Jack A. Urquhart

I tweet about writers & writing, politics, gun violence & control, parenthood, running, being gay, grief management — and just being human.

[Jack A. Urquhart @EvryManJac]

Vignette, March 11, 2022 https://t.co/qPhsjkivP4

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Tune My Heart https://t.co/Ah3BLZCRPS

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#BenSasse is an affirmative action hire https://t.co/zmE8YTTGS5 "No one can seriously argue that Sasse is the finest candidate in the country for the position. #DeSantis might as well have put in the job description: “Compliant Republican hostile to liberal ideas.”

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I’m the father of a trans boy in Florida. ‘Don’t say gay’ is working as intended. https://t.co/D1BX1hhZYY “In what world is it not age-appropriate to teach teenagers that gay people didn’t have the right to marry until 2015?” #DeSantis #DontSayGay #ChristianHypocrisy

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The #SupremeCourt Seems Nervous About Its Legitimacy - NYT “Only Kagan seems to have any awareness that the court’s stature…can be lost if the institution runs too far away from the public or if the court begins to treat the public…as mere subjects” https://t.co/avKcJwRLgn

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#Trump’s Heartless #QAnon Embrace https://t.co/oGWImgCDFZ “a 40-year-old California man confessed to killing his two young children…he “explained that he was enlightened by QAnon and Illuminati conspiracy theories” and had come to believe that his children had serpent DNA”

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In Memoriam, Raymond L. Boyington https://t.co/h2iBo64UOp

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Summers End, but Our Desires Last a Lifetime - Wonderful NYT essay by M. Renkl on aging and desire: “Getting old is the second-biggest surprise of my life…the first, by a mile, is our unceasing need for deep attachment and intimate love.” https://t.co/ckF2fMtDKs

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07.25.2022, Ventura, CA: Last lunch with Ray ♥️. Tacky? Ask me if I care. #grief

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Raymond Boyington, 9.1941--07.2022 https://t.co/wouj01ezr7 via @EvryManJac

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Raymond Boyington, 9.1941–07.2022 https://t.co/PnbuoGfYzc

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A Deadly 4th of July Parade https://t.co/wWRlizlNTK “the current interpretation of the 2nd Amendment is a willful misreading…Civilized states…with strong anti-gun regulations should simply ignore the [Supreme] court and reinforce those regulations”—Letter to editor, NYT

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#ChristianNationalists Are Excited “Its purpose is to hollow out democracy until nothing is left but a thin cover for rule by a supposedly right-thinking elite…insulated from any real democratic check on its power.” https://t.co/bDTOKv3CFg

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Even Trump’s putative allies will admit, in private, that he was a lazy, feckless leader. They wanted an Augustus; they got a Caligula.”

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! #SCOTUS

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Overturning Roe Is an Insult to Women and the Judicial System - “the majority on this #SupremeCourt has demonstrated its disregard for precedent, public opinion and the court’s own legitimacy…We will be paying the price for decades to come.” https://t.co/T5IyLrtx70

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The Radical Reign of #ClarenceThomas - #NYT “The court is out of control. We feel powerless to do anything about it. Clarence Thomas, of all people, has helped lead us to where we are, with unaccountable extremists dictating how we live.” https://t.co/xnUkVMdPWc

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Abortion Ruling: How Far Will #SCOTUS Go
“No one should be confident that this majority is done with its work…Either the mass of the majority’s opinion is hypocrisy, or additional constitutional rights are under threat. It is one or the other.” https://t.co/BPTTDRj2Qz

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In Ad, Shotgun-Toting Greitens Asks Voters to Go ‘RINO Hunting’ - The New York Times #ClearAndPresentDangerToDemocracy #EricGreitens…released a violent new political advertisement on Monday showing himself…armed with assault-style rifle…” https://t.co/qxAa2gMTgZ

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Texas Republicans Approve Far-Right Platform Declaring Biden’s Election Illegitimate NYT #TexasGOPtroglodytes “The Republican Party in Texas made a series of far-right declarations…claiming that President Biden was not legitimately elected” https://t.co/NIMSy0NFR0