, but also: Why not treat a cold like COVID? Stay home til you're better? Test aside, take care of yourself and other people!

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2 months

Pamela Paul's anti-trans column ran on 2/2. On 2/6, the column was cited in a court filing by the state of Idaho, which is trying to keep a ban on gender-affirming care for youth on the books.

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5 years

Magnolia has concerns, you guys.

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3 years

Writing is terrible, why do we do it?

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1 year

I want the movie version of this plaque to happen.

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always read the plaque

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5 years

But anyway, remember when the president of the United States was accused of rape, on the cover of a major magazine, and then lied about ever having met the accuser, and the media and democrats and republicans and a lot of Americans just said... meh?

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4 years

My book is publishing tomorrow and that's awesome but I don't wanna sleep on the fact that our dog's fourth gotcha day is also this week.

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5 years

Pro tip: don’t watch CHILDREN OF MEN when you’re recovering from a sinus infection, it’s rainy and gross outside, the government is shut down, babies are in cages, and republicans are mostly worried about dancing and cursing.

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3 years

How is @TheOnion still so consistently this good?

Dream Crushed Over Trivial Bullshit Represents Nation Better Than Gold Medal Ever Could

The Onion brings you all of the latest news, stories, photos, videos and more from America's finest news source.

www.theonion.com

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4 years

TMI but whatever: 5 years ago today, I was in a train crash three weeks before I was supposed to get married. Someone within arm's reach of me died; somehow I didn't. Now I'm promoting both my and my husband's first books. The world is on fire, but I'm still very glad to be here

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2 years

This is heinous on so many levels, not least being that reporting a rape is traumatizing to the point of impossible for many, many people. Imagine being an adult, MUCH LESS A CHILD, in need of an abortion and being told, "Sorry, you have to report this to the police first."

Max Kennerly

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Among the many bad things in the proposed nationwide abortion ban: the rape exception for minors only applies if the doctor gets documentation from law enforcement reporting a rape. Republicans want to make it the law that 10-year-olds are presumed to have consented to sex.

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The Never Agers: A Buddy Comedy

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2 years

SAY HI TO BEANS

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4 years

Yawning, a progression.

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3 years

in case you were wondering if Joe Rogan was an OK dude. (he's not. he never has been.)

Alex Paterson

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Spotify’s Joe Rogan encourages "healthy" young people not to get a coronavirus vaccine. His show is Spotify's most popular podcast. “If you're like 21 years old, and you say to me, should I get vaccinated? I'll go no.”

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3 years

What a headline.

Belgian farmer accidentally moves French border

The farmer moved a two-century-old border stone into French territory as it was blocking his tractor.

www.bbc.com

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@seywarddarby

2 years

November (and beyond) is going to be so ugly in no small part because not enough people in positions to make a difference think this is an emergency.

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truly insane that these revelations are not being treated as totally insane and a twelve-alarm fire for democracy.

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4 years

If you don't like being edited, don't be a journalist. That's it. That's the tweet.

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4 years

This is my grandmother. She just turned 90. She's a lifelong Democrat who was the first female mayor of her town in South Carolina. She used to dress up as Lady Liberty for her town's #July4th parade. Today, she's celebrating in true pandemic style: at home, in a mask.

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Seyward Darby

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3 years

this thread is... i don't even have words. just read it.

Charlie Potatoes

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Poll watcher in Michigan testifying that black lives matter people wore rhinestones. This was a problem for her.

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Oh hell no, Democrats, do NOT be texting me asking for my "support" right now. READ THE ROOM. Expand the court or GTFO.

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3 years

From a former white nationalist I interviewed for my book, commenting on last Wednesday: "The white nationalist long game is going pretty well."

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2 years

How much of this surge can I blame on SantaCon?

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5 years

Dog in close vicinity of a vacuum (left) and thunder (right) and damnit if she isn’t cute when she’s terrified.

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4 years

I have a lot of pet peeves in my line of work, but right near the top of the list is writers who treat editors like they're failed or bad writers.

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3 years

Abolish the death penalty.

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Me: "Is there a German word for what it feels like when you see everything you've been studying suddenly dominate headlines? Or do academics have a phrase for it? 'frustrating shit' maybe?" A historian: "History."

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1 year

She's out! Did great! Thanks for all the love!

Seyward Darby

@seywarddarby

1 year

Our dog is having minor surgery today to remove a benign cyst, and the only other time she's been under anesthesia she had a mild seizure, so plz send your good vibes to the very best girl.

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When I was working on my book, one of the white nationalist women I interviewed was trying to explain supposedly different cultural tastes/preferences among races, and when I asked what kind of literature white people like, without missing a beat she said "Lord of the Rings."

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Racism. The answer is racism.

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@seywarddarby

4 years

Apropos of nothing that's clogging the trend feed or anything like that.... I wrote a book about white women and white nationalism—how the former advance the latter but have for a long, long time been overlooked as agents of hate. It comes out in July.

Seyward Darby

“Superbly written… as readable as a good novel.” —The New York Times Book Review Best Book of 2020: NPR • Kirkus • Electric Lit • Harper’s Bazaar Shortlisted for the J. Anth…

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Seyward Darby

@seywarddarby

4 years

This is Shakespeare.