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Rep. John R.C. King (D-York) challenged the bill's basic lack of transparency: "I understand what this bill does, i just am confused as to how we get around it legally if someone challenged it ...

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@nausjcaa @JonahFurman Ling Ma's "Severance." It got sort of famous as a zombie novel written pre-2019 with eerie COVID parallels, but it's also about labor, supply chains, and the flow of capital during a global crisis (among other things!)

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I was reading the @mountain_goats x @hels interview when I realized one more reason why I love John Darnielle: He reminds me of Flannery O’Connor! https://brutalsouth.substack.com/p/into-the-devil-house?s=w

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@Rename_TheStrom Sid Bedingfield wrote about Workman and the role of the press in segregationist politics here and in his book Newspaper Wars: Civil Rights and White Resistance in South Carolina https://t.co/RGLzzshZnS

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Introducing Myself in 7 Fiction Books, in the order I read them: 1. This Present Darkness by Frank Peretti 2. Deadeye Dick by Vonnegut 3. Gilead by Marilynne Robinson 4. Everything That Rises Must Converge 5. Crimes in Southern Indiana 6. Giovanni's Room 7. Oval by Elvia Wilk https://t.co/rQm0xG8uQC

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@CharlestonBrian Not sure what everyone else is bringing, but those are all great choices. I'm trying to decide between Mohamedou Ould Slahi's Guantánamo Diary and Kurihara Sadako's Black Eggs poetry collection, which were both heavily censored by the US government

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@A9Collective Chandra Manning's "What This Cruel War Was Over" makes a compelling case, based on soldiers' letters & diaries, that many Confederate soldiers believed the war was about slavery. They knew the stakes and they chose the side of the oppressor. https://t.co/phMrAXA55y

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@morninggloria The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker. The entire plot takes place during an office worker's lunch break as he rides an escalator. Much of it is written in footnotes. https://t.co/WEi7QK37jE

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There is one exception to Ellen Weaver's demonization of teacher advocacy groups: The Palmetto State Teachers Association, founded as a conservative splinter group after the racial integration of the white SCEA and black Palmetto Education Ass'n in 1967. https://t.co/mVBt38mdu4

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I wrote this about the long gaps and effusive apologies in Rainer Maria Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet https://t.co/eBe59L2wtU