Real question bc there’s clearly a media culture thing here that I am not getting: Why are we not seeing citations to Sarah Kendzior, who has been on this exact beat for years? What is it about her and/or her work that has made it acceptable to ignore her? RE:
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Hamilton Nolan (@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social)
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While I am talking about movies instead of fascism and networks, Mouse Hunt was a huge success in our house after Clue went over so well with the 12yo.
It pains me to say it but German Protestant Dracula is a much better movie than the Netflix Frankenstein RE:
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Erin Kissane (@kissane.myatproto.social)
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Note: Calling the new Nosferatu Martin Luther's Dracula is my favorite joke all year and since very few people approve I will be making it at every opportunity through the end of December and no one can stop me RE:
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Erin Kissane (@kissane.myatproto.social)
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I took another run at Robert Eggers’ Martin Luther’s Dracula and the color grading still looks like The Witcher (derogatory) but I finished it
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[Not a dunk] I spent my whole childhood in rural parts of red states and it‘s actually been this way the whole time, but people don’t know this bc of election maps and stereotyped press coverage and party priorities. [@nickbowlin.bsky.social](
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Nick Bowlin (@nickbowlin.bsky.social)
oil and gas reporter for ProPublica and The Frontier Freelance work in: Harper's, The Guardian, The Nation, The Drift, Outside, etc.
 ) is v good on this: [www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022...](
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Joke’s on them: how Democrats gave up on rural America
It is a diverse and complicated place poorly served by stereotypes and simplistic solutions
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Elizabeth (she/her) (@ebwillbanks.bsky.social)
This year moved from Portland to rural red Lewis County because we were looking for a little farm. We're discovering lots of left leaning neighbors...
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Joke’s on them: how Democrats gave up on rural America
It is a diverse and complicated place poorly served by stereotypes and simplistic solutions
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Cowlitz County WA (where Longview is) went for Trump by 20 points and is pretty aggressively MAGA. Longview also a river-port and timber-mill town that’s been hit hard by tariffs. RE:
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Erin Kissane (@kissane.myatproto.social)
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sorry I know we’re supposed to be moving on to the infighting but holy hell they lost in Longview??! [www.opb.org/article/2025...](
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Prominent Republicans head toward losses in Southwest Washington general election
Camas council member Leslie Lewallen and Longview Mayor Spencer Boudreau lost their elections Tuesday.
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Prominent Republicans head toward losses in Southwest Washington general election
Camas council member Leslie Lewallen and Longview Mayor Spencer Boudreau lost their elections Tuesday.
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This is a great thread! RE:
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J. Nathan Matias (@natematias.bsky.social)
This story in the Boston Globe that quotes @ethanz.bsky.social reminds me of the fascinating story over the last decade of how to moderate dopers w...